Here are 101 quotes my personal
collection to motivate and challenge you. Some of them will make you laugh or inspire you,
but my hope is that everyone of them will encourage action, strengthen your determination
and make you restless! I have a "passion for action", and I hope you catch
the bug as you read these quotes!
Reading (and re-reading) these quotes over the years has
motivated me to take action, solve problems, try again, and work smarter. I hope
they have the same affect on you!
Im always adding to my collection, and your
suggestions are appreciated. If you have a quote you would like to share with me,
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1. "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter
of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
Jeremy Kitson
2. "I couldn't wait for success, so I went
ahead without it." Jonathan Winters
3. "If you can DREAM it, you can DO it."
Walt Disney"
4. "In each of us are places where we have never
gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them." Dr. Joyce
Brothers
5. "Man is so made that when anything fires his soul,
impossibilities vanish." Jean De La Fontaine
6. "Hide not your talents. They for use were
made. What's a sundial in the shade?" Ben Franklin
7. "Picture in your mind a sense of personal
destiny." Wayne Oates
8. "Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw
off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain
9. "We have much to do together. Let us do it
in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience." Gary
Zukav
10. "A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream
with a plan and a deadline." Harvey Mackay
11. "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your
dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still
possible for you to do." Pope John XXIII
12. "Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy
makes the most of them." Henry Hoskins
13. "In any moment of decision, the best thing you
can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
Theodore Roosevelt
14. "If you are clear about what you want, the world
responds with clarity." Loretta Staples
15. "It is good to dream, but it is better to dream
and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is
helpful, but work and desire are invincible." Thomas Robert Gaines
16. "Many people dream of success. To me,
success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection."
Soichiro Honda, founder of Honda Motors
17. "People become really quite remarkable when they
start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have
the first secret of success." Norman Vincent Peale
18. "People begin to become successful the minute
they decide to be." Harvey Mackay
19. "Take the first step in faith. You don't
have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr.
20. "The future belongs to those who believe in their
dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt
21. "Those who try to do something and fail are
infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed." Lloyd Jones
22. "We don't know who we are until we see what we
can do." Martha Grimes
23. "When you follow your bliss doors will open where
you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for
anyone else." Joseph Campbell
24. "Continuous effort--not strength or
intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential." Winston Churchill
25. "The distance is nothing; it is only the first
step that is difficult." Mme. Du Deffand
26. "Life without risks is not worth living."
Charles A. Lindbergh
27. "Each of us was born with wings...(and) has the
ability to go farther than we ever thought possible, to do things beyond our wildest
imaginings." Barbara Stanny
28. "Youve got to get up every morning with a
smile on your face, and show the world all the love in your heart." Carole
King
29. "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss,
youll land among the stars." Les Brown
30. "When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.
There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like
the most gigantic idiot on earth. So, what the hell, leap." Cynthia
Heimel
31. "Opportunities are usually disguised by hard
work, so most people dont recognize them." Ann Landers
32. "Live with intention. Walk to the edge.
Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose
with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you
love. Live as if this is all there is." Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey
33. "To follow, without halt, one aim: That's
the secret of success." Anna Pavlova
34. "A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a
clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become
porcelain." Mildred Wite Stouven
35. "Winning is not a sometime thing. You don't
win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the
time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." Vince
Lombardi
36. "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
ambition inspired, and success achieved." Helen Keller
37. "Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams
and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so." Belva Davis
38. "Luck is when preparedness meets
opportunity." Earl Nightingale
39. "A goal is a dream with a deadline."
Harvey Mackay
40. "When you get into a tight place and everything
goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never
give up then, for it is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
41. "You can't make someone else's choices. You
shouldn't let someone else make yours." Gen. Colin Powell
42. "Opportunity is missed by most people because it
is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Alva Edison
43. "A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what
ships are for." John A. Shedd
44. "It takes no more effort to expect the best, than
to fear the worst. It's healthier, more productive, and a lot more fun!"
Philip E. Humbert, PhD
45. "Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation
on what you intend to do." Liz Smith
46. "It had long since come to my attention that
people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went
out and happened to things." Elinor Smith
47. "It doesn't matter what you are thinking or what
fear you have, if you just do it. Action is the only thing that matters
. I can
see that at the end of my life, I'm going to look back and say, 'Gosh, I wish I had taken
more action." Diana von Welanetz Wentworth
48. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever
has." Margaret Mead
49. "We cannot discover new oceans until we have the
courage to lose sight of the shore." Muriel Chen
50. "A musician must make music, an artist must
paint, a poet must write if he is ultimately to be at peace with himself. What one
can be, one must be." Abraham Maslow
51. "I am old enough to know that victory is often a
thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage.
What is at the summit of
courage, I think is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no
earthly thing can break you." Paula Giddings
52. "You will never stub your toe by standing still,
but the faster you go, the more chance you have of getting somewhere!" Charles
Kettering
53. "Saying yes and no clearly builds confidence and
rids us of the misconception that we are powerless."
Marsha Sinetar
54. "Dreams are renewable. No matter what our
age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting
to be born." Dr. Dale Turner
55. "The best way to predict your future is to create
it." Unknown
56. "Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible
and achieves the impossible." Charles Caleb Colton
57. "If we all did the things we are capable of doing
we would literally astound ourselves." Thomas Alva Edison
58. "The best way out is always through."
Robert Frost
59. "It is our duty as men and women to proceed as
though the limits of our abilities do not exist." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
60. "The way we live our days, is the way we live our
lives." Annie Dillard
61. "Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah. It
makes absolutely no difference, what people think of you." Rumi
62. "What the mind of man can conceive and believe,
the mind of man can achieve." Napolean Hill
63. "Life begets life. Energy creates energy.
It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." Sarah Bernhardt
64. "What's terrible is to pretend that the
second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you
like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better." Doris
Lessing
65. "Living never wore one out so much as the effort
not to live." Anais Nin
66. "Life is to be lived. If you have to
support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be
interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself."
Katharine Hepburn
67. "Why not seize the pleasure at once? How
often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!" Jane Austen
68. "I'm just going to write because I cannot help
it." Charlotte Bronte
69. "It seems to me we can never give up longing and
wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and
good, and we must hunger for them." George Eliot
70. "I don't wait for moods. You accomplish
nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth."
Pearl S. Buck
71. "To live is so startling it leaves little time
for anything else." Emily Dickinson
72. "Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought
to be." Clementine Paddleford
73. "It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only
sin is not to make the attempt." Suellen Fried
74. "I don't know the key to success, but the key to
failure is trying to please everybody." Bill Cosby
75. "Life is change. Growth is optional.
Choose wisely." Karen Kaiser Clark
76. "I have always had a dread of becoming a
passenger in life." Queen Margret II of Denmark
77. "It's the set of the sail, not the blow of the
gale that determines your course in life." Randy Davis
78. "I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to
sail my own ship." Louisa May Alcott
79. "Everything changes when you change."
Jim Rohn
80. "You don't have to be great to get started but
you have to get started to be great." Les Brown
81. "Without continuous personal development you are
now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are, meets the
person you could have been." Eli Cohen
82. "You can get everything you want if you help
enough others get what they want." Zig Ziglar
83. "The key to unlocking my potential is within me.
It is in the power of my thought, my vision and my commitment." Unknown
84. "Identify your problems, but give your power and
energy to solutions." Anthony Robbins
85. "Living itself is a risky business. If we
spent half as much time learning how to take risks as we spend avoiding them, we wouldn't
have nearly so much to fear in life." E. Paul Torrance
86. "I will...until." Brian Tracy
87. "Never, never, never, never give up!"
Winston Churchill
88. "The basic difference between an ordinary man and
a warrior is that the warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes
everything as a blessing or a curse." Don Juan
89. "Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put
them into action are priceless." Unknown
90. "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are
doomed if you don't try." Beverly Sills
91. "It's not whether you get knocked down; it's
whether you get back up." Vince Lombardi
92. "Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of
the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself." Sara
Henderson
93. "Fantasies are more than substitutes for
unpleasant reality, they are also dress rehearsals; plans. All acts performed in the
world begin in the imagination." Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
94. "In a world where there is so much to be done, I
felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do." Dorothea
Dix
95. "Often people attempt to live their lives
backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they
want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse.
You must first BE who you really are, then, DO what you need to do, in order to HAVE what
you want." Margaret Young
96. "I would rather fail in a cause that will
ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail." Woodrow
T. Wilson
97. "Success is neither magical or mysterious.
Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."
Jim Rohn
98. "The path to success is to take massive,
determined action." Anthony Robbins
99. "'We can do anything we want to as long as we
stick to it long enough." Helen Keller
100. "Some men give up their designs when they have
almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at
the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."
Herodotus
101. "Motivation is like food for the brain. You
cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills."
Peter Davies
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above), I hope youll bookmark this page and come back regularly to
"refill" your desire, your motivation, inspiration and determination for ACTION!
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