Quotes to Get Motivated · Page 17
High-energy words to get you off the couch and into action.
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“Happy endings usually don't work for me. I like open endings. I trust the reader's imagination.”
“My entire soul is a cry, and all my work the commentary on that cry.”
“Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.”
“By believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it.”
“Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.”
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.”
“Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers?”
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
“Success comes only to those who lead the life of endeavor.”
“Perfection and imperfection are names which do not differ much from the names beauty and ugliness.”
“Whate'er my task, be this my creed: I am on earth to fill a need.”
“Depend not on the favoring whim Of fortune's god, but on himself.”
“You cannot have the joys of work And take the comfort of a shirk.”