I think this list of personal mottos will keep us all motivated:
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. – Samuel Johnson
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. – Abraham H. Maslow
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. – Sylvia Plath
Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder. – Lord Barnett
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience. – George Eliot
The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain. – R. L. Gregory
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Even Pain pricks to livelier living. – Amy Lowell
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. – Karl Marx
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. – Toni Morrison
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. – Cesare Pavese
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. – William Penn
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. – Jim Rohn
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain. – Lord Alfred Tennyson
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own. – Francis Thompson
The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less defense and the less defense the less the gain. – Sir T. Wyatt
To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer. – Bodenstedt
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. – Julius Caesar
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief. – Marcus T. Cicero
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. – Samuel Johnson
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. – Carl Jung
I hope you enjoyed reading this personal mottos.