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The Greatest Motivational Speech Ever, by Leonidas, King of Sparta Leonidas, the King of Sparta. Credit: Andy Hay, CC BY 2.0/ flickr The year was 480 BC when King Leonidas of Sparta, left with only a few dozen fighters from the original 300 at Thermopylae, gave a speech whose motivational power has resonated over the millennia. The truth is that we do not know exactly what Leonidas told his troops. None survived the last day to tell the tale — other than a messenger who was sent back to Spart...