Free Workplace Motivational Quotes & Sayings

Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their desires and beliefs. Only we can understand and respond to reasons. — Derek Parfit

I started stand-up in 2007. I'd done a couple of gigs before that, but not much, and I was in a sketch group at Uni from 2005 as well. — Ed Gamble

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl. — James Russell Lowell

I always try to keep a positive perspective on what's valuable and the importance of restricting that immediate gratification and, most importantly, that who you are isn't the stuff you have. — Demi Moore

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood. — Neil Postman

Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery. — Gerald May

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. — Fisher Ames

To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare Parasites, the Power Elite, the female sex, the vegetarians, or the Communist Party. To the extent that you need a scapegoat, you simply have not got your brain programmed to work as an efficient problem-solving machine. — Robert Anton Wilson

My politics are wildly different from hers, but someone who has been good for women in politics, stamped her authority on European and world affairs, is Angela Merkel. — Nicola Sturgeon

Grief is an expression that you loved well. — Elizabeth Lesser

Fuck you and the horse you rode in on, you fucking alien motherfucker. — Rick Yancey

I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form. — Viola Davis

I really like your playing — Tom Waits

We tend to perseverate on the fact that as far as we might have fallen, there's always another bottom underneath the one we're laying on. Yet, for every bottom underneath us, there's always endless opportunity above us. — Craig D. Lounsbrough