Below are either positive, motivational or inspirational quotations from most walks of life. Some of the people could be considered controversial. Some were/are rich. Some were/are poor. Some were/are in-between. Some were/are female. Some were/are male. Some were/are gay. Some were/are straight. Some were/are republicans. Some were/are democrats. Some were/are religious. Some were/are not religious. Some were/are famous. Some were/are not famous.
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Some people wish it to happen. Some people want it
to happen.
Some people make it happen.
Michael Jordon
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Helen Keller
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Benjamin Franklin
And in the end, it is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are
or what you are doing that makes you happy or
unhappy, it is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie
If you wouldn’t follow yourself, why should anyone else?
John C. Maxwell
You are the one that possesses the keys to your being.
You carry the passport to your own happiness.
Diane von Furstenberg
Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Rosa Parks
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve
their reputations can never effect a reform.
Susan B. Anthony
A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
Angela Merkel
I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it,
but by working for it.
Estée Lauder
Efforts and courage are not enough
without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do
things you don’t know how to do, to keep learning.
Ruth Reichl
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa
You only have to do very few things right in your life
so long as your don’t do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett
I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.
Lucille Ball
Choose a job you love and you will never work a day in your life.
Confucius
Charity is injurious unless it helps the
recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
The difference between successful people and others is
how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
Barbara Corcoran
If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.
Dolly Parton
I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.
Louise Hay
It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important
to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates
If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
Respect is how to treat everyone,
not just those you want to impress.
Richard Branson
Step out of the history that is holding you back.
Step into the new story you are willing to create.
Oprah Winfrey
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Elon Musk
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide
what kind of difference you want to make.
Jane Goodall
Love is, without question, life’s greatest experience.
Napoleon Hill
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the
next generation.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
Amelia Earhart
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
Martha Beck
Winning friends begins with friendliness.
Dale Carnegie
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Benjamin Franklin
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You will never know what your are capable of
if you are afraid.
Bodo Schafer
Folks are usually about as happy as
they make their minds up to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Quality is much better than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
Steve Jobs
I’m always perpetually out of my comfort zone.
Tory Burch
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There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas Edison
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn
Everyone shines, given the right lighting.
Susan Cain
A man who does not think for himself does not think
at all.
Oscar Wilde
A person who never made a mistake never tries
anything new.
Albert Einstein
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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
Margaret Thatcher
Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Don’t take too much credit for your children — or too much blame!
Debora Spar
Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.
Bruce Lee
Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right.
Just dance.
Anne Lamott
Don’t count the days.
Make the days count.
Muhammad Ali
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein
Always forgive your enemies,
nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Charlie Chaplin
If you don’t fight for what you want, don’t cry for
what you lost.
Will Smith
A leader is one who know the way, goes the way and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell
I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said.
Thuli Madonsela
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Harper Lee
Be what your are, not what the world wants you to be.
William Shakespeare
A true man hates no one.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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An open heart is an open mind.
Dalai Lama
Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.
Diane Sawyer
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius
Don’t live life in the past lane.
Samantha Ettus
Choose a job you love and you willnever work a day in your life.
Confucius
Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never see the light.
Lao Tzu
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, It’s also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
Gloria Steinem
Even when a friend does something you do not like,
he continues to be your friend.
Genghis Khan
You are the one that possesses the keys to your being.
You carry the passport to your own happiness.
Diane von Furstenberg
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.
Dalai Lama
If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
The way we talk to our children becomes their
inner voice.
Peggy O’Mara
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
Pythagoras
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Benjamin Franklin
Experience is the teacher of all things.
Gaius Julius Caesar
If you wouldn’t follow yourself, why should anyone else?
John C. Maxwell
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Willaim Shakespeare
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand
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You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford
No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
Billie Jean King
When you are finished changing, you’re finished.
Benjamin Franklin
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Coco Chanel
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F. Kennedy
Anonymous Quotes
It’s not what you do for a living. It’s what you do when your not working to earn a better living.
Shig
110% effort is nothing compared
to 50% Effort and 50% thought.
Shig
If you are not willing to put in the time,
Don’t expect a dime.
Shig
“I have lost everything!”
What have you earned that you have actually lost?
Shig
"People unexpectedly die every day!"
You could be next!
What are you going to do about it?
Shig