Quotes on Motivation

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Don't worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable - and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives!

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Fanaticism is at its very strongest when it has political or, better still, religious motivation.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.

If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.

Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.' The negative impulses around the gym can be incredible. I would hear bodybuilders complaining, 'Oh,no! Not another set!' That destroyed them. I have always believed that if you're training for nothing, you're wasting your effort!

As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person can seem like a miracle, so improbable a happening as to be awe-inspiring. And simultaneously one is heartened by the fact that self-actualizing persons do in fact exist, that they are therefore possible, that the gauntlet of dangers can be run, that the finish line can be crossed.

Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

A good design is not a democratic consensus.

What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? ... Therein lies the mystery of eroticism.

Most of us will get turned on at night by the very same things that we will demonstrate against during the day - the erotic mind is not very politically correct.