Motivational Quotes

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

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what
they get for it, but what they become by it."
~John Ruskin~

"People only see what they are prepared to see."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

"They'll tell you, 'Quit now, you'll never make it.'
If you disregard that advice, you'll be halfway there."
~David Zucker~

"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~

"Dare to risk public criticism."
~Mary Kay Ash~ Motivational quotes

"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand,
as in what direction we are moving.”
~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

"The best motivating is self-motivating.
The guy says, 'I wish someone would come by and turn me on.'
What if they don't show up?
You've got to have a better plan for your life."
~Jim Rohn~

"Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot
and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot."
~Jim Rohn~ Motivational quotes

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling
but in rising every time we fall."
~Confucius~

"A keen sense of humor helps us overlook the unbecoming,
understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant,
overcome the unexpected and outlast the unbearable."
~Billy Graham~

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible
is by going beyond them into the impossible."
~Arthur C. Clarke~ Inspirational quotes

“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”
~Douglas MacArthur~

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
~William Ellery Channing~

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
~Marcus Aurelius~

"Experience is the child of thought,
and thought is the child of action."
~Benjamin Disraeli~

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
~Charles R. Swindoll~

"Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds."
~Albert Einstein~ Motivational quotes

"Constant dripping hollows out a stone."
~Lucretius~

"We learn more about ourselves when we fail... so, don't be
afraid of failing. Failure is a part of the long process of
success. People who do not fail are those who do nothing."
~Robert T. Kiyosaki~

"A teacher affects eternity;
he can never tell where his influence stops."
~Henry B. Adams~

"To accomplish great things, we must not only plan, but also believe."
~Jacques Anatole Thibault~

"People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."
~Zig Ziglar~ Motivational quotes

"We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls."
~Winston Churchill~

“Failure will never overtake me
if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
~Og Mandino~

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

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind
as a steady purpose... a point on which the soul
may fix its intellectual eye."
~Mary Shelley~

"If you're not giving the world the best you have,
what world are you saving it for?"
~Kent Keith~

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward;
they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do."
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~

"Nothing will ever be attempted if
all possible objections must first be overcome."
~Samuel Johnson~ Motivational quotes

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
~George S. Patton~

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