If you need a motivational nudge, then read a quote every day to increase your motivation.


“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” – J.P. Morgan

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey

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

“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot

“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” – Germany Kent

“Each day is a new beginning, the chance to do with it what should be done and not to be seen as simply another day to put in time.” – Catherine Pulsifer

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot

“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” – Helen Keller

“Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” – Mandy Hale

“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” – Anne Frank

“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates

“Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over, she became a butterfly.” – Unknown

“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” – Karen Kaiser Clark

“Be like a tree. Stay grounded. Connect with your roots. Turn over a new leaf. Bend before you break. Enjoy your unique natural beauty. Keep growing.” – Joanne Raptis

“Don’t let today’s disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow’s dreams.” – Unknown

“Life’s not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it’s about doing, being and becoming.” – Mike Dooley


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