My Favorite Motivational Quotes

This is Rajamanickam. Find below the collection of my favorite motivational Quotes. You can share your favorite quotes thro’ the comment section.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing
– Abraham Lincoln

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” - Steve Jobs

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful
-Herman Cain

Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them

Nothing is Impossible to a Willing Heart

I fear only God. I don’t fear any human. When you have that kind of spirit, you can just do what you have to do. Let it roll. – Stevie Wonder, singer

“Learning gives creativity. Creativity leads to thinking. Thinking provides knowledge. Knowledge makes you great.”
-APJ Abdul Kalam

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Excellence is Never an Accident

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence

I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we’re really not that different, me and you.

Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

“The greatest advantage of speaking the truth is that you don’t have to remember what you said.”

I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. – Robert Bosch

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Thomas Watson, Sr.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness. – Les Brown

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right! – Henry Ford

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. – Jim Rohn

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

He who cannot forgive others destroys a bridge over which he himself must pass.
-- George Herbert

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
-David Brinkley

Never, never, never, never give up
– Winston Churchill

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
-Bill Cosby

In this life we cannot always do great things. But we can do small things with great love

– Mother Teresa

Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will
– Dr. Robert Anthony

I dont measure a mans success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom
– George S. Patton

If we cannot love the person whom we can see, how can we love God whom we cannot see

– Mother Teresa

Dont ask for a lighter load, pray for a stronger shoulder

Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 hours sharpening the axe

– Abraham Lincoln

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for

Hate the sin, love the sinner.
-Gandhi

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts
– Winston Churchill

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated
– Maya Angelou

Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. –Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Alexander Pope

A mind always employed is always happy.
-Thomas Jefferson

A picture is worth a thousand words.
-Fred R. Barnard

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
-M.K. Gandhi

Ask not what your country can do for you–ask what you can do for your country.
-John F. Kennedy

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
-Benjamin Franklin

He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.
-Jesus Christ

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
-Abraham Lincoln

I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
-Thomas Edison

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
-Benjamin Franklin

It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.
-Howard Ruff

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

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs
-Henry Ford

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
-Theodore Roosevelt

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
-Theodore Roosevelt

There never was a good war or a bad peace.
-Benjamin Franklin

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
-Abraham Lincoln

1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
Bible – Psalm 23

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare

The future starts today, not tomorrow

Success is not a destination, but it is a journey.

God may not come when you want Him to, but He’ll always be on time.

“For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”
-Bible

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. ~William Shakespeare

Character is much easier kept than recovered. ~Thomas Paine

“Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
-Bible

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb

“Everything is possible for him who believes.”
-Mark 9:23

“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. [Matthew 7:7-8].

Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough. ~Arthur Freed

“Be patient and you will finally win, for a soft tongue can break hard bones.
(Proverbs 28:13)

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein

It is more blessed to give than to receive. (Acts 20:35)

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power. ~Clint Eastwood

Respect yourself and others will respect you. ~Confucius

“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me”

A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone else. ~Cardinal De Retz

“Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.”
-Bible

Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and never succeed. (Proverbs 12:24)

“Love is patient; love is kind
and envies no one.
Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude;
never selfish, not quick to take offense.
There is nothing love cannot face;
there is no limit to its faith,
its hope, and endurance.
In a word, there are three things
that last forever: faith, hope, and love;
but the greatest of them all is love.”

-Bible

Wealth is lost, nothing is lost, Health is lost, something is lost, If character is lost, everything is lost

Worry doesn’t make anything, but hard work
-Rahul Bajaj

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time
- Bertrand Russell

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
-Helen Keller

If you win the rat race, you’re still a rat
– Lily Tomlin

Dream is Not that what You See in Sleep…. But, Dream is the thing which does not allow you to sleep

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.

We are judged by what we finish, not by what we start

Focus on your Strengths, and manage your weakness

Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

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