Quotes About Motivation

Our parents have always encouraged us to be independent and dream big.

I have always worked hard and there's nothing that can compare to captaining India.

We do not have to be desperate to be creative. Indeed, there's reason to think that desperation may actually hinder the imaginative moments that elevate a project to glory.

Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and his power furnishes the means.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

Those pinstripes, they make you do something.

without a vision, people perish!

Why be a man when you can be a success.

I hope I can pull the wagon by myself. Yes, I'll manage, there's not much in it now. I must get back into business.

No one supposes, when he sees a forester pruning a copse to help the trees to grow, or a gardener hunting for snails, tending young plants under glass frames, or exposing them to the health-giving heat of a conservatory, that these things are done from a feeling of affection for the vegetable kingdom. And yet care for it he does, much more so than cold reason would suppose. This affection, however, is not the motivating reason for his pains; it is rather their necessary accompaniment.

Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

One day you'll do something, see something or get an idea that seems to pop up from nowhere. And you'll feel a kind of stirring- like a warm flicker inside your chest. When that happens, whatever you do, don't ignore it. Open your mind and explore the idea. Fan your flame.

Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed.

When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I'll have a book.

I do yoga so that I can stay flexible enough to kick my own arse if necessary.

Note to self: finding a cool quote and writing it in your journal is not a substitute for Getting. It. Done.

Do you think that, by nature, human beings are forgiving?" "I think that, by nature, human beings are self-protective," said Hanratty. "If it is in their interest to be forgiving, then they are. If not, then they are vengeful. I am fairly certain that being forgiving is not an innate virtue.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making her stretch and grow beyond that small score of years in which her body can fill its biological function, is committing a kind of suicide.

Betty G. Birney

And that's what you aspire to? Being a force to reckon with?" "yes, and to teach girls to aspire to be the same.

As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency.

Ordinary people given an opportunity are capable of accomplishing extraordinary things.