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Motivational Quotes
Compiled by James Adonis
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with
mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
—Andrew Carnegie
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t
believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people
who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t
find them, make them.
—George Bernard Shaw
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become
actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they
become your character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
—Frank Outlaw
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.
—Henry Ford
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you
become by achieving your goals.
—Zig Ziglar
Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above
the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a
little bit more.
—A. Lou Vickery
Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.
—Robert Kennedy
If you want to know your past - look into your present conditions. If you want
to know your future - look into your present actions.
—Chinese proverb
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
—Mother Teresa
It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
—David Feherty
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we
are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most
frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented,
fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your
playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about
shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all
meant to shine, as children do.
—Marianne Williamson
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
—Nicholas Chamfort
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you’re praying.
—Mason Cooley
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people
will never forget how you made them feel.
—Maya Angelou
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to
celebrate.
—Oprah Winfrey
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take
without forgetting.
—Elizabeth Bibesco
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes
to sit down and listen.
—Winston Churchill
Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take
the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as
if it goes on forever.
—Philip Andrew Adams
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his
enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
—Aristotle
It’s no use saying, ‘We are doing our best’. You have got to succeed in doing
what is necessary.
—Winston Churchill
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy;
in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may
not be dismayed.
—Baltasar Gracian
Too many of us are hung up on what we don’t have, can’t have, or won’t
ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that
same energy - if not less of it - doing, or at least trying to do, some of the
things we really want to do.
—Terry McMillan
The trick is not how much pain you feel but how much joy you feel. Any idiot
can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live; excuses,
excuses, excuses.
—Erica Jong
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other
people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested
in you.
—Dale Carnegie
You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all
the time.
—Charles F. Kettering
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
—John Dryden
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and
those who did and never thought.
—Laurence J. Peter
It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.
—Anthony Robbins
Let no-one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the
living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in
your eyes, kindness in your smile.
—Mother Teresa
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts
can be counted.
—Albert Einstein
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want
to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
—Willis Whitney
Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognise and
appreciate until they have been depleted.
—Denis Waitley
Feeling sorry for yourself and your present condition is not only a waste of
energy, but the worst habit you could possibly have.
—Dale Carnegie
Two kinds of gratitude: the sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger
kind we feel for what we give.
—Edwin Arlington Robinson
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my
lips you kissed, but my soul.
—Judy Garland
Will you look back on life and say, ‘I wish I had,’ or ‘I’m glad I did’?
—Zig Ziglar
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it’s the size of
the fight in the dog.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves.
You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.
—Andrew Carnegie
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that
you will make one.
—Elbert Hubbard
Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
—Grace Hansen
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring,
sharing person inside.
—Denis Waitley
If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
—Vincent Lombardi
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
—Christian Furchtegott Gellert
A man is not finished when he’s defeated; he’s finished when he quits.
—Richard M. Nixon
If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then
someday you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them.
—Zig Ziglar
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
—Johann von Goethe
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
—M.K. Gandhi
The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.
—Jim Rohn
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that
you want.
—Jim Rohn
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more
I have of it.
—Thomas Jefferson
The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure
that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum.
—Anthony Robbins
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long
and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones
which open for us.
—Alexander Graham Bell
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to
make it easy for them.
—Johann von Goethe
When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your
own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
—Epictetus
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end
of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.
—Mary Anne Radmacher
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning
to live.
—Marcus Aurelius
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it
at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
—Buddha
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will
not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is
full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent.
—Calvin Coolidge
It’s not that I’m so smart. It’s just that I stay with problems longer.
—Albert Einstein
A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the
realisation that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences.
You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on
the choices you make.
—Denis Waitley
The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.
—Dean Rusk
Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through
my conscious thoughts.
—Anthony Robbins
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or
anything outside ourselves will affect us.
—Stephen Covey
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
—Maxwell Maltz
I don’t want to come to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the
length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
—Diane Ackerman
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who
wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best
shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull
you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.
—Zig Ziglar
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek
opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that
you desire.
—Brian Tracy
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and
the other how to live.
—John Adams
Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn.
Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticise, wait. Before you pray,
forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
—William A. Ward
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference,
ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up
to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
—Marian Wright Edelman
Being an optimist after you’ve got the very thing you want doesn’t count.
—Ken Hubbard
Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people
can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.
—Jeffrey Gitomer
Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and
give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all
that you were intended to be.
—Charles “Tremendous” Jones
Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do
it permanently.
—Zig Ziglar
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time
we fall.
—Nelson Mandela
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something
else is more important than fear.
—Ambrose Redmoon
It doesn’t matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if
you try and fail, and fail to try again.
—Charles Kettering
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
—Thomas Edison
Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life
and everything that happens to you.
—Brian Tracy
Underpromise; overdeliver.
—Tom Peters
And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
—Erica Jong
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
—Malcolm Forbes
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is
a tragedy.
—Robert Half
In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is
not really the time but the will that is lacking.
—Sir John Lubbock
The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you
do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.
—Roger Williams
If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as
continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.
—Robert Collier
Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we
didn’t spend half our time wishing.
—Alexander Woollcott
It’s not enough to be busy - so are the ants. The question is, what are
we busy about?
—Henry David Thoreau
Time is like money: the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
—Josh Billing
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