Inspirational Quotes and Sayings - Page 17



Defeat doesn’t finish a man–quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon

If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
Tom Peters

Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
John Petit-Senn

Yesterday’s the past and tomorrow’s the future. Today is a gift– which is why they call it the present.
Bill Keane

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas Edison

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie Stanley

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.
Anthony Robbins

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear.
William Jennings Bryan

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao-Tzu

The journey is the reward.
Chinese Proverb

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Socrates

Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.
Hubert Humphrey

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Charles Kettering

To succeed… you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Tony Dorsett

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
Thomas Carlyle

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy

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

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much about the problem.
Malcolm S. Forbes

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Vince Lombardi

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you stop giving, when you stop offering something to someone, it’s time to turn out the light.
George Burns.

It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.
George Matthew Adams

There’s no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.
Vince Lombardi

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi

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