Motivation Quotes - Page 12

• Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational Sports, Attitude, Exercise

  Lou Holtz (2009). “Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.

  Muhammad Ali

  Softball, Sports, Men

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• Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Inspiration, Using Your Talents, Goal

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• Action will
  delineate and
  define you.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Knowing Who You Are, Inspirational Team

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• Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they can't wait until Saturday comes around so they can play on the high school team, or the college team, and get smashed around. Writing is like that. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it!

  Irwin Shaw

  Life, Sports, Football

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• We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.

  Dan Pallotta

  Inspiration, Helping Others, Ideas

  "The way we think about charity is dead wrong". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2013.

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• Of the 6,000 languages spoken on Earth right now, 3,000 aren't spoken by the children. In one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity.

  Phil Borges

  Children, Inspiration, Diversity

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• Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

  Paul Tournier

  Positive, Sports, Confidence

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• I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 01, 2009

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

  Desmond Tutu

  Motivational, Success, Water

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• I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.200, Macmillan

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• The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Flying High, Aviation, Flight

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Courage, Strong

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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• Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Nature, Fun

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.798, Best Books on

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• If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

  B. C. Forbes

  Business, Inspiration, Insperational

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• It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Perseverance

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  By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Motivational, Hilarious

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• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Educational

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

  Thomas Paine

  War, 4th Of July, Evil Government

  Common Sense (1776)

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• Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  The American Crisis, 12 Sept. 1777

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• I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Opportunity

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

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• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  Carl Sagan

  Life, Art, Two Worlds

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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