Motivational quotes
Daily motivational quotes you can read in ten seconds
Daily motivational quotes from real people, verified against their sources. One line a day for the morning you do not want to start. Free by Telegram.
Daily motivational quotes are the one kind of quote I actually use. Not to frame. To read once, at the start of the day, and then go do the thing. This page is the deck I send from every day, and every line in it was checked against a source before it went in, because daily quotes you cannot trust are just noise with a name on them.
You will find daily inspirational quotes here from Marcus Aurelius, who wrote his in a tent on campaign, from boxers, from a marathon runner, from a scientist. The thread is the same: today is the unit. Not the year, not the plan. Today.
Mine gets read on the harbor wall at about 6:15, coffee in one hand, before the gym opens. One line, then I put the phone away. A quote of the day is not a study session. If it takes longer than the coffee to read, it is the wrong quote.
The attribution matters because a real person said it in a real situation, and that situation is half the weight. Positive quotes for the day are cheap to find online and mostly fake, which is why this deck is shorter than most. If mornings are your problem, the morning collection is the sharper cut, and the guide on waking up early is where the actual method is. An encouraging quote of the day is the easy part.
40 quotes, every one checked against its source. No misattributed internet favourites.
- 1
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi - 2
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden - 3
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett - 4
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu - 5
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Will Durant - 6
Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.
Squire Bill Widener - 7
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking and using our potential.
Liane Cordes - 8
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus - 9
The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.
Seneca - 10
Confine yourself to the present.
Marcus Aurelius - 11
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius - 12
Discipline equals freedom.
Jocko Willink - 13
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau - 14
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it.
Henry David Thoreau - 15
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but by all means keep moving.
Martin Luther King Jr. - 16
The time is always right to do right.
Martin Luther King Jr. - 17
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein - 18
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington - 19
Whatever you are, try to be a good one.
William Makepeace Thackeray - 20
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
Sarah Frances Brown - 21
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius - 22
You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.
Marcus Aurelius - 23
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
Seneca - 24
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Seneca - 25
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Seneca - 26
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali - 27
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad Ali - 28
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney - 29
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
Stephen King - 30
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
John A. Shedd - 31
Fortune favours the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur - 32
I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.
Muriel Strode - 33
First say to yourself, what you would be; and then do, what you have to do.
Epictetus - 34
If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.
Emil Zatopek - 35
It always seems impossible until it is done.
Nelson Mandela - 36
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
Amelia Earhart - 37
The law of nature is, Do the thing, and you shall have the power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - 38
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
William Hutchison Murray - 39
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 40
The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs.
Cus D'Amato
I send one of these every day, with a photo from my day. Never the same quote twice to the same person. If you want it, text me and it starts tomorrow; if you want it to stop, /daily switches it off in one tap.
All ten collections are at the quotes page.
