I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Unlock Your Potential with Motivational Quotes - page 153
Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.
William Lyon Phelps
If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.
Alex Tabarrok
Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.
Al Oerter
Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.
There are physical karmas. They are reactions and results from actions. But those are bound to a particular lifetime.
Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
Edmund Spenser
I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most primitive, barbarous motivations for any kind of progress.
Murray Bookchin
We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.
Clay Shirky
Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.
Ellen Swallow Richards
Self-compassion - being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure - is associated with more motivation and better self-control.
Kelly McGonigal
Compassion
is not helpless
pity, but an
awareness and
determination
that demands
action.
No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel Butler
He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.
Christopher Columbus
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
R. Buckminster Fuller