Quotes About Motivation

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you want.

Descoperise f?r? s? ÅŸtie c? pentru a face pe om s? doreasc? un lucru, fie c?-i b?rbat în toat? firea, fie c?-i b?ieÅ£aÅŸ, trebuie s?-i înf??iÅŸezi acel lucru ca greu de obÅ£inut.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

Man will do MANY things to get himself loved. Man will do ALL things to get himself envied.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Nikdy jsem nedopustil, aby Å¡kola stála v mé cestÄ› za vzdÄ›láním.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." Friedrich Nietzsche * * *

And whoever will take that motto and live by it will be likely to succeed. There's many a way to win, in this world, but none of them is worth much without good hard work back of it.

To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the what is next of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Tom se dijo que, después de todo, el mundo no era tan malo como parecía. Había descubierto, sin darse cuenta, una gran ley que rige los actos humanos, a saber: que para que un hombre o un muchacho codicie algo, basta con hacer que le sea difícil alcanzarlo.

Old Man: The impulse which moves a person to do things - The only impulse that ever moves a person to do things Young Man: The only one! Is there but one? O.M. That is all Y.M. Well, certainly that is a strange doctrine. What is the sole impulse that ever moves a person to do a thing? O.M. The impulse to CONTENT HIS OWN SPIRIT - the NECESSITY of contenting his own spirit and WINNING ITS APPROVAL.

Senle bense dikiÅŸ makinesiyiz. Elimizden ne geliyorsa onu yap?p çaba göstermeliyiz. DüÅŸüncesizler, bize goblen kumaÅŸ üretmediÄŸimiz için sitem ettiklerinde onlar? hiç umursamamal?y?z.

The simple fact that he could, took the desire away, and the charm of it

discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

I]n order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain... Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and... Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.