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Motivational Quotes And Sayings

“So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.”
- Og Mandino

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
- William E. Channing

“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”
- Bernice Johnson Reagon

“Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte

“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”
- C. Malesherbe

“If not us, who? If not now, when?”
- Kennedy, John F.

“Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.”
- Rabbi Nochem Kaplan

“All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.”
- Walt Disney

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die tomorrow.”
- James Dean

“If you’re going to be thinking, you may as well think big.”
- Donald Trump

“Where there’s a will there’s a way.”
- English Proverb

“If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.”
- Cher

“A determined person will do more with a pen and paper, than a lazy person will accomplish with a personal computer.”
- Catherine Pulsifer

“We will either find a way, or make one!”
- Hannibal

“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

“You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.”
- Dr. Wayne Dyer

“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.”
- Napoleon Hill

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.”
- Robert G. Ingersoll

“Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.”
- Dale Carnegie

“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.”
- Vernon Howard

“Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.”
- Sharon Stone

“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”
- John Quincy Adams

“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
- Abraham Lincoln

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
- Thomas Edison

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
- Winston Churchill

“When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters—one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.”
- John F. Kennedy

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.”
- Louis Kossuth

“Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”
- George W. Carver

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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.”

- Mark Twain 

A man must constantly exceed his level!

This inspiring story is about Bruce Lee, a legendary martial art master.

“Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We’d run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile [Note: when running on his own in 1968, Lee would get his time down to six-and-a half minutes per mile].

So this morning he said to me “We’re going to go five.” I said, “Bruce, I can’t go five. I’m a helluva lot older than you are, and I can’t do five.” He said, “When we get to three, we’ll shift gears and it’s only two more and you’ll do it.”

Bruce Lee
I said “Okay, hell, I’ll go for it.” So we get to three, we go into the fourth mile and I’m okay for three or four minutes, and then I really begin to give out. I’m tired, my heart’s pounding, I can’t go any more and so I say to him, “Bruce if I run any more,” –and we’re still running-” if I run any more I’m liable to have a heart attack and die.”

He said, “Then die.” It made me so mad that I went the full five miles.

Afterward I went to the shower and then I wanted to talk to him about it. I said, you know, “Why did you say that?”

He said, “Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”

From The Art of Expressing the Human Body
By Bruce Lee, John Little

SOME FUNNY QUOTES that can motivate you and inspire you to make something great out of your life.


People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar

 By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
 - Robert Frost

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh – at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde

A clear conscience is a sure sign of a bad memory.
- Unknown

Always remember that you are unique. Just like everybody else.
- Unknown

If you hit the target every time it’s too near or too big.
- Tom Hirshfield

I’m an idealist I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.
- Carl Sanburg

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
- Erma Bombeck

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
 - Harry S. Truman

I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure.
- Funny inspirational quote

He who laughs lasts.
- Mary P. Poole

Seven days without laughter make one weak.
- Joel Goodman

When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.
- Sri H. W. L. Poonja

Laughing, how can you fall asleep? It brings a state of no-mind and no-thought, and does not allow you to fall asleep.
- Osho

If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
- Marie Osmond

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.
- J.C. Penney

The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing.
- German Proverb

If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will.
 - John Atkinson

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re alive it isn’t.
- Richard Bach

Dogs have owners, cats have staff. Are you a dog or a cat?

- Unknown

If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.
 - Leo Burnett

 Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
 - Japanese proverb

Just Remember One Thing:   You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?
 - Steven Wright

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.
- Wayne Dyer

Success comes in cans, failure in cant’s.
- Funny inspirational saying

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