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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
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Famous Motivational Quotes
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
- Vince Lombardi
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Best Motivational Quotes
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Success demands singleness of purpose.
- Vince Lombardi
Great Motivational Quotes
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
- Bertha Calloway (attributed)
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and then starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Good Motivational Quotes
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi
When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
The difference between school and life?
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test.
In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
- Tom Bodett
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
Best Motivational Quotes of All Time
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't are both right.
- Henry Ford
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi
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
Motivational Quotes by Famous People
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm Forbes
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Bill Gates
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
- Ross Perot
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