120+ Motivational Quotes
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“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.” —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) “People think I’m disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.” —Luciano Pavarotti “If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.” —Isaac Newton, mathematician & physicist (1642–1727) “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” —Anaïs Nin, author “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. “The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.” —Arthur Koestler, author “Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.” —Carl Sandburg, poet “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” —Warren Buffett, American investor, businessman and philanthropist “There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia today, flesh and blood tomorrow.” —Victor Hugo, author (1802–1885) “The wisest men follow their own direction.” —Euripides, Greek dramatist (484 BC–406 BC) “The only thing you take with you when you’re gone is what you leave behind.” — John Allston “Drive thy business or it will drive thee.” —Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) Claire Communications
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“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” —Peter Drucker, author “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” —Bill Gates, American businessman “Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.” —Stephen Covey, author “Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.” —Jim Rohn, author “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” —Woody Allen ”Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” —Thomas A. Edison “Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.” —Dale Carnegie “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” —Theodore M. Hesburgh “If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind, whom should we serve?” —John Adams “One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” —Andre Gide “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” —Arthur C. Clarke “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” —Aldous Huxley Claire Communications
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“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.” —Chinese Proverb “I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.” —Dawna Markova “Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.” —Bertrand Russell “Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.” —Dr. Robert Jarvik “The important thing to remember is that if you don’t have that inspired enthusiasm that is contagious, whatever you do have is also contagious.” —Danny Cox “There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.” —Francis Bacon (1561-1626 English philosopher) “There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.” —Hindu proverb “The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it.” —Peter Drucker “The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.” —Elaine Agather “Your past is not your potential. In any hour, you can choose to liberate the future.” —Marilyn Ferguson “One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” —Alvin Toffler “Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.” —Harriet Rubin “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” —Albert Einstein “Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” —Joel A. Barker “Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration... and expectation.” — Jack Nicklaus “If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.” —Robert Fritz “A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend upon the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.” —Albert Einstein “A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.” —Larry Bird “If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.” —Jim Rohn “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” —Aristotle
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“Dreams not pursued by action are simply that, dreams with little prospect of being attained. Action taken without a plan or direction is simply that—action with little prospect of success. Tie the plan and the action together and the dreams can become reality.” —Julie V. Watson “It is the follow through that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.” —Charles F. Kettering, American inventor “Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.” —Harold B. Melchart “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” —Rev. Howard Thurman “If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.” —Katharine Butler Hathaway, American author “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” —Henry Ford “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, Irish playwright “Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.” —Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, American author & publicist “Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.” —Ben Franklin “You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” —Woodrow Wilson Claire Communications
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“Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.” —An Wang, 1920-1990, founder of Wang Laboratories “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.” —Martha Graham “The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.” —Allen J. Boone, American author “Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die.” —James L. Hayes “The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.” —Gail Sheehy “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” —H. Jackson Brown, Jr. “The intuitive mind will tell the thinking mind where to look next.” —Jonas Salk “I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” —Mark Twain “I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” —Christopher Reeve “In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.” —Albert Clarke “Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.” —Germaine Greer, author Claire Communications
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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist & poet (1803-1882) “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” —Maya Angelou, author “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” —Anaïs Nin, author “Not all things are blessed, but the seeds of all things are blessed. The blessing is in the seed.” —Muriel Rukeyser, poet “Hope is a waking dream.” —Aristotle (384 BC–322 BC) “The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for.” —Oscar Wilde, dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854–1900) “Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.” —Friedrich von Schiller, dramatist and poet (1759–1805) “What if the world is holding its breath—waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?” — David Whyte, author “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” —Mahatma Gandhi, (1869 - 1948) “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” —Joseph Chilton Pearce, author & public speaker “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 (1856-1950) Irish Playwright “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” —Alvin Toffler, American writer & futurist
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“Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.” —Paul Goodman, American novelist & playwright “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” —Seneca, Roman statesman, dramatist and Stoic philosopher “Life is the sum of your choices.” —Albert Camus, French “existentialist” novelist “The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.” —Louise Hay “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” —Bill Cosby “I wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.” —Kahlil Gibran “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” —Arthur C. Clarke “One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” —Andre Gide “Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.” —Randolph S. Bourne, American writer “He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made.” —Henry B. Wilson “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.” —Chinese Proverb “Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.” —Bertrand Russell “I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.” —Dawna Markova Claire Communications
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“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.” —Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 pastor, speaker & author) “Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.” —Jackson Brown “Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” —Sophia Loren “Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” —Karen Kaiser Clark “Your past is not your potential. In any hour, you can choose to liberate the future.” —Marilyn Ferguson “One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.” —Eleanor Roosevelt “When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.” —Greg Anderson “There are no optimistic or pessimistic personalities. There are only single, individual choices for optimistic or pessimistic thoughts.” —Steve Chandler “If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.” —Robert Fritz “The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.” —J. Martin Kohe “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” —J.K. Rowling “A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.” —Larry Bird
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“Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes!” —Bette Midler “Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.” —Samuel Ullman “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” —William James “Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.” —William H. Sheldon “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.” —Rabindranath Tagore “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” —Aristotle “One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world—making the most of one’s best.” —Harry Emerson Fosdick, American theologian “Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.” —Dr. Wayne Dyer “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” —Rev. Howard Thurman “Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow—it empties today of strength.” —Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author who hid Jews during WWII “Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.” —Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, American author & publicist “If one is out of touch with oneself; then one cannot touch others.” —Anne Morrow Lindbergh Claire Communications
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“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” —Woodrow Wilson “When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.” —Indian proverb “If you ask me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.” —Emilé Zola “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.” —Martha Graham “Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies. It creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation.” —Stehanie Pace Marshall “While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die— whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.” —Gilda Radner “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” —H. Jackson Brown, Jr. “Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their canyons.” —Elisabeth Kubler-Ross “One can’t believe impossible things,” said Alice. “I daresay 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, from Alice in Wonderland “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” —Albert Schweitzer Claire Communications
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