Motivational Quotes
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Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

Carpe Diem (Seize the day)
- Latin Proverb

It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
- John Burroughs

Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
he fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller

Set interim goals, preferably daily goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli

How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett

Life is a dangerous - ultimately fatal - endeavor,
so you may as well live it full out.
Chart your course, cast off the lines,
and boldly sail the seas of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is defined more by its risks than by its samenesses.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill

Laziness may appear attractive,
but work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank

No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell

When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

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

My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation.
Live wild, life free, live as master of your own fate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius

I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous

I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande

Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.

Remember that life is an ADVENTURE, and cheer Whee...
all the way down the slippery razor-blade of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard

Scuttle the Assumptions, dash the Expectations,
and hoist the sails of CHOICE to harness the winds of JOY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The opportunity for greater courage
comes in the most ordinary of moments.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I look for what needs to be done.
After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu

Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi

What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau

Freedom lies in being bold.
- Robert Frost

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu

There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell

Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort.
Full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
- Marianne Williamson

That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

Success demands singleness of purpose.
- Vince Lombardi

What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab

It is hardly possible to build anything,
if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
- Lech Walesa

Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous

Don't Wait!
Start on your dreams, your impulses,
your longings, your special occasions today.
Because this is your moment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We must build dikes of courage
to hold back the flood of fear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment,
full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous

Excellence is not a destination to be arrived at,
but a path of continual attention and improvement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor

I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins

We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
- Lance Armstrong

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather

Don't live down to expectations.
Go out there and do something remarkable.
- Wendy Wasserstein

Live the life you've dreamed.
- Henry David Thoreau

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