Motivaition Quotes & Sayings

The Existence of Deity, that he made the World, and govern'd it by his Providence; that the most acceptable Service of God was the doing Good to Man; that our Souls are immortal; and that all Crime will be punished and Virtue rewarded either here or hereafter ... — Benjamin Franklin

I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and you know, kind of try to keep political debate out of our work. And to that I say, I'd like you to show me an example of, you know, this so-called apolitical art. I don't think there's any such thing. — Sarah Jones

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell. — Macklemore

Don't try to justify yourself on the ground that somebody must do this kind of work. Let "somebody," not yourself, take the responsibility ... Many a man has dwarfed his manhood, cramped his intellect, crushed his aspiration, blunted his finer sensibilities, in some mean, narrow occupation because there was money in it. — Orison Swett Marden

Mistakes are about getting the blessing in the lesson and the lesson in the blessing. — Michael Beckwith

D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you-then I'm asking you to tear out your heart and live without it. — Diana Gabaldon

Your whole family fell from the crazy tree and hit every damn branch on the way down. — Alexandra Bracken

I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it. — Ernest Hemingway,

Shanghainese people are good negotiators, they're very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that - very competitive. That becomes part of your personality, Shanghai personality becomes part of yours. — Amy Tan

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good. — Thomas Aquinas

I went to a Jesuit boys high school, Rockhurst High School. — Tim Kaine

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me. — Marc Maron

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune. — John Lee Hooker

I don't think today's younger audience ... would even know what 1920s musicals were like. — Julie Andrews