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101 Inspirational Quotes for Graduates Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills. Peter Davies Possibly, you are currently out of school, a graduate or employed and wondering what’s next. Or you are just in your current position right now planning for a head start. Achieving your dreams after school is not a journey through the broad way. You need more than qualification to drive through. Some inspirational quotes can alter your mindset for good and some can keep you glittering through the day if you meditate on them daily. If you love motivational and inspirational quotes from great achievers, as much as I do, here are fire-driven quotes to position you in the direction of success. Feel free to select your best and meditate on them as often as you wish. Enjoy! Good things come to those who hustle while they wait. Anonymous I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn. Jackie Joyner Kersee There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance. Owen Feltham Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. Dennis Waitley Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. Josh Billings Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. Albert Einstein The man who makes a success of an important venture never wails for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticized. Anonymous If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. St. Clement of Alexandra The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke Men's best successes come after their disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Author Unknown The best way out is always through. Robert Frost Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. William B. Sprague Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. Samuel Johnson Fortune favors the brave. Publius Terence If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. John B. Gough We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls. Winston Churchill Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible. T.E. Lawrence I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. Patrick Henry Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer. Marcia Wieder The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. Henry Ward Beecher A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Francis Bacon The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain. Kahlil Gibran Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right. Aldous Huxley Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. Viktor Frankl To reach a port, we must sail—Sail, not tie at anchor—Sail, not drift. Franklin Roosevelt There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Henry Ford It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. Unknown Sometimes the best way to figure out who you are is to get to that place where you don't have to be anything else. Levis Ad If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. Gelett Burgess I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Mark Twain Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile. Oscar Wilde Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open the doors of opportunity for you and countless others. Zig Ziglar The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust Press on - nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. Ralph Waldo Emerson Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. Ayn Rand "Ninety-eight percent of the population blames anybody else but themselves for their current financial situation. Your financial troubles are because of something you did.... It is time to take personal responsibility for where you are." Are you taking responsibility?” Dani Johnson To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France When you think you can't... revisit a previous triumph. Jack Canfield Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough. T.S. Eliot Don't you get it? This very second you could be doing something you love and dream about doing. So do it! NOW! Anonymous Courage is facing your fears. Stupidity is fearing nothing. Todd Bellemare The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. Vince Lombardi Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. Dr. Samuel Johnson It doesn't matter what you are thinking, or what fear you have, if you just do it! Action is the only thing that matters.. .I can see that at the end of my life, I am not going to look back and say, "I wish I had taken more action". Diana von Welanetz Wentworth People become successful the minute they decide to. Harvey Mackay Your ideas are like diamonds.Without the refining process, they are just a dirty rock, but by cutting away the impurities, they become priceless. Paul Kearly Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny. Clair Oliver To be a winner, all you have to give is all you have. Anonymous People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. Earl Nightingale For I can do ALL things through Christ who gives me strength. Philippians 4:13 Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Anonymous If you have a burning desire and a plan to take action, there is absolutely nothing you cannot achieve. Thomas J. Vilord Approach the start of each day with something in mind and end the day with one word...DONE. Anonymous In every problem there is a hidden treasure inside. It's your job to find it. Anonymous Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, the one with a little more courage, and a little more effort will have victory. James F. Bell Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstien Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement. James Champy Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die. Ray Norda 80% of success is showing up. Woody Allen Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe. Claudia Black If you think you can or if you think you can't, either way you are right. Anthony Robbins God created all men equal. Why do some accomplish far greater accomplishments then others? Because they had a vision, a desire, and they took action. Thomas J. Vilord We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. Helen Keller Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached their goal, while others obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. Herodotus Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T.S. Eliot People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves. That is why they remain bound. James Allen Money never starts an idea; it's the idea that starts the money. Mark Victor Hansen I am not just here to make a living; I am here to make a life. Helice Bridges Life is short. Focus from this day forward on making a difference. Anonymous You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try. Beverly Sills Your dreams minus your doubts equal your true worth. Anonymous The man who said he never had a chance, never took one. Anonymous Read something positive every night and Listen to something helpful, every morning. Tom Hopkins I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes. Anthony Robbins Man is what he believes. Anton Chekov It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it. N - W. Somerset Manghan Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding. Jimmy Valvano Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable. Emily Guay Don't wish for it.. .work for it! Anonymous He who conquers others is strong. He who conquers himself is mighty. Lao Tzu Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do and what you want to be, and don't be afraid to pay the price to get it. Anonymous JUST DO IT! Nike Success in the end erases all the mistakes along the way. Chinese Proverb Success is a piece of mind which is a direct result of the self-satisfaction knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. John Wooden People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success. Norman Vincent Peale You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Wayne Gretzky People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. George E. Allen I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. John D. Rockefeller If I had to select one quality and one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick persistence and determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy one". Richard M. Devos There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good morals; it can destroy bad principles and re-create good ones; it can lift men to angelship. Mark Twain I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work the more luck I have.Thomas Jefferson Destiny is not a matter of chance; it's a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.Jeremy Kitson If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page.Mark Houlahan Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you have tried and failed in, but for what is still possible for you to do.Pope John XXIIIT What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.Ralph Waldo Emerson

101 Inspirational Quotes for Graduates – Get Motivated

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