It is a fact, we don’t feel motivated or inspired every morning when we start our day. Some morning, we just feel dull and lousy.
For me, to jump start my ponderous day, what I do is I read short inspirational quotes.
Do doubt these short quotations come with a few words, but they are packed with powerful nuggets of wisdom and empowering messages.
Each time when I read them, they make me feel good to be alive. At the same time, I am all pumped up with a feeling of positivity, enthusiasm and zest for life.
Yes, that can get me raring to start my day living a good life to the fullest.
Anyway, here is a well-selected positive quotes to start the day, to give you a good jolt of mental energy first thing in the morning.
“What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” – Harry F. Banks
“Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.” – Jim Rohn
“They can because they think they can.” – Virgil
“Don’t be held up by problems. Be led by your passion.” – Quotationize
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” – Confucius
“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” – Tom Krause
“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” – Japanese Proverb
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
“The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one?” – Steve Schulte
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” – Francis Bacon
“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.” – Sven Goran Eriksson
“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” – Mark Twain
“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.” – Oscar Wilde
“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde
“The most important things in life aren’t things.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” – John N. Mitchell
“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” – Keri Russell
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” – John W. Gardner
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” – Sidonie Gabrielle
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” – Plato
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” – Sandra Carey
“I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received” – Antonio Porchia
“The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.” – John A. Simone, Sr
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” – David Starr Jordan
“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.” – Lao Tzu
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion” – Chinese Proverbs
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” – Epictetus
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
“Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool” – Seneca
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain
“The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.” – Tom Bradley
I hope the positive messages from these short inspiring quotes resonate with you, and they can help you to start your day.
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