"People ask me why I work so hard and why I have this compassion to reach the top and be great. I respond by telling them, "I work insanely hard because people said I couldn't do it." When someone tells me I can't do something, or that I'll never achieve my goals and visions, I am determined to prove them wrong."

-- Robert Cheeke

#Motivational Quotes #Bodybuilding Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“The actual breakthrough in the privacy of the studio, when one dares to apply paint in a new manner, is a solitary thrill, dependent upon no one else.”
“I think the last few weeks for me have been just a very different emotional experience. Something I never thought I would feel myself. And I find...a lot of things affect me differently now. As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.”
“It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.”
“The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.”

Source : Gordon W. Allport (1964). “Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality”
“When you're in trouble don't depend on yourself. Don't depend on people. Depend on God.”
“Her days come and go like birds, her dreams like days.”

Source : Janette Turner Hospital (2003). “North of Nowhere, South of Loss”, p.129, Univ. of Queensland Press
“I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.”
“I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.”

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