Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.

Impossible is just an opinion.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.