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Motivational Quotes

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“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.” – Unknown

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

“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.” – Samuel Johnson

“He who hesitates is lost.” – Proverb

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

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

“Constant dripping hollows out a stone.” – Lucretius

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose–
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” – Mary Shelley

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” – Stephen Kaggwa

“On the human chessboard, all moves are possible.” – Miriam Schiff

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as if though nothing is a miracle. The other is though everything is a miracle.” –Albert Einstein

“Don’t watch the clock. Do what it does, keep going. – Sam Levenson

“Improvise upon the situation.” – Unknown

“Giving up is giving in to whatever may be keeping you down. Overcoming is beating what you need to, and becoming stronger in the process.” – Cynthia Mercedes

Inspiring Kindness Quotes

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# Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain
# No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ~Aesop
# For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. ~Audrey Hepburn
# Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. ~Mother Teresa
# Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love. ~Gandhi
# It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~Kahil Gibran
# Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time. ~Richard Carlson
# Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. ~Frank A. Clark
# When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. ~Dalai Lama
# Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~ Philo
# Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~James Matthew Barrie
# How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it! ~George Elliston
# Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love. ~Lao-Tse
# Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how. ~Author Unknown
# To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue… gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. ~Confucius

Must Read Motivational Quotes

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“Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeeded.” – Emily Dickinson

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” – Dale Carnegie

“Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” – G. K. Chesterton

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke

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

“Encouragement is a necessary part of supervision.” – Thomas J. Watson

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

“If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.” – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” – George S. Patton

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

“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.” – Thornton Wilder

“If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.” – St. Clement of Alexandra

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein

How to Motivate Yourself

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The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. –John Burroughs

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. –Harold B. Melchart

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. –Dale Carnegie

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

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. –John Henry Newman

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. –Albert Einstein

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 and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? –Marianne Williamson

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. –Lao-Tzu

Things do not change; we change. –Henry David Thoreau

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem. –G.K. Chesterton

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. –St. Francis of Assisi

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. –Confucius

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 which has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one. –Elbert Hubbard

It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not. –James Gordon

You have to get to the point where going for it is more important than winning or losing. –Arthur Ashe

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. –Louis Pasteur

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. –Ambrose Redmoon

Often you just have to rely on your intuition. –Bill Gates

It’s easier to live with disappointment than regret. –Andre Agassi

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. –J. Pierpont Morgan

Famous Courage Quotes

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“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.” – E.E. Cummings

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill

“Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” – Mark Twain

“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” – Bruce Lee

“Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” – John Wooden

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.” – Confucius

Famous Beauty Quotes

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“Beauty, without expression, tires.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” – Margaret Hungerford

“I’m tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want – an adorable pancreas?” – Jean Kerr

“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius

“Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.” – Martin Buxbaum

“It is not beauty that endears; it’s love that makes us see beauty.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.” – Dorothy Parker

“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.” – Chuck Palahniuk

“Beauty is whatever gives joy.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beautiful Quotes

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– “Don’t call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses” – Aaron Hill

– “Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage” – Richard Lovelace

– “Never look back unless you’re planning to go that way” – Henry David Thoreau

– “Music is what feelings sound like” – Unknown

– “It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop” – Confucius

– “Publicity is like poison; it doesn’t hurt unless you swallow it” – Joe Paterno

– “Time itself comes in drops” – William James

– “If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere” – Henry A. Kissinger

– “All things truly wicked start from an innocence.” – Ernest Hemingway

– “Either you run the day or the day runs you” – Jim Rohn

– “I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them” – Donald Norman

– “He who profits by a crime commits it” – Seneca

– “Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting” – Karl Wallenda

– “Listen to the sound of silence” – Paul Simon

– “There is no top. There are always further heights to reach” – Jascha Heifet

Words of Wisdom

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– “Nature and wisdom never are at strife.” – Plutarch

– “It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.” – Francois De La Rochefoucauld

– “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” – William James

– “The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.” – Solomon Ibn Gabriol

– “Years teach us more than books.” – Berthold Auerbach

– “The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.” – William Penn

– “The middle course is the best.” – Cleobulus

– “The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.” – Thomas Huxley

– “A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” – Latin Proverb

– “Silence does not always mark wisdom.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

– “No man was ever wise by chance.” – Seneca

– “Not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom.” – John Milton

– “By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.” – Menander

– “The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.” – William Hazlitt

– “Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.” – John Tillotson

– “The more a man knows, the more he forgives.” – Catherine the Great

– “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens

– “One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.” – Alexander Chase

– “How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!” – Homer

– “On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,
In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
Edward Young

– “The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.” – Confucius