Inspirational Quotes
for Success
Inspiration may sometimes nourish our life. While reading the following quotations, remember that the truth comes in bits and pieces; everything is relative, nothing is absolute. Some quotations may sound right for you, and some may not. You may forget or ignore some of them, but others will resonate and inspire you .
There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Logan Smith
Hope is the one candle that should never be put out. Without it we are left in complete darkness.
Marcela Bennett
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Sachs
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Anonymous
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Hugh Prather
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Edward Everett Hale
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
If you don't risk anything you risk even more.
Erica Jong
Because you are a mortal, think as a mortal.
Menander
Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.
Earl of Chesterfield
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor.
Aldous Huxley
Fear of failure never leads to success – overcoming fear often does.
Marcela Bennett
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Brian Tracy
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
Thomas Merton
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Greg Evans
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Joseph Addison
Use your brain, or let somebody else’s brain use you.
Marcela Bennett
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Sir Winston Churchill
My own business bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
Oscar Wilde
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Michel de Montaigne
Let your desires be ruled by reason.
Cicero
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
Karl Kraus
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
Robert Fritz
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
The absence of a goal is like aimlessly shooting to hit an unidentified target.
Marcela Bennett
Strong reasons make strong actions.
William Shakespeare
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Epicurus
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does, except wrinkles.
Abigail Van Buren
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
English Proverb
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Sidney J. Harris
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright
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
Illuminate your life path by turning on your head lights.
Marcela Bennett
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Sidney Harris
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Austin Phelps
The cure for boredom is curiosity.
Dorothy Parker
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Dylan Thomas
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
Oscar Wilde
It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
James Gordon.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Fear always precedes the unknown.
Marcela Bennett
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul Richter
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams (from “ The Restaurant at the End of the Universe” )
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Arthur Golden
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb
The wheel was once square, but they kept persevering.
Marcela Bennett
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Lillian Carter
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach
Nothing is stronger than habit.
Ovid
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
Sallust
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
Samuel Johnson
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
Michael Pritchard
Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do but those who criticize your mistakes.
Isocrates
To think well and to consent to someone’s good advice, are the same thing.
Herodotus
Lying is meanness and truth bravery.
Appolonius
Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.
Archimedes
Love is the cause of unity in all things.
Aristotle
Cites ought not to be fortified with stones and timbers, but with the strong virtues of their inhabitants.
Agesilaus II
Modesty is the citadel of beauty.
Menander
It is difficulties that show what men are.
Epictetus
Never hope to conceal any shameful thing which you have done; for it even if you do conceal from others, your own heart will know.
Isocrates
Your now is a consequence of your past. Your future is a consequence of your now.
Marcela Bennett
Nature has given us one tongue and two ears so that we would listen twice as much as we speak.
Zeno of Elea
Physical strength is movement of the soul assisted by the body.
Socrates
Nothing is easier than self-deceit because what each man wishes, he also believes to be true.
Demosthenes
Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop
Time is the image of eternity.
Plato
To be a successful farmer one must first know the nature of t he soil.
enophon
The mind is the pilot of the soul.
Socrates
The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
Plato
Words are but the shadows of actions.
Democritus
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle
Anxiety ends when reassurance starts.
Marcela Bennett
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the believr in a hing makes it happen.
Frank Loyd Wright
There is only one success; to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
William Shakespeare
Nature does not aim to deceive. Everything that it produces it does so with clarity and truth.
Xenophon
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi
Wherever there is competition, there’s victory.
Aristotle
Man is the measure of all things.
Protagoras
No one is free, who is not master of himself.
Pythagoras
Every building starts with an idea, a plan and a single brick.
Marcela Bennett
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Samuel Butler
He who seeks knowledge must desire, form a young age, to hear the entire truth.
Plato
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Ghandi
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
Beauty of soul is not so easy to see as beauty of body.
Aristotle
There is time for everything.
Thomas A. Edison
You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Heraclitus
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
William Feather
Perverse Temptation, the overmastering child of designing Destruction, drives men on; and every remedy is futile.
Aeschylus
Every enterprise of the thoughtless man is in vain.
Menander
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
Jules Renard
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
I recommend you take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.
Earl of Chesterfield
A person’s value doesn’t depend on his qualities but on the way he uses them.
Aristotle
Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
Socrates
Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
Dreams are logs that feed the fire of our souls.
Marcela Bennett
Among all human beings, first respect yourself.
Pythagoras
He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost.
Thomas Fuller
While they are awake, all men are in one common world, but when asleep, each is in a world of his own.
Plutarch
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
ristotle
A lifetime is a child playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
eraclitus
Strong reasons make strong actions.
William Shakespeare
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Even sleepers are workers, are collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
Heraclitus
To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
William Shakespeare
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
I came upon an answer, but I did not know the question.
Marcela Bennett
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Gerry Spence
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
emosthenes
Hope is the dream of the waking man.
French Proverb
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels”. Hope that you found some good jewels among these quotes.
Inayat Khan
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
There are as many definitions of success as people on Earth.
Marcela Bennett
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
John Lilly
If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Mary Engelbreit
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not follow where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold McAlindon
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Kahlil Gibran
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