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INTRODUCTION

I love quotes. Quotes can inspire. They can motivate. They allow us to look into the soul of another person. And, more importantly, they can encourage us to look into our own soul.

I compiled this book of quotes to help motivate you on life's journey. These quotes have helped me. It is my hope that they inspire you.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Mary Pickford

Aim for the moon.
If you miss, you may hit a star.
W. Clement Stone

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

George Herbert

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Kyle Chandler

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson

Step by step and the thing is done.
Charles Atlas

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
Eileen Caddy

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
Jim Rohn

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Henry David Thoreau

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a
higher one.
Jessica Savitch

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Khalil Gibran

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
Michael Korda

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie

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

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Victor Kiam

Always desire to learn something useful.
Sophocles

If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
Carl von Clausewitz

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Tony Robbins

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Gordon B. Hinckley

One finds limits by pushing them.
Herbert Simon

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
Albert Schweitzer

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Robert H. Schuller

To begin, begin.
William Wordsworth

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Napoleon Hill

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley

Leap, and the net will appear.
John Burroughs

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. Wells

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall

If you think you can do it, you can.
John Burroughs

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Emile Zola

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
Sylvia Browne

The hardships that I encountered in the past will
help me
succeed
in the
future.
Philip Emeagwali

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
Richard Rorty

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
Norman Ralph Augustine

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

You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Shakti Gawain

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: Now.
Denis Waitley

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Ralph Marston

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
Muhammad Iqbal

I can, therefore I am.
Simone Weil

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