Quotes
Motivation
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Jun 2, 2003, 14:29

"Dreams or illusions, call them what you will.
They lift us from the commonplace of life to better things."
Longfellow

"Grow in your new courage...This is the way to scale the stars."
Virgil

"It doesn’t matter what you know, it matters what you do with what you know."
Goethe

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars."
Les Brown

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths."
Proverbs 3:5-6

"Perseverance sets dreams in flight."
Unknown

"I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility,
with no history to guide them and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable
that I find moving beyond words."
Gloria Steinam

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can - begin it -
boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
Goethe

"One of the most powerful teachings of the Buddhist tradition is that as long as
you are wishing for things to change, they never will.
As long as you’re wanting yourself to get better, you won’t.
As long as you have an orientation toward the future, you can never just relax into what you already have or already are."
Pema Chodron

"Only those who attempt the absurd will ever achieve the impossible."
Albert Einstein

"It's me and God and that is a majority."
Maya Angelou

"I am stirred when someone says, "You can do it."
I find the statement "You can’t" offensive to the human spirit.
We can be anything.
Maybe this entire experience is a series of lessons
to learn that you can - yes, you can."
Maya Angelou

"The greatest liberation is in the smallest focus."
Unknown

"Try, there is no try...do."
Yoda The Empire Strikes Back

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
Colettei

"Eighty percent of success is just showing up."
Woody Allen

"Sit, walk, or run. Just don't wobble."
Zen Saying

"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
Helen Keller

"Use your fear as fuel."
Ma Jaya

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you will be doomed if you don’t try."
Beverly Sills

"What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible"
Theodore Roethke

"When we’re afraid, everything rustles."
Sophocles

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you will be doomed if you don't try."
Beverly Sills

"You must always do the thing you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"
Robert Schuller

"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"
Thomas Jefferson

"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men,
but from doing something worthwhile."
Sir Wilfred Grenfell

"You can help others in the world the most by making the most of yourself."
Unknown

"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life,
as much as they are looking for the experience of BEING ALIVE."
Joseph Campbell

"You can help others in the world the most by making the most of yourself."
Unknown

"To move the world, we must first move ourselves."
Socrates

"The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown,
who is unafraid of failure, will succeed."
Gordon Parks

"Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The price of anything is the amount of life you pay for it."
Henry David Thoreau

"Don’t hope…decide."
Unknown

"Make voyages! -
Attempt them! -
There’s nothing else…"
Tennessee Williams

"Luck, there is no luck; only intelligent people recognizing
and taking advantage of opportunities laid before them.
M. Scott Peck The Road Less Traveled

"I learn by going where I have to go."
Theodore Roethke

"If you're not scared, it's not big enough."
Scott Friedman

"I'm stirred when someone says, " You can do it."
I find the statement "You can't" offensive to the human spirit. We can be anything.
Maybe this entire experience is a series of lessons to learn that you can-yes, you can."
Maya Angelou

"There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein

"People think there is such a thing as a right or a wrong choice. In truth, what the gods are really looking at is the energy with which we make the decision we do. Whether I choose the right or the left door, quite frankly, is illusion. What matters is my motivation. That's what I'll discover is behind the door."
Carolyn Myss

"Live the life you've imagined!"
Henry David Thoreau

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