334 quotes found
“In my experience there is only one motivation and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.”
“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 p...”
“To feel valued to know even if only once in a while that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.”
“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.”
“Fear desire hope still push us on toward the future.”
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.”
“Lust and force are the source of all our actions lust causes voluntary actions force involuntary ones.”
“I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough much more than I'll never need. I do it to do it. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals preferabl...”
“Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence and the other of meanness and vicious-ness and both of discontent.”
“Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them they have ensured that I shall work hard but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.”
“My advice about acting? Speak clearly don't bump into people and if you must have motivation think of your pay packet on Friday.”
“I take it that what all men are really after is some form of perhaps only some formula of peace.”
“Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.”
“The breakfast of champions is not cereal it's the opposition.”
“I wish it I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.”
“Necessity who is the mother of our invention.”
“Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.”
“A loafer never works except when there is a fire then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.”
“Hardships poverty and want are the best incentives and the best foundation for the success of man.”
“Poverty Frost Famine Rain Disease are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.”
