Ron’s Favorite Inspirational
Quotes
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1. "When you develop yourself
to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know that you
can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited."
Brian Tracy
2. “Our society is so caught up in winning; we forget that most
of the great men and women in history have, at one time or another, failed at
something. Often repeatedly, and discouragingly. But each failure is nothing
more than a brick in the wall that forms the foundation of our success. We
can't forget that.” Carlton Young
3. “Making your mark on the world is
hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience,
it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The
real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's
whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from
it.” Barak Obama
4. “Keep your thoughts positive
because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your
words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your
behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits
become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your
destiny.” Gandhi
5. “As long as you know what it is you desire, then
by simply affirming that it is yours -- firmly and positively, with no ifs,
buts, or maybes -- over and over again, from the minute you arise in the
morning until the time you go to sleep at night, and as many times during the
day as your work or activities permit, you will be drawn to those people,
places, and events that will bring your desires to you.” Scott Reed
6. "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
7. "Somehow I can't believe
that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets
of making dreams come true. This special secret - curiosity, confidence,
courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe
in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and
unquestionable." Walt Disney
8. "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; un-rewarded genius is almost a
proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." Calvin Coolidge
9. "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
10. “Always remember that you can
achieve everything in life that your heart desires as long as you have the
courage to pursue all your dreams, goals, and ambitions with all your heart and
with all your soul. Because it is you and only you that has the power to change
your life! If you don't stand up and take control of your destiny - Who
Will?????” (Shared by Steven
Poole)
11. "When you get in a tight
place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not
hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and
time that the tide will turn." Harriet Beecher Stowe
12. “The hardest things you will ever do in your life often have
the greatest value, if you never challenge yourself how can you ever reach for
your dreams.” Ron San Angelo
13. “Keys to success... Research your idea, Plan for success, Expect success, & just plain do it! It amazes me how many people skip the last step! Practice being a "doer" and success will follow you every step of the way!” Josh S. Hinds
14. "If I were asked to give
what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would
be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold
your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger
than you. You cannot defeat me." Ann Landers
15. "I've gone through life
believing in the strength and competence of others; never in my own. Now,
dazzled, I discover that my capacities are real. It's like finding a fortune in
the lining of an old coat." Joan Mills
16. “When you face your fear, most
of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after
all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -it empowers
us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.” Les Brown
17. “Your mental attitude is something
you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a
Positive Mental Attitude -- your mental attitude attracts to you everything
that makes you what you are.” Napolean Hill
18. "If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner" Zig Ziglar
19. “We gain strength, and courage,
and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the
face... we must do that which we think we cannot.” Eleanor Roosevelt
20. "The great successful men of the world have used their imagination ... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building-steadily building." Robert Collier
21. "Successful people tend to
become more successful because they are always thinking about their
successes." Brian Tracy
22. “Champions do not become
champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months, and years
they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the
demonstration of their championship character.” T. Alan Armstrong
23. “The longer you wait to decide
what you want to do, the more time you’re wasting. It’s up to you to want
something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your
actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you.” Derek Jeter
24. "Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselfs
miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same." Francesca
Reigler
25. “If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold
you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against
seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.” Dale Carnegie
26. "I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging.
There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the
antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in
your competence. Be sure ...that your priorities are in order so that you can
proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the
place of persistence." Walter Annenberg
27. "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 the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." George Bernard Shaw
28. "Virtually
nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goals
clearly in sight." Dennis
Waitley
29. “It takes a lot of courage to release the
familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real
security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the
adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is
power.” Alan Cohen
30. “Adventure isn't hanging on a rope
off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply To the
day to day obstacles of life - Facing new challenges, seizing new
opportunities, Testing our resources against the unknown and in the process,
Discovering our own unique potential.” John Amatt
31. "We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle
32. "If you want your life to
be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and
everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page" Mark Houlahan
33. “The trouble with so many of us
is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems
to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We
tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities
instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the
outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless
of what's going on outside.” Robert Stuberg.
34. "Some men have thousands
of reasons why they cannot do what they want to; all they need is one reason
why they can." Willis Whitney
35. “Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They
are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had
all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do
with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only
once. Once wasted you cannot get it back.” Anon.
36. “Realize that true happiness lies within you.
Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the
world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but
only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot
pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.” Og
Mandino
37. “Obstacles are those frightful
things you see when you take your eyes off of your goal.” Henry Ford
38. “What the vast majority of
American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop
being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what
you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves
that will make them successful human beings.” Ann Landers
39. "The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." Walter Bagehot
40. "Don't bother just to be
better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself." William Faulkner
41. "Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." St. Francis of
42. "And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years" Abraham Lincoln
43. "You've got to get up
every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with
satisfaction." George Horace Lorimer
44. "The reality of life is that your perceptions - right or wrong - influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place." Roger Birkman
45. “(You gain strength, courage,
and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the
face. You are able to say to yourself, �I have lived through
this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing
you think you cannot do.” Eleanor Roosevelt
46. “It is not the critic who
counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the
doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is
actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who
strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the
great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause,
who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails
while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid
souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore
Roosevelt
47. “Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.” Norman Vincent Peale
48. There is no better time than now. The time to live is now. The time to
dream is now. The time to imagine and forget the past is now. The time to shine
is now. The time to bleed, sweat, and determine yourself for the things you
want most is now. Unknown
49. "You may have a fresh
start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the
falling down, but the staying down." Mary Pickford
50. “Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.” Richard L. Evans
51. "Begin doing what you want
to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling
like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake..." Marie Beyon Ray
52. “There is only one person who
could ever make you happy, and that person is you.” David Burns
53. "Act as if you have
already achieved your goal and it is yours." Dr. Robert Anthony
54. "We judge ourselves by
what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already
done." Henry
55. "Don't judge each day by
the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." Robert Louis
Stevenson
56. "The three great
essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second,
stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense." Thomas Edison
57. As long as you believe in
yourself, you'll never have to look for outside acceptance"
Mark Smith
58. "Keep away from small
people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." Mark Twain
59. “The art of being yourself at
your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to
be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself,
for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right
attitude toward others.” Wilfred Peterson
60. “If you learn from defeat, you
haven’t really lost” Zig Ziglar
61. "Courage, it would seem,
is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice,
while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good;
that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and
that there is always tomorrow." Dorothy Thompson
62. "A time comes when you
need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you
want to be." Bruce Springsteen
63. “Throughout the years of your
life you will face many challenges, remember that you can climb the highest
mountain, drive through the roughest storm, soar across the bluest sky, or even
sail across the roughest waters. It is only destined by your attitude where you
will end up in life. The most important thing is don't let yourself get lost in
the crowd.” Angela
Duvall
64. “Laugh at yourself and at life.
Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle
drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in
perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your
predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that
is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.” Og Mandino
65. "There is one quality that
one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of
what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." Napoleon Hill
66. "We must walk consciously
only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our
success." Henry David Thoreau
67. "The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it." Vince Lombardi
68. “Remember, if you ever need a
helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you
have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for
helping others.” Audrey Hepburn
69. “Dance like there's nobody
watching
Love like you'll never get hurt
Sing like there's nobody listening
Live like it's heaven on earth
And speak from the heart to be heard.”
William
W. Purkey
70. “Self-recognition is necessary
to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils
is worth paying. The following of that road will be all the discipline one
needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by outside forces, but sticking to
one's road against the forces that would deflect or bury the soul. People speak
of finding one’s niche in the world. Society, as we have seen, is one vast
conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue it likes, and then placing
it in the most convenient niche it has.”
71. “As adults, we must ask more of
our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster
their open-hearted hopefulness, engage their need to collaborate, be an
incentive to utilize their natural competency and compassion...show them ways
they can connect, reach out, weave themselves into the
web of relationships that is called community?” Dawna Markova
72. “What I must do is all that
concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual
and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness
and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think
they know what is your duty better than you know it.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in
solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of
the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
73. "Anything inside that
immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine" and
"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers
you". Wayne Dyer
74. "Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." Booker T. Washington
75. “At the end of life’s long
journey it will not matter what you have, but instead who you were as a
person.” Ron
76. "That you may retain your
self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is
right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is
wrong." William J. H. Boetcker
77. "Never say anything to
hurt anyone. Moreover . . . refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny
remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone's disadvantage.
We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way
possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives." Norman Vincent Peale
78. "Optimism is the faith
that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and
confidence." Helen Keller
79. “It's good to have money and
the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and
make sure that you haven't lost the things money can't buy.” George Horace Lorimer
80. "Forget past mistakes.
Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do
it." William
Durant
81. “Let's cease thinking of our
accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other man's good
points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be
"hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise," and people
will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime --
repeat them years after you have forgotten them.” Dale Carnegie
82. "If you were going to die
soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you
say? And why are you waiting?" Stephen Levine
83. "You are never too old to
set another goal or to dream a new dream."
C. S. Lewis
84. "If you want to win
friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me
a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you.
Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance." Dale Carnegie
85. "To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children....to know that even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived. This is to have succeded!" Ralph Waldo Emerson
86. “Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a
better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is
"How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.” Leo F. Buscaglia
87. “One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of
encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a
threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.” John O'Donohue
88. "Too often we underestimate the power
of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,
or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential
to turn a life around." Leo F. Buscaglia
89. "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
90. “The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils,
light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of
right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain,
common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the
sweetest things in life.” Robert Louis Stevenson
“There are
nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with
difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome
them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough
to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and
helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to
remove all anxious fears concerning the future.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
92. “We must nurture our dreams like we would a child. They are God-given
and just as precious. Without ambition how would a child learn to ride a
bicycle, play an instrument or whistle? We deny the spirit of God when we as
adults settle for less than our dreams!” Conway Stone
93. “'I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will
forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou
94. "At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of
your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you." Jim Rohn
95. "You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." Dale Carnegie
96. “The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and
loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of
children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the
world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or
a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to
express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.” Robert Louis
Balfour Stevenson
97. “The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of
another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty
and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two
human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or
by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most
wonderful of all things in life.” Sir Hugh Walpole
98. If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your
work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming
impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.” Dale Carnegie
99. "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." John Wooden
100. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." Henry David Thoreau
101."Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt
102. “One resolution I have made,
and always try to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.” John Burroughs
103. “Nothing is particularly hard
if you divide it into small jobs” Henry Ford
104. “I ask not for a lighter load
but for broader shoulders.” Jewish Proverb
105. “
106. “They say that time changes
things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Andy Warhol
107. “People, even more than things,
have to be restored, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”
Audrey
Hepburn
108. “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.” Mark Twain
109. “Never doubt that a small
group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the
only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
110. “Most people are about as
happy as they make up their minds to be.” Abraham Lincoln
111. “The fact that I can plant a
seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes
another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual
spiritual exercises.” Leo Buscaglia
112. “When you were born, you cried
and the world rejoiced; live your life so that when you die, the world cries and
you rejoice.” White
Elk
113. “Look at a day when you are
supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing
nothing; it’s when you had everything to do, and you’ve done it.” Margaret
Thatcher
114. “Did you ever see an unhappy horse?
Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are
not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.” Dale Carnegie
115. “Few things help an individual
more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust
him.” Booker
T. Washington
116. “The truth is that our finest
moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable,
unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort,
that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different
ways or truer answers.” M. Scott Peck
117.“The best remedy for those who
are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be
quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel
that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the
simple beauty of nature.” Anne Frank
118.“True friendship
consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.” Ben Jonson
119.
“Never cut down a tree in wintertime. Never make a negative decision in low
time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst
moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.” Robert H. Shuller
120. “If a man could regard the
events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover
that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.” Andre Maurois
121. “The secret of health for both
mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or
to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and
earnestly.” Budda
122. “Regardless of how you feel
inside, always look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of
control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory,” Arthur Ashe
123. “Keep doing good deeds long
enough and you’ll probably turn out a good man or woman in spite of yourself.” Louis Achincloss
124. “Our loyalties must transcend
our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop
a world perspective.” Martin Luther
King, Jr.
125. If a child is to keep alive
his inborn sense of wonder…he needs the companionship of at least one adult who
can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the
world we live in.” Rachel Carson
126. Life is not easy for any of
us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and
above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for
something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” Marie Curie
127. “The easiest thing in the
world to be is you. The most difficult thing is to be what other people want
you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.” Leo Busaglia
128. “I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.”
Lily Tomlin
129.“Holding
on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at
someone else; you are the one who gets
burned.” Budda
130. “This world, after all our
science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and
more, to whosoever will think it.” Thomas Carlyle
131. “In any moment of decision,
the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong
thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” Theodore
Roosevelt
132. “Though no one can go back and
make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
Carl Bard
133. “The problems of the world cannot
possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the
obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.” John F. Kennedy
134. “To be kind to all, to like
many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the
nearest we can come to happiness.” Mary Roberts
Rinehart
135. “There are admirable
potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth.
Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, ‘It all depends
on me’.” Andre
Gide
136. “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
137. “My life has no purpose, no
direction, no aim. No meaning. And yet I’m happy. I
can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?” Charles
Schulz
138. “The secret of work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”
Pearl S. Buck