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As a professional keynote speaker, I come across a lot of motivational and inspiration quotes. Here is a list of my personal favorites. Enjoy!
 

We are what we repeatedly do.

Aristotle

 

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

Mark Twain

 

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

 

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Chinese Proverb

 

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Zig Ziglar

 

The road on the extra mile is never crowded.

Brian Bartes

 

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

 

Nobody can judge effort because effort is between you and you.

Ray Lewis, Baltimore Ravens

 

Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst is not to try.

Unknown Author

 

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison

 

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Thomas Watson, Sr.

 

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

 

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

 

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

Earl Riney

 

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

Robert Strauss

 

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees the opportunity in ever difficulty.

Winston Churchill

 

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Wayne Gretzky

 

Do, or do not. There is no try.

Yoda, Starwars

 

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Carl W. Buechner

 

People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Zig Ziglar

 

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Chinese Proverb

 

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Unknown Author

 
Special thanks to Brian Bartes from LifeExcellence, a success coach I met in Livonia, Michigan. He gave me a copy of his book entitled “Treasury of Quotes” and many of the quotes above were taken from there.