Motivation Quotes

I have said a hundred times,

and I have no inclination to take it back,

that I believe there is no right,

and ought to be no inclination in the people

of the free States to enter into the slave States,

and to interfere with the question of slavery at all.

I have said that always.

It were not best that we should all think alike;

it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

My lyrics aren't offensive.

Some people find everything offensive.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment,

a household of children,

if things go reasonably well,

certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Only through experience of trial and suffering can

the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired,

and success achieved.

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser

than you were when you woke up.

The successful warrior is the average man,

with laser

like focus.

Life is like a sewer…

what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear

that we will make one.

The best of men will not serve long in the army without ambition.

Power is not a means,

it is an end.

Without revolutionary theory

there can be no revolutionary movement.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood

if you’re going to innovate.

A creative man is

motivated by the

desire to achieve,

not by the desire

to beat others.

There are a number of women

who have brought about immense change in society.

By what principle of original right is it that one

fiftieth or one

ninetieth of a great nation,

by calling themselves a State,

have the right to break up and ruin that nation

as a matter of original principle?

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

I never had a drink in my life.

I don't smoke or anything.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader

and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are,

how much your contribution has been valued,

what massive potential you have and,

in recognition of all this,

would you mind having your salary halved.