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Stop comparing yourself with others. If they are good at something, you too are good at something else. Self-confidence is not measured by your own capabilities versus that of others, but by your own needs. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#confident #empowerment #jedi #motivational #self-confidence

Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it. ↗

— Steve Chandler

#doing #fear #motivation #persistence #motivational

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#got #makes #use #you

I would argue that it is not human fecundity that is overcrowding the world so much as the technological multipliers of the power of individual humans. The worst disease of the world now is probably the ideology of technological heroism, according to which more and more people willingly cause large-scale effects that they do not see and that they cannot control. This is the ideology of the professional class of the industrial nations—a class whose allegiance to communities and places has been dissolved by their economic motives and by their educations. These are people who will go anywhere and jeopardize anything in order to assure the success of their careers. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#education

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#psychology #motivational

I would rather live short and right then long and wrong. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #conferences #john-paul-warren #john-warren #motivational

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#money #motivation #money

Mr. Rivenhall said to Sophy, “If this is your doing—!” “I promise you it is not. If I thought that he had the smallest notion of your hostility, I should say that he had rolled you up, Charles, foot and guns!” He was obliged to laugh. “I doubt if he would have the smallest notion of anything less violent than a blow from a cudgel. How you can tolerate the fellow!” “I told you that I was not at all nice in my ideas. Come, don’t let us talk of him! I have sworn an oath to heaven not to quarrel with you today.” “You amaze me! Why?” “Don’t be such an ape!” she begged. “I want to drive your grays, of course! ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#cousin #ulterior-motive #motivational

The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons. ↗

— Jean Renoir

#reason #reasoning #reasons #understanding #motivational

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#behave #demean #easily #heroes #motives