Inspiring words and motivational quotes

Dream

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." — Walt Disney
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." — John Updike
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." — James Dean
"Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not." — George Bernard Shaw
"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality." — MalalaYousafzai

"Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much." — Joan Collins
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." — Truman Capote
"Success means doing the best with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be." — Zig Ziglar
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." — Helen Keller
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between does what he wants to do." — Bob Dylan

Action

"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." — Theodore Roosevelt
"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work." — Stephen King
"You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind." — Irish proverb
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Don't wait. The time will never be just right." — Napoleon Hill

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." — Arnold Schwarzenegger
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." — Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The best way out is always through." — Robert Frost
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, 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 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 neither know victory nor defeat." — Theodore Roosevelt.
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." — Molière

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." — Confucius
"Failure is success in progress." — Albert Einstein
"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." — Barack Obama
"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement and success have no meaning." — Benjamin Franklin
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." — Vincent Van Gogh
"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb." — Winston Churchill

"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now." — P.T. Barnum
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." — Thomas Jefferson
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." — Alexander Graham Bell
"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." — Paulo Coelho
"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." — George Lorimer
"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses." — George Eliot
Passion

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you." — Oprah Winfrey
"There is no passion to be found in playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." — Nelson Mandela
"A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position." — John C. Maxwell
"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly." — Stephen R. Covey
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." — Albert Einstein
"When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible." — Howard Schultz

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome." — William James
"Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances." — J. Donald Walters
"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day." — Dalai Lama
"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." — Roald Dahl
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." — Walt Whitman

"He that can have patience can have what he will." — Benjamin Franklin
"The strongest of all warriors are these two—Time and Patience." — Leo Tolstoy
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." — Lao Tzu
"Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength." — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down." — Kurt Vonnegut
"Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is." — Mark Twain
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." — T.S. Eliot
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...only then will you learn the game." — Winston Churchill

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