Inspirational Quotes from famous people

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
Steve Jobs

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.”
Unknown

“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”
Napoleon Hill

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
Farrah Gray

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou

“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”
Charles Swindoll

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
–John Lennon

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
– Lao Tzu

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.”
– Mark Twain

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

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
– Albert Einstein

“A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
 – Bruce Lee

“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
– Steve Jobs

“It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
– Les Brown


“If you’re going through hell, keep going!”
– Winston Churchill

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
– Albert Einstein

“The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.”
– Will Smith

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
– Buddha

“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
– Aristotle

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
– Carl Sandburg

“We become what we think about.”
– Earl Nightingale

“What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’.  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
 – John Lennon


“You become what you believe.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.”
– Charles Buxton

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
– Henry Ford

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”
– Tony Blair

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

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

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff that life is made of.”
 – Benjamin Franklin

“Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
– Woody Allen

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Earn your leadership every day.”
– Michael Jordan

“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.”
– Dalai Lama

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
– Aristotle

“I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.”
– Henry Ford

“I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
– Dalai Lama

“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
– Lord Chesterfield

“Map out your future, but do it in pencil.”
– Jon Bon Jovi

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
– Henry Ford

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
– Dalai Lama

“Time is money.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
– Christopher Columbus

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs

“There is no passion to be found playing small.”
– Nelson Mandela


“Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.”
– William Shakespeare

“A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”
– Stephen King

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
– Bill Gates

“He that rises late must trot all day.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
– Florence Nightingale

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.”
– Winston Churchill

“Nothing happens until something moves.”
– Albert Einstein

“Time lost is never found again.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
– General Colin Powell

“The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.”
– Sir Winston Churchill

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

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“You may delay, but time will not.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”
– Nelson Mandela


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