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If you are looking for the 'When the going gets tough ' type of motivational quote, you’ll need to look elsewhere, I’m afraid. The motivational quotes I’ve chosen below may not all by quite so snappy, but they appeal to me personally. And oh yes, they’re not all motivational.

 

I hope you find something here to inspire you.

Andy Leigh.

p.s. I’ve attributed where I could.

 

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You don't have to be perfect to be brilliant.

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Norman Vincent, 1898-1993

 

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley, 1819-1875

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.
Old Testament. Prov.13:19

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers, 1879-1935

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

 

It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American Football Coach

We take risks not to escape life ... but to prevent life from escaping us.

 

The race is not always to the swift ... but to those who keep on running.

 

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
Claude M. Bristol (American Author & Trainer)

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.
Christopher Reeve, 1952-2004, American Actor, Director

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Jim Rohn, American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1819-1892, American Poet

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915, American Leader and Educator

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilious Syrus 

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius

One joy scatters a hundred griefs
Chinese proverb.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Robert H. Schuller, 1926 -

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, 1835-1910

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen ... others make it happen.

 

Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.

 

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Brian Tracy, American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman

A bend in the road is not the end of the road ... Unless you fail to make the turn.

If you’re not riding the wave of change you’ll find yourself beneath it.

 

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

 

Not by refraining from action does one attain freedom from action.
Krishna

What the wise seek is in themselves…
Confucius

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Ziglar, American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker

Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz 1920-, American Psychiatrist

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Helen Keller, 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the level of thinking that created them.
Albert Einstein

The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.
Deepak Chopra - East-Indian- American M.D., New Age Author, Lecturer

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
Sir James M. Barrie, 1860-1937, British Playwright

 

The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, British Poet

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart ... pursue those.

 

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
A C Benson

Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain.
William Jennings Bryan, 1860-1925

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

Ursula LeGuin