Quotes About Motivation

The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?

I think we should all focus on who we are, what we want to do, and do it. That is my way. I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.

I think politics come out of psychology.

The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.

We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always an ulterior motive - in it for the money, advance a career.

Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

He loves basketball. And I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there, all right. Start there.

I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

I love my dad. It's fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my mom and dad involved in politics.