Inspirational Motivational Quotes

Leo Buscaglia

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes and not having all the answers, so long as we are willing to admit this and strive for personal betterment. Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out that they don't.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Eden Phillpotts
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

John Petit-Senn
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.

William Mather Lewis
The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.

Wayne Dyer
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

Wayne Dyer
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Deepak Chopra
Life is a field of unlimited possiblilites.

Shirley Lord
What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Thomas Carlyle
Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

David J. Schwartz
All great achievements require time.

Harold Taylor
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

Denis Waitley
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Dr. Jonas Salk
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Georgia O'Keeffe
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

Jack Kinder
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Carl Jung
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality

Helen Hayes
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.

Malcolm Forbes
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Geoffrey Gaberino
The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Robert Half
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Andrew Carnegie
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Francis Bacon
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Red Auerbach
Just do what you do best.

Zig Ziglar
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Stevie Wonder
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

Submitted by Christy Borgeld
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe in and act on it with all of your heart.

Submitted by Kat
If the road to sucess is always under construction, become a construction worker.

Submitted by Nisandeh Neta
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things. Success is doing the right things, right, right now.

Andrew Granatelli
When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Henry David Thoreau
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Vincent Lombardi
The pride of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Sam Ewing
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Danny Thomas
All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Al Bernstein
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Author Unknown
Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.

Russel H. Conwell
Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and doing well whatever you do

Orison Swett Marden
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Orison Swett Marden
The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Joe Girard
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs ... one step at a time.

Harvey S. Firestone
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

T. S. Eliot
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Robert Collier
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

M. H. Alderson
If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

Unknown Author
No rules for success will work if you don't.

Robert Collier
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

E.M. Gray
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.

T. S. Eliot
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

Warren Buffett
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Malcolm Forbes
How to succeed? Try hard enough.

Walter Chrysler
The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Henry David Thoreau

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Henry David Thoreau
Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Henry David Thoreau
The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.

Henry David Thoreau
The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Henry David Thoreau
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Henry David Thoreau

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Henry David Thoreau
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Henry David Thoreau
We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Henry David Thoreau
All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every second.

Henry David Thoreau
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Albert Einstein
I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

Albert Einstein
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein
Only a life lived for others is worth living.

Albert Einstein
Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Albert Einstein
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.

Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein
Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Napoleon Hill
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Napoleon Hill
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Napoleon Hill
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

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
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
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.