Motivational Quotes
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Encouragement with a real source behind it. Every line here is traced to the book, letter, or speech where it actually appears, so you learn who said it and why it landed, not just the poster version.
- Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
- Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
- Helen Keller
- You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take.
- Wayne Gretzky
- I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan
- Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.
- Muhammad Ali
- You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
- Maya Angelou
- But still, like dust, I'll rise.
- Maya Angelou
- Nothing will work unless you do.
- Maya Angelou
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant
- 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.
- Booker T. Washington
- If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
- Frederick Douglass
- I have not failed. I have just found ten thousand ways that will not work.
- Thomas Edison
- Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.
- Henry Ford
- Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
- Steve Jobs
- Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
- It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.
- J. K. Rowling
- Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
- J. K. Rowling
- The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
- Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart
- If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself, the invisible battles inside all of us, that's where it's at.
- Jesse Owens
- 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
- Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill