Publishing Change Your Life

Achieve Your Full Potential: 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life

Achieve Your Full Potential:

1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life

Change Your Life Publishing has published the following books:

Quotable Quotes: Actors From The Past

Quotable Quotes: Actresses From The Past

Quotable Quotes: Presidents of USA Vol 1

Quotable Quotes:  Presidents of USA  Vol 2

Achieve Your Full Potential: 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life

CATERGORIES:

Motivation – 51 Quotes

Achievement – 99 Quotes

Love – 282 Quotes

Greatness – 69 Quotes

Success – 9 Quotes

Strength – 67 Quotes

Victory – 26 Quotes

Happiness – 228 Quotes

Dream – 63 Quotes

Leadership – 97 Quotes

Winning – 63 Quotes

Habit – 44 Quotes

Knowledge – 246 Quotes

Discipline – 47 Quotes

Perseverance – 69 Quotes

Health – 45 Quotes

Character – 175 Quotes

Opportunity – 78 Quotes

Willpower – 16 Quotes

Determination – 30 Quotes

Survival – 13 Quotes

Total Quotes: 1817

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means  without the prior written permission of the above publisher of this book.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

PROLOGUE

MOTIVATION

ACHIEVEMENT

LOVE

GREATNESS

SUCCESS

STRENGTH

VICTORY

HAPPINESS

DREAMS

LEADERSHIP

WINNING

HABIT

KNOWLEDGE

DISCIPLINE

PERSEVERANCE

HEALTH

CHARACTER

OPPORTUNITY

WILLPOWER

DETERMINATION

SURVIVAL

EPILOGUE

PROLOGUE

Do you know that know that scientists claim that we only use 10% or less of our brain at any given time? Imagine if we were able to use the whole 100%…

Unfortunately, I don’t know the secret to unlocking the  90% or so of your brain. However, I do know the secret to changing your life. And that secret is outlined throughout these 1817 quotes.

These quotes, arranged in 21 different categories, cover a wide range of topics, from motivation to success, winning, leadership, character, dreams, determination, love, happiness, and greatness.

And from people such as Walt Disney, Confucius, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald Reagan, as well as one of the most powerful men that America has ever seen, John D. Rockefeller, you can be assured that no famous person has been missed out.

But time’s a wasting, so let’s cut the chit chat and get down to what you came here to do. Which is to change your life, both inside and out.

Enjoy….

MOTIVATION

51 Inspirational Quotes

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

Walt Disney

“Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?”

Eliza Dushku

“Leap, and the net will appear.”

John Burroughs

“I can, therefore I am.”

Simone Weil

“I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.”

Ken Venturi

“I was motivated to be different in part, because I was different.”

Donna Brazile

“I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.”

Mia Hamm

“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.”

Emile Zola

“If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”

Dale Carnegie

“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”

John D.R Rockefeller

“In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.”

Rupert Murdoch

“It's always too early to quit.”

Norman Vincent Peale

“Know or listen to those who know.”

Baltasar Gracian

“Only the educated are free.”

Epictetus

“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”

Robert H. Schuller

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

Aristotle

“Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.”

Bo Jackson

“Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.”

Eileen Caddy

“The dog that trots about finds a bone.”

Golda Meir

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

Thomas Paine

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”

Tony Robbins

“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”

Peter Marshall

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”

Epictetus

“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.”

Confucius

“The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.”

Muhammed Iqbal

“The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.”

Sylvia Browne

“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”

Confucius

“The wise does at once what the fool does at last.”

Baltasar Gracian

“There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.”

Richard Rorty

“Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.”

Denis Waitley

“No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.”

Jessica Savitch

“One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.”

Thomas Fuller

“One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.”

Peter Marshall

“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.”

Michael Korda

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”

Ayn Rand

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

William James

“Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Always desire to learn something useful.”

Sophocles

“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.”

Og Mandino

“Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.”

Saint Teresa of Avila

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”

Wayne Dyer

“Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”

John Donne

“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.”

William James

“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

“Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.”

Swami Sivananda

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.”

Baruch Spinoza

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.”

Victor Kiam

“Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.”

Alfred A. Montapert

“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.”

Baruch Spinoza

ACHIEVEMENT

99 Inspirational Quotes

“If you're insincere, it's manipulative.”

Zig Ziglar

"Mere longevity is a good things for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity."

Gabriel Heatter

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only way around is through."

Robert Frost

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

Vincent Van Gogh

"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more."

Jonas Salk

“You've got to be before you can do, and do before you can have.”

Zig Ziglar

"If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy."

A. P. Gouthey

"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."

Dale Carnegie

"Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."

Chinese proverb

“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”

Zig Ziglar

"A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change."

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."

Confucius

"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

Epictetus

"We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best."

David Bailey

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

Orison Swett Marden

“Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever.”

Zig Ziglar

"The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary."

Thomas Edison

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."

Norman Vincent Peale

"It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude."

Zig Ziglar

"Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that."

Sir James M. Barrie

"We will either find a way, or make one."

Hannibal

"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."

Helen Hayes

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."

Napoleon Hill

"High achievement always takes place in a framework of high expectation."

Jack Kinder

"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him."

Golo Mann

"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."

Foster C. Mcclellan

"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."

Pablo Picasso

"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."

Plutarch

"The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way."

Anthony Robbins

”All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.”

Zig Ziglar

"Nothing is as difficulty as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas."

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential, these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."

Eddie Robinson

"The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are."

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

"Never mistake activity for achievement. "

John Wooden

“Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it's free - but it can't go anywhere.”

Zig Ziglar

"I love America. We've got the only system that works - it keeps everyone hustling."

J.R. Simplot

"The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful."

Alfred Adler

"Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least."

Anonymous

"God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die! "

Anonymous

"If you don’t climb the mountain, you can’t view the plain."

Anonymous

"Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk."

Anonymous

“Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.”

Zig Ziglar

"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."

Anonymous

"The man who wakes up and finds himself famous hasn't been asleep."

Anonymous

"To go beyond is as bad as to fall short."

Anonymous

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”

Zig Ziglar

"To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth."

Anonymous

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances."

Bruce Barton

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."

William Blake

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

William JenningsBryan

"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things."

Frank Clark

"This became a credo of mine . . . attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."

Bette Davis

"We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself. . . . It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting."

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

"Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can."

Henry Drummond

"Hell, there are no rules here , we're trying to accomplish something."

Thomas Alva Edison

"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective."

General Dwight David Eisenhower

"What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities And be a member of the team. In no country but America, I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements."

Benjamin F. Fairless

"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

“You can finish school, and even make it easy – but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.”

Zig Ziglar

"If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty."

Heber J. Grant

"Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."

Dag Hammarskj’ld

"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."

Helen Hayes

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."

Napolean Hill

“Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people.”

Zig Ziglar

"We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys."

Eric Hoffer

"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work."

H. L. Hunt

"Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon,  deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits." William James

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

Robert Francis Kennedy

"It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. "

Vince Lombardi

“Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side.”

Zig Ziglar

“You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.”

Zig Ziglar

"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."

Niccol Machiavelli

“The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.”

Zig Ziglar

"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we might have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do."

Gian-Carlo Menotti

"Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. . . . Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement."

Leo J. Muir

"Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit."

Hugh Nibley

"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration . . and expectation."

Jack Nicklaus

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

General George Smith Patton, Jr.

"Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage." Frederick Pierce

"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."

Ayn Rand

"She looked at the crowd and she felt, simultaneously, astonishment that they should stare at her, when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible, and a sense of fitness that they should be here, that they should want to see it, because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others."

Ayn Rand

"There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting."

Dr. Theodor Reik

"A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high."

William Sharp

“Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.”

Zig Ziglar

"The things we accept as normal and enjoy today were considered impossible twenty-five years ago and beyond the power of man to achieve. The early "Buck Rogers" and "Flash Gordon" comic strips were fantastic and considered outside the realm of man's attainment. They were considered figments of man's imagination, but now many of these miraculous, imaginative things have become realities and man is pushing onward toward new and higher goals of achievement. We are now mentally prepared for every new invention and advancement in technology and the sciences, but, nevertheless, stand amazed at man's powers to create and achieve. These outstanding accomplishments, which approach the miraculous, to me are unquestioned evidence of man's divine nature. Man has sent up satellites which circle the globe. He has taken the breathtaking, miraculous ride about the earth. He expects to circle the moon and even land man on the outer planets; also he considers feasible floating platforms in outer space as intermediate stations for interplanetary travel."

Delbert L. Stapley

“When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.”

Zig Ziglar

“The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.”

Zig Ziglar

"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."

Alfred North Whitehead

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

John Wooden

"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

"You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be." Robert Collier

"Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have." Jean-Paul Sartre

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

Conrad Hilton

"Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish."

Brian Tracy

"The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come."

C.S. Lewis

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

Anonymous

“It's not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that's important.”

Zig Ziglar

LOVE

282 Inspiring Quotes

"No bed is big enough to hold three.”

German Proverb

"To understand your parents, love you must raise children yourself."

Chinese Proverb

"Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse."

Joseph Addison

"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

Joseph Addison

"Love of country is like love of woman, he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good."

Felix Adler

"I could never love where I could not respect."

Charlotte Elizabeth Aiss

"Love is a great beautifier."

Louisa May Alcott

“What is lovely never dies,

But passes into other loveliness,

Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"I was nauseous and tingly all over. . . . I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Woody Allen

"I used to think that being nice to people and feeling nice was loving people. Now I know it isn't. Love is the most immense unselfishness and it is so big I've never touched it."

FlorenceAllshom

"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind."

Henri Fredric Amiel

"Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life." Smiley Blanton

"What force is more potent than love."

Igor Stravinsky

"Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens."

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit."

Kahlil Gibran

"Food offered without affection is like food offered to the dead."

Hindu Proverb

"How does one measure time? No, not in day, months, or years. It is measured by the most precious of all things: Love. Without which all beings and things whether brave and/or beautiful would perish."

Irish Blessing

"It's easy to halve the potato where there’s love."

Irish Proverb

"Love and eggs are best when they are fresh."

Russian Proverb

"Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass."

French Proverb

"In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person."

Margaret C. Anderson

"I am a lover and have not found my thing to love."

Sherwood Anderson

"Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves."

Andrew

"A love that defies all logic is sometimes the most logical thing in the world."

Anonymous

"A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be, never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart."

Anonymous

"A self-centered man admitted: "Sure, I know that the Bible says to love our neighbors as ourselves. But frankly, I don't believe that my neighbors can stand all that affection."

Anonymous

"A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like a child who sings at night when he is afraid."

Anonymous

"But isn't hate just scorned love?"

Anonymous

"Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it."

Anonymous

"He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her."

Anonymous

"I did not hear the words you said, instead I heard the love."

Anonymous

"I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love."

Anonymous

"If music be the food of love, then play on."

Anonymous

"If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater."

Anonymous

"If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.”

Anonymous

"If you deny childhood, you deny life. They can’t speak up for themselves so we must. It's like, how do we define love, It's a very, very deep feeling, but It's I think the most important force of life."

Anonymous

"If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?"

Anonymous

"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with."

Anonymous

"If you love someone, you must be strong enough to allow them to be."

Anonymous

"In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future."

Anonymous

"It is better to have loved and lost, than to have hated and won."

Anonymous

"It is kindness in a person, not beauty that wins our love."

Anonymous

"It's much easier to turn a friendship into love, than love into friendship."

Anonymous

"Lonely is a man without love."

Anonymous

"Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen."

Anonymous

"Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion."

Anonymous

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give which is everything."

Anonymous

"Love is eternal as long as it lasts."

Anonymous

"Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance."

Anonymous

"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever."

Anonymous

"Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less."

Anonymous

"Love is what dreams are made of."

Anonymous

"Love may conquer all, but it needs time as its field general."

Anonymous

"Love your friend with his faults.”

Anonymous

"Make love, not war; get married and do both!"

Anonymous

"Make your life an act of love."

Anonymous

"My need is not to be on the outside glaring in; its to be in the center with you. To be loved is nice, but not essential. To love someone, that's what makes life worth living."

Anonymous

"No one in love is free, or wants to be."

Anonymous

"Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love until he's owned a dog. He can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes."

Anonymous

"Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk."

Anonymous

"Sometimes a new love comes between old friends. Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there."

Anonymous

"Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts."

Anonymous

"The heart that loves is always young."

Anonymous

"The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance."

Anonymous

"'Tis better to have loved and lost, then paid for it and not liked it."

Anonymous

"To be loved is to live forever in someone's heart."

Anonymous

"To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; To teach and never be weary is love."

Anonymous

"To love something is to give it room enough to grow."

Anonymous

"True love is the outward demonstration of inward conviction."

Anonymous

"We can do no great thing, only small things, with great love."

Anonymous

"We learn to love that to which we give our time."

Anonymous

"We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving."

Anonymous

"What is Love?

It's silence when your words would hurt,

It's patience when your neighbor’s curt,

It's defense when the scandal flows,

It's thoughtfulness for another’s woes,

It's promptness when stern duty calls,

It's courage when misfortune falls.”

Anonymous

"What seems to grow fairer to me as life goes by is the love and the grace and tenderness of it; not its wit and cleverness and grandeur of knowledge, grand as knowledge is, but just the laughter of children, and the friendship of friends, and the cozy talk by the fire, and sight of flowers, and the sound of music."

Anonymous

"When you find a job you love, you'll never have to work a day in your life."

Anonymous

"When you love somebody, you should follow your heart. Sometimes when you are with the person you love the most, you feel confused. You don’t know who you are or what you want but that is totally understandable. It is natural to let go of a part of yourself to be with that person but the important part is that you don’t lose your own identity in the process!"

Anonymous

"Where we love is truly home; home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

Anonymous

"Without love intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence love is not enough."

Anonymous

"Without loving acts, loving words are meaningless."

Anonymous

"Work is love made visible."

Anonymous

"You have achieved success if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much."

Anonymous

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love."

Anonymous

"You've got to dance like no one's watching and love like it's never going to hurt."

Anonymous

"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

Jean Anouilh

"Things are beautiful if you love them."

Jean Anouilh

"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."

Jnos Arany

"To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose is the next best thing."

Maximillian Arturo

"Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood."

Elizabeth Ashley

"In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes."

Elizabeth Ashley

"Love should be a vehicle allowed to travel without limitations."

Marvin J. Ashton

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."

Wysten Hugh Auden

"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others."

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost . ."

Richard David Bach

"Respect for sovereignty, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love."

Richard David Bach

"A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."

Francis Bacon

"It is impossible to love and be wise."

Francis Bacon

"Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love."

Philip James Bailey

"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile."

Lynda Barry

"True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing."

Leanna L. Bartram

"Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood."

Louise Beal

"Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough."

Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

"Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled by them."

Henry Ward Beecher

"We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents."

Henry Ward Beecher

"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you."

Brendan Behan

"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret."

Aphra Behn

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."

Ingrid Bergman

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."

Josh Billings

"Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."

Josh Billings

"I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love."

William Blake

"If a thing loves, it is infinite."

William Blake

"The secret of art is love."

Antoine Bourdelle

"It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it."

Christian Nestell Bove

"Our first and last love is self-love."

Christian Nestell Bove

"When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels leave heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy."

Brahman

"When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight."

MichaelBridge

"After observing the loved and the unloved, we found the loved ones rarely tried to manipulate others."

W. W. Broadbent

"The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule."

Anita Brookner

"The best proof of love is trust."

Dr. Joyce Brothers

"No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along."

Dr. Joyce Brothers

"The ability to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts."

Heywood Campbell Broun

"To love is to transform; to be a poet."

Norman O. Brown

"Who so loves believes the impossible."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."

Robert Browning

"Loveliest of lovely things are they

On earth that soonest pass away.

The rose that lives its little hour

Is prized beyond the sculptured flower."

William Cullen Bryant

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love, this is the eternal rule."

Siddhartha Guatama Buddha

"Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem."

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

"Had we never loved sae kindly,

Had we never loved sae blindly,

Never met or never parted,

We had ne'er been broken-hearted!"

Robert Burns

"To see her is to love her,

And love but her forever;

For Nature made her what she is,

And never made anither!"

Robert Burns

"No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread."

Robert Burns

"No happiness is like unto it, no love so great as that of man and wife, no such comfort as a sweet wife."

Robert Burton

"Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness."

Theodore M. Burton

"A wife says to her husband (or vice versa), "Do you love me?"

"Of course," he replies. "I've been married to you for twenty years, haven't I?"

How satisfied would we be if we presented someone with a vintage wine and, upon asking his opinion of it, he replied, "I'm drinking it, aren't I?"

Love still needs expression between those who share it."

Leo Buscaglia

"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time . . . It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other."

Leo Buscaglia

"The person who has earned love the least needs it the most."

F. Enzio Busche

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."

Comte de Bussy-Rabutin

"L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaissance. (Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.)"

Comte de Bussy-Rabutin

"It is better to have loved and lost than to never have lost at all.”

Samuel Butler

"All love at first, like generous wine,

Ferments and frets until tis fine;

But when tis settled on the lee,

And from the impurer matter free,

Becomes the richer still the older,

And proves the pleasanter the colder."

Samuel Butler, the older

"To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it."

Samuel Butler, the younger

"Respect is love in plain clothes."

Frankie Byrne

"In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

George Gordon, Lord Byron

"Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence."

George Gordon, Lord Byron

"Love is so much better when you are not married."

Maria Callas

"The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself."

Albert Camus

"You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip."

Jonathan Carroll

"France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door."

Barbara Cartland

"Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough."

Dr. George Washington Carver

"Where there is great love, there are always miracles."

Willa Sibert Cather

"Love not what you are, but what you may become."

Miguel de Cervantes

"Love, such as in society, is only the exchange of two fantasies, and the contact of two bodies."

Sabastien Chamfort

"To love is to approach each other center to center."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable."

John Cheever

"Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?"

Confucius

"He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning."

Confucius

"Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile."

Sean Connery

"Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved."

George Crabbe

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."

Joan Crawford

"Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'"

Rodney Dangerfield

"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible, it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

Barbara DeAngelis

"For two people to please one another they must be very nearly alike, so that they may understand each other, and slightly different, so that they may have something to understand in each other."

Diane

"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love."

Benjamin Disraeli

"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."

Benjamin Disraeli

"We are all born for love. . . . It is the principle of existence, and its only end."

Benjamin Disreali

"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."

John Donne

"But love’s a malady without a cure."

John Dryden

"Pains of love be sweeter far, than all other pleasures are."

John Dryden

"When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!"

John Dryden

"If you have respect and consideration for one another, you’ll make it."

Mary Durso

"No, this trick won't work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

Albert Einstein

"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear."

George Eliot

"All mankind love a lover."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife’s hatred, they are borne each of them apart."

Empedocles

"Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.”

Euripides

"Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal."

Richard L. Evans

"Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love."

Marsilio Ficino

"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."

Henry Fielding

"There is a lady sweet and kind, Was never face so pleased my mind; I did but see her passing by, And yet I love her till I die."

Thomas Ford

"Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eye."

Harry Emerson Fosdick, D.D.

"If people are allowed to love life, then they should also be allowed to hate it."

Brian Fox

"My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life."

Jim Fox

"A man is already halfway in love with a woman who listens to him."

Brendan Francis

"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality."

Viktor Frankl

"Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession."

Benjamin Franklin

"Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults."

Benjamin Franklin

"Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail."

Richard Friedman

"Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you."

Erich Fromm

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”

Erich Fromm

"Love at the lips was touch, As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.”

Robert Lee Frost

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

Robert Lee Frost

"We love the things we love for what they are."

Robert Lee Frost

"Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference."

Libbie Fudim

"It's an extra dividend when you like the girl you’re in love with."

Clark Gable

"Love is a game that two can play and both win."

Eva Gabor

"A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he’s finished."

Zsa Zsa Gabor

"Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do."

Zsa Zsa Gabor

"One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears."

Zsa Zsa Gabor

"We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine."

Eduardo Galeano

"Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable."

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another: and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind."

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected."

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"Love is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another."

Richard Garnett

"We must love one another. Only [by doing] so can our long years of toil and struggle reach full reward and we be crowned with life everlasting."

Susa Young Gates

"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind."

Theophile Gautier

"For you see, each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow."

Rosemonde Gerard

"The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day and hour with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure."

Gibbon

"And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

Kahlil Gibran

"Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."

Kahlil Gibran

"Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of seasons."

Kahlil Gibran

"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."

Kahlil Gibran

"Your love shines in my heart as the sun that shines upon the earth."

Eleanor di

". . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures."

Ellen Glasgow

"Romance is about the little things."

Gregory J. Godeck

"A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way as us."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Love is something eternal, the aspects may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and it is a good lamp, but now it is shedding light, too, and that is its real function."

Vincent van Gogh

"The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others."

Vincent van Gogh

"But love is many things, none of them logical."

William Goldman

"All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them."

Oliver Goldsmith

"I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."

Oliver Goldsmith

"Love you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy."

Charles William Gordon

"The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love."

Ernesto 'Che Guevara

"Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."

Ursula Le Guin

"Find someone to love . . . and, oh, someone to love you."

Sacha Guitry

"Someone has written, Love is a verb." It requires doing not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed."

David B. Haight

"Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."

Helen Hayes

"The story of a love is not important what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.”

Helen Hayes

"The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love."

Helen Hayes

"Love is a hole in the heart."

Ben Hecht

"Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people."

Cynthia Heimel

"If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people."

Robert A. Heinlein

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get . . .

Only with what you are expected to give. . . .

Which is everything."

Katherine Hepburn

"You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible."

Katherine Hepburn

"Love and a cough cannot be hid."

George Herbert

"The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children."

George Herbert

"I do love I know not what; Sometimes this, and sometimes that."

Robert Herrick

"Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed."

Cullen Hightower

"Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned a dog. He can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes."

Gene Hill

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are."

Houssaye

"No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves."

Ed Howe

"You needn’t love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough."

Ed Howe

"The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

Victor Hugo

"Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much."

Zora Neale Hurston

"With love and patience, nothing is impossible."

Daisaku Ikeda,

"Learn to love good books. There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing."

Robert Green Ingersoll

"The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or ever touched, they must be felt with the heart. We should do everything within reason to save a good relationship. But if we are constantly trying to save it, it's probably not a good relationship."

Javan

"Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it."

Jerome Klapka Jerome

"It is a beautiful necessity of our nature to love something."

Douglas Jerrold

"Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life."

Douglas William Jerrold

"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved."

Barbara Johnson

"The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking."

Dr. Samuel Johnson

"Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles."

Beverly Jones

"There shall be no love lost."

Ben Johnson

"Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never . . . never forget it."

Curtis Judalet

"Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago. . . . Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self."

Carl Gustav Jung

"Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."

Carl Gustav Jung

"A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility."

John Keats

"People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense."

Ken Kesey

"The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost."

Kiekegaard

"When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world no matter how imperfect becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love."

Soren Kierkegaard

"I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.”

Alfred Joyce Kilmer

"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

Stephen King

"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments."

Mary St. Leger Kingsley

"If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers. We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear."

Elizabeth Kubler Ross

"At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."

Jean de La Bruyre

"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as wind blows out candles and fans fire."

Franois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship."

Franois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it."

Franois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant."

Franois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists or simulate it where it does not."

Franois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies."

Franois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"The value of compassion cannot be overemphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be born by an individual than to know no one cares or understands."

Arthur H. Stainback

GREATNESS

69 Inspirational Quotes

"Don’t wait until you’re a man to be great. Be a great boy."

Anonymous

"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things."

Lawrence D. Bell

"Greatness after all, ion spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small."

Phillips Brooks

"Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket."

Andrew Carnegie

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

"Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions."

Benjamin Disreali

"Every great man is unique."

Ralpho Waldo Emerson

"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood. Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let us consider the nature of true greatness in men. The people who can catch hold of men’s minds and feelings and inspire them to do things bigger than themselves are the people who are remembered in history. . . . those who stir feelings and imagination and make men struggle toward perfection."

Henry Eyring

"Creativity means believing you have greatness."

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet." William F. Halsey

"Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down."

Hitopadesa

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be."

Henri Frederic Amiel

"Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."

William Shakespeare

"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."

Thomas Carlyle

"Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions."

Benjamin Disreali

"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not."

Marya Mannes

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great." Harry S. Truman

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

Winston Churchill

"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary."

Lou Holtz

"The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself."

Billy Mills

"It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age."

Joseph Addison

"Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs."

Sherman Finesilver

"True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind."

Froude

"A great man will not trample upon a worm, nor sneak to an emperor."

Thomas Fuller

"Recipe for greatness? To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate and to love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great."

Zane Grey

"There would be no great ones if there were no little ones."

George Herber

"A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time."

Eric Hoffer

"The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment."

Elbert Green Hubbard

"Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first."

Ben Johnson

"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."

Abraham Lincoln

"If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both."

Horace Mann

"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. "

Mencius

"I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet."

Ogden Nash

"So when a great man dies

For years beyond our ken

The light he leaves behind him lies

Upon the paths of men."

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

"If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."

John Ruskin

"A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. The man capable of greatness of soul will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe.

He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great as the world. In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man."

Bertrand Arthur William Russell

"A desire for bigness has hurt many folks. Putting oneself in the limelight at the expense of others is a wrong idea of greatness. The secret of greatness rather than bigness is to acclimate oneself to one's place of service and be true to one's own convictions. A life of this kind of service will forever remain the measure of one's true greatness."

Richard W. Shelly, Jr.

"Some things have not changed since the dawn of history, and bid fair to last out time itself. One of these things is the capacity for greatness in man his capacity for being often the master of the event and sometimes even more the changer of the course of history itself. This capacity for greatness is a very precious gift, and we are under a danger in our day of stifling it."

Dr. William Clyde de Vane

"To achieve great things we must live as if we were never going to die."

Marquis de Vauvenargues

"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

"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."

Brian Tracy

"You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be." Robert Collier

"Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well."

Henry David Thoreau

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

Winston Churchill

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."

Hyman Rickover

"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe."

Winston Churchill

"Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage."

John F. Kennedy

"He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'"

Martin Luther King Jr.

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."

John Milton

"Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."

Friedrich Nietzsche

SUCCESS

9 Inspirational Quotes

"The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight."

Mark Caine

“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."

Christopher Morley

"When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success."

Orison Swett Marden

"The great successful men of the world have used their imagination they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building."

Robert Collier

"Success doesn't come to you, you go to it."

Marva Collins

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."

Vincent T. Lombardi

"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."

Dale Carnegie

"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand."

Bruce Barton

"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

STRENGTH

67 Inspirational Quotes

"It is truly said: It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do."

Chow Ching

"Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm."

Jean Paul Richter

"Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away." Dag Hammarskjold

"Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get." Elbert Hubbard

"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."

J. F. Clarke

"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings as eagles; They shall run, and not be weary; and They shall walk, and not faint."

[Isaiah 40:31]Bible

"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education."

Maya Angelou

"Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about."

Tom Chappel

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye."

Helen Keller

"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."

Seneca

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

Mahatma Gandhi

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

Thomas Paine

"We acquire the strength we have overcome."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible

to avoid hitting, but never hit soft."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Strength is a matter of a made up mind."

John Beecher

"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."

Calvin Coolidge

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength."

Ralph Sockman

"What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can."

German Proverb

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks."

Phillips Brooks

"Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used."

Richard E. Byrd

"Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength."

Henry Ward Beecher

"The burden is equal to the horse's strength."

The Talmud

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within."

Anonymous

"You can’t really be strong until you see a funny side to things."

Anonymous

"Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust."

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used."

Richard E. Byrd

"When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes."

Joseph Campbell

"Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do."

Lord Chesterfield

"It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account."

Confucius

"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would have thus been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." Charles Darwin

"For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache."

Drake

"Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace."

John Dryden

"If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way."

Erik Erikson

"Patience and time do more than strength or passion."

Jean De La Fontaine

"The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven."

Kahlil Gibran

"By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect."

Goethe

"He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without."

Goethe

"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do."

Elbert Hubbard

"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity."

Ben Jonson

"There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. Put your mind to work for you. Believe that you can do it. The world will tell you that you can't. Yet, in your belief you'll find the strength, you'll find the ability, to do it anyway."

Ralph Marston

"There is [a] spiritual strength derived from the subjecting of the physical appetite to the will of the individual. "He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than king." If there were no other virtues in fasting but gaining strength of character, that alone would be sufficient justification for its universal acceptance."

David McKay

"There is nothing so strong as gentleness, and nothing so gentle as strength."

Leo Muir

"I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power."

Jawaharlal Nehru

"The Enoch situation recalls another quotation, far more recent, from President Spencer W. Kimball in his great bicentennial address: "We commit vast resources to the fabrication of . . . ships, planes, missiles, fortifications and depend on them for deliverance. When threatened, we become anti-enemy instead of pro-kingdom of God. . . . What are we to fear when the Lord is with us? Can we not take the Lord at his word and exercise a particle of faith in him? . . . We must leave off the worship of modern-day idols and a reliance on the arm of flesh." Mr. Nixon has an answer to that one: Faith without strength is futile. What a revealing statement! Faith is the source of strength, the very power by which the worlds were created. To say it is helpless without military backing recalls an ancient saw: "I trust God but I feel better with money in the bank." In the spirit of the times we preach that to expect security without a four-man bodyguard is futile, when security is not to need a bodyguard; that charity without a guaranteed profit is futile, when charity means asking no profit; that free agency without strict supervision is futile, and so on. Mr. Nixon rejects Napoleon's dictum that in the end it is the spirit that always wins. Napoleon should know, but Nixon will have none of that: that goes only for the long run, he says, but "in that short run in which we all live, the sword is the essential shield for the spirit," and "in the final analysis victory will go to the side . . . [with the] power." "Power is the ability to make things happen, . . . to set the course of history." "The uses of power cannot be divorced from the purposes of power." In Mr. Nixon's book, God is indeed on the side of the big battalions."

Hugh Nibley

"In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest."

Alexander Pope

"God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them."

Pusey

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive."

Robert W. Service

"There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm."

Beverly Sills

"Native vigor of impulses and desires conserved by education and experience, the establishment of inner harmony and cooperation among the powers and capacities of the soul, the formation of a life purpose, and the direction of the individual life in accordance with the eternal principles of right that underlie human progress, these are the elements of both strength and righteousness in human character.'

Edward Sisson

"Above all challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish."

Cecile Springer

"Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free."

Adlai Stevenson

"Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of." Jonathan Swift

"My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure."

Lord Tennyson

"None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility."

Thomas J. Watson

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

Oprah Winfrey

"There is a comfort in the strength of love: Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart."

William Wordsworth

"No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves."

Dwight Eisenhower

"When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision."

Ronald Reagan

"Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage."

John F. Kennedy

"It is not because things are different that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

Anonymous

"A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough."

Ronald Reagan

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it."

Rabindranath Tagore

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."

Erma Bombeck

"Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."

Friedrich Nietzsche

VICTORY

26 Inspirational Quotes

"Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!" Woodrow T. Wilson

"The most dangerous moment comes with victory."

Napoleon Bonaparte

"The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered."

St. Augustine

"Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference."

Nolan Buhnell

"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."

Lao-Tzu

"The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give."

Howard Cosell

"The will to conquer is the first condition of victory."

Ferdinand Foch

"One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it."

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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

General George S. Patton

"To the girls that gave me a hard time in high school. I want to say thank you. This is a victory for all the nerds out there."

Amy Van Dyken

"Victory is a political fiction."

Anonymous

"If you live long enough, you'll see every victory turn into a defeat."

Simone de Beauvoir

"There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory."

A.H.K. Boyd

"The victory of endurance born."

William Cullen Bryant

"The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny."

Winston Churchill

"Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed."

Winston Churchill

". . . You ask, What is our policy? I will say; It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival."

Winston Churchill

“The courses of the Victory were absorbed into the main, then her topsails went, and then her top-gallants. She was now no more than a dead fly’s wing on a sheet of spider’s web; and even this fragment diminished. Anne could hardly bear to see the end, and yet she resolved not to flinch. The admiral’s flag sank behind the watery line, and in a minute the very trunk of the last main-mast stole away. The Victory was gone.”

Thomas Hardy

". . . He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life."

Roland Huntford

"What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death." William James

"Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends, those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even, hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now? Now when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail. If we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come."

Abraham Lincoln

"Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

Edwin Markham

"It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory."

General George Marshall

"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory."

Blaise Pascal

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

HAPPINESS

228 Inspiring Quotes

"There is only one success - to spend your life in your own way."

Christopher Morley

"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."

Martha Washington

"Don’t limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded."

Charles Schwab

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery."

Anne Frank

“I"m so optimistic I'd go after Moby Dick in a row boat and take the tartar sauce with me.”

Zig Ziglar

"In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself."

Anonymous

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

Franklin Roosevelt

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

James M. Barrie

"Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead."

Scottish Proverb

"Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple, yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend."

Bits and Pieces

"Happiness lies in our own backyard, but It's probably well hidden by crabgrass."

Dell Crossword Puzzles

"If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come."

Chinese Proverb

"If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.

If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.

If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else."

Chinese Proverb

"True happiness consists in making happy."

Bharavi's Kiratarjuniya, Hindu

"This planet has or rather had a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it was not the small pieces of paper that were unhappy."

Douglas Noel Adams

“Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly" comes from the old English word "seilig" and it's literal definition is "to be blessed , happy, healthy and prosperous.”

Zig Ziglar

"If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world."

Joseph Addison

"The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness."

Joseph Addison

"Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man."

Muhammad Ali

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness."

Woody Allen

"We must dare to be happy, and dare to confess it, regarding ourselves always as the depositories, not as the authors of our own joy."

Henri Frediric Amiel

"Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves."

F. Emerson Andrews

"All I ask for is an opportunity to prove that money doesn't buy happiness."

Anonymous

"All the happiness you ever find lies in you."

Anonymous

"An endurance test for some people is the pursuit of happiness."

Anonymous

"For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness."

Anonymous

“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want the most for what you want now.”

Zig Ziglar

"Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment."

Anonymous

"Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool."

Anonymous

"Happiness is acceptance."

Anonymous

"Happiness is like a butterfly.

The more you chase it, the more it eludes you.

But if you turn your attention to other things,

It comes and sits softly on your shoulder."

Henry David Thoreau

"Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself."

Anonymous

"Happiness is made to be shared."

Anonymous

"Happiness is not always measured in smiles."

Anonymous

"Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory."

Anonymous

"Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable."

Anonymous

"Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed."

Anonymous

“Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him yours.”

Zig Ziglar

"Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal."

Anonymous

"He alone is the happy man who has learned to extract happiness not from ideal conditions but from actual ones about him."

Anonymous

"He who has not learned to share his blessings with others has not found the true path to enduring happiness. HAPPINESS comes from sharing one's self and one's blessings.

All riches are multiplied by the simple process of sharing them where they may serve others."

Anonymous

"Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves."

Anonymous

"Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it."

Anonymous

"Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn’t cost anything."

Anonymous

"No one can secure happiness without earning it."

Anonymous

"Security is a thumb and a blanket.

Happiness is a warm puppy."

Anonymous

"Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

Anonymous

"Some pursue happiness, others create it."

Anonymous

"Sometimes we miss happiness by looking too far for things nearby."

Anonymous

"Stop searching. Happiness is right next to you."

Anonymous

"The supreme happiness to life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves."

Anonymous

"When people yearn with all their hearts

For just one treasure far away;

They close their eyes to countless joys

That crowd around them every day.”

Anonymous

"You have to find happiness in yourself before you can find it with someone."

Anonymous

"Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy."

Dr. Robert Anthony

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Aristotle

"Happiness is a state of activity."

Aristotle

" . . . happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it. . . . "

Aristotle

"If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence."

Aristotle

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it."

Richard David Bach

"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."

Mildred Barthel

"Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!"

Joachim Du Bellay

"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it,

it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay

not attention to it and go about your business, you'll

find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your

lap."

William John Bennett

"I remember hearing in a talk that the more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become."

Ezra Taft Benson

"The lives and happiness of our children, as far ahead as the mind can reach, depend on us today. If we succeed, posterity looking back will record that this was indeed man's finest hour."

Carl A. Berendsen

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

Ingrid Bergman

"Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs."

Josh Billings

"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."

Lady Marguerite Blessington

"You can make yourself happy or miserable, it's the same amount of effort."

Ray Bradbury

“Set peace of mind as your highest goal and organize your entire life around it .”

Brian Tracy

"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

Francis Herbert Bradley

"Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste."

Charlotte Bronte

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."

Ritz Mae Brown

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."

H.Jackson Browne

"There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness."

Sir John Buchan

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

Siddhartha Guatama Buddha

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

George Burns

"What is the best thing for a stream? It is to keep moving. If it stops, it stagnates. So the best thing for a man is that which keeps the currents going - the physical, the moral, and the intellectual currents. Hence the secret of happiness is something to do; some congenial work. Take away the occupation of all men, and what a wretched world it would be! Few persons realize how much of their happiness is dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they are kept busy and not left to feed upon themselves. Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it. How important is health to happiness, yet the best promoter of health is something to do. Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him."

John Burroughs

"What is the worth of anything,

But for the happiness 'twill bring?"

Richard Owen Cambridge

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"

Albert Camus

"I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness."

Albert Camus

"Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them."

Albert Camus

"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."

Dale Carnegie

"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."

Dale Carnegie

"If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living."

Herbert N. Casson

"He who sings frightens away his ills."

Miguel de Cervantes

"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

Allan K. Chalmers

"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."

William Emery Channing

"To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion ..."

Madam du Chetelet

"Anybody who is happy all the time needs a psychiatrist."

David A. Christensen

"I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"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

"Happiness is a stock that doubles in a year."

Ira U. Cobleigh

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction."

Pierre Corneille

"If solid happiness we prize,

Within our breast this jewel lies,

And they are fools who roam.

The world has nothing to bestow;

From our own selves our joys must flow,

And that dear hut, our home."

Nathaniel Cotton

"Happiness depends, as Nature shows,

Less on exterior things than most suppose."

William Cowper

"We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness."

Dalai Lama

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

Dalai Lama

"Happiness is always a byproduct. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."

Robert Davies

"To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness."

John Dewey

"Happiness is not given but exchanged."

Diane

"The envious are not happy unless they are making other people envious."

Diane

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

Benjamin Disraeli

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

Hugh Downs

"The gift of happiness belongs to those who unwrap it."

Andrew Dunbar

"The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts."

Timothy Dwight

"I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig."

Albert Einstein

"Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others."

George Eliot

"For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires."

Epicurus

"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."

Desiderius Erasmus

"Account no man happy till he dies."

Euripides

"Ten Spiritual Tonics

1. Stop worrying. Worry kills life.

2. Begin each day with a prayer. It will arm your soul.

3. Control appetite. Over-indulgence clogs body and mind.

4. Accept your limitations . . .

5. Don’t envy. It wastes time and energy.

6. Have faith in people. Cynicism sours the disposition.

7. Find a hobby. It will relax your nerves.

8. Read a book a week to stimulate imagination and broaden your views.

9. Spend some time alone for the peace of solitude and silence.

10. Try to want what you have, instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want."

Abraham L. Feinberg

"It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuous intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world."

Ernest A. Fitzgerald

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."

Gustave Flaubert

"How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise."

Malcolm S. Forbes

"There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

Henry Ford

"There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

Henry Ford

"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."

Anatole France

"Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life."

Benjamin Franklin

"Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day."

Benjamin Franklin

"The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."

Benjamin Franklin

"What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . .

Happiness springs immediately from the mind."

Benjamin Franklin

"Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy."

Gustave Freytag

"Happiness is a man’s greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside."

Erich Fromm

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."

Robert Lee Frost

"He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise"

Thomas Fuller

"No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy."

Thomas Fuller

"Happiness is a myth we seek,

If manifested surely irks;

Like river speeding to the plain,

On its arrival slows and murks.

For man is happy only in

His aspiration to the heights;

When he attains his goal, he cools

And longs for other distant flights."

Kahlil Gibran

"If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life."

Jack H. Goaslind, Jr.

"Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary."

Jack H. Goaslind, Jr.

"A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Nine keys to contentment

Health enough to make work a pleasure.

Wealth enough to support your needs.

Strength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them.

Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.

Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.

Charity enough to see some good in your neighbors.

Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.

Faith enough to make real things of God.

Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"The highest happiness of man . . . is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity."

Oliver Goldsmith

"It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don't pity them, don't feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead."

Brutus Hamilton

"Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money. But it can be increased if we do two things: if we recognize and uphold the essential values of family life and if we get and keep control of the process of social change so as to make it give us what is needed to make family life perform its essential functions."

Robert J. Havighurst

"Happiness, in this world, if it comes at all, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and it is never attained."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, my alight upon you."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything."

William Hazlitt

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

Ermest Hemingway

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."

Burton Hills

"Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel towards what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much."

W. D. Hoard

"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."

Eric Hoffer

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches."

Elbert Green Hubbard

"Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop."

Gittel Hudnick

"Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

Victor Marie Hugo

"The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

Victor Marie Hugo

"That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers."

Francis Hutcheson

"Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness."

Henrik Ibsen

"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so."

Dr. David Ralph Inge

"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment, it is a result."

Robert Green Ingersoll

"True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand."

Henry James Jr.

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."

Storm Jameson

"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness."

Thomas Jefferson

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."

Douglas Jerrold

"Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man."

Dr. Samuel Johnson

"That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small."

Dr. Samuel Johnson

"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn."

Dr. Samuel Johnson

"When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality."

Dr. Samuel Johnson

" True happiness

Consists not in the multitude of friends

But in the worth and choice."

Ben Johnson

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice."

Ben Johnson

"Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible."

William George Jordan

" True happiness must have the tinge of sorrow outlived, the sense of pain softened by the mellowing years, the chastening of loss that in the wondrous mystery of time transmutes our suffering into love and sympathy with others."

William George Jordan

"Unhappiness is the hunger to get; happiness is the hunger to give. . . . If the individual should set out for a single day to give happiness, to make life happier, brighter and sweeter, not for himself but for others, he would find a wondrous revelation of what happiness really is."

William George Jordan

"It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honorably."

Immanuel Kant

"How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart."

Nikos Kazantzakis

"Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man’s progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life."

Helen Adams Keller

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

Helen Adams Keller

"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 which as been opened for us."

Helen Adams Keller

"Definition of happiness: The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Do it this very moment!

Don’t put it off, don’t wait!

There’s no use in doing a kindness

If you do it a day too late."

Charles Kingsley

"Happiness and misery depend as much on temperament as on fortune."

Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"One is never so happy or so unhappy as one thinks."

Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."

Francois Du de La Rochefoucauld

"We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be."

Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Were it not better to forget

Than to remember and regret"

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

"Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open."

Rose Lane

"The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment."

Doug Larson

"Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness."

Gustave Le Bon

"Happiness isn't something you experience, it's something you remember."

Oscar LeVant

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

Abraham Lincoln

"We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart."

Abraham Lincoln

"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair."

Ann Morrow Lindbergh

"The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;

It rains, and the wind is never weary;

The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,

But at every gust the dead leaves fall,

And the day is dark and dreary.

My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;

It rains, and the wind is never weary;

My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past

But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,

And the days are dark and dreary.

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;

Thy fate is the common fate of all:

Into each life some rain must fall;

Some days must be dark and dreary."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color."

Horace Mann

"Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe."

Orison Swett Marden

"Experience praises the most happy is the one who made the most people happy."

Karl Marx

"Friends, books, cheerful heart, and conscience clear are the most choice companions we have here."

William Mather

"The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised."

H. C. Mattern

"The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past."

Andre Maurois

"The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves."

Andre Maurois

"I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now."

Peter McWilliams

"One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways."

Peter McWilliams

"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it."

Bernard Melzer

"Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get."

Bernard Meltzer

"Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull."

H. L. Mencken

"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so."

John Stuart Mill

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."

John Stuart Mill

" Then wilt thou not be loath

To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess

A Paradise within thee, happier far."

John Milton

"If you find some happiness inside yourself, you'll start findin' it in lot of other places too."

Gladiola Montana

"I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends, and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you."

J. Kenfield Morley

“Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.”

Brian Tracy

"Where, then, does happiness lie? In forgetfulness, not indulgence, of the self. In escape from sensual appetites, not in their satisfaction. We live in a dark, self-enclosed prison, which is all we see or know if our glance is fixed ever downward. To lift it upward, becoming aware of the wide, luminous universe outside, this alone is happiness. At its highest level, such happiness is the ecstasy that mystics have inadequately described. At more humdrum levels, it is human love; the delights and beauties of our dear earth, its colors and shapes and sounds; the enchantment of understanding and laughing, and all other exercise of such faculties as we possess; the marvel of the meaning of everything, fitfully glimpsed, inadequately expounded, but ever present."

Malcolm Muggeridge

"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."

Jean Iris Murdoch

"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,

And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all."

Ogden Nash

"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy."

Cythina Nelms

"If this world afford true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered."

Alfred Edward Newton

"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."

Anais Nin

"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness."

George Orwell

"It is necessary to the happiness of a man that he be mentally faithful to himself."

Thomas Paine

"All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end."

Blaise Pascal

"The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older."

William Lyon Phelps

"The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character]."

William Lyon Phelps

"Said Scopas of Thessaly, "We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things."

Plutarch

"That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting."

Plutarch

"The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements."

Plutarch

"Happiness is a way station between too much and too little."

Channing Pollock

"It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"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 which has been opened for us."

Helen Keller

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts....take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."

Marcus Aurelius

"Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results."

Dennis Waitley

DREAMS

63 Inspirational Quotes

"Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it."

George Lucas

"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further then a great idea that inspires no one."

Mary Kay Ash

"It's the independent American spirit that built this country - hard-working entrepreneurs who believe in the reality of their dreams."

Robert E. Hughes

"It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important." Francis Ford Coppola

"We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive."

Jesse Jackson

"We were always dreaming of how it was going to be."

George Lucas

"I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living."

Steven Spielberg

"A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists."

Anonymous

"Follow your heart and your dreams will come true."

Anonymous

"Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true." Anonymous

"Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living."

Anonymous

"Love is what dreams are made of."

Anonymous

"No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work."

Anonymous

"No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big."

Anonymous

"The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true." Anonymous

"The world is full of Kings and Queens, who blind your eyes and steal your dreams."

Anonymous

"We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams."

Anonymous

"Wind to thy wings. Light to thy path. Dreams to thy heart."

Anonymous

"Yesterday is but a vision, and tomorrow is only a dream. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a dream of hope."

Anonymous

"You'll never achieve your dreams if they don't become goals."

Anonymous

"Your dreams come true when you act to turn them into realities."

Anonymous

"Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood and will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble and logical plan never dies, but long after we are gone will be a living thing."

Lita Bane

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."

Joel Barker

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

John Barrymore

"Dreaming men are haunted men."

Stephen Vincent Binet

"Dreams have but one owner at a time. That is why dreamers are lonely."

Erma Bombeck

"Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't."

Brett Butler

"When your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme."

Jiminy Cricket

"Dreaming permits each of and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." William Dement

"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."

William Faulkner

"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."

Goethe

"Cherish your visions and you dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."

Napoleon Hill

"Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true."

Napoleon Hill

"We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams."

Eric Hoffer

"Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."

Langston Hughes

"I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."

Victor Hugo

"Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts scepters in their hands or miters on their heads, shifts the scene of pleasure with endless variety, bids all the forms of beauty sparkle before them, and gluts them with every change of visionary luxury."

Johnson

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."

Thomas Edward Lawrence

"It may be that those who do most, dream most."

Stephen Butler Leacock

"Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you."

Herman Melville

"An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted."

Arthur Miller

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

Edgar Allan Poe

"Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page.

They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.

Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then.

Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.

Edgar Allan Poe

"The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true."

Edgar Allan Poe

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their grey visions they obtain glimpses of eternity."

Edgar Allan Poe

"You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day."

Alexandar Pope

"Mysterious power, whence hope ethereal springs!

Sweet heavenly relic of eternal things!

Inspiring oft deep thoughts of things divine:

The past, the present, and the future time.

Thy reminiscences transport the soul

To memory’s Paradise, its future goal."

Parley P. Pratt

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil."

John Ruskin

"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities."

Delmore Schwartz

"Our revels now are ended. These our actors,

As I foretold you, were all spirits, and

Are melted into air, into thin air:

And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,

The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,

The solemn temples, the great globe itself,

Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,

And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,

Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff

As dreams are made on; and our little life

Is rounded with a sleep.”

William Shakespeare

"When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness."

Tecumseh of the Shawnees

"How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!" Logan Pearsall Smith

"Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it."

John Sterling

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."

Henry David Thoreau

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

Henry David Thoreau

"We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams."

Count Leo Tolstoy

"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 E. Turner

"My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected."

Anna M. Uhlich

"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

"But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet, Tread softly because you tread on n dreams."

William Butler Yeats

"However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight."

Lin Yutang

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."

Erma Bombeck

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."

Ben Stein

LEADERSHIP

97 Inspirational Quotes

"Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies, especially in this hemisphere. None of the wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong."

Ronald Reagan

"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better."

Jim Rohn

“You will never be a leader unless you first learn to follow and be led."

Tiorio

"The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says "I"; The leader says "WE". The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, "GO"; the leader says "LET'S GO!"

H. Gordon Selfridge

"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal."

Vince Lombardi

"I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a "transformer" in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader."

Stephen R. Covey

"A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group."

Russell H. Ewing

"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." Arnold Glasow

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives."

Theodore Roosevelt

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

Lao-Tzu

"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

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Muriel Strode

"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."

Jim Rohn

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

Theodore Roosevelt

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."

James Crook

"Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve." Toma Landry

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."

Sam Walton

"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent."

Douglas McCarther

"You manage things; you lead people."

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

"If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!"

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

"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

"It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved." Thomas Wolfe

"An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag."

Viking Proverb

"It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character, it forces you to make decisions based upon your beliefs and not what other people think. In life, and in business, you have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone. But, what makes you a leader is having the courage of your convictions."

Queen Latifah

"Entrepreneurs are the forgotten heroes of America."

Ronald Reagan

"Eagles don't flock - you have to find them one at a time."

H. Ross Perot

"My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together."

Colin Powell

"Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow."

Chinese Proverb

"The marksman hitteth the target partly by pulling, partly by letting go. The boatsman reached the landing partly by pulling, partly by letting go."

Egyptian Proverb

"The man whose authority is recent is always stern."

Aeschylus

"The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it."

Elaine Agather

"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it."

Marian Anderson

"Asked what his secret was for lasting so long and being so successful as the president of YaleUniversity, Dr. James R. Angell explained: "Grow antennae, not horns."

Dr. James Rowland Angell

"A most important key to successful leadership is your ability to direct and challenge the very best that is in those whom you lead."

Anonymous

"Success for leadership is . . . knowing the great art of directing others without their noticing it."

Anonymous

"He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander."

Aristotle

"Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before."

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"It's great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently."

Keith Bellow

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."

Warren G. Bennis

" . . . power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership."

Warren G. Bennis

"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born."

Warren G. Bennis

"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority."

Kenneth Blanchard

"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it."

Andrew Carnegie

"In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess - fear, dislike and contempt. If he is afraid of men he cannot handle them. Neither can he influence them in his favor if he dislikes or scorns them. He must neither cringe nor sneer. He must have both self-respect and respect for others."

Herbert N. Casson

"There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage."

Chan Master Fuchan Yuan

"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod."

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

"The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground."

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

"There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away."

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

"Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people" -- that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."

Peter F. Drucker

"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."

Max DuPree

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

General Dwight David Eisenhower

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head, that's assault, not leadership."

General David Dwight Eisenhower

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better."

John H. Fischer

"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned."

Harold S. Green

"The human mind is as driven to understand as the body is driven to survive."

Hugh Gilmore

"A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership."

R. H. Grant

"What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary."

Richard Harkness

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."

Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh

"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist."

Eric Hoffer

"Respect a man, he will do the more."

James Howell

"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together."

Jesse Jackson

"The only real training for leadership is leadership."

Anthony Jay

"No two men can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other."

Dr. Samuel Johnson

"You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside."

Charles Franklin Kettering

"Lift, Lead and Love."

Spencer W. Kimball

"A leader is best

When people barely know he exists.

Not so good

When people obey and acclaim him.

Worse when they despise him.

But of a good leader

Who talks little

When his work is done,

His aim fulfilled, They will say "We did it ourselves."

Lao Tse

"Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish, don't overdo it."

Lao Tse

"There are no dumb questions, only dumb answers."

Marshall Loeb

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."

Max Lucado

"To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less."

Andre Malraux

"Leadership is influence."

John C. Maxwell

"Leadership is an action, not a position."

Donald H. McGannon

"A leader is a dealer in hope."

Napolean I

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."

Michael O'Brien

"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run ever faster if encouraged."

Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

General George Smith Patton, Jr.

"One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you."

Dennis A. Peer

"No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself."

William Penn

"The same ambition can destroy or save,

And makes a patriot as it makes a knave."

Alexander Pope

"Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement."

F. G. Buck Rodgers

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."

Theodore Roosevelt

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"To lead in the 21st century-to take soldiers, sailors, and airmen into battle, you will be required to have both character and competence."

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"He who reads is never alone."

Helder Simone

"Learn to obey before you command."

Solon

"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand--Perigord

"Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable."

Claude I. Taylor

"Consensus is the negation of leadership."

Margaret Thatcher

"It is much safer to obey, than to govern."

Thomas  Kempis

"A President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a single moment."

Harry S. Truman

"Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."

Harry S. Truman

"Education is the mother of leadership."

Wendell Lewis Wilkie

"Every man who takes office . . . either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing."

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

WINNING

63 Inspirational Quotes

"Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about."

Tom Chappel

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them every day begin the task anew."

Saint Francis de Sales

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

Aristotle

"Winning is everything, to win is all there is. Only those poor souls buried beneath the battlefield understand this."

SEAL Team Saying

"All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means - you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else."

Vince Lombardi

"Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is."

Zig Ziglar

"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."

Denis Waitley

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."

Bertie C. Forbes

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

Roger Bannister

"You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose."

Charles Lynch

"Those that know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories."

Polybius

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

Thomas Paine

"Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top."

D.A. Benton

"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."

Muhammad Ali

"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."

Andrew Carnegie

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."

Abraham Lincoln

"Never let defeat have the last word."

Tibetan Proverb

"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."

Dwight David Eisenhower

"There are many victories worse than a defeat."

George Eliot

"Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser."

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn't hear the referee."

H. E. Jansen

"Nobody remembers who came in second."

Charles Schulz

"That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning."

Richard David Bach

"If any thing goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you."

Paul "Bear" Bryant

"If winning isn't important, why do we spend all that money on scoreboards?"

Chuck Coonradt

"If winning isn't important, why keep score?"

Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Everybody is born with an equal chance to become just as unequal as he or she possibly can."

Anonymous

"The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil."

Pythagoras

"There are only two places in this league: first place and no place."

Tom Seaver

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat."

Queen Victoria

"You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win."

Vince Lombardi

"You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time."

Vince Lombardi

"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you'll be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives."

Vince Lombardi

"It's not whether you get knocked down: it's whether you get up."

Vince Lombardi

"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

Vince Lombardi

"Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again."

Vince Lombardi

"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing - the result."

Vince Lombardi

"It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're No. 1. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner."

Vince Lombardi

"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, the temporary failures."

Vince Lombardi

"Success demands singleness of purpose."

Vince Lombardi

"Everybody is born with an equal chance to become just as unequal as he or she possibly can." Anonymous

"Winners dwell on and hold the self-image of that person they would most like to become. They get a vivid, clear, emotional, sensory picture of themselves as if they had already achieved their new role in life."

Anonymous

"That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning."

Richard Bach

"Ever notice that people never say "It's only a game" when they're winning?"

Ivern Ball

"The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work."

William Feather

"There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it."

Steffi Graf

"There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever."

Alfred Hitchcock

"The art of winning in business is in working hard, not taking things too seriously."

Elbert Hubbard

"I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning."

Robert Kennedy

"And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride."

Vince Lombardi

"Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything."

Vince Lombardi

"Winners are naturally bullish."

Merrill Lynch

"If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record."

Jan McKeithen

"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe."

John Milton

"When you win, nothing hurts."

Joe Namath

"My serve was there, everything was just clicking. Those are the days you dream about, especially in a final."

Pete Sampras

"There are 100 men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune."

J. Paul Getty

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."

Pierre Corneille

"You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be." Robert Collier

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

Anonymous

"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."

Napoleon Hill

HABIT

44 Inspirational Quotes

"You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'."

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle

"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."

Desiderius Erasmus

"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you."

Rob Gilbert

"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are."

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."

Stephen R. Covey

"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."

Benjamin Franklin

"Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction."

Juliene Berk

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

Vince Lombardi

"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time."

Charles Dickens

"It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away."

Kenich Ohmae

"Good habits result from resisting temptation."

Indian Proverb

"As a twig is bent the tree inclines."

Virgil

"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."

Tryon Edwards

"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

Henry Adams

"A man’s fortune has its form given to it by his habits."

Anonymous

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."

Anonymous

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way."

Anonymous

"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage."

Bruce Barton

"1. Be Proactive.

2. Begin with the end in mind.

3. Put first things first.

4. Think win win.

5. Seek first to understand . . . then to be understood.

6. Synergize.

7. Sharpen the saw."

Stephen R. Covey

"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

"All habits gather by unseen degrees,

As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."

John Dryden

"Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel."

Tyron Edwards

"The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. What you do in life depends upon what you are and what you want. What you get from life depends upon how much you want it, how much you are willing to work and plan and cooperate and use your resources. The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day. Make the cables strong!"

L.G. Elliott

"Heartily know,

When half-gods go,

The gods arrive."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are what we think; as we desire so do we become! By our thoughts, desires, and habits, we either ascend to the full divine dignity of our nature, or we descend to suffer and learn."

J. Todd Ferrier

"Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis."

Jane Fonda

"We're worn into grooves by Time by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions, each in his way in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness achievement."

Frank B. Gilberth

"Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck."

Grenville Kleiser

"The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones."

William Somerset Maugham

"Small habits well pursued betimes

May reach the dignity of crimes."

Hannah More

"Habits change into character."

Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid

"A large part of virtue consists in good habits."

Barbara Paley

"Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men’s private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large."

Plutarch

"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"

William Shakespeare

"In one sense the whole process of development consists of the formation of habits; for knowledge itself, and the powers of thought, as well as the higher elements in the will, all depend upon the establishment of fixed ways of reacting to given stimuli. Consequently, the general laws of habituation underlie the whole of education. But the term habit is more commonly restricted to those established reactions that act with little or no participation of consciousness, or, in other words, mechanically or automatically. Such habits as these begin to form very early, and constitute a kind of supporting framework for the higher elements of character."

Edward O. Sisson

"The secret of the whole matter is that a habit is not the mere tendency to repeat a certain act, nor is it established by the mere repetition of the act. Habit is a fixed tendency to react or respond in a certain way to a given stimulus; and the formation of habit always involves the two elements, the stimulus and the response or reaction. The indolent lad goes to school not in response to any stimulus in the school itself, but to the pressure of his father's will; when that stimulus is absent, the reaction as a matter of course does not occur."

Edward O. Sisson

"Powerful indeed is the empire of habit."

Publilius Syrus

"A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time."

Mark Twain

"Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits."

Mark Twain

"No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive."

John Cassavetes

"Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation."

Henri Bergson

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as necessary to resolve it."

Rene Descartes

KNOWLEDGE

246 Inspirational Quotes

"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."

Christopher Morley

"Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."

David Ben

"Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."

David Ben-Gurion

"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

George Bernard Shaw

"Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune."

Jim Rohn

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

Albert Einstein

"The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about."

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance."

William Ellery Channing

"You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do." Norman Juster

"Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch."

Steve Droke

"Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse."

Nigerian Proverb

"The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, the young know everything."

Oscar Wilde

"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"

T. S. Elliot

"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light."

Thomas Fuller

"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance."

Confucius

"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement."

Peter F. Drucker

"God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!"

Benjamin Franklin

"Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it."

Samuel Johnson

"The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given - all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others."

Frederic William Maitland

"It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it."

Persian Proverb

"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."

Henry David Thoreau

"The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so."

Mark Twain

"We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance."

John Archibald Wheeler

"I realized that far beyond the possibilities of bodily thought there were in myself forces, powers and knowledge far transcending all that the body can ever perceive or imagine in its loftiest flights."

The Golden Dawn

"Man's flight through life is sustained by the power of his knowledge."

U.S. Air Force

"Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse."

African Proverb

"You can out distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you."

Rwandan Proverb

"'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant."

John Abbott

"The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country."

John Adams

"It isn't what you know that counts, It's what you think of in time."

Leo Aikman

"I am what I am and I have the need to be."

Anonymous

"If you want to be somebody, somebody really special, be yourself."

Anonymous

"Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge."

Anonymous

"Knowledge become power only when we put it into use."

Anonymous

"Knowledge is boundless but the capacity of one man is limited."

Anonymous

"Knowledge is not what you can remember, but what you cannot forget."

Anonymous

"Learning is like rowing upstream. Advance or lose all."

Anonymous

"Men have a tendency to believe what they least understand."

Anonymous

"Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it."

Anonymous

"Teachers open the door, but you enter by yourself."

Anonymous

"The more you know, the less you need to show."

Anonymous

"The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge."

Anonymous

"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about."

Anonymous

"We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge."

Anonymous

"Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, is like one who ploughs a field but does not sow it."

Anonymous

"If . . . happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation."

Anais Nin

"All men by nature desire to know."

Aristotle

"Resolve to be thyself: and know that he

- Who finds himself loses his misery."

Mathew Arnold

"The conqueror and king in each of us is the . . . Knower of truth. . . . Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen."

George S. Arundale

"Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows."

Isaac Asimov

"To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal."

Saint Augustine

"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."

Jane Austin

"For knowledge, too, is itself power."

Francis Bacon

"Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect."

Francis Bacon

"Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man’s estate."

Francis Bacon

"The images of men’s wits and knowledge remain in books. . . . They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages."

Francis Bacon

"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."

Ivern Ball

"Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all."

Bernard Mannes Baruch

"Can anything be beyond the knowledge of a man like you?"

Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

"First come I; my name is Jowett.

There’s no knowledge but I know it.

I am Master of this college:

What I don’t know isn't knowledge."

Henry Charles Beeching

"Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth?

He that knew all that ever learning writ,

Knew only this, that he knew nothing yet."

Aphra Behn

"It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient."

Josh Billings

"More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge."

Daniel J. Boorstin

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

Daniel J. Boorstin

"Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty."

Catherine Drinker Bowen

"The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind."

Francis Herbert Bradley

"One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself."

Claude M. Bristol

"One of the most common reasons so few people are consistently able to achieve meaningful results is that they are unwilling to experience the discomfort associated with relentlessly pursuing a correct perception of reality."

Stuart Brodie

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life."

Albert Camus

"The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer."

Elias Canetti

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."

Sandra Carey

"That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy."

Thomas Carlyle

"There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off."

Angela Carter

"The more a man knows, the more he forgives."

Catherine the Great

"To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it, this is a hard lesson."

Bruce Catton

"In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world."

Miguel de Cervantes

"The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself."

Pierre Charron

"A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"You already know enough to go to hell."

David A. Christensen

"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads."

Charles Caleb Colton

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

Confucius

"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance."

Confucius

"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it this is knowledge."

Confucius

"Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."

William Cowper

"In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information."

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months."

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge."

Dante Alighieri

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."

Charles Robert Darwin

"The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn."

Bernard De Voto

"Best efforts will not substitute for knowledge."

Dr. W. Edward Deming

"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true."

Demosthenes

"Timidity is mistrust of self, and proceeds not from modesty but from conceit. A man is timid because he is afraid of not appearing to his best advantage."

Diane

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."

Benjamin DIsraeli

"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."

Will Durant

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

Albert Einstein

"The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown."

Albert Einstein

"It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, "Know thyself," and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident."

George Eliot

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

- Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"

T.S.Eliot

"Knowledge is an antidote to fear."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there."

Richard Phillips Feynman

"Know what you want. . . . Become your real self."

David Harold Fink

"You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you."

David Harold Fink

"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification."

Dr. Martin Henry Fischer

"He knows the universe and does not know himself."

Jean De La Fontaine

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

Henry Ford

"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."

Anatole France

"To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light."

Benjamin Franklin

"Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations."

Sigmund Freud

"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open."

Shakti Gawain

"Thoroughly to know oneself, is above all art, for it is the highest art."

Theologia Germanica

"And what is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?"

Kahlil Gibran

"He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books."

Kahlil Gibran

"Knowledge and understanding are life’s faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures."

Kahlil Gibran

"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."

Kahlil Gibran

"Knowledge begets knowledge. The more I see, the more impressed I am not with what we know but with how tremendous the areas are as yet unexplored."

John H. Glenn, Jr.

"Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results."

George W. Goethals

"Belief is not the beginning of knowledge, it is the end."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"No one has ever learned fully to know themselves."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"What is not fully understood is not possessed."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after."

Oliver Goldsmith

"Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave."

Goerge Gurdjieff

"A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does."

Halibuton

"Head knowledge is good, but heart knowledge is indispensable. The training of the hands and feet must be added to make a rounded education. We must all learn these days to become spiritual pioneers if we would save the world from chaos."

E. V. Hammond

"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel."

Augustus William Hare

"When a person is groping in life, we say he has not found himself." This statement is not accurate. Self is created, not found."

Grant Von Harrison

"If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works."

Louise L. Hay

"This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power."

Herodotus

"Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny."

Eric Hoffer

"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority."

Tom Hopkins

"The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all."

Elbert Green Hubbard

"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."

T.H. Huxley

"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?"

Thomas Henry Huxley

"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."

Eugene Ionesco

"Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with its suns and stars in himself."

V.S. Iyser

"There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men."

Randall Jacobs

"I see at last that all the knowledge

I wrung from the darkness

that darkness flung me

Is worthless as ignorance:

nothing comes from nothing

The darkness from the darkness.

Pain comes from the darkness

And we call it wisdom.

It is pain."

Randall Jarrell

"Knowledge is more than equivalent to force."

Samuel Johnson

"Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."

Dr. Samuel Johnson

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Carl Gustav Rogers

"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."

Carl Gustav Jung

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."

Immanuel Kant

"Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge, broad deep knowledge, is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man’s progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life."

Helen Adams Keller

"Be that self which one truly is."

Soren Kierkegaard

"Questions are the creative acts of intelligence."

FrankKingdom

"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."

Madelein K. L'Engle

"He who thinks he can find in himself the means of doing without others is much mistaken; but he who thinks that others cannot do without him is still more mistaken."

Francois Duc de La Rochenfoucauld

"It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another."

Francois Duc de La Rochenfoucauld

"We work so consistently to disguise ourselves to others that we end by being disguised to ourselves."

Francois, Duc de La Rochenfoucauld

"What makes us like new acquaintances is not so much any weariness of our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well, and the hope of being more so by those who do not know so much of us."

Francois Duc de La Rochenfoucauld

"He is strong who conquers others;

He who conquers himself is mighty.”

Lao Tse

"He who knows others is clever;

He who knows himself has discernment."

Lao Tse

"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;

Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. "

Lao Tse

"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."

Bruce Lee

"If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius."

Larr Leissner

"You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt."

E. St. Elmo Lewis

"To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject."

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world, introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerable, that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves."

Walter Lippman

"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."

John Locke

"Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge."

Audre Lorde

"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn."

John Lubbock

"Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself."

Sir James Makintosh

"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."

James Madison

"If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom."

Sidney Madweb

"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."

Count Maurice Maeterlinck

"You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people that you know about yourself."

Beryl Markham

"Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare."

Harriet Martineau

"We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves."

John McCain

"We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine."

H.L. Mencken

"An erudite fool is a greater fool than an ignorant fool."

Jean Paul Baptiste Molire

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

"I have had more trouble with myself than with any man I have ever met!"

Dwight L. Moody

"As knowledge increases, wonder deepens."

Charles Morgan

"Read every day something no one else is reading. Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."

Christopher Darlington Morley

"Packed in my skin from head to toe

Is one I know and do not know."

Edwin Muir

"Knowledge is power if you know about the right person."

Ethel Mumford

"He who reveals to me what is in me and helps me to externalize it in fuller terms of self-trust, is my real helper, for he assists me in the birth of those things which he knows are in me and in all men."

W. John Murray

"As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted."

Hugh Nibley

"No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of earth to the things of heaven."

Hugh Nibley

"True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does."

Hugh Nibley

"Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."

Anais Nin

"No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow:

I used to think I knew I knew.

But now I must confess.

The more I know I know I know

I know I know the less."

A. Ray Olpin

"Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man."

William Penn

"Learn what you are and be such."

Pindar

"The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal."

Plato

"Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe."

Alexander Pope

"In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones."

Joseph Priestly

"Don't rely on our knowledge of what's best for your future. We do know, but it can't be best until you know it."

Ayn Rand

"No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man's mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity."

Ayn Rand

"You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well."

Ayn Rand

"A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste."

Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Our lives teach us who we are."

Salman Rushdie

"You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and most delicate ways, improve yourself."

John Ruskin

"With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved."

Bertrand Arthur William Russell

"A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power."

Mark Rutherford

"Nothing is so irrevocable as mind."

George Santayan

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."

Arthur Scopenhauer

"Nature has given to us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself."

Lucius Annus Seneca

"Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs."

Lucius Annus Seneca

"Ignorance is the curse of God,

Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."

William Shakespeare

"Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge."

Sir Philip Sidney

"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."

Isaac Singer

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."

Socrates

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."

Socrates

"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."

Socrates

"When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion."

Herbert Spencer

"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it."

Laurence Sterne

"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. "

Igor Stravinsky

"The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary."

Sun Tzu

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,

These three alone lead life to sovereign power."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven."

Henry David Thoreau

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

Henry David Thoreau

"You never know yourself till you know more than your body."

Thomas Traherne

"Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins."

Upanishads V.

"Happy the man who knows the causes of things."

Vergil

"Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow."

Denis Waitley

"The young man requires wisdom as well as knowledge."

Thomas J. Watson

"I not only use all the brains I have but all that I can borrow."

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

"There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains."

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

"By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there."

William Wordsworth

"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill."

Wilbur Wright

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."

Sir Winston Churchill

"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."

Anonymous

"No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive."

John Cassavetes

"If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes."

Euripides

"Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words."

Brian Tracy

"No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

Aldous Huxley

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

"In times of change the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

Eric Hoffer

"To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step in knowledge."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."

James A. Garfield

"The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come."

C.S. Lewis

"Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick."

Dr. Frank Crane

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

Johann von Goethe

DISCIPLINE

47 Inspirational Quotes

"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."

Benjamin Disraeli

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle

"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 S. Truman

"If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside."

Critias of Athen

"He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory."

Jyrus

"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."

Buddha

"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not do."

Aristotle

"The first and the best victory is to conquer self."

Plato

"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you."

Rob Gilbert

"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others."

Tyron Edwards

"No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character."

John S. Bonnell

"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self."

Napoleon Hill

"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."

Harry Emerson Fosdick

"The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline."

Bum Phillips

"A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter."

Proverb

"Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority."

Bertrand Russell

"He who lives without discipline dies without honor."

Icelandic Proverb

"Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees or the stars; you have a right to be here."

From Disiderata

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life."

James Allen

"It's not the work that's hard, it's the discipline."

Anonymous

"You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life."

Dr. James G. Bilkey

"That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune."

Robert Blair

"No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character."

John Sutherland Bodell

"Discipline is remembering what you want."

David Campbell

"Hands untrained in the use of tools destroy what they want to build. It takes skill to use tools to achieve the result desired, whether it's tearing down an old house or building a new one. Skepticism is a tool serving both purposes. But it must be used by a trained mind, a mind capable of disciplined thinking."

J.B. Charles

"It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives."

Clint Eastwood

"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others."

Tyron Edwards

"If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence."

William Feather

"If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us."

William Feather

"No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."

Harry Emerson Fosdick D.D

"It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don't pity them, don't feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead."

Brutus Hamilton

"Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded."

Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace

"To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate."

Howard W. Hunter

"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul’s good to do each day two things they disliked. . . . It is a precept I have followed scrupulously: for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed."

William Somerset Maugham

"Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality."

Neal A. Maxwell

"Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined."

Maria Montessori

"Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment."

H. Ross Perot

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."

George Washington

"Nothing is more harmful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army superiority over another."

George Washington

"One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck."

Carl Zuckmeyer

"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work 12 hours a day."

Anonymous

"The time is always right to do what is right."

Martin Luther King Jr.

"I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work."

Lee Iacocca

"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first." Josiah Quincy

"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose."

E.M. Gray

PERSEVERANCE

69 Inspirational Quotes

"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance."

H. Jackson Brown

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to."

George E. Allen

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."

Plutarch

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."

Walter Elliott

"It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it."

John Wooden

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."

Dale Carnegie

"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there." Josh Billings

"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."

Herodotus

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race."

Calvin Coolidge

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."

John D. Rockefeller

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

Winston Churchill

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

Conrad Hilton

"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying. "Here comes number seventy-one!"

Richard M. Devos

"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience." Admiral Hyman Rickover

"For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again."

[Proverbs 24:16] Bible

"He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life."

Henri Frederic Amiel

"The horizon is out there somewhere, and you just keep chasing it, looking for it, and working for it."

Bob Dole

". . . be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life."

[Revelations 2:10] Bible

". . . The race is not [always] to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. . ."

[Ecclesiastes 9:11] Bible

"With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin. With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown."

Chinese Proverb

"If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average."

M.H. Alderson

"He who does not tire, tires adversity."

Anonymous

"In order to get from what was to what will be, you must go through what is."

Anonymous

"Patience and perseverance surmount every difficulty."

Anonymous

"The dogs bark but the caravan moves on."

Anonymous

"There is no point at which having arrived we can remain."

Anonymous

"It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres."

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic - something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go. You decide to learn a language, study music, take a course of reading, train yourself physically. Will it be success or failure? It depends upon how much pluck and perseverance that word "decide" contains. The decision that nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing can detach will bring success. Remember the Chinese proverb, "With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin." Maltbie Davenport Babcock

"Pay as little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point. "

Maltbie Davenport Babcock

"A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres, and infallibly prevails at last."

Lord Chesterfield

"Never give up. Never, never give up! We shall go on to the end."

Winston Churchill

"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves."

Winston Churchill

"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. . . . And if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empires beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the fight, until in God’s own time the new world in its power and might steps forth to the rescue and liberation of the old."

Winston Churchill

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog." General Dwight Eisenhower

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."

Walter Elliott

"Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."

Richard L. Evans

"Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall."

Sydney J. Harris

"Before success comes in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do."

Napoleon Hill

"No man is ever whipped, until he quits -- in his own mind."

Napoleon Hill

"Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel."

Napoleon Hill

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."

Napoleon Hill

"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting."

Napoleon Hill

"What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement."

Napoleon Hill

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."

Elbert Hubbard

"Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance."

Dr. Samuel Johnson

"In one of the decisive battles of World War I, disastrous reports poured into the headquarters of Marshal Foch, the commander of the Allied forces. The great general never lost heart. When things were at their worst, he drafted his famous order which is now in all textbooks of military strategy: "My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!"

James Keller

"When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the athletic phenomenon of all time, won the British woman’s gold tournament, people said of her what they had said many times before: "Oh, she’s an automatic champion, a natural athlete. When Babe started golfing in earnest thirteen years ago she hit as many as 1,000 balls in one afternoon, playing until her hands were so sore they had to be taped."

James Keller

"Having chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts."

Abraham Lincoln

"It is not enough to begin; continuance is necessary. Mere enrollment will not make one a scholar; the pupil must continue in the school through the long course, until he masters every branch. Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance."

Miller

"Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded."

Sandra Day O'Connor

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."

Plutarch

"If you are truly flexible and go until . . . there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime." Anthony Robbins

"Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through."

Jim Rohn

"At first we hope too much, later on, not enough."

Joseph Roux

"Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, - and of obstinacy in a bad one."

Laurence Sterne

"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit."

Mark Twain

"Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen. It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying. We must never give up, regardless of temptations, frustrations, disappointments, or discouragements."

Joseph P. Wirthlin

"I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work."

Lee Iacocca

"You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems."

Mark Victor Hansen

"Defeat is simply a signal to press onward."

Helen Keller

"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter."

Henry Fielding

"A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough."

Ronald Reagan

"Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped."

James Corbett

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little."

Plutarch

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

John Quincy Adams

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."

John D. Rockefeller

HEALTH

45 Inspiring Quotes

"Ill-health of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!"

Thomas Carlyle

"He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not."

Italian Proverb

"To get rich never your risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth."

Richard Baker

"The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care."

Sir Philip Sidney

"To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life."

William Londen

"A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs."

Joan Welsh

"The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best."

Thomas Jefferson

"The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body."

Harry J. Johnson

"I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself - I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself."

Larry King (After his 1987 heart attack)

"A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools."

Spanish Proverb

"Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, disease seeks men."

Chinese Proverb

"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."

Arabian Proverb

"The superior doctor prevents sickness;

The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness;

The inferior doctor treats actual sickness."

Chinese Proverb

"A healthy family is sacred territory."

Anonymous

"Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die."

Anonymous

"If you like the post office, you are going to LOVE national health care."

Anonymous

"We squander health

In search of wealth;

We scheme and toil, and save,

Then squander wealth

In search of health;

And all we get’s the grave;

We live and boast of what we own;

We die . . . and only get a stone."

Anonymous

"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

Henry Ward Beecher

"Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king."

Isaac Bickerstaff

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."

Siddartha Guatama Buddha

"Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies."

Pien Ch'iao

"It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do."

Clergy Caleb Cotton

"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Where does one go from a world of insanity?

Somewhere on the other side of despair."

T. S. Elliot

"Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Prevention is better than cure."

Desiderius Erasmus

"He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines."

Benjamin Franklin

"He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician."

Thomas Fuller

"Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth."

Oliver Goldsmith

"Barn-yard medicine has not given us any vaccination procedure that really protects against illness, but many that endanger the body, that even bring death."

Dr. med Guttman

"A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."

Hippocrates

"As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid."

John de La Bruyre

"Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene, nine-tenths of it!?"

Henry Miller

"Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease."

William Osler

"Attention to health is life greatest hindrance."

Plato

"Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable."

Carl Ransom Rogers

"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."

Jim Rohn

"Happiness? That's nothing more than good health and a poor memory."

Dr. Albert Schweitzer

"By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too."

William Shakespeare

"Some remedies are worse than the disease."

Publilius Syrus

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd druther not."

Mark Twain

"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane."

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

"People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter."

James J. Walsh

CHARACTER

175 Inspirational Quotes

"One's best success comes after their greatest disappointments."

Henry Ward Beecher

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.

Zig Ziglar

"Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest."

Mark Twain

"Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what a reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character."

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe something inside them was superior to circumstances."

Bruce Barton

"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character." Henry Clay

"Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him."

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."

Abraham Lincoln

"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at."

Goethe

"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."

Anne Frank

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."

Helen Keller

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"That which does not kill me, makes me stronger."

A SEAL Team Saying

“When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.”

Zig Ziglar

"Kindness in words creates confidence Kindness in thinking creates profoundness Kindness in giving creates love."

Lao-Tzu

“If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.”

Zig Ziglar

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."

Plato

"Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated."

Lou Holtz

"A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child."

The Knights of Pythagoras

"If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow."

Chinese Proverb

"Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended."

Old Folk Saying

"Where there is no shame, there is no honor."

African Proverb

"Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted."

Alfred Adler

“What you do off the job is determining factor In how far you will go on the job.”

Zig Ziglar

"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."

Aesop

"If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them a knowledge of the line which should be drawn between voluntary action and governmental compulsion in a democracy, and of what can be accomplished within the stern laws of economics, we will enable them to retain their freedom, and at the same time, make them worthy to be free."

Winthrop Williams Aldrich

"Don't accept that others know you better than yourself? Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."

James Allen

"Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

James Allen

"The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment is your choice made. Thus you learn to take the path to the right. Thus you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character."

H. Van Anderson

"The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment is your choice made. Thus you learn to take the path to the right. Thus you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character."

H. Van Anderson

"A person shows what he is by what he does with what he has."

Anonymous

“Keep your thinking right And your business will be right.”

Zig Ziglar

"At a distance from home a man is judged by what he means."

Anonymous

"Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone."

Anonymous

"Character is a victory, not a gift."

Anonymous

"Character, like a kettle, once mended, always requires repairs."

Anonymous

"I am building a character that shall never know completion.

May I, as the days come and go, ever draw nearer to God through service to His children."

Anonymous

“Ability can take you the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Zig Ziglar

“Am I shaping my deeds to a well made plan? Patiently doing the things I can?

Or, am I a wrecker, who walks the town

Content with the labor of tearing down?"

Anonymous

"Reputation is the shell a man discards when he leaves life for immortality. His character he takes with him."

Anonymous

"Reputation is what the world thinks a man is; character is what he really is."

Anonymous

"Though a man without money is poor, a man with nothing but money is still poorer. Worldly gifts cannot bear up the spirits from fainting and sinking when trials and troubles come, any more than headache can be cured by a golden crown or toothache by a chain of pearls."

Anonymous

"When I do right, no one remembers. When I do wrong, no one ever forgets."

Anonymous

"When small men begin to cast long shadows, it is a sure sign that the sun is setting."

Anonymous

"You can tell what a man is by what he does when he hasn’t anything to do."

Anonymous

"You can't measure the heart of a champion."

Anonymous

“The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to his or her commitment to excellence, regardless of his or chosen field of endeavor.”

Zig Ziglar

"You don’t have to tell how you live each day,

You don’t have to say if you work or you play,

Attired, true barometer serves in the place,

However you life, it will show in your face.

The false, the deceit that you bear in your heart

Will not stay inside where it first got a start;

For sinew and blood are a thin veil of lace,

What you wear in your heart, you wear in your face.

If your life is unselfish, if for others you live,

For not what you get, but how much you can give;

If you live close to God in his infinite grace,

You don’t have to tell it, it shows in your face."

Anonymous

"If you are not leaning, no one will let you down."

Dr. Robert Anthony

"Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy soul for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these that where a man can live, there if he will, he can also live well."

Marcus Antonius

"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

Aristotle

"To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character."

Aristotle

"Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won."

Maltbie Davenport Babcock,

"A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders and righteous people. In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded."

Roger Ward Babson

"Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness."

Faith Baldwin

"As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smoothes a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character, too."

H. W. Bartol

"No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."

Henry Ward Beecher

"Thought creates character."

Annie Bessant

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."

Phillips Brooks

"Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty. "

Phillips Brooks

"Sad is the day for any man when he becomes absolutely satisfied with the life he is living, the thoughts that he is thinking and the deeds that he is doing; when there ceases to be forever beating at the doors of his soul a desire to do something larger which he seeks and knows he was meant and intended to do."

Phillips Brooks

"Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process."

Phillips Brooks

“You build a successful carreer, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.”

Zig Ziglar

"Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.”

Hugh B. Brown

"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."

Jackson Browne

"It is an old saying, and one of fearful and fathomless import, that we are forming characters for eternity. Forming characters - Whose? Our own or others? Both and in that momentous act lies the peril and responsibility of our existence."

Elihu Burritt

"A man’s got to know his limitations."

Harry Callahan

"All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted."

Andrew Carnegie

"The higher up you go, the more gentle you have to reach down to help other people succeed."

Rick Castro

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."

Cato the Elder

"Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do."

William Ellery Channing

"Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word."

Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield

"He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence."

Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Cheserfield

“When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.”

Zig Ziglar

"The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom."

Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield

"The real long term objective of the Welfare Plan is the fulfilling of character in the members of the Church, givers and receivers, rescuing all that is finest down deep inside of them, and bringing to flower and fruitage the latent richness of the Spirit, which, after all, is the mission and purpose and reason for being of this Church.”

J. Reuben Clark Jr.

"A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people."

Henry Clay

"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."

Henry Clary

"Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are."

Frederick L. Collins

"It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall b e rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account."

Confucius

"We do not need more national development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen."

John Calvin Coolidge

"Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us man hood or womanhood fiber."

Dr. Frank Crane

"The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better."

John Dewey

"Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains."

Helen Douglas

"To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the "cat without a grin" and the "grin without a cat" are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies."

Sir Arthur Anthony Eddington

"The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us."

Jonathan Edwards

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

Albert Einstein

“With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best.”

Zig Ziglar

"Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you would not be known to do anything, never do it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Self-trust is the essence of heroism."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can't hear what you're saying."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine. From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior, the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned, happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory and peace. While it stands, the latest generations of the grateful children of America will make this pilgrimage to it as to a shrine; and when it shall fall, if fall it must, the memory and the name of Washington shall shed an eternal glory on the spot."

Edward Everett

"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward."

Henry Ford

"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."

Benjamin Franklin

"Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited."

Robert Freeman

"Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; the power to do what seems to him to be right, without considering what others may say or think."

John Galsworthy

"A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole."

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own."

General Charles DeGaulle

"Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character."

Vince Gill

"We are where we are, as we are, because of what we are."

Earle J. Glade

"Character develops itself in the stream of life."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Genius develops in quiet places,

Character out in the full current of human life.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We have all been inoculated with Christianity, and are never likely to take it seriously now! You put some of the virus of some dreadful illness into a man's arm, and there is a little itchiness, some scratchiness, a slight discomfort, disagreeable, no doubt, but not the fever of the real disease, the turning and the tossing, and the ebbing strength. And we have all been inoculated with Christianity, more or less. We are on Christ's side, we wish him well, we hope that He will win, and we are even prepared to do something for Him, provided, of course, that He is reasonable, and does not make too much of an upset among our cozy comforts and our customary ways. But there is not the passion of zeal, and the burning enthusiasm, and the eagerness of self-sacrifice, of the real faith that changes character and wins the world."

A.J. Gossip

"A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was."

Joseph Hall

"A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created by external advantages; it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station; but it is the result of one's own endeavors, the fruit and reward of good principles manifested in a course of virtuous and honorable action."

J. Hawes

"A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever."

J. Hawes

"There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity."

Helvetius

"To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time."

Katherine Hepburn

"A man’s character is his fate.”

Heraclitus

"Character is destiny.”

Heraclitus

“When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it.”

Zig Ziglar

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters,

compared to what lies within us."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."

Jon Holt

"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community."

Ed Howe

"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time."

Elbert Green Hubbard

"The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born."

Dean Inge

"One man with courage makes a majority.”

Andrew Jackson

"What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?"

Henry James Jr.

"In matters of style swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock."

Thomas Jefferson

"Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfill. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect."

Thomas Jefferson

"A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.”

Lord Jeffrey

"Every man has three characters: That which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has."

Alphonse Karr

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.”

Helen Adams Keller

"Courage is doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone."

Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended."

Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

Ann Landers "Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.”

Johann Kaspar Lavater

“When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.”

Zig Ziglar

"I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness."

Johann Kaspar Lavater

"What you see and hear depends a great deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.”

C.S. Lewis

"Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is; the tree is the real thing."

Abraham Lincoln

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power."

Abraham Lincoln

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

Art Linkletter

"Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself."

John Locke

"The discipline of desire is the background of character."

John Locke

"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out."

Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay

"A man without character is like a ship without a rudder.”

Karl G. Maeser

"New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic, San Francisco is a lady, Boston has become Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington wink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter. Detroit is a one-trade town, Pittsburgh has lost its golden triangle, St. Louis has become the golden arch of the corporation, and nights in Kansas City close early. The oil depletion allowance makes Houston and Dallas naught but checkerboards for this sort of game. But Chicago is a great American city. Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities."

Norman Mailer

" . . . success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely, they will make or break you."

Marriott Hotels

"Tolerance is another word for indifference."

William Somerset Maugham

“What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.”

Zig Ziglar

“If you create a character, you create a destiny."

Andr Maurois

"A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him."

John C. Maxwell

"A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield."

David Oman McKay

"There is [a] spiritual strength derived from the subjecting of the physical appetite to the will of the individual. "He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than king." If there were no other virtues in fasting but gaining strength of character, that alone would be sufficient justification for its universal acceptance."

David Oman McKay

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

John Albert Michener

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."

James D. Miles

"You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say."

John D. Mitchell

"A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it."

James Moffatt

"The most vital test of a man’s character is not how he behaves after success, but how he sustains defeat."

Raymond Moley

"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do."

John Baptiste Molire

"Character is what you are in the dark."

Dwight L. Moody

"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character."

John Lord Morley

"Character is a subtle thing. Its sources are obscure, its roots delicate and invisible. We know it when we see it and it always commands our admiration, and the absence of it our pity; but it is largely a matter of will."

Leo J. Muir

"The real character of a man is found out by his amusements."

Jean Iris Murdoch

"Tell me what ticks you off, and I will tell you what makes you tick."

Lloyd John Ogilvie

"Character is much easier kept than recovered."

Thomas Paine

"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us."

Thomas Paine

"Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world."

Theodore Parker

"Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies."

Alexander Pope

"Most women have no characters at all."

Alexander Pope

"Passing the veil does not alter a man; it certainly takes him from the eyes of flesh, but the capacity, the intelligence, the thinking powers, are all alive and quick; and if they hear the Gospel they will be glad, and the promises are made to them, and they will rejoice in them."

Parley P. Pratt

"Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for."

Robert Quillen

"Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows."

Charles Reade

“You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy- happiness ,joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.”

Zig Ziglar

"Sow a Thought, and you reap an Act;

Sow an Act, and you reap a Habit;

Sow a Habit, and you reap a Character;

Sow a Character, and you reap a Destiny."

Charles Reade

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans."

Ronald Wilson Reagan

"Calamity is the test of integrity."

Samuel Richardson

"A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another’s."

Jean Paul Richter

"In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual."

Jean Paul Richter

"Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another."

Jean Paul Richter

"The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence."

Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

"The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them."

Walter S. Robertson

"I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond; that character - not wealth or power or position - is of supreme worth."

John (Jay) Davison Rockefeller, IV

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."

Will Rogers "The recent action of an eastern state's education department in eliminating from its curriculum all courses dealing in any way with moral ethics, on the pretext of complying with the Constitutional provision for the separation of church and state, is most disturbing. This is a repudiation of all responsibility for the building of character the true purpose of education."

Marion G. Romney

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself."

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character."

R.C. Samsel

"It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own."

Herbert Samuel

"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost."

Arthur Schopenhauerv

"You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise."

Lucius Annus Seneca

"In thy face I see

The map of honor, truth, and loyalty.”

William Shakespeare

"Men should be what they seem."

William Shakespeare

"A persons character is but half formed until after wedlock."

C. Simmons

"A certain bygone philosophy - which certainly must have quite forgotten all about the real child - used to speak of the child's nature as a tabula rasa, or 'blank page,' upon which experience and training might write what they pleased. As a matter of fact, the child’s nature at birth, like that of a calf or a chick, is pretty well scribbled over by the experience of its ancestors. It is far from being blank, for as soon as the little organism comes into the world, it begins to do certain things and do them with much zeal and determination, as every one knows who knows real children."

Edward O. Sisson

"Abraham Lincoln tells somewhere that as a boy when he met an obscure or ambiguous sentence in his reading it threw him into a sort of rage. The fact is that this was simply a form of instinct for clear thinking which is found in every child and manifests itself abundantly to the perception of the good teacher. Far more important than any particular piece of knowledge, than geography or arithmetic or spelling, is this love of clearness in our mental life and instinctive hatred of confusion and obscurity. Let us learn to know what we know clearly and definitely, and also how we know it.

The great intellectual need of men and women in the outer world is not so much more knowledge as it is better knowledge and better thinking. There is much philosophy in the humorist's remark, "It was never my ignorance that done me up, but the things I know'd that wasn't so." The great enemies of intellectual life are superstition, gullibility, and fallacious reasoning. A mere knowledge of facts, important as that is, is no safeguard against these. A conscious desire and resolve to think clearly is the true remedy.

Our national success will depend largely upon the development of a generation of men and women who have formed a love and habit of clear thinking and who can do their part in solving the problems that confront civilized man today.”

Edward O. Sisson

"Good is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character makes destiny in the individual and in the race."

Edward O. Sisson

"In one sense the whole process of development consists of the formation of habits; for knowledge itself, and the powers of thought, as well as the higher elements in the will, all depend upon the establishment of fixed ways of reacting to given stimuli. Consequently, the general laws of habituation underlie the whole of education. But the term habit is more commonly restricted to those established reactions that act with little or no participation of consciousness, or, in other words, mechanically or automatically. Such habits as these begin to form very early, and constitute a kind of supporting framework for the higher elements of character.”

Edward O. Sisson

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

John Wooden

"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things."

LawrenceBell

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."

Winston Churchill

"The time is always right to do what is right."

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders...Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest."

Dale Carnegie

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

Oprah Winfrey

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

Sir Winston Churchill

"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty."

John D. Rockefeller

"He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year."

Leonardo da Vinci

"Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have." Jean-Paul Sartre

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand."

Baruch Spinoza

"If it ever came to a choice between compromising my moral principles and the performance of my duties, I know I'd go with my moral principles."

Anonymous

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

Winston Churchill

"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."

George Horace Lorimer

"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe."

Winston Churchill

"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"I kept six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who."

Rudyard Kipling

"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter."

Henry Fielding

"What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do."

John Ruskin

"No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."

John Milton

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh--at yourself."

Ethel Barrymore

"When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first." Josiah Quincy

OPPORTUNITY

78 Inspirational Quotes

"Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem a turned it into an opportunity." Joseph Sugarman

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Albert Einstein

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

Francois Bacon

"Opportunity, often it comes in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat."

Napoleon Hill

"Opportunities - They are all around us there is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it."

Orison Swett Marden

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

Demosthenes

"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."

Anonymous

"A man who misses his opportunity, and monkey who misses his branch, cannot be saved."

Hindu Proverb

"Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity."

Arabian Proverb

"If God shuts one door, He opens another."

Irish Blessing

"Teachers open the doors, but you must enter by yourself.”

Chinese Proverb

"Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door."

Anonymous

"For every problem there is an opportunity."

Anonymous

"Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost; the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been."

Anonymous

"It's the man who waits for his ship to come in who's always missing the boat."

Anonymous

"Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly."

Anonymous

"Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers."

Anonymous

"Once an opportunity has passed, it cannot be caught."

Anonymous

"Opportunities always look bigger going than coming."

Anonymous

"Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in."

Anonymous

"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."

Anonymous

"The less you know about an opportunity, the more attractive it is."

Anonymous

"The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work."

Anonymous

"You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it."

Anonymous

"Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone."

Arthur Brisbane

"Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity."

H.Jackson Brown JR.

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."

John Burroughs

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."

James F. Byrnes

"Where one door shuts another opens."

Miguel de Cervantes

"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door."

Kyle Chandler

"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."

William Ellery Channing

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Sir Winston Leonard Churchill

"Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases."

Jeremy Collier

"An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success."

Stephen R. Covey

"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"In a free society, every opportunity comes with three obligations. First, you must seize it. You must mold it into a work that brings value to others. Second, you must live it. Opportunity is nurtured only by action. Third, you must defend the freedom to pursue opportunities. You must embrace these three obligations as if the future of the United States depended on it. In fact, it does. "

Robert C. Goizueta

"Opportunity knocks at the strangest times, It's not the time that matters But how you answer the door."

Steve/Gray

"Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out."

Adrienne Gisoff

"Ideals are the "incentive payment" of practical men. The opportunity to strive for them is the currency that has enriched America through the centuries."

Robert E. Hannegan

"With increased opportunity comes increased stress. The stress comes from multiple conflicting demands and very little in the way of role models."

Madeline Hemmings

"Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat."

Napoleon Hill

"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now."

Napoleon Hill

"It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities."

Eric Hoffer

"He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed."

William James

"Some people stay far away from the door if there’s a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by."

Billy Joel

"To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life."

Samuel Johnson

"Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best."

Michael Johnson

"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes."

Henry J. Kaiser

"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"There will always be a Frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand."

Charles Franklin Kettering

"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage."

Victor Kiam

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions, it only guarantees equality of opportunity."

Irving Kristol

"As the opportunity grows for unlimited growth and progress, the chances of failure increase. There is no such thing as a program that will provide security and growth and progress with no risk . . . even within the church. As freedom for unrestricted development is enhanced, the possibilities for failure are also increased. The risk factor is great."

Dean L. Larsen

"Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success."

Burt Lawlor

"Ability is of little account without opportunity.”

Henry Wadsworth LongFellow

"Age is opportunity no less than youth itself."

Henry Wadsworth LongFellow

"There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity."

General Douglas MacArthur

"A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, 'Opportunity'."

Marianne Craig Moore

"Ability is nothing without opportunity."

Napoleon Bohaparte

"Ability is of little account without opportunity."

Napoleon I

"The Chinese write the word crisis with two characters, on of which means danger and the other opportunity."

Milo Perkins

"Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent."

Dr.Laurence J. Peters

"If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade."

Thomas J. "Tom" Peters

"It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity."

Frederick Philipse

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"How often the sight of means to do ill deeds, makes deeds ill done."

William Shakespeare

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures."

William Shakespeare

"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity."

Publilius Syrus

"We have a problem for those who advocate competitive equality of opportunity: the prizes won in the competitions of the first generation will tend to defeat the requirements of equality of opportunity for the next."

Lloyd Thomas

"It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity."

Arthur H. Vandenberg

"Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards."

William Arthur Ward

"If we do not take advantage of our opportunities, it is our own fault."

Thomas J. Watson

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."

Oprah Winfrey

"Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold."

William Wordsworth

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Sir Winston Churchill

"You and I can never do a kindness too soon, for we never know how soon it will be too late."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."

Anthony Robbins

WILLPOWER

16 Inspirational Quotes

"You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.” Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

Mahatma Gandhi

"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes."

Chinese Proverb

"A man can do all things if he but wills them."

Leon Battista Alberti

"People do not lack strength; they lack will."

Victor Hugo

"What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter."

Peter F. Drucker

"Will is character in action."

William Mcdougall

"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."

Douglas Macarthur

"Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will."

Norman Cousins

"Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on."

Richard Cecil

"They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson is life who does not every day surmount a fear."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The time is always right to do what is right."

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"'Tis better to be alone than in bad company.'"

George Washington

"It is not because things are different that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

Anonymous

DETERMINATION

30 Inspirational Quotes

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

Roger Bannister

"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur."

Vince Lombardi

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

Tommy Lasorda

"Nothing great will ever be achieved without great mean, and men are great only if they are determined to be so."

Charles De Gaulle

"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

Samuel Johnson

"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."

Alexander Graham Bell

"Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose."

Benjamin Disraeli

"The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory."

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

"You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can."

Jimmy Carter

"We will either find a way, or make one!"

Hannibal

"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop."

Robert Hughes

"Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory."

Ghandi

"Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold."

Dr. A. B. Meldrum

"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."

John Christian Bovee

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

Vince Lombardi

"It takes a little courage, and a little self-control. And some grim determination, If you want to reach the goal. It takes a great deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, if you really want to win, there's no easy path to glory. There is no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, Is no simple parlor game; But its prizes call for fighting, For endurance and for grit; For a rugged disposition that will not quit."

Navy SEAL Masterchief

"The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck."

Channing Pollock

"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before."

Jacob Riis

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

Michael Jordon

"Self-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control."

Anonymous

"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. "

Alexander Graham Bell

"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."

Christian Nestell Bove

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

John Calvin Coolidge

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."

Thomas Alva Edison

"Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success."

Burt Lawlor

"It's a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

William Somerset Maugham

"It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge."

John J. Watson

"I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work."

Lee Iacocca

"A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough."

Ronald Reagan

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."

Friedrich Nietzsche

SURVIVAL

13 Inspirational Quotes

“A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with, a man is what he makes himself."

Alexander Graham Bell

"Double, no, triple our troubles and we’d still be better off than any other people on earth."

Ronald Reagan

"Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved."

Ernest Hemingway

"The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival."

Morris K. Udall

"Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price."

Elie Wiesel

"Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that is not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain - if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it."

Richard M. Nixon

"The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass."

Herman Melville

"In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise."

Maya Angelou

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."

Dr.W.Edwards Deming

"Learning is not compulsory. . . neither is survival."

Dr.W.Edwards Deming

"In a mad world, only the mad are sane."

Akiro Kurosawa

"This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life."

Herbert Spencer

"Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age."

Adlai Stevenson

EPILOGUE

So, what have you learnt?

There are many answers, but I believe that the phrase ‘I can be greater than I am’ is satisfactory. Everyone can be greater in their life, in their job, and at home. History has showed us that humans can do remarkable things. Such as fly to the moon, build pyramids in the sand, travel across inhospitable landscape to the frozen North Pole, and even climb up the highest mountain on Earth.

So while you don’t have to be the next Armstrong or Hilary, you can certainly be the best that YOU can be. If that means that you leave your job at the supermarket to setup your own business, so be it. Or, if that means that you leave your nine to five city job that you despise, to travel back to your hometown in the country to marry the girl or guy that you love, then do it.

Rich, poor, fat, skinny, tall, short… the list goes on. But it doesn’t matter. Anyone, anywhere can reach their full potential by learning from successful people, which are the people outlined in this book. So, like the famous Walt Disney once said, ‘If you can dream it, you can do it.’

Goodbye, Sayonara, Adieu…

Content

Publishing Change Your Life Achieve Your Full Potential: 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life