“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.”
Walt Whitman
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200 FAMOUS QUOTES · MOTIVATIONAL
Motivational Quotes
Read 200 of the best motivational quotes on success, courage, hard work and never giving up from Swami Vivekananda, Emerson, Thoreau and more.
“I exist as I am, that is enough.”
Walt Whitman
Self-AcceptanceConfidence
“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.”
Samuel Johnson
HopeHappiness
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
Frederick Douglass
CourageChange
“I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
Booker T. Washington
CharacterForgiveness
“Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.”
Helen Keller
DoubtCourage
“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
IndividualityEnvy
“Self-trust is the first secret of success.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-BeliefSuccess
“Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
ConfidenceCourage
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
Henry David Thoreau
GratitudeLife
“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”
Henry David Thoreau
AwarenessToday
“Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?”
Benjamin Franklin
TalentAction
“Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.”
Benjamin Franklin
DisciplineCommitment
“Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.”
Benjamin Franklin
TimeProductivity
“If he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”
Theodore Roosevelt
FailureCourage
“Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”
Abraham Lincoln
RecognitionHard Work
“I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”
Abraham Lincoln
EffortPerseverance
“Anything that makes you weak physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject as poison.”
Swami Vivekananda
StrengthSelf-Care
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
Swami Vivekananda
ThoughtsMindset
“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.”
Swami Vivekananda
FearFreedom
“If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.”
Rabindranath Tagore
MistakesLearning
“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
William Shakespeare
IntegritySelf-Belief
“The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief.”
William Shakespeare
ResilienceAttitude
“Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.”
William Shakespeare
JourneyJoy
“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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