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Motivational Quotes
"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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"When people have poor confidence in the future, you can be confident of a poor future."
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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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"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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"He who doesn't want to face his or her challenges shall always face challenges!"
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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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"You know looking back on it now I used the fight and after the fight as motivation, to make sure I was going to be the best middleweight in the world for a long time."
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"All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one."
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"The last two years we got beat in this round. They came out with the motivation to win."
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"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."
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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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"He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go."
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"The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes."
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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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"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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"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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"You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life."
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"Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are."
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Do not dilute the truth of your potential. We often convince ourselves that we cannot change, that we cannot overcome the circumstances of our lives. That is simply not true. You have been blessed with immeasurable power to make positive changes in your life. But you can't just wish it, you can't just hope it, you can't just want it... you have to LIVE it, BE it, DO it."
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"A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line."
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"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come."
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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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"You have a clean slate every day you wake up. You have a chance every single morning to make that change and be the person you want to be. You just have to decide to do it. Decide today's the day. Say it: this is going to be my day."
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"I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career."
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"A winner never quits and a quitter never wins."
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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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"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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"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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"It's not other people's job to make you happy and fulfilled; it's yours. It's important to always be nice and respectful of others, but it's even more important to be nice and respectful toward yourself. You have to live with yourself the rest of your life, so stop being so hard on yourself. Focus on your strengths and lead by example. You are special and unique in every way. And if other people don't appreciate you for who you are, it's their loss. Remember, there are some people who don't even like chocolate cake!"
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"No more excuses or procrastination! Stop allowing your days to be stolen by busy nothingness and take calculated steps towards your goals."
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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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"Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you."
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"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
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"Life is not about negative circumstances that happen to you, it's about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within!"
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"One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons."
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"New levels bring new devils. Stay unapologetically committed to your goals and let go of anyone who poisons your spirit."
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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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"One simple thought can change the world, think passionately!"
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"Your mind is a blue sky where without fear you can fly."
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"With a perseverance spirit, you withstand any situation."
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"There is no 'secret' to success.There is a BEHAVIOR to success.Decide what you want and act accordingly.Dream. Plan. Execute."
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"While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm."
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"The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline."
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