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Motivational Quotes

Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Maya Angelou

In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Increase the chances of reaching your goals by working at them gradually. The very best you can do is all that is asked of you.

Collin McCarty

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Napoleon Hill

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

Mario Cuomo

Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Hugh Downs

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

Marie Osmond

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'

Sydney Harris

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

Rosalind Russell

Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.

Collin McCarty

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

Unattributed

Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.

Anonymous

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.

Joe Clark

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Unknown

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life is "trying things to see if they work"

Ray Bradbury

There is no education like adversity.

Disraeli

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

Oprah Winfrey

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.

Dr. Phil

Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

Peter F. Drucker

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.

Robert Frost

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.

Mark Twain

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.

Albert Einstein

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Goethe

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Voltaire

Act or accept.

Unknown

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

Henry Ford

We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes, violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised.

Chief John Ross

You are what you think about all day long.

Robert Schuller

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

Dr. Phil

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Unknown

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Roy Goodman

Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.

Collin McCarty

There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Denis Waitley

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Winston Churchill

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

Realize that you are capable of working miracles of your own making. Remember that opportunities have a reason for knocking on your door, and the right ones are there for the taking.

Collin McCarty

Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.

Collin McCarty

Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn vos Savant

Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.

Unknown

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

E. Joseph Cossman

Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.

Matthew Keith Groves

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Joyce Brothers

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.

Isaac B. Singer

I love a good fight.

Marcus Wareing

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.

Anonymous

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

Elbert Hubbard

The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

Tim Blixseth Bono

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

Tim Blixseth

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

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

Mark Twain

Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.

Unknown

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Richard Bach

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.

Prescott

I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.

John Cage

Go after what you want in life, with all the blessings of all the people who care about you. And find out what making your wishes come true really feels like.

Collin McCarty

You're good, but you're going to be great.

Collin McCarty

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

Unknown

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Dan Stanford

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.

J.M. Power

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Unattributed

Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Richard L. Evans

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

Bill Bernbach

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.

Michael Norwood

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.

Foster's Law

If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.

Marcus Wareing

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.

Swedish Proverb

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar