Motivational Quotes
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I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
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Failures are life's way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school.
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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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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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A light heart lives long.
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Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me.
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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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Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
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To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
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Never shame to hear what you have nobly done
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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
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In a weird way, hockey is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
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All the world's a stage.
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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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There is a hidden blessing in the most traumatic things we go through in our lives. My brain always goes to, 'Where is the hidden blessing? What is my gift?'
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Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
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I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
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Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.
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I decided that I was going to go to the Olympics to see if I had made the right decision to retire because I knew that if I'd made the mistake of retiring I would know during and after those Games in Athens.
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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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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.