MotivationaL QuoteS

To accomplish  great things, we
must not only act, but also dream,
not only  plan, but also  believe.
- Anatole France
When you think you can't...
revisit  a previous triumph.
- Jack Canfield


Sometimes things  become  possible
if we want them bad enough.
- T.S. Eliot




To be  a leader, you must
stand for something,
or you will fall for anything.
- Anthony Pagano


Don't you get it?
This very second you could  be
doing something you love  and
dream about doing.  So do it!
NOW!




Courage is facing your fears.
Stupidity is fearing nothing.
- Todd Bellemare


The spirit, the will to win,
and the will to excel  are the things
that endure.  These qualities  are so
much more important  than the
events  that occur.
- Vince  Lombardi




Victory  is always possible for the
person who refuses to
stop fighting.
- Napoleon  Hill


Great works  are performed
not by strength,
but perseverance.
- Dr. Samuel Johnson


It doesn't matter what you  are
thinking, or what fear you  have,
if you just do it!  Action  is the only
thing that matters.. .I can see that at
the end of my life, I  am not  going to
look  back and say,
"I wish I had taken more action".
- Diana von Welanetz  Wentworth  a




People become successful  the
minute they decide  to.
- Harvey Mackay




A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

-Ayn Rand

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

-William James

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.


-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Always desire to learn something useful.


-Sophocles

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

-Og Mandino

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

-Saint Teresa of Avila

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.


-Wayne Dyer

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.


-John Donne

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.


-William James

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.


-Norman Vincent Peale

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.


-Benjamin Franklin

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.


-Swami Sivananda

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
General Douglas MacArthur

Men are governed only by serving them; the rule is without exception.
V. Cousin

The real leader has no need to lead--
he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller

Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
Chinese Proverb

Be known for pleasing others, espcecially if you govern them...Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.
Baltasar Gracián

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Lao Tzu

A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice — keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Noah Porter

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

He who has never learned to obey
cannot be a good commander.
Aristotle

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus

A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29:18

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Horace

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Henry W. Longfellow

I light my candle from their torches.
Robert Burton

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Woodrow Wilson

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Publius Syrus

A bold onset is half the battle.
Giuseppe Garibaldi

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Cornelius Nepos

To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
James Thomas

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Edmund Spenser

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Solon

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Napoleon Bonaparte

No man can stand on top because he is put there.
H. H. Vreeland

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Ovid 

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Seneca

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln

What you cannot enforce
Do not command.
Sophocles

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Philip Armour

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.)
Latin Proverb

Let him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Thomas Carlyle

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
Polybius 

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
~ William Jennings Bryan

When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher

When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.
~ Leslie Grossman

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
~ Albert Einstein

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself.
~ Andrew S. Grove

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
~ Confucius

If you have built castles in the air, do not worry - that is where they should be. Build the foundations to reach them.
~ Anon

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
~ Anatole France

Only those risking to go far will ever know how far they can go.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
~ George Eliot

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they themselves discovered than by those which have come from others.

Trying is Beliving, But if you never believe the tying part will never happen.
~ Brittani H.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Act as if it were impossible to fail and it will be.

We were not born to follow.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
~ Arthur C. Clarke

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
~ Lucretius

God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
~ John Aughey

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
~ Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
~ Norman B. Rice

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
~ Winston Churchill

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
~ George Bernard Shaw

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
~ Norman Cousins

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
~ John Quincy Adams

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-- a desire, a dream, a vision.
~ Muhammad Ali

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
~ Euripides

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

Fear nothing, Question everything.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
~ Judy Garland

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
~ Thomas Alva Edison

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
~ David Brinkley

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
~ Robert H. Schuller

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
~ Benjamin Spock

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
~ Buddha

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
~ Shakti Gawain

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
~ Leo Rosten

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
~ Wendy Wasserstein

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis

“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland

“If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.”

“The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.”

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

“All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

“What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” -Albert Einstein.

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” -Milton Berle

“The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It’s then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.”

“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – Life’s Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails.” ~ H. Jackson Brown

“Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want” ~ Richard Koch

“”To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.”

“Confidence comes not from always being right but not fearing to be wrong”

“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs