The following inspirational quotations have been collected from a list compiled by G.K. Lim.
Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Denis Waitley
The only competition you will ever have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind.
James A. Ray
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Harvey Mackay
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
Anthony Robbins
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Jim Rohn
When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.
Brian Tracy
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Vincent T. Lombardi
Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either. They keep you.
Dr. Frank Crane
You shouldn't criticize: It's an easy habit to acquire and an impossible one to break. It robs your soul of character.
John Grisham
No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.
Unknown
Leadership is action, not position.
Donald McGannon
You are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Allen
The elevator to the top is out of order; therefore, you must take the stairs, one at a time.
Zig Ziglar
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Charles Caleb Colton
Dare to risk public criticism.
Mary Kay Ash
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
Muhammad Ali
Accept everything about yourself; I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets.
Clark Moustakas (Humanistic Psychologist)
Sow an act, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap a character; Sow a character, reap a destiny.
George D. Boardman
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single footstep.
Confucius
Everything changes but change itself.
John F. Kennedy
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann von Goethe
Forget the past and live the present hour. -- Sarah Knowles Bolton
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
Emily Dickinson
Life is a short day; but it is a working day. Activity may lead to evil, but inactivity cannot lead to good.
Hannah More
Make your life a mission - not an intermission.
Arnold Glasgow
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Pamela Vaull Starr
If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.
Gita Bellin
It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.
Chin-Ning Chu
There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.
Sri Chinmoy
Some people often complain that they are not beautiful, or that they do not get along well with others. Actually, getting along with others is not based on one's appearance, but on one's character. Good character is something we have to work at.
Venerable Master Cheng Yen
One should do one's best and leave the rest to fate. Do not keep difficulties inside the heart. People must overcome difficulties and not be overcome by difficulties.
Venerable Master Cheng Yen
A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, can never go back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holme
If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it. Ambition by itself never gets anywhere until it forms a partnership with work.
James Garfield
You have to "be" before you can "do," and do before you can "have."
Zig Ziglar
I really don't have a goal to be the greatest coach in the business. I just try to achieve the best with the talent God has given me. If I do that, I'm satisfied.
Tom Landry ( Champion Pro Football coach)
The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
C. S. Lewis
Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.
Mary Kay Ash (Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857)
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese Buddhist Monk, Teacher)
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Seneca
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Joubert
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Kierkegaard
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Thomas Henry Huxley
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Helen Keller
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
Erich Fromm
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world .... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The best thing to give your enemy is forgiveness; To an opponent, tolerance; To a friend, your heart; To your child, a good example; To a father, deference; To your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; To yourself, respect; To all men, charity.
Francis Maitland Balfour
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Seneca
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
African Proverb
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle
G K Lim, ISO CMS, FInstSMM, is a training consultant, specializing in the core area of persuasion psychology, which includes strategic and tactical selling skills, negotiation skills, customer service excellence, effective presentation skills, emotional intelligence enhancement, motivation, and mind development. He can be reached through his website.
