Inspirational & Motivational
Quotations

Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls
and looks like work.
--Thomas Edison --Thomas Edison

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths
rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
--John D. Rockefeller

The biggest mistake people make in life
is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
--Malcomb Forbes

Far better it is to dare mighty things, even though checkered by failure,
than to take rank with those who neither enjoy much or suffer much,
because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
--Theodore Roosevelt

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things
losers don't like to do.
--Albert Gray

"Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates,
is something celestial, divine, and consequently imperishable"
--Aristotle

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" HOW DO YOU MEASURE SUCCESS?
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others:
To leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child,
a redeemed social condition, or a job well done;
To know that even one other life has breathed because you lived.
-- This is to have succeeded."
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.
-- J. B. S. Haldane

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it,
because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination
you will ever need.
--Jerry Gillies

People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance
of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.
--Kim Woo-Choong, Founder and Chairman, Dawwoo

There are times when a man should be content with what he has,
but never with what he is.
--William George Jordan

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
-- Gen. George Patton

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments,
and is yet willing to learn more.
--Ed Parker

When one door closes another door opens;
but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door,
that we do not see the ones which open for us.
--Alexander Graham Bell

The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
--Arthur C. Clarke

A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
--Henrik Ibsen

"This is the beginning of a new day.  You have been given this day
to use as you will... You can waste it or use it for good.  What you do
today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.
When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever.  In it's place is
something you have left behind... Let it be something good"
-Unknown

PRIORITIES
"A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was,
what sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...But the world may be
different because I was important in the life of a child."
-unknown

Some men see things as they are and say why?
I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"
--Robert F. Kennedy

"It is easy to sit up and take notice.
What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
-- Al Batt

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
--Colin Wilson

No one can predict to what heights you can soar,
even you will not know until you spread your wings.
-unknown

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
- unknown

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
--George Bernard Shaw

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you already mastered,
you will never grow."
-unknown

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
--Vince Lombardi

The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Obstacles are those frightful things you see
when you take your eyes off the goal.
--Hannah More

The best way out is always through.
--Robert Frost --Robert Frost

QUALITY
Countless, unseen details are often the only difference
between mediocre and magnificent.

The best way to predict the future...Is to create it.

If a man advances confidently in the direction of his own dreams
and endeavors to live the life he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
--Henry David Thoreau

Attitude is a little thing that makes a BIG difference.

We have the power to make this the best generation
of mankind in the history of the world
or to make it the last.
--John F. Kennedy

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what
they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
--Dr. William R. Whitney

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
--James Lane Allen

Progress always involves risk.
You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
--Fredrick B. Wilcox

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
--Helen Keller

You don't drown by falling in the water.   You drown by staying there.
-- Robert Allen

It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon.
Nor does it take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap.
Wisdom is not obvious.  You must see the subtle
and notice the hidden to be victorious.
-- Sun  Szu

One person with a belief is equal to the force of
ninety-nine who have only interest.
-- Fredrick B. Wilcox

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life
is often merely the will to try it and faith to believe it is possible.
--Richard M. Devos

To me a winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents,
works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses those skills to
accomplish his goals.  Even when I lost, I learned what my weaknesses
were, and went out the next day to turn those weaknesses into strengths.
--Larry Bird

The future doesn't just happen, it is created.
--Will & Ariel Durant

Integrity is one of several paths, it distinguishes itself
from the others because is it is the right path,
and the only one upon which you will never get lost.
--M. H. McKee

Leadership:  The art of getting someone else to do something
that you want done because he wants to do it.
--Dwight Eisenhower

Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible.
--Cadet maxim, West Point Military Academy

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave.
The moment he does more than is required, he becomes a free man.
--A.W. Robertson

Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.
-Unknown

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance,
the wise man grows it under his feet.
--James Oppenheim

True success is overcoming the fear of becoming successful.
--Paul Sweeney

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation
with the bricks that others throw at him.
-Unknown

What the mind of a man can conceive and believe, it can be achieved.
--Napolean Hill

"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change;
what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."
--G. C. Lichtenberg

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
--Francis Bacon

You become a champion by fighting one more round.
When things are tough, you fight one more round.
--James Corbett

Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness
and each tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.
--Sanskrit poem

Use what talents you possess;
the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
--Henry Van Dyke

And remember this: if you ever think you're too small to be effective
-- you've never been in bed with a mosquito.
--Anita Roddick

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says,
"This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
--William James

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people:
those who do the work and those who take the credit.
He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
--Indira Gandhi

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul;
the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.
--Napoleon Hill

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

It was all right to talk about it. They made plans. They had a moment's vision,
a fleeting dream. But in the end, some lack in their moral fiber,
some gnawing, nibbling fear held them back. They never started.
They stayed where they were. They dropped back.
They failed somehow to release within themselves that power which lies in every individual,
and is released only when he starts forward in a straight line for the object
about which he has dreamed. The man who never starts, never feels that sense of power.
--Ray Dickinson
Cowards Never Started

Service is the rent we pay for being.
It is the very purpose of life,
and not something you do in your spare time.
--Marion Wright Edelman

Success is an inner process.  If you have it inside, you are not looking for it and,
consequently, you bring success to everything you do.
--Wayne Dyer

It's not what you are that holds you back,
it's what you think you're not
--Denis Waitley

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.
--Larry Eisenberg

Life is no brief candle to me.
It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations
--George Bernard Shaw

The man who believes he can do something is probably right,
and so is the man who believes he can’t.
--From profile of Wiley on ISCA

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.
--Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

 

Read, every day, something no one else is reading.
Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.
It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
--Christopher Morley

 

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

 

SLOW DANCE

Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round
or listened to the rain slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down. Don't dance so fast.  Time is short.  The music won't last.

Do you run through each day on the fly? When you are asked "How are you?"
do you hear the reply?  When the day is done,
do you lie in your bed with the next hundred chores running through your head?

You better slow down. Don't dance so fast.  Time is short.  The music won't last.

Ever told your child, we'll do it tomorrow and in your haste, not see his sorrow?  Ever lost touch, let a good friendship die 'cause you never had time to call and say "Hi"?

You better slow down. Don't dance so fast.  Time is short.  The music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere you miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened gift... thrown away...

Life is not a race.  Do take it slower.  Hear the music before the song is over.

-- An email I received supposedly
passed on by a little girl who is dying of cancer

 

We are not in a position in which we have nothing
to work with. We already have capacities, talents,
direction, missions, callings.
--Abraham Maslow

 

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong,
because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.
Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
--Dr. David M. Burns

 

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly.
Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains --- except kill it.
--Erich Fromm

 

If you can dream it, you can do it.
--Walt Disney

 

You will never "find" time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
--Charles Buxton

 

Most of the things worth doing in the world
had been declared impossible before they were done.
--Justice Louis D. Brandeis

 

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
They see things in the soft haze of a spring day
or in the red fire of a long winter's evening.
Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them;
nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light
which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
--Woodrow Wilson

 

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
--Sir Winston Churchill

 

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past,
but by the responsibility for our future.
--George Bernard Shaw

 

The universe is change;
our life is what our thoughts make it.
--Marcus Aurelius

 

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph
than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.

--Woodrow Wilson

 

Look and you will find it-what is unsought will go undetected.
--Sophocles

 

Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
-Unknown

 

One learns to accept one's self from having been accepted by significant people.
--Arthur Combs

 

Still, the last sad memory hovers round, and sometimes drifts across like floating mist cutting off sunshine and chilling the remembrance of happier times.

There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell; and with these in mind I say... Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are not without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime.

 

Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think... what may be the end.
---Edward Whypmer

 

The world's best reformers are those who begin on themselves.
--George Bernard Shaw

 

 The greatest discovery of my generation
is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
-- William James

 

 He that loses wealth loses much:
but he that loses courage loses all.
-- Saavedra Cervantes

 

 It is not death that a man should fear,
but he should fear never beginning to live.
--Aurelius Marcus

 

Set your expectations high;
find men and women whose integrity and values you respect;
get their agreement on a course of action;
and give them your ultimate trust.
 -- John Akers

 

 He that loses wealth loses much:
but he that loses courage loses all.
--Saavedra Cervantes

 

 It is not death that a man should fear,
but he should fear never beginning to live.
--Aurelius Marcus

 

Set your expectations high;
find men and women whose integrity and values you respect;
get their agreement on a course of action;
and give them your ultimate trust.
 -- John Akers

 

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

 

To realize the value of one year:
Ask a student who has failed a final exam.

To realize the value of one month:
Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.

To realize the value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of one hour:
Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.

To realize the value of one minute:
Ask a person who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To realize the value of one second:
Ask a person who has survived an accident.

To realize the value of one millisecond:
Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.

Time waits for no one. Treasure every moment you have. You will treasure it even more when you can share it with someone special.
-Unknown

 

The world's best reformers are those who begin on themselves.
--George Bernard Shaw

 

 The greatest discovery of my generation
is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
--William James

 

A man can do all things if he but wills them.
-- Leon Battista Alberti

 

Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Because I am a woman, I have to make unusual efforts to succeed.
If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes."
They will say, "Women don't have what it takes."
--Unknown

 

Juggling Life

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air.

You name them - Work - Family - Health - Friends - Spirit, and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls-family, health, friends and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same.

You must understand that and strive for balance in your life. How?

1. Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.

2. Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you.

3. Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would your life, for without them, life is meaningless.

4. Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live ALL the days of your life.

5. Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

6. Don't be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us together.

7. Don't be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.

8. Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

9. Don't run through life so fast that you forget not only where you've been, but also where you are going.

10. Don't forget that a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

11. Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily.

12. Don't use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved.

Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way. Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery, and Today is a gift: that's why we call it - "The Present"

 

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