"Motivation is the single most important factor in any sort of success."

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Source : "From Beekeeper to World Explorer". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. November 16, 1991.

Edmund Hillary

#Motivation Quotes #Important Quotes

“I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.”
“What is not discussed, will not be advanced.”
“I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the bare peak of the koan, this one is not different from myself. I know this mountain because I am this mountain, I can feel it breathing at this moment, as its grass tops stray against the snows. If the snow leopard should leap from the rock above and manifest itself before me - S-A-A-O! - then in that moment of pure fright, out of my wits, I might truly perceive it, and be free.”
“We aren't allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think.”
“More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That's what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing death.”
“Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be ***** joy by lunch.”

Source : Joe Abercrombie (2015). “The Great Leveller: Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country”, p.388, Hachette UK
“If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.”

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