Category: Motivational quotes

Motivational quotes

Aprocrypha

“Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.”

Marshall Ganz

“Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.”

Lady Duff-Gordon

“Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.”

James Gordon

“It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.”

Eddie Rickenbacker

“Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.”

Dr. Karl Menninger

“Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.”

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

“Funny business, a woman’s career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you’ll need them …

Lillian Eichler Watson

“Don’t reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can’t have two sets of manners, two social codes – one for those you admire and …

The Belzer Rabbi

“Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.”

Sharon Olds

“The older I get, the more I feel / almost beautiful…”

Katherine Paterson

“Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.”

Isabelle Eberhardt

“The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.”

Frederick William Robertson

“This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the …

Anne Wilson Schaef

“We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required …

Dave Meurer

“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”

Elisa Camahort

“The way we distinguish ourselves is by showing our individuality.”

Clarence Thomas

“Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.”

Harold Taylor

“The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.”

Garry Marshall

“It’s always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.”

Michael Flatley

“Whenever I hear, ‘It can’t be done,’ I know I’m close to success.”

James Rippe

“Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a …

Dinah Shore

“Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you …

Anne Lamott

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. …

Dan Parker

“Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in …

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

“Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It’s just not done.”

Scott R. Kurtz

“If I’ve learned one thing in the 14 years I’ve been a full-time cartoonist, it’s that you can not let anyone else define your professionalism. …

Miriam Beard

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”

Basil King

“Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.”

Al Batt

“The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.”

Hasidic Saying

“The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.”

Lawrence Bixby

“Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will …

Henry C. Link

“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.”