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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
-Leo Rosten
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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
-Jim Ryun
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The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
-George Santayana
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Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!
-Max Schmelling
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We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
-George Sheehan
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The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.
-Francie Larrieu Smith
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Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent...
Be what Nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
-Sydney Smith
The Way To Succeed, W M Thayer, (Page 211), 1902
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You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person.
-Scott Sorrell
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I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.
-Howard Stern
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When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
-Edward Teller
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Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.
-William Makepeace Thackeray
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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when you had everything to do, and you've done it.
-Margaret Thatcher
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Help people become more motivated by guiding them to the source of their own power.
-Paul G. Thomas
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The most important thing about a man is what he believes in the depth of his being. This is the thing that makes him what he is, The thing that organizes him and feeds him; the thing that keeps him going in the face of untoward circumstances; the thing that gives him resistance.
-Hugh Stevenson Tigner
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We must treasure the achievers of our land because it's they who raise the sights of all the others.
-Source Unknown
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
-Marquis De Vauvenargues
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You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
-Marquis De Vauvenargues
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I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn.
-John Wesley
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
-Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
-Zig Ziglar
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