Motivational

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

Sydney Smith

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Helen Keller

Doug Larson

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eyes and deny it.

Garrison Kellor

Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.

Mignon McLaughlin

Unknown

There is not always 'tomorrow'.

My mind to me an empire is.

Thomas Paine

Is life so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Patrick Henry

Marcus Washling

Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.

Don't go where the path leads. Rather go where there is no path and leave a trail.

Unknown

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden

Unknown

Sometimes it takes the worst to bring out the best in you.

Do it trembling if you must, but do it!

Unknown

I am only one. But I am one. I can't do everything. But I can do something. And what I can do. That I ought to do. And by the grace of God I shall do.

Helen Keller

English Proverb

Don't fall before you're pushed.

Don't be afraid to speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

Unknown

Do not feel entitled to anything you do not sweat or struggle for.

Marian Wright Edelman

Rumi

You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Joseph Campbell

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Unknown

Booker T. Washington

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

"Shawshank Redemption"

Character is made by what you stand for; reputation, by what you fall for.

Robert Quillen

Confucius

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Henry Ward Beecher

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

Eric Hoffer

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who survive; the 'learned' find themselves fully equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Kindness is the ability to love someone more than they deserve.

Unknown

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Mother Mary Jones

Mary Lyon

Trust in God - and do something.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

General Omar Bradley

The philosphers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

Karl Marx

Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

God gave burdens, also shoulders.

Yiddish proverb

If you're feeling low, don't despair. Remember, the sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.

Unknown

Jacob A. Riis

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

What we do for ourselves dies with us; what we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Albert Pine

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances.

Martha Washington

Goodwin, Jim

The impossible is often the untried.

You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.

Mike Murdock

 

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