“Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don’t ever want to be again.”
– Shane Niemeyer
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“Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don’t ever want to be again.”
– Shane Niemeyer
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
– C.S. Lewis
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.”
– Rosa Parks
“You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let it consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star.”
– Jean Church
“Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.”
– Bernard Williams
“We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely … change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.”
– George Sheehan
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
– Helen Keller
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger — something better, pushing right back.”
– Albert Camus
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
– Nelson Mandela
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde