Motivating Quotes
Motivating Words - Motivating Thoughts
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Motivating Quotes
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
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
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi
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
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't are both right.
- Henry Ford
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
- Wendy Wasserstein
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.
- Kamran Hamid
There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
Motivating Words
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
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
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts - a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ... believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin Mays
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Motivating Thoughts
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Your example is far more influential and inspiring than any words of instruction, or threats, or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
- Bertha Calloway (attributed)
Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke
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
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dream, you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Visualize your end result as having already been accomplished.
Let the image of your success play on the giant screen
in full color with surround sound - so real you can smell and taste it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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