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99 Motivational Quotes Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

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99 motiva­tional quotes

1) The mind is everyt­hing. What you think you become. - Buddha
2) The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. - Mark Twain
3) Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. - Earl Nighti­ngale
4) I think it’s important to realize you can miss something but not want it back.Paulo Coelho
5) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw
6) I love you but I don’t know what to do. - Charles Bukowski
7) Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve. -Leonardo Da Vinci
8) A clever person turns great troubles into little ones, and little ones into none at all. - Chinese Proverb
9) When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky. - Dr. Armand Hammer
10) True friends stab you in the front.- Oscar Wilde
11) What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.- Oscar Wilde
12) We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. - Martin Luther King Jr
13) My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people­’s.w­ilde
Her eyes are pure stars.- Virginia Wool
14) Let your plans be dark and impene­trable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunde­rbolt.” ― Sun Tzu
15) Your big opport­unity may be right where you are now. - Napoleon Hill
16) Money without brains is always dangerous. - Napoleon Hill

Quotes 17 - 33

17) My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right? - Rafael Nadal
18) The changing of the goals helps keep the motivation fresh.- Bradley Wiggins
19) Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. - Lyndon B. Johnson
20) You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.- Joyce Meyer
21) Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.- John D. Rockef­eller
22) Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthus­iasm. - Winston Churchill
23) My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. - Oscar Wilde
24) The value of an idea lies in the using of it.- Thomas Edison
25) Ideas are easy. Implem­ent­ation is hard. - Guy Kawasaki
26) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. – Napoleon Bonaparte
27) Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight Eisenhower
28) Invest in yourself. - Warren Buffet
29) We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.- JIm Rohn
30) Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It’s hard to stay on top.– Paul Coffey
31) I hope the millions of people I’ve touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude. -
Michael Jordan
32) There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them. – Seth Godin
33) A man should never neglect his family for business. – Walt Disney
xcellence, then, is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle
 

Quotes 34 - 51

34) The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excell­ence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. -- Vince Lombardi
35) Nothing worth having comes easy. – Theodore Roosevelt
36) I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it – Thomas Jefferson
37) The world belongs to the energetic. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
38) The first and the best victory is to conquer self. – Plato
39) If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe. - Abraham Lincoln
40) The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible. - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
41) Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
42) I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. -Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
43) Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.- Confucius
44) The best way to predict the future is to create it.- Abraham Lincoln
45) Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it. -George Lucas
46) The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Socrates
47) Always do right -- this will gratify some and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain
48) Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.- Albert Einstein
49) Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.- Eleanor Roosevelt
50) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas Edison
51) Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. Pablo Picasso

Quotes 52 - 66

52) The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. - Napoleon Hill
53) Be patient with yourself. Self-g­rowth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater invest­ment.- Stephen Covey
54) The only place success comes before work is in the dictio­nary.” – Vincent “Vince” Lombard
55) Problems are not stop signs, they are guidel­ines.– Robert H. Schuller
56) True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.– John W. Gardner
57) I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near -- Margaret Thatcher
58) Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenaci­ty.-- Louis Pasteur
59) If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.-- Michel­angelo
60) It's hard work to make a four-m­inute program look effortless and elegant.-- Katarina Witt
61) In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. - Mark Zuckerberg
62) As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big - Donald Trump
63) Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do. - Oprah Winfrey
64) Judge a man by his questions, not by his answers.- Voltaire
65) Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy
66) Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it,for that determines our success or failure.- Norman Vincent Peale
 

Quotes 67 - 82

67) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.-Helen Keller
68) A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.- Bruce Lee
69) The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.” -Lee Iacocca
“No individual can win a game by himself.- Pele
70) Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision - Andrew Carnegie
71) A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night. – Marilyn Monroe
72) Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. 
- Buddha
73) He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. – Nietzsche
74) If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. – Benjamin Franklin
75) Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life - Confucius
76) If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. - Bruce Lee
77) The society based on production is only produc­tive, not creative.- Albert Camus
78) Amateurs sit and wait for inspir­ation, the rest of us just get up and go to work. - Stephen King
79) Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, others make it happen. - Michael Jordan
80) The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there. - Vince Lombardi
81) We are what we repeatedly do. Excell­ence, then, is not an act, but a habit.- Aristotle
82) How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work. - Patrick Swayze

Quotes 83 - 99

83) The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one. Oscar Wilde
84) Example is not the main thing in influe­ncing others. It's the only thing.- Albert Schweitzer
85) Satisf­action lies in the effort, not in the attain­ment, full effort is full victory. - Mahatma Gandhi
86) Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
87) If you can change your mind, you can change your life.- William James
88) If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself - Norman Vincent Peale
89) Believing that you must do something to perfection is a recipe for stress, and you'll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid it- Steve Pavlina
90) The field of consci­ousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time - Antoine de Saint-­Exupery
91) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an unders­tanding of oursel­ves.- Carl Jung
92) I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard. - Estée Lauder
93) Day by day, what you do is who you become. - Heraclitus
94) Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.- Albert Einstein
95) How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
96) Well done is better than well said.- Benjamin Franklin
97) Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.- Blaise Pascal
98) You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore – Christ­opher Columbus
99)
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Elliot