The Motivational Quotes
“Our Deepest Fear”
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?” Who are you NOT to be?
You are a child of the Universe. Your playing small does
not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about
shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the Glory of the Universe that
is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it is in EVERYONE.
As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other
people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our
own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
-Nelson Mandella’s 1994 inaugural speech
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
To accomplish great things, we must not only dream, but act.
- Bill Blackman
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don’t see the one that has opened for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
- Jim Rohn
Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
- Jean Sibelius
Learn to write your hurts in sand. Learn to carve your blessings in stone!
-Unknown
A big shot is a little shot that kept shooting.
- unknown
No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.
- unknown
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
- unknown
- Bill Blackman
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
- unknown
Everyone’s life is an object lesson to others.
- Karl G. Maeser
Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids–all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.
-Paul Tornier
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
- unknown
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
- unknown
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow,
so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
- unknown
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry J. Kaiser
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
- Seneca
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
You really can change the world if you care enough.
- Marion Wright Edelman
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your
own mind.
- Bruce Lee
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight.
But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
- Thomas S. Monson
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
- unknown
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- unknown
He who seeks rest finds boredom….He who seeks work finds rest.
- unknown
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
- J.Richard Clarke
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
- unknown
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
- Brigham Young
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Don’t call me a saint - I don’t want to be dismissed that easily.
- Dorothy Day
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free
-Oprah Winfrey
Attitude determines altitude.
- unknown
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.
-Dr. Melba Colgrove
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
-Bernard Malamud
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
He who flings mud, loses a lot of ground.
- unknown
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
- Brian Weir
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
- Opening scene of “Faust”
You can’t expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
- unknown
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
- unknown
If I have learned one thing in this life, it is that God will not tie my shoes without me.
-Doug Boyd
Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, as long as ever you can.
-John Wesley
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
- George MacDonald
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
- Jim Rohn
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
- Levell Edwards
It’s easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
- unknown
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- John F. Kennedy
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
- unknown
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
- unknown
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right?
- unknown
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
- unknown
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much;
Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn’t fall there.
- unknown
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
- unknown
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
- George Allen
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
- unknown
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
- unknown
Don’t be so humble; you’re not that great.
- Golda Meir