Motivation quotes:
Most smiles are started by another smile.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
You can only grow if you're willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
Brian Tracy
Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant.
Stephen Sigmund
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Rumi
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Longfellow
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
Alan Cohen
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Oscar Wilde
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
Ovid
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
Edward de Bono
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Watch your thoughts, they become your words Watch your words, they become your actions Watch your actions, they become your habits Watch your habits, they become your character Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
Michael Hanson
Everything is perfect in the universe — even your desire to improve it.
Wayne Dyer
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
George Allen
Friendship isn't a big thing. It's a million little things.
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert Kennedy
I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Joseph Joubert
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha
Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.
Jack Buck
In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
Sheldon Kopp
Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Albert Einstein
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
John Powell
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.
Henry James
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill
Rather than wishing for change, you first must be prepared to change.
Catherine Pulsifer
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Emerson
So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains.
Ralph Emerson
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
Tony Robbins
Learning is finding out what you already know.
Richard Bach
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Brian Tracy
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
Tony Robbins
What worries you masters you.
Haddon Robinson
You won't skid if you stay in a rut.
Kin Hubbard
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.
Buddha
Example has more followers than reason.
Christian Bovee
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
Tony Robbins
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
Change your words. Change your world.
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Leo F. Buscaglia
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
Andy Rooney
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Henry Thoreau
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Buckminster Fuller
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow.
Chinese Proverb
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
Andy Rooney
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
John Ruskin
Yesterdays home runs don't win today's games.
Babe Ruth
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Lao Tzu
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Buddha
When fate hands us a lemon, lets try to make lemonade.
Dale Carnegie
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mohandas Gandhi
The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Seneca
Kindness is the greatest wisdom.
The shortest answer is doing.
Lord Herbert
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Ralph Marston
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William White
life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
Corita Kent
It is the quality of our work which will please God, not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Lao Tzu
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin Roosevelt
Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.
William Ward
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Rumi
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; theres only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Wayne Dyer
Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
Mark Twain
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao-Tzu
The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work. When you spend time having fun, you know you're being self-indulgent.
Paul Graham
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
G. M. Trevelyan
He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.
Chinese Proverb
You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you.
Eckhart Tolle
You always succeed in producing a result.
Tony Robbins
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
Marcus Aurelius
Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
Jules Poincare
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Rodin
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
Thomas Carlyle
A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a months study of books.
Chinese Proverb
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Buddha
The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer...
Moncure Conway
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.