334 quotes found
“Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.”
“Most people would rather be seen through than not seen at all.”
“In my experience there is only one motivation and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.”
“When we are listened to it creates us makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.”
“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others and for this purpose we endeavor to shine.”
“The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.”
“Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.”
“We talk on principle but we act on interest.”
“What allows us as human beings to psychologically survive life on earth with all of its pain drama and challenges is a sense of purpose and meaning.”
“Everyone expects to go further than his father went everyone expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart-to exceed all the other generations of the ...”
“To feel valued to know even if only once in a while that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.”
“The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest.”
“It's so hard when I have to and so easy when I want to.”
“You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star you don't bother with other things.”
“To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder convince yourself that if you miss it you will be embarrassed and poor.”
“Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of parts even that of disinterestedness.”
“Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.”
“I want to do it because I want to do it.”
“There are only two forces that unite men-fear and interest.”
“Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living a support in misfortune an education or future security.”