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Inspirational Quotes About Motivation

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Index_card_top “Having to apply and try out for something forces kids to take the time to think about and make decisions on what they feel is worth their time and effort. It winds up being a great foreshadower and introduction of the reality of dealing with the competitiveness of life...The focus, practice, and determination that this process requires are preparation for life’s challenges and teach lessons on facing disappointment during the times when someone does not make the team.”
 
BeNeca Ward (born 1976);
Author Of "3rd Generation Country, A Practical Guide To Raising Children With Great Values"
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Index_card_top “The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.”
 
Ben Stein (born 1944);
Actor, Writer, Political Commentator


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Index_card_top “Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.”
 
Vaclav Havel (born 1936);
Poet, Playwright, 1st President Of Czech Republic
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Index_card_top “Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, and collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.”
 
Terry Tempest Williams (born 1955);
Author, Naturalist


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Index_card_top “A man knows he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live, and begins to live.”
 
Thomas Merton (1915-1968);
Theologian, Author
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Index_card_top “When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.”
 
Anonymous -
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Index_card_top “As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.”
 
Emmanuel Teney - Professor Of Psychiatry


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Index_card_top “Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.”
 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832);
Philosopher, Scientist, Author
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Index_card_top “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope... and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
 
Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968);
64th Us Attorney General
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Index_card_top “When we serve we experience, when we experience we teach, when we teach we learn, when we learn our lives are permanently changed, and as our lives are changed we are enriched beyond our wildest dreams.”
 
Jaren L. Davis -
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Index_card_top “Motivation is knowing you are learning, growing, and succeeding toward your desired outcome while sustaining positive momentum.”
 
Jaren L. Davis -
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Index_card_top “What I’ve experienced is that I can’t know the future. I can’t know if anything that I do will change what happens tomorrow. I can’t know with certainty, but what I do know is if I do nothing, nothing will change.”
 
James Orbinski (born 1960);
Former President Of Doctors Without Borders


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Index_card_top “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
 
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917);
Sculptor


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Index_card_top “If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.”
 
Seneca (4-65);
Roman Statesman, Philosopher
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Index_card_top “The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn't need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas.”
 
Abe Tannenbaum - Architect


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Index_card_top “You have a clean slate every day you wake up. You have a chance every single morning to make that change and be the person you want to be. You just have to decide to do it. Decide today's the day. Say it; This is going to be my day.”
 
Brendon Burchard - Author, Motivational Speaker


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Index_card_top “If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.”
 
Stephen R. Covey (born 1932);
Motivational Writer
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Index_card_top “A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminatingly murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.”
 
Freeman Dyson (born 1923);
Physicist, Author


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Index_card_top “The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”
 
George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880);
Novelist, Editor
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Index_card_top “You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
 
Henry Ford (1863-1947);
Founder Of Ford Motor Company
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Index_card_top “The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.”
 
Vance Havner -


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Index_card_top “Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up, depends on us.”
 
L. Thomas Holdcroft -
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Index_card_top “Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity...successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.”
 
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Index_card_top “The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to [their] ideals.”
 
Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968);
64th Us Attorney General
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Index_card_top “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
 
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865);
16th U.S. President
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Index_card_top “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.”
 
Audre Lorde (1934-1992);
Writer, Poet, And Activist
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Index_card_top “It's right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.”
 
James Mackintosh (1765-1832);
Political Theorist


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Index_card_top “If a man does his best, what else is there?”
 
George S. Patton (1885-1945);
American General In World War I And Ii
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Index_card_top “The freedom to be your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.”
 
Colin Powell (born 1937);
65th U.S. Secretary Of State
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Index_card_top “If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.”
 
Anita Roddick (1942-2007);
Founder Of The Body Shop


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Index_card_top “Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.”
 
William Shakespeare (1564-1616);
Dramatist, Poet
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Index_card_top “Be great in act, as you have been in thought.”
 
William Shakespeare (1564-1616);
Dramatist, Poet
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Index_card_top “The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. ”
 
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950);
Playwright, Nobel Prize Winner
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Index_card_top “Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.”
 
Robert South (1634-1716);
Clergyman
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Index_card_top “We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.”
 
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862);
Naturalist, Author, Philosopher
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Index_card_top “Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
 
Howard Thurman (1899-1981);
Author, Philosopher, Theologian, Educator, Civil Rights Leader
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Index_card_top “People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.”
 
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883);
Novelist, Playwright


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Index_card_top “Scientists study the world how it is now, but engineers take a paint brush and create a world that has never been before.”
 
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Index_card_top “An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice...or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today.”
 
James Robert "Jim" Davis (born 1945);
Cartoonist, Famous For "Garfield"


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“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.”
 
Tim Duncan (born 1976);
Professional Basketball Player
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Index_card_top “If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If got three more words, I'd add, all the time.”
 
Randy Pausch (1960-2008);
Professor, Author
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“What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world, but his having gone to search for it on the faith of his own opinion.”
 
Turgot (1727-1781);
French Economist, Statesman


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“We should cultivate the ability to say no to activities for which we have no time, no talent, and which we have no interest or real concern. If we learn to say no to many things, then we will be able to say yes to the things that matter most. ”
 
Roy Blauss -


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 05/12/11
“Your journey has molded you for the greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.”
 
Asha Tyson (born 1970);
Writer, Public Speaker


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 08/18/11
“Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.”
 
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790);
Politician, Writer, Scientist
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“We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation. ”
 
The 14th Dalai Lama (born 1935);

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