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Motivational Quotes
"In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything."
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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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"May you find grace to fulfil your dream."
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"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."
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"All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth."
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"Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports."
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"I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves."
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"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."
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"Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way."
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"CHANGE: Don't just talk about it, go out there and do it. Don't just meditate about it, go out there and create it. Don't just pray about it go out there and take action; participate in the answering of your own prayer. If you want change, get out there and live it."
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"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."
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"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
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"You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed."
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"Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done."
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"Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?"
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"We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter."
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"If you can't get a miracle, become one."
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"The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get."
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"We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough motivation I don't think you should be playing this game."
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"You always succeed in producing a result."
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"Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book."
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"I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation."
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"The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich."
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"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come."
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"Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation."
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"Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being."
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"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"
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"My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious."
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"You aren't battling your ability to stick to a diet, execute a business plan, repair a broken marriage and rebuild your life, hit your goals, or win over a bad manager- you are battling your feelings about doing it. You are more than capable of doing the work to change anything for the better, despite how you feel. Feelings are merely suggestions, ones you can ignore. To change you must do the same, you must ignore how you feel, and just do it anyway."
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"One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity."
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"I don't think any collector knows his true motivation."
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"Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation."
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"Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people."
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"Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other."
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"For a moment the rank felt as though they had just returned from single-handedly conquering a distant province. They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt."
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"When people have poor confidence in the future, you can be confident of a poor future."
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"In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one."
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"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."
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"You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life."
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"The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably."
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"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."
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"There are two types of risk in life: the danger of trying and the danger of not trying."
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"Get out of your own way. stop the paralysis by analysis. dream your dream. then, WAKE UP and bring it to life!"
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"He who doesn't want to face his or her challenges shall always face challenges!"
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"Life is not a one and done sort of deal. You've got to work for what you want.Picasso created nearly 100 masterpieces in his lifetime. But what most people don't know is that he created a total of more then 50,000 works of art. .. Thats two pieces of art a day. Success is a numbers game. You are not going to win if you keep telling yourself to wait. The more often that you choose courage, the more likely you'll succeed."
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"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
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"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."
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"My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about."
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"If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday."
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"I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals."
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