At the age of twenty-something, I’m assuming most of you guys will be getting ready to head out into the real world. With that mind, I’ve collected a few quotes especially for you. In the cold, hard world of independence, you’re going to need all the inspiration you can get. Some of you will face easy times. Some of you will face hard times. But in the end, I have hope that one day you will all achieve the lives you desire.
If these quotes can add even just a little bit to your dreams, then I’ve done my job.
Without further ado, here are 20 motivational quotes. Share these if you like:
1. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” - Wayne Dyer
2. “Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” – Ashley Smith
3. “To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.” – Unknown
4. “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” - Tom Bodett
5. “Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” – Mark Victor Hansen
6. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.” – Swami Vivekananda
7. “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” - David Bly
9. “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” – Walter Bagehot
10. “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” – Mark Twain
11. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” - Abraham Lincoln
12. “The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” -Bertrand Russell
13. “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
14. “Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” – Tom Krause
15. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Herman Cain
16. “Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.” – Unknown
17. “If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, “Here comes number seventy-one!” – Richard M. Devos
18. “Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
19. “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
20. “Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” – Sandra Carey
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John Anyasor is the creator of HiLife2B. There he gives advice on personal development, inspiration, and motivation. A second year undergrad, he seeks to one day break the cycle of entering the dreaded 9-5 to achieve the life he wants.
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