“It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.”
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Motivated Quotes — page 177 of 381
“To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!”
“I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.”
“Always follow your dreams, even if they lead you down a few dark alleys.”
“All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.”
“Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.”
“My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse.”
“The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.”
“If you can play the blues, you can do anything.”
“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”
“Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.”
“Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration”
“If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.”
“Most success springs from an obstacle or failure.”
“The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.”
“So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.”
“(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write.”
“If you're gonna make a change, you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me.”
“I don't mean to sound corny, but it's one word: results. If you get results, you can get anyone.”
“If you are going to succeed, you must deal with what caused you to fail”