Motivation Quotes

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I had a very, very interesting childhood,

but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.

Character, in the long run,

is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Trust your instinct to the end,

though you can render no reason.

There is just so much hurt,

disappointment,

and oppression one can take...

The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls

Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

I must admit,

I’m a little confused,

but I think I’ve got this whole baseball thing figured out.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman,

but I have the heart and stomach of a king.

Being yourself is the most important thing you can do.

We especially need imagination in science.

It is not all mathematics,

nor all logic,

but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

People react to fear,

not love.

The more you know,

the more you can enjoy what’s happening.

The broader one's understanding of the

human experience, the better design we will have.

It's when children are 15,

16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor,

an engineer,

a politician or go to the Mars or moon.

That is the time they start having a dream,

and that's the time you can work on them.

You can help them shape their dreams.

To give victory to the right,

not bloody bullets,

but peaceful ballots only,

are necessary.

Buy land,

they're not making it anymore.

Men don't pay attention to small things.

If there is not the war,

you don't get the great general;

if there is not a great occasion,

you don't get a great statesman;

if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace,

no one would have known his name.

Every book is a quotation;

and every house is a quotation out of all forests,

and mines,

and stone quarries;

and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation,

actually making life clever,

easy and convenient for white people.

But when you have to get transportation home,

you are denied an equal accommodation.

Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well being;

we had to accept being deprived of just being human.