Intrinsic Motivational Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you are lifted up to the mountaintop as a gift from the universe, so you can see what is possible. Then you are put down back at the bottom: Now you have to earn it for yourself. — Marianne Williamson

I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now. — Neil Patrick Harris

We have seemingly been divided, limited, because of our ignorance; and we have become as it were the little Mrs. so - and - so and Mr. so - and - so. But all nature is giving this delusion the lie every moment. I am not that little man or little woman cut off from all else; I am the one universal existence. The soul in its own majesty is rising up every moment and declaring its own intrinsic Divinity. — Swami Vivekananda

If you can't believe then you can't achieve and belief is intrinsic to every human; so what are you waiting for? Go ahead and get what you believe to achieve. — Mumtaz Kazmi

In the arena of logic, I fight unarmed. — Brian Clevinger

Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right — E. Lockhart

You'll protect my Caia. — Samantha Young

As you talk, so is your heart. — Paracelsus

Bollocks to should. — Nick Harkaway

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement. — Gary Cherone

I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and she goes, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I said, "A comedian." And she laughed and laughed because she thought that was the cutest, funniest thing ... — Sandra Bernhard

It's hard to know what happy is if you're not sure if you've felt it before. — Kelly Thompson

There is an intrinsic law: thoughts don't have their own life. They are parasites; they live on your identifying with them. When you say, 'I am angry,' you are pouring life energy into anger, because you are getting identified with anger. But when you say, 'I am watching anger flashing on the screen of the mind within me,' you are not anymore giving any life, any energy to anger. — Rajneesh

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized. — Duane Michals

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proof. — Rene Char

I have advocated an entirely different approach than cap and tax, which would be worldwide in application and which emphasizes technology as a way of reducing total emissions. — Jim Sensenbrenner

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering. — Jane Rule

Understand that all motivation is internal, or intrinsic. — Del Suggs