Inspirational Quotes

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. George Bernard Shaw "To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, do what you can." Arthur Ashe "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." Ralph Waldo Emerson "If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." Thomas Edison If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. William Arthur Ward "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." Lao-Tsu "Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement." Napoleon Hill "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." William James A man with no imagination has no wings. Muhammad Ali The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt

What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. Henry David Thoreau The best way to predict the future is to create it. Peter F. Drucker "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle "It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." J. K. Rowling When it is dark enough, you can see the stars Ralph Waldo Emerson When you follow the dream in you heart, youre energised, inspired, and motivated. Dr. John F. Demartini Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. Confucius Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke

Motivational Quotes
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Jim Rohn I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform ones own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation. Dalai Lama

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. Walt Disney Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. Confucius The greatest failure is the failure to try. William Arthur Ward "A problem is a chance for you to do your best" Duke Ellington "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." Henry Ford "Energy and persistence conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." Winston Churchill "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it." Ralph Waldo Emerson "When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." Confucius "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." Henry Ford

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." Thomas A. Edison "The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result." Albert Einstein "When a man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself." Jacques Cousteau "People often say that motivation doesnt last. Well, neither does bathing thats why we recommend it daily." Zig Ziglar "Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly." Stephen R. Covey "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 "If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you are always in the same place." Nora Roberts

Quotes that Challenge

The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King Jr.

"The greatest danger for most is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that our aim is too low and we reach it." Michaelangelo "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." Christopher Columbus "The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question." Peter F. Drucker "A man is literally what he thinks." James Allen "Change your thoughts and you change your world." Norman Vincent Peale "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." Albert Einstein "If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." Jim Rohn "The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves." Stephen Covey "Don't find fault, find a remedy." Henry Ford "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." Michael Jordan

"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." Peter F. Drucker "Change your thinking, change your life." Ernest Holmes If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. Lao Tzu "The future depends on what we do in the present." Mahatma Gandhi "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." Christopher Columbus "Don't wait. The time will never be just right. Napoleon Hill

Quotes for Growth and Development

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." Leo Tolstoy "Try not to be a man of success, but a man of value." Albert Einstein "Great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events, and small minds talk about people."

Eleanor Roosevelt "A man's errors are his portals of discovery." James Joyce The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. Mortimer Adler It takes only one person to change your life...you Ruth Casey Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi

Leadership Quotes
"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants." Isaac Newton "The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision." Theodore Hesburgh "A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position." John Maxwell Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. Jack Welch "Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you

with their results." George S. Patton Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. General Colin Powell "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." Dwight Eisenhower "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." John Quincy Adams "The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." Kenneth Blanchard "I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." Ralph Nader

Confidence Quotes
"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time." Anna Freud "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." Eleanor Roosevelt

"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment." Thomas Carlyle "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us." Ralph Waldo Emerson "Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great, make you feel that you too can become great." Mark Twain "Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving. Maxwell Maltz You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. Zig Ziglar "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." Norman Vincent Peale "Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks." Joe Paterno "Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence." Vincent T Lombardi "Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." Samuel Johnson

"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself." Muhammad Ali "A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power." Brian Tracy "Confidence can get you where you want to go, and getting there is a daily process. Its so much easier when you feel good about yourself, your abilities and talents." Donald Trump "People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence." Jack Canfield "One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to selfconfidence is preparation." Arthur Ashe

Success Quotes
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it Henry David Thoreau "Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning." Benjamin Franklin "The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes." Benjamin Disraeli "To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you,

something to inspire you." Tony Dorsett "Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal, a commitment to excellence that will enable you to attain the success you seek." Mario Andretti "Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it." Colin Powell "If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it." William James Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying. W. Clement Stone Action is the foundational key to all success. Pablo Picasso "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." Abraham Lincoln "A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." Bob Dylan "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." Demosthenes "I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and a devotion to the things you want to see happen."

Frank Lloyd Wright "Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity." Louis Pasteur "Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve." Wilfred Peterson "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." Booker T. Washington

Time Management Quotes

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. H. Jackson Brown, Jr How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most Stephen R. Covey "A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life." Charles Darwin "It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?" Henry David Thoreau

"Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it." M. Scott Peck "Never leave 'till tomorrow which you can do today." Benjamin Franklin "The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." Michael Altshuler "One always has time enough, if one will apply it well." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The key is in not spending time, but in investing it." Stephen R. Covey "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." Auguste Rodin "Don't count the days, make the days count." Muhammad Ali "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." William Penn "It always seems impossible until it's done." Nelson Mandela "Don't wait. The time will never be just right." Napoleon Hill "Do we need more time? Or do we need to be more disciplined with the time we have?" Kerry Johnson

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." Michael Althsuler

Performance Quotes
"Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. Ralph Marston "You just can't beat the person who won't give up." Babe Ruth "The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." George Bernard Shaw "No pressure, no diamonds." Mary Case "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." Emile Zola "I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." Muhammad Ali "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." Anatole France "It's not the mountain we conquer-but ourselves." Sir Edmund Hillary

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." Sun Tzu

Happiness Quotes
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." Dalai Lama "There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it." Edith Wharton "Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think." Dale Carnegie "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." Mahatma Gandhi "Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice." Stephen R. Covey "Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realise there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." Lao Tsu "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." Agnes Repplier "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

Benjamin Disraeli "It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness." Charles Sprugeon "Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time." Pable Picasso "Happiness depends upon ourselves." Aristotle "The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be." Abraham Lincoln "As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death." Leonardo da Vinci "Happiness is inward and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are." Henry Van Dyke "Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times" Aeschylus "Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing." Napoleon Hill "Many persons have the wrong idea about what constitutes true happiness. It is not

attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." Helen Keller

Vision Quotes
"Vision without execution is hallucination." Thomas Edison "A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power." Brian Tracy "Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." John F. Kennedy "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." Carl Jung It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. Muhammad Ali A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao Tsu "The wisest men follow their own direction." Euripides "To see things in the seed, that is genius." Lao Tsu "My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." Charles Kettering

Quotes About Change

"Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." George Bernard Shaw "When we can no longer change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." Viktor Frankl It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin "Change is inevitable. Change is constant." Benjamin Disraeli "Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant." Anthony J. D'Angelo "Change your thinking, change your life." Ernest Holmes. "If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." Lao Tzu "Change your thoughts and you change your world." Norman Vincent Peale "We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation." Jim Rohn "To change one's life; Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions." William James

"If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think." Oprah Winfrey "Be the change that you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." James Baldwin "Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values." Dalai Lama "Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance." Benjamin Disraeli "People don't resist change. They resist being changed!" Peter Senge "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." Wayne Dyer "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." Maya Angelou "Change is inevitable. Change is constant." Benjamin Disraeli "Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." Confucius "Rather than wishing for change, you first must be prepared to change." Catherine Pulsifer

"What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us." - Jean-Paul Sartre

Wisdom Quotes
"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." Lao Tzu "The wisest men follow their own direction." Euripides "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom." Mahatma Gandhi "Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." Dalai Lama "We are what we think. With our thoughts we make our world." Buddha "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." John Wooden "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." Xenocrates "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." Jimi Hendrix "Great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events, and small minds talk about people." Eleanor Roosevelt

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not." George Bernard Shaw. "A wise man is he who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." Epictetus

Goal Setting Quotes

"What keeps me going is goals." Muhummad Ali "Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work." Oprah Winfrey "When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." Confucius "The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them." Jim Rohn "Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity." Louis Pasteur "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." Walt Disney "The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become." Brian Tracy

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." Henry Ford "A goal properly set is halfway reached." Zig Ziglar "When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible." Nido Qubein "Goals are like steppingstones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement." Denis Waitley "Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals." Jim Rohn "Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive." Robert Schuller "What you get by achieving your goals is as important as what you become by achieving your goals." Henry David Thoreau "A goal without a plan is just a wish." Antoine de Saint Exupery
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