Accurate information is a key part of motivation.
Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.
Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.
I tried to treat them like me, and some of them weren't.
I believe in using words, not fists.
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.
All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.
Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.
Love teaches even asses to dance.
There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.
When you get hungry enough, you find yourself speaking Spanish pretty well.
I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.
We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.
Don't let other people tell you what you want.
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.