50 Highly Inspiring Quotes
“Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.”
- Henri L. Bergson”I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
- Hellen Keller
“Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.”
- Josh Billings
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there”
- Will Rogers
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
- Christopher Columbus
“To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.”
- St Catherine of Siena
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we took so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened up for us”
- Helen Keller
“We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.”
- Talmund
“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.”
- Norman Vincent Peale
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
- Dr Wayne Dyer
“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”
- Theodore Rubin
“Pessimist : A person who says that O is the last letter of ZERO, instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY.”
- Anonymous
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
- Thomas A Edison
“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting”
- Elizabeth Bibesco
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”
- B. Olatunji
“When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
- Franklin D Roosevelt
“Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude.”
- Zig Ziglar
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
- Winston Churchill
“The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.”
- Dennis Green
“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”
- Muhammad Ali
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
- Dale Carnegie
“So many of our dreams at first seems impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
- Christopher Reeve
“Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves. Some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.”
- Sam Ewing
“There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there’s virtually no competition.”
- Steven J Ross
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
- Confucious
“Many of life’s failures are people who had not realized how close they were to success when they gave up.”
- Thomas A Edison
“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”
- Stephen Covey
“Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.”
- Peter Drucker
“Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!”
- Donald Gardner
“Success is what you attract by the person you become.”
- Jim Rohn
“You have to ‘Be’ before you can ‘Do’ and ‘Do’ before you can ‘Have’.
- Zig Ziglar
“You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people to get what they want.”
- Zig Ziglar
“The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others wish to join us.”
- Hubert Humphrey
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus when the limo breaks down.”
- Oprah Winfrey
“Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.”
- Jim Rohn
“It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.”
- Jim Rohn
“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal.”
- Victor Hugo
“There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.”
- Po Bronson
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
- Waldo Emerson
“Use what talents you possess, the woods will be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
- Henry van Dyke
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
- Bertrand Russell
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.”
- Winston Churchill
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life’s about creating yourself.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.”
- Harold B Melchart
“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.”
- Benjamin Mays
“More often in life, we end up regretting the chances in life that we had, but didn’t take them, than those chances that we took and wished we hadn’t.”
- Anonymous
“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.”
- Pope John Paul I
“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.”
- Earl Shoaf
This list was taken from the great website, Goal-Setting-College.com
Self Confidence Quotes
It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.
-W.C. Fields
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
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
-Author Unknown
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
-Peter T. Mcintyre
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
-Anaïs Nin, Diary, 1969
Leadership Quotes
Leadership is action, not position.
-Donald H. McGannon
You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.
-Gene Mauch
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
-Elaine Agather
You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
-Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
-Albert Schweitzer
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
-Robert Jarvik
A leader is a dealer in hope.
-Napoleon Bonaparte, attributed
Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.
-Tom Peters
Quotes About Winning
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment; full effort is full victory.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.
-Diane Feinstein
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
- Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
- Josh Billings
Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.
- Malcolm Forbes
A loser doesn’t know what he’ll do if he loses, but talks about what he’ll do if he wins, and a winner doesn’t talk about what he’ll do if he wins, but knows what he’ll do if he loses.
- Mario Puzo
Best Friend Quotes
Friends are the people God gave us to keep us company… Best friends are the siblings God forgot to give us.
-Unknown
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
-Unknown
A true friend is someone who knows there’s something wrong even when you have the biggest smile on your face.
-Unknown
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.
-Arnold H. Glasgow
Quotes by US Presidents
One man with courage is a majority.
-Thomas Jefferson
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.
-Martin Van Buren
An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.
-Millard Fillmore
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
-William McKInley
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
-Woodrow Wilson
I have never been hurt by anything I didn’t say.
-Calvin Coolidge
Personality Quotes
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
-Fran Lebowitz
Show me an actress who isn’t a personality
and I’ll show you a woman who isn’t a star.
-Kathryn Hepburn
The ‘self-image’ is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
-Maxwell Maltz
To be successful, you have to be able to relate to people; they have to be satisfied with your personality to be able to do business with you and to build a relationship with mutual trust.
-George Ross
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn`t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Discipline Quotes
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.
-Jim Rohn
If we don’t discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.
-William Feather
If you put off everything until you’re sure of it, you’ll get nothing done.
-Norman Vincent Peale
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.
-Harry Truman
Hope Quotes
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
-Unknown
All human wisdom is summed up in two words – wait and hope.
-Alexander Dumas
Never deprive someone of hope — it may be all they have.
-Unknown
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
-Norman Vincent Peale
A leader is a dealer in hope.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Fitness Quotes
Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise of health.
The body of man is a machine which winds its own springs.
Fitness – If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united.
A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.
