Motivational Quotes
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If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.
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If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
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If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn't seem risky to me. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and it looks dangerous to my foes, but it is not to me. Hard work has made it easy.
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Have faith in the magic and miracles of life, for only those that do get to experience them.
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What our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little more gratitude - and a lot less greed.
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People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.
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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it at all.
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Individuals who succeed have a belief in the power of commitment. If there's a single belief that seems almost inseparable from success, it's that there's no great success without commitment. If you look at successful people in any field, you'll find they're not necessarily the best and the brightest, the fastest and the strongest. You'll find they're the ones with the most commitment.
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No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed. In fact, in studying the source of people's success, I've found that persistence overshadows even talent as the most valued and effective resource in creating and shaping the quality of life. Most people give up a maddening five feet from their goal!
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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.
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Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.
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Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
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I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.
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Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
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Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
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It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.
