Motivational Quotations



1.We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
   -- Aristotle

2.Take calculated risks.
  That is quite different from being rash.
--George S. Patton

3.Storms make oaks take roots.
--Proverb

4.If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
--St. Clement of Alexandra

5.Dream big and dare to fail.
--Norman Vaughan

6.We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all  opportunities.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

7.Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
--Thornton Wilder

8.The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
--Arthur C. Clarke

9Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
--Johann Gottfried Von Herder

10.And all may do what has by man been done.
--Edward Young

11.Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
--Samuel Smiles

12.Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
--Voltaire

13.If the wind will not serve,
take to the oars.
Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe
--Latin Proverb

14Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
--Henry Ward Beecher

15.You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.
--Author Unknown

16.The best way out is always through.
--Robert Frost

17.Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
--William B. Sprague

18.Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
--Samuel Johnson

19.Fortune favors the brave.
--Publius Terence

20.When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. - Richard Hooker

He who hesitates is lost.
--Proverb

21.If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until some one comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.
--John B. Gough

22.An oak is not felled at one blow.
--Spanish Proverb

23.In doubtful matters boldness is everything.
--Publilius Syrus

24.Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
--Albert Einstein

25.Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
--Orison Swett Marden

26.Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

27.We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
--Winston Churchill

28.Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

29.Reach perfection.
--Baltasar Gracián

30.For hope is but the dream
of those that wake.
--Matthew Prior

31.Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
--Lucretius

32.Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
--Mary Shelley



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