This document contains over 100 inspirational quotes from various notable historical figures on topics related to success, leadership, perseverance, opportunity, and overcoming obstacles. Many of the quotes emphasize the importance of hard work, persistence, taking risks and initiative to achieve goals and seize opportunities. They also highlight themes of never giving up in the face of challenges or failures, and continuing to learn and improve along the way.

1. "Don't find fault, find a remedy."
Henry Ford (1863-1947)

2. At 211° water is hot.
At 212° it boils.
And with boiling water, comes steam.
And with steam, you can power a train.
One degree more = Exponential results

3. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
Helen Keller (1880-1968)

4. "Knowing when to keep your mouth shut
is invariably more important than
opening it at the right time."
Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)

5. "One who fears failure limits his activities."
Henry Ford (1863-1947)

6. "Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there."
Will Rogers (1879-1935)

7. "The secret of success in life
is for a man to be ready for his opportunity
when it comes."
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

8. "Success is going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm."
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

9. "I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in this world are the
people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and,
if they can't find them, make them."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

10. "I'm a great believer in luck,
and I find the harder I work,
the more I have of it."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

11. "Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

12. "Leaders aren't born, they are made.
And they are made just like anything else,
through hard work."
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)

13. "You cannot escape the responsibility of
tomorrow by evading it today."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

14. "Hard work spotlights the character of
people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn
up their noses and some don't turn up at all."
Sam Ewing (1920-2001)

15. "The mere fact that you have obstacles to
overcome is in your favor."
Robert Collier (1885-1950)

16. "The will to win is important,
but the will to prepare is vital."
Joe Paterno (1926- )

17. "Think of yourself as on the threshold of
unparalleled success.
A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you.
Achieve! Achieve!"
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)

18. "The most valuable of all talents is that of
never using two words when one will do."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

19. "Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else’s."
Billy Wilder (1906-2002)

20. "Example is not the main thing in influencing
others. It is the only thing."
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

21. "Try not to become a man of success but
rather try to become a man of value."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

22. "When fascism comes to America, it will
be wrapped in the American flag."
Huey Long (1860 – 1913)

23. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but the
capacity to act despite our fears."
John McCain (1936- )

24. "The big rewards come to those who
travel the second, undemanded mile."
Bruce Barton (1886-1967)

25. "The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials."
Chinese Proverb

26. "Roll with the punches.
Tomorrow is another day."
Dicky Fox

27. "If you don't risk anything,
you risk even more."
Erica Jong (1942 - )

28. "Vitality shows
not only in the ability to persist,
but in the ability to start over."
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

29. "Opportunity is missed by most people,
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like
work."
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

30. "It is amazing what can be accomplished
when nobody cares about who gets the
credit."
Robert Yates (1943- )
NASCAR racing team owner

31. "Tell me and I forget.
Teach me and I remember.
Involve me and I learn."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

32. "Life is not easy for any of us.
But what of that?
We must have perseverance and...
confidence in ourselves."
Marie Curie (1867-1934)

33. "Change is the law of life,
and those who look only to the past and
present are certain to miss the future."
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

34. "Pain is temporary.
Quitting lasts forever."
Lance Armstrong (1971- )

35. "Chance favors only the prepared mind."
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)

36. "I believe life is a series of near misses.
A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at
all. It's seizing the day and accepting
responsibility for your future."
Howard Schultz (1952 - )

37. "There's only one way to succeed in anything,
and that is to give it everything."
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)

38. "There's nothing like biting off more than you
can chew, and then chewing anyway."
Mark Burnett (1960- )

39. "Find a need and fill it."
Ruth Stafford Peale (1906 - 2008 )

40. "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

41. I realized that selling is the greatest career a
man could want.
Willy Loman

42. "It is not the strongest of the species
that survive, nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change."
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

43. "Success is often achieved by those who don't
know that failure is inevitable."
Coco Chanel (1883-1971)

44. "The fruits of life fall into the hands of those
who climb the tree and pick them."
Earl Tupper (1907-1983)
Tupperware inventor

45. "The work never is done,
while the power to work remains."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)

46. "He who overcomes others has force;
he who overcomes himself is strong."
Lao-tzu (570-490bc)

47. "The difference between a successful person
and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack
of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)

48. "You see things, and you say, 'Why?'
But I dream things that never were and say,
'Why not?'"
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

49. "Singleness of purpose is one of the chief
essentials for success in life."
John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)

50. "The wisest men follow their own direction."
Euripides (480-406bc)

51. "It is a bad carpenter who quarrels with his
tools. It is a bad general who blames his men
for faulty workmanship."
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

52. "Destiny is not a matter of chance,
it's a matter of choice;
it's not a thing to be waited for,
but a thing to be achieved."
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)

53. "Logic and over-analysis can immobilize and
sterilize an idea. It's like love-- the more you
analyze it, the faster it disappears."
William Bernbach (1911-1982)

54. "If you're not making mistakes,
then you're not doing anything."
John Wooden (1910- )

55. "Deal with the world the way it is,
not the way you wish it was."
John Chambers (1949 - )
CEO of Cisco Systems

56. "Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
Sun Tzu (c 500–320 bc)

57. "Nothing else can quite substitute for a few
well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of
praise.
They're absolutely free–
and worth a fortune."
Sam Walton (1918-1992)

58. “Leadership is demonstrated at the moment
of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by
doing."
Carlos Ghosn (1954 - )

59. "In three words I can sum up everything
I've learned about life:
It goes on."
Robert Frost (1874-1963)

60. "I try to learn from the past,
but I plan for the future by focusing
exclusively on the present."
Donald Trump (1946 - )

61. "There is only one thing that makes a dream
impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
Paulo Coelho (1947- )

62. "If we did all the things we are capable of
doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

63. "Today is a new day.
You will get out of it just what you put into
it..."
Mary Pickford (1893-1979)

64. "Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?"
Frank Scully (1892-1964)

65. "A man must make his opportunity,
as oft as find it."
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

66. "Hard work has made it easy.
That is my secret.
That is why I win."
Nadia Comaneci (1961 - )

67. "There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work and learning from failure."
Colin L. Powell (1937- )

68. "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
Walt Disney (1901-1966)

69. "Far and away the best prize that life offers is
the chance to work hard at something worth
doing."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

70. “What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within
us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

71. "There ain't no rules around here.
We're trying to accomplish something."
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

72. "If you want to achieve widespread impact
and lasting value, be bold."
Howard Schultz (1954 - )
Chairman of Starbucks Coffee

73. "We are continually faced by great
opportunities brilliantly disguised as
insoluble problems."
Lee Iacocca (1924 - )

74. "I want to stay as close to the edge as I can
without going over. Out on the edge you see
all kinds of things you can't see from the
center."
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922 - )

75. "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every
opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity
in every difficulty."
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

76. "Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance,
you must keep moving."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

77. "The task of a leader is to get his people from
where they are to where they have not been."
Henry Kissinger (1923 - )

78. "The future depends entirely on what each of
us does every day."
Gloria Steinem (1944 - )

79. "Don't judge each day by the harvest you
reap, but by the seeds you plant."
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

80. "Every strike brings me closer to the next
home run."
Babe Ruth (1895-1948)

81. "The one unchangeable certainty
is that nothing is certain
or unchangeable."
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

82. "Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today. Let us begin."
Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

83. "Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a
trail."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

84. "In any moment of decision the best thing you
can do is the right thing,
the next best thing is the wrong thing,
and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

85. "Unless a man undertakes more than he
possibly can do, he will never do all that he
can."
Henry Drummond (1851-1897)

86. "The man who does things makes mistakes,
but he never makes the biggest mistake of all
-- doing nothing."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

87. "In the long run, we shape our lives, and we
shape ourselves... the choices we make are
ultimately our own responsibility."
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

88. "Man is the only creature that strives to
surpass himself, and yearns for the
impossible."
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

89. "You have to expect things of yourself before
you can do them."
Michael Jordan (1963 - )

90. "Never let the fear of striking out
get in your way."
Babe Ruth (1895-1948)

91. "Failure is only an opportunity
to begin again more intelligently."
Henry Ford (1863-1947)

92. "Only those who will risk going too far can
possibly find out how far one can go."
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

93. "When you achieve one dream,
dream another."
Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger (1948 - )

94. "Activity is contagious."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

95. "It's hard to beat a person who never gives
up."
Babe Ruth (1895-1948)

96. "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
Milton Berle (1908-2002)

97. "My mind is my biggest asset.
I expect to win every tournament I play."
Tiger Woods (1975 - )

98. "Persistent people begin their success where
others end in failure."
Edward Eggleston (1837-1902)

99. "I am not afraid of storms,
for I am learning how to sail my ship."
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

100. "Better to do something imperfectly
than to do nothing flawlessly."
Dr. Robert Schuller (1926 - )

101. "Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do."
Johann Goethe (1749-1832)

102. "I've failed over and over and over again in
my life. And that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan (1963 - )

103. "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

104. "When you combine passion and hard work,
then success is always possible."
Arte Moreno (1946 - )

105. "Yesterday is not ours to recover,
but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose."
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)

106. "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with
what you can do."
John Wooden (1910 - )

107. "Don't just stand there, make it happen."
Lee Iacocca (1924 - )

108. "You've got to jump off cliffs all the time
and build your wings on the way down."
Ray Bradbury (1920 - )

109. "Inches make the champion."
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)

110. "You only have what you give.
It's by spending yourself that you become
rich."
Isabel Allende (1942 – )

111. "This is the time.
This is the place.
I am the man.
I will act now."
Og Mandino (1923–1996)

112. "The beginning is half of every action."
Greek proverb

113. "There is only one boss, THE CUSTOMER.
And she can fire everybody in the company
from the chairman on down, simply by
spending her money somewhere else."
Sam Walton (1918–1992)

114. "We are far too easily pleased."
C.S. Lewis (1898–1963)

115. "You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try."
Beverly Sills (1929-2007)

116. “I never failed once. It just happened to be a
2000 step process."
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

117. “Any job you are given is an opportunity to
prove yourself."
Meg Whitman (1956- )

118. “The only thing that separates the successful
people from the ones who aren't is the
willingness to work very very hard."
Helen Gurley Brown (1922- )

119. “Never give in, never give in, never, never,
never."
Sir Winston Churchill(1874 - 1965)

120. “Time is limited so I better wake up every
morning fresh and know that I have just one
chance to live this particular day right and
string my days together into a life of action
and purpose."
Lance Armstrong (1971- )

121. “Work is love made visible."
Kahlil Gibran(1883- 1931)

122. “The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King(1929 - 1968)

123.
“Never let anyone tell you no who doesn't
have the power to say yes."
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)

124.
“Start by doing what is necessary, then do
what is possible, and suddenly you are doing
the impossible.."
Saint Francis of Assissi (1182 - 1226)

125. “If you work just for money
you will never make it,
but if you love what you are doing
and you always put the customer first,
success will be yours."
Ray Kroc(1902-1984)

126. “Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest
lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it
must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will
starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a
gazelle – when the sun comes up, you had
better be running."
Anonymous

127.
“No legacy is so rich as honesty."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

128.
“The first rule of holes is when you are in one,
stop digging."
Thomas L. Friedman (1956 - )

129.
“You cannot keep determined people from
success. If you place stumbling blocks in their
way, they will use them for stepping-stones
and climb to new heights."
Mary Kay Ash (1918 - 2001)

130. “Your fears are not walls, but hurdles.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the
conquering of it.”
Dan Millman (1946 - )

131. “Every man has a coward and hero in his
soul.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881)

132. “The future belongs to those who believe in
the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962)

133. “If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!”
Jonathan Winters (1925 - )

134. “Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as
the desire to earn a decent living is remote
from greed.”
Channing Pollock (1880 – 1946)

135. “Class is an aura of confidence that is being
sure without being cocky.
Class has nothing to do with money.
Class never runs scared.
It is self-discipline and self-knowledge.
It's the sure footedness that comes with
having proved you can meet life.”
Ann Lander (1918 – 2002)

136. “Courage is the greatest of all the virtues.
Because if you haven't courage, you may not
have an opportunity to use any of the others.”
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)

137. “Fear is the opportunity for courage, not
proof of cowardice.”
John McCain (1936 - )

138. “Do not be too timid and squeamish about
your actions. All life is an experiment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

139. “One's action ought to come out of an
achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing
on.”
D.H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930)

140. “It is not because things are difficult that we
do not dare, it is because we do not dare that
things are difficult.”
Seneca (4 BC – 65AD)

141. “You can't help someone get up a hill without
getting closer to the top yourself.”
Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - )

142. “Better to fail at doing the right thing than to
succeed at doing the wrong thing.”
Guy Kawasaki (1954 - )

143. “People rarely succeed
unless they enjoy what they are doing.”
Dale Carnegie (1888 – 1955)

144. “Optimism is the faith that leads to
achievement. Nothing can be done without
hope and confidence.”
Helen Keller (1880 – 1968)

145. “Optimism is a strategy for making a better
future. Because unless you believe that the
future can be better, it's unlikely you will step
up and take responsibility for making it so.
If you assume that there's no hope, you
guarantee that there will be no hope.
The choice is yours.”
Noam Chomsky (1928 - )

146. “It is amazing how many cares disappear
when you decide not to be something but to
be someone.”
Coco Chanel (1883 – 1971)

147. “Leadership, the art of getting someone else
to do something that you want, because he
wants to do it.”
Dwight D Eisenhower (1890 – 1969)

148. “Whoever is careless with the truth in small
matters, cannot be trusted with the important
ones.”
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)

149. “A man who tells lies… merely hides the truth.
But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten
where he put it.”
T. E. Lawrence (1888 – 1935)

150. “Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a
fruit.
Wisdom is knowing that you don’t put it in a
fruit salad.”
Anonymous

151. “Nothing great was ever achieved without
enthusiasm.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

152. “If the truth were self-evident,
eloquence would be unnecessary.”
Cicero (106BC – 43BC)

153. “Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their jobs
done.”
Peter Drucker (1909 – 2005)

154. “Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”
General Colin Powell (1937 - )

155. “Motivate them, train them, care about them...
they’ll treat the customer right.
And if they are treated right,
they’ll come back.”
J. W. Marriott (1900 – 1985)

156. “The more things you do,
the more you can do.”
Lucille Ball (1911–1989)

157.
“You are what you think about all day long.”
Dr. Robert Schuller (1926 - )

158.
“You can have everything in life you want if
you'll just help enough other people to get
what they want!”
Zig Ziglar (1926 - )

159.
“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the
world were watching.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826)

160.
“Keep your business affairs in your own
hands. It's the only way to be happy.”
Martha Washington (1731 – 1802)

161.
“Dare to risk public criticism.”
Mary Kay Ash (1918 – 2001)

162.
“We cannot truly face life until we face the
fact that it will be taken away from us.”
Billy Graham (1918 - )

163.
“There is no sadder sight than a young
pessimist.”
Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)

164.
“This is America . We can do anything here.”
Ted Turner (1938 - )

165.
“Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on
winning the second half.”
Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant (1913 – 1983)

166.
“You win some,
you lose some,
you wreck some.”
Dale Earnhardt (1951 – 2001)

167.
“One important key to success is self-
confidence. An important key to self-
confidence is preparation.”
Arthur Ashe (1943 – 1993)

168.
“Show class.
Have pride.
Display character.
If you do, winning takes care of itself.”
Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant (1913 – 1983)

169.
“You've got to get up every morning with
determination if you're going to go to bed
with satisfaction.”
George Horace Lorimer (1869 – 1937)

170.
“Vision without action is a daydream.
Action without vision is a nightmare”
Japanese Proverb

171. “If I had listened to the critics
I'd have died drunk in the gutter”
Anton Chekov (1860 – 1904)

172.
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot
hear what you say”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

173. “It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

174. “All life is an experiment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

175. “People only see what they are prepared to
see.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

176. “Finish each day and be done with it. You
have done what you could; some blunders
and absurdities have crept in; forget them as
soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you
shall begin it serenely and with too high a
spirit to be encumbered with your old
nonsense.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

177. “It is one of the most beautiful compensations
of life, that no man can sincerely try to help
another without helping himself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

178. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

179. “He who has a thousand friends has not a
friend to spare, while he who has one enemy
shall meet him everywhere.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

180. “We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

181. “To laugh often and much; to win the respect
of intelligent people and the affection of
children; to earn the appreciation of honest
critics and endure the betrayal of false
friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best
in others; to leave the world a little better;
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or
a redeemed social condition; to know even
one life has breathed easier because you have
lived. This is the meaning of success.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

182. “Though we travel the world over to find the
beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find
it not.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

183. “The years teach much which the days never
knew.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

184. “A brave man thinks no one superior who
does him injury; for make himself superior to
the other by forgiveness.”
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)

185. “Never let your memories be greater than
your dreams.”
Doug Ivester (1947 - )

186. “One should guard against preaching to
young people success in the customary form
as the main aim in life. The most important
motive for work in school and in life is
pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and
the knowledge of the value of the result to the
community.”
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)

187. “What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within
us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

188. “Smile well and often, it makes people
wonder what you've been up to.”
Satchel Paige (1906 – 1982)

189. “If everything seems under control, you're
just not going fast enough.”
Mario Andretti (1940 – )

190. “Our patience will achieve more than our
force.”
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)

191. “Out of difficulties grow miracles.”
Jean De La Bruyere (1645 – 1696)

192. “God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 – 1861)

193. “What the caterpillar calls the end,
the rest of the world calls a butterfly.”
Lao Tsu

194. “We are cups, constantly and quietly being
filled. The trick is knowing how to tip
ourselves over and let the Beautiful Stuff out.”
Ray Bradbury (1920 - )

195. “Reflect upon your blessings, of which every
man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes,
of which all men have some.”
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870)

196. “The life given us by nature is short,
but the memory of a life well spent is eternal.”
Cicero (106BC – 43BC)

197. “Life is too short to be small.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 1881)

198. “It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our
powers, but for powers equal to our tasks.”
Helen Keller (1880 – 1968)

199. “To educate yourself for the feeling of
gratitude means to take nothing for granted,
but to always seek out and value the kindness
that stands behind the action. Nothing that is
done for you is a matter of course. Everything
originates in a will for the good, which is
directed at you. Train yourself never to put
off the word or action for the expression of
gratitude.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875 – 1965)

200. “The great French Marshall Lyautey once
asked his gardener to plant a tree. The
gardener objected that the tree was slow
growing and would not reach maturity for
100 years. The Marshall replied, ‘In that case,
there is no time to lose. Plant it this
afternoon!’”
John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963)

201. “Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through
your conversation. Depending upon the
words we use and the tone in which we use
them, we can talk ourselves into being
nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our
speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions.
Talk peaceful to be peaceful.”
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 – 1993)

202. “The real glory is being knocked to your
knees and then coming back. That's real
glory. That's the essence of it.”
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)

203. “Fall seven times; stand up eight.”
Japanese Proverb

204. “When you get in a tight place and everything
goes against you, till it seems as though you
could not hold on a minute longer, never give
up then, for that is just the place and time that
the tide will turn.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896)

205. “Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments,
our wants. Let's try to figure out the other
man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give
honest, sincere appreciation. Be "hearty in
your approbation and lavish in your praise,"
and people will cherish your words and
treasure them and repeat them over a
lifetime -- repeat them years after you have
forgotten them.”
Dale Carnegie

206. “Faith is to believe what you do not yet see;
the reward for this faith is to see what you
believe.”
St. Augustine

207. “Success is never permanent,
and failure is never final.”
Mike Ditka

208. “There should be less talk. . . .
What do you do then?
Take a broom and clean someone's house.
That says enough.”
Mother Theresa

209. “Forget past mistakes.
Forget failures.
Forget everything except what you're going
to do now and do it.”
William Durant
(founder of General Motors)

210. “Don't judge each day by the harvest you
reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson

211. “If I were asked to give what I consider the
single most useful bit of advice for all
humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as
an inevitable part of life, and when it comes,
hold your head high. Look it squarely in the
eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You
cannot defeat me.”
Ann Landers

212. “I have had dreams and I have had
nightmares, but I have conquered my
nightmares because of my dreams.”
Dr. Jonas Salk

213. “Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you'll find one at the end of your arm. . . . As
you grow older you will discover that you
have two hands. One for helping yourself, the
other for helping others.”
Audrey Hepburn

214. “It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept
anything but the very best you will very often
get it.”
W. Somerset Maugham

215. “If we want a free and peaceful world, if we
want to make the deserts bloom and man
grow to greater dignity as a human being --
we can do it.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

216. “I try to avoid looking forward or backward,
and try to keep looking upward.”
Charlotte Bronte

217. “Never measure the height of a mountain,
until you have reached the top. Then you will
see how low it was.”
Dag Hammarskjold

218. “Never mistake motion for action.”
Ernest Hemingway

219. “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them
what to do and they will surprise you with
their ingenuity.”
General George S. Patton

220. “Never underestimate the heart of a
champion.”
Rudy Tomjanovich

221. No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is
ever too big.
Unknown Author

222. “No executive has ever suffered because his
subordinates were strong and effective.”
Peter Drucker

223. “No man who is enthusiastic about his work
has anything to fear from life.”
Samuel Goldwyn

224. “No one can defeat us unless we first defeat
ourselves.”
Dwight Eisenhower

225. No rules for success will work if you don't.
Unknown Author

226. “Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love
his work, love his job.”
David Sarnoff

227. “Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things you didn't do than
by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain

228. “Unless you try to do something beyond what
you have already mastered, you will never
grow.”
Ronald E. Osborn

229. “Use what talents you possess; the woods
would be very silent if no birds sang there
except those that sang best.”
Henry Van Dyke

230. “Victory is sweetest when you've known
defeat.”
Malcolm Forbes

231. “Warriors take chances.
Like everyone else, they fear failing,
but they refuse to let fear control them.”
Ancient Samurai saying

232. “We are hoarding potentials so great that
they are just about unimaginable.”
Jack Schwartz

233. “We are not in a position in which we have
nothing to work with. We already have
capacities, talents, direction, missions, and
callings.”
Abraham H. Maslow

234. .
“We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Aristotle

235. “What counts is not necessarily the size of the
dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the
dog.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower

236. “What you do off the job is determining factor
in how far you will go on the job.”
Zig Ziglar

237. “The minute you settle for less than you
deserve, you get even less than you settled
for.”
Maureen Dowd

238. “I would rather be a superb meteor, every
atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy
and permanent planet. The proper function of
a man is to live, not to exist.”
Jack London

239. “Never look down on anybody unless you're
helping him up.”
Jesse Jackson

240. “There are risks and costs to a
program of action. But they are far
less than the long-range risks and
costs of comfortable inaction.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963)

241. “All you have to do is look straight and see the
road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at
it - walk.”
Ayn Rand (1905–1982)