Inspirational Quotes

Here are inspirational quotes, inspiring remarks, and assorted motivational quotations.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.

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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won't.

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

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

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

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

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Do not follow where the path my lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupaton.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do.

Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.

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

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.

Those who say it can't be done should get out of the way of those who are doing it.

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this; dream a great dream.

You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

May you live all the days of your life.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

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I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

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

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven.

Get up one time more than you're knocked down.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

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

The best way out is always through.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

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What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?

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Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

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

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

You can have anything in life you want if you just help enough other people get what they want.

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