Motivation Quotes

• If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 02, 2017

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• In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance of its solution.

  E. O. Wilson

  Inspiration, Opportunity, Discovery

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• All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.

  Zig Ziglar

  Ambition, Knowledge, Achievement

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.63, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

  Jimmy Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Fictional character: Dan". "Waiting...", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Your net worth is not the same thing as your self-worth. Your value is not based on your valuables.

  Rick Warren

  Inspiration, Self Worth, Net Worth

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• The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

  Benjamin Zander

  Inspirational, Music, Powerful

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• It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. ... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal.

  Clay Shirky

  Inspiration, Thinking, Years

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  Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

  Laurence Shames

  Success, Failure, Hero

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• All great things have small beginnings.

  Peter Senge

  Life, Motivational, New Beginnings

  Peter Senge, Art Kleiner (2011). “The Dance of Change: The Challenges of Sustaining Momentum in a Learning Organization”, p.64, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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  It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

  Harvey Mackay

  Motivational, Dream, Persistence

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• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Change, Inspiring

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  Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.

  Frank Ocean

  Inspirational, Success, Hard Work

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• Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

  Richard L. Evans

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

  George Sand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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  The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Every artist was first an amateur.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.119, Harvard University Press

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• With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Good Morning, Strength

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2001). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”

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