“The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.”
Ansel Adams · 'A Personal Credo' (1943), published in American Annual of Photography (1944)
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Motivation Quotes
230 quotes on motivation and drive — from the classics to the everyday.
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“The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.”
Ansel Adams · Radio interview (1972)
“We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.”
Neal A. Maxwell
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
Eleanor Roosevelt · You Learn by Living, 1960, pp. 29-30
“We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.”
Eleanor Roosevelt · Tomorrow Is Now, 1963
“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
Eleanor Roosevelt · Quoted in Eleanor: The Years Alone by Joseph P. Lash, 1972
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt · You Learn by Living, 1960
“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.”
Oprah Winfrey
“The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me.”
Ayn Rand · The Fountainhead, 1943
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”
Estee Lauder
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.”
Maya Angelou
“There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.”
Michelle Obama · 2016 Democratic National Convention
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
Alice Walker
“I raise up my voice not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.”
Malala Yousafzai
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
Alice Walker
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
Theodore Roosevelt
