Brian Vaszily, founder and editor in chief of IntenseExperiences.com, has provided us with his 25 greatest motivational quotes. Here they are (counted down to Vaszily’s #1 selection):
25) Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count, really count. – Albert Einstein
24) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. – Carl Jung
23) It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. – Henry Ward Beecher
22) He who cannot forgive others destroys a bridge over which he himself must pass. – George Herbert
21) It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. – e.e. cummings
20) In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow — and that is likely to hurt. – Wei Wu Wei
19) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. – Harry Truman
18) The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment. – Art Spander
17) The dreamers are the saviors of the world. – James Allen
16) I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am in. – The Bible, Phillipians 4:11
15) Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. – Howard Thurman
14) It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot
13) Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
12) What may be done at any time will be done at no time. – Scottish Proverb
11) The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. – – John E. Southard
10) How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. – Trina Paulus
9) In times like these it helps to recall there have always been times like these. – Paul Harvey
8 Say what you want to say when you have the feeling and the chance. My greatest regrets are the things I did not do, the opportunities missed and the things unsaid. – Jim Keller
7) We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. – Rabindranth Tagore
6) You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it. – Robert Anthony
5) If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. – Annie Dillard
4) The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. – Ann Landers
3) Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy. – Tim Hansel
2) The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
1) The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. – Henry David Thoreau
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