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No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially - those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices that they would call 'hard but necessary steps' for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#heroism #tyranny #motivational

Do not sit still; start moving now. In the beginning, you may not go in the direction you want, but as long as you are moving, you are creating alternatives and possibilities. ↗

— Rodolfo Costa

#encouragement #motivation #persistence #success #motivational

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#motivation #self-confidence #willpower #motivational

I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad. ↗

— Jack Campbell

#motivation #planning #motivational

If we're doing this for ten hours, I'm going to need a little incentive to stay motivated." Patch hooked his elbow around my neck and dragged me into a kiss. "Every time you strip my sword, I owe you a kiss. How's that sound?" I bit my lip to keep from giggling. "That sounds really dirty." Patch waggled his eyebrows. "Look whose mind just rolled into the gutter. Two kisses per strip. Any objections?" I pulled on an innocent face. "None whatsoever. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#hush-hush #nora #patch #motivational

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#motivational

Strength wasn‘t about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#motivational

To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#philosophy #motivational

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. Consider, for example, two of them: mere insatiable curiosity and the desire to do good. The latter is put high above the former, and yet it is the former that moves one of the most useful men the human race has yet produced: the scientific investigator. What actually urges him on is not some brummagem idea of Service, but a boundless, almost pathological thirst to penetrate the unknown, to uncover the secret, to find out what has not been found out before. His prototype is not the liberator releasing slaves, the good Samaritan lifting up the fallen, but a dog sniffing tremendously at an infinite series of rat-holes. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#sacrifice #samaritan #science #men

Self-confidence is contagious. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#empowerment #jedi #motivational #self-confidence #self-help