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Motivation Quotes
"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
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"I think it's possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
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"If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not."
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"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
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"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."
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"There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater."
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"I'm a slow walker but I never walk back."
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"I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I just try to think about the future and not be sad"
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"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
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"Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done."
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"If you fail, you will be sad. But if you quit, you will be mad. Don't give up on your dreams. Get up. You can do it!"
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"Fear is always triggered by creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome. This is nothing to be ashamed of. It is, however, something to be dealt with."
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"'Someday' is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you."
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"Perform without fail what you resolve."
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"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose."
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"Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster."
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"Take risks now and do something bold. You won't regret it."
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"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside - remembering all the times you've felt that way."
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"I'm different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about what I'm going to do tomorrow."
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"If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out."
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"Begin to chase your dreams with great passion."
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"For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least that's why I've put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. I'm no great runner, by any means. I'm at an ordinary " or perhaps more like mediocre " level. But that's not the point. The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be."
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"Go and venture! You should not give up after failures because this gift does not belong only to you."
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"When you have pictured and defined your desired legacy, allow your present life activities and efforts to begin reflecting the future you desire. Begin to do what you want to see, become involved in the causes you want to be a part of. Show your legatees how you want and expect things to be done after you are gone. This will enable them to fit the vision into their own as they make their own individual unique mark."
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"Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?"
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"The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to everyday think what can be done better tomorrow. Stay hungry."
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"Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required."
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"Positive thoughts, positive life."
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"You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks."
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"Being fearless is not in the absence of fear, it's just about fearing less."
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"Life cannot deny you of what you desired when you are committed to your dreams."
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"Seek not that your sons and your daughters should not see visions, should not dream dreams; seek that they should see true visions, that they should dream noble dreams. Such out-going of the imagination is one with aspiration, and will do more to elevate above what is low and vile than all possible inculcations of morality."
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"The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."
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"If you believe in your sacred self, you can build a strong tower."
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"You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles."
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"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can."
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"But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and worth the doing."
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"Confident is the grace of courage."
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"Many a false step was made by standing still."
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"I see the sunRISE, you too can rise!"
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"People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy."
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"Bring your heart power into play to create the things that you wish in your life through energising your desires with your heart energy."
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"Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go - backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough."
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"Baby, you must dance to the music of your soul!"
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"Inaction only makes a task more daunting in your eye. Act quickly, before you overthink, get anxious or give up."
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"God! when you think of all the things you could do and yet somehow never do! All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn't come fast enough. Instead of being open, you're closed up tight. Thats's the worst sin of all - the sin of omission."
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"You may not attain the highest height with one leap but my dear you will reach your destination."
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"Any given day is a second chance, after yesterday. Make the best of it today."
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"Poets to ComePOETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for;But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,Arouse! Arousefor you must justify meyou must answer.I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,I but advance a moment, only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.I am a man who, sauntering along, without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you, and then averts his face,Leaving it to you to prove and define it,Expecting the main things from you."
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