Thursday, May 4, 2023

104. Motivational quotes - 13

 1. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown your own inner voice. - Steve Jobs

2. Success is a process of continually seeking answers to new questions. - Sir John Templeton

3. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw

4. What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do." - John Ruskin

5. The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. -William Wordsworth

6. Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. -Madame de Stael

7. The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. -Robert Lynd

8. I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down. - Abraham Lincoln

9. Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. - Bill Bradley

10. The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher and author

11. The highest result of education is tolerance. - Helen Keller

12. There is only one success-- to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley

13. Live your life as an experiment. - Pema Chodron, Buddhist nun and author 

14. The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. - Abraham Lincoln

15. Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be. - Marsha Petrie Sue

16. If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you. - Les Brown

17. I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head. -Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President 

18. People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine. - Brian Tracy

19. Persistence is to the character of man like carbon is to steel. - Napoleon Hill

20. A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. - Goethe

21. Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating your energies on a limited set of targets. - Nido Qubein

22. A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.- Goethe

23. I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.- Picasso

24. Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. - Christina Rossetti, 

25. Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. - Goethe

26. I like talking about things that are taboo because it makes them not taboo anymore. - Sarah Silverman, 

27. Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.- D.Rockfeller

28. Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best. - Henry van Dyke

29. When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. - Abraham Joshua Heschel

30. All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter. - Lord Acton 

31. The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose,we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.- Vince Lombardi

32. In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. - Lee Iacoca 

33. People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. -Haruki Murakami,

34. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. - Martin Luther King

35. The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities. - Kahlil Gibran,

36. The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. - Vince Lombardi 

37. He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. - Nietzsche

38. People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. -Max Eastman

39. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. - Abraham Lincoln

40. It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power! - Rober T. Kiyosaki

41. Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he thinks you are a savage. Or perhaps he is afraid of you because he feels that you are afraid of him. And perhaps if he believed you are capable of loving him he would no longer be your enemy. - Thomas Merton

42. Mistakes are the portals of discovery. - James Joyce

43. I like things to happen. And if they don't happen, I like to make them happen. - Winston Churchill

44. When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. -Alexander Graham Bell

45. If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?” - George Clason, author of the Richest Man in Babylon.

46. Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. - Napoleon Hill

47. Nature never said to me: Do not be poor. Still less did she say: Be rich. Her cry to me was always: Be independent. - Nicolas de Chamfort

48. Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is
potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.- Muhammad Ali

49. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.- Robert Collier

50. If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. -Horace Mann,