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Pain? Yes, of course. Racing without pain is not racing. But the pleasure of being ahead outweighed the pain a million times over. To hell with the pain. What's six minutes of pain compared to the pain they're going to feel for the next six months or six decades. You never forget your wins and losses in this sport. YOU NEVER FORGET. ↗

— Brad Alan Lewis

#rowing #sports #motivational

The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating. ↗

— André Gide

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البسطاء لا يحبون الأضواء ولا يشعرون بالحاجة إليها فالضوء المنبعث في داخلهم يكفيهم ويشعرهم بأنهم أهم من يعيش على الكرة الأرضية دون أن يصيبهم ذلك بداء الغرور ↗

— ياسر حارب

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Reach for the sky but keep your feet on the ground ↗

— Phil Limbert

#motivational #sky #motivational

Encourage others each and every day–nothing’s more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words daily? My last book didn’t have that many words. A lot of language is flowing out of our mouths every day and having an impact on those around us. But how much of that flow is fulfilling God’s intended purpose for our speech? How much of it reflects pride, rather than a gospel-motivated humility? ↗

— C.J. Mahaney

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Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements. ↗

— Derrick A. Bell

#goals #motivation #obstacles #resistance #success

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#motivational #opportunity #risk-taking #success #motivational

Why didn't you kill me like you did that guy back there? Billy? Or does it even make any sense to ask? Are you beyond why?' Oh shit, we're all beyond why, you know that. ↗

— Stephen King

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The motivation of transparency is important. The culture teaches people to be candid and blunt, but this usually revolves around self-centeredness – you have a right to express your true feelings and your rage. This is an entitlement. Instead, the Christian way to approach transparency is to realize out candidness should be motivated by a desire to have a pure heart before God and others. ↗

— David Kinnaman

#transparency #motivational

Still, I could find no good reason for not going. So I decided to go. ↗

— Nicolette Milnes Walker

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