Motivational Quotes - Page 35

• Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

  Maimonides

  Inspirational, Positive, Honesty

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• Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

  Bobby Unser

  Positive, Men, Careers

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• What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Quoted in Observer, 15 Jan. 1950

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• Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

  Albert Einstein

  Success, Education, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.44, Princeton University Press

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• The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Attitude, Silly

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• Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.

  Yanni

  Life, Music, Spiritual

  Yanni (2003). “Yanni in Words”

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• The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Adversity, Greatness

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Speech on the Occasion of the Opening of the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference by Adrienne Clarkson in Winnipeg, archive.gg.ca. May 07, 2004.

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• You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Success, Softball, Sports

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• Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon (1811). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia”, p.42

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• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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• It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Attitude

  Swami Vivekananda (1997). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• Know or listen to those who know.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Knowledge, Belief, Listen To Your Heart

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• Go out into the world and do good until there is too much good in the world.

  Larry H. Miller

  Change, Generosity, Giving

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• I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight.

  Rocky Marciano

  Strength, Fighting, Train Hard

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• Any day that we don't give up puts us one day closer to success!

  Joyce Meyer

  Success, Christian, Giving Up

  Twitter post from Dec 03, 2016

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• I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I'm going over those hurdles in training.

  Sally Pearson

  Girl, Two, Creative Visualization

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• There is no such thing as life in-between.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Sports, Commitment

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Always try the problem that matters most to you.

  Andrew Wiles

  Issues, Important, Trying

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". "NOVA" Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Hard Work

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• We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Attitude, Character, Offending

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