Motivational Quotes - Page 40

• Watch your thoughts, they become words.

  Laozi

  Determination, Smart, Yoga

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  Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

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• The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Love, Life, Money

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• I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.

  Manmohan Singh

  Statistics, Poor, Very Good

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• Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Education, New Experiences

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 14, 2015

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• Write about the emotions you fear the most.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Fear, Writing, Feelings

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• A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Team, Sacrifice

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• There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

  George Matthew Adams

  Success, Encouraging, Encouragement

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• I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Positive, Hard Work, New Job

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

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• My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

  David Beckham

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Inspirational, Life, Persistence

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• A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

  Robert Burton

  Eye, Dwarves, Support

  The Anatomy of Melancholy "Democritus Junior to the Reader" (1621 - 1651) See Bernard of Chartres 1; Coleridge 30; Isaac Newton 1

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• To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

  Michael Jackson

  Dance, Blood, Dancing

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• Where there is life, there is hope.

  Alyson Noel

  Hope, Life Lesson, Recovery

  Alyson Noel (2010). “Dark Flame”, p.191, Pan Macmillan

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• Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Running, Confused

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• Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

  John Donne

  Jail, World, Palaces

  'To Sir Henry Wotton' (1597-8)

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• I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Perseverance, Men

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• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Courage, Strong, Badass

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Work, Engagement

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.108, Penguin

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Wisdom, Peace, Children

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• Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  Positive, Work, Men

  Henry Latham Doherty (1923). “Principles and Ideas for Doherty Men: Papers, Addresses and Letters”

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• What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

  Stephen Leacock

  Teamwork, Years, Creative

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