Motivational Quotes

It was the best of times,

it was the worst of times.

Without a struggle,

there can be no progress.

You never know how strong you are

until being strong is your only choice.

It is not the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out;

it’s the pebble in your shoe.

You better work,

or life will work you over.

We know what we are,

but know not what we may be.

If your compassion does not include yourself,

it is incomplete.

Will this person raise the average level of effectiveness

of the group they’re entering?

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as

what you become by achieving your goals

I have met 18 million youth,

and each wants to be unique.

Nationalism is an infantile disease.

It is the measles of mankind.

Few things are harder to put up with than

the annoyance of a good example.

The problem with writing a book in verse is,

to be successful,

it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon.

It has to sound easy.

When you can do it,

it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on.

You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

I have a lot of things to prove to myself.

One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

When nature has work to be done,

she creates a genius to do it.

Stop the crying.

Courage is not the absence of fear.

Courage is the ability to act effectively in spite of fear.

There is nothing in the world

so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Power concedes nothing without a demand.