Motivation

 

Hannibal
“We will either find a way, or make one.”
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Robert Frost
“The only way around is through.”
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Dante
“Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.”
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John Wooden
“Never mistake activity for achievement.”
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Author Unknown
“The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.” 
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Tony Robbins
“Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.”
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Author Unknown
“Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.”
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Leon Battista Alberti
“A man can do all things if he but wills them.”
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John Wesley
“I set myself on fire and people come to see me burn.”
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Robert Louis Stevenson
“Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.”
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Jack Kinder
“High achievement always takes place in a framework of high expectation.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever.”
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Author Unknown
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
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Zig Ziglar
“It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.”
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Jonas Salk
“I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.”
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Plutarch
“The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.”
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Alfred Adler
“The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.”
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Robert F. Kennedy
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
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Zig Ziglar
“You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.”
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John Wooden
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
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Author Unknown
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.”
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Robert Frost
“The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
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Thomas Alva Edison
“I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.”
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Henry Drummond
“Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.”
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Jim Rohn
“When you know what you want, and you want it badly enough, you'll find a way to get it.”
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Tommy Lasorda
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.”
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John Christian Bovee
“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.”
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Roger Bannister
“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”
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Dale Carnegie
“The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.”
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Frank Clark
“Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.”
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Jim Rohn
“Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.”
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Epictetus
“The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”
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Jim Rohn
“Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a ‘must’ and ‘want.’”
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Thomas Edison
“The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.”
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Eddie Robinson
“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.”
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Author Unknown
“Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do.”
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Bruce Barton
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.”
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Jack Niklaus
“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration…and expectation.”
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Author Unknown
“Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.”
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George S. Patton, Jr.
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
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Vince Lombardi
“The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.”
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Ghandi
“Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.”
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William Jennings Bryan
“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
“We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.”
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Heber J. Grant
“If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.”
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H. L. Hunt
“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.”
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Leo J. Muir
“Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait…Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement.”
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William Somerset Maugham
“It's a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
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Ayn Rand
“Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
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Zig Ziglar
“The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.”
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Conrad Hilton
“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.”
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Jim Rohn
“The best motivating is self-motivating. The guy says, ‘I wish someone would come by and turn me on.’ What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life.”
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C.S. Lewis
“The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come.”
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Foster C. Mcclellan
“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”
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Vince Lombardi
“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
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Alexander Graham Bell
“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.” 
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Wayne W. Dyer
“A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.”
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Orison Swett Marden
“Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”
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Lee Iacocca
“I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.”
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Woodrow Wilson
“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”
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Hugh Nibley
“Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
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Frederick Pierce
“Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage.”
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John Calvin Coolidge
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
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James Corbett
“Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round  -  remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.”
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