#nation

It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power! ↗

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

#life #self-determination #self-image #wisdom #inspirational

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#determination #initiative #inspirational #self-empowerment #inspirational

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#independence #individuality #inspirational #self-assurance #self-awareness

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it. ↗

— John Mayer

#dedication #imagination #inspiration #imagination

The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you? ↗

— Henry Ford

#determination #inspirational #inspirational

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to ­music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient." [The Guardian, 25 February 2010] ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#distraction #inspiration #openness #problem-solving #procrastination

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#imagination #inspirational #writing #imagination

Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will ↗

— Jack Welch

#destiny #inspiration #motivation #self-confidence #self-determination

I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen. ↗

— CrimethInc.

#inspirational #life #imagination

Jeremy and Karl and Elizabeth have known each other since the first day of kindergarten. Amy and Talis are a year younger...Now the five are inseparable; invincible. They imagine that life will always be like this--like a television show in eternal syndication--that they will always have each other. They use the same vocabulary. They borrow each other's books and music. They share lunches, and they never say anything when Jeremy comes over and takes a shower. They all know Jeremy's father is eccentric. He's supposed to be eccentric. He's a novelist. ↗

— Kelly Link

#inspiration #imagination