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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes about Motivation.
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
Related topics: Values Success Intention
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
I find motivation and inspiration and hope in information.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the new economy, information, education,
and motivation are everything.
- William J. Clinton
People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
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.
- Marianne Williamson
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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