Quotes About Motivation

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.

A man is the origin of his action.

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

The idea of molding men means a lot to me.

Self-made men often worship their creator.

I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.

A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

For a man not to achieve the things he has an opportunity to do is such a waste of life.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.

What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,--and that is not only true, but identical,--that men always act from self-interest.