Cool Motivational Quotes - Page 3

The most difficult thing is the decision to act!

Amelia Earhart

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

"The Official Website of Amelia Earhart/ Quotes". www.ameliaearhart.com.

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If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient.

Gurbaksh Chahal

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Gurbaksh Chahal (2008). “The Dream: How I Learned the Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship and Made Millions”, p.71, Macmillan

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison

Funny, Life, Motivational

"An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Wayne Dyer

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 12, 2010

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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Jim Ryun

Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

Aristotle

Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Lucretius

Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

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Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

Steve Prefontaine

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Les Brown

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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People will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

Florence Nightingale

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom" by Frank McCourt and Erin Gruwell, (p. 410), 2007.

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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" by Elbert Hubbard, (p. 370), 1898.

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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Essays "Circles" (1841)

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I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Benjamin Franklin

Inspirational, Inspiring, Perseverance

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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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