Achieve Your Full Potential: 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life (24 page)

"'Tis better to be alone than in bad company.'"

George Washington

"It is not because things are different that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

Anonymous

30 Inspirational Quotes

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."
Roger Bannister

"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur."

Vince Lombardi

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."
Tommy Lasorda

"Nothing great will ever be achieved without great mean, and men are great only if they are determined to be so."

Charles De Gaulle

"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
Samuel Johnson

"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."

Alexander Graham Bell

"Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose."
Benjamin Disraeli

"The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory."

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

"You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can."

Jimmy Carter

"We will either find a way, or make one!"

Hannibal

"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop."

Robert Hughes

"Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory."

Ghandi

"Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold."
Dr. A. B. Meldrum

"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."
John Christian Bovee

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."
Vince Lombardi

"It takes a little courage, and a little self-control. And some grim determination, If you want to reach the goal. It takes a great deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, if you really want to win, there's no easy path to glory. There is no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, Is no simple parlor game; But its prizes call for fighting, For endurance and for grit; For a rugged disposition that will not quit."
Navy SEAL Masterchief

"The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck."

Channing Pollock

"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before."

Jacob Riis

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

Michael Jordon

"Self-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control."

Anonymous

"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. "

Alexander Graham Bell

"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."
Christian Nestell Bove

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

John Calvin Coolidge

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."
Thomas Alva Edison

"Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success."

Burt Lawlor

"It's a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

William
Somerset
Maugham

 
"It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge."

John J. Watson

"I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work."

Lee Iacocca

"A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough."

Ronald Reagan

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."

Friedrich Nietzsche

13 Inspirational Quotes

“A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born
with,
a man is what he makes himself."
Alexander Graham Bell

"Double, no, triple our troubles and we’d still be better off than any other people on earth."
Ronald Reagan

"Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved."

Ernest Hemingway

"The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival."

Morris K. Udall

"Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price."

Elie Wiesel

"Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that is not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain - if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it."

Richard M. Nixon

"The consciousness of being deemed
dead,
is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass."

 
Herman Melville

"In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise."

Maya Angelou

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."

Dr.W.Edwards Deming

"Learning is not compulsory. . . neither is survival."

Dr.W.Edwards Deming

"In a mad world, only the mad are sane."

Akiro Kurosawa

"This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life."

Herbert Spencer

"Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age."

Adlai Stevenson

So, what have you learnt?

There are many answers, but I believe that the phrase ‘I can be greater than I am’ is satisfactory. Everyone can be greater in their life, in their job, and at home. History has showed us that humans can do remarkable things. Such as fly to the moon, build pyramids in the sand, travel across inhospitable landscape to the frozen North Pole, and even climb up the highest mountain on Earth.

So while you don’t have to be the next Armstrong or Hilary, you can certainly be the best that
YOU
can be. If that means that you leave your job at the supermarket to setup your own business, so be it. Or, if that means that you leave your
nine to five
city job that you despise, to travel back to your hometown in the country to marry the girl or guy that you love, then do it.

Rich, poor, fat, skinny, tall, short… the list goes on. But it doesn’t matter.
Anyone,
anywhere can reach their full potential by learning from successful people, which are the people outlined in this book. So, like the famous Walt Disney once said, ‘If you can dream it, you can do it.’

Goodbye, Sayonara, Adieu…