Quotes

Welcome to our Quotes Collection. Feel free to browse the entire on this page, or select a specific category below (note: some quotes will appear under multiple categories)

We’ve always loved quotes, and this collection is full of word of wisdom, quotes that are motivating and inspiring, things that have made us smile, nod in agreement, think about something in a new way or just express something we were already feeling. Take a look around, and feel free to let us know about some of your favorite quotes in the comments!

Our Quote Collection:

A day will never be anymore than what you make of it. Practice being a “doer!” — Josh S. Hinds

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. — Harvey Mackay

A good plan today is better than a great plan tomorrow. — George S. Patton

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits. — Napoleon Hill

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. — William Shedd

Ability is what you’re capable of. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz

All our dreams can become realized if we have the courage to pursue them in spite of our fears — Walt Disney

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. — Abraham Lincoln

Always listen to the experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done and why. Then do it. — Robert Heinlein

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. — Stephen Covey

Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight. — Lance Armstrong

Avoiding the phrase “I don’t have time…”, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life. — Bo Bennett

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. — Dr. Seuss

Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something. — Gene Valvano

Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk. — Leo Buscaglia

Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. — Josh Bilings

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. — Mark Twain

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. — John Wayne

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you’re ready or not, to put it into action. — Napoleon Hill

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you. — Denis Waitley

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Harold R. McAlindon

Do or do not. There is no try. — Yoda

Eighty percent of success is showing up. — Woody Allen

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. — Norman Vincent Peale

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. — Robert Brault

Entrepreneurship is a state of mind, a can-do attitude, a capacity to focus on a vision and work toward it. — Barry Rogstad

Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success. — Leigh Mitchell Hodges

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. — Epictetus

Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself. — Oprah Winfrey

Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. — Christian D. Larson

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. — Thoreau

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. — Rita Mae Brown

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. — Jack Kinder

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. — Benjamin Franklin

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse. — Florence Nightingale

I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past. — Stephen Covey

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. — John Cage

I do the best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end. — Abraham Lincoln

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. — Bill Cosby

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. — Bill Cosby

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. — Marie Curie

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

Ideas without action are worthless. — Harvey Mackay

If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it? — Neale Donald Walsch

If you do not like the results, change the play. — David Justus

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they might have planned for you? Not much. — Jim Rohn

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. — Maya Angelou

If you don’t set goals for yourself, you are doomed to work to achieve the goals of someone else. — Brian Tracy

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough. — Edward Everett Hale

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple: Know what you’re doing. Love what you’re doing. And believe in what you’re doing. — Will Rogers

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there. — Robert Kiyosaki

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams

In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them. — Dr. Joyce Brothers

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength, but through persistence. — Buddha

In the end it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. — Max Dupree

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. — Brian Tracy

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. — Theodore Roosevelt

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. — W. Edwards Deming

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable. — Roger L’Estrange

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute … that gives meaning to our lives. — Anthony Robbins

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living. — Grenville Kleiser

Keep your face to the sunshine and you never see the shadow. — Helen Keller

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill. — Warren Buffet

Life Is Not About Success Or Failure; It’s About Meaning — Tony Robbins

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. — Corita Kent

Make it so today is not like yesterday, and tomorrow will be different forever. — Tony Robbins

Many say I am just one to try. I say I am one less to quit. — Diego Marchi

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new. — Brian Tracy

Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future. — Rabbi Nochem Kaplan

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. — Benjamin Franklin

Never, never, never, never give up. — Winston Churchill

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. — Eleanor Roosevelt

No one ever excused his way to success. — Dave Del Dotto

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. — Maria Robinson

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself. — Liberace

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted — Albert Einstein

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. — Auguste Rodin

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. — John Heywood

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. — Henry Ford

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. — Ralph Blum

Nothing will work unless you do. — Maya Angelou

Once you surrender to your vision, success begins to chase you. — The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. — John Stuart Mill

One step back does not mean defeated. It just means that you will take the same step forward again but wiser. — Jossie Estrella

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. — Pablo Picasso

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. — Ann Landers

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. — Thomas Edison

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — Confucius

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. — Thomas Edison

Patience and perseverance has a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. — John Quincy Adams

People become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power. — Anita Roddick

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. — Zig Ziglar

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. — Walter Elliot

Self-knowledge is best leaned, not by contemplation, but by action. Strive to do your duty and you will soon discover of what stuff you are made. — Johann Goethe

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy. — Wayne Dyer

Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it. — Unknown

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. — Richard Bach

Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi

Success is merely the process of fulfilling your own hopes and dreams- not the standards set by society, but by the standards set by you. — George Pataki

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. — Evan Esar

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. — Henry Thoreau

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. — Abraham Lincoln

The 1st thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says no. — Ernest Bevin

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. — Henry Ward Beecher

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. — Michael Altshuler

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. — Gandhi

The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination. — John Schaar

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. — Herbert Spencer

The harder you work, the harder it is for you to surrender. — Vince Lombardi

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. — Debbie Fields

The law of abundance is that everything replicates after its own kind. Like is attracted to like. If you want more wealth, concentrate of wealth; think thoughts of abundance and wealth. — Delfin Knowledge System

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. — Mark Twain

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. — Norman Vincent Peale

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don’t read what they write, don’t ask them what they believe, just observe what they do. — Ashley Montagu

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. — Arthur C. Clarke

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. — Chinese Proverb

The power of imagination makes us infinite. — John Muir

The responsibility for both present and future is in our own hands. If we live right today, then tomorrow has to be right. — Eknath Easwaran

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it – every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. — John D. Rockefeller III

The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven’t yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do. — Brian Tracy

The successful man is the average man, focused. — Unknown

The thing always happens that you really believe in. And the belief in a thing makes it happen. And I think nothing will happen until you thoroughly and deeply believe in it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. — William Frederick Halsey, Jr.

There are two kinds of failures: Those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. — Laurence Peter

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. — Phyllis Bottome

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend. — Katherine Hathaway

There’s always a way… You just have to find it! — Paul Briganti

Thoughts are physical things. If you do not control them, they will control you. — Mike Dillard

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. — Ayn Rand

Time is not a line, but a series of now points. — Taisen Deshimaru

To win without risk is to triumph without glory. — Corneille

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. — Albert Einstein

Underpromise; overdeliver. — Tom Peters

We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems. — Margaret Mead

We can practice leadership principles, but the only way to learn to use them is to lead. Not knowing it all is no excuse not to start. — Judy Columbus

We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but by what we settle for. — Alan Cohen

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. — William George Jordan

We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. — Jesse Jackson

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. — Napoleon Hill

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell’em, ‘certainly I can!’ – and get busy and find out how to do it. — Theodore Roosevelt

While you’re sitting around thinking ’bout what you can’t change and worrying about all the wrong things time’s flying by, moving so fast, you better make it count ’cause you can’t get it back. — Carrie Underwood

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You make have to work for it, however. — Richard Bach

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. — Zig Ziglar

You create your opportunities by asking for them. — Patty Hansen

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. — Beverly Sills

You must be willing to give without want before you can get. — Mike Dillard

You never fail until you quit trying. — Unknown

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action. — Tony Robbins

You want to look at your purpose in life. You want to find that meaning within. Once you find that meaning within, and you start to express your purpose, that’s when the money starts coming. That’s when you attract it. — Andy Fuehl

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. — Zig Ziglar

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. — George Horace Lorimer

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson