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Motivational Quotes
Motivation is most useful when it helps turn intention into a specific next step. This collection brings together concise words about beginning, continuing and rebuilding momentum.
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“One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.”
— Epictetus
“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.”
— Walter Inglis Anderson
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
— Coco Chanel
“When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.”
— Viktor Frankl
“Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.”
— Epictetus
“The day of fortune is like a harvest day, we must be busy when the corn is ripe.”
— Torquato Tasso
“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”
— Will Durant
“He who hath many friends hath none.”
— Aristotle
“He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
— C.S. Lewis
“The wisest men follow their own direction.”
— Euripides
“If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.”
— Ted Williams
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
— Walt Disney Company
“Each day provides its own gifts.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
— John Quincy Adams
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.”
— Albert Einstein
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
— Thomas Edison
“Do I speak at the right time, or not? Do I speak of facts, or not? Do I speak gently or harshly? Do I speak profitable words or not? Do I speak with a kindly heart, or inwardly malicious?”
— Buddha
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
— J.K. Rowling
“I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.”
— Amy Tan
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
— Peter Drucker
“Every new day is another chance to change your life.”
— Unknown
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- Maya Angelou Poet, memoirist and civil rights activist
- Vincent van Gogh Dutch painter and draftsman
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, lecturer and philosopher
- William Shakespeare English playwright, poet and actor
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