Quotes about mobbing, power and management. Some ideas about power, management, school and the practice of bullying and mobbing some collegues at work place or on the Internet. There are also some quotes that can suggest the ways you can protect yourself.

Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.
John Florio

St. Michael’s Shield of Truth Prayer. St. Michael, you are our defender and safeguard against evil. Place your Shield of Truth over us and defend us in the battle which Satan wages against truth. Help us to seethe righteous path of Holy Love.Clarify our choices between good and evil by placing us always behind your Shield of Truth. Amen.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It’s the bully who’s insecure.
Shay Mitchell

I allowed myself to be bullied because I was scared and didn’t know how to defend myself. I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied. By standing up for him, I learned to stand up for myself.
Jackie Chan

Wisdom overcomes fortune.
Decimus Junius Juvenalis

Cyberbullying is poised to turn into the biggest online concern, already affecting up to 35% of all children.
Dr. Martyn Wild

Never underestimate the enemy, above all if he is a stupid one.
Carl William Brown

Once I was adviced never to trust a pretty face. Well, and what should I do when a meet a shithead?
Carl William Brown

Do not do what you would undo if caught.
Leah Arendt

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: ‘The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that’s fair.’ In these words, he epitomized the history of the human race.
Bertrand Russell

Often, the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the one that will make you grow as a human being.
Karen Mueller Coombs

If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied.
Dan Pearce

Unless and until our society recognizes cyberbullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.
Anna Maria Chávez

Every thought we think is creating our future.
Louise L. Hay

You must try to make the most of all that comes but  also don’t forget to learn a lot of all that goes.
Carl William Brown

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr

I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.
Richard Ingrams

Courage is the most important of virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

One man can make a difference, and every man should try.
John F. Kennedy

We’re just honest working men that have been pushed so far and so hard that we can’t keep it up any longer.
Frances O’Rourke

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell

We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.
Michelle Obama

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

Power is not a means; it is an end… The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
George Orwell

Nemo me impune lacessit. (No one harms me with impunity.)
Motto – Order of the Thistle

“If everyone is in agreement to condemn someone accused, release him, for he must be innocent.”.
Talmudic Principle

It isn’t the rebels who cause the troubles of the world, it’s the troubles that cause the rebels.
Carl Oglesby

Management doesn’t seem to understand the importance of the human factor.
King Charles III

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein

He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world.
Thomas Hughes

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
Elie Wiesel

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel

I would rather be a little nobody than to be an evil somebody.
Abraham Lincoln

People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that’s not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven’t forgotten.
Demi Lovato

Cyberbullies can hide behind a mask of namelessness online and do not need direct physical admittance to their victims to do unimaginable harm.
Anna Maria Chávez

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time
when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
Steven Biko

If you’re insulting people on the internet, you must be ugly on the inside.
Phil Lester

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Desmond Tutu

What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?
Lynette Mather

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
Cesar Chavez

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm

We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will.
You do your worst–and we will do our best.
Sir Winston Churchill

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with
the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
William Hazlitt

The superior person understands rightness; the inferior person understands profit.
Confucius

Nothing strengthens authority as much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci

People might not get all that they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all that they get.
Frederick Douglass

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucker

Never undervalue the enemies, especially if they are stupid. Carl William Brown

We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.
Mahatma Gandhi

There’s enough on this planet for everyone’s needs, but not for everyone’s greed.
Mahatma Gandhi

In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.
Jimmy Hoffa

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
Rosa Parks

If you let a bully come in your front yard, he’ll be on your porch the next day and the day after that
he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
Lyndon Baines Johnson

Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be
regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
William Shakespear

“Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
William Shakespeare

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.”
John Tillotson

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essense of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Seneca

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
Napoleon Hill

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
Georges Bidault

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes,
and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
Francis Quarles

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
Lily Tomlin

Long is the way And hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
John Milton

What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.
Lao Tzu

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Oscar Wilde

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King Jr

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Joseph Addison

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Louis D. Brandeis

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100 famous proverbs, a list of 100 most used and famous proverbs, with a large introduction on their use, starting from John Florio up to our days, edited for the World of English blog by Carl William Brown, a sincere literary avenger. (Find out more about him on Amazon).

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Proverbs where largely collected and used by my old friend John Florio, but of course they were created and employed much earlier from a lot of other different writers all around the world. John Florio was a teacher, an interpreter, a grammarian, a translator, a lexicographer, a writer, a journalist, and a poet. I wrote something about him in my book on William Shakespeare’s genial aphorisms, so if you want to find out more you can download it for free. He was the son of an Italian Protestant exile, Florio (1553-1625) and became one of the most cultured and educated man in Elizabethan England during Shakespeare’s time.

Florio made the development of modern English language his primary mission. Firstly, he became tutor of Italian language to John Lyly and Stephen Gosson and many other writers, then with the accession of James I John Florio obtained a promotion and began a new life at court first becoming reader in Italian to Queen Anne and a year later Gentleman Extraordinary and Groom of the Privy Chamber to the King. In addition to his attendance on the Queen, John Florio was also tutor in Italian and French to Prince Henry at court. He probably supplemented his income also by serving as a minor cog in Sir Francis Walsingham’s vast machinery of state espionage. His dictionary, which by its 1611 edition contained over 70,000 entries, therefore more than the Italian dictionary of The Crusca Accademy published in 1612, catered for both the potential visitor to Italy and the reader who wished to read Italian books, now being imported to England in large numbers.

When we quote John Lyly we have to remember “Euphuism” that is a peculiar mannered style of English prose and it takes its name from a prose romance by this author. It consists of a preciously ornate and sophisticated style, employing a deliberate excess of literary devices such as antitheses, alliterations, repetitions and rhetorical questions. Classical learning and remote knowledge of all kinds are displayed. Euphuism was fashionable in the 1580s, especially in the Elizabethan court. Contents “Euphues” is the Greek for “graceful, witty”. John Lyly published the works Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and his England (1580). Both works illustrated the intellectual fashions and favourite themes of Renaissance society – in a highly artificial and mannered style. The plots are unimportant, existing merely as structural elements on which to display conversations, discourses and letters mostly concerning the subject of love. Its essential features had already appeared in such works as George Pettie’s A Petite Pallace of Pettie his pleasure (1576), in sermon literature, and Latin tracts. Lyly perfected the distinctive rhetorical devices on which the style was based.

Florio probably knew Shakespeare; literary London was a small circle, they shared patrons in the Earls of Pembroke and Southampton and Love’s labour’s lost and The tempest both contain passages indicating a familiarity with some of Florio’s other published works. That Shakespeare shared the contemporary interest in all Italian things is suggested by the large number of his plays which are set wholly or partly in Italy, but that Shakespeare was in fact Florio, a theory first advanced in 1927 by the Italian journalist Santi Paladino in a fascist literary magazine, L’impero, is, to say the least, unlikely for many reasons; but the dispute and the research on this field is gathering always more interesting facts and information all around the world, even though as William would say, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” Anyway this is a real mistery, as the life of the great national bard of England.

Giovanni Florio, known as John Florio, is anyway recognized as the most important humanist in Renaissance’s England, the author who translated Michel de Montaigne’s Essais into English. When he arrived in London at 18 years old, John Florio found a job as dyer for the Venetian merchant Gaspare Gatti. His passion for literature and writing lead him, seven years later his arrival in London, to publish his first work, First Fruits, a bilingual language lesson manual structured in dramatic dialogues, where he showed that he was able to combine his love for literature, proverbs and poetry, with language teaching, explaining in this way mankind’s debt to literature and to great writers.

This work is particularly interesting as an expression of Florio’s observations and opinions on various aspects of London life at the time, making this book one of the most interesting of the Elizabethan language lesson textbooks. So, with First Fruits, John Florio left the job as dyer and officially began a new career as a language teacher, writer and translator, while having contacts at the same time with actors, writers, theatre businessmen and court men. In his own words we can read: “Firste Fruites which yeelde familiar speech, merie prouerbes, wittie sentences, and golden sayings. Also a perfect induction to the Italian, and English tongues, as in the table appeareth. The like heretofore, neuer by any man published (1578).

Second Fruits publication appeared 13 years later the first one and even contains dialogues about sonnets and poems themes that other language lesson books never dared to include, and of course proverbs, in fact he wrote: “To use them (proverbs) is a grace, to understand them a good, but to gather them a paine to me, though game to thee. I, but for all that I must not scope without some new flout: now would I were by thee to give thee another, and surely I would give thee bread for cake. Farewell if thou meane well; els fare as ill, as thou wishest me to fare.” It is true that proverbs were a usual feature of most Elizabethan language teaching books, and they were also employed in drama writing and theatre playings, but in no manual did they play such an important part as in the Second Fruits.

The proverbs of the book are, in fact, intertwined with those published in a corollary work by Florio, the Giardino di Ricreatione: six thousands Italian proverbs, without their English translations, one of the most important of the earlier collections of this kind. “Proverbs are the pith, the properties, the proofes, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language.” Florio endeavored particularly “to finde matter to declare those Italian wordes & phrases, that never yett saw Albions cliffes.” Yet, the proverbs used in the Second Fruits seem to have been especially selected as those which could be transported from the Italian to the English without strain or loss of meaning. But in this book Florio also devoted an entire chapter to a discussion of “newes”, “devices”, “tales”, written reports, printed “letters”, rumors, and scandal; so we can say that The Second Fruits might also be considered as one of the earliest pieces of journalism written in England.

Talking about the use of proverbs in language teaching nowadays, we can say that they play a great part in gaining cultural knowledge, metaphorical understanding and communicative competence. Proverbs are a part of every language as well as every culture. They have been used to spread knowledge, wisdom and truths about life from ancient times up until now. They have been considered an important part of the fostering of children, as they signal moral values and exhort common behaviour. Proverbs belong to the traditional verbal folklore genres and the wisdom of proverbs has been guidance for people worldwide in their social interaction throughout the ages. Proverbs are concise, easy to remember and useful in every situation in life due to their content of everyday experiences.

Since a proverb is a short, generally known sentence of the folk which contains wisdom, truth, morals, and traditional views in a metaphorical, fixed and memorizable form and which is handed down from generation to generation, many scholars think that they should be used in teaching as didactic tools because of their content of educational wisdom. When it comes to foreign language learning, proverbs play a role in the teaching as a part of cultural and metaphorical learning. Linguists also claim that the use of proverbs in the teaching of English as a second or foreign language is important for the learners’ ability to communicate effectively.

What’s more proverbs “stick in the mind”, “build up vocabulary”, “illustrate admirably the phraseology and idiomatic expressions of the foreign tongue”, “contribute gradually to a surer feeling for the foreign tongue” and proverbs “consume very little time”. It was also said that proverbs are not only melodic and witty, possessed with rhythm and imagery; proverbs also reflect “patterns of thought”. As proverbs are universal, there are analogous proverbs in different nations that have related cultural patterns. Proverbs are therefore useful in the students’ discussions of cultural ideas when they compare the proverbs equivalents in different languages.

But as the experience shows the incorporation of proverbs in the foreign language classroom is rare. When proverbs are included, they are often used as time fillers and not integrated into a context. The proverbs that are used are often randomly picked from dictionaries, which often include archaic proverbs and new proverbs might therefore be missed. The suitability of proverbs in teaching is due to their form; they are pithy and easy to learn, they often rhyme and contain repetition figures like alliteration and assonance. Some scholars propose the use of proverbs in a range of areas within language teaching: grammar and syntax, phonetics, vocabulary development, culture, reading, speaking and writing. They state that proverbs, besides being an important part of culture, also are an important tool for effective communication and for the comprehension of different spoken and written discourses.

Obviously proverbs change with time and culture. Some old proverbs are not in use any longer because they reflect a culture that no longer exists, e.g. Let the cobbler stick to his last, which has vanished more or less, because the profession of the cobbler nowadays is rare. However, new proverbs that reflect the contemporary society are created instead, e.g. Garbage in, garbage out, a proverb created due to our computerized time. Old proverbs are also used as so called anti-proverbs today, i.e. “parodied, twisted, or fractured proverbs that reveal humorous or satirical speech play with traditional proverbial wisdom”. One example is Nobody is perfect, which as an anti-proverb is changed to No body is perfect.

Anyway working with proverbs and sayings during the lessons not only helps to diversify educational process and to make it brighter and interesting. Moreover it helps to solve a number of very important educational problems: proverbs in the classroom can improve students’ learning experiences, their language skills, and their understanding of themselves and the world in general.

This happens because proverbs provide opportunities for students to learn a lot of different things about each other and their shared values, human experiences and cultures, the world of linguistic rhetoric figures, since they are full of metaphors, rhymes, puns, irony, humor, definitions, and so on, all seasoned with a strong moral wisdom and an old and proved useful common sense. That’s why now I report in this quite dense article a list of the most used and famous English proverbs, selected by my large collection, that can naturally be used for language teaching and thinking learning as well.

1. A friend in need is a friend indeed.

2. A little learning is a dangerous thing.

3. A rolling stone gather no moss.

4. A stitch in time saves nine.

5. All is well that ends well.

6. All good roads lead to Rome.

7. Beauty is only skin deep.

8. Birds of a feather flock together.

9. A cat has nine lives.

10. The early bird catches the worm.

11. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

12. Every dog has its day.

13. First come first served.

14. Honesty is the best policy.

15. Actions speak louder than words.

16. Haste makes waste.

17. It is no use crying over spilt milk.

18. Necessity is the mother of invention.

19. No news is good news.

20. Out of sight, out of mind.

21. Rome was not build in a day.

22. Practice makes perfect.

23. Spare the rod, spoil the child.

24. The pen is mightier than the sword.

25. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

26. Too many cooks spoil the broth.

27. Among the blind a one-eyed man is the king.

28. Cash is the king.

29. Strike while the iron is hot.

30. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

31. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

32. Still waters run deep.

33. Don’t judge a book by its cover.

34. Many hands make light work.

35. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

36. It’s better to be safe than sorry.

37. Make hay while the sun shines.

38. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

39. Better late than never.

40. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

41. Ignorance is bliss.

42. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

43. The forbidden fruit is always the sweetest.

44. If you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.

45. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

46. It takes two to tango.

47. It’s the tip of the iceberg.

48. Don’t cross the bridge until you come to it.

49. Curiosity killed the cat.

50. Every cloud has a silver lining.

51. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

52. Money doesn’t grow on trees.

53. You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.

54. The cat is out of the bag.

55. You made your bed, now you have to lie in it.

56. Don’t bite off more than you can chew.

57. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

58. Always put your best foot forward.

59. Look before you leap.

60. Be good and if you can’t be good, be careful.

61. Easy come, easy go.

62. Between the devil and the deep blue sea.

63. Don’t make a mountain out of an anthill.

64. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

65. After the feast comes the reckoning.

66. All that glitters is not gold.

67. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

68. Bad news travels fast.

69. Barking dogs seldom bite.

70. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

71. Beggars can’t be choosers.

72. The best things in life are free.

73. Better a live coward than a dead hero.

74. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

75. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

76. Blood is thicker than water.

77. Charity begins at home.

78. Clothes do not make the man.

79. Don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today.

80. Don’t put the cart before the horse.

81. Familiarity breeds contempt.

82. The first step is always the hardest.

83. A friend who shares is a friend who cares.

84. He who hesitates is lost.

85. He who laughs last, laughs best.

86. If you can’t beat them, join them.

87. In unity there is strength.

88. A leopard cannot change its spots.

89. Love is blind.

90. Love makes the world go round.

91. Abundance, like want, ruins many.

92. Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free

93. A man without money is no man at all.

94. Art has no enemy but ignorance.

95. If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.

96. Look not a gift horse in the mouth.

97. A good name is sooner lost than won.

98. A heavy purse makes a light heart.

99. A hungry man is an angry man.

100. A Joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend.

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Environment Questions and answers about global warming, energy saving, pollution, climate change, weather events, water, rubbish, transport and eco-activism

1) What’s the difference between climate and weather?

The climate is the pattern of weather a place experiences over a long period of time. There are many different kinds of climate. Hot, dry climates like the Mediterranean climate in summer, or the humid tropical climate we find around the equator with heavy rainfall, or the polar ice climate, where snow and ice are permanent features. The weather is what happens every day, rain, snow, sun, etc.

2) Why is plastic so dangerous for our environment?

The modern plastic era began in 1907 with the invention of Bakelite. Synthetic plastic quickly replaced natural material and made our lives more convenient, but it comes from oil or natural gas and this is harming the environment. Plastic is unbreakable, it is more durable than other materials and therefore it lasts much longer, but for this reason it is also very difficult to decompose and it can pollute our planet for hundreds of years. Today we are producing millions of tons of plastic (300) per year, and 10% of this eventually gets into oceans. That’s why we need to create and follow every creative recycling programs we can find and also big companies are looking for solutions to solve the plastic problem.

3) Do you know one of the best way to avoid problems associated with recycling?

The best way to avoid problems associated with recycling is to precycle – find new uses for old things you don’t need anymore. There are many websites that show you how you can transform plastic bottles or milk cartons into interesting art projects.

4) What are the main risks of the global warming?

Warmer weather is increasing the risk of long droughts and severe forest fires as it is happening in Australia opr some American states, but at the same time more flooding due to climate changes is the greatest risk for some other countries, like the UK for example.

5) What is in your own opinion an effective way to avoid climate change.

I agree with most scientists who think that a global climate change policy is the best way avoid the worst effects of climate change.

6) Do you know who is Greta Thunberg and how she started her protest in order to increase climate change awareness?

She is a young Swedish environmental activist who has gained international recognition for promoting the view that humanity is facing an existential crisis arising from climate change. Thunberg is known for her youth and her straightforward speaking manner, both in public and to political leaders and assemblies, in which she criticizes world leaders for their failure to take sufficient action to address the climate crisis. Thunberg’s activism started after convincing her parents to adopt several lifestyle choices to reduce their own carbon footprint. In August 2018, at age 15, she started spending her school days outside the Swedish parliament to call for stronger action on climate change by holding up a sign reading Skolstrejk för klimatet (School strike for climate).

7) How have humans impacted the greenhouse effect?

Humans have impacted the greenhouse effect by burning fossil fuels. This increases the number of greenhouse gases trapped in our atmosphere, which traps heat and contributes to global warming.

8) What causes climate change? causes of climate change?
 
As the post above makes clear, carbon emissions and greenhouse gas emissions gathering in the atmosphere seem to be the principal cause of man-made climate change.

9) What are some of the causes of global warming?

Global warming is caused by the greenhouse effect – and things that we as humans are doing to exacerbate this effect. The more carbon dioxide that is released into the atmosphere , the more serious the greenhouse effect becomes. Things that cause more carbon dioxide to be released include the burning of fossil…

10) Can the human race take action to stop global warming?

First, we can look at physical possibilities.  In this case, the answer is that the human race can take action to stop or reduce global warming.  Almost all scientists believe that warming is being caused by human action.  Therefore, human action could reduce warming.

11) How is global warming a environmental issue?

Global warming is an environmental issue because it affects the natural environments of various parts of the world.  It does so in ways that hurt humans directly and in ways that alter environmental conditions for nature. Global warming brings about changes in the environment in many places.  There are many examples of how it does this.  It can melt the polar ice caps…

12) Where do you stand on the Global Warming topic? How seriously do you think we should consider “global warming”?

In the political world, one of the main points of debate seems to be whether or not human beings are responsible for global warming…

13)  What are the major global environmental issues?

There are several major global environmental issues. Perhaps the one with the greatest potential impact in terms of human suffering is the lack of clean safe drinking water. Population growth,…

14)  How do pollution and global warming relate to each other?

There is a direct correlation to carbon dioxide emissions and global warming. Since the industrial revolution, the levels of carbon dioxide have been steadily rising.

15) What are the three Rs of the environment?

The 3 Rs of the environment are: reduce, reuse, recycle. They have been around for some time but many people have grown lax in following them. Perhaps the War Advertising Council said it best in 1944 as they promoted the conservation of gas, rubber, silk, and other scarce resources. Every year, Americans throw away 50 billion food and drink cans, 27 billion glass bottles and jars, and 65 million plastic and metal jar and can covers. More than 30% of our waste is packaging materials. Where does it all go? Some 85% of our garbage is sent to a dump, or landfill, although we are quickly running out of space.
Therefore we must learn how to:
Reduce. Purchase products that require less packaging or to limit the waste you are producing.
Reuse. Use a travel mug or reusable water bottle and avoid single-use bags.
Recycle. Paper, plastic, glass, magazines, electronics, and more can be processed into new products while using fewer natural resources and less energy. This is the 3 R’s mantra.

In order to persuade and convince you to take some good actions here are some pragmatic information!

ENERGY

• Americans waste $300 billion per year just by not switching off lights and leaving computers, TVs and videorecorders on permanent stand-by.
• Turning down the heating by just one degree, or using one hour less heating a day, can reduce the fuel bill by 10%
• Insulation and double windows in a house can save up to one third of heating costs.

WATER

• Taking a bath uses three times as much water as taking a shower.
• We use about 155 litres of water each day on average, 70% more than 30 years ago.
• Leaving a water tap running can waste up to 10 litres of water a minute.
• In half an hour, a garden sprinkler uses as much water as a family of four in a day.

TRANSPORT

• Every day British people drive over five million miles on short car journeys under one mile.
• Short car journeys cause the worst pollution because the engine is cold and has to warm up.
• Driving at 80 km per hour uses 25% less fuel than at 110 kph.

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Quotes and aphorisms on motivation, a selection of great sentences by famous authors to inspire and strengthen your will in order to increase also your resilience.

The secret of human motivation lies in purpose, autonomy, and mastery. These elements drive people to engage, persist, and excel in their endeavors. Motivation is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. While genetic predispositions can affect baseline levels of drive and persistence, motivation can also be significantly cultivated and enhanced through learning, experiences, and the environment.

Motivational quotes have a practical and direct purpose, often aiming to stimulate concrete actions. They are used to give the push needed to face challenges, to maintain focus on specific goals and to persevere in the face of difficulties. Motivational phrases tend to be pragmatic, energetic and results-oriented, inviting us to take action. These nuggets of wisdom encourage us to always do better, to never give up and to always move forward no matter what happens.

Money is important for providing motivation, especially for meeting basic needs and achieving financial security. However, its effectiveness as a motivator diminishes once these needs are met. Intrinsic motivators, such as personal growth, autonomy, and a sense of purpose, often play a more significant role in sustained motivation and job satisfaction.

To be motivated you have to find a goal, pursue a goal, stimulate desire, cultivate passion and not just think about satisfying your physiological needs, and filling the sewers.
Carl William Brown

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it destiny.
Carl Gustav Jung

Death, memory, memories, these are the three fundamental key words of all human art.
Carl William Brown

It’s human nature when you lose money quickly you want to make it back twice as quick. Slow down, keep focused, and stick to your strategy.
Ian Cassel

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goals requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Martin Luther King

Slow, steady progress is better than daily excuses.
Robin Sharma

Very often there is nothing more unconscious than our ignorance, of which we obviously disregard the existence; therefore opening the mind to the ethics of knowledge and cultivating one’s learning is the only wise thing to do in order to give a sense to our mysterious life.
Carl William Brown

True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.
John W. Gardner

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.
Wayne Dyer

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain

Go boldly after what you want and expect some setbacks, some disappointments, and some rotten days. Embrace them all as a valuable part of the process and learn to say, Thank you, teacher.
Mark Minervini

Strive not to be merely successful, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
Ted Turner

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbins

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Les Brown

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
Bobby Knight

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H. L. Hunt

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
William James

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
Jessica Savitch

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale

Don’t let yourself be discouraged, move, think, read, listen to music, exercise, learn something, take action, stay calm, strengthen your concentration, and trust yourself as you continue your fight.
Carl William Brown

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Ziglar

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus

If you don’t ask, you don’t get.
Stevie Wonder

Who seeks shall find.
Sophocles

It’s always too early to quit.
Norman Vincent Peale

Never give in and never give up.
Hubert H. Humphrey

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Anonumous

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
Les Brown

It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Nelson Mandela

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Charles R. Swindoll

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Sam Levenson

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII

Character is destiny, that is, our life is closely linked to our behavior and vice versa.
Carl William Brown

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbins

Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
George Whitefield

Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
Jim Rohn

My mum was massively important to everything I’ve done, and now her memory is a motivational tool for me.
Fran Kirby

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
Phillips Brooks

I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Brian Tracy

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H. L. Hunt

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian

Don’t underestimate yourself, don’t be a fanatic or a fan, not even of heroes, always remember that man is not a superior animal at all, in fact he is the most squalid of all.
Carl William Brown

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
Philip Emeagwali

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
Natalie Gulbis

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Saint Teresa of Avila

The more we do, the more we can do.
William Hazlitt

I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything… at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
Dan Millman

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Elon Musk

The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
Bobby Knight

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Aristotle

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine

Some scholars wonder why I am so motivated to attack stupidity, and they do not know that my motivation comes from the very kinds of questions they are used to asking.
Carl William Brown

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous Huxley

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert H. Schuller

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
Philip Sidney

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Alfred A. Montapert

He conquers who endures.
Persius

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Nikos Kazantzakis

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
Henry Drummond

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
John F. Kennedy

Unfortunately for the muses it is not a great satisfaction that too many people think only of satisfying their physiological needs and of filling the sewers more and more.
Carl William Brown

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
Sylvia Browne

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Emile Zola

Always desire to learn something useful.
Sophocles

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.
Muhammad Ali

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Napoleon Hill

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
Donna Brazile

You shouldn’t need a stupid mass of people to confirm your value, your confidence must come from within.
Carl William Brown

Music – it’s motivational and just makes you relax.
Taika Waititi

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton

Leap, and the net will appear.
John Burroughs

If you’re going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.
Woody Hayes

Fear of failure, it’s the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.
Jerry West

Time forbids you to go back and change the beginning, but you can proceed further on and try to change the ending.
Carl William Brown

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
George S. Patton

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
W. Clement Stone

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
George Whitefield

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Motivational strategies explained, an article that analyzes motivation from a pyschological and educational point of view, offering also some tips, advices, quotes and resources.

In a world where everyone else is learning, if you don’t take your learning seriously you will fall behind.
Carl William Brown

Learning is not a spectator sport.
D. Blocher

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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin

There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas Edison

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu

Learning is like rowing upstream, not to advance is to drop back.
Chinese Proverb

It doesn’t matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain

If everyone were to work to improve themselves, others and the environment in which they live, clearly we would all have an easier and more peaceful life. The real problem is that ignorance still dominates the world and moreover human beings, no matter their level of education, or the nation in which they live, they do not realize that the things that are not known are considerably more than what is known. Furthermore, almost all individuals believe that they have the revealed truth in their pocket, that they have good ideas and therefore that they are right to think that way, and also that they follow the right leaders, even if these most of the time lead to ruin.

In this article we will therefore analyze the key role of motivation in one’s educational, behavioral and professional choices, trying to suggest some strategies to improve oneself and also a little others. For personal conviction and also for a philosophical logic we will also clarify some aspects that concern education and the fundamental importance of learning in the life of all of us, because if there is a strategy that can lead us towards improvement, this is certainly based on the ethics of knowledge, as the great Monod, one of my most illustrious inspirers, supported.

It is up to us to be one way or another. Our body is a garden, our will is the gardener. You can plant nettles or sow lettuce, put in hyssop and uproot thyme, grow one kind of herb or several kinds, leave the ground barren through laziness or fertilize it with work. Power and authority depend on us.
William Shakespeare

Motivation in psychology is a broad concept that examines why we do what we do, driven by various needs, desires, and goals. Key theories provide different frameworks for understanding motivation:

1. Drive Theory

Proposed by Clark Hull, Drive Theory suggests that motivation arises from biological needs that create uncomfortable states of arousal, or “drives,” prompting actions to reduce this discomfort. For instance, hunger drives us to eat. Once the need is satisfied, the drive subsides.

2. Incentive Theory

Unlike Drive Theory, which emphasizes internal needs, Incentive Theory focuses on external rewards as motivation. It suggests that behaviors are motivated by a desire to attain rewards (e.g., money, praise) or avoid punishments. This approach is frequently applied in behavioral psychology, especially in the context of learning through reinforcement.

3. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Abraham Maslow’s theory of human motivation is structured as a pyramid, starting with physiological needs (e.g., food, water) at the base and ascending through safety, love/belonging, esteem, and finally, self-actualization. According to Maslow, people are motivated to fulfill basic needs before they can address higher-level psychological and self-fulfillment needs.

4. Self-Determination Theory (SDT)

Developed by Edward Deci and Richard Ryan, SDT posits that people have three intrinsic psychological needs: autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Motivation is most effective and satisfying when it aligns with these needs, fostering “intrinsic motivation” (acting out of genuine interest or enjoyment) rather than “extrinsic motivation” (acting for external rewards).

5. Expectancy-Value Theory

This theory combines two components: expectancy (belief in one’s ability to achieve a goal) and value (how much one values the goal). High levels of both expectancy and value result in strong motivation. It’s often applied to understand motivation in academic and career contexts.

6. Achievement Motivation Theory

Proposed by David McClelland, this theory suggests that individuals are motivated by three needs: achievement (desire for success), power (desire for influence), and affiliation (desire for social connection). Different people prioritize these needs differently, influencing their motivations in various contexts.

7. Arousal Theory

Arousal Theory suggests that people are motivated to maintain an optimal level of arousal – not too high and not too low. Too little arousal can lead to boredom, while too much can cause stress. The “Yerkes-Dodson Law” is often referenced here, which states that optimal performance occurs at moderate arousal levels, with too little or too much impairing performance.

8. Goal-Setting Theory

Developed by Edwin Locke and Gary Latham, Goal-Setting Theory emphasizes that setting specific, challenging, and attainable goals can enhance motivation. Feedback, goal commitment, and perceived task importance also play critical roles in how motivated a person feels to pursue a goal.

Each of these theories sheds light on different aspects of motivation, showing how it can be influenced by internal needs, personal goals, environmental rewards, and our understanding of what we’re capable of achieving. They also highlight the complexity of human motivation, suggesting that multiple factors often work together to drive behavior.

Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
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Convincing someone to study more or spend their time learning more effectively can be approached from various angles, focusing on personal, professional, and practical benefits. Here’s a comprehensive strategy:

Personal Growth and Fulfillment

Self-Improvement: Learning new things enhances your self-esteem and confidence. It broadens your horizons and helps you understand the world and yourself better.
Mental Health: Engaging in continuous learning can improve mental health by keeping your mind active and reducing the risk of cognitive decline. It can also be a great way to combat stress and boredom.

Professional Advantages

Career Advancement: Acquiring new skills can open up more job opportunities and make you more competitive in the job market. It can lead to promotions, salary increases, and greater job security.
Adaptability: In a rapidly changing world, staying updated with new knowledge and skills makes you adaptable to changes in your industry, ensuring long-term career viability.

Practical Benefits

Problem-Solving Skills: Studying and learning improve critical thinking and problem-solving skills, which are invaluable in both personal and professional contexts.
Efficiency and Productivity: Learning how to manage your time better and develop effective study habits can significantly increase your productivity and efficiency, allowing you to achieve more in less time.

Social and Community Impact

Networking Opportunities: Engaging in educational activities often brings you into contact with like-minded individuals, expanding your network and fostering valuable relationships.
Community Contribution: Being well-educated allows you to contribute more effectively to your community, whether through informed voting, volunteering, or other forms of civic engagement.

Long-Term Benefits

Financial Stability: Investing time in education often leads to better job prospects and higher earning potential over a lifetime.
Lifelong Learning: Cultivating a habit of learning ensures that you remain curious and engaged throughout your life, leading to continuous personal and professional development.

Tips for Effective Learning

Set Clear Goals: Define what you want to achieve with your learning. Having clear, attainable goals helps you stay motivated and focused.
Create a Study Schedule: Allocate specific times for studying and stick to this schedule to build a routine.
Active Learning Techniques: Engage in active learning by taking notes, discussing with peers, teaching others, and applying what you learn to real-life situations.
Utilize Resources: Take advantage of online courses, books, workshops, and other educational resources. Many of these are available for free or at a low cost.
Stay Balanced: Ensure that you maintain a healthy balance between studying and other aspects of your life, such as exercise, social activities, and rest.

By highlighting these points, you can effectively encourage someone to see the value in dedicating more time to studying and learning.

The secret of human motivation lies in purpose, autonomy, and mastery. These elements drive people to engage, persist, and excel in their endeavors.

Motivation is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. While genetic predispositions can affect baseline levels of drive and persistence, motivation can also be significantly cultivated and enhanced through learning, experiences, and the environment.

Money is important for providing motivation, especially for meeting basic needs and achieving financial security. However, its effectiveness as a motivator diminishes once these needs are met. Intrinsic motivators, such as personal growth, autonomy, and a sense of purpose, often play a more significant role in sustained motivation and job satisfaction.

Stop using age as an excuse:

• At any age, take exercise. • At any age, start a business. • At any age, climb mountains. • At any age, write books. • At any age, find new love. • At any age, create a new you.You’re not dead until you’re dead.

Motivational and inspirational quotes can greatly help in the process of stimulating motivation. These expressions have similar objectives but differ in shades of meaning and emotional impact. In short, while motivational quotes stimulate energy and movement towards a goal, inspirational quotes ignite the imagination and encourage reflection.

Motivational aphorisms have a more practical and direct objective, often aiming to stimulate concrete actions. They are used to give the necessary push to face challenges, to maintain focus on specific goals and to persevere in the face of difficulties. Motivational quotes tend to be pragmatic, energetic and results-oriented, inviting us to take action. These nuggets of wisdom encourage us to always do better, not to give up and always move forward no matter what happens.

These short reflections, quotes and thoughts, often written by famous authors, well-known figures or successful entrepreneurs, thanks to their incisive structure are able to inspire and encourage people, pushing them to believe in themselves, to improve themselves and to face change. They thus become a sort of mantra or personal motto, to be repeated daily or in moments of greatest need, to find motivation and inner strength.

Inspirational phrases and aphorisms instead aim to stimulate deep reflections and awaken emotions or intuitions. They are often based on universal concepts, moral values ??or the beauty of life, and help to connect with a broader sense of purpose or meaning. Inspirational phrases tend to suggest a higher or spiritual vision of life, pushing towards inner growth and connection with ideals.

However, all aphorisms in general, precisely because they are flashes of intellect of a very often poetic, philosophical and pragmatic nature, are favorable both to inspire the people who read them with new ideas, wise advice and motivational charges, moreover they are so numerous, that everyone can find those most suited to their own character, their own personality and their own intentions.

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Motivational and inspirational quotes have similar goals but differ in nuances of meaning and emotional impact. In short, while motivational quotes stimulate energy and movement toward a goal, inspirational quotes spark imagination and encourage reflection.

Motivational quotes have a more practical and direct purpose, often aiming to stimulate concrete actions. They are used to give the push needed to face challenges, to maintain focus on specific goals and to persevere in the face of difficulties. Motivational phrases tend to be pragmatic, energetic and results-oriented, inviting us to take action. These nuggets of wisdom encourage us to always do better, to never give up and to always move forward no matter what happens.

These short reflections, quotes and thoughts, often written by famous authors, well-known figures or successful entrepreneurs, thanks to their incisive structure are able to inspire and encourage people, pushing them to believe in themselves, to improve themselves and to face change. They thus become a sort of mantra or personal motto, to be repeated daily or in moments of greatest need, to find motivation and inner strength.

Inspirational quotes and sayings are designed to stimulate deep thought and awaken emotions or intuitions. They are often based on universal concepts, moral values, or the beauty of life, and help connect with a broader sense of purpose or meaning. Inspirational quotes tend to suggest a higher or spiritual view of life, encouraging inner growth and connection with ideals.

However, all aphorisms in general, precisely because they are flashes of intellect of a very often poetic, philosophical and pragmatic nature, are favorable both to inspire the people who read them with new ideas, wise advice and motivational charges, moreover they are so numerous, that everyone can find those most suited to their own character, their own personality and their own intentions.

The secret of human motivation lies in purpose, autonomy, and mastery. These elements drive people to engage, persist, and excel in their endeavors. Motivation is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. While genetic predispositions can affect baseline levels of drive and persistence, motivation can also be significantly cultivated and enhanced through learning, experiences, and the environment.

Money is important for providing motivation, especially for meeting basic needs and achieving financial security. However, its effectiveness as a motivator diminishes once these needs are met. Intrinsic motivators, such as personal growth, autonomy, and a sense of purpose, often play a more significant role in sustained motivation and job satisfaction.

It is up to us to be one way or another. Our body is a garden, our will is the gardener. You can plant nettles or sow lettuce, put in hyssop and uproot thyme, grow one kind of herb or several kinds, leave the ground barren through laziness or fertilize it with work. Power and authority depend on us.
William Shakespeare

To be motivated you have to find a goal, pursue a goal, stimulate desire, cultivate passion and not just think about satisfying your physiological needs, and filling the sewers.
Carl William Brown

Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
Bradley Whitford

Life is a game, we can’t undo a move, but we can make the next one better.
Anonymous

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
T.S. Eliot

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
Albert Einstein

Your emotions are servants, not masters. Keep them in line.
Marcus Aurelius

Nothing I have found more powerful than Necessity, she is the only goddess, without altar or image to pray before. She cares not for sacrifices.
Euripides

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
Norman Ralph Augustine

Unfortunately for the muses it is not a great satisfaction that too many people think only of satisfying their physiological needs and of filling the sewers more and more.
Carl William Brown

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison

Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.
Michael Schumacher

You will always have problems. Learn to enjoy life while solving them.
Anonymous

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.
Neil Gaiman

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Arthur Ashe

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.
Lee Iacocca

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin

There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas Edison

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Some scholars wonder why I am so motivated to attack stupidity, and they do not know that my motivation comes from the very kinds of questions they are used to asking.
Carl William Brown

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Margaret Fuller

Learning is like rowing upstream, not to advance is to drop back.
Chinese Proverb

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln

The limits of my language are the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Gandhi

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.
John W. Gardner

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
Edward de Bono

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire – the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.
Ellen Ochoa

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim Rohn

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
Wayne Dyer

One finds limits by pushing them.
Herbert A. Simon

Don’t underestimate yourself, don’t be a fanatic or a fan, not even of heroes, always remember that man is not a superior animal at all, in fact he is the most squalid of all.
Carl William Brown

There’s always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
Pat Riley

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
Les Brown

Slow, steady progress is better than daily excuses.
Robin Sharma

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goals requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Martin Luther King

Your knowledge is far more important than your degree.
Paul Dirac

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti

If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney

It doesn’t matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Chinese Proverb

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it’s time for me to move away from the game.
Michael Jordan

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
Noel Coward

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn’t thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I’m just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.
Lionel Messi

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren’t the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.
Arsene Wenger

I’ll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.
Tim Tebow

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.
St. Jerome

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Elon Musk

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert H. Schuller

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

Don’t let yourself be discouraged, move, think, read, listen to music, exercise, learn something, take action, stay calm, strengthen your concentration, and trust yourself as you continue your fight.
Carl William Brown

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.
Wayne Dyer

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard

You will never win if you never begin.
Helen Rowland

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Les Brown

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney

I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Robert H. Schuller

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
John F. Kennedy

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
Norman Ralph Augustine

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
Natalie Gulbis

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Ralph Marston

There is always room at the top.
Daniel Webster

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.
Muhammad Ali

The role of good literature is certainly to induce temptation. It is like the magical power of taboo, it is an attempt at persuasion so that the stimulus and motivation to claim one’s own happiness develops.
Carl William Brown

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Denis Waitley

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.
Woody Hayes

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Theodore Roosevelt

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’
Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you don’t have a conscience, create it, then always act in the best way, so that you can contribute to alleviate ignorance and fight human stupidity, otherwise you will always be a supporter of them.
Carl William Brown

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Henry David Thoreau

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
Henry David Thoreau

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S.Lewis

Is it not enjoyable to learn and practise what you learn?
Confucius

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison

You never know what motivates you.
Cicely Tyson

How do you know you’re going to do something, untill you do it?
J. D. Salinger

Do whatever you do intensely.
Robert Henri

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
Jimmy Dean

Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
John Donne

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.
Jim Carrey

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

God always strives together with those who strive.
Aeschylus

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