20 Famous Terrific Quotes For Motivation

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Are you looking for some terrific quotes? Stay motivated with the help of the below terrific quotes.

Famous Terrific Quotes

1. “If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door- or i’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.” ― Rabindranath Tagore

2. “The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.” ― Edward O. Wilson

3. “Terrific or terrifying, depending on your point of view.” ― Anthony de Mello

4. “I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said ‘No.” ― Woody Allen

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5. “Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.” ― Alan Cohen

6. “Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.” ― Raymond Carver

7. “I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.” ― J.D. Salinger

8. “A strange, terrific force unlike anything I’ve ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will–over and over.” ― Haruki Murakami

9. “Women ought to be free – as free as we are,’ he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.” ― Edith Wharton

10. “I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.” ― J.D. Salinger

11. “This is terrific! What fun! Maybe tomorrow I can go to the prom with my brother. The day after, perhaps I can wear white pants and unexpectedly get my period.” ― Jen Lancaster

12. “Don’t give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down” ― Ann Landers

13. “If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.” ― David Suzuki

14. “You cannot have a really terrific library without at least one terrific librarian, the way you cannot have a really terrific bedroom unless you can lock the door.” ― Lemony Snicket

15. “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it” ― J.D. Salinger

16. “The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.” ― Brian Tracy

17. “Another terrific reason for not having children: it was so disturbing when animals ate them.” ― Nevada Barr

18. “Culture clash is terrific drama” ― Ken Follett

19. “Mind over matter in any form is a terrific drain on the body’s resources.” ― Stephen King

20. “Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art” ― David Toop

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