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Motivation Quotes
"The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you."
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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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"Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator."
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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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"Be obdurately determined to bring your courage to the world."
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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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"There's no such thing as perfect. Chasing 'Perfect' is the shortest road to not achieving it."
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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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"Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength."
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"Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!"
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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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"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
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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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"And like the sun, I will always rise."
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"The key to success is to start before you're ready."
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"Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving."
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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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"Increase the number of adventures you act on and you'll lighten the weight of regret."
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"Believe in yourself and you're unstoppable."
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"Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required."
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"The difference between a dream and a fantasy is action."
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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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"Out of every fruition of success no matter what comes forth something to make a new effort necessary."
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"People change only under two circumstances, one is called Inspiration and the other Desperation!!!! Unfortunately, both give results!"
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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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"If you really want to dominate the competition and make big bucks, you've got to be the best. Do that, be that, and no one will be able to touch you. With one exception. Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it."
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"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
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"You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters. And you have to keep going even on days you can't find that belief. If you can't do it for yourself, you do it for all the other young souls who need to be shown that things are possible. That they too can do that thing they dream of. You do it despite the doubts and the struggles. You do it because it's what you came here to do.That's what makes an artist."
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"99 % of the reason a person doesn't do something are 100% correct."
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"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say: "This was their finest hour.""
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"Without the will or desire to achieve one is like flotsam on the oceans of time."
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"Even while in the midst of failures, focus on your future victories."
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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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"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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"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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"Confident is the grace of courage."
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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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"If you follow, practice and live 'Ownership', you have arrived in Life."
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"And then there was that time you sucked down your fear, breathed into it, faced it with a courage that moves mountains, and you stepped right into that thing, that situation, that experience moments and forever before had crippled and controlled you, and had you believing you could never rise up to meet it. but you did, because you could. and you will again, because you can. yes, you can."
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"Being under pressure is great, if it's all in the right place."
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"The best self help book I've ever read was, The little Engine that Could."
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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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"Playing safe, hiding among the masses, will rarely get you noticed."
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"I want to inspire people. I want someone to look at me and say, 'Because of you, I didn't give up.'"
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"Passion is a strong emotion and the enthusiasm to do something."
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"If nobody changes the world, if nobody works to make it better, then we stagnate."
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"Today is a new chapter in the story of your life. While you're holding the pen, what will you write? Now, is your time to shine! Will you continue holding the pen? Or, will you express yourself from deep within?"
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"When the finish line seems too far away, remember how you felt when you were back at the starting line. Regain that motivation to recharge your momentum."
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"But "almost done" is not done!"
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