Achieve Your Full Potential: 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life (3 page)

Vince Lombardi

 
“Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side.”
Zig Ziglar

“You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.”
Zig Ziglar

 
"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."

Niccol Machiavelli

“The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.”
Zig Ziglar

"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we might have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do."

Gian-Carlo Menotti

"Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. . . . Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement."

Leo J. Muir

"Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit."

Hugh Nibley

"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration . .
and
expectation."

Jack
Nicklaus

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

General George Smith Patton, Jr.

"Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage." Frederick Pierce

"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."

 
Ayn Rand

"She looked at the crowd and she felt, simultaneously, astonishment that they should stare at her, when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible, and a sense of fitness that they should be here, that they should want to see it, because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others."

Ayn Rand

"There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting."

Dr. Theodor Reik

"A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high."

William Sharp

“Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.”
Zig
Ziglar

"The things we accept as normal and enjoy today were considered impossible twenty-five years ago and beyond the power of man to achieve. The early "Buck Rogers" and "Flash Gordon" comic strips were fantastic and considered outside the realm of man's attainment. They were considered figments of man's imagination, but now many of these miraculous, imaginative things have become realities and man is pushing onward toward new and higher goals of achievement. We are now mentally prepared for every new invention and advancement in technology and the sciences, but, nevertheless, stand amazed at man's powers to create and achieve. These outstanding accomplishments, which approach the miraculous, to me are unquestioned evidence of man's divine nature. Man has sent up satellites which circle the globe. He has taken the breathtaking, miraculous ride about the earth. He expects to circle the moon and even land man on the outer planets; also he considers feasible floating platforms in outer space as intermediate stations for interplanetary travel."
Delbert L. Stapley

 
“When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.”
Zig Ziglar

 
“The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.”
Zig Ziglar

"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."

Alfred North Whitehead

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

 
John Wooden

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."

Woodrow Wilson

"You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be." Robert Collier

"Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have." Jean-Paul Sartre

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

 
Conrad Hilton

"Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish."
Brian Tracy

"The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come."

 
C.S. Lewis

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

Anonymous

“It's not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that's important.”
Zig
Ziglar

282 Inspiring Quotes

"No bed is big enough to hold three.”
German Proverb

"To understand your parents, love you must raise children yourself."
Chinese Proverb

"Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse."
Joseph Addison

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

"Love of country is like love of woman, he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good."
Felix Adler

"I could never love where I could not respect."
Charlotte Elizabeth
Aiss

"Love is a great beautifier."
Louisa May Alcott

“What is lovely never dies
,
But passes into other loveliness,
Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.”
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"I was nauseous and tingly all over. . . . I was either in love or I had smallpox."
Woody Allen

"I used to think that being nice to people and feeling nice was loving people. Now I know it isn't. Love is the most immense unselfishness and it is so big I've never touched it."
Florence
Allshom

"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind."
Henri Fredric
Amiel

"Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life." Smiley Blanton

"What force is more potent than
love.
"

Igor Stravinsky

"Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens."
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit."

Kahlil Gibran

"Food offered without affection is like food offered to the dead."
Hindu Proverb

"How does one measure time?
No, not in day, months, or years.
It is measured by the most precious of all things: Love. Without which all beings and things whether brave and/or beautiful would perish."
Irish Blessing

"It's easy to halve the potato where there’s love."
Irish Proverb

"Love and eggs are best when they are fresh."
Russian Proverb

"Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass."
French Proverb

"In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person."
Margaret C. Anderson

"I am a lover and have not found my thing to love."

Sherwood Anderson

"Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves."
Andrew

"A love that defies all logic is sometimes the most logical thing in the world."
Anonymous

"A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall
be,
never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart."
Anonymous

"A self-centered man admitted: "Sure, I know that the Bible says to love our neighbors as ourselves. But frankly, I don't believe that my neighbors can stand all that affection."
Anonymous

"A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like a child who sings at night when he is afraid."
Anonymous

"But isn't
hate
just scorned love?"
Anonymous

"Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it."
Anonymous

"
He
who tries to forget a woman, never loved her."
Anonymous

"I did not hear the words you said, instead I heard the love."
Anonymous

"I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love."
Anonymous

"If music be the food of love, then play on."
Anonymous

"If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater."
Anonymous

"If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.”
Anonymous

"If you deny childhood, you deny life. They can’t speak up for themselves so we must. It's like, how do we define love, It's a very, very deep feeling, but It's I think the most important force of life."
Anonymous

"If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?"
Anonymous

"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with."
Anonymous

"If you love someone, you must be strong enough to allow them to be."
Anonymous

"In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future."
Anonymous

"It is better to have loved and lost, than to have hated and won."
Anonymous

"It is kindness in a person, not beauty that wins our love."
Anonymous

"It's much easier to turn a friendship into love, than love into friendship."
Anonymous

"Lonely is a man without love."
Anonymous

"Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen."
Anonymous

"Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion."
Anonymous

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give which is everything."
Anonymous

"Love is eternal as long as it lasts."
Anonymous

"Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance."
Anonymous

"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever."
Anonymous

"Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less."
Anonymous

"Love is what dreams are made of."
Anonymous

"Love may conquer all, but it needs time as its field general."
Anonymous

"Love your friend with his faults.”
Anonymous

"Make love, not war; get married and do both!"
Anonymous

"Make your life an act of love."
Anonymous

"My need is not to be on the outside glaring in;
its
to be in the center with you. To be loved is nice, but not essential. To love someone, that's what makes life worth living."
Anonymous

"No one in love is free, or wants to be."
Anonymous

"Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love until he's owned a dog. He can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes."
Anonymous