I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well. By WILLIAM FEATHER Feel good, Positive
The reality is always there and is preceded by vision. And if one keeps looking steadily the vision crystallizes into fact or deed. By Henry Miller Hope, Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Positive
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. By NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Positive, Understanding
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. By LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Goals, Happiness, Positive, Virtue, Wise
You may not be responsible for getting knocked down, but you’re certainly responsible for getting back up. By REVEREND JESSE JACKSON Failure, Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Success
Life is a grindstone. But whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends upon what you are made of. By ROBERT E. JOHNSON Growth, Inspirational, Life, Positive, Powerful
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. By Mark Twain Action, Inspirational, Positive, Powerful, Procrastination
A person’s probability of success is directly proportional to the belief and execution of their abilities. By KENT CALHOUN Confidence, Hope, Positive, Self-esteem, Success
The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do. By DONALD RIGGS Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Strong, Success
You always pass failure on the way to success. By MICKEY ROONEY Failure, Inspirational, Positive, Success, Wise
Security is mostly superstition … Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. By Helen Keller Empowering, Goals, Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting
Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. By SARAH BERNHARDT Comforting, Inspirational, Meaningful, Motivational, Powerful
What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might. By Cicero Empowering, Inspirational, Motivational
Wake up with a smile and go after life … Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it. By JOE KNAPP Feel good, Inspirational, Life, Life is beautiful, Uplifting
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. By Frank Lloyd Wright Hard work, Inspirational, Perseverance, Success
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose—somehow we win out. By Ronald Reagan Action, Inspirational, Perseverance, Success
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. By CONRAD HILTON Action, Inspirational, Perseverance, Success
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. By Abraham Lincoln Empowering, Goals, Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. By OPRAH WINFREY Focus, Inspirational, Motivational, Procrastination, Quotable
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. By WILL DURANT Good, Inspirational, Meaningful, Powerful, Wise
The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life? By LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS Energy, Feel good, Life, Life is beautiful, Motivational
My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil. By J. Paul Getty About strength, Hard work, Motivational, Powerful, Success
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. By Benjamin Franklin Motivational, Opportunity, Success
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy. By Baltasar Gracian Advice, Intelligent, Motivational, Uplifting, Wise
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. By E. JOSEPH COSSMAN Bad day, Goals, Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting
Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans. By Charles de Gaulle Comforting, Inspirational, Meaningful, Motivational, Success
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins—not through strength but by perseverance. By H. JACKSON BROWN Inspirational, Meaningful, Motivational, Perseverance, Quotable
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. By SIR THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance, Success, Uplifting
A champion is one who gets up when he can’t. By JACK DEMPSEY About strength, Bad day, Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting
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. By Henry David Thoreau Hope, Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Uplifting
Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren’t enjoying today’s sunshine. By WILLIAM FEATHER Feel good, Happy, Life is beautiful, Positive, Sad
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. By Mark Twain Happy, Laughter, Life is beautiful, Positive, Uplifting
I am determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. By MARTHA WASHINGTON Feel good, Happy, Life, Positive, Uplifting
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. By BETTE DAVIS Feel good, Happy, Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting
This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow’s happiness grow. By MARGARET LINDSEY Feel good, Happy, Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life. By Benjamin Franklin Feel good, Happy, Life is beautiful, Wise
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. By ANNE FRANK Beauty, Happy, Life is beautiful, Positive, Uplifting
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. By Washington Irving Feel good, Happy, Life is beautiful, Positive, Uplifting
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. By HUGH DOWNS Empowering, Feel good, Happy, Life is beautiful, Positive
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot. By D. H. Lawrence Love
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. By FRANCIS MAITLAND BALFOUR Family, Friendship, Generosity, Love
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work and time for love. That leaves no other time! By COCO CHANEL Inspirational, Life is beautiful, Love, Motivational, Work
To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. By G. K. Chesterton Inspirational, Life, Love, Positive, Wise
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. By William Shakespeare Love, Relationship, Romantic
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. By W H. Auden Friends, Friendship, Humor, Lauhter, Love
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. By Benjamin Disraeli Life, Luck, Opportunity, Success, Wise
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death. By JAMES F. BYMES Empowering, Inspirational, Life, Opportunity, Sad
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. By Dale Carnegie Life, Life is beautiful, Positive, Sad
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position. By LEO BUSCAGLIA Empowering, Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Positive
If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing. By Albert Einstein Choice, Life, Work
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. By e. e. cummings Feel good, Laughter, Life, Life is beautiful, Positive
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck. By CHRISTOPHER QUILL Empowering, Genius, Life, Strong
I took a course in speed-reading and was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It’s about Russia. By Woody Allen Funny
The closest to perfection a person comes is when he fills out a job application form. By STANLEY J. RANDALL Appearances, Funny
The reason that worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. By Robert Frost Funny, Humorous, Light, Quotable, Work
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. By Henry Ford Funny, Quotable, Thinking
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. By John Maynard Keynes Funny, Intellectual, Taxes
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. By J. B. COLBERT Funny, Taxes
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that’s your own self. By Aldous Huxley About change, Growth, Potential, Uplifting, Wise
Any plan is bad which is not susceptible to change. By BARTOLOMEO DA SAN CONCORDIO About change, Business, Good, Planning, Wise
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. By Robert Louis Stevenson About change, Education, Learning, Wise
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow. By William Pollard About change, Business, Disruption, Innovation, Success
The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption. By Clayton Christensen About change, Business, Disruption, Innovation
Weep not that the world changes—did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. By William Cullen Bryant About change
If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don’t wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. By West African saying About change, Action, Motivational, Procrastination
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies. By Robert F. Kennedy About change, Evolution, Progress
An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all. By Oscar Wilde About change, Danger, Ideas
Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal. By CHARLES BRUXTON About strength, Empowering, Perseverance, Success
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. By Thomas Edison About strength, Failure, Hope, Sad, Success
Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. By GENERAL IRWIN ROMMEL About strength, Good
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. By John Milton About strength, Character, Inspirational, Motivational
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation. By William James About strength, Ideas, Revelation
’Tis skill, not strength that governs a ship. By Thomas Fuller About being a leader, About strength, Leadership, Skill
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. By Susan Ertz About strength, Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Wisdom
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against a barrack square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build. By Sean O’Casey About strength, Ideas
