Quotes about motivation
motivational accomplishment trying
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something. Thomas A. Edison
motivational hands ideas
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them....
motivational sponges inventor
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
motivational creating goes-on
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions....
motivational mean weapons
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
motivational war discovery
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
motivational believe discovery
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines .
motivational exercise golf
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
motivational education work
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
motivational doe noise
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
motivational thinking ideas
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
motivational beautiful brother
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .
motivational time peace
There is time for everything.
motivational character men
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
motivational ideas giving
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others....
motivation action human-nature
What you are will show in what you do.
motivational positive perseverance
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
motivational thinking littles
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
motivational sleep night
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
motivational self-reliance way
There is always a better way.
motivational hard-work worry
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
motivational worry focus
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
motivational ideas mind
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....
motivational couple men
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
motivational fitness health
The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.
motivational vision hallucinations
Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination
motivational wish
Work while others are wishing.
motivation lying mean
From the standpoint of education, genius means essentially 'giving birth to the joy in learning.' I'd like to suggest that this is the central task of all educators. It is the genius of the student that is the driving force behind all learning. Before educators take on any of the other important issues in learning, they must first have a thorough understanding of what lies at the core of each student's intrinsic motivation to learn, and that motivation originates in each student's genius. Thomas Armstrong
motivational perseverance taken
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first. Ralph Waldo Emerson
motivational beauty philosophical
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
motivational truth honesty
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
motivational beauty time
To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.
motivational family best-effort
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.