Here’s a selection of 20 inspirational quotes that will brighten your day:
1. Quote: A Formula for Success
“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.”
Thomas J. Watson
2. Where to find happiness – Quote
“All the happiness you ever find lies in you.”
Anonymous
3. Challenges vs Greatness – Quote
“Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage.”
John F. Kennedy
4. Dare – Quote
“It is not because things are different that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
Anonymous
5. Discover yourself – Quote
“Above all challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.”
Cecile Springer
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6. Mental Strength – Quote
“Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.”
Adlai Stevenson
7. Experience Fear – Quote
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I 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
8. Better than perfection is perseverance – Quote
“It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.”
Confucius
9. You’re Limitless – Quote
“When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.”
Joseph Campbell
10. Don’t be so serious – Quote
“You can’t really be strong until you see a funny side to things.”
Anonymous
11. Train Your Mind – Quote
“Strength is a matter of a made up mind.”
John Beecher
12. Don’t compare Yourself to Others – Quote
“Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.”
Tom Chappel
13. Have Patience with Yourself – Quote
“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them every day begin the task anew.”
Saint Francis de Sales
14. Your Efforts Matter – Quote
“Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.”
Zig Ziglar
15. Defeat has benefits – Quote
“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”
Muhammad Ali
16. Keep on Moving – Quote
“Never let defeat have the last word.”
Tibetan Proverb
17. Power of Will – Quote
“A man can do all things if he but wills them.”
Leon Battista Alberti
18. You’re Your Own Master – Quote
“Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. Fly High – Quote
“Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.”
Eileen Caddy
20. Appreciate Everything You Do – Quote
“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”
Peter Marshall
