#motivation

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#contain #desire #experience #motivation #only

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#devoted #exercise #intellectual #life #some

Impian itu seperti sayap. Dia membawamu pergi ke berbagai tempat. Kurasa, mamamu sadar akan hal itu. Dia tahu, kalau dia mencegah mimpimu, itu sama aja dengan memotong sayap burung. Burung tersebut memang nggak akan lari, tapi burung tanpa sayap sudah bukan burung lagi. Dan manusia tanpa mimpi, sudah bukan manusia lagi. ↗

— Windhy Puspitadewi

#inspirational #life #mimpi #motivation #dreams

All the answers to your questions about what your goals can and should be lie within, so does your power to accomplish those goals. ↗

— Anna Stevens

#mind-power #motivation #smart-goals #success #dreams

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different. ↗

— John McCarthy

#although #boarding #courses #different #forbid

Will I fail or will I succeed and accomplish the unexpected? ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#devotion #guidance #jonathan-anthony-burkett #life #love

Don’t forget to collect the memories on your journey. Remember, if you only focus on your destination, you will miss out on the benefits of the journey. ↗

— Tanya R. Liverman

#motivational #poetry #inspirational

To point out nonepistemic motives in another’s view of the world, therefore, is always a criticism, as it serves to cast doubt upon a person’s connection to the world as it is. ↗

— Sam Harris

#criticism #skepticism #motivational

If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#morality #motivation #life

The life thatI touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#god #religion #inspirational