I'm sharing these powerful and amazing quotes from great people that will motivate one to action!
These are also among my favorites and when I need motivation, I just read them.
I hope it can do the same for you.
Here's to success and the attainment of your dreams!
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"Action is the real measure of intelligence." - Napoleon Hill
"The secret of success is to be very very good at something that's very very hard to do."
- A Roald Dahl character
"The greatest 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
"Awareness is Everything"- Phil Jackson
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. - Louis Nizer
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." - Albert Einstein
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” - Albert Einstein
"Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them" -Louis Nizer
"Keep growing your core business. Beware the unfamiliar."
- From the book What Really Works.
“If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young" - Winston Groom
"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."- Chinese Proverbs
"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca
Three Rules of Work: "Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” - Albert Einstein
"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." - Warren Buffett
"Let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth." 1 John 3:18
"Where words fail, music speaks." —Hans Christian Andersen
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."- Oprah Winfrey
“A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” - Lao Tzu
“He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.” - Lao Tzu
“The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms” - Anonymous
“If there is a way to do it better...find it.” - Thomas Edison
"Earth laughs in flowers" - Emerson
"For as [a man] thinketh in his heart, so is he." - Proverbs 23:7
A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death which was third on the list. So, you're telling me that at a funeral, most people would rather be the guy in the coffin than have to stand up and give a eulogy. -- Jerry Seinfield
"Live life with a fire that can never be extinguished" - Anonymous
"We are only great when we act from passion" - Disraeli
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” - Henry Ford
“Ask yourself the secret of YOUR success. Listen to your answer, and practice it." - Richard Bach
On Success: "The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for what they want. And if they can't find it, they make it".- George Bernard Shaw
"When you follow your bliss... doors will open for you where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else." - Joseph Campbell
“The less routine the more life.” - Anonymous
“Keep your dreams alive. To achieve requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. All things are possible for those who believe.” Gail Devers
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
“When the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” - Confucius
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently." — Warren Buffett
"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." - Napoleon Hill
"Enthusiasm is that ingredient of vitality mixed with a firm belief in what you are doing that ensures the success of any project you undertake." - Dale Carnegie
"None of us is as smart as All of Us" - Japanese Proverb
"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
"It doesn’t matter what my starting position is — I will always find a way to improve from there." - Steve Pavlina
"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!" - Andrew Carnegie
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”- Steve Jobs
If you want happiness for an hour—take a nap. If you want happiness for a day—go fishing. If you want happiness for a month—get married. If you want happiness for a year—inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime—help someone else. – Chinese Proverb
"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." — John D. Rockefeller
"You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself." — Harvey Firestone
"Never let yesterday use up too much of today." — Will Rogers
"It doesn’t matter if the glass is half full or half empty. The only thing that matters is whether what’s in it quenches your thirst." - Anonymous
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams " - Eleanor Roosevelt
"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." — Wayne Gretzky
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? -Dr Robert Schuller
"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken." — Warren Buffett
"To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate." — Michael Jordan
"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness." - George Santayana
"Don't ask what the world needs; don't ask what others think you should be doing with your life. Instead, ask yourself what makes you come alive--because, more than anything else, what the world truly needs are men and women who have come alive." - Dr. Wayne Dyer
"What we do in life echoes in eternity." - Maximus
"We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by persons who have "crossed bridges" in their imagination far ahead of the crowd." - Napoleon Hill
"Transform your workspace into your favorite place to be, and watch the positive effect it has on your productivity." - Anonymous
"The reasonable person adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable person." — George Bernard Shaw
"When we begin to awaken to the creative genius within, the entire universe cheers for us." -- Brian Piergrossi
"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is exhausting for children to have to provide explanations over and over again... That's the way they are. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups." -- Antoine de Saint Exupéry
"It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to." - Annie Gottlier
“To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value. – your opportunity and mine.” – Napoleon Hill
"When we begin to awaken to the creative genius within, the entire universe cheers for us." -- Brian Piergrossi
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." - Buddha
"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." — Napoleon Hill
"The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you." - Jim Rohn
“More gold has been mined from the thoughts of people than has been taken from the earth.” - Napoleon Hill
"Every calling is great when greatly pursued." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you're ready or not, to put it into action." - Napoleon Hill
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." -- Marie Curie
“Formal education will make you a living; Self-education will make you a fortune.” - Jim Rohn
"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea." - Buddha
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln
"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates
"As I grow, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do." -- Andrew Carnegie
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino
"A person's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that they hold dear, is that moment when they have worked their hearts out for a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious." - Vince Lombardi
"It’s not your motivation that will produce results — it’s your action." - Jim Rohn
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody
has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought." — Jonathan Swift
"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life." - Wayne Dyer
"You can have it all. Just not all at once." -- Oprah Winfrey
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." -- H. Jackson Browne, Jr.
"Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still." - Henry David Thoreau
"A good laugh is sunshine in a house." -- Thackeray
"People fall forward to success." -- Mary Kay Ash
"The actions of people are the best interpreters of their thoughts." - John Locke
"Dont just stand there. Make it happen." - Lee Iacocca
"What we think determines what happens to us. If we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds." — Dr. Wayne Dyer
"To avoid criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." — Elbert Hubbard
"A laugh is the shortest distance between two people." - Victor Borge
"Logic will not change an emotion, but action will." - Anonymous
"Unsolicited free advice is worth exactly what it costs." - Anonymous
"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness." - Charles Sprugeon
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." - Albert Einstein
"Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make." - Sarah Ban Breathnach
"You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation. " - Dalai Lama
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." - Shakespeare
"Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming." - Goethe
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - Harry S Truman
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
"There is no failure except in no longer trying." - Elbert Hubbard
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
"One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others." - Dalai Lama
"A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself." - Frank Crane
"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." - Henry Ford
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” - St. Augustine
“Your feet will bring you to where your heart is.” - Irish Proverb
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu
"Any fool can criticize, complain, condemn, and most fools do." - Anonymous
"An easy task becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance." - Terence
"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"The absence of fear is the major cause of individual success." - Napoleon Hill
"Small opportunities are often the beginnings of great enterprises." - Demosthenes
"The person who says "it can't be done" usually winds up under the person who is busy doing it." - Napoleon Hill
"Common sense is not so common." - Voltaire
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, & what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi
"A smile is a little curve that sets a lot of things straight." - Zig Ziglar
"Worry kills more people than work, because more people tackle it." - Elbert Hubbard
"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence." - Jim Watkins
"If you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-TURNS." - Anonymous
"Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise."
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or
accept the responsibility for changing them."
— Denis Waitley
"If it's still in your mind, it is worth taking the risk." - Paulo Coelho
"A goal without a plan is just a wish." - Antoine de Saint Exupery
"The only wealth you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away." - Marcus Aurelius
"Be like a duck - calm on the surface but always paddling like the dickens underneath." - Michael Caine
"If you think you can win, you can win! Faith is necessary to victory." - William Hazlitt
"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as simple as that." - Earl Nightingale
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is Success." -- Henry Ford
"Our greatest battles are that with our own minds." -- Jameson Frank
"A person is not old until regrets take the place of hopes and plans." - Scott Nearing
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett
"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make." - Les Brown
“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.” - Albert Einstein
"I learned long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others." - Booker T. Washington
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.” - Napoleon Hill
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Leaders who do less but do more of the right things are more effective."
- Graham Alexander
"Once you allow yourself to explore what your purpose is in life, you might find that purpose requires small adjustments or enormous change." - Graham Alexander
"You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might." - Henry David Thoreau
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy
"The secret of success in life is for a person to be ready for their opportunity when it comes." - Benjamin Disraeli
"If you're going through Hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
"We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are." - Jim Rohn
"There are two ways to live your life: One is, as though nothing is a MIRACLE. The other is, as though everything, is a MIRACLE." - Einstein
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily!" - Zig Ziglar
"We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present." - Thomas Edison
"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway." -Harper Lee
"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it." - George Bernard Shaw
"It always seems impossible until it's done." -Nelson Mandela
"If you spend all your life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."
- Morris West
"The successful companies of the next decade will be the ones that use digital tools to reinvent the way they work." - Bill Gates circa 1999
"A digital nervous system will let you do business at the speed of thought -the key to success in the twenty-first century." - Bill Gates
"Be like a postage stamp, stick to one thing until you get there." - Josh Billings
"Believe in yourself & all that you are. There is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle." - Christian D. Larson
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. "
- Helen Keller
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." - Wayne Dyer
"Business is a team sport. If your ego’s too big it sucks the life and soul out of the team and the business." - Robert Kiyosaki
“You'll have plenty of time to rest when you're dead.” - Robert De Niro
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” - Vincent Van Gogh
"The greatest deception we suffer is from our own opinions." - Leonardo da Vinci
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
- Peter Drucker
"When you live for a strong purpose, hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity." - Steve Pavlina
"You can build your discipline just as you can build muscle. Either way, you must push yourself to lift heavier. " - Steve Pavlina
"Reading for an hour per day in a field you wish to master is a life-changing habit."
- Steve Pavlina
"The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard. "- Abraham Maslow
"When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words than thy words without heart."
"Each person's work is always a portrait of themself."- Samuel Johnson
"Learn all you can from the mistakes of others so you won't have time to make them all yourself." - Alfred Sheinwold
"Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats." - Gandhi
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work." — Thomas Edison
"Learn, earn, return - these are the three phases of life." - Jack Balousek
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford
"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius & it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." - Marilyn Monroe
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones."
- Proverbs 16:24
"No person was ever honored for what they received. Honor is the reward for what they gave." - Calvin Coolidge
"You're never a loser until you quit trying." - Mike Ditka
"The heart that loves is always young." - Greek Proverb
"Worry kills more people than work, because more people tackle it." - Elbert Hubbard
"A smile is a little curve that sets a lot of things straight." - Zig Ziglar
"Control your destiny or somebody else will." - Jack Welch
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.” - Albert Einstein
"Speak when you're angry, & you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."
- Lawrence J. Peter
"I will love the light because it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino
"First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination." - Napoleon Hill
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves."
- Leo Tolstoy
"There can be no richer person who has found a labor of love for it is the highest form of expression of human desires." - Napoleon Hill
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity."
"Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to produce uncommon results."
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt
"We are judged by what we finish, not by what we start." - Anonymous
