Motivational Quotes

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or
compete, everybody will respect you." - Lao Tsu

# "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you
plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson

# "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of
thought which they avoid." - Soren Kierkegaard

"Instinct is untaught ability." - Alexander Bain

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is
about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the
best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious
ambiguity…” – Gilda Radner

"Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but
it won't get you anywhere" - Proverb

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally
astound ourselves" - Thomas Edison

“Into each day. Put in about one teaspoonful of good spirits. A dash
of fun. A pinch of folly. A Sprinkling of play. and a heaping cupful
of good humor!” - H.M.S

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That
will be the beginning." -Louis L'amour

"Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward." - Amar Gopal Bose

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep
moving." - Albert Einstein

"A "No" uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a "Yes"
merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble." - Gandhi

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Confucius

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Sometimes the easiest way is the hard way." - John Finn

"It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you
are not." - Denis Waitley

"Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work." - Mark Twain

"A short saying often contains much wisdom." - Sophocles

"All glory comes from daring to begin." - William Shakespeare

# "One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its
original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

# "Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the
seed on an equal or greater benefit." - Napoleon Hill

# "The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without
the assistance of consciousness." - Sigmund Freud

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

# "You have brains in your head. Your feet in your shoes. You can
steer yourself in any direction you choose." - Dr. Seuss

# "Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans." - Max Ehrmann

# "Change is inevitable. Change is constant." - Benjamin Disraeli

# "One always has time enough, if one will apply it well." - Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe

"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There
is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the
intellect."- Oscar Wilde

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein.

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or
things." - Albert Einstein

"Be like a postage stamp, stick to one thing until you get there." -
Josh Billings

# "It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our
abilities." - J. K. Rowling.

# "I do not like to repeat successes; I like to go on to other
things." - Walt Disney

# "There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a
miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Einstein

# "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." - John F. Kennedy

# "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you,
then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

# "While we are postponing, life speeds by." - Seneca

# "When you come to a roadblock, take a detour." - Mary Kay Ash

# "Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you
really love." - Rumi

# "Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough." -
Robert Heller

# "You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor
without having victims." - Harriet Woods

# "Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire."
- William Butler Yeats

# "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used
when we created them." - Albert Einstein

# "Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow." - Norman
Vincent Peale

# "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -
Albert Einstein

# "Tough times never last, but tough people do." - Dr. Robert Schuller

# "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." -
Albert Einstein

# "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age
eighteen." - Albert Einstein

# "We were born to succeed, not to fail." - Henry David Thoreau

# "The best is yet to be." - Robert Browning

# "Once you choose hope, anything's possible." - Christopher Reeve

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so
long to begin it." - W.M. Lewis

# "The people who matter will recognise who you are." - Alan Cohen

# "Love without action is meaningless and action without love is
irrelevant." - Deepak Chopra

# "Either you deal with what is the reality or you can be sure that
the reality is going to deal with you." - Alex Haley

# "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already
mastered, you will never grow." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who
do the most for others." - Booker T. Washington

# "The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his
opportunity when it comes." - Benjamin Disraeli

# "Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times" Aeschylus

# "Nothing will come of nothing. Dare for mighty things." - William Shakespeare

# "The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power
to harm us." - Voltaire

# "The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power." -
Mary Pickford

# "Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change
their minds cannot change anything." - George Bernard Shaw

# "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde

# "Live your life and forget your age." - Norman Vincent Peale

# "There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who
shines it or be the mirror who reflects it." - Edith Wharton

# "Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." - Mother Teresa

# "I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the
first Jackie Chan." - Jackie Chan

# "It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems
longer ." - Albert Einstein

"Time sets the stage; fate writes the script; but only we may choose
our character." - Liam Thomas Ryder

# "Goodness is the only investment that never fails." - Henry David Thoreau

# "Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great
responsibilities." - Napoleon Hill

"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify." - Henry
David Thoreau

# "Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement." - C. S. Lewis

# "The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone
asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer." - Henry David
Thoreau

# "There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day." -
Alexander Woollcott


# "The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for
doing them." - Benjamin Jowett

# "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't
accept not trying." - Michael Jordan

# "Take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one step at
a time." - Linda Shalaway

# "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its
own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein

# "Happiness is inward and not outward; and so it does not depend on
what we have, but on what we are." - Henry Van Dyke

"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural
consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals." - Jim
Rohn

# "You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again." -
Bonnie Prudden

# "Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the
way things turn out." - Titus Livius

# "Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." -
H. Jackson Browne

# "Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better." - Albert Camus

# "I can resist anything but temptation." - Oscar Wilde

# "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate
the mind on the present moment." - Buddha

# "Ability is of little account without opportunity." - Napoleon Bonaparte

# "The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live." -
Flora Whittemore

# "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain

# "Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he
thinks into it." - Ernest Holmes

# "The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be
happy." - Ben Stein

# "Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear." - Martin Luther King.

# "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist
sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill

# "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the
rest." - Mark Twain

# "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent
perspiration." - Thomas Edison

# "You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as
you don't do too many things wrong." - Warren Buffett

# "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually
fearing you will make a mistake." - Elbert Hubbard

# "Life is either daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller

# "The only real valuable thing is intuition." - Albert Einstein

# "To change one's life; Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No
exceptions." - William James

# "No pressure, no diamonds." - Mary Case

# "If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all
means paint, and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh

# "Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity. Reduce selfishness, have
few desires." - Lao Tzu

# "Make each day your masterpiece." - John Wooden

# "Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own
sunshine." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

# "An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body." - General George Patton

# "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for
it." - Henry David Thoreau

# "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - Xenocrates

# "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." - Richard Bach

# "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix

# "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make." - Les Brown

# "I have nothing to declare except my genius." - Oscar Wilde

# "The full use of your powers along lines of excellence." - John F. Kennedy

# "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing
without work." - Emile Zola

# "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance
to get its pants on." - Sir Winston Churchill

# "To lead the people, walk behind them." - Lao Tzu

# "Don't count the days, make the days count." - Muhammad Ali

# "A year from now you may wish you had started today." - Karen Lamb

# "Light tomorrow with today." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

# "Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain
constant." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

# "Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your
peace of mind." - Christian Larson

# "The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

# "We will either find a way, or make one." - Hannibal

# "If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting." -
Benjamin Franklin

# "Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping,
always makes you less than you are." - Malcolm Forbes

# "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already
tomorrow in Australia." - Charles Schulz

# "Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work." -
Oprah Winfrey

"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your
convictions." - William F. Scholavino

"It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and
important matters as important."- Doris Lessing

# "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." - Derek Bok

"Action is the antidote to despair." - Joan Baez

"Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity." - Og Mandino

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin

# "It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela

# "Either you run the day or e day runs you." - Jim Rohn

# "While we are postponing, life speeds by." - Seneca"

"This world is but a canvas to our imagination." - Henry David Thoreau

"Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment." - Lao Tsu

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving
someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tsu

# "Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the
fire of enthusiasm." - Norman Vincent Peale

# "If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind." - Norman Vincent Peale

# "The purpose of our lives is to be happy." - Dalai Lama

# "A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
- Nelson Mandela

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible
to find itelsewhere." - Agnes Repplier

"Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation,
perspiration and inspiration." - Evan Esar

"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune." - Plutarch

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a
courageous decision." - Peter Drucker

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which
matter least." - Goethe

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."
- Raymond Hull

# "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best
teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw

"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose
sight of the shore." - Christopher Columbus

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even
touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who
try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things
and habits. Don't give up and don't give in.
Wanda Carter

Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill

Struggle is an opportunity.
Napoleon Hill

Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know
that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and
character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has
poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has
given us.
Romans 5:3-5

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Thomas H. Huxley.

“God has been good to me. I had never had any reason to complain”

Seize the day, pull it close (and with it the people you love),
squeeze the juices from it—and savor every sweet drop.

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that
you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them
when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust
no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better
things can fall together."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
— Marilyn Monroe


"We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle."
— Marilyn Monroe

Get a rhythm, when you get the blues.” - Johny Caash

"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."
Martin Luther King

"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope,
too, can be given to one only by other human beings."

Elie Weisel

"Never forget: When you’re just about to give up,
when you feel that life has been
too hard on you,
remember who you are.
Remember your dream."