Inspiring Quotes – III

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
~ C. Malesherbes

“I can’t do it” never yet accomplished anything;
“I will try” has performed wonders.
~ George P. Burnham

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
~ Ayn Rand

Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
~ Francis of Assisi

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
~ Anatole France

There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.
~ Mary Kay Ash

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
~ Mary Kay Ash

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
~ Dale Carnegie

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If not us, who? If not now, when?
~ Kennedy, John F.

Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.
~ Anonymous

Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.
~ Rabbi Nochem Kaplan

All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
~ Morarji Desai

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
~ Vincent Van Gogh

The future is not a gift – it is an achievement.
~ Harry Lauder

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
~ A.P. Gouthey

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
~ J.G. Holland

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
~ Jack Kinder

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
~ Albert Camus

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
~ George Bernard Shaw

To live your life to the fullest, you’ve got to be a master of economics… after all, time’s demand is always far exceeding it’s supply.
~ Andy McIntosh

Accept fate, and move on. Don’t yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.
~ Source Unknown

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
~ Anonymous

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
~ Ambrose Redmoon

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
~ Baruch Spinoza

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do.
~ Dale Carnegie

What the caterpillar calls the end, the butterfly calls the beginning.
~ Anonymous

There is a temple in our heart. If we cannot find it then we shall not find our heart in any temple in the world.
~ Anonymous

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
~ Albert Einstein

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 – 1902)

An artist must know how to convince others of the truth of his lies.
~ Pablo Picasso

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
~ Oprah Winfrey

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
~ John Sladek

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
~ Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
~ JB Priestley

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 – 1944)

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
~ Arnold Bennet

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
~ Dorothy Bernard

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, ‘It all depends on me.’
~ Andre Gide (1869 – 1951)

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.
- Michael J. Fox

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
- Gerry Spence

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. 
- Buddha

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
- Arnold Palmer

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
- Jules Renard

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgements.
- Anon

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 – 1832), Lacon, 1825

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
- Corra Harris

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
- Bob Newhart

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
- Charles Dudley Warner

Integrity is when what you say, what you do, what you think, and who you are all come from the same place.
- Madelyn Griffith-Haynie

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Succeeding in adversity makes success all the sweeter. At the end of the day its not how far you fall but how high you bounce.
- Sheila Wellington

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
- Baltasar Gracian

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. 
The radical invents the views. 
When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
- Mark Twain

There are two modes of establishing our reputation:  to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. 
It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.
- Charles Caleb Colton

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
- Andy Warhol

We must not allow the clock and the calender to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
- H.G.Wells

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein

There is no point at which you can say, ‘Well, I’m successful now. 
I might as well take a nap.’
- Carrie Fisher

Whatever you do, or dream, begin it now…. 
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. 
Begin it now.
- Goethe

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. 
The last is to say thank you. 
In between, the leader is a servant.
- Max De Pree

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. 
- W. Somerset Maugham

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
- Corrie Ten Boom

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
- Anna Freud

When everything seems to be going against you, remember the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
- Henry Ford

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. 
- Aristotle

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.  
- Jean Paul Richter

To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born.
- A.P. Gouthey

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. 
You have got to set your self on fire for it.
- Anon

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- Josh Billings

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.
- Confucius

Related Reading:
» Inspiring Quotes – I
» Inspiring Quotes – II
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