Filipino Motivational Quotes

It's the 21st century. I am not submissive. I can own property. You cannot call me exotic.

To do my best, to increase and never lessen my country's pride was the underlying motivation of all I might attempt. ... I had to be outstanding, to make the greatest effort to win, to prove I was capable not in spite of having been born Filipino but because I was a Filipino.

My nose does not look like Barbie's nose and that's perfectly fine.

I embrace and celebrate the color of my skin. Why should I reject the skin color that reflects the work my ancestors did tending to their harvests, creating homes for their families and protecting their lands?

Writing from my life, I know it's pure ego and vanity that motivated me. But early too, I also realized I was not writing for myself along; I was also voicing the feelings of my kin in that village where I grew up, giving them and my countrymen memory, shaping their dreams. I've done this with perseverance and dogged industry; by doing so, I hope I have given this transient life meaning, ennobling each trivial day. All this compulsion, as a duty and as a Filipino.

Ang lunggati ay ginagamit kong katugma ng desire at sang-ayon sa depinisyon nito ngayon sa sikolohiya. Ang mithi ay itinapat ko sa ideal . . . samantalang ang adhika ay sa ambition at goal sa buhay. Ang layon/layunin ay ginagamit na ngayon katumbas ng aim o objective sa lesson plan ng mga titser. Malimit namang lumitaw sa balitang krimen ang hangad/hangarin katapat ng motibo (motive).