Selected motivation quotes

1. There never was night that had no morn.

2. I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

3. Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

4. Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

5. God helps only those who are prepared and determined to help themselves.

6. It's hard to lose weight when you're dining on the company's money.

7. A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

8. There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

9. To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

10. Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

11. However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.

12. Always try the problem that matters most to you.

13. Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

14. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

15. Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

16. If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

17. Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good.

18. I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate.

19. If I can survive death, I can probably survive anything.

20. More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.

21. We are made of emotions. We are all looking for emotions, basically. It's only a question of finding the way to experience them.

22. Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

23. What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

24. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

25. People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

26. This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

27. As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

28. When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

29. I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.

30. It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

31. You have to make it happen.

32. Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

33. 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.

34. 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.

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

36. Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

37. People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

38. When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.

39. Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!

40. Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

41. 'I'm not a real vocal guy, but sometimes you need to kick someone in the ass.'

42. 'Always follow your dreams; don't let anyone tell you that you can't be something.'

43. 'Sure you don't want to go home, and have some sleep? ...ZzZzZzZ.. you know, FUCK that shit man, we fucking gonna rock out to Follow The Reaper!'

44. Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

45. Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: 'Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.'

46. What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.

47. Your best side? My dear, you're sitting on it.

48. When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?' I say, 'Your salary.'

49. No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

50. 'Doin' the J-O-B at the P-P-V.'

51. 'What does everybody want?'

52. 'I'm sorry, but you are not tough enough.'

53. 'Head Head Head Head Head!!'

54. 'Not now, I'm wrestling!!' (Said to head during a match on his early run on WWF)

55. Youth, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

56. The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

57. Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

58. Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

59. Se questa non piace,non voglio piu scrivere di musica.

60. 'Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.'

61. 'You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.'

62. 'When I took the match point, all the years, all the effort, all the support I had received over the years came together. It's a long way from Brook Field to Wimbledon.'

63. Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine. It isn't money, for genius seldom gets any. It isn't fame: fame is too uncertain and, more closely considered, of too little worth. Nor is it strictly for its own pleasure, for the great exertion involved almost outweighs the pleasure. It is rather an instinct of a unique sort by virtue of which the individual possessed of genius is impelled to express what he has seen and felt in enduring works without being conscious of any further motivation. It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

64. There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - to be got over.

65. There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.

66. What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves.... He must have the passion of a lover.

67. Es gibt noch ein anderes, besseres Leben.

68. I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

69. Man is not a rational animal. He is only truly good or great when he acts from passion.

70. Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

71. Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

72. Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

73. Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

74. What strikes me most singular in you is, that you are fonder of Power than of Fame.

75. If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.

76. They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do just as well : you just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference.

77. Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence. If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.

78. I'm not very different from anyone else who has ever tried to accomplish something with his life. My motivation comes from my personal life, from watching what my mother and father went through when I was growing up, from what we experienced as migrant workers in California. That dream, that vision grew from my own experience with racism, with hope, with a desire to be treated fairly, and to see my people treated as human beings and not as chattel. It grew from anger and rage, emotions I felt 40 years ago when people of my color were denied the right to see a movie or eat at a restaurant in many parts of California. It grew from the frustration and humiliation I felt as a boy who couldn't understand how the growers could abuse and exploit farm workers when there were so many of us and so few of them.

79. If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy.

80. There are vivid memories from my childhood - what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union. I suppose if I wanted to be fair I could say that I'm trying to settle a personal score. I could dramatize it by saying that I want to bring social justice to farm workers. But the truth is that I went through a lot of hell, and a lot of people did. If we can even the score a little for the workers then we are doing something. Besides, I don't know any other work I like to do better than this. I really don't.

81. There has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't think it can be done with money alone. The person has to be dedicated to the task. There has to be some other motivation.

82. Nothing great is done without great men, and they are great because they wanted it.

83. And I'm trying to be assertive, I'm making plans Gonna rise to the occasion and meet all their demands But all I do is lay in bed And hide under the covers.

84. On a detox loft through a Glendale Park over sidewalk chalk Someone wrote in red, 'start over.'

85. 'The future is no place to place your better days'

86. 'Don't burn the day away'

87. 'I will go in this way Oh and I'll find my own way out'

88. 'See you and me, have a better time than most can dream. Have it better than the best, so can pull on through. Whatever tears at us... whatever holds us down, and if nothing can be done, well make the best of whats around'

89. 'Without passion, you don't have energy; without energy, you have nothing. Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.'

90. People settle for mediocrity for one reason-they're lazy.

91. 'Think Big and Live Large!'

92. I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.

93. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

94. Dear Mary, We all knew you had it in you!

95. You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be the best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.

96. Will you succeed? Yes you will indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)

97. My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

98. My biggest kick in music-playing or writing-is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?

99. When we can't dream any longer we die.

100. A war is not lost until you consider it lost.