Best Famous Quotes

           

In this posting you will find my selection of the very best 60 quotes, from nearly a decade of collecting them. They range from the profound to the intriguing to the just plain funny.

One way or the other, you’ll surely find many of them to be thought-provoking and entertaining.



This selection is, of course, based solely on my personal taste (and even that varies largely from day to day according to my mood). You are welcome to browse the entire collection and look for your own favorite ones or contribute new quotes from your own personal collection.

Wisdom Quotes

1. You can do anything, but not everything.
—David Allen

2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

3. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
—Unknown Author

4. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
—Wayne Gretzky

5. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
—Ambrose Redmoon

6. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
—Gandhi

7. When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
—Lin-Chi

8. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
—A. A. Milne

9. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
—Abraham Maslow

10. We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
—Aristotle

11. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
—Baltasar Gracian

12. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
—Basho

13. Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
—Lao-Tze

14. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

15. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
—John Ruskin

16. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
—Marcel Proust

17. Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching
—Unknown Author

18. Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
—Virgil Garnett Thomson

19. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
—Will Rogers

20. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
—Zig Ziglar

                            Funny Quotes

21. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
—John Wilmot

22. What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
—Oscar Levant

23. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
—Oscar Wilde

24. I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller’s parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
—New York City detective

25. When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
—Norm Crosby

26. Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
—Kurt Vonnegut

27. Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
—Carl Sagan

28. My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
—Jean Rostand

29. Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
—Lily Tomlin

30. I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

—Richard Lewis

31. We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
—Robert Wilensky

32. If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
—Scott Adams

33. If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
—Anon

34. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
—Clarence Darrow

35. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.
—Cullen Hightower

36. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
—Cyril Connolly

37. There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
—Dick Cavett

38. All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
—H. L. Mencken

39. I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
—Victor Hugo

40. I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
—Woody Allen

Otherwise Intelligent Quotes

41. The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
—Albert Einstein

42. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
—André Gide

43. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
—Aristotle

44. I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.
—Aryeh Frimer

45. We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.
—Bill Vaughan

46. I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
—Blaise Pascal

47. Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.
—Cale Yarborough

48. An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.
—Charles F. Kettering

49. Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
—Christopher Hampton

50. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
—Cyril Connolly

51. Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
—Dame Edna Everage

52. I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
—Edith Sitwell

53. Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
—Ellen Goodman

54. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
—Ellen Parr

55. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
—Erica Jong

56. Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
—Gordon R. Dickson

57. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
—Lily Tomlin

58. Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.
—Napoleon (Hanlon’s Razor)

59. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
—Oscar Wilde

60. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
—Thomas Szasz

Love Poems

Short Sweet Love Poems

A love poem will not always be long and flowery. Sometimes what you need to say can be very short. In fact it may be the fact that the poem is short that makes it special. Its short length may show that you put the time and effort in to make every word count. You considered carefully every word choice. Every word choice has a reason behind it. A short poem can be the ultimate act of romance when it is given the time and effort that it deserves.

1.Never Seek To Tell Thy Love - Poem by William Blake

Never seek to tell thy love 
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.

I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart,
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears--
Ah, she doth depart.

Soon as she was gone from me
A traveller came by
Silently, invisibly--
O, was no deny. 

2.How Do I Love Thee? - Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height 
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight 
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. 
I love thee to the level of every day's 
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. 
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; 
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. 
I love with a passion put to use 
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. 
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose 
With my lost saints, -- I love thee with the breath, 
Smiles, tears, of all my life! -- and, if God choose, 
I shall but love thee better after death.

3.Another Way Of Love - Poem by Robert Browning

I.

June was not over
Though past the fall,
And the best of her roses
Had yet to blow,
When a man I know
(But shall not discover,
Since ears are dull,
And time discloses)
Turned him and said with a man's true air,
Half sighing a smile in a yawn, as 'twere,---
``If I tire of your June, will she greatly care?''

II.

Well, dear, in-doors with you!
True! serene deadness
Tries a man's temper.
What's in the blossom
June wears on her bosom?
Can it clear scores with you?
Sweetness and redness.
_Eadem semper!_
Go, let me care for it greatly or slightly!
If June mend her bower now, your hand left unsightly
By plucking the roses,---my June will do rightly. 

III.

And after, for pastime,
If June be refulgent
With flowers in completeness,
All petals, no prickles,
Delicious as trickles
Of wine poured at mass-time,---
And choose One indulgent
To redness and sweetness:
Or if, with experience of man and of spider,
June use my June-lightning, the strong insect-ridder,
And stop the fresh film-work,---why, June will consider. 

4.Love Among The Ruins - Poem by Robert Browning

I.

Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles,
Miles and miles
On the solitary pastures where our sheep
Half-asleep
Tinkle homeward thro' the twilight, stray or stop
As they crop---
Was the site once of a city great and gay,
(So they say)
Of our country's very capital, its prince
Ages since
Held his court in, gathered councils, wielding far
Peace or war.

II.

Now,---the country does not even boast a tree,
As you see,
To distinguish slopes of verdure, certain rills
From the hills
Intersect and give a name to, (else they run
Into one)
Where the domed and daring palace shot its spires
Up like fires
O'er the hundred-gated circuit of a wall
Bounding all,
Made of marble, men might march on nor be pressed,
Twelve abreast.

III.

And such plenty and perfection, see, of grass
Never was!
Such a carpet as, this summer-time, o'erspreads
And embeds
Every vestige of the city, guessed alone,
Stock or stone---
Where a multitude of men breathed joy and woe
Long ago;
Lust of glory pricked their hearts up, dread of shame
Struck them tame;
And that glory and that shame alike, the gold
Bought and sold.

IV.

Now,---the single little turret that remains
On the plains,
By the caper overrooted, by the gourd
Overscored,
While the patching houseleek's head of blossom winks
Through the chinks---
Marks the basement whence a tower in ancient time
Sprang sublime,
And a burning ring, all round, the chariots traced
As they raced,
And the monarch and his minions and his dames
Viewed the games.

V.

And I know, while thus the quiet-coloured eve
Smiles to leave
To their folding, all our many-tinkling fleece
In such peace,
And the slopes and rills in undistinguished grey
Melt away---
That a girl with eager eyes and yellow hair
Waits me there
In the turret whence the charioteers caught soul
For the goal,
When the king looked, where she looks now, breathless, dumb
Till I come.

VI.

But he looked upon the city, every side,
Far and wide,
All the mountains topped with temples, all the glades'
Colonnades,
All the causeys, bridges, aqueducts,---and then,
All the men!
When I do come, she will speak not, she will stand,
Either hand
On my shoulder, give her eyes the first embrace
Of my face,
Ere we rush, ere we extinguish sight and speech
Each on each.

VII.

In one year they sent a million fighters forth
South and North,
And they built their gods a brazen pillar high
As the sky,
Yet reserved a thousand chariots in full force---
Gold, of course.
Oh heart! oh blood that freezes, blood that burns!
Earth's returns
For whole centuries of folly, noise and sin!
Shut them in,
With their triumphs and their glories and the rest!
Love is best. 

5.Love In A Life - Poem by Robert Browning

I.

Room after room,
I hunt the house through
We inhabit together.
Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her---
Next time, herself!---not the trouble behind her
Left in the curtain, the couch's perfume!
As she brushed it, the cornice-wreath blossomed anew:
Yon looking-glass gleaned at the wave of her feather.

II.

Yet the day wears,
And door succeeds door;
I try the fresh fortune---
Range the wide house from the wing to the centre.
Still the same chance! She goes out as I enter.
Spend my whole day in the quest,---who cares?
But 'tis twilight, you see,---with such suites to explore,
Such closets to search, such alcoves to importune! 

6.One Way Of Love - Poem by Robert Browning

All June I bound the rose in sheaves. 
Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves
And strew them where Pauline may pass.
She will not turn aside? Alas!
Let them lie. Suppose they die?
The chance was they might take her eye.

II.

How many a month I strove to suit
These stubborn fingers to the lute!
To-day I venture all I know.
She will not hear my music? So!
Break the string; fold music's wing:
Suppose Pauline had bade me sing!

III.

My whole life long I learned to love.
This hour my utmost art I prove
And speak my passion---heaven or hell?
She will not give me heaven? 'Tis well!
Lose who may---I still can say,
Those who win heaven, blest are they! 

7.A Poets's Welcome To His Love-Begotten Daughter - Poem by Robert Burns

Thou's welcome, wean; mishanter fa' me, 
If thoughts o' thee, or yet thy mammie, 
Shall ever daunton me or awe me, 
My sweet wee lady, 
Or if I blush when thou shalt ca' me 
Tyta or daddie. 

Tho' now they ca' me fornicator, 
An' tease my name in countra clatter, 
The mair they talk, I'm kend the better, 
E'en let them clash; 
An auld wife's tongue's a feckless matter 
To gie ane fash. 

Welcome! my bonie, sweet, wee dochter, 
Tho' ye come here a wee unsought for, 
And tho' your comin' I hae fought for, 
Baith kirk and queir; 
Yet, by my faith, ye're no unwrought for, 
That I shall swear! 

Sweet fruit o' monie a merry dint, 
My funny toil is no a' tint, 
Tho' thou cam to the warl' asklent, 
Which fools may scoff at; 
In my last plack thy part's be in't 
The better ha'f o't. 

Tho' I should be the waur bestead, 
Thou's be as braw and bienly clad, 
And thy young years as nicely bred 
Wi' education, 
As onie brat o' wedlock's bed, 
In a' thy station. 

Wee image o' my bonie Betty, 
As fatherly I kiss and daut thee, 
As dear and near my heart I set thee 
Wi' as gude will 
As a' the priests had seen me get thee 
That's out o' hell. 

Lord grant that thou may aye inherit 
Thy mither's person, grace, an' merit, 
An' thy poor, worthless daddy's spirit, 
Without his failins, 
'Twill please me mair to see thee heir it, 
Than stockit mailens. 

For if thou be what I wad hae thee, 
And tak the counsel I shall gie thee, 
I'll never rue my trouble wi' thee - 
The cost nor shame o't, 
But be a loving father to thee, 
And brag the name o't. 

8.Love - Poem by Charles Stuart Calverley

1 Canst thou love me, lady?
2 I've not learn'd to woo:
3 Thou art on the shady
4 Side of sixty too.
5 Still I love thee dearly!
6 Thou hast lands and pelf:
7 But I love thee merely
8 Merely for thyself.

9 Wilt thou love me, fairest?
10 Though thou art not fair;
11 And I think thou wearest
12 Someone-else's hair.
13 Thou could'st love, though, dearly:
14 And, as I am told,
15 Thou art very nearly
16 Worth thy weight, in gold.

17 Dost thou love me, sweet love?
18 Tell me that thou dost!
19 Women fairly beat one,
20 But I think thou must.
21 Thou art loved so dearly:
22 I am plain, but then
23 Thou (to speak sincerely)
24 Art as plain again.

25 Love me, bashful fairy!
26 I've an empty purse:
27 And I've 'moods,' which vary;
28 Mostly for the worse.
29 Still, I love thee dearly:
30 Though I make (I feel)
31 Love a little queerly,
32 I'm as true as steel.

33 Love me, swear to love me
34 (As, you know, they do)
35 By yon heaven above me
36 And its changeless blue.
37 Love me, lady, dearly,
38 If you'll be so good;
39 Though I don't see clearly
40 On what ground you should.

41 Love me -- ah or love me
42 Not, but be my bride!
43 Do not simply shove me
44 (So to speak) aside!
45 P'raps it would be dearly
46 Purchased at the price;
47 But a hundred yearly
48 Would be very nice. 

9.Duty Surviving Self-Love - Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Unchanged within, to see all changed without,
Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt.
Yet why at others' Wanings should'st thou fret ?
Then only might'st thou feel a just regret,
Hadst thou withheld thy love or hid thy light
In selfish forethought of neglect and slight.
O wiselier then, from feeble yearnings freed,
While, and on whom, thou may'st--shine on ! nor heed
Whether the object by reflected light
Return thy radiance or absorb it quite :
And tho' thou notest from thy safe recess
Old Friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air,
Love them for what they are ; nor love them less,
Because to thee they are not what they were. 

10.Love - Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame.

Oft in my waking dreams do I
Live o'er again that happy hour,
When midway on the mount I lay,
Beside the ruined tower.

The moonshine, stealing o'er the scene
Had blended with the lights of eve ;
And she was there, my hope, my joy,
My own dear Genevieve !

She leant against the arméd man,
The statue of the arméd knight ;
She stood and listened to my lay,
Amid the lingering light.

Few sorrows hath she of her own,
My hope ! my joy ! my Genevieve !
She loves me best, whene'er I sing
The songs that make her grieve.

I played a soft and doleful air,
I sang an old and moving story--
An old rude song, that suited well
That ruin wild and hoary.

She listened with a flitting blush,
With downcast eyes and modest grace ;
For well she know, I could not choose
But gaze upon her face.

I told her of the Knight that wore
Upon his shield a burning brand ;
And that for ten long years he wooed
The Lady of the Land.

I told her how he pined : and ah !
The deep, the low, the pleading tone
With which I sang another's love,
Interpreted my own.

She listened with a flitting blush,
With downcast eyes, and modest grace ;
And she forgave me, that I gazed
Too fondly on her face !

But when I told the cruel scorn
That crazed that bold and lovely Knight,
And that he crossed the mountain-woods,
Nor rested day nor night ;

That sometimes from the savage den,
And sometimes from the darksome shade,
And sometimes starting up at once
In green and sunny glade,--

There came and looked him in the face
An angel beautiful and bright ;
And that he knew it was a Fiend,
This miserable Knight !

And that unknowing what he did,
He leaped amid a murderous band,
And saved from outrage worse than death
The Lady of the Land !

And how she wept, and clasped his knees ;
And how she tended him in vain--
And ever strove to expiate
The scorn that crazed his brain ;--

And that she nursed him in a cave ;
And how his madness went away,
When on the yellow forest-leaves
A dying man he lay ;--

His dying words--but when I reached
That tenderest strain of all the ditty,
My faultering voice and pausing harp
Disturbed her soul with pity !

All impulses of soul and sense
Had thrilled my guileless Genevieve ;
The music and the doleful tale,
The rich and balmy eve ;

And hopes, and fears that kindle hope,
An undistinguishable throng,
And gentle wishes long subdued,
Subdued and cherished long !

She wept with pity and delight,
She blushed with love, and virgin-shame ;
And like the murmur of a dream,
I heard her breathe my name.

Her bosom heaved--she stepped aside,
As conscious of my look she stepped--
The suddenly, with timorous eye
She fled to me and wept.

She half enclosed me with her arms,
She pressed me with a meek embrace ;
And bending back her head, looked up,
And gazed upon my face.

'Twas partly love, and partly fear,
And partly 'twas a bashful art,
That I might rather feel, than see,
The swelling of her heart.

I calmed her fears, and she was calm,
And told her love with virgin pride ;
And so I won my Genevieve,
My bright and beauteous Bride.

Motivational Quotes

100 Motivational Quotes That Will Inspire You to Succeed

Everyone needs some inspiration,  design inspiration, and these motivational quotes will give you the edge you need to create your success. So read on and let them inspire you.

As entrepreneurs, leaders, managers, and bosses, we must realize that everything we think actually matters. If we are seeking success, we must think successful, inspiring, and motivating thoughts.

Read on to find the words of wisdom that will motivate you in building your business,leading your life, creating success, achieving your goals, and overcoming your fears.

100 Motivational Quotes That Will Inspire Your Success:

1. "If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission." --Anonymous

2. "Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out." --John Wooden

3. "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." --Anonymous

4. "If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary." --Jim Rohn

5. "Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it's safe or certain." --Anonymous

6. "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life--think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success." --Swami Vivekananda

7. "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." --Walt Disney

8. "Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them." --Anonymous

9. "If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got." --Anonymous

10. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

11. "Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly." --Proverb

12. "Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy." --Anonymous

13. "Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them." --Vaibhav Shah

14. "Opportunities don't happen, you create them." --Chris Grosser

15. "Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value." --Albert Einstein

16. "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." --Eleanor Roosevelt

17. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas A. Edison

18. "If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents--start charging for it." --Kim Garst

19. "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." --David Brinkley

20. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." --Eleanor Roosevelt

21. "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it." --Henry Ford

22. "If you're going through hell keep going." --Winston Churchill

23. "The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." --Anonymous

24. "Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." --Anonymous

25. "What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." --Oscar Wilde

26. "The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." --Anonymous

27. "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." --Bruce Feirstein

28. "When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you." --Lolly Daskal

29. "I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams." --Oprah Winfrey

30. "No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist." --Anonymous

31. "Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." --Nathaniel Hawthorne

32. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." --Albert Einstein

33. "Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting." --Anonymous

34. "Do one thing every day that scares you." --Anonymous

35. "What's the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable." --Anonymous

36. "Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." --Lolly Daskal

37. "Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent." --Anonymous

38. "Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it." --Anonymous

39. "Your problem isn't the problem. Your reaction is the problem." --Anonymous

40. "You can do anything, but not everything. --Anonymous

41. "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." --Steve Jobs

42. "There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed." --Ray Goforth

43. "Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life." --A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

44. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." --Thomas Jefferson

45. "The starting point of all achievement is desire." --Napoleon Hill

46. "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out." --Robert Collier

47. "If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work." --Thomas J. Watson

48. "All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." --Michael John Bobak

49. "You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing." --Philippos

50. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." --Mark Twain

51. "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." --Pablo Picasso

52. "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing--that's why we recommend it daily." --Zig Ziglar

53. "We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret." --Earl Nightingale

54. "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." --Vidal Sassoon

55. "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. " --Les Brown

56. "I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing." --Martha Stewart

57. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." --Anonymous

58. "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." --Colin R. Davis

59. "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." --Ralph Nader

60. "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." --Maya Angelou

61. "As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." --Bill Gates

62. "A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them." --Henry Kravis

63. "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." --Mark Caine

64. "People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy." --Tony Robbins

65. "When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." --Audre Lorde

66. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." --Mark Twain

67. "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." --Bruce Lee

68. "There is no traffic jam along the extra mile." --Roger Staubach

69. "Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." --Dale Carnegie

70. "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

71. "If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it--teach yourself to be impatient." --Gurbaksh Chahal

72. "Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning." --Robert Kiyosaki

73. "If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!" --T. Harv Eker

74. "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." --Steve Jobs

75. "Two roads diverged in a wood and I  took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference." --Robert Frost

76. "The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors." --Napoleon Hill

77. "The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them." --Denis Waitley

78. "In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it." --Jane Smiley

79. "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." --George Bernard Shaw

80. "I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." --Diane Ackerman

81. "You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." --Michael Jordan

82. "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." --Jim Ryun

83. "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." --Dale Carnegie

84. "There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul." --Ella Wheeler Wilcox

85. "Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter." --Francis Chan

86. "You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." --George Lorimer

87. "A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at." -- Bruce Lee

88. "Success is ... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others." --John C. Maxwell

89. "Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." --Wayne Dyer

90. "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe." --Anatole France

91. "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all." --Dale Carnegie

92. "You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals." --Booker T. Washington

93. "Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." --Theodore N. Vail

94. "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." --Herman Melville

95. "What would you do if you weren't afraid." --Spencer Johnson

96. "Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it." --Washington Irving

97. "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." --Truman Capote

98. "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." --John R. Wooden

99. "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." --Margaret Thatcher

100. "A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done." --Vince Lombardi

As we read these thoughts, know they are sources of guidance in times of need, they can give us inspiration in times of struggle, they can motivate us in times of tribulations--success is not final and failure is not forever:

It is the motivation we to choose that matters most.