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ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST: 35 free motivational quotes that will get your mojo going

Last updated: March 26th, 2019

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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. – Og Mandino

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C.S. Lewis

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. – George Bernard Shaw

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain

When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.
When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.
When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.
When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.
When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.
When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.
When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.
When times are tough, dare to be tougher.
When love hurts you, dare to love again.
When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.
When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.
When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.
When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.
When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.
When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best.
Dare to be the best you can–at all times, dare to be!
– Steve Mariboli

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. – William James

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If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree. – Jim Rohn

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. – Ralph Marston

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. – Tony Robbins

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. – Mahatma Gandhi

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. – William Butler Yeats

I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. – Brian Tracy

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden

It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now. – Denis Waitley

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. – Dale Carnegie

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The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. – Henry Ford

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

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. – George Lorimer

Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for? – Robert Browning

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. – Harriet Tubman

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

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. – Robert Collier

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing. – Theodore Roosevelt

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. – Søren Kierkegaard

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. – Richard Bach

It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi

Every noble work is at first impossible. – Thomas Carlyle

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.  – Oliver Wendell Holmes

The best time to do something significant is between yesterday and tomorrow.  – Zig Ziglar

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