Motivational Quotes

“What you see depends on what you’re looking for.”

Anonymous

“Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you
cherished them.”
Richard L. Evans

“Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”

John Maxwell

“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”

Gordon B. Hinckley
Religious Leader, 1910-2008, LDS President

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Walt Emerson

“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm … As you
grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for
helping others.”
Audrey Hepburn

“Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little
girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.”
Bethany Hamilton
greatest female surfer of our time

“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. 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. It’s not just in some of us; it is in
everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to
do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Nelson Mandela

“You may only be someone in the world, but to someone else, you may be the world.”
Unknown

“You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself
be.”
Lou Holtz
“Don’t take life to seriously because you’ll never get out alive.”
Josh Shippe

“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.”
Henry Ford

“You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’”
George Bernard Shaw

“Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to
freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.”
Richard Bach

“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.”

Jesse Jackson

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest
accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
Maya Angelou

“There is no use trying, said Alice; one can’t believe impossible things. I dare say you haven’t
had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Lewis Carroll

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt
the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

Aristotle

“Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons
the roots.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton

“In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with
ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.”
Philip Gilbert Hamilton

“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”
Hecato, Greek philosopher
“To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the
worst and most ignoble defeat.”
Plato

“Everybody wants to be somebody;

nobody wants to grow.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.”
Hamerton

“We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have
made of us.”
Jean-Paul Sartre

“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved
with experimenting with his own life.”
Herbert Otto

“Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.”
Marquise du Deffand

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

Benjamin Franklin

“If we all did the things we are capable of,

we would astound ourselves.”
Thomas Edison

“A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere. ” Unknown

“La Rochefoucauld
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”
Miguel de Cervantes

“The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what
has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others that deserve it.”
Sir William Temple

“Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the
world will be sorry that you retire.”
Samuel Johnson