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If you love what you do, you will never work another day in your life."
--Confucius

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're
going to do now and do it."
-- William Durant

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
-- Max DePree

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from
now and make a brand new ending."
-- Carl Bard

"I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300
games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot...
and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that's
precisely why I succeed."
-- Michael Jordan, one of the NBA's greatest players.

"I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it"
-- Art Williams

"The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret"
-- Leo Bascaglia

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will
make one."
-- Elbert Hubbard

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow
where your thoughts take you."
-- James Allen

"The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now.
To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you
have."
-- Nido Qubein

"Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being
human." - Viktor Frankl

"Everything must be made as simple as possible but not one bit simpler."
-Albert Einstein

"Strength of mind is exercise, not rest."
-Alexander Pope

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself
that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming
incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall
surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi

"I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not
go in."
-William Saroyan

"Few minds wear out; most rust out."
-Christian Nextell Bouee

"No man is free that cannot command himself."
-Pythagoras

"Learn something new every day under the sun. You will never get old if you do."
-Lois Bey

"Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance."
-Horace Meyer Kallen

"Doubt whom you will, but never doubt yourself."
-Christian Nestell Bovee

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but
to attain."
-William Jennings Bryan

"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."
-Edwin Hubbel Chapin

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and
subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.."
-Washington Irving

"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it cannot be done
is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
-Elbert Hubbard

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks
like work.
- Thomas Alva Edison

"Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite
satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world."
-Walter Savage Landor

A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.- Unknown

"Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind."
-John Lancaster Spalding

School is a building that has four walls--with tomorrow inside.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

There are many ways of going forward, but there is only one way of standing still.

A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on
small hills.

Doing your best is more important than being the best.

Giant oak trees started out as little nuts.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. -- Ferdinand Foch

Always give more than what's expected. -- Donald Trump

If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound
ourselves. -- Thomas Edison

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and
leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried. -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson

So many times people end up fixated on doing things rights, that they end up
doing nothing at all. -- The Wright Brothers

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. -- Richard Bach

Fall seven times, stand up eight. -- Japanese proverb

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison

Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never. -- Winston Churchill

You have not lived a perfect day, unless you've done something for someone
who will never be able to repay you. -- Ruth Smeltzer

Without deviation, progress is not possible. -- Frank Zappa

If you're not lighting any candles, don't complain about being in the dark.

I will never give in until the day that I die. I'll get myself some independence,
carve out a future with my two bare hands. -- The Alarm

If at first you don't succeed, you're like everyone else who went on to greatness. -
- Patrick Combs

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by ***, do something.
Don't just stand there, make it happen. -- Lee Iacocca, Chairman Chrysler Motors

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. ---Albert
Einstein

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. ---
Benjamin Franklin

MOTIVATION FOR STUDENTS: SET GOALS FOR STUDYING

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and
down the field and never score.
- Bill Copeland

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb

You miss 100% of the shots you dont take.
- Wayne Gretzky

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
- Lao Tzu

Dont go through life, grow through life.
- Eric Butterworth

People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones
who do.
- Steve Jobs

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and
some have greatness thrust upon em.
- William Shakespeare

Some men see things as they are and say why I dream things that never were
and say why not.
- George Bernard Shaw

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always
do that, but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.
- Hasidic Proverb

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Abraham Lincoln

MOTIVATION FOR STUDENTS: TO ACTUALLY STUDY

"Make use of time, let not advantage slip."
- William Shakespeare

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Even if youre on the right track, youll get run over if you just sit there."
- Will Rogers

"Whether you think you can or think you cant, youre right."
- Henry Ford

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
- Benjamin Franklin

"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
- John F. Kennedy

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
- Chinese Proverb

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."
- Napoleon Hill

"The elevator to success is out of order. Youll have to use the stairs one step
at a time."
- Joe Girard

"Dont let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where
he was."
- Richard L. Evans

"It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly."
- Isaac Asimov

"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."
- Ray Kroc

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch
excellence."
- Vince Lombardi

"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can."
- Thomas Carlyle

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without
accepting it."
- Aristotle
(because we all know that sometimes you have to read complete gibberish)

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."
- Richard Bach

"The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job."
- Zig Ziglar

"Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should
be. Now put the foundations under them."
- Henry David Thoreau

MOTIVATION FOR STUDENTS: TO STUDY AFTER FAILING THE PREVIOUS
TEST/EXAM

"I havent failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that wont work."
- Thomas Edison

"Its not whether you get knocked down, its whether you get up."
- Vince Lombardi

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that
others throw at him."
- Sidney Greenberg

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
- Truman Capote

"Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but youre still
trying, keep it up! Youre right on track."
- Matthew Keith Groves

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden

"If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a
prophet."
- Isaac B. Singer

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty."
- Winston Churchill

"An obstacle is often a stepping stone."
- Prescott

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or
accept the responsibility for changing them."
- Dr. Denis Waitley

"The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity."
- Victor Chasles

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"That which doesnt kill us makes us stronger."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps
when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on
something sitting down."
- Charles F. Kettering

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight its the size of
the fight in the dog."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold
struggles and defeats."
- Amos Bronson Alcott

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
- George Eliot

"In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing
you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"If youre going through hell, keep going."
- Winston Churchill