Top 100 Motivational Quotes

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If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.

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Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on.

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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

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As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.

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Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

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According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

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There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

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Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

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This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.

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A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

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You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

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Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

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Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

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I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

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When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

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The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.

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

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We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex ...25

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

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Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.

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I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.

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Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

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I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.

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Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.

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Seek wisdom. Wisdom waits to be gathered. She cannot be bartered or sold. She is a fight for the diligent. And only the diligent will find her. The lazy man - the stupid man - never even looks. Though wisdom is available to many, she is found by few. Seek wisdom. Find her, and you will find success and contentment.

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

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The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

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The goalie is like the guy on the minefield. He discovers the mines and destroys them. If you make a mistake, somebody gets blown up.

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Did Indira Gandhi ask for somebody's permission to carry out the test in 1974?

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If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

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It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

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The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

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For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

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Fedor has no weakness. I have seen so many fights, and even the best fighters in the world have a flaw in their game but I have yet to find one in Fedor Emelianenko.

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You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.

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If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

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Diligence is the mother of good luck.

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To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

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Whether B2B or B2C, I believe passionately that good marketing essentials are the same. We all are emotional beings looking for relevance, context and connection.

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Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.

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Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.

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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.

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I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don't have any regard for anyone else's perception.

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The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.

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Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians.

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I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

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The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.

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I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team.

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Contrary to popular belief, there is no such thing as an educated person. You are either learning or you are not. In today's world, it is vitally important that you see the truth in Eric Hoffer's statement. The win or loss, which is waiting in the wings for every person, is enormous. You get to choose which you will experience.

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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

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Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.

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Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. It’s going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

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Laughter, song, and dance create emotional and spiritual connection; they remind us of the one thing that truly matters when we are searching for comfort, celebration, inspiration, or healing: We are not alone.

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The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting

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Live at your highest potential-moment to moment to moment... When do we feel most alive? When we're being ourselves-our highest selves.

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Take a deep breath, relax and imagine yourself exactly as you wish to be.

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Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.

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The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

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Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness

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If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into about 50 books per year. 50 books per year will translate into about 500 books over the next ten years.

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When you start doing what you love to do, you will never work another day in your life.

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True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

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A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

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I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.

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I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself making perfect runs with emphasis on technique, all the way through to what my personal best is in practice.... The more you work with this type of visualization, especially when you do it on a day-to-day basis, you'll actually begin to feel your muscles contracting at the appropriate times.

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A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

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One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

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Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are! We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be - we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others.

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I don't have any desire to rebel and be something totally different from what I am.

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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

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Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

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To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.

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The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks seems irresistible and important, and they devour our energy. But in the light of time's perspective, their deceptive prominence fades; with a sense of loss we recall the vital tasks we pushed aside. We realize we've become slaves to the tyranny of the urgent.

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Coaches build teams, parents build players.

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Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

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Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

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Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

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I have an addictive personality. Sport is my drug of choice these days. It's one of the best drugs there is. It keeps you fit and healthy, even if, in the case of ironman, it pushes your body to the limit. The word "addiction" comes with negative connotations, but it doesn't have to be a damaging impulse. It's all about channeling your craving into something positive.

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To me, every person who smoked was voluntarily killing themselves, and doing it quite openly.

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I think the point of cinematography, of what we do, is intimacy.

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Films are subjective - what you like, what you don't like. But the thing for me that is absolutely unifying is the idea that every time I go to the cinema and pay my money and sit down and watch a film go up on-screen, I want to feel that the people who made that film think it's the best movie in the world, that they poured everything into it and they really love it. Whether or not I agree with what they've done, I want that effort there - I want that sincerity. And when you don't feel it, that's the only time I feel like I'm wasting my time at the movies.

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History remembers most what you did last.

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

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Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

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My conclusion: Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.

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For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.

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Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.

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Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

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