Motivational Quotes
This is a free list of quotations in case you or someone you love needs some motivation on the path of searching for accomplishment. While reading them, remember that the truth comes in bits and pieces; “Everything is relative, nothing is absolute”. Some quotations will sound right for you, and some will not. You may forget or ignore some of them, but others will resonate within you and stick, so give it a read.
“Beginning to do” breaks the inertia of a stagnant life. Start enjoying your life now.
Marcela Bennett
Two things a man should never be angry at: What he can help, and what he cannot help.
Thomas Fuller
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
English Proverb
He who knows most, grieves most for wasted time.
Dante
Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.
Epictetus
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is power.
Sir Francis Bacon
Time does not wait for you, why would you wait for the right time?
Marcela Bennett
Fortune helps the brave.
Terence Phormio
Fortune favors the brave.
Virgil
The nearest shortest way to glory is to strive do your best to be become what you wish to be thought to be.
Socrates
Saying is one thing and doing is another.
St. Francis of Assisi
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Richard Cech
To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.
Plato
One action taken is worth more than thousand plans.
Marcela Bennett
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb
First think what you want to be; then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all. Euripides
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Goethe
Your now is a consequence of your past. Your future is a consequence of your now.
Marcela Bennett
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Baruch Auerbach
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James
Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
Publilius Syrus
Brave are those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger and they go out to face it.
Thucydides
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way
Aristotle
The wheel was once square, but they kept persevering.
Marcela Bennett
Brave hearts do not back down back off.
Sophocles
A wise man learns by other people’s mistakes, a fool by his own.
Latin Proverb
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
Herodotus
Our greatest glory does not consist in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
The roots of education are bitter, but its fruits are is sweet.
Aristotle
A goal not powered by passion and true desire is unlikely accomplished.
Marcela Bennett
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesar Pavese
Instruct thyself yourself, for because time and patience favor all.
Pythagoras
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes
To take shortcuts you better know the way.
Marcela Bennett
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
Jean Nidetch
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard
Fear of failure never preceded a successful battle.
Marcela Bennett
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
Gloria Pitzer
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid of standing still.
Chinese Proverb
Every building starts with an idea, a plan and a single brick. Marcela Bennett
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A Edison
Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.
Hesiod
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
Thomas Fuller
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
Mason Cooley
Know yourself.
Oracle of Apollo
Time comes when too much rest becomes a pain.
Homer
Success is for the ones who dare to succeed.
Marcela Bennett
Slight not what is near through aiming at what is far.
Euripides
To him who is afraid to, of everything rustles.
Sophocles
To think well and to consent to someone’s good advice, are the same thing.
Herodotus
Fortune favors the brave.
P Terence
He who hesitates is lost.
Proverb
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson
There are as many definitions of success as people on Earth. Marcela Bennett
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
Evan Esar
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Yogi Berra
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Oliver Goldsmith
Answers are everywhere, one just has to be willing to look hard and find them.
Marcela Bennett
Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it.
Aristotle
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor.
Aldous Huxley
The first and greatest commandment is, don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
Aeschylus
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Anonymous
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
Dare to be unique and you shall succeed.
Marcela Bennett
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James
I am not going to die because I failed as someone else. I'm going to succeed as myself.
Margaret Cho
Sometimes we need a push to get moving; quotations can be that silent hand waiting to help you. It is my hope that you found some of these quotes to be of interest and help.
Marcela Bennett