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Top 100 Inspirational Quotes
Kevin Kruse
Inspirational quotes and motivational
quotes have the power to get us through a bad
week,
and can even
give us
the courage to pursue our life’s dreams. In my
book,
4 Keys to
Happiness
and Fulfillment at Work
, I share
surprising research into the true triggers of
workplace motivation. So in the spirit
of self motivation, here are 100 inspirational
quotes.
1.
Life
isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving
and being. –
Kevin Kruse
2.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive
and believe, it can achieve.
–
Napoleon Hill
3.
Strive not to be a success, but rather
to be of value.
–
Albert
Einstein
4.
Two roads
diverged in a wood, and I
—
I
took the one less traveled by, and that has
made all the difference.
–
Robert Frost
5.
I attribute my success to this: I never
gave or took any excuse.
–
Florence Nightingale
6.
You miss 100% of the
shots you don’t take. –
Wayne Gretzky
7.
I’ve missed more
than
9000 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
8.
The most difficult
thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely
tenacity.
–
Amelia
Earhart
9.
Every
strike brings me closer to the next home run.
–
Babe Ruth
10.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting
point of all achievement.
–
W. Clement Stone
11.
We must balance
conspicuous consumption with conscious capitalism.
–
Kevin Kruse
12.
Life is what happens to you while
you’re busy making other plans. –
John
Lennon
13.
We become what
we think about.
–
Earl
Nightingale
14.
Twenty years
from now you will be more disappointed by the
things tha
t you didn’t
do
than
by
the
ones
you
did
do,
so
throw
off
the
bowlines,
sail
away
from
safe
harbor,
and
catch
the
trade
winds
in
your
sails.
Explore,
Dream,
Discover.
–
Mark
Twain
15.
Life is 10% what happens
to me and 90% of how I react to it.
–
Charles Swindoll
16.
The
most
common way people give up their power is by
thinking they don’t have any.
–
Alice Walker
17.
The mind is everything. What you think
you become.
–
Buddha
18.
The best time to plant
a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is
now.
–
Chinese Proverb
19.
An unexamined life is
not worth living.
–
Socrates
20.
Eighty percent of
success is showing up.
–
Woody Allen
21.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it
living someone else’s life. –
Steve Jobs
22.
Winning isn’t
everything, but wanti
ng to win is.
–
Vince Lombardi
23.
I am not a product of
my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
–
Stephen
Covey
24.
Every child is an
artist. The problem is how to remain an artist
once he grows up.
–
Pablo
Picasso
25.
You can never
cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose
sight of the shore.
–
Christopher Columbus
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I’ve
learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but
people will never forget how you made them feel.
–
Maya Angelou
Either you run the day, or the day runs
you.
–
Jim Rohn
Whether you think you can or you think
you can’t, you’re right. –
Henry Ford
The two most important days in your
life are the day you are born and the day you
find out why.
–
Mark Twain
Whatever you can do, or dream you can,
begin it. Boldness has genius, power and
magic in it.
–
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The best revenge is massive success.
–
Frank Sinatra
People often say that motivation
doesn’t last. Well, neither does
bathing.
That’s
wh
y
we recommend it daily.
–
Zig Ziglar
Life
shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
–
Anais Nin
If you hear a
voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by
all means paint and
that voice will be
silenced.
–
Vincent Van Gogh
There is only one way to avoid
criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be
nothing.
–
Aristotle
Ask and it will be given to you;
search, and you will find; knock and the door will
be
opened for you.
–
Jesus
The only
person you are destined to become is the person
you decide to be.
–
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Go confidently
in the direction of your dreams. Live the life
you have imagined.
–
Henry
David Thoreau
When I stand before God
at the end of my life, I would hope that I would
not have a
single bit of talent left
and could say, I used everything you gave me.
–
Erma
Bombeck
Few things can help an individual more
than to place responsibility on him, and to let
him know that you trust him.
–
Booker T. Washington
Certain things catch your eye, but
pursue only those that capture the heart.
–
Ancient Indian
Proverb
Believe you can and you’re
halfway there. –
Theodore Roosevelt
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the
other side of fear. –
George Addair
We can easily forgive a child who is
afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is
when
men are afraid of the light.
–
Plato
Teach thy
tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt
progress. –
Maimonides
Start
where you are. Use what you have. Do what you
can.
–
Arthur Ashe
When I was 5 years old, my mother
always told me that happiness was the key to
life. When I went to school, they
asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I
wrote down ‘happy’.
They told me I didn’t understand the
assignment, and I told
them they
d
idn’t understand life.
–
John Lennon
Fall seven
times and stand up eight.
–
Japanese Proverb
When one door of happiness closes,
another opens, but often we look so long at the
closed door that we do not see the one
that has been opened for us.
–
Helen Keller
Everything has beauty, but not everyone
can see.
–
Confucius
How wonderful it is that nobody need
wait a single moment before starting to
improve the world.
–
Anne Frank
When
I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
–
Lao Tzu
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Life is not measured by the number of
breaths we take, but by the moments that
take our breath away.
–
Maya Angelou
Happiness is not something readymade.
It comes from your own actions.
–
Dalai
Lama
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket
ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
–
Sheryl
Sandberg
First, have a definite, clear practical
ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the
necessary means to achieve your ends;
wisdom, money, materials, and methods.
Third, adjust all your means to that
end.
–
Aristotle
If the wind will not serve, take to the
oars.
–
Latin Proverb
You can’t fall if you don’t
climb.
But there’s no joy
in living your whole life on the
ground.
–
Unknown
We must believe that we are gifted for
something, and that this thing, at whatever
cost, must be attained.
–
Marie Curie
Too
many of us are not living our dreams because we
are living our fears.
–
Les
Brown
Challenges are what make life
interesting and overcoming them is what makes life
meaningful.
–
Joshua J. Marine
If you want to lift yourself up, lift
up someone else.
–
Booker T.
Washington
I have been impressed with
the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we
must
apply. Being willing is not
enough; we must do.
–
Leonardo da Vinci
Limitations live only in our minds.
But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities
become limitless.
–
Jamie Paolinetti
You take your life in your own hands,
and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to
blame.
–
Erica
Jong
What’s money? A man is a
s
uccess if he gets up in the morning
and goes to bed at
night and in between
does what he wants to do.
–
Bob Dylan
I
didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do
it wrong. –
Benjamin Franklin
In order to succeed, your desire for
success should be greater than your fear of
failure.
–
Bill
Cosby
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
–
Albert Einstein
The person who says it
cannot be done should not interrupt the person who
is doing
it.
–
Chinese Proverb
There are no traffic jams along the
extra mile.
–
Roger Staubach
It is never too late to be what you
might have been.
–
George
Eliot
You become what you believe.
–
Oprah Winfrey
I
would rather die of passion than of boredom.
–
Vincent van Gogh
A truly rich man is one whose children
run into his arms when his hands are empty.
–
Unknown
It is
not what you do for your children, but what you
have taught them to do for
themselves,
that will make them successful human beings.
–
Ann Landers
If
you want your children to turn out well, spend
twice as much time with them, and
half
as much money.
–
Abigail Van
Buren
Build your own dreams, or someone
else will hire you to build theirs.
–
Farrah Gray
The
battles that count aren’t the ones
for
gold medals. The struggles within yourself
–
the invisible battles
inside all of us
–that’s where it’s at.
–
Jesse Owens
Education costs
money. But then so does ignorance.
–
Sir Claus Moser