Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Motivation.

The repository contains 97 quotes in the category “Motivation.”
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865

(Attributed)

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882

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

President Thomas Jefferson
1743 — 1826

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is, “Hit the line hard.”

President Theodore Roosevelt
1858 — 1919

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much or suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

President Theodore Roosevelt
1858 — 1919

I’m not a good shot, but I shoot often.

President Theodore Roosevelt
1858 — 1919

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

President Theodore Roosevelt
1858 — 1919

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Genius will not. Education will not. Persistence and determination are omnipotent.

President Calvin Coolidge
1872 — 1933

I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.

President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower
1890 — 1969

Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Robert Heinlein
1907 — 1988

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen
1935 —     

Energy and pestilence alter all things.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: “I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”

Groucho Marx
1890 — 1977

The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Robert Frost
1874 — 1963

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller
1880 — 1968

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