Motivational Quotes
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There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
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Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
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Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.
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What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.
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Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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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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There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
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But life has no smooth roads for any of us. And in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to sturdier and steadier steps, till that other legend of the rough places fulfils itself at last; "per aspera ad astra;" over steep ways to the stars.
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I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.
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You get to the point where you decide that you don't want to be a victim anymore and that you're not going to live your life like that.
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Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.
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I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
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I'm not a film star; I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.
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Individuals who succeed have a belief in the power of commitment. If there's a single belief that seems almost inseparable from success, it's that there's no great success without commitment. If you look at successful people in any field, you'll find they're not necessarily the best and the brightest, the fastest and the strongest. You'll find they're the ones with the most commitment.
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Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
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Do your very best on every task. Imagine that everyone is watching even when no one is watching.
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Winning is not about how many medals you get-it's about accomplishing goals and just being the best you can be!
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I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.
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Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
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We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
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The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
