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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
– Baltasar Gracian
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The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.
– Roy E. Moody
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Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
– Peter Marshall
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Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
– John F. Kennedy
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Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
– Walter Elliot
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Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
– Thomas Jefferson
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If you're going through hell, keep going.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
– Kyle Chandler
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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
– C. S. Lewis
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It's always too early to quit.
– Norman Vincent Peale
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
– Agatha Christie
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
– Wayne Dyer
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The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
– Amelia Earhart
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Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
– Will Rogers
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
– Saint Teresa of Avila
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Leap, and the net will appear.
– John Burroughs
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Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
– Leo Buscaglia
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The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
– Sylvia Browne
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Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
– Eileen Caddy
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
– Albert Camus
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The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
– Confucius
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If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
– Walt Disney
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Never complain and never explain.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
– Wayne Dyer
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Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
– Eliza Dushku
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Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
– Benjamin Franklin
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One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
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After a storm comes a calm.
– Matthew Henry
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We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
– Katharine Hepburn
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Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
– Bo Jackson
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In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
– Nikos Kazantzakis
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
– Helen Keller
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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
– Victor Kiam
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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
– Bobby Knight
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One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
– Michael Korda
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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
– Og Mandino
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We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
– Orison Swett Marden
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The dog that trots about finds a bone.
– Golda Meir
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Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
– Alfred A. Montapert
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
– Christopher Morley
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In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
– Rupert Murdoch
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What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
– Ralph Marston
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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
– George S. Patton
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
– Ayn Rand
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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
– Anthony Robbins
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Either you run the day or the day runs you.
– Jim Rohn
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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
– Jim Rohn
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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
– Jim Rohn
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Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
– Jim Rohn
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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
– Henry David Thoreau
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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
– Brian Tracy
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
– Mark Twain
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I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
– Ken Venturi
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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
– Flip Wilson
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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy
– Norman Vincent Peale
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
– Baruch Spinoza
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I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
– Mia Hamm
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You never know what motivates you.
– Cicely Tyson
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You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
– Albert Einstein
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
– Jack London
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
– Ted Turner
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Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
– Gordon B. Hinckley
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Who seeks shall find.
– Sophocles
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Wherever you are - be all there.
– Jim Elliot
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
– Natalie Gulbis
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
– Henry David Thoreau
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
– Richard Rorty
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
– Muhammad Iqbal
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
– Aristotle
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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
– Robert H. Schuller
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Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
– Jimmy Dean
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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
– Julie Andrews
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No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
– Jessica Savitch
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Know or listen to those who know.
– Baltasar Gracian
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If you've got a talent, protect it.
– Jim Carrey
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If you think you can do it, you can.
– John Burroughs
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I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
– Donna Brazile
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
– Thomas Jefferson
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Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
– Swami Sivananda
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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
– William James
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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
– John Donne
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Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
– The Dalai Lama
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Always desire to learn something useful.
– Sophocles
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
– William James
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Use your free time for self-development. Listen to motivational or educational cassettes while driving to work.
– Brian Koslow
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I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads.
– Cassandra Wilson
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Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.
– Amy Waldman
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People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
– Lenny Kravitz
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One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.
– Herman Cain
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I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.
– Edward Norton
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I'm thrilled to continue my partnership with U by Kotex for Generation Know while helping to empower girls. I've always been a motivational resource for my younger sisters and hope I can positively impact and inspire other young girls too.
– Khloe Kardashian
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I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.
– Emanuel Steward
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I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.
– Peter Steele
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