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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results.
-Anon.
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All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly.
AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES.
-Anon.
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Don't spur a willing horse.
-Proverb
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It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
-Proverb
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Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
-Archibald Alexander
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Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
-Mary Kay Ash
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Avoiding the phrase
-Bo Bennett
Year to Success
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You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
-William J. H. Boetcker
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There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
-Harriet Braiker
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You know a dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows.
And a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.
Trying to learn from what's behind you and never knowing what's in store
makes each day a constant battle just to stay between the shores.
And I will sail my vessel 'til the river runs dry.
Like a bird upon the wind, these waters are my sky.
I'll never reach my destination if I never try,
So I will sail my vessel 'til the river runs dry.
Too many times we stand aside and let the water slip away.
To what we put off 'til tomorrow has now become today.
So don't you sit upon the shore and say you're satisfied.
Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides.
-Garth Brooks
song The River co-written with Victoria Shaw
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Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
-Les Brown
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
-Daniel Hudson Burnham
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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
-Nolan Bushnell
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Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.
-Herman Cain
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
-Thomas Carlyle
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
-Dale Carnegie
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Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
-Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.
-Roberto Clemente
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Without a compelling cause, our employees are just putting in time. Their minds might be engaged, but their hearts are not. Meaning precedes motivation.
-Lee J. Colan
7 Defining Moments
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What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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No one does anything from a single motive.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.
-Confucius
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The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
-Pierre de Coubertin
The Olympic Creed Inspired by Bishop Ethelbert Talbot, speech, Olympic Games 1908
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