Francis Chan Quotes
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Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
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After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I'm putting into my body. I'm making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button.
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Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
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I'm confident, motivated.
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I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
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I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don't want to antagonise large groups which are highly motivated.
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I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
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When people say 'that's risky,' or when the odds are not in my favor, I'm more motivated than ever.
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It's easy for me to be motivated and inspired by seeing somebody who just goes all out to do something.
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Sometimes, our expectations of being all-knowing is somewhat unrealistic. At the end of the day, there are people out there who mean harm to us, are thinking about doing harm to us and motivated to do it, and we don't know what that is.
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'If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.'
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This is a highly motivated, good country. It is driven by good motives. But it is also a country with an extremely simplistic understanding of world affairs, and with still a high confidence in America’s capacity to prevail, by force if necessary. (...) This is a country of good emotions, but poor knowledge and little sophistication about the world.
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Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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All of my causes, including the most radical, are motivated by the defense of animals.
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I've played so many gigs in front of around seven people. It's difficult to keep motivated, but it's all about growth. The love of music kept me going.
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Expect me to continue what I've been doing, which is trying to take over the world.
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Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse.
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When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.
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Perfection is beyond our reach, but they who earnestly strive to become perfect, acquire excellences and virtues of which the multitude have no conception.
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I can't envisage stopping writing.
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Giving that is not motivated by love is worth nothing.
