I love motivational quotes.  Here are some of my favorites:

 

 

“Do the hard jobs first.  The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”  –Dale Carnegie

 

“Well done is better than well said.” -Benjamin Franklin

 

“Your time is worth $1000 an hour, and you need to act accordingly,”  -Jason Cohen

 

“I’ve been absolutely terrified, and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”  -Georgia O’Keeffe

 

“Without labor nothing prospers.”  -Sophocles

 

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”  -Marie Curie

 

“If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.” -Chinese Proverb

 

“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” -William Shakespeare

 

“If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”  -Erica Jong

 

“Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.” -Walt Disney

 

“Everyone needs deadlines.  Even the beavers. They loaf around all summer, but when they are faced with the winter deadline, they work like fury. If we didn’t have deadlines, we’d stagnate.” -Walt Disney

 

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

“I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.”  -Louise Hay

 

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore.  Dream.  Discover. “ –Mark Twain

 

“The person who fails to plan, plans to fail.” -Anonymous

 

“Learn from the mistakes of others.  You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”  -Eleanor Roosevelt

 

“Only the educated are free.” -Epictetus

 

“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.”  -Rosa Parks

 

“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” –Jim Rohn

 

“Little minds attain and are subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise about them.”  –Washington Irving

 

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”  –Will Rogers

 

“The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.”  -Anonymous

 

“Don’t be afraid to take a big step.  You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.”  –Fortune Cookie 

 

“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”  -Thomas A. Edison

 

“Failure is the fire that forges the steel for success.” -Paul Tudor Jones

 

“In one minute you can change your attitude and in that minute you can change your entire day.” -Spencer Johnson

 

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” –Albert Einstein 

 

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”  -Nelson Mandela

 

“The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.” -Helmut Schmidt

 

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”  –Seneca

 

“I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.”  -Henry David Thoreau

 

“People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.”  -Anonymous

 

“History repeats itself because no one was listening the first time.”
–Anonymous

 

“We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.” –Theodore Roosevelt