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Best quotes about motivation

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
Julius Caesar
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho
If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn’t happen by laws of nature. And it doesn’t happen by social laws. . . . It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.
Noam Chomsky
If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn’t happen by laws of nature. And it doesn’t happen by social laws. . . . It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.
“I don’t stop when I’m tired. I only stop when I’m done.”
Marilyn Monroe
“I don’t stop when I’m tired. I only stop when I’m done.”
“I remember as a kid, I was improvising and making little trophies out of different materials and going in front of the mirror, lifting the trophies and saying 'Nole was the champion!'”
Novak Djokovic
“I remember as a kid, I was improvising and making little trophies out of different materials and going in front of the mirror, lifting the trophies and saying 'Nole was the champion!'”
If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
Noam Chomsky
If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
Passivity may be an easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.
Noam Chomsky
Passivity may be an easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.
Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
Leonardo da Vinci
Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose
Leonardo da Vinci
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose
Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.
Nelson Mandela
Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.