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Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Motivation
Harriet Braiker

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The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.
Motivation
Ken Gilbert

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The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.
Motivation
Francie Larrieu Smith

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The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
Motivation
Mike Ditka

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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
Motivation
Nolan Bushnell

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There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear.
Motivation
Napoleon Bonaparte

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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
Motivation
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Motivation
Donald Laird

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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Motivation
Alexander Pope

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We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Motivation
Peter F. Drucker

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We must treasure the achievers of our land because it's they who raise the sights of all the others.
Motivation
Source Unknown

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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Motivation
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Motivation
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Motivation
Walter Savage Landor

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What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.
Motivation
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Motivation
Sir John Lubbock

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Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
Motivation
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!
Motivation
Max Schmelling

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You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!
Motivation
Bob Richards

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You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
Motivation
William Boetcker

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You don't have to do anything you don't want to do.
Motivation
David Harold Fink

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun