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MotivQuotesVolume 3

365 Positive, Motivational Quotes one for each day or study ahead

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."

~ Lao Tzu

1©Copyright 2009, MotivQuotes

"Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach."

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe


“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero


“We hold these truths to be self-evident; That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

~ Thomas Jefferson


“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

~ Henry David Thoreau


"To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed."

~ Bernard Edmonds


“Get through the rough spots today by looking forward to the moment when you can say "All finished!"

~ E.R. Haas


"You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being, not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money, but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason."

~ Dr. Wayne Dyer


"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."

~ Oscar Wilde


"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”

~ William Ellery Channing


“If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.”

~ Gerald Good


"You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals."

~ Sir Edmund Hillary


"With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose."

~ Wayne Dyer


"You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think."

~ From 'A Course In Miracles'


"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it."

~ Danny Kaye


"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.“

~ Joseph Campbell


“Faith believes the incredible, sees the invisible, and receives the impossible!”

~ Wayne C. Church


"What you must dare is to be yourself."

~ Dag Hammarskjold


"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely."

~ Karen Kaiser Clark


"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

~ Charles "Tremendous" Jones


"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

~ Epictetus


"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.“

~ Thich Nhat Hanh


"We are all here for a single purpose: to grow in wisdom and to learn to love better. We can do this through losing as well as through winning, by having and by not having, by succeeding or by failing. All we need to do is to show up openhearted for class."

~ Rachel Naomi Remen


"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

~ Eden Phillpotts


“Positive thinking won't let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”

~ Zig Ziglar


“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”

~ Aesop


“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton


“Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honour and praise for His goodness.”

~ James R. Miller


“God gave you the gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"?”

~ William Arthur Ward


“Search for the best in every person and discover ways you can be of mutual benefit to each other.”

~ E.R. Haas


"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

~ Melody Beattie


"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."

~ Will Rogers


“When we are conscious of our personal uniqueness and our universal nature we express ourselves creatively. In this way we fulfill our dreams and our life purpose."

~ Andrew Schneider


“Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.”

~ John Lubbock


"Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it."

~ Russell H. Conwell


"The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment."

~ Tony Robbins


"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be."

~ David Viscott


“Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”

~ Orison Swett Marden


"Deep down you know you can be remarkable. You shouldn't settle for anything less than your best self, reaching ever closer to your potential--whether as a leader or in any other part of your life."

~ Kevin Eikenberry


"For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream."

~ Emmitt Smith


"Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use."

~ Charles M. Schulz


“It is most important to know which role you're in at any given point in time. Once you know the role, you can then act the part appropriately, and in the most productive way possible.”

~ E.R.Haas


"The real truth is this: The whole world is joy. Heaven is a festival all year long. Of all lies, the greatest falsehood is melancholy."

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer


"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves self-discipline with all of them came first."

~ Harry S Truman


"Focusing on what we already have and are grateful for right now is one of the most powerful things we can do to alter our life in a positive way."

~ Mike Robbins


"Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it."

~ Dianne Houston


“When you know what you want, and you want it badly enough, you'll find a way to get it.”

~ Jim Rohn


"Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will."

~ Norman Cousins


"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

~ Mahatma Gandhi


"A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power."

~ Brian Tracy


"One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. "

~ John Stuart Mill


"We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation."

~ Florence Scovel Shinn


“A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.”

~ Og Mandino


"Whenever you have an opportunity to laugh, laugh;

whenever you have an opportunity to dance, dance;

whenever you have an opportunity to sing, sing -

and one day you will find you have created your paradise."

~ Osho


“You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tunes that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes. “

~ Ludwig von Beethoven


“Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.”

~ Ella Fitzgerald


"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects."

~ Albert Einstein


"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult and difficult as if they were easy."

~ Baltasar Gracian


“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success."

~ Bob Kyosaki


"Whatever you do, don't do it halfway."

~ Bob Beamon


"The best way to serve God is by going in search of your own dreams. Only the happy can spread happiness."

~ Paulo Coelho


“So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.”

~ Lee Iacocca


"Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight."

~ Lance Armstrong


"Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance."

~ Jack Welch


“As is our confidence, so is our capacity.”

~ William Hazlitt


“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

~ Abraham Lincoln


"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes


"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out..."

~ Robert Collier


“ The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by somebody weaker than you.”

~ Buddha


"It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude."

~ Zig Ziglar


“The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.”

~ Mike Ditka


"There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it."

~ Pat Riley


"When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited."

~ Brian Tracy


"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.“

~ Louis L’Amour


“ It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.”

~ Carl Friedrich Gauss


"Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living."

~ Mary Tyler Moore


“It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.”

~ Lou Holtz


“If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.”



“One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.”

~ John W. Foster


“Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.”



“ I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.”

~ Confucius


“Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.”

~ Denis Waitley


“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”

~ Charles Austin Beard.


“There is no end to what you can accomplish if (or when) you don’t care who gets the credit.”

~ Florence Luscomb


“Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it no matter where it leads him.”

~ Henry Miller


“An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.“

~ Washington Irving


“People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.”

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge


“One grain may tip the scale. One man may make the difference between victory and defeat."

~ Mulan


"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

~ The Dead Poet's Society


“Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.”

~ Alfred E. Smith


“You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.”

~ Richard Bach


“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”

~ Thomas A. Edison


“The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.”

~ Booker T. Washington


“Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.”

~ James Allen


“If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather than dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.”

~ Robert Conklin


“Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.”

~ Peter Sellers


“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

~ Sally Berger


“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer


“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

~ Warren Buffett


“Life is like a mountain railway, with an engineer that's brave; We must make the run successful, from the cradle to the grave. Watch the curves, the fills, the tunnels; never falter, never quail; Keep your hands upon the throttle, And your eyes upon the rail.”

~ M.E. Abbey


“Never mind your happiness; do your duty.”

~ William J. Durant


“Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”

~ Napoleon Hill


"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

~ Hugh Downs


"We who lived in the concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: The last of his freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

~ Viktor E. Frankl


"To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it."

~ Bunker Hunt


"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

~ Art Linkletter


"Ability is what gives you the opportunity; belief is what gets you there. "

~ Apollo


"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."

~ Brian Tracy


"People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going."

~ Earl Nightingale


“A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.”

~ Kurt Lewin


"Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.”

~ Michael Flatley


“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.”

~ Norman Vincent Peale


"Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.“

~ Warren Bennis


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"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness."


©Copyright 2009, MotivQuotes

"The easiest thing in the world to be is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."

~ Leo Buscaglia


"Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. They have no use for helicopters!"

~ Judi Adler


“For the rest of the day keep one eye on the road -- and one eye on the prize.”

~ E.R. Haas


“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”

~ Reggie Leach


"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.“

~ Thomas Jefferson


"The best way to say, 'I love you, God,' is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, 'Thank you, God,' is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now."

~ Don Miguel Ruiz


“Underpromise, overdeliver.”

~ Tom Peters


"Always do the right thing. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

~ Mark Twain


“Demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about."

~ Vince Lombardi


“Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.”

~ Ed O'Brien


"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."

~ Mary Tyler Moore


“You miss 100% of the shots you never take.”

~ Wayne Gretzky


"There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else."

~ Cyrus Curtis


"I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."

~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would solve most of the world's problems."

~ Gandhi


"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."

~ William James


"Don't discard your fantasies as merely wishful thinking. Honor them as messages from the deepest part of your being about what you can do and directions you can choose."

~ Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer


“The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.“

~ Eric Hoffer


“Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.”

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes


“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."



"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer."

~ Nolan Bushnell


“A hundred years from now, it won't matter what your bank account was, the sort of house you lived in, or the kind of car you drove, but the world may be different because you were important in the life of a child.”

~ Author unknown


"Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:


"A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams."

~ Simone Weil


"Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it."

~ Jack Canfield


"The history of the world is full of men/women who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity."

~ Mahatma Gandhi


“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.”

~ Dr. David M. Burns


"Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.“

~ B.C. Forbes


“Do what's best for people, and in return, people will give you their best.”

~ Author Unknown


“There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.”

~ George Santayana


"If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake."

~ Frank Wilczek


"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows."

~ Michael Landon


“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”

~ Abraham Lincoln


"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt


"I don't care how much power, brilliance, or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there, you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants."

~ Zig Ziglar


"Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what we live for."

~ Travis White


"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret - curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."

~ Walt Disney


“You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.”

~ Martha Graham


"Demand the best from yourself, because others will demand the best from you... Successful people don't simply give a project hard work. They give it their best work."

~ Win Borden


"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more."

~ Dr. Jonas Salk


"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

~ Viktor Frankl


“Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.”

~ Mia Hamm


“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”

~ Abraham Lincoln


“The greatest things ever done on earth have been done little by little.”

~ Thomas Guthrie


"The world is more malleable than you think, and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape."

~ Bono


“Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.”

~ Og Mandino


“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson


"Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations."

~ Richard M. DeVos


“Remember the Little Engine That Could? I think I can, I think I can, I think I can until over the top of the mountain he went.”

~ Wayne C. Church


"If you believe it, you can make it happen. That’s all you need, is belief — and of course the willingness to follow through on whatever needs to be done on your part."

~ Barefoot Doctor


“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”

~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


“All of your work may not have a finish line, but individual tasks do. Come back tomorrow refreshed and ready to continue anew.”

~ E.R. Haas


"If you follow no other truth, follow the truth that within your being is called joy. If you follow that, you're always going to be right where you need to be, and you will always have life within your being."

~ Sheradon Bryce


"Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up's.“

~ Peter Davies


"The best time to plant an oak tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today."

~ Anonymous


“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."

~ Michael Jordan


“To dream is only a start. Be daring. Be bold. Be committed. Act now to make this day a commitment to your vision and values.”

~ E.R. Haas


“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.”

~ Richard M. DeVos


"Humor is the shortest distance between two people."

~ Victor Borge


"I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.“

~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth


"Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture."

~ Russell Baker


"Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable."

~ Brenda Ueland


“Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the everchanging and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

~ Berenice Abbott


“If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time, don’t drag your feet.”

~ Arnot L. Sheppard


"They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor."

~ Eric Hoffer


"Obstacles are necessary for success... as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.”

~ Og Mandino


"I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying."

~ Tom Hopkins


"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self."

~ Napoleon Hill


“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

~ Albert Schweitzer


"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

~ Benjamin Franklin


“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”

~ J. R. R. Tolkien


"Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives."

~ Robert Collier


“With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.”

~ Max Ehrmann


“No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.”

~ Ronald Reagan


"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before going to bed."

~ Bernard Baruch


"You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership."

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower


"The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources."



“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”

~ Tony Robbins


"One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist --you can always do better and you can always grow."

~ Les Brown


“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.“

~ Martin Luther King Jr.


“Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about teamwork, leadership, and success.”

~ Mariah Burton Nelson


“Keep fresh and energized by diversifying your efforts. Use all the parts of your mind for best results.”

~ E.R. Haas


"We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams -- even if it takes a lifetime."

~ Vijali Hamilton


"The strongest single factor in prosperity consciousness is self-esteem: believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it.“

~ Jerry Gillies


"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

~ President Theodore Roosevelt


"Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle."

~ Annie Besant


"A man's life always starts today. Every morning is a beginning, a fresh start, and a man needn't be hog-tied to the past. Whatever went before, a man's life can begin now, today."

~ Louis L'Amour


"I cannot do all the good that the world needs, but the world needs all the good that I can do."

~ Jana Stanfield


“I now realize there are millions of self-made millionaires who started with nothing. They dug inside themselves to find the answers and they succeeded. There is nothing anyone else can do that I can't do.”

~ Dean Graziosi


"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."

~ Victoria Holt


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



"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."



“There is always room at the top.”

~ Daniel Webster


"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.“

~ Wayne Dyer


“With vision there is no room to be frightened. No reason for intimidation. It's time to march forward! Let's be confident and positive!”

~ Charles R. Swindoll


“Remember to keep calm and cheerful. Don't let petty things annoy you and get you off course.


“When you believe something is POSSIBLE, you will pursue it with PASSION and zeal... taking ACTION in spite of fear, uncertainty and doubt. Which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of SUCCESS!

~ E.R.Haas


“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”

~ Maureen Dowd


“Talk to the people you see everyday, Don’t talk at them, over them, past them, or beneath them, talk TO them.”

~ Wayne C. Church


"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."

~ Frank Lloyd Wright


"Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.“

~ Annie Lennox


"If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

~ Michael Jordan


"Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone."

~ Louis L'Amour


“Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action."

~ Orison Swett Marden


“It ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth.”

~ Rocky Balboa


“Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying make me feel important.”

~ Mary Kay Ash


“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

~ Mae West


"My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength."

~ Michael Jordan


"You're alive. Do something. Look. Listen. Choose. Act."

~ Barbara Hall


“Motivate them, train them, care about them, and make winners out of them...we know that if we treat our employees correctly, they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.”

~ J. Marriott Jr.


"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."

~ Sir John Lubbock


“Even as radio waves are picked up wherever a set is tuned in to their wavelength, so the thoughts which each of us think each moment of the day go forth into the world to influence for good or bad each other human mind.”

~ Christmas Humphreys


“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”

~ George Washington Carver


"The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.“

~ Niccolo Machiavelli


“You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.”

~ Zig Ziglar


"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."

~ Anita Roddick


"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

~ Seneca


“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of good ideas.”

~ Linus Pauling


"The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen."

~ Robert L. Schwartz


“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It's the fuel that allows common people to obtain uncommon results.”

~ Andrew Carnegie


“The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.”

~ Charles R. Swindoll


"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."

~ Harper Lee


“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”

~ Chinese Proverb


“The best preparation for tomorrow is todo today's work superbly well.”

~ Sir William Osler


“I'm not concerned with your liking me or disliking me...all I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”

~ Jackie Robinson


“When someone tells you the truth, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal. As a friend.”

~ Whitney Otto

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"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."

~ Martha Washington


"If it weren't for the dark days, we wouldn't know what it is to walk in the light.”

~ Earl Campbell


"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.“

~ C. S. Lewis


"When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others."

~ Chinese Proverb


“There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”

~ Booker T. Washington


"One step back does not mean defeated. It just means that you will take the same step forward again but wiser."

~ Jossie Estrella


“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs --jolted by every pebble in the road.”

~ Henry Ward Beecher


“When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.”

~ Anonymous


“Don't be discouraged by a failure....Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.”

~ John Keats


“If you have a talent, use it in every way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke."

~ Brendan Francis


“With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp.”

~ Jim Loehr


"I like thinking of possibilities. At any time, an entirely new possibility is liable to come along and spin you off in an entirely new direction. The trick, I've learned, is to be awake to the moment."

~ Doug Hall


“Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.”

~ B.C. Forbes


“Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen.”

~ Peter Brook


“ To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.”

~ John Templeton


“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”

~ Oscar Wilde


“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

~ Les Brown


“Your integrity will affect your destiny; don't leave home without it.

~ Clarence E. Hodge


"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: Chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

~ Aristotle


“The great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.”

~ Mencius


"The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them."

~ Tom Morris


"The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results."

~ Anthony Robbins


“How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or loser.”

~ Lou Holtz


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"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work."

~ H. L. Hunt


“The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake....”

~ Alan Greenspan


"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.“

~ Ferdinand Foch


“Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”

~ Thomas J. Watson, Sr.


"It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute ... that gives meaning to our lives."

~ Anthony Robbins


"The size of the future you actually experience will largely be determined by one factor: the people you choose to connect with. When you invite people who are truly committed to growth into every aspect of your life, your own potential for growth becomes truly unlimited.“

~ Dan Sullivan


"When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on."

~ Bernie S. Siegel


"Too often we visit the well of divine abundance with a teacup instead of a bucket."

~ Elinor MacDonald


"There is a power in the human mind...to see things as they are... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.“



"The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.“

~ Vic Braden


"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

~ Michael Altshuler


“People with resilience harness inner strengths and rebound more quickly from a setback or challenge, whether it's a job loss, an illness or the death of a loved one. Resilience means being able to adapt to life's misfortunes and setbacks.”

~ The Mayo Clinic


“Knowledge is power, and power is the key to changing things.”

~ Jill Nelson


"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark."

~ Michelangelo


“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.“

~ Albert Einstein


“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

~ James Baldwin


"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."

~ Samuel Smiles


“A negative, self-defeating attitude destroys all hope of success. A positive, proactive attitude guarantees it. Think about it.

~ E.R. Haas, CEO


“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”

~ Mother Teresa


“If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”

~ Abigail van Buren


“It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance.”

~ General George S. Patton


“We and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.”

~ President Franklin D. Roosevelt


“The time is always right to do what is right.”

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.


“I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.”

~ W. Clement Stone


“You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”

~ Anonymous


“In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.”

~ Warren Buffet


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“When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something kind to somebody or other.”

~ John Keble


"Behind an able man there are always other able men."

~ Chinese proverb


“Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.”

~ William J.H. Boetcker


“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

~ Bill Gates


“You can't be passionate when you feel like it. You have to be passionate about your job, product or cause all the time. There's no off switch on a tiger.”

~ Harvey Mackay


“When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath - or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine, with God's help!”

~ Robert Schuller


“Everyone has the power of greatness. Not for fame, but greatness. Because greatness is determined by service.”

~ Martin Luther King


" Killing time murders opportunities.”

~ Unknown


"Ask yourself the easy questions and you'll have a hard life, ask yourself the hard questions and you'll have an easier life!"

~ Peter Thomson


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“How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?“

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky


"Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide."

~ Marva Collins


"The only thing even in this world are the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours."

~ Woody Hayes


"Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God."

~ Mary Manin Morrissey


"Action is the real measure of intelligence."

~ Napoleon Hill


“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”

~ Clement Stone


"Be master over yourself before you would be master over others."

~ Baltasar Gracian


“Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently. “

~ William A. Ward


“When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.”



"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

~ Confucius


“I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.”

~ Paul Harvey


“Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.”



"There is only one you... Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!"

~ Charles Swindoll


"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches."

~ Napoleon Hill


“Do or do not, there is no try.”

~Yoda


"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."



"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.“

~ Arthur Rubinstein


“The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.”

~Norman Vincent Peale


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"Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it's the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence... all directed at specific goals."

~ Gary Ryan Blair


“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.”

~ Dennis Waitley


“People have a way of becoming what you encourage to them to be -- not what you nag them to be.”

~Scudder N. Parker


“You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

~ Christopher Robin to Pooh


“To achieve great things you have first to believe it.”

~Arsene Wenger


“A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.”

~ Alistair Cooke


“My idea was to do everything better than anybody else ever had.”

~ Willie Mays


“If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.”

~ Mia Hamm


"You are the way you are because that's the way you want to be. If you really wanted to be any different, you would be in the process of changing right now.“

~ Fred Smith


"If you want to make your dreams come true, wake up. Wake up to your own strength. Wake up to the role you play in your own destiny. Wake up to the power you have to choose what you think, do, and say."

~ Keith Ellis


"No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.”



"Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.“

~ Paul Zane Pilzer


"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt."

~ William Van Horne


"...the man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic-the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.“

~ Theodore Roosevelt


"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.“



"If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved."

~ Samuel Smiles


"If winning (success) was easy, then everybody would be doing it. It's the hard that makes it great!"

~ A League of Their Own Movie


“It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

~ William Somerset Maugham


"If dreams are born from imagination, then goals are born from a promise. Knowing this, set your goals with great care because when you set them, you are promising yourself exactly what you expect to get out of your life.“

~ Kent Madson


"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.“

~ Richard Bach


“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

~ Eleanor Roosevelt


“Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.”

~ Virgil


"There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment…. It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships."



"You will become as great as your dominant aspiration. If you cherish a vision, a lofty ideal in your heart, you will realize it."

~ James Allen


"When you always do your best, you take action. Doing your best is taking action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward.“

~ Don Miguel Ruiz


"We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."

~ Aristotle


" With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans, and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about."

~ Brian Tracy


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"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out."

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay


"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

~ Mario Andretti


"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't."

~ Henry Ford


"Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality."

~ Earl Nightingale


"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory."

~ William Barclay


"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight."

~ Jim Rohn


"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.“

~ President Woodrow Wilson


"The way to acquire enthusiasm is to believe in what you are doing, and in yourself, and in something definite accomplished. Enthusiasm will follow as day follows the night. "

~ Dale Carnegie


"Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm; it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander in the small coin of empty words."

~ George Sand


"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there."

~ Josh Billings


"Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal."

~ Elbert Hubbard


"It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you are happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss."

~ Henry Miller


"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will."

~ James Stephens


"No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning."

~ Barbara De Angelis


"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscience effort."



"You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes."

~ Buckminster Fuller


"Give every man thy ear but few thy voice."

~ William Shakespeare


"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

~ Albert Einstein


"There are no limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder."

~ President Ronald Reagan


"If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.“

~ Marilyn vos Savant


This is the end of a year of good, positive, sometimes funny, certainly motivational quotes collected to make every day a great day.

Actually, that is not true. Volume 3 is the third of a collection of good, positive, sometimes funny, certainly motivational quotes put together to make every day a great day.

If you don’t have it , buy it now. There are no duplicates between any of the three collections. Contact [email protected] to order.

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