Motivation Quotes - Page 11

• It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  Arnold J. Toynbee (1949). “Civilization on Trial”

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• No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.

  Erma Bombeck

  Women, Sleep, Empowering

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• Human success is a quotation from overhead.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Inspirational, Overhead, Humans

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• Chance favors the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Softball, Sports

  Lecture, University of Lille, December 7б 1854.

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• How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Positive, Order

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 132, 1678.

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  Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

  Anne Frank

  Motivational, Positive, Work

  Anne Frank (1959). “Works”

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• you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.

  Les Brown

  Education, Writing, Gymnastics

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• It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

  Tom Brokaw

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Teaching

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

  Karen Armstrong

  Life, Pain, Inspiration

  "How Can We Make The World More Compassionate?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. December 19, 2014.

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• Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they can't wait until Saturday comes around so they can play on the high school team, or the college team, and get smashed around. Writing is like that. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it!

  Irwin Shaw

  Life, Sports, Football

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  The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

  Mike Ditka

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

  Mike Ditka, Don Pierson (1987). “Ditka: An Autobiography”

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• What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Motivational Sports, Bodybuilding

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• Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.

  Dan Pallotta

  Inspiration, Helping Others, Ideas

  "The way we think about charity is dead wrong". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2013.

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• With will one can do anything.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Can Do

  Samuel Smiles (1866). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance”, p.7

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Exercise, Persistence

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Of the 6,000 languages spoken on Earth right now, 3,000 aren't spoken by the children. In one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity.

  Phil Borges

  Children, Inspiration, Diversity

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• Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Inspirational, Mind, Needs

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• Real living is living for others.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Real, Greatness

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• Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational Sports, Attitude, Exercise

  Lou Holtz (2009). “Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.

  Muhammad Ali

  Softball, Sports, Men

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