Virginia Wade: Motivational Quotes on Getting Better
I always felt that I hadn’t achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That’s the whole incentive.

Heber J. Grant: Motivational Quotes on Getting Better
If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.

Brian Tracy: Motivational Quotes on Getting Better
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Mark Victor Hansen: Motivational Quotes on Getting Better
Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves.

Christina (Queen of Sweden): Motivational Quotes on Getting Better
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn’t been asleep.
Wilson Mizner

Success usuallly comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald

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

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.  ~Author Unknown


Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.  ~Author Unknown

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.  ~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires

There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.  ~Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.  ~Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country, 1950

“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. “
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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H. Brown, Jr. Inspirational Motto:

“Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures. “
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational Saying:

“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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André Gide Inspirational Phrase:

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
~ André Gide
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, It is the only this that ever has.”

Margaret Mead

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”

Daniel J. Boorstin

“Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

Thomas Edison

“The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.”

Abraham Lincoln

No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
  effort motivational sayings by  Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
  Quote By  Attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall~Inspirational effort quote

Doors don’t slam open.
  effort motivational sayings by  John M. Shanahan, The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)

The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.
  Quote By  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert~Inspirational effort quote

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
  effort motivational sayings by  Plutarch

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
  Quote By  Ann Landers~Inspirational effort quote

I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
  effort motivational sayings by  Larry Bird

Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.
  Quote By  American Proverb~Inspirational effort quote

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
  college motivational sayings by  John Ciardi

I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that?
  Quote By  Author unknown, as seen on a T-shirt~Inspirational college quote

A college education shows a man how little other people know.
  college motivational sayings by  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
  Quote By  J. Frank Dobie~Inspirational college quote

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
  college motivational sayings by  Russell Green

Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
  Quote By  Abbott Lawrence Lowell~Inspirational college quote

If a man love the labour of any trade apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
  jobs motivational sayings by  Robert Louis Stevenson

Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.
  Quote By  Author Unknown~Inspirational jobs quote

If a trainstation is where the train stops, what’s a workstation?
  jobs motivational sayings by  Author Unknown

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you’re seeing it on the company’s time.
  Quote By  William C. Feather~Inspirational jobs quote

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
  jobs motivational sayings by  Dean Acheson

Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that by the time you wake up you’ll feel so good, you’ll be able to start looking for a new job.
  Quote By  Jay Leno~Inspirational jobs quote

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.
  Quote By  Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin~Inspirational humankind quote

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
  humankind motivational sayings by  Albert Einstein

Man embraces in his makeup all the natural orders; he’s a squid, a mollusk, a sucker and a buzzard; sometimes he’s a cerebrate.
  Quote By  Martin H. Fischer~Inspirational humankind quote

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
  humankind motivational sayings by  Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

When freedom from want and freedom from fear are achieved, man’s remains will be in rigor mortis.
  Quote By  Martin H. Fischer~Inspirational humankind quote

Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
  humankind motivational sayings by  Malcolm de Chazal

It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures.
  failure motivational sayings by  Author Unknown

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
  Quote By  Robert Louis Stevenson~Inspirational failure quote

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
  failure motivational sayings by  Lloyd Jones

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
  Quote By  Samuel Beckett~Inspirational failure quote

There is no failure. Only feedback.
  failure motivational sayings by  Robert Allen

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
  Quote By  Elbert Hubbard~Inspirational failure quote

Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure… it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.
  failure motivational sayings by  Robert Schuller

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