Inspiring Quotes

"Everyone wants to be appreciated. So if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret."
Mary Kay Ash, Entrepreneur

"I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion."

-- Pierre Omidyar, eBay founder and Internet Entrepreneur 

"Difficulties in life are intended to make us better not bitter."

-- Dan Reeves, Football Coach

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture."

-- Norman Vincent Peale, Author 

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory."

-- Mahatma Gandhi, Statesman

"Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right."

-- Henry Ford, Industrialist

"The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have."

-- Leonard Nimoy, Actor

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

-- John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States

"Everyone wants to be appreciated. So if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret."

-- Mary Kay Ash, Entrepreneur

"Being miserable is a habit. Being happy is a habit. The choice is yours."

-- Tom Hopkins, sales trainer

"You can't do it unless you can imagine it."

-- George Lucas, director

"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

-- Chuck Palahniuk, Author

"Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom."

-- Socrates

"It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows."

-- Henry Doherty 

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

-- Mother Teresa, charity worker

"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."

-- Diane Arbus, American Photographer

"Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so. "

-- Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Essayist, Satirist, and Historian

"Wake up with a smile and go after life... live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it."

-- Joe Knapp

"The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability." -- Henry Ford, carmaker "If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it." -- William James, Psychologist "Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than you think." -- Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield "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, Founder of the Ford Motor Company "Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. " -- Dale Carnegie, Author "Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good." -- Norman Schwarzkopf, General "If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then you are an excellent leader." -- Dolly Parton, Singer "Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life." -- Wayne Dyer, Self-help Author "Eighty-five percent of the reason you get a job, keep that job, and move ahead in that job has to do with your people skills and people knowledge." -- Cavett Robert "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." -- William Faulkner, Author "The beginning is the most important part of the work." -- Plato, philosopher "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States "When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, putting faith into action, big things happen." -- Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman "We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. " -- Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Activist "Believe you will be successful and you will." -- Dale Carnegie, motivational speaker "You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person." -- Scott Sorrell "A happy family is but an earlier heaven." -- George Bernard Shaw, Playwright The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." -- Leo Tolstoy, Author "Each man (is) the architect of his own fortune." -- Appius Caecus, builder "If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." -- Bruce Barton, Executive "When the solution is simple, God is answering." -- Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the staircase." -- Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader "In the middle of every difficulty comes opportunity." -- Albert Einstein "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little 'extra'." -- Jimmy Johnson, American Football Coach "Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement." -- Claude M. Bristol, Author "When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value." -- Thomas Edison, inventor "Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads." -- Erica Jong, Author "Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future." -- Brian Tracy, Author