20 Awesome Motivational Quotes

Below are 20 motivational quotes that I shared in 2007 in my thought-of-the-day mailing list.  I’m pasting them here now because they’re some of the better ones…or ones that I liked more than average.  Enjoy.

1. “You can have anything you want–if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.” -William Adams

2. “He who stops being better stops being good.” -Oliver Cromwell

3. “The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” -Eden Phillips

4. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” -Thomas Edison

5. “If you’re bored with life — or you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things — you don’t have enough goals.”  -Lou Holtz

6. “ALL rewards come from doing, not from knowing.” -unknown

7. “Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straightforward and simple integrity in another.” -Charles Caleb Colton

8. “That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.  It is dearness only which gives everything its value.  Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods.”  -Thomas Paine

9. “Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.”  -Aristotle

10. “When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.”  -Alexander Graham Bell

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11. “…the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.” -Galen Starr Ross

12. “Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire, threaten the threatener, and outface the brow of bragging horror; so shall inferior eyes, that borrow their behaviours from the great, grow great by your example and put on the dauntless spirit of resolution.” -Shakespeare

13. “Do a little more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.”  -Paul J. Meyer

14. “Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.”  -Samuel Johnson

15. “Down deep, every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring…If you are willing, great things are possible to you.”  -Grenville Kleiser

16. “If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.” -Samuel Johnson

17. “Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he has been robbed. The fact is, most putts don’t drop. Most beef is tough. Most children grow up to be just people. Most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration. Most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old-time rail journey–delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.” -Jenkins Lloyd Jones

18. “For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life.  But there was always some obstacle in the way.  Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid.  Then life would begin.  At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”  -Alfred D. Souza

19. “One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.” -Edward B. Butler

20. “Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”  -Mark Victor Hansen

So there you have it!  What did you think of this selection?

I just re-read the whole list, and my entire being is burning & shaking with purpose, the desire to do more, and the feeling I’m wasting my life with useless time-wasting activities!  I hope you feel the same!  Let’s get started on being who we were born to be!

-Shawn

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