Contributed by Paul Decker on Oct 23, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    MOTIVATION
Have you ever felt that you just didn’t have the heart for something?
Late one night, a man had gone to a party and had too much to drink, so he decided it would be best to walk home.  He found a shortcut through a poorly lit cemetery and, in the darkness, stumbled into an open grave. 
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 31, 2021
                
                
                
                    . A group of Frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. All the other Frogs gathered around the pit.
When they saw how deep the pit was, they told the two Frogs that they were as good as dead.
The two Frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jan 9, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “The Motivated Typist”  
One day an eager young man from Stanford University applied for a part time position at the school.  The man who was doing the hiring said, “All I need now is a typist.”  “I’ll take the job, said the applicant. “but I can’t start until next Tuesday.”  On Tuesday he
                    
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                    Contributed by Mike Leiter on Sep 2, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Motives are critical!
An elderly man on the beach found a magic lamp.  He picked it up and a genie
appeared.  "Because you have freed me," the genie said, "I will grant you a
wish."  The man thought for a moment and then responded, "My brother and I had
a fight 30 years ago and he hasn’t spoken to
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 4, 2009
                
                
                
                    C.S. Lewis said: 
"Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often themselves quite mistaken as to what their motives are." 
(As quoted in: Barton, Bruce B.:
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 1, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    DON SUTTON'S MOTIVATION
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton hadn’t won a game in 8 weeks.  The press was suggesting that he be dropped from the starting lineup. The future looked bleak, and Sutton felt terrible. Then, before a game, Dodgers manager Walter Alston tapped him on the shoulder. "I’d
                    
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