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I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know my work is done by me. But I can pass that up. I like to have tenants made happy by my work. But that doesn't matter too much. The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way. Peter, there's nothing in the world that you can offer me, except this. Offer me this and you can have anything I've got to give. My work done my way. A private, personal, selfish, egotistical motivation. That's the only way I function. That's all I am. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#money

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don'tgive up. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#hope #motivation #motivational

Drop everithing and read. ↗

— Emma Roberts

#reading-habits #reading-motivation #motivational

The bookshelf in my heart holds many titles. So can yours. ↗

— Sylvia McNicoll

#motivational

If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a man you will be in the day of recompense; your light and knowledge will more torment you than all the devils in hell. Your knowledge will be that rod that will eternally lash you, and that scorpion that will forever bite you, and that worm that will everlastingly gnaw you; therefore read, and labor to know that you may do--or else you are undone forever. ↗

— Thomas Brooks

#conviction #knowledge #motivation #puritan #reading

...we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires... ↗

— John Geddes

#self #shadowy #motivational

In one of his puckish moods Saul talked the president of a university into letting him anonymously take an examination being administered to candidates for a doctorate in community organization. "Three of the questions were on the philosophy of and motivations of Saul Alinsky," writes Saul. "I answered two of them incorrectly. ↗

— Nicholas von Hoffman

#community #funny #organization #political #radical

Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome. ↗

— Jefferson Smith

#gnomes #motivation #motives #sprites #trust

Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies. ↗

— David Wong

#undead #zombies #movies

Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don't stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you'll never know true happiness until someone or something pulls you back out of that river--and you'll never believe it until you realize it was you, yourself who saved you. ↗

— Alysha Speer

#depression-quotes #endure #happiness #life #recovery