Inspirational Quotes and Sayings

The most damaging phrase in the language is: “It’s always been done that way.”
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

You have the power to change.
Les Brown

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
John Ruskin

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
James Dean

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
Aristotle

My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.
Michael Gerber

One must learn by doing the thing. For though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
Sophocles

The fear of becoming a ‘has-been’ keeps some people from becoming anything.
Eric Hoffer

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
Glenn Clark

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
Winston Churchill

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Greek Proverb

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Abraham H. Maslow

When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.
Bhagavad Gita

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara De Angelis

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
James Allen

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work.
Chuck Close

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

Out of difficulties grow miracles.
Jean De La Bruyere

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
Bertrand Russell

Be ready when opportunity comes…Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
Roy D. Chapin Jr.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter F Drucker

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Betty Smith

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.
Marabel Morgan