"Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners."
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"The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance"
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"Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome."
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"Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful."
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"The motivation for me, was them telling me what I could not be."
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"Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life."
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"I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it."
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"Most misfortunes are the results of misused time."
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"Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success."
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"Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes"
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"There's so many things to explore in life, and if you don't have that inspiration or motivation to do it, then don't force yourself. Take that time to do whatever else you need to do. That inspiration or motivation will always come back and when it does, it's always stronger."
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"They kind of go hand-in-hand. Following your motivation, resting when you need to rest, and going for it when you feel inspired."
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"It's not an 'either/or,' it's an 'and.' You can be serious and play."
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"Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day."
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"There are no laurels in life, just new challenges."
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"Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are."
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"The best motivation is self-motivation."
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"The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire."
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"When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness."
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"We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls."
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