Motivational Quotes
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When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple. Most people, though, are unclear about what's most important in their lives, and thus decision making becomes a form of internal torture.
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You really do learn by example... Especially women, sometimes we think somebody's going to rescue us, or somebody's going to teach us how to do it, when in fact we have to understand that the biggest resource we have is inside of ourselves. I know that I can count on me to take care of me. That's a very important thing to know.
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We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
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Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter.
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Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?
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Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
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The past does not influence me; I influence it.
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Your success is not dependent upon a board of advisers, it's not dependent upon motivational speakers who've gone before you,they're living their lives, they're taking care of their family, they're doing what they have to do to be successful, nobody owes you anything, that was the biggest lesson for me.
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When you express gratitude everyday, you give yourself the gift of experiencing the joy of gratitude everyday. Give yourself that gift today!
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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
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Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.
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The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world, but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.
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Everybody's saying we've got to go 3D or virtual reality or choose your own adventure. But there are other ways forward. I don't think we're done with film by a long shot.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
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Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.
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In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
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I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.
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Having a mental snapshot of where you are, where you are going, and what you are moving toward is incredibly powerful.
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The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
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Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
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There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.
