motivation

"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."

"Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing."

"He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two."

"Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that."

"The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation."

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."

"Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."

"The voice of the sea speaks to the soul."

"There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds."

"Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job. Even if you eliminate what makes you dissatisfied, that doesn't make you motivated. It doesn't make your work rewarding. You just are less bothered by things."

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men."

"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."

"There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning."

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

"If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh."

"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die."

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

"Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable."

"The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation."

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