Motivation Quotes - Page 25

• When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help!

  Robert H. Schuller

  Life, Tunnels, Gold

  Robert H. Schuller (2002). “The Be Happy Attitudes”, p.129, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Doe, Firsts

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• When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

  Arsene Wenger

  Success, People, Consistency

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• The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to the rule of law, and in which people may act free of constraint.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Country, Inspiration, Law

  "The global power shift". TED conference, www.ted.com. December 2011.

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• The motivation is in my heart to work toward my goals and my dreams.

  Nonito Donaire

  Dream, Heart, Goal

  "Donaire vs Mathebula: Nonito Donaire on Drug Testing, Training, and a Taller Opponent". Press conference, www.badlefthook.com. June 28, 2012.

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• We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism or failure. But if the single motive is the master motivation of God's calling, the answer is yes. In any and all situations, both today and tomorrow's tomorrow, God's call to us is the unchanging and ultimate whence, what, why, and whither of our lives. Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.

  Os Guinness

  Wise, Strong, Lying

  Os Guinness (2003). “The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life”, p.170, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.

  James Altucher

  Fire, Light, Sky

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• We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

  Daphne Koller

  Inspiration, Creativity, Talking

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• If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lonely, Children, Inspiration

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• One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.

  Zainab Salbi

  Military, Inspiration, Years

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• A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.

  Jane McGonigal

  Inspiration, Suffering, Quality

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• We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Inspiration, Justice, Shapes

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• In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.

  Yuliya Snigir

  Cartoon, Film, Villain

  "'A Good Day to Die Hard's' Yuliya Snigir on Russian Stereotypes and 'Making It' in Hollywood (Q&A)". Interview with Irina Danilova, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 15, 2013.

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• Thanks to those pesky laws of physics, when things aren't sustainable, they stop.

  Paul Gilding

  Inspiration, Law, Thanks

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• The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words written. Such rituals provide a structure to work in, whether or not the feeling of motivation or inspiration happens to be present. They let people work alongside negative or positive emotions, instead of getting distracted by the effort of cultivating only positive ones. ‘Inspiration is for amateurs,’ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. ‘The rest of us just show up and get to work.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Inspiration, Artist, Numbers

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• It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

  Vladimir Putin

  Inspirational, People, Dangerous

  "Putin jabs U.S., Obama in op-ed, says Syria strike would be 'act of aggression'" By Jamie Crawford, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2013.

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• Find out what the next thing is that you can push, that you can invent, that you can be ignorant about, that you can be arrogant about, that you can fail with, and that you can be a fool with. Because in the end, that's how you grow.

  Paula Scher

  Inspiration, Ignorant, Next

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• I daydreamed for motivation. I didn't lie to myself and talk about my passions and how if I was passionate enough about something I could be successful at it.

  Mark Cuban

  Lying, Passion, Successful

  "MARK CUBAN: Here's What You Need To Know Before Starting A Business" by Max Nisen, www.businessinsider.com. December 24, 2012.

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• Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

  Amy Cuddy

  Inspiration, Fake, Psychology

  Amy Cuddy (2015). “Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges”, Hachette UK

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• Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.

  Ken Robinson

  Real, Inspiration, People

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• The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams.

  Dan Pallotta

  Dream, Inspiration, Charity

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

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• The next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for the next 30 days?

  Matt Cutts

  Inspiration, Thinking, Giving

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• Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.

  Candy Chang

  Inspiration, Thinking, Empowering

  "Before I die I want to". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2012.

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• What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

  Alison Gopnik

  Baby, Inspiration, Being In Love

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• If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

  Elif Safak

  Wall, Inspiration, Dry Up

  "The politics of fiction". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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