Motivational Quotes
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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 man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
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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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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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Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
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Run with your heart instead of your mind. When you think with your mind, you think of the things you can and can't do. But when you run with your heart you forget about what you can't do, and you just go out and do it.
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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
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Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.
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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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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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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
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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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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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Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.
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Everything is out there waiting for you. All you have to do is walk up and declare yourself in. No need for permission. You just need courage to say, 'Include me'. Providing you have the energy to pull it off you can do what you like.
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Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.
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If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
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If you intend to be of assistance, your eye is not upon the trouble but upon the assistance, and that is quite different. When you are looking for a solution, you are feeling positive emotion, but when you are looking at a problem, you are feeling negative emotion.
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There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
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An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
