Motivational quotes

The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

Let us try this--every woman to work as though success depended on herself.

Prompted by her observation that every Englishman working on the Indian famine had done exactly that.

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.

In a discussion of visualization, Shinn says a person's mental picture limits what they are ready to accept.

The vision and action must go hand in hand.

Shinn follows her discussion of mental vision with the reminder that a desired outcome also requires action.

A man's troubles are always half disposed of, when he finds endurance his only remedy.

Once awakened by the silver trump of knowledge, my spirit was roused to eternal wakefulness.

On learning to read in Baltimore, and finding that the knowledge could never be given back.

It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free.

The morning after he fought back against the slave-breaker Covey, the turning point of his life.

We have more will than wallet; but will is what we need.

Bush inherited a deficit and said so on the day he took office.

I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.

Keller reflects on the hope, useful work, and connection she finds in her own life.

Each halt in his progress has been but a pause before a mighty leap forward.

Life is a fair field, and the right will prosper if we stand by our guns.