I adore inspirational quotations– and I’ll admit that I have
a rather silly habit of keeping long lists of my favorites. After spending a considerable amount of time
weeding through the bunch, I’m pleased to present 41 tidbits of advice from
famous folks who know/knew a thing or two about leadership, determination, and
putting your heart into something you’re just crazy about.
Please comment with your own favorite quotations to add to
the list. I’d love to hear what gets you up and running, and doing what you do
best!
“Always bear in
mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t worry when
you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“We should be too
big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Logic will get
you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
– Albert Einstein
“Try not to become
a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
“How wonderful it
is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank
“Focusing your
life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too
little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something
larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”
-Barack Obama
“If you’re walking
down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make
progress.”
-Barack Obama
“When people go to
work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home.”
– Betty Bender
“If you think you
are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.”
– Betty Reese
“If I were given
the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the
ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.”
– Charles M.
Schulz
“Unless someone
like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
– Dr. Seuss
“It takes courage
to grow up and become who you really are.”
– e. e. cummings
“The leadership
instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the
wishbone that go with it.”
– Elaine Agather
“Self-development
is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.”
– Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
“Bite off more
than you can chew, then chew it.”
– Ella Williams
“I know the price
of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things
you want to see happen”
– Frank Lloyd
Wright
”The important
work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”
– George Eliot
“I found that the
men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand,
with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.”
– Harry S. Truman
“Do not hire a man
who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
– Henry David
Thoreau
“If the laborer
gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he
cheats himself.”
– Henry David
Thoreau
“Success usually
comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
– Henry David
Thoreau
“When a dog runs
at you, whistle for him”
– Henry David
Thoreau
“Goodness is the
only investment that never fails.”
– Henry David
Thoreau
“If your actions
inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a
leader.”
– John Quincy
Adams
“Each of us has a
spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that
spark in one another.”
– Kenny Ausubel
“What should young
people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring
thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of
loneliness can be cured.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“A man’s character
may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
– Mark Twain
“I’ve learned that
you shouldn’t go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.”
– Maya Angelou
“The world belongs
to the energetic.”
– Ralph Waldo
Emerson
“Enthusiasm is the
mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”
– Ralph Waldo
Emerson
“Do not be too
timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better.”
– Ralph Waldo
Emerson
“Few will have the
greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small
portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the
history of this generation.”
– Robert F.
Kennedy
“Each generation
goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the
shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve
ever known.”
– Ronald Reagan
“Find a need and
fill it.”
– Ruth Stafford
Peale
“We can always
live on less when we have more to live for.”
– S. Stephen
McKenney
“We must remember
that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small
group of determined people can change the course of history.”
– Sonia Johnson
“Far and away the
best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
– Theodore
Roosevelt
“Genius is one
percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
-Thomas Edison
“I’m a great
believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“Leaders are
people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.”
– Warren G. Bennis
sources from http://colleendilen.com
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