Motivational Quotes

"People who keep journals have life twice".
- Jessamyn West

"I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time."
- Louise Nevelson

"Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties."
- Sara Ban Breathnach

"It is simple. We are where we should be, doing what we should be doing. Otherwise we would be somewhere else, doing something else."
- Richard Stine

“Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.”
- Roger Zelazny

“It is better to have done something than to have been someone.”
- Claude Monet

"If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times".
- Dean Smith

"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
- Earl of Chesterfield

“By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.”
- Grenville Kleiser

“We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.”
- Lauryn Hill

“The least of things with a meaning are worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”
- Carl Jung

“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?.”
- Robert Kennedy“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
- Peter Drucker

“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.”
- Amelia Burr

“Life is variable.”
- Plautus

“Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.”
- Dean Koontz

“Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.”
- Ann Landers

“The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.”
- Steve Jobs

“Follow your honest convictions and stay strong.”
- William Thackeray

“All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.”
- Baltasar Gracian

“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for character.”
- James Russel Lowell

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
- Napoleon Hill

“Only the mediocre are always at their best.”
- Jean Giraudoux

“Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.”
- Edgar Cayce

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
- William James

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“Opportunities are seldom labeled.”
- John H. Shield

“Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”
- Wayne Gretzky

“Sometimes the best things in life happen by accident.”
- Chloe Hildago

“Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.”
- Max L. Forman

“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
- Albert Szent-Gyorgi
“There is time for everything.”
- Thomas Edison

“Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive...then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
- Howard Thurman

“Whatever it is that you wish to experience more of in your life, be the source of it in the life of another.”
- Neale Donald Walsh

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
- Mark Twain

“When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.”
- General W.J. Slim

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
- Frederick Douglass

“Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.”
- William A. Ward

“Do what you can with what you have where you are.”
- Theodore Roosevelt

“There are two things to aim at in life - first, to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.”
- Logan Pearsall Smith

“Nothing in this world is to be feared ... only understood.”
- Marie Curie

“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a lifetime’s experience.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Where there is life, there is hope."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“What we play is life."
- Louis Armstrong

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
- Aldous Huxley

“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”
- Elbert Hubbard

“You've got to figure out what it is you love - who you really are - and have the courage to do that.”
- Oprah Winfrey

“A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.”
- Dutch Proverb

“A single day is enough to make us a little larger.”
- Paul Klee

“Live with passion!”
- Tony Robbins

“It is never too late to be who you might have been."
- George Elliot

“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.”
- John Heywood

“You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.”
- Robert Collier

“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.”
- Arthur Golden

“Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.”
- Joel Hawes

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
- Peter Drucker

“An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so.”
- Shakti Gawain

“The right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”
- Hans Selye

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“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt

“May you live all the days of your life.”
- Jonathan Swift

“There is no education like adversity.”
- Disraeli

“I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.”
- Henri Frederic Amiel

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
- John Lennon

“Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.”
- Norman Vincent Peale

“Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Do what your heart desires, and your mind agrees on.”
- Taina Rosario

“Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.”
- Morihei Ueshiba

“At the moment of commitment, the universe conspires to assist you.”
- Goethe

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.”
- Tommy Lasorda

“Without labor nothing prospers.”
- Sophocles

“Live with no excuses and love with no regrets”.
- Montel

“Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.”
- Anthony Robbins

“It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.”
- Honore de Balzac

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
- Walt Disney

“The universe doesn't give us an engraved invitation to participate in life. And just showing up to the party doesn't guarantee us a good time. The universe responds to our actions. We get out of it what we put into it.”
- Lissa Coffey

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it.”
- Lou Holtz

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
- Helen Keller

“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”
- Anais Nin

“Every passing minute is a chance to turn it all around.”
- from Vanilla Sky

“The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”
- Louis E. Boone

“There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say 'watch me'.”
- Layne Beachley

“Nowhere on your birth certificate did it say life would be fair”.
- Trevor Jones

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.”
- Henry Ward Beecher

“Real heroes are [people] who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.”
- Kevin Costner

“The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.”
- Billie Holiday

“In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”- Lee Iacocca

“You must see it. You must believe it. And then you must never stop working to make it happen.”
- Arnold Schwartzenegger

“You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue.”
- Mike Murdock

“It's not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
- Seneca

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“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
- John Wooden

“Opportunity is around you all the time, but you have to be ready for it. When your chance comes, you must be prepared to take advantage of it.”
- Max Steingart

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
- M. Kathleen Casey

“One sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.”
- Marya Mannes

“When you're through changing, you're through.”
- Bruce Barton

“Excellence comes not from platitudes and good intentions, but rather from days and moments lived with the sincere and committed effort to be your best.”
- Ralph S. Marston, Jr.

“Whatever you want in life, you must give up something to get it. The greater the value, the greater the sacrifice required of you.”
- Max Steingart

“What you believe is more important than what you possess. What you live is more lasting than what you profess. Whom you inspire is more significant than whom you impress.”
- William Arthur Ward

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”
- Wayne Gretzky

“You can't help but get older, but you don't have to get old.”
- George Burns

“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.”
- William Durant

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”
- Aristotle

“Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”
- Bernice Johnson Reagon

“Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
- Mark Twain

“We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.”
- Margaret Mead

“Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.”
- Orison Swett Marden

“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”
- John Wooden

“The bad news: there is no key to the universe. The good news: it was never locked.”
- Swami Beyondananda

“You can manifest the life you truly want with clear intention, emotional intelligence and imagination...like it or not, your life is what you have chosen.”
- Greg Braden

“Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.”
- Anthony Robbins

“Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.”
- Dalai Lama

“Don't ever say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours each day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson,Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein.”
- H. Jackson Brown

“Tough times never last. Tough people do.”
- Robert Schuller

“Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment.”
- Oprah Winfrey

“Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.”
- Nolan Bushnell

“The only thing constant in life is change.”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.”
- Robert Schuller

“You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.”
- Eric Brown

“All that is necessary to break the spell of frustration and inertia is to act as if it is impossible to fail.”
- Dorothea Brand

“Some people see things as they are and ask why; others see things as they never were and ask why not.”
- Robert F. Kennedy

“One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
- Sigmund Freud

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
- Jimmy Dean

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“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.”
- William Durant

“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to act as if it were impossible to fail.”
- Dorothea Brande

“The measure of a [person] is what happens when nothing works and you got the guts to go on.”
- Tex Cobb

“If you can take the worst, take the risk.”
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

“Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.”
- The Dalai Lama

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
- Charles R. Swindoll

“When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.”
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.”
- James Harvey Robinson

“I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.”
— Katharine Hepburn

“Decisions are the doorway to change.”
- Anthony Robbins

“Now is the time to be bold. It is easy when the wind is at your back. But the real test is now when the wind is in our face. That's when we find out if we are tough enough. Inspired enough, committed enough…”
- Karl Rove

“If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.”
- Dale Carnegie

“A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.”
- Maltbie Babcock

“I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.”
- Mike Ditka

“If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you.”
- Louise Hay

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”
- Frank A. Clark

“You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.”
- Abraham Lincoln

“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.”
- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

“Many owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
- Spurgeon

“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness/"
- Edward Stanley

“You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices."
-Deepak Chopra

“Ask yourself this question: "Will this matter a year from now?"
- Richard Carlson

“Given any condition anyone is in, good or challenged, we only have two choices to make: change the condition or adapt to it."
- Eric Brown

“You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."
- Edwin Louis Cole

“Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
- James Dean

“The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities, and to make the most of one's resources.”
- Vauvenargues

“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear.”
- William Jennings Bryan

“The only thing constant in life is change.”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“In times of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements."
- Mao Tse-Tung

“Anyone who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.”
- Charles Darwin

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.”
- Ekhard Tolle

“Know your limits, not so that you can honor them, but so that you can smash them to pieces and reach for magnificence.”
- Cherie Carter-Scott

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“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high - one which sometimes seemed impossible.”
- Orison Swett Marden

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

“It's not what has happened in your past that determines what is in store. Rather, it's your decisions in the present about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.”
- Anthony Robbins

“Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.”
- Robert H. Schuller

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing people; it is the only means.”
- Albert Einstein

“Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you're feeling sorry for yourself because you're faced with adversity.”
- John Wooden

“Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You're the only one who can do it permanently.”
- Zig Ziglar

“Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
- Napoleon Hill

“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”
- Dorothy Thompson

“Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.”
- Wayne Dyer

“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.”
- Emily Dickinson

“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.”
- Bill Copeland

“I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking."
- Og Mandino

“Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”
- Bernice Johnson Reagon

"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"
- Stephen Levine

“Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.”
- Corita Kent

“Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.”
- Dorothy Thompson

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint’, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
- Vincent Van Gogh

“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

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
- T. S. Eliot

“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.”
- Fitzhugh Dodson

“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.”
- Bill Copeland

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
- Anne Bradstreet

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
- George Bernard Shaw

“A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.”
- Maltbie Babcock

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
- Author Unknown

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing - that’s why we recommend it daily.”
- Zig Ziglar

“It's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events -- how we interpret them -- that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.”
- Anthony Robbins

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”
- Dolly Parton

“Hold yourself responsible to a higher standard than anybody expects of you.”
- Henry Ward Beecher

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
- Author Unknown

“If you take risks, you may fail; but if you don’t take risks, you will surely fail”
- Roberto Goizueta

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“Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.”
- Ralph Marston

“Most people will look back and realize they didn’t have a great life, because it’s just so easy to settle for a good life”.
- Jim Collins

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
- Calvin Coolidge

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
- William Arthur Ward

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
- Aristotle

“Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.”
- Nolan Bushnell

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it!”
- Mother Teresa

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and we miss it, but we aim too low and reach it.”
- Michelangelo

“It's never too late to be what you might have been.”- George Elliot

“Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.”
- Norman Vincent Peale

“Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself”
- Brian Tracy

"The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing."
- Lance Armstrong

“I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.”
- Mike Ditka

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
- Lou Holtz

“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.”
- Robert Schuller

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do to be it.”
- Epictetus

"Now is the time to be bold. It is easy when the wind is at your back. But the real test is now when the wind is in our face. That's when we find out if we are tough enough. Inspired enough, committed enough."
- Karl Rove

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
- Helen Keller

"When you're hot keep shooting, when you're not keep shooting 'till you get hot."
- Bernie Stein

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
- Charles Darwin

“It’s in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped”.
- Anthony Robbins

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."
- Frank Outlaw

“When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.”
- Greg Anderson

“Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting on your shelf. Commit to taking on one of these ideas and finishing what you started.”
- Yehuda Berg

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“If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.”
- Lou Holtz

“Double – no, triple – our troubles and we’d still be better off than any other people on earth.”
– Ronald Reagan

“When life’s problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.”
– Ann Landers

“You were born to win, but to be the winner you were born to be, you must plan to win and prepare to win. Then and only then can you legitimately expect to win.”
- Zig Ziglar

“It's not what you know, it's what you use that makes a difference.”
- Zig Ziglar

"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere."
- Frank A. Clark

“In times of change learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
- Eric Hoffer

“Life is like a box of chocolates – you never know what you’re gonna get”
- Forrest Gump

“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.”
- William Durant

“For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.”
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.”
- Barbara Sher

“Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine...[your] values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.”
- Marsha Sinetar

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person - always do what you are afraid to do.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
- William B. Sprague

“Fortune favors the brave.”
- Publius Terence

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.”
- Confucius

“Constant dripping hollows out a stone.”
- Lucretius




“Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability”
- John Wooden

"When times are good and I am flush, and my house needs painting, I hire a painter (maybe a decorator to help select the colors) and get my house painted. When times are less than good, and I am not as flush and or concerned about the future, (hence safeguarding my assets), and my house needs painting, my wife and I pick out the paint, and systematically paint our house ourselves. Regardless of the circumstances we are in at the time, the result is, our house gets painted"
- Neil J. Cantor

"If you are strong enough, there are no precedents"
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind"
- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

“The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities, and to make the most of one's resources”
- Vauvenargues

“Our problems are manmade; therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable, and we believe they can do it again.”
- President John F. Kennedy

“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear”
- William Jennings Bryan

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“We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.”
- Margaret Mead

"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance."
- Confucius

"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
- William James

"If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you."
- Louise Hay

"Pick one aspect of your life, for example, your health, your competence, your prosperity or relationships, and think back to when you were a child. What messages about this subject did you hear from adults at that time that are still playing on your subconscious tape recorder? Messages like: "Men can't be trusted." "Money doesn't grow on trees." "You're not smart enough to succeed in business." How is your world reflecting your beliefs back to you, today? "There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in."

"Some people see things as they are and ask why; others see things as they never were and ask why not."
- Robert F. Kennedy

"I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow."
- Katharine Hepburn

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.”
- Henry Ward Beecher

"There are three types of people in the world: those who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened."
- Nicholas Murray Butler

"Begin each day as if it were on purpose."
- From the Movie Hitch (Will Smith character Andrew Largeman)

"An amateur is someone who practices until they get it right. A professional practices until they can't get it wrong."
- Babbitt

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Tough times never last. Tough people do.”
- Robert Schuller

“The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.”
- William Mather Lewis

"You must see it. You must believe it, and then......you must never stop working to make it happen”
- Arnold Schwartzenegger

"I cannot - nor will not - be ordinary. I have to keep training and seeking and growing. I have to stay hungry. It is my will and so has become my nature."
- Arnold Schwartzenegger

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"I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things halfheartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect halfhearted results."
- Michael Jordan

"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."
- Wayne Dyer

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to youas by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to youas by the way your mind looks at what happens."
- John Homer Miller

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale

"Don't ever say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours each day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein."
- H. Jackson Brown

"All that is necessary to break the spell of frustration and inertia is to act as if it is impossible to fail."
- Dorothea Brand

What Will Matter

"Ready or not, someday it will all come to an end.There will be no more sunrises, no minutes hours or days.All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans and to-do lists will expire.The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.It won’t matter where you came from, or what side of the tracks you lived.It won’t matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant.Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.So what will matter?How will the value of your days be measured?What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built.What will matter is not your success, but your significance.What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.What will matter is not your competence, but your character.What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you’re gone.What will matter is not your memories, but the memories that live in those who loved you.What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.Living a life that matters doesn’t happen by accident.It’s not a matter of circumstance but of choice.Choose to live a life that matters."
- Michael Josephson

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