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200 Motivational Quotes

An Inspirational Reference

Compiled By Clint Cora

First Edition 2011

Free Spirit Gallery Publishing

A Division of Free Spirit Gallery

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Copyright © 2011 Clint Cora

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced mechanically, electronically, or by any other means, including photocopying without written permission by the publisher.

Although every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher and author assume no responsibility for errors or omissions. Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of information contained herein.

This book is published by Free Spirit Gallery Publishing, a division of Free Spirit Gallery, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Personal Development Resources At http://www.ClintCora.com I just love motivational and inspirational quotes. They are the wisdom passed down from countless individuals from the ancient past all the way to the present. They help keep us on track with our own life goals as well as provide a guide to how we should be conducting ourselves as human beings.

Like many motivational speakers and personal development authors, I use such motivational quotes throughout my live presentations and books. They help teach important success principles.

I’ve compiled 200 of the most profound motivational quotes I’ve come across in this ebook.

Some are by famous people and many are by those you probably never heard of but their quotations are equally striking.

Even reading one or two of these on a daily basis will help put you on course in your day to day life. If you do presentations at work or school, referring to one or two of these quotes will help bring your presentation to a higher level. Audiences will always appreciate the added wisdom.

I’ve even added a few of my own motivational quotes at the end of this book and I hope they will inspire you in some way. Visit my website (posted at the top of the page) for many more personal development resources such as articles, videos and more books.

Thank you for downloading this ebook and feel free to share it with others.

Clint Cora

Speaker, Author & Karate World Champion

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Personal Development Resources At http://www.ClintCora.com A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

Brian Tracy

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Barrymore

Great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Eileen Caddy

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

David Brinkley

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Confucius

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Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Les Brown

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Ayn Rand

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Dale Carnegie

Action is the antidote to despair.

Joan Baez

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Lawana Blackwell

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Aim not for what you are, but for what you could be.

Lucas Hellmer

All religions must be tolerated ... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Epictetus

Always do more than is required of you.

George S. Patton

An hour of play discovers more than a year of conversation does.

Portuguese proverb

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity. A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

Winston Churchill

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Albert Einstein

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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Dalai Lama

Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.

Stephen Covey

Beauty is the reflection of the magic inside your soul.

Vanessa Hernandez

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Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily even if you had no title or position.

Brian Tracy

Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

Muhammad Ali

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Elbert Hubbard

Character, not circumstance, makes the person.

Booker T. Washington

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.

Earl Gray Stevens

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Lucretius

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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Samuel Johnson

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Anthony J. D’Angelo

Develop an attitude of gratitude. Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you.

Brian Tracy

Do we need more time? Or do we need to be more disciplined with the time we have?

Kerry Johnson

Don't compare yourself to others but be inspired by them.

Leo Babauta

Don’t count every hour in the day. Make every hour in the day count!

Mark Amend

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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.

Bob Marley

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Norman Vincent Peale

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

Every choice you make has an end result.

Zig Ziglar

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

Don Wilder

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

William A. Ward

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Fear is a priceless education.

Lance Armstrong

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Harry F. Banks

For the real winners, there are no finish lines.

Harvey Mackay

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Wayne Dyer

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Brian Tracy

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Thomas Edison

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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Horace Mann

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hard work made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Nadia Comaneci

He who angers you conquers you.

Elizabeth Kenny

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Lao Tzu

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Marcus Aurelius

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How easy it is to see your brother's faults. How hard it is to face your own.

Buddha

I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.

Gillian Anderson

I can be changed by what happens to me but I refuse to be reduced by it.

Maya Angelou

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

Nelson Mandela

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I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.

Omar Bradley

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

If not us, who? If not now, when?

John F. Kennedy

If we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

John F. Kennedy

If we do not take advantage of our opportunities, it is our own fault.

Thomas J. Watson

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

Ivan Turgenev

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If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.

Brian Tracy

If you are a complainer you might have already spent your help quota.

Zig Ziglar

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Walt Disney

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Kahlil Gibran

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Wayne Dyer

If you don't know what you're after, it's unlikely you're going to find it.

Seth Godin

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If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

Alan K. Simpson

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions.

Tony Robbins

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves.

Sir Edmund Hillary

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation!

Dr. Rob Gilbert

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Charles F. Kettering

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It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Tom Brokaw

It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.

Anne Ortlund

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

Mignon McLaughlin

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

Jim Rohn

Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

John Gardner

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

John Gardner

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Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

Make what you’re doing today important, because you're trading a day of your life for it.

Unknown

Money grows on the tree of persistence.

Japanese Proverb

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

William James

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Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

Douglas MacArthur

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

George Jean Nathan

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

William Safire

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James Baldwin

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

Wayne Calloway

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

T.S. Eliot

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