I’m hoping the following quotes allow you to see my beliefs around the vast potential of human beings, life itself and its challenges. If you are looking for motivational quotes of the 'When the going gets tough ' ilk, you might like to look elsewhere!
These quotes all appeal to me personally. I hope you find something here to inspire you.
Good luck! Mark

‘Most of us tip toe through life in order to make it safely to death.’
Theodore Roosevelt

‘There is no passion to be found in playing small- in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of.’
Nelson Mandela

‘We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.’
Charles Kingsley

‘There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.’
Denis Waitley

‘Talk does not cook rice.’
Chinese Proverb

‘Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.’
George Bernard Shaw

‘At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.’
Christopher Reeve

‘Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self actualization.’
Abraham Maslow

‘Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.’
Publilious Syrus

‘Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days...What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power and genius in it.’
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832

‘The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.’
Theodore Roosevelt

‘I want to do for you what spring does for the Cherry trees.’
Pablo Neruda

‘It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.’
Ursula LeGuin

‘Follow the grain in your own wood.’
Howard Thurman

‘Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure’.
Nelson Mandela

‘So often we wait passively for some outside force to give us permission to be who we are and champion our cause. The permission can only come from within, from our own soul’-
Sonia Choquette, Author.

‘There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart ... pursue those’
Unknown

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