This document contains a collection of motivational quotes from various authors and sources. The quotes encourage the reader to seize opportunities, apply knowledge and action, know that significance comes from aspirations more than achievements, and that progress is made through small daily improvements over time. Planting knowledge when young provides benefits when older. Greatest glory is found not in never failing, but in rising after falls.

1. M OT
I V AT
IONA
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2. Don't wait for extraordinary
opportunities. Seize common
occasions and make them great.
Orison Swett Marden

3. First say to yourself what you would
be;
and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

4. The only way of finding the limits
of the possible is by going beyond
them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

5. Knowing is not enough; we must
apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

6. Goals are the fuel in the furnace of
achievement.
Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog

7. The significance of a man is not
in what he attains but in what
he longs to attain.
Kahlil Gibran

8. So often times it happens that we
live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have
the key.
Lyrics from Already Gone,
peformed by the Eagles for their
1974 On the Border album

9. Every day do something that will
inch you closer to a better
tomorrow.
Doug Firebaugh

10. If we do not plant knowledge when
young, it will give us no shade
when we are old.
Lord Chesterfield

11. Our greatest glory consists not in
never falling, but in rising every
time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith

12. References
• Inspirtaional Quotes. (2012). Retrieved
November 8,2012 from
http://www.inspirational-
quotes.info/inspirational-quotes-1.html