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Motivation Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
- Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.
- The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
- Men are what their mothers made them.
- Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Every artist was first an amateur.
- Always do what you are afraid to do.
- Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
- The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
- We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
- Children are all foreigners.
- Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
- The world belongs to the energetic.
- The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
- The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of…
- We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The…
- This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets…
- To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and…
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- Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. — Marcus Aurelius
- Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. — Marcus Aurelius
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- A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. — Walter Bagehot
- It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. — Tallulah Bankhead
- On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard
- If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams
- I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. — Mikhail Baryshnikov