Motivational Inspirational Quotes of Famous People, Businessmen and quotes of philosophers

“People become really quite remarkable whey they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”

-Norman Vincent Peale

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

-Mark Twain

“The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably in thought and act.“

-Orison Sweet Marden

“You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things- to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.”

-Edmund Hillary

“Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.”

-B.C. Forbes

“To know and not to do is not yet to know.”

-Zen Saying

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

-Eleanor Roosevelt

“Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the esteem of colleagues, or the admiration of the community, or the appreciation of patients. Success is the certain knowledge that you have become yourself, the person you will meant to be from all time. That should be reward enough.”

-Dr. George Sheehan

“Don’t let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you’re crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you’re lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you’re greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn’t understand.”

-Robert Allen

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

-Aristotle

“Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefits.”

-W. Clement Stone

“A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.”

-Kenneth A. Wells

“Someday I hope to enjoy enough of what the world calls success so that someone will ask me, “What’s the secret of it?” I shall say simply this: “I get up when I fall down.”

-Paul Harvey

“Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don’t like.”

-Charles Jarvis

“Give a man a fish and you deed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

-Lao Tzu

“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”

-Henry Ford

“In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can’t, you’ll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.”

-Gary Hamel

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.”

-Samuel Johnson

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”

-William Feather

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. They prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles cans successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.”

-B.C. Forbes

“There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.”

-O. Wayne Rollins

“Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.”

-Boethe

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”

-Pamela Vault Starr

“Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.”

-James Buckham

“Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.”

-William A. Ward

“Enthusiasm moves the world.”

-J. Balfour

“Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.”

-Ovid

“Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.”

-Danny Thomas

“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”

-Henry Ford

“In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.”

-Albert Einstein

“People are anxious to improve their circumstances but unwilling to improve themselves, they therefore remain bound.”

-James Allen

“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”

-Sophia Loren

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

“You see things and say, “Why?” But I dream of things that never were and ssay “Why not?”

-George Bernard Shaw

“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he ccan give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.”

-Henry Ford

“Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.”

-Napoleon Hill

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”

-George Washington Carver

“Spectacular achievements are always preceded by painstaking preparation.”

-Roger Staubach

“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.”

-Thomas Edison

“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”

-Thomas Henry Huxley

“Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”

-Williams James

“Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of life contains three descriptions: could have, might have and should have.”

-Louis Boone

“Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or woman with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.”

-James F. Bell

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

-T.S. Eliot

More Famous Quotes

“All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self-determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.”

-William Channing

“No man is free who is not master to himself.”

-Epictetus

“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrates their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what the can’t do.”

-Dr. Denis Waitley

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfection, but instantly see about remedying them- every day begin the task anew.”

-St. Francis de Sales

“My life seems like one lone obstacle course, with me as the chief obstacle.”

-Jack Paar

“A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.”

-Thomas Paine

“If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.”

-Henry Kissinger

“One cannot manage change, one can only be ahead of it.”

-Peter Drucker

“Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.”

-Zig Ziglar

“Do what you love, love what you do and deliver more than you promise.”

-Harvey Mackay

“The highest reward for a man’s toll is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes of it.”

-John Ruskin

“Without ambition, no conquests are made, no lands discovered, no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.”

-James Champy

“Don’t compete. Create. Find out what everyone else is doing and then don’t do it.”

-Joel Weldon

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”

-Helen Keller

“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.”

-Dr. Willis R. Whitney

“Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching our and striving for his goals.”

-Aristole

“There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.”

-Douglas MacArthur

“The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.”

-Charles M. Schwab

“Money is an idea.”

-Robert Klyosaki

“Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.”

-Marilyn Ferguson

“Unjust criticism is usually a disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealousy and envy. Remember that no one kicks a dead dog.”

-Dale Camegie

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

-Albert Einstein

“Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is…to watch what each day brings.”

-Albert E. Dunning

“The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.”

-Sir William Osler

“If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.”

-Will Rogers

“Our real problem is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.”

-Calvin Coolidge

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

-John Wooden

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”

-E. Joseph Cossman

“One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success.”

-Napoleon Hill

“A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspired the power and energy to get it done.”

-Ralph Lauren

“A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.”

-Charles Schwab

More Famous Quotes

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The phrase “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

-Calvin Coolidge

“You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don’t have that kind of feeling for what it is you’re doing, you’ll stop at the first giant hurdle.”

-George Lucas

“He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.”

-Herman Melville

“There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it.”

-Andrew Carnegie

“Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence- is the key to unlocking our potential.”

-Sir Winston Churchill

“The method of the enterprising is the plan with audacity and execute with vigor.”

-Christian Bovee

“I don’t dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.”

-Steven Spielberg

“No man is ever whipped, until he quits-in his own mind.”

-Napoleon Hill

“The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.”

-Michael Gerber

“Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.”

-Paul Zane Pilzer

“Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill.”

-Zig Ziglar

“People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they cant find them, make them.”

-George Bernard Shaw

“Our power is in our ability to decide.”

-Buckminster Fuller

“What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” “Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.”

-Napoleon Hill

“I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

-Abraham Lincoln

“There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.”

-Douglas MacArthur

“What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”

-Goethe

“The first secret of success? Self trust.”

-Emerson

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

-Walter Bagehot

“I personally have learned more after I failed than before I failed. The healing process after the failure is ultimately what gave me more emotional and financial strength.”

-Robert Kiyosaki

“A business needs both a spiritual and a business mission to be successful, especially at the beginning.”

- Robert Kiyosaki

“A business should own or control something that another company does not.”

- Robert Kiyosaki

Asking yourself "how can I afford things?' allows you to have bigger and bigger dreams.

- Robert Kiyosaki

Most people get their cars tuned up and check out annually, or have an annual health physical, but most people have never had their financial statements analyzed for flaws or potential future problems.

- Robert T Kiyosaki

"Most people quit and go looking for another job, better opportunitym and higher pay, actually thinking that a new job or more pay will solve the problem. In most cases, it won't."

- Robert Kiyosaki
"The reason most people end up poor or middle-class is because they spend more time selecting a used car than they spend time looking for good financial advice."

- Robert Kiyosaki

" There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."

- Nelson Mandella

" If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."

- George Patton

" You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together."

- Buddah

" Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

- Francis Bacon

" It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it. "

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them. "

- Jerry Gillies

" Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved. "

- Napoleon Hill

" When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve."

- Napoleon Hill

" A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed. "

- John F. Kennedy

" During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. "

- Albert Gore

" Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. " "

- Yogi Berra

More Famous Quotes

" The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." "

- Lily Tomlin

" Drive thy business or it will drive thee." "

- Benjamin Franklin

" Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." "

- David Rockefeller

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