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Motivational Quotes

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

There is no education like adversity.

Disraeli

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

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Unknown

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.

Swedish Proverb

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.

Unknown

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

J.M. Power

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

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

Collin McCarty

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

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

Dan Stanford

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

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

Marcus Wareing

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

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

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

Conrad Hilton

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

Mario Cuomo

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

Robert Frost

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James

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

Robert Frost

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

Unknown

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

Ray Norda

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

Collin McCarty

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Samuel Beckett

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Unattributed

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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

Winston Churchill

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

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

Roy Goodman

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

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

Denis Waitley

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

Maya Angelou

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

Richard B. Sheridan

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

Aristotle

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

Henry Ford

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

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

Dr. Phil

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

Japanese Proverb

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

William B. Sprague

Act or accept.

Unknown

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

Collin McCarty

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

E. Joseph Cossman

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.

Joe Clark

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

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love a good fight.

Marcus Wareing

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

Winston Churchill

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

Unknown

Cross your bridges.

Collin McCarty

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

Peter F. Drucker

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.

Prescott

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

Tim Blixseth Bono

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

Dennis P. Kimbro

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

Goethe

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Seneca

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

Mark Twain

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Isaac B. Singer

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

Mark Twain

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

Anonymous

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

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

John Wooden

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

Mark Twain

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

Joyce Brothers

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

Tim Blixseth

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

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

John Cage

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Albert Einstein

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

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

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

You are what you think about all day long.

Robert Schuller

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

Elbert Hubbard

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