Eleanor Roosevelt  - Quotes

 You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give. 

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Catalina Yue  - Quotes

 I think what makes someone beautiful is confidence and a kind heart. 

Winston Churchill  - Quotes

 Never give up. Never, never, never give up. 

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William Shakespeare  - Quotes

 And worse I may be yet: the worst is not

So long as we can say 'This is the worst.
 

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Manny Pacquiao  - Quotes

 If you practice hard, you can win every battle. 

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Bruce Lee  - Quotes

 It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials. 

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Teri Hatcher  - Quotes

 Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. 

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Diggstown  - Quotes

 Gabriel Caine:
He's bigger than you are. He's tougher. He's faster. He's younger thant you are. He hasn't fought 22 rounds today, but remember this... you are BLACK!
Honey Roy Palmer:
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Gabriel Caine:
I don't know. I mean it's... I'm trying to inspire you. It's a Roots kinda thing. It's a motivation thing.
Honey Roy Palmer:
Well, you're shit at motivation.
 

The Story of Us  - Quotes

 Stan:
Fear is the main motivation for everything. That and guilt, are the two emotions that keep a society humming.
 

The Promotion  - Quotes

 
[Richard struggles to assemble a ship in a bottle while his motivational tape plays in the background]
Motivational Speaker:
Have you ever seen an eagle blow his top? Do your best to keep your cool.
Richard:
Stay loose... [the ship tips over when Richard places his tweezers near it]
Richard:
Fuck!
Motivational Speaker:
Every life has its frustrations, but be careful not to let them get the best of you in front of your family. Instead of curses, find a more family-friendly way to express life's frustrations. [Richard drops his tweezers inside the bottle, causing him to get up in anger]
Richard:
Fuck you! Ship fuck! Asshole ship! Seven seas fucker! Jolly fucker!
Lori Wehlner:
For Christ's sake...
Richard:
No one can do that! It's impossible! Not even a guy with tiny hands! Not even a guy with a child's hands! Fuck that!
 

Catalina Yue  - Quotes

 I think what makes someone beautiful is confidence and a kind heart. 

Lily Tomlin  - Quotes

 The road to success is always under construction 

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William Shakespeare  - Quotes

 Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners. 

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Author-Poet Aberjhani  - Quotes

 The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward. 

Frank Herbert  - Quotes

 I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn to the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. 

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The Promotion  - Quotes

 
[During the motivational retreat, the employees form a circle around the retreat leader. They are instructed to place paper bags over their heads]
Retreat Leader:
I want you to take off one thing that you don't need... quickly! Come on. [Everyone takes off their paper bags, except Richard, who removes his watch. They all stare at Richard, who still has his paper bag over his head]
Retreat Leader:
Let's take something else off that you really don't need... right away! [Richard takes off his shoes as some of the employees begin to laugh]
Retreat Leader:
Something else you don't need, let's make it happen. Come on! [Richard removes his belt while the employees continue to laugh]
Retreat Leader:
Something else you don't need. Come on, let's go. Something completely unnecessary. [Richard turns to his right]
Richard:
Doug, can we take our sack off?
Doug Stauber:
What? [Everyone bursts in laughter]
Richard:
Did you take your sack off?
Doug Stauber:
I can't really hear you.
Retreat Leader:
If you could take off one more thing you simply do not need. Do it!
Richard:
[whispers] Fuck! [Richard removes his shirt, revealing a tattoo of the band KISS on his chest, to the delight of everyone else]
Retreat Leader:
Okay, uhhh... all right, everybody that still has a bag on top of their heads, scream, 'My concentration skills need improvement.' One, two, three.
Richard:
My concentration skills need improvement! [Everyone bursts into laughter]
 

Lama Surya Das  - Quotes

 Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may be. One 

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Jordan Belfort  - Quotes

 The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it. 

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William James  - Quotes

 Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.  

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Toni Morrison  - Quotes

 You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore. 

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Destiny Booze  - Quotes

 Have you had a failure or rejection? You could get bitter. That's one way to deal with it. Or...you could just get BETTER. What do you think? 

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Tim McGraw  - Quotes

 People always ask me

 

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Confucius  - Quotes

 The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. 

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 Your motivations--get that promotion, throw the best parties, run for public office--aren't impersonal abstractions but powerfully reflect who you are and what you focus on. An individual's goals figure prominently in the theories of personality first developed by the Harvard psychologist Henry Murray. According to his successor David McClelland, what Friedrich Nietzsche called  

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Epictetus  - Quotes

 First say to yourself what you would be;

and then do what you have to do.
 

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Inside Deep Throat  - Quotes

 Ron Wertheim:
Gerry's primary motivation was to get laid. Really. And he did.
 

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J.R.R. Tolkien  - Quotes

 A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo's side in Rivendell filled all his heart. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice.

 

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Toba Beta  - Quotes

 There were three things sought by invaders who crossed

oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory.

There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens

to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene.
 

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Bret Easton Ellis  - Quotes

 Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead. 

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Paulo Coelho  - Quotes

 If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. 

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Bill Bryson  - Quotes

 I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers. Just think about it for a minute. Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, 'Right, lads! Another twenty like that, plus some lintels and maybe a couple of dozen nice bluestones from Wales, and we can party!' Whoever was the person behind Stonehenge was one dickens of a motivator, I'll tell you that. 

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Henry Ford  - Quotes

 I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. 

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Catalina Yue  - Quotes

 You Determine your own worth not anyone else, only yourself. 

Muriel Barbery  - Quotes

 ...we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity.

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
 

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Thomas Carlyle  - Quotes

 Ye are most strong, ye Sons of the icy North, of the far East, far marching from your rugged Eastern Wildernesses, hither-ward from the gray Dawn of Time! Ye are Sons of the Jotun-land; the land of Difficulties Conquered. Difficult? You

must try this thing. Once try it with the understanding that it will and shall have to be done. Try it as ye try the paltrier thing, making of money! I will bet on you once more, against all Jo'tuns, Tailor-gods, Double-barrelled Law-wards, and Denizens of Chaos whatsoever!
 

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Charles Dickens  - Quotes

 Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. 

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Eric Hoffer  - Quotes

 It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

 

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Jim Rohn  - Quotes

 You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. 

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Stephen King  - Quotes

 Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.  

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Michael Pollan  - Quotes

 The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.  

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Ann Landers  - Quotes

 Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. 

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Edmund Hillary  - Quotes

 You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. 

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Henry Ford  - Quotes

 If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. 

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Donny Deutsch  - Quotes

 You know you're doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights.... 

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Ralph Waldo Emerson  - Quotes

 Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. 

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Andrew Solomon  - Quotes

 While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus. 

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Lou Holtz  - Quotes

 Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. 

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Bill Rodgers  - Quotes

 I often lose motivation, but it's something I accept as normal. 

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Maxwell Maltz  - Quotes

 Times will change for the better when you change. 

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Henry Ford  - Quotes

 You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year. 

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J.R.R. Tolkien  - Quotes

 Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes. 

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Denis Waitley  - Quotes

 Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.  

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Arthur C. Clarke  - Quotes

 The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. 

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Robert A. Heinlein  - Quotes

 Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds. 

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Jean Renoir  - Quotes

 The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.  

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Ernest Shackleton  - Quotes

 Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. 

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Lou Holtz  - Quotes

 Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it. 

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Lou Holtz  - Quotes

 It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. 

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Lou Holtz  - Quotes

 You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. 

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Josh Homme  - Quotes

 Instead of Generation X and Generation Y, I think this is Generation  

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