Motivation Quotes

Life opens up opportunities to you,

and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

One never notices what has been done;

one can only see what remains to be done.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I don’t believe in luck;

I believe in preparation.

We are stubborn on vision.

We are flexible on details.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent

upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil

and in the proportionable amount of the same

which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

The right word may be effective,

but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

I think I'm cool.

That's all that matters.

The human body has two ends on it:

one to create with and one to sit on.

Sometimes people get their ends reversed.

When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

With the past,

I have nothing to do;

nor with the future.

I live now.

I have been refused entrance on the buses because

I would not pay my fare at the front

and go around to the rear door to enter.

That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point

where the white passengers would start occupying.

Cash combined with courage in a crisis is priceless.

Life is complicated.

Politics is complicated.

But sometimes you just have to take a leap of faith.

Christ’s method alone will give true success in reaching people.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Don’t take life too seriously;

nobody makes it out alive anyway.

You cannot succeed without taking risks.

If you double the number of experiments you do per year

you’re going to double your inventiveness.