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Quotes About Motivation

A real leader can somehow get us to do certain things that deep down we think are good and want to be able to do but usually can't get ourselves to do on our own.
~ David Foster Wallace
As everyone is well aware, it is so difficult to do something nice for someone and not want them, desperately, to know that the identity of the individual who did it for them was you, and to feel grateful and approving towards you, and to tell myriads of other people what you 'did' for them, so that you can be widely acknowledged as a 'good' person.
~ David Foster Wallace
As everyone is well aware, ti is so difficult to do something nice for someone and not want them, desperately, to know that the identity of the individual who did it for them was you, and to feel grateful and approving towards you, and to tell myriads of other people what you 'did' for them, so that you can be widely acknowledged as a 'good' person.
~ David Foster Wallace
Le persone muoiono dalla voglia che qualcuno gli predica il futuro e tu li rincuori. Che diamine, dai loro qualcosa da desiderare e in cui sperare. È quel che fanno i predicatori la domenica. Tra essere un'indovina e un predicatore, la differenza è poca, per come la vedo io.
~ Unknown
nobody does anything for nothing. ... it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
~ William Shakespeare
it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance
~ William Shakespeare
I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
~ Unknown
If there is a good will, there is great way.
~ William Shakespeare
If we should fail? Lady Macbeth: We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.
~ William Shakespeare
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!
~ William Shakespeare
Strong reasons make strong actions.
~ William Shakespeare
I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.
~ William Shakespeare
Wilt thou reach stars because they shine on thee?
~ William Shakespeare
Come, we burn daylight, ho!
~ William Shakespeare
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.
~ William Styron
How simultaneously enfeebling and insulting is an empty page! Devoid
~ William Styron
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started every day.
~ William Styron
INTRODUCTION THE FIRST NEGOTIATION Let him who would move the world first move himself. —SOCRATES
~ William Ury
Let him who would move the world first move himself. —SOCRATES
~ William Ury
people have already wanted me to work
~ William W. Johnstone
got the itch to write, back in the early
~ William W. Johnstone
La diferencia entre una persona exitosa y los demás no la hace ni la fuerza ni el conocimiento, más bien la hace la voluntad de ganar. —Vince Lombardi
~ Willie Jolley