Keep this handy list of quotes around when you need to read words of inspiration. Work got you down? Having relationship problems? Need a little extra motivation to get you out of bed? These words of inspiration were designed to put the bounce back in your step. “It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.” Josh Billings “Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” George S. Patton “Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.” Thornton Wilder “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” Arthur C. Clarke “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” Aristotle “Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.” Voltaire “Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.” Benjamin Disraeli “You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.” Folk saying “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” William B. Sprague “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” Goethe “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” Confucius “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” Mary Shelley “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” Henry David Thoreau “To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: “Leave no stone unturned.” Edward Lytton “The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.” Horace Bushnell “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” Epictetus “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.” Thomas Jefferson “The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance.” Owen Feltham “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” Vince Lombardi “If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” Joseph Addison “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody.” Herbert Swope “If at first you don’t succeed, […]
↧
