Revealingly Motivating Quotes & Sayings

Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness. — Hermann Hesse

I don't doubt love for a second. I'm living for love. Listen to my songs! — Madonna Ciccone

It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible. — Thomas Keneally

Nature has arranged that when you overcome a given inertia the resulting momentum is proportionate. If I were to begin borrowing money I would end by devising means of persuading the Secretary of the Treasury to lend me the gold reserve. — Rex Stout

One of my first big shows, I opened up for Chris Brown; I was about 10 years old, and Chris Brown was just big; he still is one of my idols now. — Jacob Latimore

Words matter, in fact. They're not pointless, as you've suggested. If they were pointless, then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't change history. If they were just words, we wouldn't write songs or listen to them. We wouldn't beg to be read to as kids. If they were just words, then stories wouldn't have been around since before we could write. We wouldn't have learned to write. If they were just words, people wouldn't fall in love because of them, feel bad because of them, ache because of them, and stop aching because of them." (p. 210) (Henry Jones) — Cath Crowley

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages — Marcus Tullius Cicero

You should go to work every day a little bit nervous. — Alexa Von Tobel

Later, John Paul II would challenge seekers like Jobs, noting that "Carmelite mysticism begins at the point where the reflections of Buddha end. — Al Kresta

This was the era when gentlemen formally offered their services to "unprotected ladies" at the start of an Atlantic voyage. — Walter Lord