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Quotes


This is a section where I have compiled a lot of quotes that I've heard and like.
Hopefully you'll find some witty, entertaining, and inspiring words here.

Pushing Yourself
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
- Theodore Roosevelt

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential...
These are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

- Confucius

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
- Pablo Picasso

If you want the rainbow you’ve got to put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

When people undermine your dreams, predict your doom, criticize you, remember they’re telling their story, not yours.
- c. Occelli



Don't stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done.
- Unkown

Embracing Change
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
- James Dean

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale

“Around here… we don’t look backwards for very long.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things.”
-Walt Disney

Living with Purpose

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson


A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
- Ayn Rand


Striving for Greatness
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.
- William Jones

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

Forget all the reasons why it won’t work and believe one reason why it will.
- Unknown


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle

Whatever you do, make it count.
- Nike Commercial

Finding Happiness
Life moves fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it
- Ferris Bueller


One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
- Bryant H. McGill

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
- Laurence Sterne

Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
- unknown

The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison.
– Dr. Ann Wigmore


The determining factor of whether your employees are happy is not pay. It's you, and how you treat them.
- Edward Hess

Do more of what makes you happy.
- Unknown


Life is a joke. Don't forget to laugh.
- Unknown

Failing
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln


By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
- Benjamin Franklin

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation
for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

- Tony Robbins

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs

Learning
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius


All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
- Benjamin Franklin

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education.
The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
- Thomas Huxley
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