Top 46 Stimulant Quotes
#1. Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard
#2. We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.
Roger McNamee
#3. Strong hope is a much greater stimulant to life than any single realized joy could be.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant.
John Steinbeck
#5. The will to live cannot be overestimated as a stimulant to longevity.
Tom Robbins
#6. Fear, Katherine had once heard, acted as a stimulant sharpening the mind's ability to think.
Dan Brown
#7. Lewis sought no disciples, nor does he offer a program or solution, rather his contribution is a critical discipline. Lewis is a stimulant, a mode of perception, rather than a position or practice.
Wyndham Lewis
#8. ...story is a powerful stimulant with tremendous influence over how we think and act. Like meth, only safer.
Kathleen Smith
#9. Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison.
Samuel Hopkins Adams
#10. The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work.
Thomas Szasz
#11. Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.
Paul Auster
#12. Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem ... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.
Daniel Starch
#13. Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.
Robert Graves
#14. She was working at her computer in her office, doing admin, which is short for administration, which is short for migraine-stimulant.
Ali Smith
#15. Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.
Rex Murphy
#16. Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.
Paul Kalanithi
#17. Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.
Margaret Oliphant
#19. The tonic of success is a marvelous producer as well as stimulant. By the law of mental magnetism one success attracts another, and after we begin to win it is comparatively easy to keep on winning.
Orison Swett Marden
#20. If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal.
Caroline M. Nichols Churchill
#21. Certainly the caffeine in coffee, whether it's Starbucks or generic coffee, is somewhat of a stimulant. But if you drink it in moderation, which I think four or five cups a day is, you're fine.
Howard Schultz
#22. Love is not the mere opening of two souls' doors. Nor is it a palliative to the troubled heart; it is a stimulant. Under its influence, that heart grows until each tiny imperfection is not tiny.
Richard Harvell
#23. Nicotine is both a stimulant and a depressant, so that can make one feel quite imbalanced.
Christy Turlington
#24. For all the unkind things said about envy, it would only be fair to acknowledge that not all envy is destructive. If envy leads us to work hard and to improve our skills, it becomes a stimulant to self-improvement. God has given us no quality that cannot be used for good.
Sidney Greenberg
#25. Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.
Anais Nin
#26. If you eliminate wheat from your diet, you're no longer hungry between meals because you've cut out the appetite stimulant, and consequently you lose weight very quickly. I've seen this with thousands of patients.
William Davis
#27. [Dagley] had also taken too much in the shape of muddy political talk, a stimulant dangerously disturbing to his farming conservatism, which consisted in holding that whatever is, is bad, and any change is likely to be worse.
George Eliot
#28. Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.
Nick Hornby
#29. For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally of coarse nerves, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual;
Thomas De Quincey
#30. Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
Bernie Siegel
#31. What made him most attractive was that he was attracted to her. Another's interest can be a powerful stimulant. She could feel his eyes on her as an almost physical pressure.
Tracy Chevalier
#32. A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.
Brian Tracy
#33. You hate him worse than me, you viper,' he whispered as the stimulant cleared his brain.
'Aye, lord, but here's the oddity of it - I love him too.' Morgan replied, her eyes void of all emotion.
M.K. Hume
#35. The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.
T. S. Eliot
#36. To his family, Pasteur remarks in frustration, "How difficult it is to obtain the triumph of truth! Opposition is a useful stimulant, but bad faith is such a pitiable thing. How is it that they are not struck with the results shown by statistics?
Bill Wasik
#37. The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned.
David Brooks
#39. There was a time when he used alcohol as a stimulant, something to lift his spirits and give him energy, but now he drinks like all parents drink, as a kind of early evening sedative.
David Nicholls
#40. For me, honestly, one of the first movies I did I was always pounding coffee, and I crashed so horribly. So I've kind of weaned myself off. You keep getting second and third winds. But for me, I've stopped doing energy drinks or any kind of stimulant. I just kind of go natural.
Nick Swardson
#41. Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word.
Louis Pasteur
#42. My brief survey of stimulant aphrodisiacs would be incomplete were I to fail to include that most famous love drug of all time, chocolate or cacao, from the seeds of Theobroma cacao.
Rick Doblin
#43. All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice - quite literally - of the man in the street.
Marya Mannes
#45. Appreciation is a better stimulant than money. Money boosts the ego while appreciation touches the soul.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
