Quotes to Inspire and Motivate

Here are some of my favorite quotes.

"Think for yourself.
No one else is qualified."
 - Frank Vizarre

"There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become"
 - Orson Swett Marden

"On Earth, we can will and create almost anything we wish, but real fulfillment comes only when we first tune into our inner direction and divine guidance.  In this sense, we become co-creators with the divine source."  - James Redfield

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God.  Your playing small does not serve the world.  There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.  We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.  It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone.  As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.  As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others."  -  Marianne Williamson,  as used in the Nelson Mandella Inaugural Address 1995.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery... today is a gift.
                             - Eleanor Roosevelt                            

"There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen."
    - Hugh Prather

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke

"The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand at times of challenge and controversy."  - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate." – George Burns

"Winners never quit and quitters never win."
    - Vince Lombardi

"Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right." – Horace J. Brown

"It’s a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." – W. Somerset Maugham

"Champions keep playing until they get it right." – Billie Jean King

'I asked, "Why doesn't somebody do something?" then I realized I was somebody.' - unknown

"I can eat an elephant if I take small bites." – Rita Dove

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude." - William James

"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life." - Alfred D’Souza

"No one can possibly know what is about to happen; it is happening each time, for the first time, for the only time." - James Baldwin (1924 – 1987)

"Children have more need of models than of critics." - Carolyn Coats

"The word impossible is not in my dictionary." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial." - Richard Ben Sapir

"Keep ascending the mountain of cheerfulness by daily scattering seeds of kindness along the way as best you can, and, should mists hide the mountaintop, continue undaunted and you will reach the sun-tipped heights in your own life-experience." - unknown
 

Quotes are compiled by Neal  and credits are listed when known.