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50 Best Inspirational Quotes

Posted on January 10, 2012January 10, 2012 by

1. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein

2. “Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.” – Wallace Wattles

3. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

4. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering the attitudes of his mind.” – William James

5. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

6. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela

7. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” – Robert Frost

8. “You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life.” – John Addison

9. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

10. “An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.” – Wallace Wattles

11. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

12. “Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.” – Stephen Covey

13. “The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.” – Joseph Joubert

14. ”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.” – Winston Churchill

15. “Don’t wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel Stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.” – Dara Henderson

16. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

17. “Vision without action is just a dream, action without vision just passes the time, vision with action can change the world” – Nelson Mandela

18. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

19. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

20. “Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose yours.” – Paulo Coelho

21. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy

22. “I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” – James Joyce

23. “I have learned that it’s not WHAT I have in my life but WHO I have in my life that counts.” – Unknown

24. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

25. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn

26. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci

27. “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” – Goethe

28. “It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined” – Henry James

29. “And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

30. “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Rogers

31. “Try not. Do or do not. There is no Try.” – Yoda (Star Wars!)

32. “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” – William Wallace

33. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

34. “There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind” – Brian Tracy

35.“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

37. “When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.” – Estee Lauder

38. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

39. “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” – Tom Bodett

40. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

41. “The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain

42. “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley

43. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

44. “Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

45. “I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.” – David Livingston

46. “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

47. “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo

48. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison

49. “Strive for progress, not perfection.” – Unknown

50. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the ones you did. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

Relationships Quotes

Posted on August 12, 2011 by

“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.” –Miles Franklin

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” –Henry Winkler

“Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.” –Leo Buscaglia

“Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.” –Swedish Proverb

“The best relationship is the one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.” –Unknown

“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” –Wayne W. Dyer

“Eighty percent of life’s satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.” –Brian Tracy

“Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.” – Unknown

“Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers.” –Mary Tyler Moore

“A man in a relationship trades intimacy to get sex. A woman in a relationship trades sex to get intimacy.” –Old Proverb

“People change and forget to tell each other.” –Lillian Hellman

“Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.” –Brian Tracy

“It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, bit it is the little differences that make them interesting.” – Todd Ruthman

“Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.” –Author Unknown

“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” –Martin Luther

“Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.” –Hector Bianciotti

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” –Anais Nin

“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

“Once the trust goes out of a relationship, it’s really no fun lying to ’em anymore.” –Norm from Cheers

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond. –Thomas Love Peacock

Brian Tracy Short Quotes

Posted on July 6, 2011 by

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person. –Brian Tracy

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience. –Brian Tracy

Your company’s most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers. –Brian Tracy

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. –Brian Tracy

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. –Brian Tracy

Successful people are simply those with successful habits. –Brian Tracy

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true. –Brian Tracy

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time. –Brian Tracy

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. –Brian Tracy

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals. –Brian Tracy

15 Productivity Quotes

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

1. The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become. — Brian Tracy

2. Pursue meaningful adventures. — Chris Guillebeau

3. It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up again. — Vince Lombardi

4. Fortune favours the brave. — Terence

5. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Neal Donald Walsch

6. The best way out is always through. — Unknown

7. Live well. It is the greatest revenge. — The Talmud

8. If you never fall you won’t know how to pick yourself up. — Unknown

9. You need to write down an unrealistic goal and start to live and breathe it every single day. This can be simple, or more complex. Make it crazy though! The sky is the limit, and trust me, people have been up there too. — Everett Bogue

10. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

11. Just get started. There are some days when you don’t feel like heading out the door for a run, or figuring out your budget, or whatever it is you’re supposed to do that day for your goal. Well, instead of thinking about how hard it is, and how long it will take, tell yourself that you just have to start. — Leo Babauta

12. One thing at a time. Most important thing first. Start now. — Skellie

13. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. — Winston Churchill

14. The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do. — Chris Guillebeau

15. Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve got. — Jim Rohn

Inspiring Quotes

Posted on May 16, 2011 by

I’ve selected for you 10 Inspiring Quotes for a better day. Enjoy!

“Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.” – Polly Berends

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

“Courage is the resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” – John Mitchell

“The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.” – Julia Alvarez

“The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.” – Brian Tracy

“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.” – Clare Booth Luce

“If you see a difference between where you are and where you want to be – consciously change your thoughts, words, and actions to match your grandest vision.” – Neal Donald Walsch

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson

What’s your favorite?

Self Confidence Quotes

Posted on December 27, 2010 by

“The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C’s. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.” ~Walt Disney

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” ~E. E. Cummings

“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

“Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.” ~Wendy Wasserstein

“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.” ~Cicero

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” ~African Proverb

“If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” ~Author Unknown

“Self-confidence gives you the freedom to make mistakes and cope with failure without feeling that your world has come to an end or that you are a worthless person.” ~Author Unknown

“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.” ~Bruce Barton

“Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.“ ~Norman Vincent Peale

“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.” ~Marcus Garvey

“When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited.” ~Brian Tracy

“Confidence, like art never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.” ~Earl Grey Stevenson

“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.” ~Lazarus Long

“People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.” ~Douglas MacArthur

“The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self confidence, bravery and tenacity.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

“Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.” ~Alan Alda

“With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.” ~Dalai Lama

“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.” ~Andrew Carnegie

“The tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence and respect everywhere except within themselves, so they fail in their search.” ~Dr. Nathaniel Branden

Motivational Quotes

Posted on December 9, 2010 by

“Success is what you attract by the person you become” – Jim Rohn

“No one can make you feel inferior without your permission” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking” – John Kenneth Galbraith

“Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

“To earn more, you must learn more.” – Brian Tracy

“Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others.” – Christian D. Larson

“Your life only gets better, when you get better” – Brian Tracy

“The porr and middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“Experience is what you get when you do not get what you want.” –Anonymous

“The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.” – Brian Tracy

“The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard B. Sheridan

“Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

“There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.” – Albert Camus

“It’s not what you have, it’s what you do with what you have.” – Unknown

“It matters not what person is born, but who they choose to be.” – Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Most misfortunes are the results of misused time” – Napoleon Hill

“We don’t see things the way they are. We see things the way we are.” – Talmud

“The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is dissapointment.” – William Arthur Ward

“A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.” – Napoleon Hill

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” – Norman Vincent Peale

Trust Quotes

Posted on November 19, 2010November 19, 2010 by

* Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience. ~ Stephen R. Covey
* You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. ~ Frank Cane
* Trust and reputation are not discretionary. They are as necessary in business as the people in whom they reside. ~ Tony Alessandra
* The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them. ~ Count di Camillo Cavour
* As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. ~ Goethe
* The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
* Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ~ Benjamin Spock
* Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. ~ Booker T. Washington
* One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. ~ E.M. Forster
* To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. ~ George MacDonald
* A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone else. ~ Cardinal De Retz
* The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust. ~ Brian Tracy
* You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist. ~ Indira Gandhi
* Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mottos For Success

Posted on October 3, 2010October 3, 2010 by

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.’ ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

“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

“Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life – but what we do about what happens to us.” ~ George Allen

“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

“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

“You don’t become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.” ~ Mark Victor Hansen

“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” ~ Conrad Hilton

“The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.” ~ Thomas Edison

Top 10 Motivational Quotes for Today

Posted on June 6, 2010 by

1. “I am who I choose to be” – Lois McMaster Bujold

2. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu

3. “Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves” – Zig Ziglar

4. “One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. «Which road do I take?», she asked. «Where do you want to go?», was his response. «I don’t know», Alice answered. «Then, said the cat, it doesn’t matter»” – Lewis Carrol

5. “It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going” – Brian Tracy

6. “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential” – Winston Churchill

7. “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs” – Henry Ford

8. “The future is always beginning now” – Mark Strand

9. “No man is rich enough to buy back his past” – Oscar Wilde

10. “If experience was so important, we’d never have had anyone walk on the moon” – Doug Rader