Showing posts with label Motivating Quotes. Show all posts
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50 Life Changing Motivational And Inspirational Quotes

 “Nobody is born wise.” - African proverb

“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.” - Zig Ziglar

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill

“For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.” - Socrates

“Little by little one walks far.” - Peruvian Proverb

“That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.” - Pablo Picasso

“Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.” - Guinean proverb

“Success comes from within, not from without.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whether you believe you can or believe you can’t, you are absolutely right.” - Henry Ford

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” - Albert Einstein

 “Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.” - Pablo Picasso

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” - Thomas Jefferson

“You learn how to cut down trees by cutting them down. - Bateke proverb”

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill

“The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.” - Henry David Thoreau

“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” - Buddhist Proverb

“To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.” - Malcolm S. Forbes

“A patient person never misses a thing. - Swahili proverb”

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’” - George Bernard Shaw

“Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale ’til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.” - Washington Irving

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” - Confucius

“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.” - Zig Ziglar

“Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!” - Babe Ruth

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.” - Henry Ward Beecher

“If you do not enter the tiger’s cave, you will not catch its cub.” - Japanese saying

“Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.” - William Arthur Ward

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” - Vincent van Gogh

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” - Theodore Roosevelt

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” - Socrates

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Continuance is power and strength.” - Japanese saying

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” - Henry Ford

“Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.” - Benjamin Franklin

“You can only enter half way into the dark forest before you begin to come out the other side.” - Chinese Proverb

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.” - Winston Churchill

“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

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” - Helen Keller

“Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow.” - William Shakespeare

“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.” - Michaelangelo

“A nod, you know, is as good as a wink to a blind horse.” - English Proverb

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” - Robert F. Kennedy

“The quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.” - Vince Lombardi Jr.

“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.” - William Shakespeare

“I have learned that 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 while trying to succeed.” - Booker T. Washington

“A rolling stone gathers no moss.” - English Proverb

“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” - Benjamin Franklin

“Go as far as you can see and you will see further.” - Zig Ziglar


“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.” - Benjamin Franklin

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 

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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