Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
- Denis Waitley
This inspirational quotes blog has mainly short one-liners, but also some longer hard-hitting quotes; all will inspire & motivate you.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
- Denis Waitley
- Denis Waitley
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
- Robert Collier
- Robert Collier
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
- Brian Tracy
- Brian Tracy
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
- James Allen
- James Allen
Monday, May 28, 2012
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
- Philip Sidney
- Philip Sidney
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
- Gautama Buddha
- Gautama Buddha
There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
- Henry Ford
- Henry Ford
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Sunday, May 27, 2012
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
- J. P. Morgan
- J. P. Morgan
What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.
- Robert H. Schuller
- Robert H. Schuller
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others
- Helen Keller
- Helen Keller
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Søren Kierkegaard
Do you agree? "All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."
-Adlai E. Stevenson
-Adlai E. Stevenson
Friday, May 25, 2012
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
- Denis Waitley
- Denis Waitley
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry David Thoreau
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. -Marden
You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry David Thoreau
If A equals success, then the formula is A=X + Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. -Einstein
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
- Charles Dickens
- Charles Dickens
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
- Voltaire
- Voltaire
You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.
- Zig Ziglar
- Zig Ziglar
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.
- Zig Ziglar
- Zig Ziglar
Monday, May 21, 2012
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
- Lou Holtz
- Lou Holtz
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
- Robert Frost
- Robert Frost
I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
- Phillips Brooks
- Phillips Brooks
Sunday, May 20, 2012
There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. -Wayne Dyer
Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
- Wayne Dyer
- Wayne Dyer
Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.
- Wayne Dyer
- Wayne Dyer
You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.
- Earl Nightingale
- Earl Nightingale
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale
- Earl Nightingale
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
- Wayne Dyer
- Wayne Dyer
Friday, May 18, 2012
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
- Buckminster Fuller
- Buckminster Fuller
Thursday, May 17, 2012
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
- Thomas Edison
- Thomas Edison
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
- Orison Swett Marden
- Orison Swett Marden
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
- Jim Rohn
- Jim Rohn
Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Monday, May 14, 2012
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
- Zig Ziglar
- Zig Ziglar
The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
- Peter Drucker
- Peter Drucker
You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.
- Les Brown
- Les Brown
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- Les Brown
- Les Brown
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
- Tony Robbins
- Tony Robbins
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
- Albert Schweitzer
Saturday, May 12, 2012
We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
- Dale Carnegie
- Dale Carnegie
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
- John Wooden
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. -Marden
Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
- Orison Swett Marden
- Orison Swett Marden
Friday, May 11, 2012
You can have anything in the world you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
- Zig Ziglar
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
- Wayne Dyer
- Wayne Dyer
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
- Confucius
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
- Jim Rohn
- Jim Rohn
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. -Earl Nightingale
Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
-OS Marden
-OS Marden
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
- Brian Tracy
- Brian Tracy
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. -Brian Tracy
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
- Brian Tracy
- Brian Tracy
An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. -Richard Bach
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
- Richard Bach
- Richard Bach
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
- Richard Bach
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. -Richard Bach
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
- Adlai E. Stevenson
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
- Josh Billings
- Josh Billings
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billings
Monday, May 7, 2012
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
- Christopher Morley
- Christopher Morley
Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
- Buckminster Fuller
- Buckminster Fuller
When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
- Charles M. Schwab
- Charles M. Schwab
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
- Michel de Montaigne
- Michel de Montaigne
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
- Vernon Howard
- Vernon Howard
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