famous motivational quotes

Motivation Quotes

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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew Carnegie

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale

You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Enthusiasm Quotes

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You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.
Henry Ford

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Emerson

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Enthusiasm - the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.
Gordon Parks

Dreams Quotes

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

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Jesse Jackson

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - if this; dream a great dream.
John A. Appleman

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach

Determination

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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
Tommy Lasorda

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

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Don't let go of your dreams. If you have determination and belief in your dreams, you will succeed in spite of your desire to let go.
Catherine Pulsifer

Success Quotes

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What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
Robert Schuller

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
Wilson Mizner

Success usuallly comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald

Achievement Quotes

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

If not us, who? If not now, when?
Kennedy, John F.

Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.
Anonymous

Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.
Rabbi Nochem Kaplan

All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Morarji Desai