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List of motivational quotes
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This is a list of motivational quotes
A belief
I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
Michael Jordan
A failureShow me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison
A pessimist versus an optimistA pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Accepting failureI can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan
All great deedsAll great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Albert Camus
ChampionI hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
Muhammad Ali
ChangeChange will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
Climbing
Constant drippingConstant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius
Consult not your fearsConsult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think
not about your frustrations, but about your unfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with
what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII
ConvictionIt's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Muhammad Ali
CriticsIf you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
Malcolm X
Do what you have to doFirst say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
Do you wish to rise?Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine
Don't become discouragedNearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
Thomas A. Edison
Easy or difficult
FailingI've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
FailureSuccess is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
GloryOur greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising everytime we fall.
Author unknown
Hard to fail!
How far?Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
I have not failed
Impossible
InactionIron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
Intelligence without ambitionIntelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali
It begins with a single stepThe journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu
It is a rough roadIt is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Seneca
Like a butterfly
LimitsMany people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Helen Keller
Limits of the possibleThe only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C Clarke
LuckI say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.
Denzel Washington
Make mistakes!So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because that's where you will find success. On the far side of failure.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
Many of life's failuresMany of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
Negative situationAlways turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
Michael Jordan
NeverI never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
Buddha
No one is born fully-formedNo one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.
Paulo Freire
Not to yieldThough much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nothing is impossible
ObstaclesObstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan
ObstaclesThe greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere
Our dreamsAll our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
Our greatest weaknessOur greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison
Out of sufferingOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Khalil Gibran
Persevere
Ploughing a fieldYou cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown
ReactionIt's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Epictetus
Resolution to succeedAlways bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln
ResponsibleIt is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Moliere
Seek a newer world
SmileSmile, and the world smiles with you; cry, and you cry alone.
Author unknown
Stop acting so smallStop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Rumi
Straight in the eyeNever bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller
Strike the ironDo not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague
Strong lives
The mountains aheadIt isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali
They happened to thingsIt had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci
TriumphsTriumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road.
Author unknown
Two mistakesThere are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth - not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
Undervalued
VisionVision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Japanese proverb
We can do anythingWe can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
Well done!
What he could haveMan is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
Jean-Paul Sartre
What is in your powerMake the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus
What they can becomeAs far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
Jean-Paul Sartre
When I let goWhen I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu
When things fall apartSometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together
Marilyn Monroe
Without your consent
You are right!
You can
You can winIf you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
William Hazlitt
You'll make progressIf you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Barack Obama
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