Voltaire Quotes

If you have wind it becomes more difficult than you think.

Setbacks motivate me.

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

If you don't have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you won't reach them or will quit trying.

Passion is just something that comes naturally to me.

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

If you have a vision for something, things are navigable. If it gets fuzzy, then obstacles become much more formidable.

If things are just gliding along easily and there's no real obstacles or hurdles, those typically aren't my most productive times, personally or professionally.

What drives you? What's your motivation? That's not emotion. That's passion. It's a different word.

I think we have challenges, but we have so many opportunities to get it right. I like it when we have a little bit of a headwind. The kite actually lifts when you have a headwind and doesn't when there is lift from the back.

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

Motivation is a battle for the heart, not just an appeal to the mind. Passion is always an expression of the soul.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.

Failure makes me work even harder.

Challenges mean opportunities as well.

Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong...

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.

On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.

You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

Obstacles don't have to stop you.