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Daily Motivational
Quotes
All your dreams can come true if you have
the courage to pursue them. (Walt Disney)
If you can dream it, you can do it. (Walt Disney)
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which
makes you unique. (Walt Disney)
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. (Walt Disney)
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in
life. (Muhammad Ali)
"Make a difference about something other than yourselves." (Toni
Morrison)
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they
were to success when they gave up. (Thomas A. Edison)
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time. (Thomas A. Edison)
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls
and looks like work. (Thomas A. Edison)
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound
ourselves. (Thomas A. Edison)
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean
it's useless. (Thomas A. Edison)
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard
work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. (Thomas A. Edison)
To have a great idea, have a lot of them. (Thomas A. Edison)
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. (Thomas A.
Edison)
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control. (Thomas A.
Edison)
What you are will show in what you do. (Thomas A. Edison)
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an
idea that exists only as an idea. (Buddha)
He is able who thinks he is able. (Buddha)
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give
yourself to it. (Buddha)
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then
the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by
demons, heaven or hell. (Buddha)
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will
they do you if you do not act on upon them? (Buddha
Do the one thing no one else can
do...be the best you that you can be. (Callahan)
Achieve your dreams, if you don't, no one
else will. Who knows what that dream might be or who it might benefit.
One thing is for sure. No one will ever know if you don't try.
(Callahan)
The three
great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work,
Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
(Thomas A. Edison)
What we achieve inwardly will change
outer reality. (Plutarch)
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by
asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot
achieve. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
To believe in something, and not to
live it, is dishonest. (Ghandi)
A coward is incapable of exhibiting
love; it is the prerogative of the brave. (Ghandi)
Bravery is not always accomplished
on the battlefield or when everyone is watching. Bravery is mostly
accomplished when no one is looking and when you overcome in the privacy
of your mind the challenges that you face and the demons are defeated.
(Callahan)
Then there is a still higher
type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never
let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the
morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead. (Howard
Cosell)
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.
Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly
set about remedying them - everyday begin the task anew. (Saint Francis
de Sales)
Motivational Courage
Quotes
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes
courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try
again tomorrow. (Unknown)
CHARACTER is so important!!! What makes
up this thing called "CHARACTER" it consists of Integrity, Courage,
Fortitude, Honesty, and Loyalty. (unknown)
All that's necessary
for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do
nothing. (Edmond Burke)
You don't
develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You
develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
(Epicurus)
Never be
discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the
Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep
up good courage, and I would come out on top.
(Joseph Smith Jr.)
He is a man of
courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights
against the enemy. (Socrates)
Courage
consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a
just cause. (Plutarch)
Have the courage to act instead of
react. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of
danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
(William Tecumseh Sherman)
God grant me the courage not to
give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
(Chester W. Nimitz)
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
(Theodore Roosevelt)
How few there are who have courage enough to own their
faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
(Benjamin Franklin)
Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do
not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. (Dale
Carnegie )
Most of us have far more
courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. (Dale
Carnegie )
Courage is resistance to fear,
mastery of fear, not absence of fear. (Mark
Twain)
It is curious that physical
courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
(Mark Twain)
Wisdom, compassion, and courage
are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. (Confucius)
Faced with what is right, to
leave it undone shows a lack of courage. (Confucius)
Courage is the first of human
qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
(Aristotle)
You will never do anything in
this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind
next to honor. (Aristotle)
He is a man of courage who does
not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
(Socrates)
Courage is fear holding on
a minute longer. (George S. Patton)
Daily Motivational Quotes
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I
can, and the wisdom to know the difference. (Unknown)
Life shrinks or expands in
proportion to one's courage. (Anais Nin)
All our dreams can come true, if
we have the courage to pursue them. (Walt
Disney)
Courage is like love; it must
have hope for nourishment. (Napoleon
Bonaparte)
The first virtue in a soldier is
endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. (Napoleon
Bonaparte)
It requires more courage to
suffer than to die. (Napoleon
Bonaparte)
Every man has his own
courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of
other persons. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Courage is grace under
pressure. (Ernest Hemingway)
We gain strength, and courage,
and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear
in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot. (Eleanor
Roosevelt)
You have to accept whatever
comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give. (Eleanor
Roosevelt)
Every man of courage is a man
of his word. (Pierre Corneille)
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your
courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble
image of yourself. (George Bernard
Shaw)
We need men with moral
courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their
convictions, even to the very death. (Robert
Green Ingersoll)
The greatest test of courage on
earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. (Robert
Green Ingersoll)
Courage is what preserves our
liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and
children. Courage comprises all things. (Plautus)
Those who lack the courage will
always find a
philosophy to justify it. (Albert
Camus)
Whether you be man or woman you
will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the
greatest quality of the mind next to honor. (James
Allen)
A man of courage is also full
of faith. (Marcus
Tullius Cicero )
Never be discouraged. If
I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky
Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up
good courage, and I would come out on top. (Joseph
Smith, Jr. )
There is hope in dreams,
imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams
a reality. (Jonas Salk)
Success is not measured by
what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and
the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against
overwhelming odds. (Orison
Swett Marden)
There can be no great courage
where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in
the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
(Orison
Swett Marden)
Is he alone who has
courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? (Charles
Lindbergh)
Then there is a still higher
type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never
let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the
morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead. (Howard
Cosell)
The principles of living
greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage,
disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. (Thomas
S. Monson)
Courage, not compromise, brings
the smile of God's approval. (Thomas S.
Monson)
Man cannot discover new
oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
(Lord Chesterfield)
True courage is not the
brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and
reason. (Alfred
North Whitehead)
Sometimes even to live is
an act of courage. (Lucius Annaeus
Seneca)
Never undertake anything for
which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
(Georg C. Lichtenberg)
Courage is the greatest
of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an
opportunity to use any of the others. (Samuel
Johnson)
The courage we desire and
prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
(Thomas Carlyle)
Give us grace and strength to
forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet
mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. (Robert
Louis Stevenson)
Physical courage, which
despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral
courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
(Charles Caleb Colton)
He who loses wealth loses much;
he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses
all. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Courage and perseverance
have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and
obstacles vanish into air. (John Quincy
Adams)
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
(Titus Maccius Plautus)
Courage in danger is half the battle.
(Titus Maccius Plautus)
The poorest person in the world is not the one without a nickel.....
It's the one without a dream...(Unknown)
Go confidently in the
direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify
your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
(Henry David Thoreau)
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he
has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
(Henry David Thoreau)
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow
yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life;
define yourself...
let the passion inside define who you are and what you want to do,
letting others thoughts be forced on your thoughts is rape of the mind.
As hard as it may seem to push through the impossible, break it down and
take it piece by piece, you can do that :) let your dream have a voice
and let it sing unrestricted. (Unknown)
Go forward in the direction of your dreams.
Life can be long and hard. Dreams are the stuff of life that brings hope
and joy to life. Dreams shorten and sweeten life. Dreams soften an
otherwise hard life. If you physically cannot achieve your dreams then
dream anyway. Take a vacation in your mind and let those dreams live.
Live the life you've imagined for yourself. You can do that by following
your dreams. If your dreams fade over time and news sprout up then
follow them. Be a dreamer, no one can take that from you. (Callahan)
Go confidently in
the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
(Henry David Thoreau)
Dedicate yourself to excellence, fairness, gratitude, laughter,
sincerity and willingness. These virtues will lead to harmony and a life
of contentment. (Callahan)
Live well. It is the
greatest revenge. (The Talmud)
Go confidently in the
direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify
your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
(Henry David Thoreau)
The art of living
well and the art of dying well are one.
(Epicurus)
How vain it is to sit down
to write when you have not stood up to live. (Henry David Thoreau)
It is not living
that matters, but living rightly.
(Socrates)
Live as if
you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. (Ghandi)
Live your
beliefs and you can turn the world around.
(Henry David Thoreau)
Many people die with their music
still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always
getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Then there is a still higher
type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never
let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the
morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead. (Howard
Cosell)
The courage we desire and
prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. (Thomas
Carlyle)
Whoever destroys a single
life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and
whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had
rescued the entire world. (The
Talmud)
Serenity is found in loving the simple
life and enjoying the memories. (Callahan)
When we feel love and kindness toward
others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps
us also to develop inner happiness and peace. (Dalai Lama)
"Never be bullied into silence. Never
allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your
life; define yourself" (Unknown)
We do
not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can
only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to
study. (Ghandi)
"Life is not about waiting for the storms
to pass... it's about learning how to dance in the rain." (Unknown)
It is impossible
to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And
it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a
pleasant life. (Epicurus)
Where there is
love there is life. (Ghandi)
Not life, but
good life, is to be chiefly valued.
(Socrates)
Life shrinks or expands in
proportion to one's courage. (Anais Nin)
Then there is a still
higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to
never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in
the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead. (Howard
Cosell)
Teach this
triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of
service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
(Buddha)
You
don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You
develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
(Epicurus)
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is
full victory. (Ghandi)
Nobody made a
greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a
little. (Edmund Burke)
The greater the
difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
(Epicurus)
I have become my own version of an
optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another
door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how
dark the present." (Joan Rivers)
Glory lies in the attempt to
reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
(Ghandi)
Our
greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is
always to try just one more time. (Thomas
A. Edison)
Give us grace and strength
to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet
mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. (Robert
Louis Stevenson)
Courage and perseverance
have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and
obstacles vanish into air. (John Quincy
Adams)
Persevere in
virtue and diligence.(Titus
Maccius Plautus)
A man is rich in proportion to the number
of things he can afford to let alone. (Henry
David Thoreau)
Ambition can creep as
well as soar. (Edmund Burke)
Nothing is harder to direct than a
man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
(Plutarch)
Frugality is
founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
(Edmund Burke)
Riches do not
exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with
their loss. (Epicurus)
If the people
are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We
conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
(Edmund Burke)
If a man is
proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he
employs it. (Socrates)
If we command our
wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are
poor indeed. (Edmund Burke)
I have shewed you all things, how that so
labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the
Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
(Acts 20:35)
It is the interest of
the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
(Edmund Burke)
A man's true wealth hereafter is the good
he does in this world to his fellow man (Muhammad)
It is,
generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real
temper, principles, and designs.
(Edmund Burke)
Prosperity is no just scale;
adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
(Plutarch)
If we command our
wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are
poor indeed. (Edmund Burke)
Mere parsimony
is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in
true economy.
(Edmund Burke)
People will not
look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
(Edmund Burke)
Have patience with all things, but
chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering
you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - everyday
begin the task anew. (Saint Francis de Sales)
Do all the good you can, and make as little fuss
about it as possible. (Charles Dickens)
Man becomes great
exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
(Ghandi)
Man can never be a woman's equal in
the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. (Ghandi)
Service which
is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all
other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which
is rendered in a spirit of joy. (Ghandi)
That service is
the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
(Ghandi)
Teach this triple truth
to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity. (Buddha)
The best way to find yourself is to
lose yourself in the service of others. (Ghandi)
All that's
necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good
men to do nothing. (Edmond Burke)
It is my
own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you
subdue the flesh. (Ghandi)
He that
struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our
antagonist is our helper.
(Edmund Burke)
Strength does
not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. (Ghandi)
My
strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
(Alfred Lord Tennyson)
I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of
doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him
and the team! (Oliver Wendall Holmes)
Don't be idle. Start with an idea. Who knows where
you'll go but at least you're going somewhere which is better than being
idle. (Callahan)
Good luck is where preparation meets opportunity
(Unknown)
Three things cannot
be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
(Buddha)
You are never too old to set another
goal or to dream a new dream. (C.S. Lewis)
If a man does not keep pace with his
companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him
step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
(Henry David Thoreau)
It is never too late to give up our
prejudices.
(Henry David Thoreau)
There are people who make things happen, there are
people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what
happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things
happen. (Jim Lovell)
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes of
your goals (Unknown)
A goal not written is only a wish. (Unknown)
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly
the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur,
Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and
Albert Einstein. (H. Jackson Brown)
A man may fulfill
the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and
attempting a task he cannot achieve.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)
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