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Motivational Quotes - Part Five
 
 
 
"I hated every minute of the training, but I said,
'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"
--Muhammad Ali
 
 
 
 
 
 
"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.'
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
--Winston Churchill
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Try not to become a person of success,
but rather to become a person of value."
--Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
 
 
"High expectations are the key to everything."
--Sam Walton, Founder of WAL-MART
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still,
to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
--Benjamin Franklin
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Victory is not won in miles but in inches.
Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more.
--Louis L'Amour
 
 
 
 
 
  "Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?'
Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?'
Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?'
But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'

And there comes a time when one must take
a position that is neither safe, nor politic,
nor popular, but one must take it because
one's conscience tells one that it is right."

--Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Luck is not chance, it's toil. Fortune's expensive smile is earned."
--Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read."
--Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
 
 
"The common idea that success spoils people
by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous;
on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind."
--W. Somerset Maugham
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it.
Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else."
--Tom Peters
 
 
 
 
 
 
"I think and think for months and years,
ninety-ninety times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right."
--Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
 
 
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment.
The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."
--Spencer Silver, Inventor of Post-It Notes
 
 
 
 
 
 
"The second mile--the one for which you're not paid--generally
yields more returns in the long run than the first mile.
--Napopeon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
 
 
 
 
 
 
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
--Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family:
Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."
--Jane Howard
 
 
 
 
 
 
"It's not how much you do, but how much love you put into the action."
--Mother Teresa
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Nature arms each person with some faculty
which enables them to do easily some feat impossible to any other."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
 
 
"To every person there comes that special moment when they are tapped on the shoulder to do a very special thing unique to them. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared for the work that would be their finest hour."
--Winston Churchill
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Far and away the best prize that life offers
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
--Theodore Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it
burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
--George Bernard Shaw
 
 
 
 
 
 
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
--Dale Carnegie
 
 
 
 
 
 
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world
to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
--Woodrow Wilson
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall someday be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."
--James Allen
 
 
 
 
 
 
"It takes at least a couple of decades to realize that you were well taught.
All true education is a delayed-action bomb assembled in the classroom for explosion
at a later date. An educational fuse of 50 years long is by no means unusual."
--Kenneth D. Gangel
 
 
 
 
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