Free Motivation Quotes and Inspiration Sayings

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
- Anonymous

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
- Soren Kierkegaard

“I am a big believer in the ‘mirror test’. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you’ve done your best.” — John McKay

“Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.” — Dr. Michael McGriffy

“I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content when I cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.” — Elizabeth Montagu

“When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.” — J. Lubbock

# As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
Josh Billings - 1815-1885 American Humorist Lecturer

# Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck - 1927 American Author Humorist

# My definition of success is control.
Kenneth Branagh - 1960 British-born American Actor Director Producer Stage director

# A minutes success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning - 1812-1889 British Poet

# The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl S. Buck - 1892-1973 American Novelist

“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.”
- Max Lerner

“Spirit … has fifty times the strength and staying power of brawn and muscle.”
- Unknown

“Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.”
- Liane Cardes

pacific sunset”If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.”
- Herschel Walker

“Train, don’t strain.”
- Arthur Lydiard

“Number one is just to gain a passion for running. To love the morning, to love the trail, to love the pace on the track. And if some kid gets really good at it, that’s cool too.”
- Pat Tyson

“You would fain be victor at the Olympic games, you say. Yes, but weigh the conditions, weigh the consequences; then and then only, lay to your hand-if it be for your profit. You must live by rule, submit to diet, abstain from dainty meats, exercise your body perforce at stated hours, in heat or in cold; drink no cold water, nor, it may be, wine. In a word, you must surrender yourself wholly to your trainer, as though to a physician.”
- Epictetus, (c.A.D. 50-c.A.D. 138)

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Max Depree

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

Sir James M. Barrie

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

James Allen

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

“Self-acceptance comes from meeting life’s challenges vigorously. Don’t numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.” — J. Donald Walters

“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They’re what make the instrument stretch—what makes you go beyond the norm.” — Cicely Tyson

“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” — Peter Marshal

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” — Margaret Thatcher

“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.”
- Norman Vincent Peale

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
- Dr Wayne Dyer

“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”
- Theodore Rubin

“Pessimist : A person who says that O is the last letter of ZERO, instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY.”
- Anonymous

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

“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting”
- Elizabeth Bibesco

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”
- B. Olatunji

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
-Milan Kundera

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
-Henry Steele Commager

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
-Mark Twain

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
-Oscar Wilde

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
-Don Marquis

“There’s a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I’m not there yet.”
- Randy Pausch (1960-)

“It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
- Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

“Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.”
- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
- Frank Zappa

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
- Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”
- Isaac Asimov

# “In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.”

Henry David Thoreau

# “Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt

# “Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater.

Epictetus

# “You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you”

Dale Carnegie

# “At the center of your being you have the answer;You know who you are and you know what you want.”

Lao-tzu

# “All you have to do is know where you’re going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.”

Earl Nighingale

When you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life.

True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.

Your friend is the person who knows all about you, and still like you.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise.

Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.

What you get by achieving your goal is not as important as what you become by achieving your goal.

Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will see farther.

An archer cannot hit the bullseye if he doesn’t know where the target is.

Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you’ll land amongst the stars.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

An goal in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

Life is what happens to you while you’re working for your future.

You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough.

I love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not sad because I have it no longer.

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

Love doesn’t make the world go ’round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying yes than by saying no.

Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window — or break down a door.

Happiness is the best face lift.

Perfection does not exist - you can always do better and you can always grow.
Lee Iacocca
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
Mark Victor Hansen
Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves.
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To unlock the door to the future, you must first possess the key to the past.
Unknown Author
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Brian Tracy
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
Abraham Lincoln
I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.