Motivational Quotes

Most popular motivational quotes

We don't reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. 
We start at the bottom and climb up.
Blood is involved. - Cheryl Strayed quote.
We don't reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. 
We start at the bottom and climb up.
Blood is involved.

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You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding. - Cheryl Strayed quote.
You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding.

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Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic.

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There is no top. There are always further heights to reach. - Jascha Heifetz quote.
There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

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The most important thing in the life of every man and every woman is not that they should never fall along the way. The important thing is always to get back up, not to stay on the ground licking your wounds. - Pope Francis quote.
The most important thing in the life of every man and every woman is not that they should never fall along the way. The important thing is always to get back up, not to stay on the ground licking your wounds.

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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. quote.
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.

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. - Richard Bach quote.
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

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You'll get through this. It won't be painless. It won't be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naive. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this. - Max Lucado quote.
You'll get through this. It won't be painless. It won't be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naive. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this.

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Life can set us a lot of snares, a lot of bumps, we can fail a thousand times, in life, in love, in the social struggle, but if we search for it we'll have the strength to get up again and start over. The most beautiful thing about the day is that it dawns. There is always a dawn after the night has passed. Don't forget it, kids. The only losers are the ones who stop fighting. - José Mujica quote.
Life can set us a lot of snares, a lot of bumps, we can fail a thousand times, in life, in love, in the social struggle, but if we search for it we'll have the strength to get up again and start over. The most beautiful thing about the day is that it dawns. There is always a dawn after the night has passed. Don't forget it, kids. The only losers are the ones who stop fighting.

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The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost quote.
The best way out is always through.

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Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. - Abraham Lincoln quote.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

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We can do anything we want to do, if we stick to it long enough. - Helen Keller quote.
We can do anything we want to do, if we stick to it long enough.

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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
— Chinese proverb

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The future depends on what we do in the present. - Mahatma Gandhi quote.
The future depends on what we do in the present.

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Not everything you face in life can be changed, but you can change nothing until you have faced it.

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The best way to predict your future is to create it. - Peter Drucker quote.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.

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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stoew quote.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

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You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can everyday. - Marian Wright Edelman quote.
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can everyday.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank quote.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I'm possible! - Audrey Hepburn quote.
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I'm possible!
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl. - Nellie McClung quote.
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

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When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.

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

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Nothing will work unless you do. - Maya Angelou quote.
Nothing will work unless you do.

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.
— Japanese proverb

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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Dwight D. Eisenhower quote.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

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All glory comes from daring to begin.

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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. - Isaac Asimov quote.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. - W. Somerset Maugham quote.
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

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Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

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A MAXIM FOR VIKINGS

Here is a fact
that should help you fight a bit longer:
Things that don't actually kill you outright
make you stronger.

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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. - Winston Churchill quote.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

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Ninety eight per cent of genius is hard work. As for genius being inspired, inspiration is in most cases another word for perspiration. - Thomas Edison quote.
Ninety eight per cent of genius is hard work. As for genius being inspired, inspiration is in most cases another word for perspiration.

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You can't always sit around and wait for inspiration to strike.  Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.

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I'll sleep when I'm dead.

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Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, be worthy of being known. - Confucius quote.
Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, be worthy of being known.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.

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I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

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The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition.

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Having the self-belief that you will be able to figure things out as you go along is critical to success at anything hard.

Get started and trust yourself. No one has all the answers at the beginning.

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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be, but what will happen in all the other days that ever come, can depend upon what you do today. - Ernest Hemingway quote.
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be, but what will happen in all the other days that ever come, can depend upon what you do today.

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You never climb a mountain to get to the middle; you climb it to get to the top.

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Superhuman is merely the term for tasks we take a long time to accomplish.