We are what
we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
Do not wait
to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by
striking.
William B. Sprague
Quotes
Motivational Quotes
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"Always listen to the experts. They'll tell you
what can't be done and why. Then do it."
Robert Heinlein
"Dream lofty dreams, and as
you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of
what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what
you shall at last unveil."
James
Allen
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious
triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank
with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither
victory nor defeat." Theodore
Roosevelt
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you
could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget
them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall
begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered
with your old nonsense." Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no
happiness without action." Benjamin
Disraeli
"The difference between a successful person and others is not
a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a
lack of will." Vincent T.
Lombardi
"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
"Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key
to unlocking our potential." Winston
Churchill
"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when
you've had everything to do and you've done it!"
Margaret Thatcher
"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything
except what you're going to do now and do it."
William Durant
"People often say that
motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why
we recommend it daily."
Zig Ziglar
"There are two levers for
moving men -- interest and fear." Napoleon Bonaparte "Motivation
is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you
can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy
down the line and get him to inspire his people. "
Lee Iacocca
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be
lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations
under them." Henry David
Thoreau