End of Year Motivational Quotes
These are some of my favorite motivational speaking quotes I’ve collected through the years.
I hope you’ll find them as motivating as I do.
“The real measure of your wealth is how much
you’d be worth if you lost all your money.”
– Bernard Meltzer
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to
venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
– Arthur C. Clarke
“A childlike man is not a man whose development
has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who
has given himself a chance of continuing to develop
long after most adults have muffled themselves
in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”
– Aldous Huxley
“He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not,
but rejoices in what he has.”
– Epictetus
“Become the change you wish to see in others.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Nothing happens unless first a dream.”
– Carl Sandburg
“There are two days that no one should ever worry about:
yesterday and tomorrow.”
– Albert Einstein
“Angels sail through our lives like ships of light,
visiting us through portals to our heart.”
– Karen Goldman
“There are many ways to measure success; not the least of which is
the way your child describes you when talking to a friend.”
– Author unknown
“Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures
or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”
– Samuel Butler
“Much may be known of a man’s character
by what excites his laughter.”
– Goethe
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
– William A. Ward
“Some people say they haven’t yet found themselves.
But the self is not something one finds;
it is something one creates.”
– Thomas Szasz
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark
should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by
dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me
in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The
proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste
my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
– Jack London
“Of all earthly music that which reaches farthest
into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational
mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that
honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
– Albert Einstein
“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes
you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which
comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and
when you have found that attitude, follow it.”
– William James
“Love one another, and you’ll be happy.
It’s as simple – and as difficult – as that.”
– Michael Leunig
“This nation was built by men who took risks;
pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness,
business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists
who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid
of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.”
– Brooks Atkinson
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”
– Henry David Thoreau