Motivational Quotes
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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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Do more than believe: practice.
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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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It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.
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The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.
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If you want to play the game and win, you've got to play 'full out.' You've got to be willing to feel stupid, and you've got to be willing to try things that might not work - and if they don't work, be willing to change your approach. Otherwise, how could you innovate, how could you grow, how could you discovery who you really are?
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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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Never shame to hear what you have nobly done
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In my own experience, both personally and professionally, I've learned that you don't wait to confront reality. It doesn't get easier. It doesn't get better. And, in some cases, if you don't get the relevant information from people and act quickly, you start losing options. You're into damage control.
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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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We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity.
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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.
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The way to get ahead is to start now.
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Any idiot can train himself into the ground; the trick is working in training to get gradually stronger.
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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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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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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
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Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough.
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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 ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
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An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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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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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
