Motivational Quotes
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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.
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The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area.
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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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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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Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.
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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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There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
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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 afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't.
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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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Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
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The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.
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One of the difficulties in bringing about change in an organization is that you must do so through the persons who have been most successful in that organization, no matter how faulty the system or the organization is. To such persons, you see, it is the best of all possible organizations, because look who was selected by it ad look who succeeded most in it. Yet, these are the very people through whom we must bring about improvements.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
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Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
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The past does not influence me; I influence it.
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There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
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You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.
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The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
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Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for somthing we love is called passion.
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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 you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
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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.
