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Motivational Quotes

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do..... Samuel Butler

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

For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort..... Joseph Conrad

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another..... George Eliot

It's never too late to be who you might have been..... George Eliot

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear..... Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better..... Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not consider painful what is good for you..... Euripides

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs..... Henry Ford

Energy and persistence conquer all things..... Benjamin Franklin

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise..... Benjamin Franklin

Whatever you can do or dream, begin it..... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!..... Horace, Epistles

Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing..... Thomas Jefferson

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows..... Michael Landon

He who labours diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labour..... Menander

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously..... Friedrich Nietzsche

To follow, without halt, one aim: That's the secret of success..... Anna Pavlova

When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first..... Josiah Quincy

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it..... Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult..... Seneca

The beginning is always today..... Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb..... William Makepeace Thackeray

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet..... Henry David Thoreau

Realise deeply that the present moment is all you ever have..... Eckhart Tolle

Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain..... Mark Twain

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway..... John Wayne

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes..... Oscar Wilde

Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else..... Tennessee Williams

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