motivation

"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."

"It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them."

"Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work."

"Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right."

"Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are."

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

"My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always."

"I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard."

"I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony"

"So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans."

"Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present."

"If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers."

"Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live."

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

"I retired simply because I didn't have the passion and motivation anymore; I was tired. At the time I thought, 'Well, I had a great time, there is the end.' At some moment, there is the right time to call it an end."

"I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God."

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"

"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."

"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."