922 Motivation Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

You have to make it happen.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!

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

Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith-the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Pour executer de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir.

L'esperance fait plus de dupes que l'habilete.

You will!

Allllll right!

'Dreamers'

Excelsior!

Let's rock this thing.

Our cock won't fight.

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.

...a man who is never beaten. Every reverse, every defeat is to him only an admonition to wait and catch his opportunity of retrieving his position.

And any practice, recommended to him, which either serves to no purpose in life, or offers the strongest violence to his natural inclinations; that practice he will the more readily embrace, on account of those very circumstances, which should make him absolutely reject it. It seems the more purely religious, because it proceeds from no mixture of any other motive or consideration. And if, for its sake, he sacrifices much of his ease and quiet, his claim of merit appears still to rise upon him, in proportion to the zeal and devotion which he discovers. In restoring a loan, or paying a debt, his divinity is nowise beholden to him; because these acts of justice are what he was bound to perform, and what many would have performed, were there no god in the universe. But if he fast a day, or give himself a sound whipping; this has a direct reference, in his opinion, to the service of God. No other motive could engage him to such austerities. By these distinguished marks of devotion, he has now acquired the divine favour; and may expect, in recompence, protection and safety in this world, and eternal happiness in the next.

Either get busy living or get busy dying

It's not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs

Let's go, Head Cheese!'

Think big, or go home.

'Never, Never Quit!'

Love is energy of life.

'Give me a Hell Yeah!'

I made brown!

Do it Doug!!

Loyal to the Game (2004)