Quotes About Motivation

It matters not how we were brought up. What determines our way of acting is the manner in which we administrate our will. A man is the sum of all his wishes, which determine his way of living and dying.

Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend, it whets your appetite with a taste of success.

Kau sedang apa? Aku sedang tidak punya kegiatan. Kalau begitu, belajarlah sesuatu. Pada saat ini, banyak orang berhenti menjalani kehidupan. Mereka tidak marah, juga tidak berseru-seru memprotes; mereka sekedar menunggu waktu berlalu. mereka tidak menerima tantangan-tantangan kehidupan, jadi kehidupan pun berhenti memberikan tantangan kepada mereka. Kau juga mengambil resiko yang sama; tunjukkan reaksi, hadapi hidup, tapi jangan berhenti hidup.

People always tend to help others just so that they can feel better than what they really are

Va' a prendere le tue cose, ha detto. I sogni richiedono fatica.

Love appears and says: "You think you're heading toward a specific point, but the whole justification for the goal's existence lies in your love for it. Rest a little, but as soon as you can, get up and carry on. Because ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you.

Quand nous nous engageons dans le chemin, nous avons toujours une idee plus ou moins definie de ce que nous voulons trouver. Les femmes en general recherchent l'Autre Partie, les hommes le Pouvoir. Ni les uns ni les autres ne desirent apprendre: ils veulent arriver au but qu'ils se sont fixes.

People tend to help others just so that they can feel are better than they really are.

Do something instead of killing time, because time is killing you.

There's A Force that wants you to realize your personal legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success

Before embarking on a KB program, naturally you have to get a pair of kettlebells. The detective from a popular Russian thriller decides to become a better man, buys a kettlebell, and tries to sneak it into his office so he could work out after the hours. As he is huffing and puffing up the stairs, another cop sees him and raises his eyebrows: "Evidence?" —"No, private property.

Apunta a la Luna y, si fallas, al menos estarás entre las estrellas.

You must set forth and find the center of your interest. You are a creator, but you must find your interest and then dedicate yourself to that interest—not to the act of creativity. Merely to want to create will make it impossible for you to do so. You must find an interest greater than yourself—a love, perhaps—and then the power to create will set you on fire.

And as she had learned to do, while she pondered on large things, she acted on small ones.

Never reproach him with his own weakness, for then he will become wholly weak. Never let him feel that but for you he would be useless, for then he will indeed become useless. You must search for the few strong threads in him and weave your fabric with those, and where the threads are weak, never trust to them. Supply your own in secret.

It is not that we cannot believe," he replied. "It is that we do not want anything enough. Faith rises from necessity. We have no necessity.

Questo è il motivo per cui mi sono tagliata i capelli. Volevo venderli per comperarmi un libro. Allora avevo paura di dirtelo, ecco perché ti parlai di orecchini. Ma è un libro, che voglio.

Some do it for a good deed for the future, that by saving lives they may get merit in heaven, and some do it for righteousness that men may speak well of them. Nevertheless it is a good deed for whatever reason, and some must do it out of a good heart.

In his talk, Suzuki Roshi says that meditation and the whole process of finding your own true nature is one continuous mistake, and that rather than that being a reason for depression or discouragement, it's actually the motivation.

Remembering impermanence motivates you to go back and look at the teachings, to see what they tell you about how to work with your life, how to rouse yourself, how to cheer up, how to work with emotions.

Anger - a better alternative to caffeine.

Let your dissent fuel you, your anger inspire you, your rage convey you, and your fury strike a chilling fear onto the spines of your enemies.

I'm always angry. I wake up angry. There is a lot to be angry about. Anger is a positive energy.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.