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Quote 3625
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3601
This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3600
It is the sense of power attached to a sense of knowledge that makes men desirous of believing, and afraid of doubting.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3588
Give me only the bronze ring which can instantly grant me anything I wish for.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3580
It is we who create value, and our desires which confer value.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3548
No effort will be considered too high a price to ensure the triumph of a nobler humanity.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3544
Keep the peace; take courage, and make your preparations.by: DemosthenesShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3527
For your reward you must demand the bronze ring which has the power to grant you everything you desire.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3526
It would be no exaggeration to say, that the sole encouragement now left to authors to produce good books is the satisfaction of their own conscience.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3512
We have no reason to fear lest a habit of conscientious inquiry should paralyze the actions of our daily life.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3507
He never even for a day dismounted his hobby, but rode it manfully to the last.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3499
It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3482
The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of twenty-four hours is the calm realisation of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3479
The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3475
It is not good for you to find you cannot make your dream come true, for the reason that you not strong enough are, or not clever enough.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3465
What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3441
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.by: William CowperShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3407
A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3405
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3342
None but the brave deserves the fair.by: John DrydenShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3318
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3302
If he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3297
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3218
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Endure a rival with patience; the victory will rest with yourself.by: OvidShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
Quote 3182
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.by: Alfred TennysonShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Do not attempt too much at once.by: AesopShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Quote 3173
Self-help is the best help.by: AesopShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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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
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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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
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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Leap, and the net will appearby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterdayby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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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
Quote 2913
What worries you, masters youby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Pain is life, the sharper, the more evidence of lifeby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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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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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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Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.Showing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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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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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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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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.by: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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There are periods when to dare, is the highest wisdomShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Out of difficulties grow miraclesShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are todayShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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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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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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Active evil is better than passive goodby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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Inspiration comes of working every dayShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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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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Small projects need much more help than great onesby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on Motivation and positive thinking
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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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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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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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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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