Quotes to Get You Moving

Sigh. Has it been one of "those" weeks again? Does it seem like everything you've done has missed the mark? Guess what? We all feel like that sometimes. Personally, when I need a little pick-me-up, I scour the web to read motivational quotes from minds far greater than myself. Maybe it sounds trite, but just knowing that others have been in my shoes instantly makes me feel better. So, try it out. Relax, take a deep breath, and heed these words of wisdom.

Here are 15 great quotes to motivate you when the going gets tough:

1. "Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: Spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. "Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice and need." - Voltaire

3. "Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste." - Swami Vivekananda

4. "Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." - Henry Ford

5. "The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business - or almost anywhere else for that matter." - Lee Iacocca

6. "It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But, worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction." - Henry Ward Beecher

7. "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

8. "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." - John Quincy Adams

9. "Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." - Michael Jordan

10. "The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree." - Alexander Graham Bell

11. "Exert your talents and distinguish yourself. And, don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire." - Samuel Johnson

12. "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." - Helen Keller

13. "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau

14. "Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense." - Thomas A. Bennett

15. "Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape." - Anonymous

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