Inspirational quotes & Motivational quotes to help get you in the zone!!

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
-- Lucretius

A man always have two reasons for doing anything; a good reason and the real reason.
-- John Pierpont Morgan

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
-- Joseph Roux

We see things not as they are, but as we are.
-- H. M. Tomlinson

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
-- Hugh Walpole

The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should not want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Income these days is something you cannot live without or within.
-- Anonymous

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
-- E. M. Forster

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
-- Don Herold

Don't dwell on reality; it will only keep you from greatness.
-- Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
-- George Eliot

In matter of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ill ease with yourself.
-- Balzac

Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.
-- William Howard Taft

You can only live once, but if you live right, once is enough.
-- Joe E. Lewis

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
-- John Lubbock

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
-- Peter McWilliams

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
-- Maria Edgeworth

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
-- W. N. Taylor

I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
-- Euripides

Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.
-- Akhenaton

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
-- Aristotle

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
-- Benjamin Franklin

What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure? Is there a better way to die?
-- Charles Augustus Lindbergh

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
-- Immanuel Kant

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
-- John Milton

While there's life, there's hope.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life is a festival only to the wise.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.
-- Thomas Alva Edison

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
-- Buddha

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the currents of life, is without trouble.
-- Carl Jung

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
-- Epicurus

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
-- Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.
-- Richard Bach

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
-- Maya Angelou

The journey is the reward.
-- Chinese Proverb

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
-- Friedrich Engels

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
-- Confucius

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
-- Hindu Proverb

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 the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-- Mark Twain

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
-- Sir Winston Churchill

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
-- William Boetcker

Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.
-- George Van Valkenburg

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
-- Plato

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost

When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
-- Charles R. Swindoll

Good is not good where better is expected.
-- Thomas Fuller

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
-- Abraham Lincoln

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
-- Chinese Proverb

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
-- David Brinkley

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.
-- Richard Bach

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

There is no joy in a life that is all information. There is no 'juice' to that kind of life. No sweetness, no color. Like trading a beautiful golden-ripe orange for a stalk of whithered broccoli.
-- Tish Grier

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
-- Carol Matthau

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
-- Napolean Hill

Vision without action is a daydream, Action without vision is a nightmare.
-- Japanese Proverb

Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear.
-- Mark Twain

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
-- William Lloyd George

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
-- Doug Firebaugh

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.
-- Stephen Covey

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
-- Abraham Lincoln

Hope is a waking dream.
-- Aristotle

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.
-- Winston Churchill

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.
-- Swami Vivekananda

Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it.
-- J.B. Matthews

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upwards in the night.
-- Longfellow

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
-- Charlotte Bronte

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
-- Sydney Smith

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
-- Thomas Jefferson

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
-- Henry David Thoreau

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
-- Jane Austen

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
-- Carl Jung

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
-- Bertrand Russell

Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
-- The Dhammapada

We should every night ball ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
-- Seneca

Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far
-- Euripides

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
-- Theophrastus

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
-- Austin Phelps

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
-- Cato the Elder

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

He who laughs, lasts!
-- Mary Pettibone Poole

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
-- Henry David Thoreau

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
-- Josh Billings

Action is eloquence.
-- William Shakespeare

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
-- Oswald Spengler

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
-- Chinese Proverb

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
-- Joseph Addison

I have never had a policy. I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.
-- Abraham Lincoln

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain

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

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
-- Thomas Edison

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

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln

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

Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.
-- Charles Luckman

The price of greatness is responsibility.
-- Winston Churchill

Wisdom begins in wonder.
-- Socrates

It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
-- Sir Winston Churchill

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
-- Charles De Secondat

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
-- Plutarch

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
-- William Shakespeare