Inspiring And Motivational Quotes

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

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
-George S. Patton

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
-St. Clement of Alexandra

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.
-Author Unknown
 
The best way out is always through.
-Robert Frost
 
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
-William B. Sprague
 
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
-Samuel Johnson
 
Fortune favors the brave.
-Publius Terence
 
He who hesitates is lost.
-Proverb
 
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
-Confucius
 
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-Albert Einstein
 
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
-Winston Churchill
 
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
For hope is but the dream
of those that wake.
-Matthew Prior
 
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
-Lucretius
 
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

Inspiration and genius–one and the same.
-Victor Hugo
 
To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."
-Edward Bulwer Lytton
 
If you would create something,
you must be something.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
Every artist was first an amateur.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.
-Thomas Carlyle
 
Let thy words be few.
-Ecclesiastes 5:2 from
 
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
-Leon J. Suenes
 
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
-John Muir
 
First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
-Epictetus