Famous Motivational Quotes:
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Famous Motivational Quotes
Famous motivational quotes are great for a number of reasons.
First,they're from trusted sources, people we often admire.
Second, they're quick to read and easy to understand.
Third, these quotes all ring true on some level, teaching us how to live better.
OUR CURRENT FAVORITE:
"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm ... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others."
-Audrey Hepburn
Below you'll find famous motivational quotes from several famous people. Some may be familiar to you, while others will be new.
All are worthwhile and have something valuable to teach you. Browse around. You're sure to find something inspiring among these famous motivational quotes.
"Fanaticism is...overcompensation for doubt."
-Robertson Davies
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
-Voltaire
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
-Henry Ford
"Life was meant to be lived and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."-Eleanor Roosevelt
“Light tomorrow with today!”-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
-Henry David Thoreau
"Those who wish to sing, always find a song."
-Swedish Proverb
"Dwell in possibilities."
-Emily Dickinson
“In the long run men hit only what they aim at.”
-Henry David Thoreau
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that’s your own self.”
-Aldous Huxley
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
-Will Rogers
"I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there."-Bob Hope
"Don't complain. Don't explain."
-Katherine Hepburn
"I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm."
-Lucille Ball
“I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Believe me, rich is better.”
-Sophie Tucker
“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”
-Muhammad Ali
“Man is not made for defeat.”
-Ernest Hemmingway
“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist here.”
-Victoria, Queen of England
“The weakest kind of fruit
Drops earliest to the ground.”
-William Shakespeare
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
-Michael Jordan
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.”
-Tupac Shakur
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.”
-Albert Einstein
“I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.”
-Bob Dylan
“If you dream it, you can do it.”
-Walt Disney
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Anybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”
-Maya Angelou
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
-Lao Tzu
“You see things; and you say “Why?”; But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?”
-George Bernard Shaw
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