12 Great Motivational Quotes for 2014 BY GEOFFREY JAMES

At the start of every year, I create a list of quotes to guide and inspire me for the next 12 months.  Here are the quotes I've selected for 2014:

• "A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."
  Seneca

• "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
  Mark Twain

• "Enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."
  Dale Carnegie

• "It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company."
  Guy Kawasaki

• "Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging."
  Joseph Campbell

• "The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way."
  Seth Godin

• "You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset."
  Tom Hopkins

• "It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless."
  Casanova

• "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."
  Henry Ford

• "People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents."
  Andrew Carnegie

• "If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."
  Cicero

• "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."
  Charles Darwin

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