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#MondayMotivation: 10 Quotes About Succeeding Despite the Odds

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Even if you love your job, Monday morning probably isn’t your favorite time of the week. For those who supposedly work Monday through Friday, the first morning back after a weekend feels like an abrupt shift, sort of like a miniature version of returning to work after vacation, only without the Instagram-worthy memories. If you’re having trouble envisioning success this morning, these quotes will inspire you to turn your thoughts in the right direction.

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“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” – Booker T. Washington

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“Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.” – Milan Kundera

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote

“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” – Coco Chanel

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

“Suppose I had gotten a job as a permanent associate. Probably I would have climbed up the ladder and today I would be a retired partner. So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great good fortune.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford

Sources: Goodreads, Brainyquote.com, Mental Floss

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