Motivational Comments Need Inspiration? Motivation? We could all use it from time to time, or perhaps every day! What motivates you? What inspires you? Perhaps you need encouragement, or simply want to have a positive and productive day and need a little nudge. Well, you’ve got just that with Motivational Comments. Fundcraft Publishing has put together a comprehensive list of motivational comments that are meant to lift and inspire. The better you feel, the better you are. So, be inspired! Be lifted! And, have a great day! We at Fundcraft Publishing certainly hope that you do. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. Ferdinand Foch A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. William Churchill The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. William Shakespeare Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. Belva Davis The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn. James Allen Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. Abraham Lincoln Our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius Antonius Don’t go through life, grow through life. Eric Butterworth For fast acting relief, try slowing down. Lily Tomlin I’m not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost We are what we repeatedly do. Aristotle This above all; to thine own self be true. And it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. William Shakespeare “Hamlet” Fashions fade - style is eternal. Yves Saint-Laurent The desire of rich knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. Laurence Sterne Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream you can make it so. Belva Davis Try to know everything of something, and something of everything. Henry Peter, Lord Brougham Speak softly, and carry a big stick, you will go far. Theodore Roosevelt When a man is wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package. John Ruskin If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. Samuel Jackson You don’t manage people; you manage things. You lead people. Admiral Grace Hooper If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right. Mary Kay Ash Knowledge is power. Francis Bacon Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. Edna Woolman Chase Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism. William Phillips In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt Deal with yourself as an individual worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way. Nikki Giovanni Life has two rules: 1. Never quit! 2. Always remember rule Number 1. Duke Ellington Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. Robert Louis Stevenson A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember. John Mason Brown People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were. Edward R. Murrow There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. Socrates Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk. Doug Larson If you’re not fired with enthusiasm you’ll be fired with enthusiasm. Vince Lombardi There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not. Francois de La Rochefoucauld A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Francis Bacon Vision: the art of seeing things invisible. Jonathan Swift The most dangerous thing in the world is to try and jump a chasm in two jumps. David Lloyd George In every woman there is a Queen. Speak to the Queen and the Queen will answer. Norwegian Proverb Our life is frittered away by detail.... Simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau The only ZEN you find on the tops of mountains is the ZEN you bring up there. Robert M. Pirsig A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. Walt Whitman It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Ursula K. LeGuin We think in generalities, but we live in detail. Alfred North Whitehead Every exit is an entrance somewhere else. Tom Stoppard Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle Three Rules of Work 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty opportunity. Albert Einstein He did each single thing as if he did nothing else. Charles Dickens If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you were taught, you might be able to help someone else who’s now in the phase you may have just completed. Maybe that’s what it’s all about after all... Dana Leigh Jordan Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words? Marcel Marceau The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. Walt Disney There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings. Hodding Carter, Jr. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on. Robert Frost Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Baruch Spinoza Let your heart guide you. It whispers, listen closely. The Land Before Time Teach us to delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs; forgiveness free of evil done, and love to all men ’neath the sun. Rudyard Kipling I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? Rabbi Hillel Every man dies. Not every man truly lives. Braveheart Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. Leo Buscaglia If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with. The Lesson Dorothy Learned You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still a choice. From “Dangerous Minds” People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still choice. From “Dangerous Minds” It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. Les Brown The best and most beautiful things in the world can- not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. Gail Godwin Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner Peace is not something you wish for; it’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away! Robert Fulghum The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. Chinese Proverb Never seem wiser, nor more learned than the people you are with. Lord Chesterfield He who angers you conquers you. Elizabeth Kenny (Australian Nurse) I’m not young enough to know everything. James Barrie The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. Shirley MacLaine When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Chil- dren are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em. Harper Lee A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. Dorothy Canfield Fisher What I spent I had, What I saved I lost, What I gave I have. George Moore It’s normal to get butterflies. The secret is to get them to fly in formation. Walter Cronkite You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. Charles Buxton To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. David Viscott The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny...” Isaac Asimov There is no point at which you can say, “Well, I’m successful now.