Quotes for Motivation

Laya Reddy

Here are fifteen powerful quotes to get you through the end of the school year!

  1.   “It is hard to fail, but it is worse to have never tried to succeed. In this life, we get nothing save by effort,”- Theodore Roosevelt.
  2.   “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”- Robert Louis Stevenson.
  3.   “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.”- Jim Rohn.
  4.   “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”- Norman Vincent Peale.
  5.   “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”- Milton Berle.
  6.   “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”- Edith Wharton.
  7.   “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”- John C. Maxwell.
  8.   “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”- Alice Walker.
  9.    “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”- Martin Luther King Jr.
  10. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”- Maya Angelou.
  11. “Are we living a life that is safe from harm? Of course not, we never are. But that is not the right question. The question is: Are we living a life that is worth the harm?”- Joseph Fink.
  12. “I could teach and preach and shout and explain, but no lesson is as powerful as the lesson learned on one’s own” – Jeffrey Cranor.
  13. “I’m going to wake up and keep trying to do good and so are you and nobody gets a vote on that.”- Justin McElroy.
  14.  “If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”- Lemony Snicket.
  15. “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”- Michelangelo.