Top 100 Motivational Quotes

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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

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A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.

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It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.

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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

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Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

7

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

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If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

10

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

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Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.

12

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

13

In a country where only men are encouraged, one must be one's own inspiration.

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Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.15

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

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To the young: Work, work, work, and then work some more!

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A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.

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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

20

God ever works with those who work with will.

21

You are doing better than you think you are.

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Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.

23

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

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We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful. Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle. We could have been ourselves without our delights, but not without the misfortunes that drive our search for meaning. 'Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities,' St. Paul wrote in Second Corinthians, 'for when I am weak, then I am strong.'

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When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.

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When a king begins to act like a king, it is not long before someone else is king! Serving is a way we can place value on one another. A wise man is a server.

27

It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now.

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Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.

29

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

30

While others were out partying, I was training. While they were out dancing at the clubs, I was training... and training... and training.

31

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

32

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

34

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

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... I just want to remind the owners and the players: you guys make money because you have a whole bunch of fans out there who are working really hard. They buy tickets. They're watching on TV. Ya'll should be able to figure this out. Get this done.

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Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it's there.

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What I've learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life?

38

The best doctor gives the least medicines.

39

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

40

The more passionate that someone is about something, the more you have to listen to them.

41

The quarterback is in charge of the chuck wagon. He's handing it out here and there, but he can't just throw it out there indiscriminately or the wolves will get him.

42

I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.

43

I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.

44

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

45

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

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Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.

47

Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. It’s going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

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Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire it by fitting in and by seeking approval, which are not only hollow substitutes for belonging, but often barriers to it. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

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Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

50

It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.

51

If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into about 50 books per year. 50 books per year will translate into about 500 books over the next ten years.

52

Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?

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Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

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The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.

55

Be happy, but never satisfied.

56

You can't really call yourselves giant-killers any more, as you kill giants so often.

57

It's all about the journey, not the outcome.

58

If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

59

It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

60

Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.

61

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

62

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

63

We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overly large houses but lack spaces that truly embody our individuality and connectedness; media surround us everywhere while we starve for authentic communication. We are offered entertainment every second of the day but lack the chance to play. In the ubiquitous world of money, we hunger for all that is intimate, personal and unique.

64

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

65

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

66

There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.

67

Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.

68

It's easier to limit yourself, but if you do, you will never reach your true potential.

69

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

70

Films are subjective - what you like, what you don't like. But the thing for me that is absolutely unifying is the idea that every time I go to the cinema and pay my money and sit down and watch a film go up on-screen, I want to feel that the people who made that film think it's the best movie in the world, that they poured everything into it and they really love it. Whether or not I agree with what they've done, I want that effort there - I want that sincerity. And when you don't feel it, that's the only time I feel like I'm wasting my time at the movies.

71

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

72

For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.

73

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

75

Put the kids in with a few old pappy guys who still like to win and the combination is unbeatable.

76

There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.

77

The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.

78

The enemy is a very good teacher.

79

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

81

A jet plane cannot mow the lawn, but it can fly to distant destinations. Don't worry so much about what you can't do; just do what you can as only you can do it.

82

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

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Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.

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No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them.

85

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

86

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

87

Don't Stop when you are Tired. Stop When You are Done.

88

It's not where you start or where you finish. It is the distance between the two.

89

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

90

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

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As you embrace the present and become one with it, and merge with it, you will experience a fire, a glow, a sparkle of ecstasy throbbing in every sentient being. As you begin to experience this exultation of spirit in everything that is alive, as you become intimate with it, joy will be born within you, and you will drop the terrible burdens of defensiveness, resentment, and hurtfulness... then you will become lighthearted, carefree, joyous, and free.

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Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.

93

This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

94

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

95

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

96

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

97

The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

98

Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.

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The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you're wasting. It's up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you.

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If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.

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