100 of my favorite inspirational quotes

Inspire yourself by reading some or all of my favorite inspirational quotes:

1. Small opportunities are often the beginnings of great enterprises - Demosthenes
2. Perserverance and determination alone are omnipotent - President Calvin Coolidge
3. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success - Elbert Hubbard
4. Men succeed when they realise that their failures are the preparation for their victories - Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm - Charles Schwab
6. I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works - Alexandre Dumas
7. We ourselves must walk the path - Buddha
8. The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well - John D. Rockefeller
9. The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work - Sarah Knowles Bolton
10. Talk doesn't cook the rice - Chinese Proverb
11. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit - Aristotle
12. If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes - Andrew Carnegie
13. The ancestor of every action is a thought - Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for - Socrates
15. Opportunites multiply as they are seized - Sun Tzu
16. Reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. Self-discipline with all of them came first - Harry S. Truman
17. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life - Confucius
18. Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
19. The King is the man who can - Thomas Carlyle
20. Men are born to succeed, not fail - Henry David Thoreau
21. There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it? - Kin Hubbard
22. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up - Thomas A. Edison
23. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for - Oscar Wilde
24. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain - Helena Petrova Blavatsky
25. You will find the key to success under the alarm clock - Benjamin Franklin
26. If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory - William Hazlitt
27. Men freely believe that which they desire - Julius Caesar
28. Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind - Leonardo da Vinci
29. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work - Aristotle
30. Success produces confidence - Ben Jonson
31. You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club - Jack London
32. Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration - Thomas A. Edison
33. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds - Sir Francis Bacon
34. What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims… - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
35. Success… cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work - Anna Pavlova
36. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work - Thomas Edison
37. If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants - Isaac Newton
38. Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action - Benjamin Disraeli
39. Victory belongs to the most perservering - Napoleon
40. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams... he will meet with success unexpected in common hours - Henry David Thoreau
41. What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise - Oscar Wilde
42. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal - Thomas Jefferson
43. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective... - Aristotle
44. In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high - Henry David Thoreau
45. The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do - James Allen
46. All that we are is the result of what we have thought - Buddha
47. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph - Thomas Paine
48. There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control  the firm resolve of a determined soul - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
49. Our strength grows out of our weaknesses - Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance - Confucius
51. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication - Leonardo da Vinci
52. If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there - Lewis Carroll
53. Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish - Jean de La Fontaine
54. None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to the whisper which is heard by him alone - Ralph Waldo Emerson
55. Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense - Buddha
56. Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library - Henri Frederic Amiel
57. Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment - Thomas Carlyle
58. Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fail - Oliver Goldsmith
59. If I had eight hours to cut down a big tree, I'd spend 6 hours sharpening the axe - Abraham Lincoln
60. Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door - Emily Dickinson
61. Out of difficulties grow miracles - Jean de la Bruyere
62. The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time - Abraham Lincoln
63. Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake - Henry David Thoreau
64. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
65. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant - Robert Louis Stevenson
66. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning - Benjamin Franklin
67. The heights of great men reached… were not attained by sudden flight, but while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
68. Winners never quit and quitters never win - Anon.
69. Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born - Seneca 
70. The secret of success is consistency of purpose - Benjamin Disraeli
71. ...the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love - Henry Drummond
72. You have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself - Leonardo da Vinci
73. When... it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn - Harriet Beecher Stowe
74. It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome - William James
75. The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people - Theodore Roosevelt
76. The first and the best victory is to conquer self - Plato
77. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music - Mary Anne Evans
78. A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step - Ancient Chinese Proverb
79. This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication - Western Union internal memo 1876
80. Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have - Woodrow T. Wilson
81. Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline - Mary Anne Evans
82. The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind - William James
83. ...the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them - Lord Chesterfield
84. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm - Ralph Waldo Emerson
85. Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings - Samuel Johnson
86. … today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow - Harriet Martineau
87. … remember what you now have was once among the things only hoped for - Epicurus
88. I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature - John D. Rockefeller
89. There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing - Kahil Gibran
90. That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well - Abraham Lincoln
91. Know what you want to do... and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal - Elbert Hubbard
92. You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction - George Lorimer
93. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better world - Anatole France
94. Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes - Buddha
95. The virtue of deeds lies in completing them - Arabian Proverb
96. All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim... one which sometimes seemed impossible - Orison Swett Marden
97. Patience and perserverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish - John Quincy Adams
98. Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor - John Milton
99. To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first - William Shakespeare
100. He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor - Menander of Athens

I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did!!!

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