Motivated Quotes - Page 35

• When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Past

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• You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

  Edmund Hillary

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

  Andre Agassi

  Challenges, Overcoming, Faces

  FaceBook post by Andre Agassi from Sep 18, 2013

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• All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two words in the language of the soul.... Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Letting Go, Fear, Two

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• An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.

  Eve Ensler

  Fighting, Compassion, Mad

  Jody Williams, Eve Ensler (2013). “My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Example, Facts

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.268, Ballantine Books

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• If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves!

  Joyce Meyer

  Believe, Reality, Self

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• Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.

  Isabel Paterson

  School, Omission, Long

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.235, Transaction Publishers

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• Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Hate, Born, Be Careful

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• The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.

  Seth Godin

  Teacher, Data, Clerks

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• Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.

  John Gray

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  John Gray (2012). “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

  e. e. cummings

  Life, Confidence, Believe

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• Life will let you get away with something for a while, but sooner or later, you will pay the price. Everything you do in life causes the effects that you experience. When you get the bill, be prepared to pay.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Pay The Price, Bills, Causes

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Oct 31, 2016

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• The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

  Irving Langmuir

  Curiosity, Desire, Scientist

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