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Quote 3151
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3146
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3139
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3135
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3133
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3127
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3125
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3110
The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3091
Don't find fault, find a remedyby: Henry FordShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3088
Whether you think you can or think you can't, either way you are rightby: Henry FordShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3076
There is no object that we see, no action that we do, no good that we enjoy, no evil that we feel of fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of allby: Anne BradstreetShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3075
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcomeby: Anne BradstreetShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3069
The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3061
Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3047
By perseverance the snail reached the arkShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3045
You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3027
When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happenShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3025
Leap, and the net will appearby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3024
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.by: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3007
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterdayby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2999
If you think you can do it, you can.by: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2988
For every 60 seconds of anger, you lose one minute of happinessShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2977
Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the strongerShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2970
Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mindShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2913
What worries you, masters youby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2816
Pain is life, the sharper, the more evidence of lifeby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2814
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myselfby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2755
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public goodby: Thomas a KempisShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2747
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himselfby: Thomas a KempisShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2713
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out someby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2709
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatestby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2694
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneselfShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2693
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you areShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2650
Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2644
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2631
Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2626
We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2592
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attainedShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2567
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against itShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2565
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly consideredShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2562
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you winShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2516
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbowShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2504
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.by: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2474
There are periods when to dare, is the highest wisdomShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2459
Be true to your own highest convictionShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2449
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards itShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2439
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2426
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talentsby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2423
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slaveby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2415
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted somethingby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2412
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!by: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2399
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joyby: Johannes CalvinShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2333
Out of difficulties grow miraclesShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2298
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and, baffled, get up and begin againby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2260
As is your sort of mind, so is your sort of search: You'll find what you desireby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2240
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remediedShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2224
All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of nowShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2223
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to workShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2203
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upwardby: Charlotte BronteShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2188
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turnShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2182
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are todayShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2154
No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountainsShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2086
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infiniteby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2083
Active evil is better than passive goodby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2056
Inspiration comes of working every dayShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2032
Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the worldby: ArchimedesShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2012
Small projects need much more help than great onesby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2007
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairsby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 2003
If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious heaven.by: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1990
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1979
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have someShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1902
The journey is the rewardChinese proverbShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1722
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.by: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1700
Great necessities call out great virtuesShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1691
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1678
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and importantShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1648
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1626
While there's life, there's hope.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1622
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the factby: William JamesShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1618
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of lifeby: Jean IngelowShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1605
The secret of getting things done is to act!by: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1538
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficultiesShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1529
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1516
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.by: Elbert HubbardShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1507
All things are difficult before they are easyby: Thomas FullerShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1495
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action stepsby: ConfuciusShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1462
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patienceShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1443
The beginning is the most important part of the workby: PlatonShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1328
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the greatShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1233
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortalShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1191
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacherShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1161
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chanceby: Abraham LincolnShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1122
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experienceShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1111
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wiselyby: Auguste RodinShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1076
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trailShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1069
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happensby: EpiktetShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1066
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1057
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1056
Willpower is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can seeShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 1046
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at largeby: ConfuciusShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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