Find Your Daily Dose of Inspiration: Quotes to Lift Your Spirit - page 243
One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.
Russell Banks
All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.
Randolph Bourne
Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day.
Lauren Fleshman
Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.
The way my father raised me, we don't pat ourselves on the back. We don't call ourselves great, we let other people do that.
Andre Ward
It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
Many a false step is made standing still.
Patti LaBelle
Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.
There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.
Bernard Hopkins
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.
Madeleine L'Engle
Sometimes you've got to make your work and workouts co-exist.
Jillian Michaels
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
Vinoba Bhave
Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
