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Inspirational Quotes to Kickstart Your Motivation

Personal Development

Sometimes life is rougher than tweed underwear on your genitals, and you need a nice inspirational quote to get you through the day.

So I’ve compiled a list of the best inspirational and motivational quotes out there. Save them to Pinterest or Twitter for later, and check back often because new quotes are regularly added at the bottom.

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Inspirational and Motivational Quotes – The Ultimate List

An unexamined life is not worth living.

Declining a party to read is ok. Skipping a concert for the gym is ok. Staying home to cook is ok. Let’s encourage it and respect self improvement.
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The question isn’t who’s going to let me, it’s who’s going to stop me.
If you put off a task until some other time you will never get it done because “some other time” will never come.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
You have the power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Whatever the mind of a man can conceive and believe it can achieve.
Hard work doesn’t work if it doesn’t work hard consistently.
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Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value.
Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.
Definitiveness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.
Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Never settle for anything less than you deserve.
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We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react.
The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, the realist adjusts the sail.
It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.
Fall seven times and stand up eight.
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence, it is the secret of winning.
If you wish to be out front then act as if you were behind.
Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Love is life and if you miss love you miss life.
Things change and friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change.
The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to learn to let go of yesterday.
Courage is the most important of all virtues. Without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
Be strong, live honorably, and with dignity. When you don’t think you can, hold on.
It is not always necessary to be strong but to feel strong.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Create with the heart. Build with the mind.
Don’t stress about that which you cannot change.

The night is darkest just before the dawn.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
The universe is change. Our life is what our thoughts make it.
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Christopher Columbus
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
He who hesitates is lost.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
When you realize your potential is limitless, it is.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
It’s not the years in your life that count it’s the life in your years.
Yesterday is not our to recover bu tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Simplicity, clarity, singleness. These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
It’s not where you live it’s the people who surround you that make you feel at home.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live the life you have imagined.
The art of life is constant readjustment to our surroundings.
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and paper.
Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.
All fixed patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Friends are those people that ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington
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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you don’t stop.
It’s never going to be over, so stop waiting for the good stuff.
To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

New Quotes – May 07, 2020

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.

Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.

Mastering others is strength, mastering oneself makes you fearless.

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.

Free yourself from all complexities of your life. A life of simplicity & happiness awaits you.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

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