Motivational Quotes - Part 2

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

Opportunity is like a gold mine. If you don’t pick up the shovel, then you will be living in someone else’s shaft.
Doug Firebaugh

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal a commitment to excellence that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.
H. Ross Perot

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Dr. Wayne Dyer

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature´s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
John Muir

I saw in the northwest first rise, in the rose-tinted horizon sky, a dark, narrow, craggy cloud, narrow and projecting as no cloud on earth, seen against the rose-tinted sky the crest of a thunderstorm, beautiful and grand.
Henry David Thoreau

Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leaves you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as heaven whispers, “Do you like it? I did it just for you.”
Max Lucado

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the heart of the child. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

At first a small line of inconceivable splendor emerged on the horizon, which quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the whole face of nature, vivifying every color of the landscape, and sprinkling the dewy earth with glittering light.
Ann Radcliffe

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made; our times are in his hand who saith, ‘A whole I planned, youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
Robert Browning

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
Sir John Lubbock

Having a heart for making a difference means that something or someone made a difference in my heart first.
Lee Wise

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville

That best portion of a good man s life? His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Mary Baker Eddy

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn

If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives.
Earl Nightingale