Motivation quotes
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"The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass."
"For my hustlers, here's some motivation: He who has begun is half done."
"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."
"We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes."
"‘Cause sometimes you just feel tired, feel weak And when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up But you gotta search within you And gotta find that inner strength And just pull that shit out of you And get that motivation to not give up And not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face, and collapse."
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"Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family."
"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."
"You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience."
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
"I'd rather have more heart than talent any day."
"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
"Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind."
"Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light."
"Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try."
"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it."
"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."
"What you are will show in what you do."
"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need."
"One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life."
"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project."
"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."
"No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed."
