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A Good Collection of Motivational Quotes

The two most important days in your life are
the day you are born, and the day you find
out why.
--Mark Twain

The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological — technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science.
--Stephen Hawking, "A Brief History of Relativity" (1999)

Thinking should become your capital asset no matter what ups & downs
you come across in your life.
--Abdul kalam

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
-- Chinese proverb

Knowing is not enough, We must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
--Bruce Lee

The greatest discovery of the 21st century is that humans can alter their lives by altering their attitude of mind.

I am not the best, but I am always at my best to be the best of the best.

The 3 C's for life:- Choices, Chances, Changes.
You must make a choice to take a chance otherwise your life will never change.

As a lock is not made without a key. In the same way a problem does'nt come without a solution. There is a solution to every problem in life.

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose the sight of the shore.

No one makes a lock without a key, that's why God won't give you problems without solutions...

Live out of your Imagination not your History.
--Stephen .R. Covey

The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.

As you think, so shall you become.

Thinking should become your capital asset No matter what ups and downs you come across in your life.
--Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
--Patrick Henry.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
-- William Buell Sprague

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.
--Thomas Carlyle.

It is difficult to say what is impossible,
for the dream of yesterday
is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.”

Yesterday is a history. Tommorow is a mystery and Today is a Gift. That's why it is called as present. Enjoy your Present.

is living for the present, learning from the past, and hoping the best for the future..!

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
--Thomas Jefferson

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
--Mahatma Gandhi

“Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.”
― Blaise Pascal

Someone once said to Blaise Pascal "If I had your brains, I would be a better person". To this he replied "Be a better person and you will have my brains".

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A ship is safe in the harbor. But that's not what ships are for.
--William Shedd

The greatest pleasures of life is in doing the things which according to others is impossible for you to do.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
--Albert Einstein

"The number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying."
--Tom Hopkins


If you think you can, you are right. If you think you can't, you are right.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

A mind is like a parachute, it doesn’t work if it isn’t open.
-- Frank Zappa.

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
-- Dudley Field Malone

The greatest pleasures of life is in doing the things which according to others is impossible for you to do.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge, argument is an exchange of ignorance...

Life always offers you a second chance. It's called Tommorrow.

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
--Theodore Roosevelt

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
--Michael Jordan

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
--Samuel Beckett

One cannot do always what one likes, but those that like what they do and are proud of doing better make progress day by day.
-- Gladiator speech

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. 
-- Chinese Proverb

If not us, who? If not now, when?
-- John F. Kennedy

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, You will never get it done.
--Bruce Lee.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
-–Chinese Proverb

Quiet people have the loudest minds.
--Stephen Hawking

The thing about smart people is that, they look like crazy people to dumb people.

You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby.
--Larry Page

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
- Dan Stanford

You will never get lessons on swimming from a drowning man.

If man takes care of his minutes, then the hours and days will take care of themselves.

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.

― William W. Purkey

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
― Oscar Wilde

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
- Christopher Morley

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
--Abraham Lincoln

If a man is called to be street sweeper, he should sweep streets
even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music,
or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well
that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here
lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fear has two meanings:-
1) Forget Everything And Run.
2) Face Everything And Rise.

The choice is yours....

Adversity always presents opportunities for Introspection.
--A.P.J Abdul kalam

All birds find shelter during a rain. But eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds. Problems are common, but Attitude makes the difference.
--A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your character,
Your character become your destiny.
― Mahatma Gandhi

The pessimist complains about the wind;
The optimist expects it to change;
The realist adjusts the sails.

-- William A Ward


Whatever you are, be a good one.
--Abraham Lincoln

Diamond is just a piece of charcoal gone through long years of stress.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
--Chanakya

Act or accept.
- Anonymous

There is only one way to avoid criticism.
Do nothing,
Say nothing,
Be nothing.

--Aristotle

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

- Napoleon Hill

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.
 – Albert Einstein

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
--Confucius

You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny. 
--The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.

For a man to conquer himself, is the first and noblest of all victories.
--Plato

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
- Richard Bach

You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.
--Author Unknown

“The doubters said,
"Man can not fly,"
The doers said,
"Maybe, but we'll try,"
And finally soared
In the morning glow
While non-believers
Watched from below.”
― Bruce Lee

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
-–Lance Armstrong


No amount of guilt can change the past,
and no amount of worry can change the future.
So live in present.

"I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me."
--Cher

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
--  Bertie Forbes

You are what you think about all day long.
-Dr Robert Schuller

Smile....You don't own all the problems in world.

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being Accomplished.
--Confucius

If you risk nothing you gain nothing.
― Bear Grylls

Particularly when the atmosphere becomes Darwinian, effective self-promoters do better than quiet toilers.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
--Pablo Picasso

Live larger than life.

Don't limit your challenges,
Challenge your limits.

Just remember there is someone out there that is more than happy with less than what you have.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
--Dale Carnegie


Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
-Albert Einstein

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.
-Seth Godin

Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.

Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
-Robert Brault

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
-Buddha

If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends.
If an egg is broken by and inside force, then life begins.
Great things happen from inside.
-Swami Vivekananda.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
-Winston Churchill

If a problem can be solved no need to worry about it.
If a problem cannot be solved, what is the use of worrying.

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

Curiosity is the foundation of Innovation.

Never let success get to your head
and never let failure get to your heart.

Your future is created by what you do today,
Not tomorrow.

A wise old owl sat on an owk,
The more he saw the less he spoke,
The less he spoke the more he heard,
why aren't we like that wise old bird?

Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you’ll find is that you can overcome anything.

Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars.
― Cecelia Ahern


You are what you think all day long.


I could'nt change the town and as an older man
I tried to change my family.
Now, as an old man,
I realize the only thing I can change is myself,
and suddenly I realize that if long ago
I had changed myself,
I could have made an impact on my family.
My family and I could have made an impact on our town.
Their impact could have changed the nation
and I could indeed have changed the world.

-- Unknown Monk (1100 AD).


Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
~ Alejandro Jodorowski


Life isn't a matter of milestones,
but of moments.
--Rose Kennedy

When it rains, look for Rainbows.
When it's dark, look for Stars.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
--Rabindranath Tagore

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
--Roger Miller

An object that is at rest will tend remain at rest,
and an object that is in motion will tend to remain in motion.
-- Issac Newton.


Without deviations from the norm,
progress is not possible.
--Frank Zappa

Always be a first rate version of yourself
instead of a second rate version of
somebody else.
-- Judy Garland

The two most important days in your life are
the day you are born, and the day you find
out why.
--Mark Twain

A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch but on it's own wings, Always believe in yourself.

Once you stop learning,
you start dying.
--Albert Einstein


You cannot change your future, but,
you can change your habits, and your
habits will surely change your future.
-- Dr. Abdul Kalam

If you do what you always did,
You will get what you always got.
-- Albert Einstein

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.
--J. P. Morgan


Education is not the learning of facts,
but the training of the mind to think.
--Albert Einstein


Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.


If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
--Napoleon Hill


A moment of patience in a moment of anger
saves a thousand moments of regret.
-- Ali ibn Abu Talib


Educating the mind without educating the heart is no
education at all.
-- Albert Einstein

Do not count the days; make the days count.
--Muhammad Ali

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
--Plutarch (46-127)

If you always put limit on everything you do, It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
--Bruce Lee

If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough.


Knowledge is learning something everyday.
Wisdom is letting go of something everyday.
--Zen proverb.


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


I'm gonna make
the rest of my life,
the best of my life.


A knight in shining armor is a man who has never had his metal truly tested.

If you've got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.
― Melody Carstairs

Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
-–Roger Staubach

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
-- James Broughton

When you cease to dream, you cease to live.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.


Don't let what other people think,
stop you from doing the things you love.
--Adolf Hitler


If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
--Charles Swindoll


I can live for two months on a good compliment.
--Mark Twain

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
--Josh Billings

The greatest prison that people live in is the fear of what other people think.

Life isn't meant to be easy.
It's meant to be lived.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
--Pablo Picasso

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
--Abraham Lincoln.

A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
--Plutarch

The mind is everything. What you think you become. 
-–Buddha

Self confidence is the most attractive quality a person can have. how can anyone see how awesome you are if you can’t see it yourself?

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
--Henry W. Longfellow

Cause Change & Lead
Accept Change & Survive
Resist Change & Die
-- Ray Norda, Chairman, Novell


“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
--Lance Armstrong

“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.”
― Woody Allen

I don't know where I am going But, I'm on my way.
--Carl Sagan

"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.”
--Andrew Carnegie

Success is not a good teacher,
Failure makes you humble.
--Shah Rukh Khan

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
--Andrew Carnegie

“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”
--Hal Borland

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.
-- Napoleon Hill

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
--Chinese proverb

If life on earth is temporary, what makes you think that your problems are permanent?

Never complain and never explain.
--Benjamin Disraeli

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs

Life is “trying things to see if they work”
--Ray Bradbury

Faith held solely is the begining of action.

If not us, who? If not now, when?
-- Hillel the Elder

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
-- Edith Wharton.

“No matter how hard it is and how bad it gets, I’m going to make it!” 
--Ruben Gonzalez

"No one ever drowned in sweat."

"Chase the meaningful by suffering the uncomfortable. Suffer the meaningless by chasing the comfortable."

Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
-- M.K. Gandhi

Persistence is far more important than perfection.

It's better to try and fail than to never know and always wonder.

Do not pray for an easy life.
Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
-- Bruce Lee

“Hope is a waking dream.”
― Aristotle

Life is lived on the edge.
--Will Smith

Life is hard by the yard,
but by the inch,
it's a cinch.
--Gean Gordon

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

You can’t fall if you don’t climb.  But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
-–Henry Ford

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
--Michael Jordan

I can, therefore I am.
--Simone Weil

Wherever you are - be all there.
--Jim Elliot

A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
--Albert Einstein
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
–Latin Proverb

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor.
--Aldous Huxley

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
--Napoleon Hill

The Greatest Thing That You Will Ever Accomplish Has Not Happened Yet.
--Eric Eisenberg

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

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
--Theodore Roosevelt

I can, therefore I am.
--Simone Weil

When others throw stones at you, you turn them into milestones.
-- Sachin Tendulkar

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
--Robert H. Schuller

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
--Flip Wilson

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
--Sam Levenson

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
--Alan Kay

One finds limits by pushing them.
--Herbert Simon

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
-–Lao Tzu 

I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right. 
-- Ratan Naval Tata

If people are trying to bring you down, It only means you are above them.

A smile is the shortest distance between two people. 

A Sweet Logic For A Beautiful Life..!
"Never Try To Maintain Relations In Ur Life ,
Just Try To Maintain Life In Ur Relations " 


The only true disability is a crushed sprit. 

“Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose”.
-- Baltasar Gracian

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you. 

"Life is not about waiting for the
storms to pass…it’s about learning
how to dance in the rain !”
 


“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
― Albert Einstein
 


The Spark of a great idea does not need strong wind to spread it. 

Who are succeeding, they care less about how they are perceived in society; they have the courage to pursue their mission no matter the adversary.
 
*** "Be Your Own Self. Free Your Mind." ***

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  1. "Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you"
    Who quoted this??

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