MOTIVATIONAL 3

Motivational quotes are always a good way to get you in a positive frame of mind. By the time this section is finished it will be the largest and best motivational quotes section on the web. This section isn't specifically success oriented. These quotes and sayings will be fun to read if you are interested in a type of quote that generally gets you motivated for a positive attitude.

If you are looking for more quotes directly aimed at success, business success, and driving enthusiasm.

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Hilarity is usually tragedy separated from itself by time.

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

- John F. Kennedy / U.S. President / 1917-1963

Hold tightly to what is eternal and loosely to what is temporal.

Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.

Honor isn’t about making the right choices.  It’s about dealing with the consequences.

- Midori Koto

Hope can be ignited by a spark of encouragement.

Hope in the heart puts a smile on the face.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

- Francis Bacon

Hope is a waking dream.

- Aristotle

Hope, like and anchor, is fixed on the unseen.

Housework is something you do nobody notices unless you don’t do it.

How and why we do what we do, matters far more than what we actually do.

- God’s Little Devotional Book: Success

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?

- Satchel Paige

How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.  Remember, there is nothing wrong with nature; the trouble is in ourselves.

- Parks Cousins

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

- Lou Holtz

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

- Douglas Adams

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people.  A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.

- Barbara Johnson / Founder of Spatula Ministries

Humor is the great equalizer.  When you make someone laugh, you make them feel good.  When they feel good around you, they tend to feel good about you.  When they feel good about you, they want to do business with you.

- Joe Heuer / Humorist and speaker

Humor is the shortest distance between two people.

- Victor Borge / Entertainer / 1909-2000

I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to…Study they old masters. Enrich your palette.  Expand the canvas.  There’s always so much more to learn.

- Martin Scorsese / Filmmaker

I am always doing things I can’t do.  That’s how I get to do them.

- Pablo Picasso

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibiliest.

- Max Lerner / Writer and columnist / 1902-1992

I am part of all that I have met.

- Alfred Tennyson / “Ulysses”

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don’t believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn’t want to practice it with me.  Brotherhood is a two-way street.                                                                         

- Malcolm X

I believe in the dignity of labor; whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

- John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. / Business executive and philanthropist / 1874-1960

I can almost guarantee you that someday, as you look back on your life, you’ll be less interested in how many items and achievements you were able to collect than in how much you were able to express love, spend time with the people you care most about, and contribute to the world you live in.

- Richard Carlson

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

- Norman Vincent Peale

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

- Jimmy Dean

“I do intend to do your will” is what we often tell the Lord, but what will honor Him the most are deeds of love to back our word.

- D. De Haan

I don’t believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers.  It makes them siblings.  Gives them mutuality of parentage.  Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

- Maya Angelou / Writer

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

- Paul Harvey / Radio commentator

I have two choices when I wake up in the morning; to be happy or to be unhappy.  What do you think I choose?

I tell you and you forget, I show you and you remember, I involve you and you understand.

- Eric Butterworth

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

- Christopher Reeve

I think and think for months, for years, Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false.  The hundredth time I am right.                                                           

- Albert Einstein

I think I shall never see, a billboard lovely as a tree.  Perhaps unless the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree at all.

- Ogden Nash

I try not to invent things that people don’t need.

- Thomas Edison

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

- Frances Willard / Educator / 1839-1898

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.

- George Burns

I’d rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

- Ken Kesey / Writer / 1935-2001

I’ve never been poor; only broke.  Being poor is a frame of mind.  Being broke is only a temporary situation.

- Mike Todd / Film producer / 1907-1958

I’ve never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

If it weren’t for the dark days, we wouldn’t know what it is to walk in the light.

- Earl Campbell / NFL fullback

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

- Gita Bellin

If someone asks you if you can keep a secret, they cannot.

- Al Batt

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach toward immortality.

- Norman Cousins / Writer and editor / 1915-1990

If the cask is to hold wine, it’s water must first be poured out.

- Meister Eckhart

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

- Robert South

If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.

- William Penn