Motivational Editor's Pick Quotes

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attributed to Emerson in Promotion of Pharmaceuticals : Issues, Trends, Options (1993) pg 74, and also Thoreau elsewhere, but no instance of the quote can be found before 1990, so the authorship of the quote is disputed. Add Category or Author

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." — Reinhold Niebuhr
The Serenity Prayer (c. 1942) Though earlier variants may have existed, Niebuhr was the first to state this so succinctly, and also the first to copyright it. Since then, it has been adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12 step groups. Add Category or Author

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." — Erica Mann Jong
How to Save Your Own Life (1977) Add Category or Author

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." — George Eliot
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"Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." — Samuel Johnson
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"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go." — T.S. Eliot
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"I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution." — Werner Braun
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"Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact." — William James
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"Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be." — Abraham Lincoln
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"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." — Steve Jobs
Stanford University commencement address (12 June 2005) During Jobs's address to the students and faculty, he spoke of his dropping out of college and how important the choices he made while still a dropout were to his eventual success. Add Category or Author

"Hope for the best, expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed." — Mel Brooks
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"The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same" — Heraclitus Ephesus
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"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." — Author Unknown
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"We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors." — Norman Vincent Peale
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"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." — Harry S. Truman
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"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." — David Brinkley
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"Change your thoughts and you change your world." — Norman Vincent Peale
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"You always pass failure on the way to success." — Mickey Rooney
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"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests." — Peter Marshall
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"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." — Martin Luther King
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