What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.
Bill GatesThe great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘
Billy GrahamWithout continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin FranklinThe best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIt was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
Aldous HuxleyAnything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
Taylor SwiftScience does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI keep working because I learn something new all the time.
Clint EastwoodBecause your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus AureliusI just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
Margaret ThatcherA business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry FordAnything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.
Taylor SwiftMy production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.
The WeekndIn any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore RooseveltThe first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
Corrie Ten BoomThe most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
Helen KellerLove is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
VoltaireEach success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Henry KissingerSelf-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
Elon MuskI’m inspired by Walt Disney. I’m inspired by Howard Hughes. I’m inspired by Henry Ford. I’m inspired by Steve Jobs. I mean, I’m inspired by James Perse.
Kanye WestLet us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. KennedyAbility is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon BonaparteIf you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Harry S. Truman‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘
DJ KhaledI just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.
Anthony BourdainI want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.
Frank OceanWe no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.
Douglas AdamsIf you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham MaslowTo succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
VoltaireOne element of Madonna’s career that really takes center stage is how many times she’s reinvented herself. It’s easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It’s inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
Taylor SwiftIf I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.
Taylor SwiftThis is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
Charles DickensWe are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘
Brian EnoNothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Winston ChurchillSuccess is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale CarnegieU2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.
BonoDefeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.
Richard M. NixonOriginality is really important.
Jim CarreyWhen Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
Elon MuskAccept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
George S. PattonMy inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince – for the vocals, anyway.
The WeekndThat’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve JobsI don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.
Kevin GatesPersonality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWithout failure there is no achievement.
John C. MaxwellOne of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.
Brian EnoImagination rules the world.
Napoleon BonaparteThe pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
Benjamin DisraeliI’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.
Dave GrohlWe can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Helen KellerWhen I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
Ernest HemingwayOpportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.No one is ever successful at everything that they do.
Dolly PartonIn order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
Douglas AdamsI have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.
The WeekndI’m an inventor.
Lady GagaNothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Thomas CarlyleNo man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson