The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

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It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.

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Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle

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Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. — John Archibald Wheeler

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Will Durant

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All things are difficult before they are easy.

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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa

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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. — Michael Jordan

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If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive. ― Kenneth Goldsmith

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