{"id":4870,"date":"2017-04-03T08:41:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T15:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=4870"},"modified":"2017-04-12T08:25:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:25:26","slug":"20-literary-quotes-to-motivate-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/20-literary-quotes-to-motivate-you\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Literary Quotes to Motivate You"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Let’s face it. \u00a0Life can be tough. To help get you through, here\u00a0are twenty of the best motivational quotes that literature has to offer . . .<\/p>\n

If you need something to worship, then worship life \u2014 all life, every last crawling bit of it! We’re all in this beauty together!<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Dune Messiah<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Frank Herbert<\/a><\/p>\n

Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one’s weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can’t all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Stark Munro Letters<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a><\/p>\n

The mind is its own place, and in it self
\nCan make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Paradise Lost<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0John Milton<\/a><\/p>\n

Out of the night that covers me,
\nBlack as the pit From pole to pole,
\nI thank whatever gods may be
\nFor my unconquerable soul.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Invictus<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0William Ernest Henley<\/a><\/p>\n

“I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Daniel Deronda<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0George Eliot<\/a><\/p>\n

“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0David Copperfield<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charles Dickens<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Look at that sea, girls–all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn’t enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Anne of Green Gables<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Lucy Maud Montgomery<\/a><\/p>\n

“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Little Women<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Louisa May Alcott<\/a><\/p>\n

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“People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Mrs. Warren’s Profession<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0George Bernard Shaw<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Old Curiosity Shop<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charles Dickens<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Coningsby<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Benjamin Disraeli<\/a><\/p>\n

“As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Journey to the Center of the Earth<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Jules Verne<\/a><\/p>\n

“Love has no age, no limit; and no death.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Forsyte Saga<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0John Galsworthy<\/a><\/p>\n

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“There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Lost World<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a><\/p>\n

“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Measure for Measure<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0William Shakespeare<\/a><\/p>\n

“The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Nicholas Nickleby<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charles Dickens<\/a><\/p>\n

“That is one good thing about this world. . .there are always sure to be more springs.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Anne Of Avonlea<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Lucy Maud Montgomery<\/a><\/p>\n

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Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Stark Munro Letters<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a><\/p>\n

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“You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Of Human Bondage<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0W. Somerset Maugham<\/a><\/p>\n

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Pickwick Papers<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charles Dickens<\/a><\/p>\n

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