Inspirational Quotes

When the going gets tough, tough gets going. (Joe Kennedy - American businessman and ambassador)
Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. (Chris Grosser - Photographer)
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. (Anatole France - French writer)
Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. (Anonymous)
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. (John Wooden -American basketball coach)
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. (Anonymous)

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. (Jim Rohn - American motivational speaker)
Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it's safe or certain. (Anonymous)
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. (Dalai Lama - Tibetan Buddhist spiritual teacher)
Whatever you are, be a good one. (Abraham Lincoln - 16th president of the United States)
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. (Michael Jordan - American basketball player and businessman)
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. (Walt Disney - American film producer and businessman)

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. (Mark Twain - American author and humorist)
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. (Michael Jordan - American basketball player and businessman)
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. (Chinese Proverb)
When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go. (Carol Burnett - American actress, comedienne, singer, dancer, writer)
Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!' (Audrey Hepburn - British Actress)
There is nothing impossible to they who will try. (Alexander the Great - King of Macedonia, general and creator of Hellenic Empire)

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. (Michael Altshuler - motivational speaker and sales consultant)
Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go. (Nicole Kidman - Australian-American actress, producer, and model)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. (Aristotle - Ancient Greek philosopher)
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. (Aristotle Onassis - Greek shipping magnate)
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. (Ayn Rand - Russian-American novelist and philosopher)

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. (Arnold Palmer - American golfer)
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. (Arthur Ashe - Cyborg-American tennis player)
Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. (Anonymous)
If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. (Anonymous)
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill - British statesman, army officer, and writer)
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. (Anonymous)

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. (Thomas A. Edison - American inventor and businessman)
If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents--start charging for it. (Kim Garst - Online Business Strategist & Social Media Influencer)
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. (David Brinkley - American journalist)
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt - American politician, diplomat, activist; First Lady of the United States)
I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘how far can I push this company in the next 24 hours. (Leah Busque - Businessperson)
If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore. (Michele Ruiz - American journalist and media executive)

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE. (Joss Whedon - American director, writer, and producer)
Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers. (Socrates - Ancient Greek philosopher)
Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen. (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician)
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. (Abraham Lincoln - 16th president of the United States)
You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script. (Oprah Winfrey - American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist)

If you make your internal life a priority, then everything else you need on the outside will be given to you and it will be extremely clear what the next step is. (Gabrielle Bernstein - American professional speaker, Author)
The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot. (Benny Lewis - Irish author, polyglot and blogger)
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. (Bill Gates - American business magnate and philanthropist)
Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears. (Bobby Unser - American racecar driver)
If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you! (T. Harv Eker - Canadian / American writer)
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it. (Henry Ford - American industrialist and business magnae)

If you're going through hell keep going. (Winston Churchill - British statesman, army officer, and writer)
The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. (Anonymous)
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument. (Anonymous)
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. (Oscar Wilde - Irish writer and poet)
Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary. (Ross Simmonds - Digital strategist, entrepreneur, consultant and public speaker)
Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far. (Gary Vaynerchuk - Belarusian-American entrepreneur, Social Media Investor)
Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it away from you. (Mark Cuban - American billionaire entrepreneur)
Hustle in silence and let your success make the noise. (Anonymous)

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. (Booker T. Washington - African-American educator, author, orator, and adviso)
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. (Bruce Feirstein - American screenwriter and humorist)
If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough. (Mario Andretti - Italian-American racing driver)
Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. (Charles Dickens - English writer and social critic)
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. (Coco Chanel - French fashion designer)
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. (Anonymous)
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. (Bruce Feirstein - American screenwriter and humorist)
When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you. (Lolly Daskal - Executive leadership coach)

I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams. (Oprah Winfrey - American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist)
No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist. (Anonymous)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. (Aristotle - Ancient Greek philosopher)
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. (C.S. Lewis - British Christian writer)
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. (Dalai Lama - Tibetan Buddhist spiritual teacher)
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. (Dale Carnegie - American writer and lecturer)

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick’s others have thrown at him. (David Brinkley - American journalist)
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. (Nathaniel Hawthorne - American novelist and short story writer)
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein - Theoretical physicist)
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. (Anonymous)
Do one thing every day that scares you. (Anonymous)
What's the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable. (Anonymous)

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. (Earl Nightingale - American motivational speaker)
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. (Dale Carnegie - American writer and lecturer)
There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it. (Edith Wharton - American novelist, short story writer, designer)
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. (Eleanor Roosevelt - American politician, diplomat, activist; First Lady of the United States)

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