Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The beauty of running is its simplicity; the beauty of runners is that we all have a similar drive to improve. We… — Deena Kastor Copy Share Image
Sports can do so much. They've given me a framework: meeting new people, confidence, self-esteem, discipline, motivation. All these things I learned,… — Mia Hamm Copy Share Image
“Purpose fosters motivation; motivation lets us endure a greater perception of effort; and enduring a greater perception of effort often results in… — Brad Stulberg Copy Share Image
It's the best motivation to have a particular beloved reader in mind! Because you feel this urgency that you really want somebody… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
I actually had another motivation for letting Steven [Sebring] film us. After I'd been out of the public eye for 16 years,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
It is essential to rear a generation at the very top of society that has all the qualities needed to lead and… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“Admire ability, experience, and knowledge over fame or wealth. Just because someone is a celebrity, it doesn’t make them an authority. Fame… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
Perhaps one day we will do “everything that we can to protect our people and the timeless values that we stand for.”… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Learn to live in this world with self-respect. You should always cherish some ambition of doing something in this world. But remember… — B R Ambedkar Copy Share Image
To be a driver that can cross off one of those marquee events as a winner, that cements your legacy in motorsports,… — Tony Stewart Copy Share Image
“On the night that she'd been brought here she'd had the idea that the abbey was closed in by trees. Now she… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“Where my previous motivation had been a self-serving ambition, my new service mindset was dedicated to serving a vision greater than myself.… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to… — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
“Intention. This purposeful reason... is enough to change the direction of your life. It is the spark that ignites the lucid dreams… — Andrew Pacholyk Copy Share Image
“A patient's passivity must not be unilaterally interpreted as lack of motivation, resistance, lack of confidence, or the like. Many times, passivity… — Marsha M. Linehan Copy Share Image
I'm a really good driver. I've been driving since I was very small, and I do like driving fast. I remember the… — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
“While in the final analysis each of his campaigns was properly authorized in general terms (for not even Patton could free-lance in… — Ladislas Farago Copy Share Image
You can tell this by the program the federal government had to train 2,400 tractor drivers. They would have trained Negro and… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A poor attitude can be easily accompanied with money as well as without. Poor Defined: Small in worth!~ Money is not the… — Bobby Compton Copy Share Image
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I used to drive around looking at the big houses, wondering how they got there. I used to love biographies about successful… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
The pursuit of learning is not a piece of content that can be taught. It is a value that teachers model. Only… — Martin Haberman Copy Share Image
Poor leaders motivate those following them with false promises of promotions, success, and a great tomorrow but rarely deliver on those promises.… — Lewis Howes Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get drunk and I get into arguments with taxi drivers. And I get out the cab and I slam the… — Hannibal Buress Copy Share Image
“Our culture is hardwired with a Christian value system. Even if, like myself, you have never been a believer your mindset will… — Peter Grey Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“Logic and reasoning help us solve problems, but too much blue during performance means we overthink and lack the drive to act… — Noel Brick Copy Share Image
What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn… — Shaun White Copy Share Image
Humans in the developed world spend more than 90 percent of their lives indoors, where they breathe in and come into contact… — Jessica Green Copy Share Image
America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness;… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
Maca boosts sex drive like crazy. And if there's any side effect, some people just have to stop taking it because they… — Chris Kilham Copy Share Image
I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn… — Michael Johnson Copy Share Image
“The drive home was excruciating; Fuld sat in the backseat feeling paralyzed. Gone was the bluster, the gusto, the fight. He was… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
I've never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that's for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it's a little doodle, a… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
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