Motivational Quotes
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What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!
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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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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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To sit around and say, I’m not motivated so I can’t do anything, to me is the same thing as being like, I’m so hungry I can’t eat. The only way you’re going to alleviate your hunger is to eat some food, the only way to fix your motivational problem is to do something.
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Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.
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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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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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The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.
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The way to get ahead is to start now.
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An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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I remember the last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? It's like crying for your mother after she's gone. You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball, and I knew I had to leave it.
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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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Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.
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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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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 open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
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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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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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I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.
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I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.
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You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news anchor, was: don't wake up at seventy years old sighing over what you should have tried. Just do it, be willing to fail, and at least you gave it a shot. That's echoed for me all through the last few years.
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Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible
