Motivation Quotes

We did not come to fear the future.

We came here to shape it.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops

under his command make him.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

Between two evils,

I always pick the one I never tried before.

Efficiency is doing things right;

effectiveness is doing the right things.

Happiness is secured through virtue;

it is a good attained by living well.

For the last 33 years,

I have looked in the mirror every morning and

asked myself: If today were the last day of my life,

would I want to do what I am about to do today?

Because I think every child star suffers through this period

because you're not the cute and charming child that you were.

You start to grow,

and they want to keep you little forever.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally,

socially and politically.

I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States,

and I should not object if it should gradually

terminate in the whole Union.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,

compassionate with the aged,

sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong.

Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

It is hard to fail,

but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart

into his work and done his best;

but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life.

In fact,

I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

Deep down,

the young are lonelier than the old.

We are the change we have been waiting for.

There is no security on this earth;

there is only opportunity.

Every setback is a setup for a comeback.

When I’m good,

I’m very good.

But when I’m bad,

I’m better.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.

We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.