Words of Inspiration
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, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.” WC Fields
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