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Motivate Your Students With Famous and Not So Famous Quotes!
You can post them on your board or add them to a daily assignment. You never know which one will stick and make them think! 

We are always looking for great quotes to add so please your favorites!

 

Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.
 
You can't brighten someone else's path without also brightening your own. -- Oprah Winfrey
 
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. -- Ferdinand Foch
 
Make your mistakes work for you by learning from them. -- Donald Trump
 
If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau
 
Don't worry about things you can't control.
 
Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts. -- The Kinks
 
Most of us have lives too small for our spirits. -- Studs Terkel
 
Don't worry about moving slowly, worry about standing still. -- Chinese proverb
 
Be careful with whom you associate. Loser's rub off! -- Donald Trump
 
I hope to die young at a very old age.
 
The real secret of success is enthusiasm. -- Walter Chrysler, entrepreneur
 
Always give more than what's expected. -- Donald Trump
 
If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. -- Thomas Edison
 
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, poet
 
I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry. -- Garth Brooks
 
Bloom where you are planted.
 
For the most part I do the thing which my own nature drives me to do. -- Albert Einstein
 
An activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. – John Updike, writer
 
Regret for things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. -- Sydney J. Harris, writer
 
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Money is an article which may be used as a universal passport to everywhere except heaven, and as a universal provider for everything except happiness. -- Wall Street Journal
 
Work like you don't need money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching. -- U2
 
Listen. Don't just wait to talk. -- Donald Trump
 
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.  Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain
 
Never stop striving, never stop learning, never stop teaching.
 
Do what's right.
 
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -- Anaïs Nin
 
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -- Elbert Hubbard
 
Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
The most difficult thing is to just start the ball rolling. Once it starts, it's actually more difficult to stop it. -- Butch Lovelace
 
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -- Thomas Edison
 
Work hard. Someone's always watching. -- Donald Trump
 
So many times people end up fixated on doing things rights, that they end up doing nothing at all. -- The Wright Brothers
 
Your imagination is a preview to life's coming attractions. -- Albert Einstein
 
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
 
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. -- John D. Rockefeller
 
The next time you feel the urge to procrastinate -- just put it off.
 
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. -- Carl Rogers and Jerome Freiberg, authors of Freedom to Learn
 
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. -- Thomas Jefferson
 
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives.  It's what we do consistently. -- Anthony Robbins, best-selling author
 
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. -- Richard Bach
 
I've missed 3000 shots. Twenty-six times the game-winning shot has been trusted to me, and I've missed. I've lost over 300 games. I've failed over and over and over again, and that is why I've succeeded. -- Michael Jordan
 
Fall seven times, stand up eight. -- Japanese proverb
 
Don't compromise your principles. -- Donald Trump
 
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison
 
Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never. -- Winston Churchill
 
Great people create great acts of kindness. -- Cervante
 
Many of the things you can count don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. -- Albert Einstein
 
You have not lived a perfect day, unless you've done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. -- Ruth Smeltzer
 
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill
 
Without deviation, progress is not possible. -- Frank Zappa
 
If you don't have a positive attitude in business and in life, you will never, ever be successful. -- Donald Trump
 
There's nothing in your life you can't learn from, if you respond with the right attitude. -- Rick Warren
 
The clearer your vision of what you seek, the closer you are to finding it.
 
If you're not lighting any candles, don't complain about being in the dark.
 
I will never give in until the day that I die. I'll get myself some independence, carve out a future with my two bare hands. -- The Alarm
 
It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble; it's what you know for sure that ain't so. -- Mark Twain
 
If at first you don't succeed, you're like everyone else who went on to greatness. -- Patrick Combs
 
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. -- Lee Iacocca, Chairman Chrysler Motors
 
Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world. -- Hugh Walpole, writer
 
Treat people how you want to be treated. -- Donald Trump


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