Motivation is a fleeting, immaterial thing. It visits, it does not linger, so you must learn to cultivate discipline and bravery instead. Today, Bellamy House is sharing some favorite wisdom with you, whether you need motivation, discipline, bravery, or all three. Feel free to download any image to keep on hand, set as your phone wallpaper, or just refer back to when things get too quiet.
“People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.”
― Alain de Botton

Don’t strive to be well-known. Strive to be worth knowing.

“I think that there's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different can happen.”—Will Smith

“Yes,
You will rise from the ashes,
But the burning comes first.
For this part,
Darling,
You must be brave.”
― Kalen Dion

“She was never quite ready, but she was brave. And the universe listens to brave.”
― Rebecca Ray

Don't call me lucky. I failed more times than you tried.

“My Dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.”
― Ernest Hemingway

The loss does not deter me, and the victory does not praise me. I seek more.

“I saw that my life was a vast, glowing, empty page and I could do anything I wanted.” ― Jack Kerouac

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