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Motivational Quotes
"We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter."
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"The starting point of all achievement is desire."
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"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."
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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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"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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"My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious."
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"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action."
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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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"A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning."
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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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"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."
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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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"Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged."
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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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"To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you."
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"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."
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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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"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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"Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation."
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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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"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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"That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind."
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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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"Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life."
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"Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War."
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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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"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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"Motivation always sparks a fire within us."
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"The, per second great thought investment will yield the best hourly harvest of great life."
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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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"Start shaping your own day. Start walking your own walk. This journey is yours, take charge of it. Stop giving other people the power to shape your life."
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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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"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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"Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different."
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"People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time."
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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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"Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being."
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"When people have poor confidence in the future, you can be confident of a poor future."
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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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"He who doesn't want to face his or her challenges shall always face challenges!"
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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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"At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me."
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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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