Uplifting Inspirational Quotes for Daily Motivation - Page 20

Get motivated with our top inspirational quotes by famous authors and philosophers. Perfect for daily encouragement. Page 20 provides more inspirational quotes.

Image of Mary Lou Retton
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
- Mary Lou Retton
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Image of Mary Lou Retton
Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.
- Mary Lou Retton
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A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.
- Mary Lou Retton
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Image of Edward Albee
If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
- Edward Albee
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Image of Leo Rosten
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
- Leo Rosten
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Image of Leo Rosten
Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.
- Leo Rosten
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Image of Robert M. Pirsig
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
- Robert M. Pirsig
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Image of Robert M. Pirsig
Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive
- Robert M. Pirsig
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Image of Ozzy Osbourne
You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use.
- Ozzy Osbourne
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Image of Guy Ritchie
We're not unique. We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.
- Guy Ritchie
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Image of Beatrix Potter
Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
- Beatrix Potter
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Image of Kathleen Norris
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
- Kathleen Norris
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Image of Burton Hill
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hill
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Image of Albert Schweitzer
The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
- Albert Schweitzer
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Image of Albert Schweitzer
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
- Albert Schweitzer
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Image of Pericles
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
- Pericles
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Image of Pericles
Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.
- Pericles
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Image of Jose Saramago
Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...
- Jose Saramago
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Image of Cate Tiernan
There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.
- Cate Tiernan
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Image of Bernadette Peters
You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
- Bernadette Peters
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Image of Aryn Kyle
Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect!
- Aryn Kyle
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Image of J. D. Salinger
Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.
- J. D. Salinger
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Image of Ratan Tata
I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.
- Ratan Tata
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Image of Earl Warren
It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.
- Earl Warren
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Image of Plutarch
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
- Plutarch
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Image of Plutarch
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
- Plutarch
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Image of Gabrielle Reece
Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl.
- Gabrielle Reece
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Image of Gabrielle Reece
Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling.
- Gabrielle Reece
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Image of Arundhati Roy
There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
- Arundhati Roy
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Image of Dave Pelzer
Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.
- Dave Pelzer
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Image of Mark Spitz
If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.
- Mark Spitz
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Image of Henry Jenkins
The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.
- Henry Jenkins
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Image of John Bingham
The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
- John Bingham
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Image of Fulton J. Sheen
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
- Fulton J. Sheen
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Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Image of William Gilmore Simms
The proverb answers where the sermon fails.
- William Gilmore Simms
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Image of Sally Edwards
The only way to be who you want to be is by being what you haven't yet been.
- Sally Edwards
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Image of Constance Baker Motley
Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.
- Constance Baker Motley
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Image of Shigeru Miyamoto
Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.
- Shigeru Miyamoto
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Image of Tawni O'Dell
Never give up on your dream...Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you've been told you should quit, you'll never make it.
- Tawni O'Dell
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Image of Edmund Wilson
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
- Edmund Wilson
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Image of Georges Pompidou
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
- Georges Pompidou
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Image of Juana Inés de la Cruz
I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.
- Juana Inés de la Cruz
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Image of Gail Sheehy
Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.
- Gail Sheehy
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Image of Thomas Adams
The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.
- Thomas Adams
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Image of Thomas Adams
Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.
- Thomas Adams
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Image of Thomas Adams
The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing upon it, observing its motions, and admiring its splendor, without being led to Christ by it, the use of it will be lost on us.
- Thomas Adams
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Image of Patty Murray
This is a long-delayed, hard-won, and badly needed victory for millions of women.
- Patty Murray
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Image of Steve Lopez
Negativity is never an option
- Steve Lopez
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