“One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.”
Motivated feeling
Motivated Quotes — page 15 of 381
“If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!”
“Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.”
“Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.”
“After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God. We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven.”
“If you don’t get excited about the gospel, you’ve never really grasped what it’s telling you.”
“If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.”
“You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.”
“Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.”
“Every setback has a major comeback.”
“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”
“As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.”
“You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.”
“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
“All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”
“If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”
“Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.”
“Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.”
“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”