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0086  A
“No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.” — Marilyn Ferguson
MOTIVATION, Authority, Communication, Change, Judgment

0087  P
“You can’t motivate people. That door is locked from the inside. You can create a climate in which most of your people will motivate themselves to help the company reach its objectives.” — Robert Townsend
MOTIVATION, Personal Management, Leadership

0088  C
“Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept the things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference.” — Prayer of Alcoholics Anonymous
MOTIVATION, Wisdom, Courage, Optimism, Happiness, Decision Making, Change

0089  C
“Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.” — Benjamin Franklin
MOTIVATION, Decision Making, Perseverance, Personal Management, Potential

0090  C
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” — Plato
MOTIVATION Planning, Procrastination, Personal Management

0091
“Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.” — Decimus Ausonius
MOTIVATION, Procrastination, Personal Management

0092  P
“Our only true course is to let the motive for action be in the action itself, never in its reward; not to be incited by the hope of the result, nor yet indulge a propensity for inertness.” — H. P. Blavatsky
MOTIVATION, Reward, Procrastination

0093
“It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.” — Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
MOTIVATION, Planning, Procrastination, Personal Management

0094
“Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.” — Victor (Marie) Hugo
MOTIVATION, Accountability

0095  HA
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it!” — Jonathan Winters
MOTIVATION, Procrastination

0096  C
“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” — Thomas Alva Edison
MOTIVATION, Procrastination, Personal Management, Effectiveness

0097
“Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.” — Henri Frederic Amiel
MOTIVATION, Thought

0098
“The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.” — Thomas Carlyle
MOTIVATION, Thought, Procrastination, Winning

0099
“Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.” — Blaise Pascal
MOTIVATION, Authority

0100
“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
MOTIVATION, Decision Making

0101
“Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.” — Bhagavad Gita
MOTIVATION, Knowledge

0102  C
“Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.” — Henry Ford
MOTIVATION, Potential, Procrastination, Health & Fitness

0103  C
“All mankind is divided into three classes. Those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.” — Arabian Proverb
MOTIVATION, Procrastination, Leadership

0104  H
“There are three categories of people in industry - the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no idea what happened.” — O. A. Battista
MOTIVATION, Procrastination, Ignorance, Leadership

0105  H
“My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition.” — Indira Gandhi
MOTIVATION, Competition, Fame

0106  A
“There’s no traffic jam on the extra mile.” — Unknown
MOTIVATION, Business

0107  A
“Apply yourself both now and in the next life.
Without effort, you cannot be prosperous.
Though the land be good,
You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.” — Saskya Pandita
MOTIVATION, Wealth, Perseverance

0108
“Plough deep while sluggards sleep.” — Benjamin Franklin
MOTIVATION, Procrastination, Perseverance, Health & Fitness

0109  C
“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.” — American Proverb
MOTIVATION, Individualism, Effectiveness, Reward

0110
“The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is an atrophy. Whatever body or society wastes more than it acquires must gradually decay; and every being that continues to be fed, and ceases to labor, takes away something from the public stock.” — Samuel Johnson
MOTIVATION, Wealth, Procrastination

0111
“Work is the grand cure for all maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind - honest work, which you intend getting done.” — Thomas Carlyle
MOTIVATION, Procrastination, Sadness

0112  PH
“More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies.” — Rudyard Kipling
MOTIVATION, Health & Fitness, Death, Perseverance

0113  H
“If people really liked to work, we’d still be plowing the ground with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.” — William Feather
MOTIVATION, Effectiveness, Change

0114  H
“Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.” — Oscar Wilde
MOTIVATION, Excellence, Business

MOTIVATION Cross-References
Wealth—45 • Excellence—62-64, 70 • Winning—82 • Optimism—125, 129-130 • Perseverance—155-156, 159 • Courage—183 • Self-Confidence—203, 206 • Prudence—215-216 • Happiness—242 • Procrastination—250-253, 255, 257, 260, 263, 266-268 • Adversity—304 • Haste—367 • Failure—388 • Attitude—410, 413 • Personal Management—418, 427, 433 • Effectiveness—463, 472 • Potential—495-496 • Ignorance—510 • Knowledge—527-528, 536, 552, 554, 557, 561 • Thought—624-625, 628, 634, 639 • Vision—651 • Chance—660-661, 663 • Decision-Making—693-694 • Genius—701-702, 705, 712 • Patience—753 • Honor—818 • Greed—888 • Character—943 • Principles—958 • God—989 • Authority—1108 • Leadership—1128-1130, 1132-1133, 1139-1140 • Accountability—1165 • Reward—1197, 1201-1202, 1210, 1212, 1214 • Experience—1466 • Habit—1492, 1495