Motivational Quotes

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Believe in Yourself

"In 20 years time you will regret the things you didn't do much more than the things you did wrong"
-Mark Twain
‎"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."
-Salma Hayek
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
-John Wooden
"Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner."
-Lao Tzu
"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong."
-Peter T. Mcintyre
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”
-Christian D. Larson
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
-George Eliot
"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities" 
-J. K. Rowling
"It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not." 
-Author Unknown

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson


Don't Give Up

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
-Alexander Graham Bell
"Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strength."
-Author Unknown
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
-Soren Kierkegaard
"Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise."
-Author Unknown
"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending."
-Jim Henson
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
-Dale Carnegie
‎"The problems of this world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."
-John F. Kennedy
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
-Buckminster Fuller
‎"May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down."
-Sara June Parker
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
-Dale Carnegie
"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."
-Tom Stoppard
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
-George Eliot
"When you do the best you can, you never know what miracle is wrought in your life, or in the life of another."
-Helen Keller
‎"What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."
-John Ruskin
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
-Thomas Edison
"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
-William James
"What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful."
-Blaine Lee
"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."
-William Durant


Inspirational
 

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal."
-Albert Pine
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."
 -Zig Ziglar
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place."
 -Nora Roberts
"Never get tired of doing little things for others. Sometimes, those little things occupy the biggest part of their hearts." -Author Unknown
"The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine."
-Bill Vaughn
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
-George Bernard Shaw
‎"Nothing you wear is more important than your smile"
-Connie Stevens
"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called opportunity and its first chapter is New Years Day."
-Edith Lovejoy Pierce
"If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy."
-Ancient Proverb

"Begin with the end in mind."
 -Stephen Covey
"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."
-Lord Byron
"If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them."
-Dalai Lama
"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
-Buddha
‎"I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out."
-Arthur Hays Sulzberger
"Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise."
-Author Unknown
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
 -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
-Thomas Edison


Overcoming Adversity

“Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.”
–Ruth E. Renkel
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
‎"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
"The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you."
-John Southard
"Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them."
-Jack Brown
"The problems of this world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."
-John F. Kennedy
"Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger."
-Lou Holtz
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
-Theodore Rubin
‎"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
-George Bernard Shaw
‎"Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere."
-Movie quote from: Van Wilder
"Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
-Orison Swett Marden
"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity."
-Lou Holtz
"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal."
-Albert Pine
"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 while trying to succeed."
-Booker T. Washington


Success

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
-Orison Swett Marden
"Success doesn't come to you, you go to it."
-Marva Collins
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
-Dale Carnegie
‎"The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist."
-Harold Wilkins

 

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