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Motivation Quotes
"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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"Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."
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"Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer."
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"Self-condemnation means speaking against one's own success. If can't stop confirming your incompetencies for what you are competent for, you are unlikely do pursue your true purpose."
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"Many a false step was made by standing still."
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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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"But "almost done" is not done!"
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"Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense."
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"Baby, you must dance to the music of your soul!"
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"If you believe in your sacred self, you can build a strong tower."
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"Believe in yourself and you're unstoppable."
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"In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom."
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"The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you."
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"Give yourself permission to Risk. It is only in risk that one finds success."
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"Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future."
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"Confident is the grace of courage."
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"Positive thoughts, positive life."
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"You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles."
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"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again who knows the great enthusiasms the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
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"But a map is not enough as a guide for action; we also need a goal that tells us where to go. Animals have no such problems. Their instincts provide them with a map as well as with goals. But lacking instinctive determination and having a brain that permits us to think of many directions in which we can go, we need an object of total devotion, a focal point for all our strivings and the basis for all our effective - not only our proclaimed - values. We need such an object of devotion in order to integrate our energies in one direction, to transcend our isolated existence, with all its doubts and insecurities, and to answer our need for a meaning of life."
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"And like the sun, I will always rise."
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"It's only "single steps" that make a journey of 1000 miles. It means the combined effect of many steps is the equivalence of a great journey. Go, take many little steps."
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"Nothing is going to work out unless you step up and make it happen."
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"Everyone of us has a high mountain to climb and a deep valley to level but the only thing makes us different to each other is the way we deal with these obstacles."
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"Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here."
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"Vision and purpose fix our character."
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"You can't just be. You have to become."
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"With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on."
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"It's a long road. Setbacks don't actually matter."
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"If you follow, practice and live 'Ownership', you have arrived in Life."
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"My life wasn't just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.Permanently."
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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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"If your focus is on your failures, limitations, & fears, you've one sure destination. You'll get drowned. If not now, at the end of the day!"
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"The question you should be asking isn't, 'What do I want?' or 'What are my goals?' but 'What would excite me?'"
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"People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life - and for me, for writing as whole. I believe many runners would agree."
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"When you reach the middle of your career ladder, turn it the other way around and slide down to the top."
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"Realize your potential. Anyone that says one person can't change the world is wrong. Your actions, thoughts, and words all ripple out into the world. One act of love can change someone's life. One lifetime of love can change the world. When you realize all of your power, you can start benefiting the entire world with positive actions. Realize your potential to change the world."
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"So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as the standard-bearer of this forlorn hope. There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness. There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair."
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"We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us."
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"The Scars come before the Stars."
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"Let him who would move the world first move himself."
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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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"It is about looking straight ahead and not shifting that focus. Keep your eyes on the prize!"
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"In reality there are no limitations. They are vibrant and changeable to whatever form you want them to take to realise your goals."
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"Instead of us to rely on the strength and ability God has given us we hope for favor and help from God and people then do nothing."
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"Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so much more than we think we are, so much more powerful than we seem to know. Jesus said that we would someday do even greater works than He; should we not take Him at His word? And should not 'someday' be today? It's time for us to start working miracles, if indeed we have the capacity within us to do so."
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"We are the change we have been waiting for."
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"Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!"
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"Being under pressure is great, if it's all in the right place."
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