"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum."

-- Frances E. Willard

#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Momentum Quotes

“It's easy to respond to the hate cries, usually carefully wrapped up in a flag. Perhaps hate is the greatest simplifier of them all. It's the man with the throb in his voice, the man with the easy formula, the man who tries to shout to my emotions instead of speaking to my mind, the man who is sure he is right that I run from like hell.”
“The marathon's about being in contention over the last 10K. That's when it's about what you have in your core. You have run all the strength, all the superficial fitness out of yourself, and it really comes down to what's left inside you. To be able to draw deep and pull something out of yourself is one of the most tremendous things about the marathon.”
“Trust is kind of this economic lubricant. When trust is high, morale is high. ... Higher trust environments produce individuals who are happier.”
“Truth is fire, and to speak the truth means to shine and to burn”
“People can say you're fat because you're filling a void, or you eat for all these emotional reasons. I said, 'I don't need to focus on this anymore. It doesn't matter why I'm fat. Let's fix it.”
“Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.”

Source : Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.1
“To give so much time to the improvement of yourself That you have no time to criticise others, To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, And too happy to permit the presence of trouble.”

Source : Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.10, The Floating Press
“Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.”

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