Motivational & Inspirational Quotes…

When you need a little pick me up, try these out…

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

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

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

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

Fate knows where you are going, but it is up to you to drive there.
Michelle Keesling

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
Mahatma Gandhi

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wayne Dyer

Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action.
Helen Gahagan Douglas

Good intentions are not good enough… ultimately we are measured by our actions.
Source Unknown

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Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
William Feather

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
Alfred A. Montapert

A determined person will do more with a pen and paper, than a lazy person will accomplish with a personal computer.
Catherine Pulsifer

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can’t accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalyn Carter

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
Vince Lombardi

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Belva Davis

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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die tomorrow.
James Dean

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Stephen A. Brennan

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
Greg Anderson

Goals are dreams with deadlines.
Diana Scharf Hunt

You can’t hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can’t catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can’t reach your goals if you don’t try.
Kathy Seligman

The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
Benjamin Mays

Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction.
Author Unknown

When you determine what you want, you have made the most important decision in your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.
Douglas Lurtan

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

You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money, love like you’ll never get hurt. You’ve got to dance like no one is watching. It’s gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.
Susannah Clark

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

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

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
Maxwell Maltz

t is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.
George Matthew Adams

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don’t give a second thought to the chances we take.
Gloria Estefan

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
Mark Twain

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

The stories of past courage… can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
John F. Kennedy

Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
Sydney J. Harris

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Ivern Ball

May we never let the things we can’t have, or don’t have, or shouldn’t have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.
Richard L. Evans

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Denis Waitley

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn’t buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure?
Author Unknown

Be A Light In The Dark

The Hope Notes Project

~ by tsunamiblues on May 7, 2007.