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MOTIVATION: It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement. (Henry Ward Beecher, U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)
MOTIVATION: Necessity, who is the mother of our invention. (Plato, Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, 428-347 BCE)
MOTIVATION: Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
MOTIVATION: One starts an action simply because one must do something. (T.S. Eliot, U.S.-born British subject , an essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1888-1965)
MOTIVATION: Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, 1906-1945)
MOTIVATION: Urgent necessity prompts many to do things. (Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer who authored Don Quixote, one of the most translated books in the world, 1547-1616)
MOTIVATION: To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. (Eric Hoffer, U.S. moral and social philosopher and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)
MOTIVATION: I happened on the idea of fitting an engine to a bicycle simply because I did not want to ride crowded trains and buses. (Soichire Honda, Japanese engineer and industrialist who In 1948, he established the Honda Motor Co., 1906-1991)
MOTIVATION: Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. (Erwin Rommel, German general and military theorist who served as field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II, 1891-1944)
MOTIVATION: Necessity is the mother of taking chances. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
MOTIVATION: What you praise you increase. (Catherine Ponder, minister and founder of Unity Church Worldwide, Born 1927)
MOTIVATION: When we are listened to . . . ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life. (Brenda Ueland, U.S. journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing, 1891-1985)
MOTIVATION: We talk on principle, but we act on interest. (Walter Savage Landor, English writer, poet, and activist, 1775-1864)
MOTIVATION: The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest. (Francois de la La Rochefoucauld, French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)
MOTIVATION: Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. (Caroline Schoeder, U.S. writer and professor)
MOTIVATION: One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life. (Alexander A. Bogomoletz, Ukrainian pathphysiologist, 1881-1946)
MOTIVATION: If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. (Carolyn Kenmore)
MOTIVATION: The moment somebody says to me, This is very risky, is the moment it becomes attractive to me. (Kate Capshaw, U.S. retired actress, Born 1953)
MOTIVATION: A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. (Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)
MOTIVATION: Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. (Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court justice and chief U.S. prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials, 1892-1954)
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, U.S. novelist and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Born 1949)
MOTIVATION: The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. (Eric Hoffer, U.S. moral and social philosopher and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)
MOTIVATION: Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force. (Angela Merici, Italian religious educator who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church. 1474-1540)