Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Hillary

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Edmund Hillary

Motivation is the single most important factor in any sort of success.

Edmund Hillary

Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm still growing!

Edmund Hillary

I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can

Edmund Burke

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

Eckhart Tolle

You get there by realizing you are already there.

Elif Safak

If you want to destroy something in this life, be it acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

Elie Wiesel

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Edward Snowden

If I and other whistleblowers are sentenced to long years in prison without so much as a chance to explain our motivations to a jury, it will have a deeply chilling effect on future whistleblowers working as I did to expose government abuse and overreach. It will chill speech. It will corrode the quality of our democracy.

Clifford Geertz

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.

E. W. Howe

A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

Coventry Patmore

Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions.

Albert Schweitzer

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Alben W. Barkley

I shouldn't toot my own horn, but he who doth not toot his own horn alloweth it to remain untooteth.

Albert Bandura

The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

Albert Bandura

Expected outcomes contribute to motivation independently of self-efficacy beliefs when outcomes are not completely controlled by quality of performance. This occurs when extraneous factors also affect outcomes, or outcomes are socially tied to a minimum level of performance so that some variations in quality of performance above and below the standard do not produce differential outcomes

Albert Brooks

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.

Albert Camus

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Albert Camus

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Alexander Dale Oen

There is no single way to train, or do anything well. You have to keep thinking, keep doing things.

Amelia Earhart

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Annie Lennox

When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.

Annie Dillard

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

Clay Shirky

Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.

Clayton Christensen

My conclusion: Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.

Clayton Christensen

Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.

Daniel Kahneman

Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

Conrad Hilton

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.

Clint Eastwood

After directing awhile, you get an instinct about it, but you have to be able to trust your own feelings. Invariably, two-thirds of the way through a film, you say, "Jeezus, is this a pile of crap! What did I ever see in it in the first place?" You have to shut off your brain and forge ahead, because by that time you're getting so brainwashed. Once I commit myself to a film I commit myself to that ending, whatever the motivations and conclusions are.

Clarence Darrow

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

Daniel Dennett

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

Dan Bouchard

I would rather sleep only five hours and wake up at 5 or 5:30 a.m. and be in control of my time than to sleep later and spend the entire day controlled by time.

Dan Buettner

It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.