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Motivational Quotes
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
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"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."
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"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
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"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."
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"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
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"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
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"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
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"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
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"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
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"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming."
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"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
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"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment."
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"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best."
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"Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me."
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
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"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
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"I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing."
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"It doesn't matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesn't give me more or less motivation."
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"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."
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"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
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"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
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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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"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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"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."
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"I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions."
"An eagle can catch a fish in the ocean of impossibility because he pursues and focuses on only one fish."
"Having dreams without enthusiasm is like a bird living in a cage."
"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."
"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them."
"The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work."
"A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning."
"Make it your ultimate habit of life to be kind."
"Make everyday a positive dayMake it joyful and beautiful in everyway"
"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done."
"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."
"Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports."
"Make your habits your beloved home."
"Making mistakes is important because it makes you wiser."
"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."
"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."
"The last two years we got beat in this round. They came out with the motivation to win."
"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."
"Have an enthusiastic mind and a soft, but sweet, heart."
"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."
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