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Motivational Quotes

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

Tim Blixseth Bono

You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.

Collin McCarty

What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mark Twain

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.

Machiavelli

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

Anonymous

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

Unknown

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

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

Unknown

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

Aristotle

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Richard B. Sheridan

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

Zig Ziglar

I love a good fight.

Marcus Wareing

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

John Wooden

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

Albert Einstein

You are what you think about all day long.

Robert Schuller

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Foster's Law

Act or accept.

Unknown

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.

Prescott

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

Henry Ford

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

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

Robert Frost

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.

Conrad Hilton

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

Bill Bernbach

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

Thomas Jefferson

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

Elbert Hubbard

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

E. Joseph Cossman

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

Stephen R. Covey

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

Goethe

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

Isaac B. Singer

There is no education like adversity.

Disraeli

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

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

Voltaire

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

John Cage

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

Anonymous

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

Mark Twain

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

Unknown

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

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

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

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

Unattributed

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Seneca

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

Samuel Beckett

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

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Unattributed

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

Marcus Wareing

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

Peter F. Drucker

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

J.M. Power

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

Sydney Harris

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

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

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is "trying things to see if they work"

Ray Bradbury

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day

Robert Frost

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

Mark Twain

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

William B. Sprague

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

Dr. Phil

Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.

Ray Norda

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

Joyce Brothers

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it

Dennis P. Kimbro

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.

Swedish Proverb

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

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

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

Richard Bach

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

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

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

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

Albert Einstein

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

Maya Angelou

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Collin McCarty

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

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

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

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

Mario Cuomo

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Unknown

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.

Joe Clark

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein