#inspiration

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation. ↗

— Homer Rice

#motivation #inspirational

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#indirect #look #looking #relativity #sun

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#success #inspirational

What did you do?” I mumble. He is just a few feet away from me now, but not close enough to hear me. As he passes me he stretches out his hand. He wraps it around my palm and squeezes. Squeezes, then lets go. His eyes are bloodshot; he is pale. “What did you do?” This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him, struggling against Peter’s grip, though his hands chafe. “What did you do?” I scream. “You die, I die too” Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. “I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#brave #dauntless #erudite #inspirational #insurgent

Love me or hate me, i swear it won't make or break me. ↗

— Lil Wayne

#self-esteem #song-lyrics #inspirational

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#libraries #thoughtful #inspirational

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#inspirational

Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are ↗

— Rick Riordan

#life #mars #mortal #inspirational

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#inspirational

We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it. ↗

— Paolo Bacigalupi

#life #nature #potential #inspirational