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Salam Mesra! ahahahah Malaysian style to greet you from the sincerity of our heart...
Recently I had a job changed, and I make many friends in my current company. In
this company, I notice that many of us needs to be motivate one way or another, to
keep our spirit up and cheer ourselves up.
When you are happy and cheerful, you will feel that time passed very fast, and you
just don’
t have enough time to do what ever you wanted to… . Versus when you are
not happy, you will feel times passed slowly… . Gosh…
I was browsing through the internet and found this 101 Motivation E-Book (inside it
comes with all sorts of motivational quotes, and a few that I had read I found it very
useful… ) at least when I am down or not happy, I am able to find the answer inside
here… .
Cut the crap short, as I am not a good writer… . Oh ya I had combined more mine is
282 Motivation Quotes, you know lah, Chinese like number 8, and kiasu mah…
ahahahhaha
Cheers,
Ronald Soo
Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: A
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Abigail Van Buren
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the
impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen
to you on a piece of marble.
Arabic Parable
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: A
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the
eye.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying the
foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now
enjoy.
Anthony Robbins
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of
those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Anthony Robbins
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: A
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.
Anon
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but
also believe.
Anatole France
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: A
You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be anything
you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with
singleness of purpose.
Abraham Lincoln
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you
that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Abraham H. Maslow
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any
one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: A
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not
stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The
other is as if everything is.
Albert Einstein
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: A
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is
more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.
Buddha
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: B
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the
present moment.
Buddha
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of
abundance.
Buddha
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and
affection.
Buddha
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: B
No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.
Buddha
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we
make the world.
Buddha
Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then
your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Betty Smith
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may
wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: B
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry
about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely
and earnestly.
Buddha
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who
loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
Baha'u'llah
Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the
confidence you desire to have.
Brian Tracy
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: B
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Basho
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their
future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their
distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy
Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way.
Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.
Brian Tracy
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: B
If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread
into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you
must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Bruce Lee
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Baltasar Gracian
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make
mistakes, but they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton
Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: C
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the
beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
Clark Moustakas
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is
required of him, he is a free man.
Chinese Proverb
The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
Charles Schwab
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Carl Frederick
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: C
Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we
are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
Deepak Chopra
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn
from.
Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: D
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality;
and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas Everett
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
Doug Floyd
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive --
the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
Don Miguel Ruiz
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: D
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all
your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could
never be yours.
Dale Carnegie
The less you open your heart to others, the more yourheart suffers.
Deepak Chopra
Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in
the past.
Deepak Chopra
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too oftenwhen I loved, I did not say so.
David Grayson
Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than tis to gain honor by taking them.
David Borenstein
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: D
Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends
solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much
of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.
Dale Carnegie
There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.
Deepak Chopra
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness,
no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Earl of Chesterfield
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: E
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really
stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: E
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something
outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the
time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should
be enjoyed and savoured.
Earl Nightingale
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. Forster
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: E
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Federico Fellini
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must
awaken.
Frank Herbert
Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: G
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Gandhi
We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.
Gary Collins
Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
George Macdonald
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Goethe
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: H
No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned
into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused,
dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!
Henry Ford
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then
do it.
Henry Ford
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: H
Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except
those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
You live through the darkness from what you learned in the light.
Hope MacDonald
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly
lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: H
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal
about their acts.
Horace Mann
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no
one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
Harry Firestone
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as
a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world --
making the most of one's best.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: H
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the
closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Helen Keller
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate
his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: I
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which
we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
Ida R. Wylie
Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch
them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to
be made.
Jeffery Borenstein
There are those who dream and wish and there are those who dream and work.
Jeune.E. McIntyre.
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: J
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not
you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in
someone else's hands, but not you.
Jim Rohn
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when
decide how to respond.
Jeffery Borenstein
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: J
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why
not now?
James Allen
The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, “I wish someone would come by
and turn me on.”What if they don’t show up? You’ve got to have a better plan for
your life.
Jim Rohn
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall 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
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
Joan Borysenko
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: J
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that
respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
John Lennon
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
John Powell
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
John Ruskin
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
John Wanamaker
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: J
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved
for the guardian angel.
Jewish Folk Saying
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody
will respect you.
Lao-Tzu
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: L
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Les Brown
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only
from the strong.
Leo Rosten
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier
still.
Lao-Tzu
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bid that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really
important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.
Lee Jampolsky
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: M
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Don't complain.
Maya Angelou
Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends
upon how one adjusts oneself to life.
Morarji Desai
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but
that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: M
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya Angelou
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can dothat. Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do
than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe
harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: M
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die
at any time.
Mark Twain
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do
that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Malcolm Forbes
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
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: N
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the
workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and
wealth.
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
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: N
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Nelson Mendela
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show
that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon Hill
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the
blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen
pulsating desire, which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: N
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve.
Napoleon Hill
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regain sits original dimensions.
Oliver Wendel Holmes
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
Ornette Coleman
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: O
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies
within us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today.
Og Mandino
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: P
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your
frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you
tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination
to make the right things happen.
Peter Marshall
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: R
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the
greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it
isn't.
Richard Bach
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: R
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning
It's not the situation ... It's your reaction to the situation
Robert Conklin
There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want
what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them.
Robert J. Ringer
There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know…
Roger H. Lincoln
When an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it...
Rosalind Russell
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: R
You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were
born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with
wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use
them and fly.
Rumi
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
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: R
Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: R
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
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you
are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: R
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to
help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Socrates
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love
more; And all good things are yours.
Swedish Proverb
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
Stephen Hawking
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: S
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare
that they are difficult.
Seneca
The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed.
Sebastian R. N. Chamfort
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered
by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer
much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: T
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Elliot
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: U
If you love something, let it go. If it comes back it's yours. If it doesn't, it never really
was in the first place.
Unknown
It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.
Unknown
When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.
Unknown
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the
end.
Ursula K. LeGuin
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: U
He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.
Unknown
Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your
socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is
unthinkable.
Unknown
The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is
interrupted by the person who is doing it.
Unknown
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: U
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread.
Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.
Unknown
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: W
Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become
successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they
do.
Wayne Dyer
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some
have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: W
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by
altering his attitudes of mind.
William James
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
William James
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you
let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
William Wirt
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: W
If you can imagine it, You can achieve it. If you can dream it, You can become it.
William Arthur Ward
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are
successful.
Wallace D. Wattles
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!
W. Clement Stone
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Motivational Quotes
by Arthur Alphabetical Order: W
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
Yiddish Proverb
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why
we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and
discipline that enabled us to follow through.
Zig Ziglar
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