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If broken by inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from inside.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 47, "text": "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 615, "text": "You will face many defeats in your life. But, never let yourself be defeated.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 682, "text": "Above all, you are a human being, carrying no greater power than your own reasoned choice, which oversees all other things, and is free from any other master.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 32, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 684, "text": "You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 122, "text": "If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping", "author": "Carl Jung", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 48, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 686, "text": "You cannot allow your desire to be a winner be diminished by previous success.", "author": "Lionel Messi", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 690, "text": "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.", "author": "Dale Carnegie", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 213, "text": "Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship.", "author": "Denzel Washington", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 51, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 296, "text": "Nothing changes if nothing changes.", "author": "Courtney C. 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In the future you will wish you had started today.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 47, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 601, "text": "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.", "author": "Og Mandino", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 1, "text": "Devote the rest of your life to making progress.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 0, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 147, "text": "A real loser is someone who's so afraid of not winning he doesn't even try.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 188, "text": "The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.", "author": "Machiavelli", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 47, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 602, "text": "Always do what you are afraid to do.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 21, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 674, "text": "Time is made up of a succession of tomorrows and one day is just like another. Inevitable sorrows do not become joys by postponement.", "author": "Ramayana", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 318, "text": "168, that’s a special number, no matter how rich or poor, we are all given the same number, which is the number of hours in a week.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 34, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 8, "text": "No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity, for he is not permitted to prove himself.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 149, "text": "You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.", "author": "Paulo Coelho", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 6, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 789, "text": "The secret of getting ahead is getting started", "author": "Mark Twain", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 0, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 795, "text": "The man who aims for the moon reaches the stars. The main who aims for the roof stays on the floor", "author": "", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 1, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 200, "text": "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.", "author": "Henry Ford", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 16, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 292, "text": "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 47, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 212, "text": "If you think the price of winning is too high, wait until you get the bill from regret.", "author": "Tim Grover", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 9, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 256, "text": "Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 244, "text": "How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 225, "text": "Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.", "author": "Napoleon", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 8, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 169, "text": "When the winds of change blow, some people build walls, other build windmills.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 21, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 302, "text": "Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.", "author": "C.S. Lewis", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 11, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 323, "text": "The trials you face will introduce you to your strengths.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 38, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 316, "text": "Go after what creates meaning and trust yourself with the stress you may encounter.", "author": "Kelly McGonigal", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 309, "text": "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 362, "text": "Life is like riding a bicycle; to keep your balance, you must keep moving.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 324, "text": "Remind yourself what you've been through and what you've had the strength to endure.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 295, "text": "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 0, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 550, "text": "Don't be afraid. You're going to make it, but it's always going to feel as if you're not. That's the fun in it.", "author": "Alan Watts", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 35, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 351, "text": "Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 51, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 444, "text": "There is no better teacher than adversity.", "author": "Malcolm X", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 693, "text": "When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.", "author": "Roy T. Bennett", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 584, "text": "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 52, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 691, "text": "Life is not easy for any of us. We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.", "author": "Marie Curie", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 692, "text": "To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness and triumph with humility.", "author": "Thomas S. Monson", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 36, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 439, "text": "I’ve failed over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.", "author": "Michael Jordan", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 547, "text": "You can't hope to make progress in areas where you have taken no action.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 41, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 504, "text": "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 23, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 237, "text": "The important thing is to hold on. Holding on is a victory in itself.", "author": "Miyamoto Musashi", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 48, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 527, "text": "Patience isn’t passive; it’s about persisting in the face of uncertainty. Keep working, even when progress isn’t visible. Eventually, the light at the end of the tunnel will shine through.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 36, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 512, "text": "After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillful, swift, and steady.", "author": "Bruce Lee", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 37, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 532, "text": "You didn't go through all that for nothing.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 52, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 29, "text": "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.", "author": "Mark Twain", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 317, "text": "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one that is most responsive to change.", "author": "Charles Darwin", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 62, "text": "Courage isn't having the strength to go on—it is going on when you don't have strength.", "author": "Napoleon", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 45, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 17, "text": "Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.", "author": "George Adair", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 51, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 696, "text": "Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 515, "text": "All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.", "author": "Walt Disney", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 52, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 54, "text": "Without training, they lacked knowledge, without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.", "author": "Julius Caesar", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 139, "text": "Act the way you want to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.", "author": "Les Brown", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 41, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 104, "text": "If you hear a voice within you saying, \"You're not a painter,\" then by all means paint, boy, and that voice will be silenced, but only by working.", "author": "Vincent Van Gogh", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 37, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 121, "text": "To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 138, "text": "To sit on an idea or fail to act on a goal is not really goal-setting, but wishful thinking.", "author": "Les Brown", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 52, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 40, "text": "May the flowers remind us of why the rain was so necessary.", "author": "Xan Oku", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 32, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 116, "text": "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain.", "author": "Vivian Greene", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 46, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" } ]