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Inspirational Quotes
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Nikos Kazantzakis
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Napoleon Hill
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Vincent van Gogh
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert H. Schuller
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius
You can’t soar with the eagles if you keep scratching with the chickens.
Nancy Dornan
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
The best revenge is massive success.
You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Christopher Columbus
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Coco Chanel
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Anon
The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.
Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfils itself.
C. Doane
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing– that’s why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar
Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars
Kahlil Gibran
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
Julia Sorel
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.
Richard Branson
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she will make the same effort, and have the same hope and faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney
Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
S. Lewis
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.
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.
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.
Neil Armstrong
If it isn’t a little scary it probably isn’t worth your time.
Ted Murphy
There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.
Roger Staubach
Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, & character.
WA Ward
Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein
Critical feedback is the breakfast of champions. Defensiveness is the dinner of losers.
Dharmesh Shah
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Maya Angelou
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Great people, no matter their field, have similar habits. Learn them and use them in your own quest for greatness.
Paula Andress
You choose the life you live. If you don’t like it, it’s on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you.
Kim Kiyosaki
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Jean Sibelius
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.
Rosa Parks
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.
Robert Collier
Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem.
We all have twenty-four hour days.
Zig Ziglar
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Swami Vivekananda
Know where to find the information and how to use it -That’s the secret of success.
Albert Einstein
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Audrey Hepburn
Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.
Mahatma Gandhi
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.
Wayne Dyer
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.
Anthony Robbins
Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.
Orison Swett Marden
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.
Philippos
If you really want to do something you’ll find a way, if you don’t you’ll find an excuse.
Jim Rohn
Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.
Anon
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.
Colin Powell
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Henry David Thoreau
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Dalai Lama
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
Jackson Brown, Jr.
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
Barbara Kingsolver
The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Jim Rohn
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
K. Chesterton
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.
John Allen Paulos
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
Diane Sawyer
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
G.K. Chesterton
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
Samuel Lover
Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.
John Wooden
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners… Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing… not moving toward excellence.
Denis Waitley
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles F. Kettering
Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.
Drew Houston
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Anon
Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.
Jimmy Spithill
If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you.
Harv Eker
To be the best, you must be able to handle the worst.
Wilson Kanadi
If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard
The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.
Abigail Van Buren
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Don Miguel Ruiz
Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, your attitude when you have everything.
Anon
If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.
Anon
A jug fills drop by drop.
Buddha
If you care very much what other people think, you will find that you are not one of the ones doing the thinking.
James Frey
I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.
Stephen Covey
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino
Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.
Steve Maraboli
If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.
Vaibhav Shah
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington
Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry David Thoreau
How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’.
Martin Luther
Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem.
Anon
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
Brian Littrell
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open.
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances, you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.
Adlin Sinclair
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Joe Clark
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Anon
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Helen Keller
Don’t go through life, grow through life.
Eric Butterworth
You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you, you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.
If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
Sid Caeser
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Kyle Chandler
He is able who thinks he is able.
Buddha
If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly.
Steve Maraboli
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you’ll be successful.
Eric Thomas
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.
Albert Einstein
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
Always desire to learn something useful.
The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs . . . one step at a time.
Joe Girard
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
Benjamin Jowett
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton
You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?”
George Bernard Shaw
The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
Bobby Knight
I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I’d just been myself.
Brittany Renée
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Rohn
Leap, and the net will appear.
John Burroughs
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up. You’re right on track.
Matthew Keith Groves
Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
Jamie Paolinetti
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Theodore Roosevelt
The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.
Zig Ziglar
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Pamela Vaull
If you’ve got a talent, protect it.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.
Tim Notke
You will never win if you never begin.
Helen Rowland
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.
Eric Thomas
If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents–start charging for it.
Kim Garst
If not us, who? If not now, when?
Hillel the Elder
Go big or go home. Because it’s true. What do you have to lose?
Eliza Dushku
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
Michael Korda
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Chinese Proverb
There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.
Michael Phelps
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Roy L. Goodman
Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up, but kept going no matter what.
Spryte Loriano
People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader’s job is to help people have vision of their potential.
John Porter
Wherever you are – be all there.
Jim Elliot
There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.
Ray Goforth
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
Swami Sivananda
Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Richard L. Evans
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Charles R. Swindoll
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight–it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone.
Andy Biersack
A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one’s feet.
Lao Tzu
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller
I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.
Muriel Strode
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Carl Sandburg
Dream big and dare to fail.
Norman Vaughan
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Golda Meir
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
Lou Holtz
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wayne Dyer
All great achievements require time.
Maya Angelou
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
William Prescott
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Lolly Daskal
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Denis Waitley
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor E. Frankl
Success is … knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.
John C. Maxwell
It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.
Howard Ruff
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim Rohn
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act. Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.
Roy T. Bennett
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.
Doug Ivester
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.
Roy T. Bennett
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Arnold Palmer
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
John Maxwell
Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John R. Wooden
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
Arthur Christopher Benson
Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.
JoyBell C
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Someday is not a day of the week.
Denise Brennan-Nelson
The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Benjamin Mays
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight David
Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.
Russell Warren
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.
Vince Poscente
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands — your own.
Mark Victor Hansen
Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ups.
Peter Davies
I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.
Without faith, hope and trust, there is no promise for the future, and without a promising future, life has no direction, no meaning and no justification.
Adlin Sinclair
Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.
William J. Bennett
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
With will one can do anything.
Samuel Smiles
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.
Henry Ford
Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.
Kevin Kruse
The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and actualizer… He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.
Robert L. Schwartz
A year from now you may wish you had started today.
Karen Lamb
If you’re going through hell keep going.
Winston Churchill
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
You can motivate by fear. And you can motivate by reward. But both of these methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.
Homer Rice
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience.
Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible”.
Audrey Hepburn
The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.
Rensis Likert
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses… on your powers, instead of your problems.
Paul J. Meyer
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
Orison Swett Marden
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
John Buchan
If you’re not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he’ll be ready to take your job.
Brooks Robinson
If you don’t like how things are, change it. You’re not a tree.
Jim Rohn
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.
Henry Ford
You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.
Charles E. Popplestone
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Dale Carnegie
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Thomas Fuller
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.
Nora Roberts
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.
Muhammad Yunus
I’ve missed more than 9000 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
Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
A goal without a date is just a dream.
Milton H. Erickson
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
I think the biggest challenge is to continue on the same path. I think it’s easy to become complacent from the success you’ve had.
Jason Derulo
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
Jimmy Connors
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.
John Maxwell
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.
Vivek Wadhwa
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Anon
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
Differences challenge assumptions.
Anne Wilson Schaef
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.
John W. Gardner
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
Maya Angelou
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.
Oprah Winfrey
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle.
William Osler
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous Huxley
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Tony Robbins
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.
William Arthur Ward
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.
Washington Irving
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
Vince Lombardi
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
Joseph Campbell
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
Oscar Wilde
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfilment.
Tony Robbins
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
George Herbert
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe
He who moves not forward goes backward.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
E. Cummings
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
Abraham Joshua Herschel
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
Carl von Clausewitz
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
Jean de la Bruyere
No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.
Anon
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert Einstein
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
It is always the simple that produces the marvellous.
Amelia Barr
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbins
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
Desmond Tutu
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Dr. Robert Schuller
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover.
Mark Twain
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller
Courage is grace under pressure.
Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.
J.C. Penny
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Kenneth Hildebrand
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
L. Hunt
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Inspirational Books
- The Little Book of Thinking Big by Richard Newton
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- Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield
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- Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
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