Quotes About Motivation

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Koboi before, and I will do it again. This determination was fuelled by sadness.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

First say to yourself what you would be;and then do what you have to do.

If you wish to be a writer; write! Send quote to a friend Epictetus (50-120) Greek philosopher.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

It is a universal law – have no illusions – that every creature alive is attached to nothing so much as to its own self-interest.

First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do

There is nothing more inspiring than a speaker who makes clear to his audience that he has need of them.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.

Those who would transform a nation or the world cannot do so by breeding and captaining discontent or by demonstrating the reasonableness and desirability of the intended changes or by coercing people into a new way of life. They must know how to kindle and fan an extravagant hope.

Sering dikatakan orang bahwa bakat memberi banyak kesempatan untuk maju. Namun semangat besarlah yang kerap memberi kesempatan, dan bahkan memberi banyak bakat.

If anything ail a man," says Thoreau, "so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even … he forthwith sets about reforming—the world."3

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.

the connection between the escape from an ineffectual self and a responsiveness to mass movements is very clear. The slipping author, artist, scientist—slipping because of a drying-up of the creative flow within—drifts sooner or later into the camps of ardent patriots, race mongers, uplift promoters and champions of holy causes. Perhaps the sexually impotent are subject to the same impulse. (The

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for," they do not feel like fighting. People who live full, worthwhile lives are not usually ready to die for their own interests nor for their country nor for a holy cause.9 Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

I am still tired, and I begin to realize that the cure for tiredness is not rest.

The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leading them away from their unwanted selves.

People who see their lives as irremediably spoiled cannot find a worth-while purpose in self-advancement. The prospect of an individual career cannot stir them to a mighty effort, nor can it evoke in them faith and a single-minded dedication.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

You must have a goal in life. We all should have goals. Or we are lost.

You do not want to avoid creating just because creating or the prospect of creating is making you anxious.