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Motivational quotesIf you are anything like me, it is hard to find much motivation to get everything a parent needs to do done. Unfortunately motivation or not, we are still required to preform day to day mundane and archaic tasks; that simply would not be accomplished without someone to do them. As a new parent, whether you are of alternative life styles such as myself or are a more conservative family, we all have responsibilities that were born the same day as our child. For this reason, I have compiled a vast list of motivational quotes that have helped me in my day to day grind; whether you are working, taking a quick breather from the children, or browsing around the site for that must have one piece, I hope you can take enough time to find a little inspiration from these quotes on your daily tasks.
* All the so called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do. - Unknown Author * You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. - Unknown Author * Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. - Edward H Harriman * God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. - J G Holland * The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning. - Antoine de Saint Exupéry “The Wisdom of the Sands” * I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson * Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. - Mignon McLaughlin “The Second Neurotic's Notebook” nineteen sixty six * I've got a theory that if you give one hundred percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. - Larry Bird * The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. - Unknown Author * Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. - Unknown Author * No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more. - Antonio Porchia “Voces” nineteen forty three * Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison * Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. - Sidney J Phillips * The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves. - Garth Henrichs * He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. - Friedrich Nietzsche * The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. - Has been attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall * Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. - Ann Landers * When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. - George Bernard Shaw * Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. - Swami Sivananda * Now I know, a refuge never grows, from a chin in the hand and a thoughtful pose ,Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose. - Indigo Girls * There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway. - Mark Burnett * Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. - Sam Ewing * One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble. - Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare “Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers” eighteen twenty seven. * Some people dream of success. while others wake up and work hard at it. - Unknown Author * The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. - Edward Gibbon “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” * Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. - Abraham Lincoln * The footprint of the owner is the best manure. - English Proverb * Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers * Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once. - Mignon McLaughlin “The Second Neurotic's Notebook” nineteen sixty six * The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. - Sarah Brown * Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment. - Heywood Hale Broun * If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. - Martin Luther King Jr * Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains. - Jane Ellice Hopkins * We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it. - Mignon McLaughlin “The Neurotic's Notebook” nineteen sixty * Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. - José Ortega y Gassett * People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do. - Unknown Author * Plough deep while sluggards sleep. - Benjamin Franklin * Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in. - Chinese proverb * For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. - T S Eliot * There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work. - Joseph de Maistre * Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. - Ulysses S Grant * He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. - Joseph Heller “Catch twenty two" nineteen sixty one * Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. - American Proverb * God gave us two ends; one to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use. Head you win, tail you lose. - Unknown Author * Doors don't slam open. - John M Shanahan “The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time In Two Lines or Less” * About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. - Gloria Pitzer * Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough. - Sophia Loren * Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. - Chinese Proverb * If you can do a half assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr * No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. - Plutarch * He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. - Dutch Proverb * To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. - Confucius “Analects” Related information topics:
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