quotes about Motivational Success

“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.”

“The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.”

“It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.”

“Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.”

“You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.”

Source : Zuleika Dobson (1911) ch. 9

“Yes, and the body has a memory. The physical carriage hauls more than its weight. The body is the threshold across which each objectionable call passes into consciousness—all the unintimidated, unblinking, and unflappable resilience does not erase the moments lived through, even as we are eternally stupid or everlastingly optimistic, so ready to be inside, among, a part of the games.”

Source : Claudia Rankine (2014). “Citizen: An American Lyric”, p.29, Macmillan

“It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.”

“I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.”

“You have to build systems to protect against your lesser self.”

“Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.”