Motivational Quotes (2)

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
-Helen Keller

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence,
is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
-Dale Carnegie

I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world
are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want.
-George Bernard Shaw

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
-Zig Ziglar

Don't just learn the tricks of the trade.
Learn the trade.
-James Bennis

I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.
-Thomas Jefferson

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
-Plato

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
-Aldous Huxley, author

To exist is to change; to change is to mature, to mature is to create oneself endlessly.
-Henri Bergson, French philosopher

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
-Robert Frost, poet

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
-Malcolm S. Forbes

The facts are always less than what really happened.
-Nadine Gordimer, author

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
-Mark Twain

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

The best way to destroy an enemy is by making them a friend.
-Abraham Lincoln

I cannot think of many occasions when a smile is out of place.
-Charles R. Swindoll, author

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
-John D. Rockefeller

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
-Arthur Ashe

There is only one boss, the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
-Sam Walton

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
-Adlai Stevenson

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
-John F. Kennedy

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.
-James Bryant Conant, American educator

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
-Mark Twain

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
-Robert H. Goddard, pioneer of rocket research

I'm always busy, but always doing things I enjoy. I rarely occupy myself with things that bug me. I'm very fortunate in that not many of us are allowed to move around for kicks and get paid for it.
-Steve Allen - composer, singer, producer, conductor, songwriter and author

We must become the change we want to see.
-Mahatma Gandhi

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

Fortune favors the bold.
-Virgil

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
-William Jennings Bryan

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
-Rudyard Kipling

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna -- or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities and let the nice things come out.
-Barbara Walters

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
-Elbert Hubbard, U.S. publisher, author

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
-Samuel Johnson,
British author and lexicographer

If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.
-Gen. George S. Patton

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 opened for us.
-Helen Keller

People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
-Leonardo da Vinci

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