Great Motivational and Inspiring Quotes - 2

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. - Frank Crane

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. - Arnold Glasow

A man is what he things about all day long. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man of ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything. - Donald Kircher

A No" uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble." - Gandhi

A ship is safe in harbour, but that's not what ships are for. - William Shedd

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. - Confucius

A wise man is he who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. - Epictetus

A wish is a desire without energy. - Paramanhansa Yogananda

All glory comes from daring to begin. - William Shakespeare

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune. - Henry David Thoreau

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. - Buddha

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. - Lao Tzu

An easy task becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance. - Terence

An inconvenience is an unrecognised opportunity. - Confucius

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves. - Marianne Williamson

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. - King Solomon

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. - Leonardo da Vinci

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. - Winston Churchill

Attitudes are more important than facts. - Dr. Karl Menninger

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. - James. B. Conant

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. - William Shakespeare

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By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before. - Edwin Elliot

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. - Benjamin Franklin

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance. - Benjamin Disraeli

Cleverness is not wisdom. - Euripides

Courage is knowing what not to fear. - Plato

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

Do your work with all your heart and you will succeed. - Elbert Hubbard

Don't find fault, find a remedy. - Henry Ford

Don't go into business to get rich. Do it to enrich people. It will come back to you. - Stew Leonard

Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles Schulz

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right. - Mario Cuomo

Follow your honest convictions and be strong. - William Makepeace Thackeray

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. - Harry F. Banks

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. - John F. Kennedy

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you. - William James

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. - Henry David Thoreau

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. - Napoleon Hill

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude. - Pat Riley

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. - Washington Irving

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted. - Deepak Chopra

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances. - Author Unknown

He who is contented is rich. - Lao Tsu

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade. - Benjamin Franklin

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was. - Muhammad Ali

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. - Muhammad Ali

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time. - Sam Walton

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want. - Muhammad Ali

I want to be all used up when I die. - George Bernard Shaw

I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward. - David Livingstone

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade. - Tom Peters

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. - Milton Berle

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. - Lord Chesterfield

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough. - Meddigo Message

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind. - Norman Vincent Peale

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost. - Zig Ziglar

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. - Derek Bok

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. - Albert Einstein

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think. - Oprah Winfrey

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

If you're good to your staff when things are going well, they'll rally when times go bad. - Mary Kay Ash

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams

In spite of your fear, do what you have to do. - Chin-Ning Chu

In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. - Deepak Chopra

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. - Albert Camus

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never have tried to succeed. - Theodore Roosevelt

It is not length of life, but depth of life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived. - Ralph Charell

It's always too soon to quit. - Norman Vincent Peale

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. - David Feherty

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. - Henry David Thoreau

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. - Roger W. Babson

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm. - Norman Vincent Peale

Light tomorrow with today. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein.

Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. - Edward L. Bernays

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Make it your business to know yourself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. - Miguel De Cervantes

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. - Peter Drucker

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. - Heraclitus

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity. Reduce selfishness, have few desires. - Lao Tzu

Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. - Donald Trump

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. - Robert Anthony

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak. - Epictetus

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough. - Robert Heller

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. - Doug Ivester

Never mistake activity for achievement. - John Wooden

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. - Auguste Rodin

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. - William James

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted. - Eleanor Roosevelt

One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas. - Brian Tracy

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. - G. K. Chesterton

Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. - M.C. Escher

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T. S. Elliot

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. - Helen Keller

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. - Mark Twain

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. - Dale Carnegie

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind. - Gandhi

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. - Jonathan Kozol

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. - Peter Drucker.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Shoot for the moon; even if you miss you'll land among the stars. - Les Brown

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. - George Bernard Shaw.

Sometimes it is not good enough to do your best; you have to do what's required. - Winston Churchill

Success is achieved by development of our strengths, not by elimination of our weakness. - Marilyn Vos Savant

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill

Success or failure is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacity. - Walter Scott

Take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one step at a time. - Linda Shalaway

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. - W. Clement Stone

The ability to honestly and quietly reflect on one's life is one of the most powerful tools for personal growth. - Richard Carlson

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. - Hans Hofmann

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. - Oprah Winfrey

The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. - Mary Baker Eddy

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. - Dennis Gabor

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself. - Denis Waitley

The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and we miss it, but we aim too low and reach it. - Michelangelo

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions. - William F. Scholavino

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions. - William F. Scholavino

The key is not to prioritise what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. - Stephen Covey

The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value. - Stephen R. Covey

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness. - Sigmund Freud

The noblest search is the search for excellence. - Lyndon B. Johnson

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Mary Pickford

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live. - Mortimer Adler

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results. - Napoleon Hill

The steeper the mountain the harder the climb the better the view from the finishing line. - Unknown

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. - Confucius

The wisest men follow their own direction. - Euripides

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions." - Oliver Wendell

There are no gains without pains. - Adlai Stevenson

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it. - Edith Wharton

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure. - James Allen

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. - Titus Livius

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. - William Penn

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France

To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, do what you can. - Arthur Ashe

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. - Shakespeare

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong. - Joseph Chilton Pearce

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. - Oscar Wilde

Today is your day, your mountain is waiting, so get on your way. - Dr Seuss

We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies? - Edward Young

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls. - Winston Churchill

We become what we habitually contemplate. - George Russell

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. - Madeleine L'Engle

We make our own fortunes and call them fate. - Benjamin Disraeli

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. - Hegel

We must be the change we wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? - Vincent van Gogh

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. - Napoleon Hill

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly. - Michel de Montaigne

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. - Confucius

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. - Robert Browning

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world we lose connection with one another and ourselves. - Jack Kornfield

When you believe a thing, believe it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably. - Walt Disney

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. - Mary Kay Ash

When you're through changing, you're through. - Bruce Barton

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength. - Corrie Ten Boom

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. - Henry Ford

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. - Bonnie Prudden

You have to believe in yourself. - Sun Tzu

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. - Les Brown

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way! - Dr Seuss

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. - Isaac Asimov

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. - Les Brown

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. - Carl Jung More.......