Sometimes it’s easier to to say more with less. Some of the world’s greatest leaders and innovators are remembered by the words they left behing. I truly believe that the beginning of the New Year is a perfect time to reset. That’s why I dug up this list of some great motivational quotes. Hopefully you will find something in here to help get you motivated for the new year.

25. “Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” - Erica Jong

24. “Use what talents you possess, the woods will be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” – Henry Van Dyke

23. “You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.” – Buddha

22. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what yo truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

21. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we took so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” - Helen Keller

20.  ”Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching.“ – Unknown

19.  ”Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly, and without expectation.  We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.” - Leo Buscaglia

18. “The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.” – Margaret Atwood

17. “Whenever you do a thing, though it can be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.“ – Thomas Jefferson

16. “You are what you think about all day long.” – Dr. Robert Schuller

15. “The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.” – Malcolm Forbes

14. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” -Jawaharial Nehru

13. “Once in awhile it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way that they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

12. “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.  If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it.  On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” -Mahatma Gandhi

11. “What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.” -Shakti Gawain

10. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.“ – Mark Twain

9. “You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” - Zig Ziglar

8. “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.” – Howard Thurman

7. “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.  Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha

6. “A journey is best measured in friends and not miles.” – Tim Cahill

5. “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.“ – Martin Luther King Jr.

4. “Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight.  Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward.  Your life will never be the same again.” -Og Mandino

3. “Spread love everywhere you go.  Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa

2. “Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” – Earl Nightengale

1. “The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.” – Rod Steiger

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