Motivational Quotes

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with

Vladimir Nabokov

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

Alberto Manguel

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

Charles Bukowski

Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position!

Israelmore Ayivor

it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

William Shakespeare

The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.

Patrick O'Brian

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

C.S. Lewis

If my hair was on fire and llamas came to put it out, he'd tell me the shot was great.

Erin Dionne

Never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill

The desire to be cool is—ultimately—the desire to be rescued.

Chuck Klosterman

Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.

George R.R. Martin

Courage is not a feeling. Courage is an action.

Liz Tolsma

I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.

Idries Shah

... with a quiet suggestion of infinity...

Marcel Proust

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

Roger Zelazny

Aggression like this demanded slinging the first punch in a bar brawl, firing rounds at a range, or setting a car on fire.

Katherine McIntyre

‎Determination, effort, and practice are rewarded with success.

Mary Lydon Simonsen

Hunger is the best seasoning.

Ken Follett

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

John Irving

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

John Donne