Motivational Quotes
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“You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.”
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
“People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.”
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose – and commit myself to – what is best for me.”
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
“The most important experiences we can have are those that take us to the very limit. That is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.”
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
“The world lies in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams – each according to his or her own talent.”
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.”
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
“There is only one way to learn. It’s through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.”
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
“Making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
“Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.”
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
“We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.”
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
“Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.”
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.”
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“But I should be false in the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“The thought of only being a creature of the present and past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“The Irish, who, at home, readily sympathize with the oppressed everywhere, are instantly taught when they step upon our soil to hate and despise the Negro...Sir, the Irish-American will one day find out his mistake.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world's ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“How do you feel," said a friend to me, "when you are hooted and jeered on the street on account of your color?" "I feel as if an ass had kicked, but had hit nobody," was my answer.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
Quote by -Hilaire Belloc
There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.
Quote by -Hilaire Belloc
“Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia.”
Quote by -Isabel Allende
“I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation. The thought terrified me. I was consoled by the idea that I could take that gelatin and mold it to create anything I wanted...At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.”
Quote by -Isabel Allende