Category: Motivational quotes

Motivational quotes

Elizabeth I

“All my possessions for a moment of time.”

Arnold Glasgow

“Make your life a mission – not an intermission.”

Shana Alexander

“We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.”

Kelly Barton

“Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.”

Margaret Fairless Barber

“To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function …

Chuck Norris

“Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”

C. Kent Wright

“To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.”

Caleb Carr

“So if it seems that some of what I’ll have to say in the pages to come doesn’t reflect the mellowing of age, that’s only …

Patty Hansen

“You create your opportunities by asking for them.”

John Howard Payne

“Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, / Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.”

Frank Crane

“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.”

Madame de Tencin

“Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.”

Rodin

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

Patricia Moyes

“I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.”

Tom Blair

“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, ‘there is not only an art, but an eloquence …

Yoda

“Do or do not. There is no try.”

Amy Dacyczyn

“Frugality without creativity is deprivation.”

Pierre Charron

“The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right …

Alan Saporta

“The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.”

Denise Levertov

“Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.”

Lord Newborough

“Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.”

Ecclesiasticus

“Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.”

Lenore Hershey

“Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.”

Dodie Smith

“I don’t like the sound of all those lists he’s making – it’s like taking too many notes at school; you feel you’ve achieved something …

Frank Duff

“It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.”

Winifred Holtby

“The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.”

Sylvia Robinson

“Some think it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go.”