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“Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold; and hence great is the honor bestowed, not on him who kills a thief, but on him who kills a tyrant.” Aristotle, Politics
“But I love it when people say that something can’t be done. That’s when I really get motivated; I like to prove them wrong.” Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
“If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown...” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly, and I have never turned my back upon one yet.” Isaac Asimov, Foundation
“Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.” Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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