Motivational Quotes
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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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Running is not, as it so often seems, only about what you did in your last race or about how many miles you ran last week. It is, in a much more important way, about community, about appreciating all the miles run by other runners, too.
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The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.
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The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
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Would anybody be offended if we gave a $150 million bonus to Gandhi? How about a $250 million bonus to Mother Teresa? Do we have an issue with that? None at all. None at all. Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers. They would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people.
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When I was a child, my father used to encourage my brother and me to fail. At the dinner table, instead of asking about the best part of our day, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something to tell him, he would be disappointed. When we shared whatever failure we'd endured, he'd high-five us and say, 'Way to go!' The gift my father gave us by doing this was redefining what failure truly meant.
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I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.
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Do more than believe: practice.
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When we say that leadership is a choice, it basically means you can choose the level of initiative you want to exercise in response to the question, ‘What is the best I can do under the given circumstances?’
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I believe that good things come to those who work.
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The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.
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It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.
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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
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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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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
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Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
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Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.
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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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The way to get ahead is to start now.
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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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..... your real work is to decide what you want and then to focus upon it. For it is through focusing upon what you want that you will attract it. That is the process of creating
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
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The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
