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Success Quotes: Lifting Up Quotes For Finding Success

Here are some quotes by famous and wise folks of our life about finding success. Inspirational and motivational quotes to lift up your spirit and make you steps closer to achieve success in your life.

“Hitch your wagon to a star”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

” Be the change that you want to see in the world.”
~ MAHATMA GANDHI

“The world will not change until we do”
~ JIM WALLIS

“The time is always right to do what is right.”
– MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard.. But must be felt with the heart.”

“Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands – a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.” Sidney Lovett

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” Louis L’Amour

“Follow your bliss”
— JOSEPH CAMPBELL

“Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is,
is the only way of being happy.”
– JENNIE JEROME CHURCHILL

“The only reward of virtue is virtue.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too”
— ANNE FRANK

“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
— MARK TWAIN

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection”
— LAWRENCE DURRELL

“A good travel agent is worth more than a good lawyer . . . .”

“Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion”
— LEO BUSCAGLIA

“Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.”
— SUZE ORMAN

“Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful”
— ANNETTE FUNICELLO

“Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.”
— CORITA KENT

” Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better”
— EMILE COUÉ

“If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year . . .
Today should always be our most wonderful day.”
— THOMAS DREIER

“Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure
is what is right here and right now. Don’t miss it.”
— LEO BUSCAGLIA

“When we are no longer able to change a situation… We are challenged to change ourselves”
~ VIKTOR FRANKL

“Be here now!”
— RAM DAS

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives”
— ANNIE DILLARD

“This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life”
— CHARLES DEDERICH

“Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.!”
— JAMES A .MICHENER

“Write in your heart that every day is the best day of the year”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
— GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

” Giving opens the way to receiving”
— FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN

” Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons”
— RUTH ANN SCHABACKER

“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”
— GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON

“Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.”
— UNKNOWN

“Your love is better than ice cream”
— SARAH MCLACHLAN

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
— CARL SAGAN

“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”
— MARY ENGELBREIT

“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
– CHARLES F. KETTERING

“We are often so caught up in our destination That we forget to appreciate the journey, Especially the goodness of the people we meet along the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don’t overlook it.”
– AUTHOR UNKNOWN

“There is pleasure in the pathless woods
There is a rapture on the lonely shore
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar
I love not man the less, but nature more”
— LORD BYRON

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
— GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

“The best way to predict the future is to create it!”
— JASON KAUFMANN

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand — and melting like a snowflake.”
— MARIE BEYON RAY

“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.”
– MICHAEL J. FOX

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
– RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Over All the Sky – The Sky! Far, Far out of Reach. Studded with the Eternal Stars.”
– WALT WHITMAN

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
– RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind.
The third is to be kind.”
– HENRY JAMES

“If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there.
Then never, never, never give up.”
– NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

What’s the best thing that happened to you today?”
– AMANDA GORE

“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
– CHARLES F. KETTERING

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and follow where they lead.”
— LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

“Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but how we react to what happens; not by what life brings us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst a spark that creates extraordinary results.”
— UNKNOWN

“The first love, the first sunrise, the first South Sea island, are memories apart”
– ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
– HENRY MILLER

“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
– BENJAMIN DISRAELI

“Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.”
— GRANDMA MOSES

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.
The great affair is to move.”
– ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

“Life is too short to fly coach!”
– DALE IRVIN

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
— ANONYMOUS

“Not all those who wander are lost”
— J.R.R. Tolkein

Uplifting Quotes: Mood Lifting Quotes When Feeling Blue

Often times, even most optimistic person can blue and feel depressed in his or her life. For those times, we can all use some help from inspiring lifting up person or lifting up quotes to lift up mood and find cheerful attitude to keep us going. Here are some of the mood lifting quotes to lift up your mood. Enjoy the motivational and inspirational mood lifting quotes.

“As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.” – Alan Cohen

“Life is not measured by the Numbers of breathes we take, but by the moments that take our breath away..” -Unknown

“How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.”

“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King

“The Important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are;For what we could become”. -CHARLES DUBOIS

“To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.” – Mark Twain

“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.” Eckhart Tolle

“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”  -Elie Weisel

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else”. -J.M. BARRIE, Novelist

“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” -Robert Schuller

“See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.”- Deepak Chopra

“Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.” -Francis Bacon

“Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.” -Unknown

“Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.”- Edward A. Navajo

“All that is gold does not glitter,
not all those who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not wither,
deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
a light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
the crownless again shall be king.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” -Japanese proverb

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all of your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear” – Cesare Pavese

“The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.” -Anthony J. D’ Angelo

“The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. ” -Unknown

“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” -Epictetus

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau

“In any conflict, we can defend ourselves or we can learn. Defense has made the world unlivable. What would happen if we chose to learn instead? Instead of saying, ‘You frighten me’, what if we said, ‘You interest me’?” -Leslie Back, One

“Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.” -Jim Rohn

Teacher Quotes: Motivational Quotes about Educators

Teaching is one of noblest profession and once upon a time, teacher were looked upon as a second to god for some students. While our generation have changed that outlook but there are great teachers who still can make a huge difference in a child’s life.

Treat the students the way you would want to be treated.

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove . . . . but the world maybe different because I was important in the life of a child. – Kathy Davis –

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure- Emma Golmam

Don’t set your wit against a child- Johnathan Swift

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand- Author unknown

A A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money. – Author unknown

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. – Thomas Carruthers

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. – Horace Mann

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others. – Confucius

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. – Vernon Law

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn. – Anonymous

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I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality. – M. Russell Ballard

I believe that the testing of the student’s achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning. – Carl Rogers

All learning begins with the simple phrase, “I don’t know”. -Unknown

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin

They may forget what you said, But they will never forget how you made them feel. – Unknow

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are endless. ~ Mother Teresa

The work can wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won’t wait while you do the work.- -Patricia Clafford

Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them. — George Orwell

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.–Alvin Toffler

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts… it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves.’ — Robert Hutchins

It is not so much what is poured into the student, but what is planted that really counts. – Unknown

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.
– Anonymous

One father is worth 100 schoolmasters. – George Herbert

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.- Latin Proverb

If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach. -Unknown

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. -Unknown

To teach is to learn twice.- Joseph Joubert

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job. ~Donald D. Quinn

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. ~John F. Kennedy

Challenge of the day : Find something good in everyone. – Unknown

Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right. – Henry Ford

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.- Sidney Sugarman

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble – Mark Twain

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. ~Author Unknown

Teacher : The child’s third parent. – Hyman Berston

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. – William Ward

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called “truth.” ~Dan Rather

I touch the future. I teach. – Christa McAuliffe.

To teach is to touch lives forever. – Anonymous

Good teacher is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. – Gail Godwin

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. – Bob Talbert

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How to Manage your Time: Quotes about Time Mangaement

Managing time efficiently is one of the issue with many of us, here are some great inspirational quotes to make us want to manage our time better and live the best life with our loved ones.

Never let yesterday use up today. -Richard H. Nelson

I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.– W. Somerset Maugham

It’s how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it. -Marcia Wieder

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! -Anthony Robbins

If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.
-Lee Iacocca

It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about? -Henry David Thoreau

Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves. –Lord Chesterfield

You’re writing the story of your life one moment at a time. -Doc Childre and Howard Martin

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it. -Author Unknown

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing. -Thomas Jefferson

Make use of time, let not advantage slip. –William Shakespeare

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. -Charles Darwin

Time Management and Productivity Books:

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Time Warrior: How to defeat procrastination, people-pleasing, self-doubt, over-commitment, broken promises and chaos

 

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. –William Penn

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it. –Shoppenhauer

Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
-Alan Lakein

Time is the wisest counselor of all. –Pericles

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. –Delmore Schwartz

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. -Rodin

Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late. -William Shakespeare

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. -Aeschylus

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.
-Sir John Lubbock

I am definitely going to take a course on time management… just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.
-Louis E. Boone

Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. -Jean De La Bruyere

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: “I did not have time.”
-Franklin Field

A year from now you will wish you had started today. -Karen Lamb

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. -Leo Kennedy

While we are postponing, life speeds by. -Seneca

You may delay, but time will not. -Benjamin Franklin

Never leave ’till tomorrow which you can do today. -Benjamin Franklin

Histories make men wise. -Francis Bacon

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. -Benjamin Franklin

Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real.
-Sara Paddison

The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something. -Carl Sandburg

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dream Sayings: Inspiring Dream Quotes

Dream can come true for many of us, only if we dream and believe!

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I’m living on another planet.
-Eva Green

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as ’tis today.
-Lope de Vega

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
-Usher Raymond

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
-Rene Descartes

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
-Jane Roberts

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
-Amy Lowell

I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.
-Brian Schweitzer

Dreams are necessary to life.
-Anais Nin

That’s what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
-Joseph Barbera

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
-Roy Orbison

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
-Henry David Thoreau

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
-Paul Valery

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
-Zhuangzi

Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.
-Edgar Cayce

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
-George Santayana

I don’t use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
-M. C. Escher

reams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
-Alfred Lord Tennyson

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what’s in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition

Dream Sight: A Dictionary and Guide for Interpreting Any Dream

Dream Dictionary : An A to Z Guide to Understanding Your Unconscious Mind

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams… Man… is above all the plaything of his memory.
-Andre Breton

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
-Erich Fromm

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
-Khalil Gibran

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
-Madonna Ciccone

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
-Jesse Owens

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach

I tell people I’m too stupid to know what’s impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
-Debi Thomas

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can’t wake up.
-David Herbert Lawrence

We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.
-Katie Holmes

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.
-Bill Watterson

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
-Robert Kennedy

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
-Charley Pride

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.
-Lenny Wilkens

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it’s the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.
-Michael Bloomberg

Whatever you do, never stop dreaming.
-Darren L. Johnson

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

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
-Carl Jung

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
-Joan Didion

Motivational Life Quotes: Quotes to Motivate You

Do all things with love.
Og Mandino

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Kahlil Gibran

Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye, spoken by Mr. Spencer.

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
Macbeth, 5. 5.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
Mother Teresa

Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine… Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery.
Buddha

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne
Winnie the Pooh.

Never take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Author Unknown


The Best Things in Life are Free.
B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson
Song from the Musical ‘Good News’.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde

Here’s to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!
Irish Saying

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Zeno
From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere’s Fan, Act I.

Where there is love there is life.
Indira Gandhi

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
Reba McEntire

Life is nothing without friendship.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll need them on your way down.
Wilson Mizner

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

The best of times is now.
Oprah Winfrey

Whatever you are be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
Martin H. Fischer

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. Davies
Leisure.

The healthiest response to life is joy.
Deepak Chopra

When you’re chewing on life’s gristle
Don’t grumble, give a whistle
And this’ll help things turn out for the best…
And…always look on the bright side of life…
Always look on the light side of life.
Monty Python’s Life of Brian

 


Motivational Quotes to Inspire you

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

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. –Johann Gottfried Von Herder

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

If the wind will not serve,
take to the oars.
Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe -Latin Proverb

Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.–Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind. -Unknown

The best way out is always through. –Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. –William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. -Samuel Johnson

Fortune favors the brave. – Publius Terence

When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. – Richard Hooker

He who hesitates is lost. -Proverb

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. –Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls. -Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

For hope is but the dream
of those that wake. – Matthew Prior

Constant dripping hollows out a stone. -Lucretius

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

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

Take calculated risks.
That is quite different from being rash. -George S. Patton

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. -St. Clement of Alexandra

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Resources:

Inspirational & Motivational Quotes: Possibly the best way to start your day (Volume 1)

DailyOM: Inspirational Thoughts for a Happy, Healthy, and Fulfilling Day