101 Most Inspiring Quotes, Part 2
Posted Jan 8 2010 by Celes
This is part of the 101 Best Quotes of All Time Series. Be sure to check out:
Following the popularity of the previous article 101 Most Inspiring Quotes of All Time (#1 visited article in 2009 that hit Frontpage of StumbleUpon and brought in over 101k unique hits), I thought it’s time to have another quotes collation. All these quotes have been specially handpicked and have inspired me in one way or another, so I hope you will enjoy them as I have. 
101 Most Inspiring Quotes, Part 2
- Quotes on Life (20 quotes)
- Quotes on Personal Power, Mindsets and Beliefs (25 quotes)
- Quotes on Time Management and Productivity (5 quotes)
- Quotes on Goal Setting and Goal Achievement (24 quotes)
- Quotes on Love (7 quotes)
- Quotes on People and The World (20 quotes)
Quotes on Life
“If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.” – James A. Garfield
“You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.” – Michael Pritchard
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie
“There’s no next time. It’s now or never.”
“Regarding meditation: In the beginning you will fall into the gaps in between thoughts – after practicing for years, you become the gap.” – J.Kleykamp
“For every effect there is a root cause. Find and address the root cause rather than try to fix the effect, as there is no end to the latter.”
“One has to live in the present. Whatecer is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one’s reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.” – S.N. Goenka
“When you don’t get what you want, you suffer. If you get it, you suffer too since you can’t hold on to it forever.” – Peaceful Warrior, on the fallacy of attachment
“There are no ordinary moments. There is always something going on.” – Peaceful Warrior
“Be present – it is the only moment that matters.” Peaceful Warrior
“A warrior is not about perfection. Or victory. Or invulnerability. He is about absolute vulnerability. That is the only true courage.” – Peaceful Warrior
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every moment you get is a gift. Spend it on things that matter. Don’t spend it by dwelling on unhappy things.
Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy.
Don’t put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you’re ever living is in this moment.
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.” – B. Olatunji
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain
Don’t defer living to an arbitrary point in the future. The only moment you exist in is right here, right now.
Life is a gift. Never forget to enjoy and bask in every moment you are in.
“Don’t let the past steal your present” – Cherralea Morgen
Quotes on Personal Power and Mindsets
The degree of responsibility you take for your life determines how much change you can create in it.
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca
“A man can do all things if he will.” — Leon Battista Alberti (1404–72)
“You can’t get to a place that you don’t believe exists.”
“There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.” – Tony Robbins
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” – Teddy Roosevelt
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
“(Tool+Training+Experience) x Mindset = Goal/Success —- BUT if your mindset is 0 then equation is (100 + 100 +100) x 0 = Failure”
“Rather than waste time and energy worrying, use that time and energy to constructively deal with whatever’s causing the worry.”
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Whenever you see something you dislike, it represents something you are repelling inside of you.”
“Sometimes you have to lose your mind before you can come to your senses.” – Peaceful Warrior
“Life is about choice. You can choose to be a victim or anything else you like to be.”
“When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails.” ~ H. Jackson Brown
“If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
“If you believe you can, you can.If you believe you can’t, then, well you can’t.”
“Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they’re yours.” – Richard Bach
“Our life experiences often create a limited worldview of what is and what is not possible. Thus to maximize your experience of life, base your dreams outside of your life experiences.”
“Don’t be timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No one can hurt you without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Many answers to what you seek don’t lie “out there”. If you look inwards, you’ll find the answer has been in you all along.
To create more positive results in your life, replace “if only” with “next time”.
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. – Sir James Dewar
“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” ~Ernest Holmes
The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. – Les Brown
Quotes on Time Management and Productivity
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – Life’s Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.” – Peter Drucker
“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey
Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized. – Steve Pavlina
“You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.” – Jim Rohn
Quotes on Goal Setting and Goal Achievement
“There is no starting or stopping. Only doing.” – Peaceful Warrior
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” —Will Rogers
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream” – Les Brown
“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” —Aristotle
“The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain
“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” – A. A. Milne
“When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.” – Greg Anderson
“In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” – Sydney Smith
“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland
“He who fails to plan, plans to fail.”
“The most important thing about goals is having one.” – Geoffry F. Abert
“There is no one giant step that does it. It’s a lot of little steps.” – Peter A. Cohen
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard
“You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.” – Zig Ziglar
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama
“Everything is always created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
Problems remain as problems because people are busy defending them rather than finding solutions.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. – John Stuart Mill
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein.
“As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the “how” will reveal itself.” – Tony Robbins
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.- Elbert Hubbard Every artist was first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes on Love
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” -Albert Einstein. “To say I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’” – Ayn Rand
“You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.” – Buddha
“If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.” – Leo Buscaglia
“One does not fall ‘in’ or ‘out’ of love. One grows in love.” – Leo Buscaglia
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” – Martin Luther King, Jr
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
You may be one person in this world, but to one person you mean the world.
Quotes on People and The World
“Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” – Golden Rule
“Do not do to others as you would not have others do to you.” – Silver Rule
“Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored & destroy the object on which it is poured.”~Ann Landers
“You are the average of the five people you spend most time with.” – Jim Rohn
“Speak to people according to the development of their consciousness, for if you speak all things to all people, some cannot understand you and so fall into errors!” – Prophet Muhammad
“Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations.” – Stephen Covey
“You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.” – Andrew Carnegie
“Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.” – Rene Descartes
“Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.” – Robert Redford
“The people who are the hardest to love are the ones who need it the most.” – Peaceful Warrior
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding about ourselves. – Carl JungTo raise your consciousness, surround yourself with people of higher consciousness
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
If you find you are not valued and appreciated, then shift your attention to places where you will be valued and appreciated.
“Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.” -J. Gitomer
“Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don’t like”
“Don’t let the noise of others opinions drown out your inner voice.” – Steve Jobs
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter F. Drucker
“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.” – Goethe
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
For the quotes that resonate with you, make sure to put them around you through your environment so you are always reminded of them. Some examples of good places to place these quotes are:
- Mobile welcome message
- Life handbook
- Noticeboard and/or walls in your room
- Desktop wallpaper
- Cover of your folder
- Working desk
- Photo frames in your house or office
Since I was a student, I have always been a big fan of motivational quotes. It’s one of my habits to surround myself with these quotes. Today, I have these quotes in places such as my mobile welcome message, my noticeboard in my bedroom, my life handbook and my office so I’m always in the face of inspiration. I recommend to do it too, because it’s really a great source of positive energy
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