That's in my favorite quote collection. The entire collection is 8 pages, but I'll just copy the motivation section for you:


On Motivation:
• “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “Press On” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – Calvin Coolidge
• “Some people see things the way they are and ask 'Why?'. Others dream of things that never were and ask 'Why not?'“ – George Bernard Shaw
• “Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.” – V.S. Naipaul

Arbeit macht frei. I kid.

Obiwan's Top 10 Favorite Motivational Quotes:

"How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life."

-James Tiberius Kirk from 'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan'

"It is out of the deepest depth that the highest height must come."

-Friedrich Nietzsche in 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'

"The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when we add up all those inches, that's gonna make the fucking difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying! I'll tell you this - in any fight, its the guy whose willing to die who's gonna win that inch. And I know if I'm going to have any life anymore, it's because I'm still willing to fight and die for that inch. Because that's what living is! The 6 inches in front of your face!"

-Al Pacino as Coach D'Mato in 'Any Given Sunday'

"America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers: it's been erased like a black board, rebuilt, and erased again...but BASEBALL has marked the times. This field, this game--it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was GOOD...and could be again."

James Earl Jones as Terence Mann in 'Field of Dreams'

"Ya Gotta Believe!"

Tug McGraw, pitcher for the New York Mets (now an official team slogan)

"Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men,
It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again,
When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drum
There'll be a life about to start when tomorrow comes!"

-Enjolras from the operatic-musical version of 'Les Miserables'

"To thine own self be true."

Shakespeare's Polonius in 'Hamlet'

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Fortune favors the bold."

Latin proverb

"Everybody lies."

Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House

"We are what we do to change who we are"
E. Galeano

"Attitudes are contagious. . . is yours worth catching?"
~Anonymous

Attitudes are contagious. Mine might kill you.

Pretty much any line from the following.

"All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. America loves a winner. America will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise a coward; Americans play to win. That's why America has never lost and never will lose a war. You are not all going to die. Only two percent of you, right here today, would be killed in a major battle....

"I don't want to get any messages saying, 'I am holding my position." We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that! We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls! We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time. Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like shit through a tin horn!"

"There's one great thing you men can say when it's all over and you're home once more. You can thank God that twenty years from now, when you're sitting around the fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the war, you won't have to shift him to the other knee, cough, and say, "I shovelled shit in Louisiana."" - Patton, 1944 (overrated General, but damn fine speechmaker).

@Putin33: That first quote must have come from a time before Korea or Vietnam. B-(

"You can go home when you've finished it." - A sergeant to us troops when we we're already 2 hours over our normal working day and nowhere near finished (then he pissed off to the Mess bar for an hour!)

Wow... Patton is certainly a great motivater. I don't think any general has written a speach that provides stronger motivation to desert than that one!

"You are not all going to die"

Stirring stuff, indeed...