Quotes About Motivation

If I was wicked I meant to be wicked to some purpose.

BaÅŸar?s?zl?k deÄŸil, amaçs?zl?k suçtur. Hepimizin idealleru olmal? ve hepsini baÅŸaramasak da onlar? gercekleÅŸtirmek için uÄŸraÅŸmal?y?z. Onlar olmasa hayat çekilmez olurdu. Oysa yaÅŸam? muhteÅŸem k?lan ÅŸey ideallerimizdir

BaÅŸar?s?zl?k deÄŸil, amaçs?zl?k suçtur. Hepimizin idealleri olmal? ve hepsini baÅŸaramasak da onlar? gerçekleÅŸtirmek için uÄŸraÅŸmal?y?z. Onlar olmasa hayat çekilmez olurdu. Oysa yaÅŸam? muhteÅŸem k?lan ÅŸey ideallerimizdir

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

IfI wanted to eat an apple, and someone punched me in the stomach, taking away my appetite, then it was this punch that I originally wanted

Minha musa inspiradora é o meu prazo de entrega.

I had no particular purpose in mind, which was never a good way to do things.

It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.

Laziness is love's opposite.

Being about spiritual growth, this book is inevitably about the other side of the same coin: the impediments to spiritual growth. Ultimately there is only the one impediment, and that is laziness. If we overcome laziness, all the other impediments will be overcome. If we do not overcome laziness, none of the others will be hurdled.

the healthy self, however, must always be vigilant against the laziness of the sick self that still lurks within us.

If we feel ourselves valuable, then we will feel our time to be valuable, and if we feel our time to be valuable, then we will want to use it well.

I lived on anger, but it's the kind of fuel that uses you up even when it's pushing you forward.

Necessity is what impels men to take action, and once necessity is gone, only rot and decay are left

I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

It is not the vaccinationists but the antivaccinationists who generate zeal. People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.

Plato also wrote—and I lettered this in firm italic letters and posted it on my dorm-room door—All learning which is acquired under compulsion has no hold upon the mind.

You're going to have to do something about yourself. Nobody can do it tor you.

Why does anybody do anything? Mimi asked impatiently. Most of the time we don't know--any of us.

But in University women were there because they were studious. Or because they wanted people to think they

Drug taking starts as a rational, conscious choice and through repetition becomes an automatic, unconsciously motivated behavior. Addicted

INTERVIEWER: So that you have not eliminated all didactic intentions from your work after all? Thornton Wilder: I suspect that all writers have some didactic intention. That starts the motor. Or let us say: many of the things we eat are cooked over a gas stove, but there is no taste of gas in the food.