Inspirational Quotations, Page 2
The road to success is not to be run upon by seven-leagued boots. Step by step, little by little, bit by bit--that is the way to wealth, that is the way to wisdom, that is the way to glory. Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence. -Charles Buxton
A great mind may change its objects, but it cannot relinquish them; it must have something to pursue; variety is its relaxation, and amusement its repose. -Colton
There never was yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. -Benjamin Franklin
Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void. -Seume
There is a close connection between getting up in the world and getting up in the morning. -Anon.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
The greatest discovery of my age is that men can change their circumstances by changing the attitude of their mind. -William James
It is better by a noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate, than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what may happen. -Herodotus
To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself; earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence. -S. Smiles
The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness. -Bryant
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion. -Southey
The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. -Longfellow
In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the stature of true potential. -Thomas S. Monson
The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it. -Johann von Goethe
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. -Henry Van Dyke
Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another gets a full year's value out of a week. -Charles Richards
It is asked, how can the laboring man find time for self-culture? I answer that an earnest purpose finds time or makes it. It seizes on spare moments and turns fragments to golden account. A man who follows his calling with industry and spirit, and uses his earnings economically, will always have some portion of the day at command. And it is astonishing how fruitful of improvement a short season becomes when eagerly seized and faithfully used. It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge. -Channing
Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, missed happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime "let out all the length of the reins." -Mary Cholmondeley
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it. -Emerson
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder--a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you. -Carlyle
A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement....The joys of happiness can only be realized by living lofty principles. -Ashton
It should be everyone's interest to be virtuous who wish to be happy in this world. -Unknown
Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash. -Neal A. Maxwell
When confronted with iron-will determination, I can see Time, Fate and Circumstance calling a hasty conference and deciding, "We might as well let him have his dream. He's said he's going to get there or die trying." -Jim Rohn
An individual who doesn't consciously select his goals is not really in control of his life. He is controlled. Without really knowing it, he is controlled by goals imposed by outside pressures (the expectation of other), or by habits (procrastination), or by desires (the longing to be honored and admired) and so on. -??
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success. -T.T. Munger
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. -H.W. Beecher
We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments. -Bulwer
Continue to invest in your personal development. Expand your occupational horizons by constant study....Look to your present job as a stepping-stone along your career path. Take time to think. The dimensions of most jobs are constrained only by the mind of the uncreative worker. I like what one businessman counseled: "If at first you do succeed, try something harder!" -J. Richard Clarke
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. -John D. Rockefeller
A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement, knowing that daily repentance is needed for progress. He will realize the good life is simply conforming to a standard of right and justice. The joys of happiness can only be realized by living lofty principles. -Marvin J. Ashton
Figure it out for yourself, my lad,
You've all that the greatest of men have had;
Two arms, two hands, two legs, two eyes,
And a brain to use if you would be wise,
With this equipment they all began--
So start from the top and say, I CAN.
Look them over, the wise and the great,
They take their food from a common plate,
And similar knives and forks they use,
With similar laces they tie their shoes;
The world considers them brave and smart,
But you've all they had when they made their start.
You can triumph and come to skill,
You can be great if you only will;
You're well equipped for what fight you choose,
You have arms and legs and a brain to use;
And the man who has risen great deeds to do
Began his life with no more than you.
You are the handicap you must face,
You are the one who must choose your place.
You must say where you want to go,
How much you will study the truth to know;
God has equipped you for life, but He
Lets you decide what you want to be.
Courage must come from the soul within
The man must furnish the will to win.
So figure it out for yourself my lad,
You were born with all that the great have had;
With your equipment they all began,
Get hold of yourself and say, I CAN."
--- George Washington Carver --
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. -Thoreau
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. -Confucius
If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character. -Stephan R. Covey
If any man seek greatness let him forget greatness and seek for truth; then he will find both. -Horace Mann
Beaten paths are for beaten men. -Eric Johnston
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. -James Barrie
You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate. -Seneca
The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways, the highest adventure on earth. -Norman Cousins
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upwards, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion. -Southy
It is the whole history of mankind that power lacking the inner strength of self-restraint will be eventually cast down. -Adlai Stevenson
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression
. -Margaret Fuller
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows. -Charles Buxton
"If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these..." -Epictetus
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going. -David Starr Jordan
The moving-van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress. -Louis Kronenberger
Those who believe that we have reached the limit of business progress and employment opportunity in this country are like the farmer who had two windmills and pulled one down because he was afraid there was not enough wind for both. -Morris S. Tremaine
It is never too late to be what you might have been. -George Eliot
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. -Bruce Barton
We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to rise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -H.W. Beecher
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. -Cato the Elder, quoted in Plutarch's Parallel Lives
There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced--of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed. -Charles Baudelaire
He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world must be a man of one idea, that is, of one great overmastering purpose, overshadowing all his aims, and guiding and controlling his entire life. -Julius Bate
He who is silent is forgotten; he who abstains is taken at his word; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed, distanced, crushed; he who ceases to grow greater becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the stationary condition is the beginning of the end. -Amiel
You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget that errand. -Woodrow Wilson
People are the custodians of the world's wealth; if you want them to hand some over to you, you have to be nice to people! -Stuart Wilde
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. -?
You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life. -James G. Bilkey
Deep within man dwell these slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. -Orison Marden
***It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. -James MacKintosh***
*** Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough . -Benjamin Franklin***
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry. -Winston Churchill
***People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. -George Bernard Shaw***
The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant. -Orison S. Marden
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