Motivation Quotes - Page 11

• I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Motivational Sports, Bodybuilding

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

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• It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  Arnold J. Toynbee (1949). “Civilization on Trial”

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• No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.

  Erma Bombeck

  Women, Sleep, Empowering

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• No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Inspirational, Stars, Adelaide

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• Know the great men of your age.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspiring, Men, Age

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• Human success is a quotation from overhead.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Inspirational, Overhead, Humans

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  Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

  Anne Frank

  Motivational, Positive, Work

  Anne Frank (1959). “Works”

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• you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.

  Les Brown

  Education, Writing, Gymnastics

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• A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  Walter Bagehot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.272

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• It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

  Tom Brokaw

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Teaching

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

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  The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

  Mike Ditka

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

  Mike Ditka, Don Pierson (1987). “Ditka: An Autobiography”

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• Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

  Anne Frank

  Hope, Believe, Heart

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Jun 25, 2013

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• Real living is living for others.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Real, Greatness

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• He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

  Thomas Paine

  War, Government, Veins

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including “The Life of Thomas Paine” – Extensive Biography of the Author”, p.58, e-artnow

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Exercise, Persistence

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Motivational Sports, Bodybuilding

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• Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

  Karen Armstrong

  Life, Pain, Inspiration

  "How Can We Make The World More Compassionate?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. December 19, 2014.

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• With will one can do anything.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Can Do

  Samuel Smiles (1866). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance”, p.7

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• Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Inspirational, Mind, Needs

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