Here is a great collection of some inspirational quotes.
Betting on Yourself
"What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." --Napolean Hill
"There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth - not going all the way, and not starting." --Buddha
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily." --Zig Ziglar
"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well." --Abraham Lincoln
"What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?" --Robert Schuller
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." --Albert Einstein
"The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges." --Martin Luther King Jr.
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor
spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." --Theodore Roosevelt
"A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." --George Bernard Shaw
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength, but through persistence." --Buddha
"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first." --Shakespeare
"You see things and say, 'Why?", but I dream things and say, 'Why not?" --George Bernard Shaw
"If you are in a hurry you will never get there." --Chines Proverb
"Who dares wins." --Winston Churchill
“For as he thinks within himself, so he is.” Proverbs 23:7 --King Solomon
"Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet." --German Proverb
"Leap and the net will appear." --Julia Cameron
"He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year." --Leonardo da Vinci
"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love
than to be a success at something you hate." --George Burns
"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one." --Chinese Proverb
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. – ALBERT EINSTEIN
”You are what you think about all day long.” – Dr. Robert Schuller
“If you do what you’ve always done, you will get what you’ve always gotten” -- Anthony Robbins
"Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ups." --Peter Davies
"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce." --Unknown
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." --Les Brown
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." --Moliere
"May you live all the days of your life." --Jonathan Swift
"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher." --Oprah Winfrey
"There are no short cuts to any place worth going." --Source Unknown
"Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together." --Vista M. Kelly
"Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin." --Grace Hansen
"Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek." --English Proverb
"One who makes no mistakes never makes anything." --Source Unknown
"Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out." --James Bryant Conant
"Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure. Where your treasure is, there is your heart. Where your heart is, there is your happiness."
--St. Augustine
"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." -- Frank A. Clark
"One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in." --Wayne Gretzky
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." --Mark Twain
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it." --Winston Churchill
"Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it." -- Salma Hayek
"Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful." --Sophia Loren
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." -- Norman Vincent Peale
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor touched … but are felt in the heart." -- Helen Keller
"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit." –-Moliere
”The best way to know life is to love many things.” –-Vincent Van Gogh
"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings." -- John F. Kennedy
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." -- Rene Descartes
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"… he knew with practiced ease that he was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all." -- Richard Bach, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"
"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." -- William James
"The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is." -- John Lancaster Spalding
"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear." -- Aung San Suu Kyi
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