Motivational QuotesMotivational quotes can be an amazingly easy way to gain inspiration and energy from others' experience and wisdom! And if you like to be surrounded by inspiration, check out the motivational products I've designed! Below you'll find a great list of motivational quotes from a variety of folks including authors, entertainers, philosophers, geniuses, and heroes so sit back and absorb the energy and inspiration on this page! What I am looking for is not out there; it is in me. Helen Keller It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." Ralph Waldo Emerson Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. George S. Patton Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. St. Clement of Alexandra Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit. Dianne Feinstein 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 You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. Thornton Wilder In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. Anne Frank The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around. Oprah Winfrey Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. Johann Gottfried Von Herder You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. Indira Gandhi I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do something I can do. Helen Keller We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. Peace Pilgrim Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Author Unknown Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. Janis Joplin The best way out is always through. Robert Frost It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own. Joyce Carol Oates Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. William B. Sprague If you're feeling motivated to make personal changes but need some practical ideas on how to actually make them happen, check out my book 48 Self Esteem Activities for Women. And if you're ready to change your thinking on stress and need some solid and effective tools to use to feel more at peace, my book The How to Deal With Stress Handbook is a great guide.
If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain. Dolly Parton Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. Samuel Johnson Fortune favors the brave. Pubis Terence Rest and you rust. Helen Hayes Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. Confucius What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you-it's like the difference between romantic love and an arranged marriage. Terrence Rafferty Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls. Winston Churchill You can write me down in history with hateful, twisted lies, you can tread me in this very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise. Maya Angelou Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson For hope is but the dream of those that wake. Matthew Prior You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once. Oprah Winfrey Constant dripping hollows out a stone. Lucretius 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 If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that. Frances Hodgson Burnett If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned." Edward Bulwer Lytton One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. Iris Murdoch If you would create something, you must be something. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every artist was first an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Lao-tzu Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself. W. C. Doane Men's best successes come after their disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. Helen Keller Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. Leon J. Suenes The power of imagination makes us infinite. John Muir First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao Tzu Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. Oprah Winfrey Self-trust is the first secret of success. Ralph Waldo Emerson When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Persian Proverb You must know for which harbor you are headed if you are to catch the right wind to take you there. Seneca So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do. Mother Maribel The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Edward Gibbon One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. Helen Keller They can conquer who believe they can. Ralph Waldo Emerson There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. A. P. Stanley We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. Helen Keller Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. William Shakespeare Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. Helen Keller Thought is the seed of action. Ralph Waldo Emerson Self Improvement Resources for Women
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