334 quotes found
“Take away the cause and the effect ceases.”
“The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated discipline will take care of itself.”
“Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.”
“Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young plain old poverty can be enough along with an insatiable hunger...”
“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger for them.”
“One man with a dream at pleasure Shall go forth and conquer a crown And three with a new song's measure Can trample an empire down.”
“If you can learn from hard knocks you can also learn from soft touches.”
“Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and rec...”
“Love makes the wildest spirit tame and the tamest spirit wild.”
“I tried to treat them like me and some of them weren't.”
“I believe in using words not fists.”
“Some people are molded by their admirations others by their hostilities.”
“Good humor like the jaundice makes every one of its own complexion.”
“All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."”
“Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason not that you have no reason for living.”
“Great men undertake great things because they are great fools because they think them easy.”
“There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment and the hope of reward.”
“When you get hungry enough you find yourself speaking Spanish pretty well.”
“I never work better than when I am inspired by anger when I am angry I can write pray and preach well for then my whole temperament is quickened my understanding sharpened and all mundane vexations...”
“Happiness is in the taste and not in the things themselves we are happy from possessing what we like not from possessing what others like.”
