18 Motivational Quotes For You To Start Your Day

Today is the day you succeed in connecting with that hard-to-reach prospect. Today is the day you close that particularly complex deal. Today is the day you go from being a good manager to a great one.

Today is the day ... so grab your cup of coffee and check out these funny/true/motivational quotes!

1) "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommend it daily."
-- Zig Ziglar
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2) "Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman -- not the attitude of the prospect."
-- W. Clement Stone
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3) "Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."
-- Andy Warhol
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4) "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."
 -- Og Mandino
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5) "Everyone lives by selling something."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
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6) "Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
-- Dale Carnegie
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7) "Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
-- Joshua J. Marine
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8) "Action is the foundational key to all success."
-- Pablo Picasso
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9) "If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will."
-- Bob Hooey
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10) "The golden rule for every businessman is this: Put yourself in your customer's place."
-- Orison Swett Marden

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11) "Hire character. Train skill."
-- Peter Schutz
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12) "The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents."
-- Antos Parrish
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13) "Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment."
-- Stephen Covey
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14) "The secret of joy in work is contained in one word -- excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."
-- Pearl Buck
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15) "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
-- J.M. Barrie
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16) "Without a customer, you don’t have a business -- all you have is a hobby."
 -- Don Peppers
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17) "To be most effective in sales today, it's imperative to drop your 'sales' mentality and start working with your prospects as if they've already hired you."
 -- Jill Konrath
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18) "Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil."
-- J. Paul Getty

Inspiring Quotes About Moms for 100 Years of Mother's Day

1. “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
—Abraham Lincoln
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2. “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
 —Abraham Lincoln

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3. “My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”
—George Washington
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4. “A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
―Washington Irving
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5. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”
—Robert Browning
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6. “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.”
—George Eliot
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7. “It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.”
—Roald Dahl
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8. “When you’re in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you’re doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary.”
 —Connie Schultz
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9. “Kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.”
—Barbara Kingsolver
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10. “Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”
—Gail Tsukiyama
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11. “The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.”
 —Jodi Picoult
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12. “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
—Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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13. “Mother’s love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.”
—Erich Fromm
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14. “If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.”
—Booker T. Washington
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15. “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”
—Jill Churchill
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16. “I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”
—Mitch Albom
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17. “Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”
—P.J. O’Rourke
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18. “Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.”
—Robert A. Heinlein
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19. “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”
—Milton Berle
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20. “Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe

25 Motivational Quotes About Fitness

1. Strive for progress, not perfection.
— Unknown
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2. You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.
— Maya Angelou
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3. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
— Wayne Gretzky

4. If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.
— Unknown
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5. You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.
— Ruth E. Renkl
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6. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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7. Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
— Norman R. Augustine
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8. I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.
— George Burns
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9. Energy and persistence conquer all things.
— Benjamin Franklin
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10. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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11. No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
— Aesop
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12. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
— Albert Einstein
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13. Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
— Lou Holtz
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14. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
— Jim Ryan
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15. I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
— Michael Jordan
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16. Fear is what stops you... courages is what keeps you going.
— Unknown

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17. The finish line is just the beginning of a whole new race.
— Unknown
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18. The difference between a goal and a dream is a deadline.
— Steve Smith 
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19. Just do it.™ -Nike
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20. In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself.
— Anonymous 
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21. The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
 — Mark Twain 
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22. It's not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.
— Anonymous 
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23. Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
— Oprah Winfrey 
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24. It's never too late to become what you might have been.
— George Eliot 
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25. Clear your mind of can’t.
— Samuel Johnson
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Motivational Quotes About Work Make You Love Your Work

Here are Inspirational Quotes About Work Make You Love Your Work

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
- Steve Jobs
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“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”
- Maya Angelou
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“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”
- Patanjali

“There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don’t like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age?”
- Warren Buffet
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“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”
- Pearl S. Buck
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“I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
- Steve Jobs
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“Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it … I have written because it fulfilled me. Maybe it paid off the mortgage on the house and got the kids through college, but those things were on the side—I did it for the buzz. I did it for the pure joy of the thing. And if you can do it for the joy, you can do it forever.”
- Stephen King
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“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
- Ella Fitzgerald
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“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
- Rumi
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“If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures. Sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I think the foremost quality – there’s no success without it – is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there’s no success if you don’t do well what you’re working at.”
- Malcolm Forbes
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“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.”
- Kahlil Gibran
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“I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.”
- Judy Collins
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“Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.”
- Bill Gates
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“The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.”
- Mark Twain
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“The people who make it to the top – whether they’re musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos – are addicted to their calling … [they] are the ones who’d be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren’t being paid.”
- Quincy Jones
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“Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.”
- Johnny Carson
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Top 100 Inspirational Quotes

1.  Life is about making an impact, not making an income. –Kevin Kruse

2. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill

3. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein

4. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.  –Robert Frost

5. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale

6. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky

7. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan

8. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

9. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth

10. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

11. Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse

12. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon

13. We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale

14.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain

15.Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll

16. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

17. The mind is everything. What you think you become.  –Buddha

18. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb

19. An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates

20. Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen

21. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

22. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi

23. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey

24. Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

25. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus

26. 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

27. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn

28. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford

29. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain

30. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

31. The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra

32. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.  That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar

33. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. –Anais Nin

Quotes About Motivational - P2

“Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice

“How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession

“You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

Quotes About Motivational - P1

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

― Frank Herbert, Dune


“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”

― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

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“Dare to Be

When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.

When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.

When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.

When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.

When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.

When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.

When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.

When times are tough, dare to be tougher.

When love hurts you, dare to love again.

When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.

When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.

When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.

When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.

When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.

When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best.

Dare to be the best you can –

At all times, Dare to be!”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free


“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”

― Steve Maraboli


“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”

― Zig Ziglar