Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes
Why Inspirational Quotes

Why are inspirational quotes so powerful? For one thing, they can
express in words, what you feel in your heart. For another, sometimes it
helps to know that you’re not alone, and others have been in the same
shoes.
They can keep you going when you’re down, or they can help you on
your climb to the top. Sometimes you just need to hear the right
words, said in a different way, to help you rise above the noise and take
a balcony view. And sometimes, people just say the thing that spark
your heart, or puts your imagination in over-drive, or
simply rekindles your possibilities.
One of my favorite inspirational quotes of all time is, “That which does not
kill us makes us stronger.” It always reminds me to stand strong when
tested, and that every bad situation, is an opportunity for growth.
I’ve learned that life comes with problems, and wishing them away
doesn’t work. Instead, I’ve learned to expand myself and deal with
bigger challenges, and respond more effectively. As Maxwell puts it,
“You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making
yourself bigger.”
Picking “The Great Ones”

To help me figure out the best inspirational quotes of all time, I’ve asked
many people what their favorite inspirational quote is. From that set,
I tried to pick both some classics and some inspirational quotes that you
don’t hear every day. I organized the rest of the collection into a set of
relevant categories for inspiration so that you can easily browse or scan
the full set, or just jump to the ones you need.
At the end of the day, the best inspirational quotes are the ones that
work for you. Only you know what lifts you up and which words of
wisdom help you the most. After all, you are ultimately your most
important meaning maker and filter for this lifetime. And you are the
one that always holds the key to unlocking and unleashing what you’re
capable of.
Please enjoy these inspirational quotes and may they help you flourish in
ways you never dreamed possible. This is a living, breathing collection of
inspirational quotes, so feel free to share your best quotes, and help me
make this a great collection of insight and inspiration.
Top 10 Inspirational Quotes (The Best of the

Best)
1. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” — Mary
Anne Radmacher
2. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is
no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “I want to be all used up when I die.” — George Bernard Shaw
4. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” —
Napoleon Hill
5. “It is never too late to be who you might have been.” — George
Eliot
6. “Let him who would move the world, first move himself.” – Socrates
7. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the
moments that take our breath away.” — Maya Angelou
8. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” —
George Bernard Shaw
9. “Smile, breathe and go slowly.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
10. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Achievement
What do inspirational quotes teach us about achievement? They teach us
to think big. Some times big things take big sacrifices. Expect the best
to get the best.
“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a

thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a
hundred thousand men.”
– Plato
“Achievement results from work realizing ambition.”
— Adam Ant
“Big thinking precedes great achievement.”
— Wilferd A. Peterson
“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which

shall endure until the sun grows cold.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the
result of selfishness.”
— Napoleon Hill
“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high

expectation.”
— Charles F. Kettering
“I’m glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I
shall never have to do it again.”
— Mark Twain
“It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without
preconceived notions.”
— Charles F. Kettering
“Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of
the hill. It’s to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.”
— Seth Godin
“Never mistake activity for achievement.”
— John Wooden
“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never

direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble
their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”
— Anthony Robbins
“Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest
reaped.”
— John C. Maxwell
“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve
it as well.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you
apply.”
— Denis Waitley
“If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at
what you can accomplish in your lives.”
— Vince Lombardi
“Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers

compare their achievements with those of other people.”
— Nido Qubein
“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other
people get what they want.”
— Zig Ziglar
“You have to ‘be’’ before you can ‘do’, and do before you can ‘have’.”
— Zig Ziglar
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play
better than anyone else.”
— Albert Einstein
Action
What do inspirational quotes teach us about action? Do more of
it. Action brings ideas to life and it’s the stuff that great movements are
made of.
“Action is the real measure of intelligence.”
— Napoleon Hill
“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”
— Mark Twain
“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch
what they do.”
— Andrew Carnegie
“Don’t compare yourself negatively with the giants or anyone else, rather,
use them as models. Then get on with whatever it is you can accomplish
with your life, and give it everything you have.”
— Dr. Irene Kassorla
“Don’t think, just do.”
– Horace
“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
“If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.”
— Lucy Larcom
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and
become more, you are a leader.”
— John Quincy Adams
“It not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.”
— Anthony Robbins
“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on
it.”
— Danny Kaye
“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”

— Benjamin Franklin
“Speaking from my personal experiences, setting goals, along with a

detailed action plan, has actually changed my life from one cast in
frustration to one of purpose.”
— Catherine Pulsifer
“The first man gets the oyster; the second man gets the shell.”
— Andrew Carnegie
“The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do
what lies clearly at hand.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.”
— Nido Qubein
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting

started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small
manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
— Mark Twain
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
– Confucius
“To move the world we must first move ourselves.”

– Socrates
“Well done is better than well said.”
Adversity
What do inspirational quotes teach us about adversity? Adversity is a
challenge and an opportunity for you to change.
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
— Duke Ellington
“Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”
— George S. Patton
“Bad is never good until worse happens.”
— Danish Proverb
“Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what

makes life meaningful.”
— Joshua J. Marine
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to

grow strong by conflict.”
— William Ellery Channing

“Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do,
just for practice.”
— William James
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
— Truman Capote
“How can something bother you if you won’t let it?”
— Terri Guillemets
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by

it.”
— Maya Angelou
“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead
anywhere.”
— Frank A. Clark
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change
your attitude. Don’t complain.”
— Maya Angelou
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill
“If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good
situation, don’t worry it’ll change.”
— John A. Simone, Sr.
“It’s not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get
in line.”
— Ashleigh Brilliant
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”
—Vince Lombardi
“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest
course.”
— William Shakespeare
“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to
pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the
greater is their power to harm us.”
– Voltaire
“Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
— M. Kathleen Casey
“Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen
that hold us to Common Sense.”
“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”
— African Proverb
“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become

successful.”
— Zig Ziglar
“The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish,
cutting the heart asunder.”
— Virginia Woolf
“The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.”
– Unknown
“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.”
— Confucius
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
— Harry Golden
“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise

than saved by criticism.”
— Norman Vincent Peale

“This too will pass.”
— Attar
“Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
— Kenji Miyazawa
“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration
and survival.”
— Winston Churchill
“When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a
thousand reasons to smile.”
— Unknown
“You can’t run away from trouble. There ain’t no place that far.”
— Uncle Remus
“You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making
yourself bigger.”
—John C. Maxwell
“You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.”
— Walt Schmidt
Attitude and Gratitude

What do inspirational quotes teach us about attitude and
gratitude? Make the most of what you’ve got and don’t throw away your
value, and don’t throw away the value of what you have in your life.
“A person’s worth in this world is estimated according to the value he

puts on himself.”
— Jean de la Bruyere
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t

matter.”
— Mark Twain
“All the advice in the world will never help you until you help yourself.”
— Fred Van Amburgh

“Count your blessings! Things can always get better and could always be
worse.”
— Donald Neviaser
“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace
of mind.”
“How you think about a problem is more important than the problem
itself. So always think positively.”
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it
dance.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at
change.”
— Wayne Dyer
“In one minute you can change your attitude and in that minute you can
change your entire day.”
— Spencer Johnson
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than
anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”
— William James
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
become great.”
— Mark Twain
“Life must be lived as play.”
– Plato
“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get
discouraged.”
— Lucille Ball
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist,
or accept the responsibility for changing them.”
— Denis Waitley
“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can
help, and what they cannot.”
– Plato
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
“”There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a
miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
— Albert Einstein
“We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.”
— Anais Nin
“You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover
infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.”
— Deepak Chopra
“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you
can by what others say about him.”
— Leo Aikman
“You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make
your attitudes to fit those situations.”
— Zig Ziglar
“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
— Zig Ziglar
Beginnings
What do inspirational quotes teach us about beginnings? Beginnings give
us fresh starts and chances to start over, no matter how many times
we’ve started over before. And every ending, marks a new beginning.
“A hard beginning maketh a good ending.”

— John Heywood
“A lot of people seeking new beginnings have never finished with the
past.”
— Byron Pulsifer
“Beginnings are only difficult without any action.”
— Byron Pulsifer
“Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what
might have been, and look at what can be.”
— Marsha Petrie Sue
“Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new.
Today is a new day.”
— Dan Custer
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you
can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high
a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
“The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.”
— Dave Weinbaum
“This moment, this day, is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall
make of this day, each moment of this day, a heaven on earth. This is my
day of opportunity.”
— Dan Custer
“Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and
power and magic in it.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
— Joe Sabah
Belief
What do inspirational quotes teach us about belief? Your beliefs are the
backbone of great ideas and actions. They can limit you or empower
you. Choose well.
“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in

denying them.”
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create
it.”
– Nikos Kazantzakis
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
“Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.”
– Edith Hamilton
“I always try to believe the best of everybody — it saves so much

trouble.”
– Rudyard Kipling
“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Others believing in you is nice but worthless if not matched by your own
thought.”
— Scott Moore
“Seeing is not believing; believing is seeing! You see things, not as they
are, but as you are.”
–Eric Butterworth
“The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly

and desperately drunk with a certain belief.”

“What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he
holds it.”
— Ezra Pound
Compassion and Connection

What do inspirational quotes teach us about compassion and
connection? Start with heart. When you show compassion for others,
and compassion for yourself, you make the journey worth it. When you
connect with others, you amplify your feelings, and you take inspiration
to a whole new level.
“At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.”
— Terry Waite
“Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.”
— Maya Angelou
“Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above

ourselves.”
— Mason Cooley
“Compassion is a two way street.”
— Frank Capra
“Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.”

— Henry Ward Beecher
“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These

three are your greatest treasures.”
— Lao Tzu
“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
“It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one
who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business.”
– Gandhi
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them

humanity cannot survive.”
— Dalai Lama
“Make no judgments where you have no compassion.”
— Anne McCaffrey
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so

with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style”
— Maya Angelou
“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
— Albert Einstein
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even
heard, but must be felt with the heart.”
— Helen Keller
“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts
is wise.”
— Maya Angelou
“The dew of compassion is a tear.”
— Lord Byron
“The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.”
— Maya Angelou
“The greatest good we can do for others is not just to share our riches
with them, but to reveal theirs.”
— Zig Ziglar
“The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.”
— Deepak Chopra
“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”

— G.K. Chesterton
“When there’s that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you
live so much easier.”
— Craig T. Nelson
“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized

moral qualities of men.”
— Confucius
Courage
What do inspirational quotes teach us about courage? Courage is what it
takes if you want to realize your dreams. Boldness can start small, and
grow like a rolling snowball.
“A man of courage is also full of faith.”
– Cicero
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
— Walt Disney
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
“Be bold – and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

— Basil King
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at

the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’”
— Mary Anne Radmacher
“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
– Plato
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that
something else is more important than fear.”
— Ambrose Redmoon
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
— Mark Twain
“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you
know you can lose.”
— Tom Krause
“Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage,
you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
— Maya Angelou
“Fortune favors the brave.”
– Virgil
“The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five
minutes longer.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover.”
— Mark Twain
“Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do
all that he can.”
— Henry Drummond
“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and
takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in
his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid
adventurers.”
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which

you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you
think you cannot do.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Dreams and Vision
What do inspirational quotes teach us about dreams and vision? We have
to believe in our dreams if we want to bring them to life. Our visions and
our dreams can inspire us in ways that give us hope and light the way
forward.
“A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He
inspires the power and energy to get it done.”
— Ralph Lauren
“A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness.”
— Zadok Rabinwitz
“A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial,

until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.”
— William James
“Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.”
– Anonymous
“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your
soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
— Napoleon Hill
“Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are
still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.”
— Dr. Dale Turner
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have
imagined.”
“I shut my eyes in order to see.”
— Paul Gauguin
“I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I

execute my vision to make those dreams come true.”
— Walt Disney
“I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and

frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.”
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
“If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces
steadily toward the work required of us.”
– Anonymous
“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.”
“If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be”.
– Anonymous
“If you’re not sure where you’re going, you’ll probably end up somewhere
else.”
– Anonymous
“Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands

possibilities like unleashed imagination.”
— William Arthur Ward
“Some men see things the way they are and ask, ‘Why?’ I dream things
that never were, and ask ‘Why not?”
“Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, ‘What
happened?’”
– Anonymous
“The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.”
— Will Smith
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape
those who dream only by night.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a

nightmare.”
— Japanese Proverb
“We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.”
– Anonymous
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
— John Lubbock
“Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived
makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a
vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.”
— Indian Proverb
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make
it true. You may have to work for it, however.”
— Richard Bach
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change

something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
— Buckminster Fuller
Failure, Setbacks, and Mistakes

What do inspirational quotes teach us about failure, setbacks, and
mistakes? We all make mistakes. It’s what we do with our failures and
setbacks that sets us apart. The more you get back up from getting
knocked down, the stronger you get.
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful
than a life spent doing nothing.”
“Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to
your advantage to make sure it never happens again.”
— Michael Johnson
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
— Albert Einstein
“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a

worthwhile achievement.”
— Henry Ford
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”
— Zig Ziglar
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
— Maya Angelou
“I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even
better this time.”
— Sam Walton
“I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I

hate.”
— George Burns
“Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of
yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw
up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take
the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your
problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent
example of being human.”
— Anthony Robbins
“Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.”
— Zig Ziglar
“Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what
they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.”
— Al Franken
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step
beyond their greatest failure.”
— Napoleon Hill
“No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my

advantage.”
– Epictetus
“One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling

blocks.”
— Jack Penn
“Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes… but that would be a
mistake.”
– Anonymous
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
– Confucius
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making
the same one a second time.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that
counts.”
– Winston Churchill
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you
will make one.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a
different way.”
— Dale Carnegie
“There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.”
— Robert Fripp
“There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in
his true Self.”
— William James
“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.”
— Stephen Kaggwa
“You haven’t failed until you quit trying.”
— Anonymous
Fear
What do inspirational quotes teach us about fear? It can cripple us if we
let it. Fear can hold us back from our reaching our greatest heights. Use
your desire to fully live, to rise above your fears.
“A life lived in fear is half lived.”
– Anonymous
“As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically
liberates others.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a
chasm in two small jumps.”
— David Lloyd George
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an
experiment.”
“Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into
lessons, all sins into experience.”
– Unknown
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret
of life.”
“In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.”
“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘Always
do what you are afraid to do.’”
“Necessity is the mother of taking chances.”

— Mark Twain
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that
we are powerful beyond measure.”
— Nelson Mandela
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the
fear of failure.”
— Paulo Coelho
“Risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk

nothing.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward
will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”
Goals
What do inspirational quotes teach us about goals? Go for big ones. Use
inspiring goals to pull you forward and to help direct your focus and
actions toward compelling outcomes. The big idea isn’t about reaching
your goals. It’s what you become in the process. You grow better
through goals.
“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.”

— Bo Bennett
“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”
— Napoleon Hill
“Begin with the end in mind.”
— Stephen Covey
“Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not
do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.”
— Adolph Monod
“Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of
interesting detours.”
— Doug Larson
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to
do.”
– Epictetus
“Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make
history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.”
— J.C. Penney
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things
brought together.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
— Douglas Adams
“If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.”
— Unknown
“Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.”
— C.D. Jackson
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off
your goals.”
– Anonymous
“One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up
before you get it.”
— Sidney Howard
“One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.”
— Thomas Fuller
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one
can go.”
— T.S. Eliot
“People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals – that is, goals
that do not inspire them.”
– Anthony Robbins
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
— Les Brown
“Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not

smart enough to know they were impossible.”
— Doug Larson
“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we
miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.”
– Michelangelo
“The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand

and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the
long term; it’s who you become, as you overcome the obstacles
necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most
long-lasting sense of fulfillment.”
— Anthony Robbins
“The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.”
— Unknown
“You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by
short-range failures.”
— Charles C. Noble
Growth
What do inspirational quotes teach us about growth? Growth and
greatness go hand in hand. Where there’s challenge, there’s growth, and
growth is a life-long journey.
“Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your
own.”
— Bruce Lee
“Avoid problems, and you’ll never be the one who overcame them.”
– Richard Bach
“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which
you must see the world.”
“Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your
best.”
— Andrew Carnegie
“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water
into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes
the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can
flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.”
– Bruce Lee
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
“I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and
simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Improvement begins with I.”
— Arnold H. Glasgow
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
— Edmund Hillary
“Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In
short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without
being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.”
– Bruce Lee
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
“Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.”

“Nothing ever is, but is always becoming.”
– Plato
“Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our
circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of
nature in its beauty.”
— Albert Einstein
“Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.”
– Anonymous
“Success is achieved by development of our strengths, not by elimination

of our weakness.”
— Marilyn Vos Savant
“The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is,
of all things, the most shameful and objectionable.”
– Plato
“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what

we are; for what we could become.”
— Charles Dubois
“The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating
yourself.”
— Deepak Chopra
“The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass
yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.”
— Denis Waitley
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving,
and that’s your own self.”
— Aldous Huxley
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it
has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
— Maya Angelou
“When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form.
It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all
forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.”
– Bruce Lee
Happiness
What do inspirational quotes teach us about happiness? Happiness
happens if we let it. If we can get out of the way, and be more in the
moment, and appreciate what’s going well, we can realize more joy in our
journey. And happiness is a by-product of pursuing our dreams.
“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life,

and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of
your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to
the achievement of your values.”
— Ayn Rand
“Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”
— Mark Twain
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something

you design for the present.”
— Jim Rohn
“If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the
internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the
need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things
the ego is doing all the time. It’s very important to be aware of them
every time they come up.”
— Deepak Chopra
“If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the
internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the
need to be approved, and the need to judge.”
– Deepak Chopra
“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think

freely, to risk life, to be needed.”
— Storm Jameson
“Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what
you are doing, and love what you are doing.”
— Brian Tracy
“Happiness is a state of activity.”
– Aristotle
“Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to
make them come true.”
– Leon J. Suenes
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your
smile can be the source of your joy.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
— Mark Twain
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under
his feet.”
— James Oppenheim
“The healthiest response to life is joy.”
— Deepak Chopra
“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon
himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for
living happily.”
– Plato
“The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking
what one has to do.”
– Anonymous
“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
— Mark Twain
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than

to consume wealth without producing it.”
“When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things –
not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of
happiness.”
— Bob Hope
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
— Mark Twain
Hope and Inspiration

What do inspirational quotes teach us about hope and inspiration? Hope
keeps us going. Whether it’s hope for a better future or hope for
somebody else, it’s the kindling that can always turn into a blaze.
“A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.”
— Charles Schulz
“Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.”
— Chinese Proverb
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even

though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who
neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight
that knows not victory nor defeat.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.”
— Wallis Simpson
“He who has never hoped can never despair.”
“Hope is a waking dream.”
— Aristotle
“If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.”
— Thomas Fuller
“He who has hope has everything.”

—Arabian Proverb
“Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while
it is still dark.”
– Anonymous
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”
— Emily Dickenson
“In life you need either inspiration or desperation.”
— Anthony Robbins
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the

moments that take our breath away.”
— Maya Angelou
“Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.”
— Bern Williams
“Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running.”
— Zig Ziglar
“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
— Maya Angelou
“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.”

— John Heywood
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we

could be.”
“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some
moment every day.”
– Thornton Wilder
“Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself

on fire.”
— Arnold H. Glasow
“Surround yourself with people who are going to motivate and inspire
you.”
— Charles M. Marcus
“The best motivation always comes from within.”
— Michael Johnson
“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to

love, and something to hope for.”
— Allan K. Chalmers
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
— Richard Bach
“The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.”
— Allard Lowenstein
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word,

a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of
which has the potential to turn a life around.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“To succeed… you need to find something to hold on to, something to

motivate you, something to inspire you.”
— Tony Dorsett
Limits
What do inspirational quotes teach us about limits? Limits are mostly
our own illusions. Don’t’ let others limit you, and don’t limit
yourself. The more you raise the bar, the higher you’ll go, and the more
you’ll grow.
“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours.”
— Richard Bach
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no
path and leave a trail.”

“Hitch your wagon to a star.”
“I want to be all used up when I die.”
“If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of

Giants.”
— Isaac Newton
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
— Napoleon Hill
“It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference.”
— Zig Ziglar
“It is never too late to be who you might have been.”
— George Eliot
“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be
sorry.”
— Mark Twain
“Life is full of obstacle illusions.”
— Grant Frazier
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight
of the shore.”
— Andre Gide
“Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Never tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”
– Unknown
“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as
deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.”
— Karen Ravn
“Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.”
— Maya Angelou
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
— Ayn Rand
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to
what lies within us.”
“When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, “Let’s go,
let’s go,” and ceilings start to move up.”
— Zig Ziglar
“You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop.”
— Deepak Chopra
Opportunity and Choice

What do inspirational quotes teach us about opportunity and
choice? Carpe diem. When opportunity comes knocking, get your game
on and come out and play. Don’t wait for all the stars to align, or you’ll
be waiting forever. The more you jump at the chance, the less you’ll
regret lost opportunity.
“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things
in that which is small.”
— Lao-Tzu
“All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination; Imagination
is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into
accomplishment and wealth.”
— Napoleon Hill
“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the
fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.”
– Horace
“Chance favors the prepared mind.”

— Louis Pasteur
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
— Napoleon Hill
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you
want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
— Deepak Chopra
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
— Zig Ziglar
“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these ‘It might
have been'” — John Greenleaf Whittie
“He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as

surely as if he had failed.”
— William James
“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
— Mark Twain
“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”
“One hundred percent of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.”
— Wayne Gretzky
“Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.” – Horace
“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your

environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in
yourself alone.”
— Orison Sweet Marden
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity
when it comes.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
— Maya Angelou
“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
“We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.”
“What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them
to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.”

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has
opened for us.”
– Alexander Graham Bell
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
“You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our

existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to
an infinity of choices.”
— Deepak Chopra
“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.”
— Napoleon Hill
Passion and Desire

What do inspirational quotes teach us about passion and desire? Passion
and desire help us hit our high notes. Without passion we might glide,
but with passion we soar.
“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever
achieved.”
“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.”

“Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.”
“Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy
five.”
—Benjamin Franklin
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
“One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your
entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No
matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for
whatever it is you desire to achieve.”
— George Allen
“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the
secret of success.”
— Swami Sivananda
“The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in

mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire
makes a small amount of heat.”
— Napoleon Hill
“To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.”
— James Allen
“Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling.”
— Yogi Berra
“You change your life by changing your heart.”
— Max Lucado
Persistence
What do inspirational quotes teach us about persistence? Persistence
pays off. Don’t let a lack of breakthroughs hold you back from going for
and achieving your big break.
“A big shot is a little shot that kept shooting.”
– Anonymous
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
— Lao-tzu
“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”
— Mark Twain
“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”
— Napoleon Hill
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
“Fall seven times. Stand up eight.”
—Japanese Proverb
“Get a good idea and stay with it. Do it, and work at it until it’s done
right.”
— Walt Disney
“It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into
action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.”
— Zig Ziglar
“It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.”
– Katharine Hepburn
“Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are
capable of.”
— Christy Borgeld
“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”
— Napoleon Hill
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties
disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth
infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
— John Quincy Adams
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination

for success.”
— Napoleon Hill
“Smile, breathe and go slowly.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”
– Anthony Robbins
“Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.”
— Jim Rohn
“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.”
— Mark Twain
“The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When
mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.”
– Anonymous
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not
only plan, but also believe.”
— Anatole France
“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
Purpose, Meaning, Fulfillment

What do inspirational quotes teach us about purpose and
fulfillment? They can come from the strangest places. Purpose can
keep you going when the going gets tough. Fulfillment can make it worth
it.
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a

song.”
— Maya Angelou
“A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates

himself, it is a child of solitude.”
“A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.”
– Anonymous
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”
— William Shedd
“And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in
your years.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Be not simply good; be good for something.”
“Everyone has a purpose in life… a unique gift or special talent to give to

others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we
experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the
ultimate goal of all goals.”
— Deepak Chopra
“Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.”
— Washington Irving
“He who has a ‘why’ to live can bear almost any ‘how’.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his

dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with
a success unexpected in common hours.”

“It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where
you are going.”
— Brian Tracy
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
“It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute… that
gives meaning to our lives.”
— Anthony Robbins
“It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”
— Tom Brokaw
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
“Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are
after.”
“May you live all the days of your life.”
— Jonathan Swift
“More than anything else, people will always remember you for how you
made them feel.”
— Shadonna Richards
“My life is my message.”
— Mahatma Ghandi
“Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless
contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.”
– Anthony Robbins
“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a

destination.”
— Carl Rogers
“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”
— Steven Covey
“The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved; it is a reality to be

experienced.”
— Aart van der Leenw
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable,

to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived
and lived well.”

“There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he
or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw
puzzle.”
— Deepak Chopra
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This
is to have succeeded.”
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has
already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.”
— Albert Einstein
“We do not remember days; we remember moments.”
— Cesare Pavese
“Where you end up isn’t the most important thing. It’s the road you take
to get there. The road you take is what you’ll look back on and call your
life.”
— Tim Wiley
“You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most
important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you
now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don’t think about who
you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become?
Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.”
– Anthony Robbins
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t
make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and
then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”
— Maya Angelou
“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.”
— Bach, Richard
Strength
What do inspirational quotes teach us about strength? Find yours. Spend
more time in it. Use it to do great things. Help others find theirs.
“A chain is as strong as its weakest link.”
— Danish Proverb
“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who

challenges it.”
— Marcel Proust
“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”

All our talents increase in the using, and the every faculty, both good and
bad, strengthen by exercise.”
— Anne Bronte
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving

someone deeply gives you courage.”
— Lao Tzu
“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as

well as think.”
“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking

our potential.”
— Liane Cordes
“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in

others.”
– Plato
“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has
come.”
— Victor Hugo
“He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.”
— Ben Jonson
“Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What’s a sun-dial in the
shade?”
“If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you
must accept the terms it offers you.”
— T.S. Eliot
“Inward calm cannot be maintained unless physical strength is constantly

and intelligently replenished.”
– Buddha
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
— Lao-Tzu
“Knowledge is power.”
— Francis Bacon
“Let him who would move the world, first move himself.”
– Socrates
“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies
solely in my tenacity.”
— Louis Pasteur
“My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and
soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a
person.”
— Albert Einstein
“Rule your mind or it will rule you.”
– Horace
“Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our

weaknesses.”
— Marilyn vos Savant
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the
broken places.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“There is no strength without unity.”
— Irish Proverb
“There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.”
— Han Suyin
“To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the
presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”
— Helen Keller
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By Jeff Haden
 "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." --Chinese
proverb
 "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone
else's success." --James Cameron
 "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." --Henry David
Thoreau
 "If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." --Jim
Rohn
 "Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion." --Tony Hsieh
 "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." --Walt Disney
 "If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do
more than you do." --Anonymous
 "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." --Winston

Churchill
 "Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private
sacrifices to reach them." --Vaibhav Shah
 "Opportunities don't happen. You create them." --Chris Grosser
 "Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value." --
Albert Einstein
 "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones
most responsive to change." --Charles Darwin
 "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." -
-Eleanor Roosevelt
 "The best revenge is massive success." --Frank Sinatra
 "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas Edison
 "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have
thrown at him." --David Brinkley
 "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then
do it." --Henry Ford
 "What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." --Oscar Wilde
 "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." --Bruce
Feirstein
 "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." --John D. Rockefeller
 "Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which,
if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." --Nathaniel Hawthorne
 "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
 "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." --Arthur Ashe
 "People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one." --Kevin Kline
 "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." --Thomas Jefferson
 "The starting point of all achievement is desire." --Napoleon Hill
 "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." --Robert Collier
 "If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing
less than excellent work." --Thomas J. Watson
 "All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." --Michael John Bobak
 "You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind
failing." --Philippos
 "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." --Mark Twain
 "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." --Pablo
Picasso
 "We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret." --Earl
Nightingale
 "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." --Vidal Sassoon
 "Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and
make a brand new ending." --Carl Bard
 "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
 "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 the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." --Mark Twain
 "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
 "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." -
-Mark Twain
 "The successful warrior is the average man, with laserlike focus." --Bruce Lee
 "Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when
you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something
sitting down." --Charles F. Kettering
 "If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it--teach yourself to be impatient." --
Gurbaksh Chahal
 "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking
backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You
have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has
never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." --Steve Jobs
 "If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and
start focusing on the size of you!" --T. Harv Eker
 "Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were
easier; wish you were better." --Jim Rohn
 "The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and
neighbors." --Napoleon Hill
 "In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or
principle contain it or stand against it." --Jane Smiley
 "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a
second time." --George Bernard Shaw
 "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
 "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." --Jim Ryun
 "Our greatest fear should not be of failure ... but of succeeding at things in life that don't
really matter." --Francis Chan
 "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
 "Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what
happen when you don't have a plan." --Larry Winget
 "To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just
accept the ones you like." --Mike Gafka
 "Be content to act, and leave the talking to others." --Baltasar
 "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." --Margaret Thatcher
 "Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater
investment." --Stephen Covey
 "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going
away and doing the exact opposite." --G.K. Chesterton
 "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up." --Thomas A. Edison
 "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less
talented as a consolation prize." --Robert Hughes
 "What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?" --Robert Schuller
 "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any
other one thing." --Abraham Lincoln
 "Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in
their desires to reach their potential." --John Maxwell
 "Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really: Double
your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all.
You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make
mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember, that's where you will find success." --
Thomas J. Watson
 "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." --Albert
Einstein
 "Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably
possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to
happen." --Dax Shepard
 "My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a
minute ago.'" --George Carlin
 "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." --James Dean
 "Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness." --Frank Tyger
 "Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want." --Alan Cohen
 "Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever." --
Peter Hagerty
 "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
 "Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes
from not finishing what they've started." --David Allen
 "We forge the chains we wear in life." --Charles Dickens
 "If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness
depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you
have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world
belongs to you." --Lao Tzu
 "Everything is a gift of the universe--even joy, anger, jealousy, frustration, or

separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment." --Ken Keyes
Jr.
 "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek
problems because you need their gifts." --Richard Bach
 "If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy,
and inspires your hopes." --Andrew Carnegie
 "Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are." --Chinese proverb
 "For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book, and a friend, and a nap
undisturbed by creditors or grief." --Fernandez de Andrada
 "You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should
bring you joy." --Alan Cohen
 "The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than growing with them." --Bernard
M. Baruch
 "Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems
critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or
psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression, and
respect." --Alain de Botton
 "If you start to think the problem is 'out there,' stop yourself. That thought is the
problem." --Stephen Covey
 "Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the
spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." --Denis
Waitley
 "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." --Margaret Lee
Runbeck
 "Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the
denial of life." --Germaine Greer
 "Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in
doing it." --Greg Anderson
 "Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not
be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." --Buddha
 "The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside,
somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature, and God. As long as
this exists, and it certainly always will, then there will be comfort for every sorrow,
whatever the circumstances may be." --Anne Frank
 "In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with
which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom." --Buddha
 "Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with
abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is." -
-Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey
 "You never regret being kind." --Nicole Shepherd
 "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither
liberty nor safety." --Ben Franklin
 "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." --Paul Boese
 "The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the
future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." --
Buddha
 "True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy
purpose." --Helen Keller
 "Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more
of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving." --Dan Millman
 "The need for forgiveness is an illusion. There is nothing to forgive." --Rachel England
 "Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting." --
Bernard Meltzer
 "Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many--not on your past
misfortunes, of which all men have some." --Charles Dickens
 "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would
lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they
come along with patience and equanimity." --Carl Jung
 "He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe." --Marcus
Aurelius
 "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice
compassion." --Dalai Lama
 "When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the
closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." --Helen Keller
 "Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have." --Unknown
 "True happiness ... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self." --Joseph
Addison
 "Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's
values." --Ayn Rand
 "Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be." --William Adams
 "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." --Dale Carnegie
 "We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the
future." --Lester Levinson
 "We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give." --Winston
Churchill
 "Money doesn't bring happiness and creativity. Your creativity and happiness
bring money." --Sam Rosen
 "Happiness is the experience of loving life. Being happy is being in love with that
momentary experience. And love is looking at someone or even something and seeing the
absolute best in him or her or it. Love is happiness with what you see. So love and
happiness really are the same thing ... just expressed differently." --Robert McPhillips
 "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." --

Carl Jung
 "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change
the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." --Reinhold Niebuhr
 "I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound
to live up to the light I have." --Abraham Lincoln
 "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It
turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a
feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." --Melody Beattie
 "There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts and then acting
on them." --Wayne Dyer
 "We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're
doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end--it's not the final
curtain--it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing." --Ralph Lauren
 "In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." --Deepak Chopra
 "Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your
happiness can come from someone else's success?" --Bill Walton
 "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not
learning from experience." --Archibald MacLeish
 "Once you do something you love, you never have to work again." --Willie Hill
 "Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make
peace with it." --Shakti Gawain
 "The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is
unpopular is a true test of moral character." --Margaret Chase Smith
 "Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they
do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard.
Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else." --Nathaniel
Branden
 "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." --Soren Kierkegaard
 "Do what you have always done and you'll get what you have always got." --Sue Knight
 "The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a
heartfelt compliment." --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 "We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire
consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come
from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover." --Shakti Gawain
 "Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the
best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them."
--Marcus Aurelius
 "Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it." --J. Petit Senn
 "To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek." --Alan Cohen
 "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." --
John Milton
 "In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the
gratefulness that makes us happy." --Albert Clarke
 "Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then
your time on earth will be filled with glory." --Betty Smith
 "You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your
dysfunction. Life is really about moving on." --Oprah Winfrey
 "Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry
bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian." --Shari R. Barr
 "View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you
accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the
happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you
do?" --Victor Frankl
 "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs--even though checkered
by failure--than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." --Theodore
Roosevelt
 "Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time ... serenity, that nothing is." --
Thomas Szasz
 "To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." --Eleanor
Roosevelt
 "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." --William Arthur Ward
 "It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse." --Adlai E.
Stevenson II
 "Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be." --
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 "Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." --Robert Louis
Stevenson
 "The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one
that gets people to do the greatest things." --Ronald Reagan
 "Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men--the other 999 follow women." Groucho
Marx
 "Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through,
and opinions will change organically when you're the boss. Or they won't. Who cares?
Do your thing, and don't care if they like it." --Tina Fey
 "Power isn't control at all--power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader
isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to
give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own." --Beth
Revis
 "Don't tell people how to do things; tell them what to do and let them surprise you with
their results." --George S. Patton Jr.
 "I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the
second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before
others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting
yourself before others and you can become a leader among men." --Lao Tzu
 "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he
wants to do it." --Dwight D. Eisenhower
 "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan." --John F. Kennedy
 "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." --Peter F.
Drucker
 "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to
live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are
here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." --
Woodrow Wilson
 "Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." --Albert
Schweitzer
 "Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate
them." --John C. Maxwell
 "The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in
order to accomplish the vital ones." --Brandon Sanderson
 "Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing
another." --John C. Maxwell
 "You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If
you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out." --Steve Jobs
 "A leader ... is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out
ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed
from behind." --Nelson Mandela
 "Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off." --Colin Powell

 "Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by
people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas." --Margaret
Thatcher
 "A leader is a dealer in hope." --Napoleon
 "The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he
wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it." --
Theodore Roosevelt
 "I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the
next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers." --Tupac Shakur
 "If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince
him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see." --Henry David Thoreau
 "I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself." --Robert E. Lee
 "The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading
them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do
not care. Either case is a failure of leadership." --Colin Powell
 "Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in
search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of
avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement
on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I
stand for consensus?'" --Margaret Thatcher
 "A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they
don't necessarily want to go but ought to be." --Rosalynn Carter
 "There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on
authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through
understanding and trust." --Klaus Balkenhol
 "You get in life what you have the courage to ask for." --Nancy D. Solomon
 "In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by
remaining what we are." --Max De Pree
 "We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead
people through the dark." --Whoopi Goldberg
 "A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone
willing to give his strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their
own." --Beth Revis
 "Always remember, son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle,
or horses, or men, the least government is the best government." --Ralph Moody
 "If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else
is doing." --Brad Szollose
 "'Give as few orders as possible,' his father had told him once long ago. 'Once you've
given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.'" --Frank Herbert
(from Dune)
 "The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes." --Tony Blair
 "Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and
when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through." --Jarod Kintz
 "In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that
wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it." --Seth Godin
 "Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to
overcome our need for invulnerability." --Patrick Lencioni
 "No guts, no story." --Chris Brady
 "Leadership is an action, not a position." --Donald McGannon
 "Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way." --Ronald
Reagan
 "I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which
is: Try to please everybody." --Herbert Bayard Swope
 "Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are." --Thomas John
Carlisle
 "The challenge of leadership is to be strong but not rude; be kind but not weak; be bold
but not a bully; be humble but not timid; be proud but not arrogant; have humor but
without folly." --Jim Rohn
 "A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason." --
J.P. Morgan
 "If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at
anything." --Tom Rath
 "Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great
leaders inspire others to raise their own bar." --Orrin Woodward
 "Don't blow off another's candle, for it won't make yours shine brighter." --Jaachynma
N.E. Agu
 "Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision." --
Peter F. Drucker
 "When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you,
charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks
follow." --Jerry Porras
 "A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from
within them." --M.D. Arnold
 "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where
he stands at times of challenge and controversy." --Martin Luther King Jr.
 "The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an
uncertain trumpet." --Father Theodore M. Hesburgh
 "It is absolutely necessary ... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as
execute orders." --George Washington
 "When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter." --Winston Churchill
 "A leader takes people where they would never go on their own." --Hans Finzel
 "You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to
that place and making a case." --Ken Kesey
 "A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." --Max Lucado
 "Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title
or position." --Brian Tracy
 "I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not
more followers." --Ralph Nader
 "Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." --Publilius Syrus
 "A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together." --Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
 "My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to
push them and make them even better." --Steve Jobs
 "People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision." --John Maxwell
 "To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be
obsessed in some way." --Pat Riley
 "A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little
less than his share of the credit." --John Maxwell
 "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." --
George Patton
 "Earn your leadership every day." --Michael Jordan
 "Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." --
William Arthur Ward
 "I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is
happiness doubled by wonder." --G.K. Chesterton
 "'Enough' is a feast." --Buddhist proverb
 "If you count all your assets, you always show a profit." --Robert Quillen
 "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big
things." --Robert Brault
 "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to
utter words but to live by them." --John F. Kennedy
 "Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all
abundance." --Eckhart Tolle
 "If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's
going to get." --Frank A. Clark
 "If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily."
--Gerald Good
 "Gratitude turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos into order, confusion into clarity ... it makes sense of our past, brings peace for
today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." --Melody Beattie
 "The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene
lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars
and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is
people to appreciate and enjoy it." --Michael Josephson
 "Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of
bankruptcy." --Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
 "The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement." --
Charles Schwab
 "He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for
those which he has." --Epictetus
 "At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each
of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within
us." --Albert Schweitzer
 "The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated." --William James
 "Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what
you don't have, you will never, ever have enough." --Oprah Winfrey
 "Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a
little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least
we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." --Buddha
 "Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone." --Gertrude Stein

 "Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness.
Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts." --Henri Frederic
Amiel
 "You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too
late." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
 "It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment." --Naomi Williams
 "One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life." --
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
 "Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out." --John
Wooden
 "No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident
acknowledge this help with gratitude." --Alfred North Whitehead
 "Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large
amount of Gratitude." --A.A. Milne
 "Forget yesterday--it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow--you haven't even
met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift--today." --Steve
Maraboli
 "We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count."
--Neal A. Maxwell
 "In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and
that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich." --Dietrich Bonhoeffer
 "The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you."
--John E. Southard
 "I truly believe we can either see the connections, celebrate them, and express gratitude
for our blessings, or we can see life as a string of coincidences that have no meaning or
connection. For me, I'm going to believe in miracles, celebrate life, rejoice in the views of
eternity, and hope my choices will create a positive ripple effect in the lives of others.
This is my choice." --Mike Ericksen
 "Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while
dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it." --Stephen Richards
 "Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices." --Robert Braathe
 "They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the
gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and the sense of
homecoming that follows, when you suddenly remember what it feels like to be
yourself." --Tom Perrotta
 "Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else." --Raheel Farooq
 "Keep your eyes open and try to catch people in your company doing something right,
then praise them for it." --Tom Hopkins
 "In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day--or to
celebrate each special day." --Rasheed Ogunlaru
 "This a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before." --Maya Angelou
 "The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of
successful experiences behind you." --William Jennings Bryan
 "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
 "Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful
personality and try to duplicate it." --Bruce Lee
 "Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be
challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With
each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and
more self-confident, and more and more successful." --Mark Victor Hansen
 "You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom
they do." --Eleanor Roosevelt
 "Low self-confidence isn't a life sentence. Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and
mastered--just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change
for the better." --Barrie Davenport
 "Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any
experience that reveals the human spirit." e. e. cummings
 "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of
achievement." Golda Meir
 "One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is

preparation." --Arthur Ashe
 "It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new
adventures." --Oprah Winfrey
 "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the
greatest accomplishment." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
 "But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration--because it's a leap of faith. And
no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be
willing to take those risks ... " --James Cameron
 "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but
when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within." -
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
 "Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong." --
Peter T. Mcintyre
 "Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours." --Richard Bach
 "The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable." --

Paul Tillich
 "If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." --
Thomas Alva Edison
 "Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we
perform, is truly important to other people." --Andre Dubus
 "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful
beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask
ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you
not to be?" --Marianne Williamson
 "Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love." --Brené Brown
 "Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do." --Dr. Benjamin Spock
 "Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have
worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them." --T. Harv Eker
 "You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't
have it." --Dr. Robert Anthony
 "It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." --Sir Edmund Hillary
 "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." --Oscar Wilde
 "You yourself, as much as anyone in the entire universe, deserve your love and
affection." --Buddha
 "Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to
conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." --Dale Carnegie
 "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and
confidence." --Helen Keller
 "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing
on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." --Thomas Jefferson
 "Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the
confidence you desire to have." --Brian Tracy
 "If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the
competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think." --T. Harv Eker
 "Wouldn't it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just
about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life
loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the
universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you
the richest fulfillment from inside out." --Alan Cohen
 "To anyone that ever told you you're no good ... They're no better." --Hayley Williams
 "Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter
than you think." --Christopher Robin
 "You have no control over other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own." --
Tim Gunn
 "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." --Eleanor Roosevelt
 "The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it." --
J.M. Barrie
 "It's a dead-end street if you sit around waiting for someone else to tell you you're OK." -
-Michael Pitt
 "I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you
have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look
back and see what you've done." --Robert Downey Jr.
 "Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own
myth." --Rumi
 "When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you
for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't." --Jodi Picoult
 "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." --Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
 "You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." --Dr. Wayne Dyer
 "Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is
what makes you do it." --Bryce Courtenay
 "I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse." --Florence Nightingale
 "The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity." --Amelia
Earhart
 "Do it or not. There is no try." --Yoda
 "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." --Lao Tzu
 "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." -
-Alice Walker
 "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." --John Lennon
 "Eighty percent of success is showing up." --Woody Allen
 "It is never too late to be what you might have been." --George Eliot
 "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off
against the wind, not with it." --Henry Ford
 "You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the
ground." --Unknown
 "Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life
meaningful." --Joshua Marine
 "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." --Booker T. Washington
 "Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy." --
Jimmy Spithill
 "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." --Steve Jobs
 "I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." --Stephen

Covey
 "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find
out why." --Mark Twain
 "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and
magic in it." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." --Anais Nin
 "There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing." --
Aristotle
 "Do what you can, where you are, with what you have." --Theodore Roosevelt
 "Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear." --George Addair
 "Fall seven times and stand up eight." --Japanese proverb
 "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made
all the difference." --Robert Frost
 "The extra mile is a vast, unpopulated wasteland." (OK, that one's mine)
 "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
 "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." --Albert Einstein
 "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it." -
-Chinese proverb
 "You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." --Maya Angelou
 "You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take." --Wayne Gretzky
 "Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs." --Farrah Gray
 "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." --Confucius
 "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." --Tony
Robbins
 "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." --Beverly
Sills
 "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let
him know that you trust him." --Booker T. Washington
 "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." --Ayn Rand
 "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." --Steve Jobs

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Inspirational Quotes

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Picking “The Great Ones”

Top 10 Inspirational Quotes (The Best of the

“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a

“Achievement results from work realizing ambition.”

“Big thinking precedes great achievement.”

“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high

“Never mistake activity for achievement.”

“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never

“Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers

“Action is the real measure of intelligence.”

“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”

“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

— Dr. Irene Kassorla

“Don’t think, just do.”

“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”

— John Quincy Adams

“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”

“Speaking from my personal experiences, setting goals, along with a

“The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.”

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting

“To move the world we must first move ourselves.”

“Well done is better than well said.”

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”

“Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”

“Bad is never good until worse happens.”

“Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to

— William Ellery Channing

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

“How can something bother you if you won’t let it?”

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill

“Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.”

– Henry Ward Beecher

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”

“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become

“The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.”

“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”

“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise

— Norman Vincent Peale

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.”

Attitude and Gratitude

“A person’s worth in this world is estimated according to the value he

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t

— Fred Van Amburgh

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

— Norman Vincent Peale