The Twenty-Five Top Motivational Quotes

(Republished with Permission)

What really matters in life? The relationships, goals and passions that really deserve our most precious resource of all, energy?

Often with all the mundane to-do’s in life, it can be hard to keep what really matters in mind.

That is why I admire quotes like these below. Quotes are like little nudges in the side that keep us focused on what really matters. And you can quote that. 🙂

As a collector of great quotes, I like to publish some of the best ones I have found from time to time in the Intense Experiences newsletter. By “best” I mean those that capture what seems to be some profound insight for truly being happier, such as these exceptional ones below. I encourage you to copy your favorites and locate them where you’ll be nudged in the side with their message.

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The Top Motivational Quotes

In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow — and that is likely to hurt. — Wei Wu Wei

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. –- Harry Truman

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment. — Art Spander

Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count, really count. – -Albert Einstein

The dreamers are the saviors of the world. — James Allen

I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am in.?– The Bible, Phillipians 4:11 (NASB)

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. — Howard Thurman

It is never too late to be what you might have been. — George Eliot

He who cannot forgive others destroys a bridge over which he himself must pass. — George Herbert

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. — e.e. cummings

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time. – Scottish Proverb

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. — John E. Southard

How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. -– Trina Paulus

In times like these it helps to recall there have always been times like these. — Paul Harvey

Say what you want to say when you have the feeling and the chance. My greatest regrets are the things I did not do, the opportunities missed and the things unsaid. — Jim Keller

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. –Rabindranth Tagore

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. –Carl Jung

You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it. –Robert Anthony

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. — Henry Ward Beecher

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. –Annie Dillard

The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. — Ann Landers

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy. — Tim Hansel

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. — Henry David Thoreau

And one extra for good luck:
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t. — Richard Bach