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“Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.”

May Two Motivation Certain Liberty Easier Gains Constant Mindset Fuel Expenses Temporary Uncertain Chimneys

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

“Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don’t focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.”

Motivation Goal Focus Easier Behavior Guides

Author:B. J. Fogg

“Motivation is the key to success in whatever you're doing in life. It comes a lot easier when you're doing something you love and have passion for. My goal is to have a good time and a hot run. And I'm not afraid of disappointment -- it only makes me work harder.”

Running Motivation Passion Goal Hard Work Keys Easier Harder Hot Disappointment Good Times Not Afraid Key To Success Having A Good Time Work Harder Something You Love

Author:Missy Giove

“I'm 53, and it's hard to get to the gym every day. If I know on Friday I'm going to be wrestling, then I don't want to look bad, so it gives me motivation. Plus, once you're in motion, it's a lot easier to stay in motion.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving Looks Hard Motivation Easier Give Me Plus Gym Wrestling Friday

Author:Kevin Nash

“The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important.”

Important Motivation Keys Easier Deeper Burning Motive Burning Inside

Book:First Things First

Source: First Things First

“All great tasks test our motivation. It's easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like most things taken home from bars, new challenges arise the next day. It's in the morning light when work begins, and grand ideas (or barroom conquests) lose their luster. To do interesting things requires work and it's no surprise we abandon demanding passions for simpler, easier, more predictable things.”

“Intelligences are enhanced when a person is engaged in activities that involve the exercise of that intelligence. It helps to have good teachers, ample resources, and personal motivation. Anyone can improve any intelligence; but it is easier to improve the intelligence if those factors are available and if you have high potential in that intelligence.”

Ifs Persons Helping Motivation Teacher Easier Exercise Activity Resources Available Factors Engaged Good Teacher Personal Motivation

Author:Howard Gardner

“It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”

Inspirational Wisdom Motivation Understanding Wise Easier Being Wise Wisest Wise Wisdom

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.”

People Thinking Want Believe Facts Might Lying Motivation Belief Given Differences Stupid Fool Easier Being True True People

Author:Terry Goodkind

“When people can see which direction the leaders are going in it becomes easier to motivate them.”

People Motivational Motivation Leader Easier

Author:Lakshmi Mittal

“My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'. He really drilled that in.”

Littles Motivation Dad Easier Basketball Bigger My Dad Shoes Desks

Author:Phil Jackson

“Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.”

Littles Problem Bigs Motivation Easier Problem Solving Relatable Big Problems

Author:Sergey Brin

“I know if I missed a day and nothing happened, then it would be much easier to miss another day. Pretty soon I wouldn’t have much of a schedule, and then I'd have less motivation. It's a downward spiral that I want to avoid, so I keep the schedule sacred.”

Ifs Knows Want Would Be Motivation Happened Missing Easier Sacred Schedules Another Day Spirals Downward Spiral

Author:Chris Guillebeau

“If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.”

Ifs Hard Motivational Would Be Life Is Motivation Easier Hard Things Life Is Hard Hard Life

Author:Louis D. Brandeis