Quotes of Inspiration
Recently Submitted Quotes from our Customers
Name: Cynthia Howland-Hodson
Inspirational Quote: "You may delay, but time will not." -Thomas Edison
Cynthia's story: Short but sweet, this quote really put my habit of procrastination into perspective! My husband and I were in a near fatal accident last year and in a heartbeat, my perception of how valuable our time is shifted dramatically. I promised myself I would stop hesitating and start living. Time is a gift I cannot afford to waste.
Name: Ibrahim Sibai
Inspirational Quote: "Don't turn your arse to the bees and say God help me...please!"
Ibrahim's story: This is a typical Lebanese saying. It means you have to go to work to make a living, and to become successful. God only helps those who help themselves.
"If you are what you do...
What are you when you don't?"
Think about it…If all you are is what you do for your J-O-B, what kind of quality of life do you and your family have? Think Harry Chapin's song “Cats in the Cradle”.
This one quote has had, what I call the "Gnaw" factor – for the thousands of business people who have heard it in Richards seminar entitled “Getting Free of Your Business and Getting a Life!”
"Gnaw" factor meaning that the quote keeps gnawing on you because it hits a nerve. As Oprah Winfrey would say when you have an “Aha Moment”.
We have had many self proclaimed workaholic business owners contact us through the years after having attended Richard’s seminar, to thank us for, in a sense – knocking them up side the head with a reality check…because of the seminar, but this quote in particular. It is the one thing that kept “gnawing” at them until they did something about it.
They have now learned to find balance in their lives while still maintaining their business, making everyone happier…them, their family and even their employees.
I even used the line back on Richard when he started to lose balance with our lives.
So this quote has been life changing for many people, including me.
If there is inspirational quote that has changed your life or touched you in a positive way, please feel free to share it with us using the form on the right. In the meantime, enjoy the inspirational quotes below!
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decided that you are not going to stay where you are."
-John Pierpont Morgan
"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
-Will Rogers
"A year from now, you will wish you had started today."
-Karen Lamb
"Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better to tomorrow."
-Doug Firebaugh
"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."
-Douglas Everett
"Every day brings another chance to make a difference."
-Leslie Ann Gibson
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
-William Arthur Ward
"If you are what you do… What are you when you don't."
-Richard Gilly Nixon
"Though no one can go back and make a new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
-Carl Bard
"The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life."
-R. Buckminster Fuller
"At last I think I've discovered the secret: Do whatever your heart leads you to do--but do it!"
-Truman X. Jones
"There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few that will catch your heart. Pursue these."
-Michael Nolan
"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need."
-Jerry Gillies
"Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use."
-Charles M. Schulz
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
-Margaret Thatcher
"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
-Babe Ruth
"When you have exhausted all possibilities… remember this: you haven't."
-Thomas Edison
"Life isn't about how you survived the storm... it's about how you danced in the rain."
-Anonymous
"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
-Mary Pickford
"Great works are performed not by strength but perseverance."
-Samuel Johnson
"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
-Oliver Goldsmith
"Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low."
-Tom Peters
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow… …will be our doubts of today"
-Franklin D Roosevelt
"Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much."
-Joan Collins
"Learn to pause...or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you."
-Doug King
"Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done."
-Elbert Hubbard
"I can complain because rose bushes have thorns, OR rejoice because the thorn bush has a rose... It is all up to me!"
-Unknown
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
-Winston Churchill
"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."
-W. Clement Stone
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her."
-David Brinkley
"The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern."
-Max Lucado
"Orville Wright didn't have a pilot's license."
-Richard Tait
"You don't have to take life the way it comes to you. You can design your life to come to you the way you want it."
-Dan Zadra
"Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing... some kind of excellence is within my reach."
-John Gardner
"Vision without action is a daydream, Action without vision is a nightmare."
-Japanese Proverb
"Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important sometimes."
-Richard Bach
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the BIG things."
-Robert Brault
"A great life is the sum total of all the worthwhile things you've been doing one by one."
-Richard Bach
"There is nothing we can't live down, rise above or overcome."
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"What could you achieve in life if you decided to become totally and blissfully impervious to hostile criticism and to rejection?"
-Gary S. Goodman
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
-T. S. Eliot
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
-Truman Capote
"Progress means taking risk, for you can't steal home and keep your foot on third base."
-Herbert V. Prochnow
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows."
-Helen Keller
"If you're not failing at some things, you're not risking enough."
-Gordon Wilson
"The Past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
-L.P. Hartley
"Often greater risk is involved in postponement, than in making a wrong decision."
-Harry A. Hopf
"Those who wish to sing… always find a song."
-Swedish Proverb
"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
-Pericles
"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgiving, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings"
-William Arthur Ward
"Pure and simple, any person who is enjoying life is a success."
-William Feather
"Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open."
-Elmer G. Letterman
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candles or the mirror that reflects it."
-Edith Wharton
"Encourage others, when someone has a goal. Most people point out the obstacles. You be the one to point out the possibilities."
-Alice Gray
"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
-Maya Angelou
"To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them when they have forgotten."
-Unknown
"The reason some (people) do not succeed is because their wishbone is where their backbone ought to be."
-Anonymous
"Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be."
-Muhammad Ali
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else's life."
-Unknown
"Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing so futile."
-Bertrand Russell
"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before going to bed."
-Bernard Baruch
"The first law of success is concentration...to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right or to the left."
-William Mathews
"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect."
-Leonardo da Vinci
"The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it."
-Peter Drucker
"Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating."
-Denis Waitley
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like."
-Will Smith
"That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."
-Henry David Thoreau
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear...not absence of fear."
-Mark Twain
"A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things."
-Jacques Maritain
"My brain is the key that sets me free."
-Harry Houdini
"Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership."
-Brian Tracy
"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."
-Harold S. Geneen
"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
-Shel Silverstein
"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."
-George "Papa Bear" Halas
"People seldom hit what they do not aim at."
-Henry David Thoreau
"Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success."
-Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."
-Lao Tzu
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to Success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
-Herman Cain
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
-Marcel Proust
"The way to get started is to stop talking and start doing."
-Walt Disney