Edmund Burke Quotes on Motivation
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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.
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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.
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Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
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No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.