Quotes that can be used
- Remember where you have been and know where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.
- Life is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
- Knowing which way to turn gives you self confidence. Taking a chance and going the opposite way gives you a chance to see what you are made of.
- If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.
- The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
- There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, Well, here I am, and those who come into a room and say, Ah, there you are.
- Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
- Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
- 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.
- One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
- Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
- Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.
- When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
- You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people to get what they want!
- Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
- Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
- Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
- Maturity means being emotionally and mentally healthy. It is that time when you know when to say yes, when to say no, and when to say WHOOPEE!
- Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
- Happiness is not getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got.
- The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Take the most difficult challenge you are now facing and turn it into the greatest opportunity to grow simply by changing how you see it. Dead ends then become turning points.
- To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned."
- Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
- If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
- If you would create something, you must be something.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Every artist was first an amateur.
- No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
- Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
- Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
- The geat blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
- Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
- After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
- Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
- Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
Even more quotes:
Leadership:
- Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
- Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
- If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- I light my candle from their torches.
- He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
- When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
- It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
- No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
- What you cannot enforce.
Do not command.
Motivational:
- It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
- The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
- Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
- Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
And to toot my own horn:
- Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know which one your going to get.
- Life is like a packet of condoms, you never know which ones going to break.