Motivation Quotes

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Jeff Bezos

Entrepreneur

“In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts”

World Motivation Educational

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Jim Rohn

Author, Motivational Speaker

“Motivation is a mystery.Why does one salesperson see his first prospect at seven in the morning and another salesperson is just getting out of bed at eleven?I don't know.It's part of the mysteries of life.”

Firsts Morning Motivation

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Jim Rohn

Author, Motivational Speaker

“My suggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don't and join the 10% who do.”

Motivation Greatness

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Michael Jordan

Professional Basketball Player

“Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation”

Pain Motivation

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Maya Angelou

Poet, Memoirist

“I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.”

Believe Life Motivation

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Michael Jordan

Professional Basketball Player

“My attitude going into training camp as a rookie was to impress. I wanted to impress my teammates, my coaches, the owners, everybody. I wanted them to say, ?This kid is special. This kid has the right mind, the right skills, the right motivation?.”

Kids Attitude Motivation

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Michael Jordan

Professional Basketball Player

“When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.”

Inspirational Basketball Motivation

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Mike Tyson

Professional Boxer

“These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin' ass.”

Book Motivation Fear

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Dalai Lama

Spiritual Leader

“If you help others with sincere motivation and sincere concern, that will bring you more fortune, more friends, more smiles, and more success. If you forget about others' rights and neglect others' welfare, ultimately you will be very lonely.”

Motivation Lonely Helping Others

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Dalai Lama

Spiritual Leader

“It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds.”

Giving Spring Motivation

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Dalai Lama

Spiritual Leader

“You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.”

Practice Motivation Compassion

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Dalai Lama

Spiritual Leader

“Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.”

Action Motivation Negative

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