“The keys to life are running and reading.”
Motivated feeling
Motivated Quotes — page 176 of 381
“We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.”
“Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.”
“Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.”
“Agisci come se quel che fai, facesse la differenza. La fa!”
“The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can. So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.”
“When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.”
“Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.”
“Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?”
“I had gotten up to two, maybe three, packs (of cigarettes) a day. And my lungs were bothering me and I'd had pneumonia two or three times. And I was also smoking pot, and I decided, well, one of them's got to go. And so I took a pack of Chesterfields and took all the Chesterfields out, rolled up 20 big fat ones and put it in there, and I haven't smoked a cigarette since then.”
“Showing up is 80 percent of life.”
“Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.”
“There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you should not do.”
“Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement.”
“I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit.”
“Near-death experiences release a lot of endorphins, resulting in a natural high," Tod whispered. "And it's totally true that one passion feeds another." "You know we're way past 'near-death', right?" "My endorphins aren't listening to you.”
“However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.”
“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.”
“Do your work, but do your thing.”
“To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.”