5 Edmund Burke Quotes on Motivation

Edmund Burke quotes on motivation

1. There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

60. He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

159. Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

160. No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

164. Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.