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    21 motivating quotes to make you get up and go

    Feeling a little bit 'meh' at the moment? Well, read these brilliant quotes and prepare to get your mojo back...

    By Francesca Rice
    Published 4 April 2016 In Features

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    Feeling a little bit 'meh' at the moment? Well, read these brilliant quotes and prepare to get your mojo back...

    1. 'Power's not given to you. You have to take it.' Beyoncé

    2. 'Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.' Oprah 

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    3. 'All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.' Walt Disney

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    4. 'Nothing is impossible - the word itself says, “I’m possible!”' Audrey Hepburn

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    5. 'Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.' Pablo Picasso

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    6. 'How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.' Anne Frank

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    7. 'You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.' Margaret Thatcher

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    8. 'The best revenge is massive success.' Frank Sinatra

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    9. 'There is a sense that things, if you keep positive about what can be done, do work out.' Hillary Clinton 

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    10. 'If you're going through hell, keep going'. Winston Churchill

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    11. 'When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.' Henry Ford

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    12. 'The most effective way to do it, is to do it.' Amelia Earhart

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    13. 'Believe you can and you’re halfway there.' Theodore Roosevelt

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    14. 'If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.' Sheryl Sandberg

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    15. 'Eighty percent of success is showing up.' Woody Allen

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    16. 'Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans'. John Lennon

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    17. 'What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.' Bob Dylan

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    18. 'Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.' Maya Angelou

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    19. 'I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.' Martha Stewart

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    20. 'The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.' Vidal Sassoon

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    21. 'No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.' Eleanor Roosevelt

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