- My parents... I want my parents to be proud of me, which in turn inspires me to be a better person than I am otherwise naturally inclined to be.
- My son. Ditto the above, x1,000,000. Because her transforms "want" into "need".
And here's a smattering of others.
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"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
Robert Frost
"It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted."
Seneca
"I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."
- Virginia Woolf
"Words can be more devastating weapons than any iron implements in the arsenals of the world."
John Boyle O'Reilly
"Our demands most moderate are, we only want the earth."
James Connolly
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas A. Edison
"He who takes offense when it's not intended is a fool, he who takes offense when it IS intended is a greater fool."
Brigham Young
"Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work coupled with vision is destiny."
President Thomas S. Monson
"If every tree on earth was a pen refilled by the sea
And 7 more seas besides
The word of god would not be exhausted
God is all knowing
All wise."
- Mohammed
"We are all connected
To each other, biologically
To the earth, chemically
To the rest of the universe, atomically."
- dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Rise up this mornin',
Smiled with the risin' sun,
Three little birds
Is by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
This is my message to you."
- Bob Marley
"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
Lewis Carroll
.... And so, so, so many more.