Quotes for Motivation

How about a list of good quotes about “sticking to it”? Here are a few that are worthy of posting …

Fall seven times; stand up eight. Japanese proverb

You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you. Joseph Campbell

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now. Chinese Proverb

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt

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

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. James Joyce

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else. Judy Garland

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank

The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven. John Milton

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. Albert Einstein

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. James Oppenheim

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