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Motivational Quotes
"We talk on principal, but act on motivation."
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"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."
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"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
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"But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays."
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"The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born."
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"You have to choose your path. You have to decide what you wish to do. You are the only person that can determine your destiny."
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"A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning."
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"A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results."
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"If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers."
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"Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant."
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"I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation."
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"Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father."
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"At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets."
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"They that see how they can rise beyond the horizon never exert their total energy on things that are breathtaking on the ground! They think, they act and they see what we all see differently. Though their bodies live on the ground, their mind, spirit and energy journey purposefully towards higher heights each moment of time. They understand doing the small things that can result in great things and they reason from the ignorance, absurdity and the heralds of ordinariness of the masses. They know and understand the real reasons why they must dare, relax and ponder in patience, and also take steps with fortitude and tenacity for a noble accomplishment so as to leave great, distinctive and indelible footprints regardless of the hurdles they might face."
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"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."
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"Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant."
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"If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."
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"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action."
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"I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game."
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"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."
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"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small."
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"Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well."
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"That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind."
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"It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation."
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"Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession."
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"Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do."
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"I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge."
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"All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love."
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"When the train stopped, when she got off and heard the concrete of the platform under her heels, she felt light, lifted, impelled to action. She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt."
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"We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces."
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"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."
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"Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do."
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"No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind."
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"Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel."
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"I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success."
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"Until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall courageously pay a higher price for our ignorance always."
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"I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions."
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"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."
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"I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum."
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"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
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"If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around."
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"People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation."
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"Don't give up! It's not over. The universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back."
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"Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee ... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now."
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