Below are some of my favorite quotes that I have collected over the years. Sometimes all it takes is a simple quote to give us the motivation, encouragement or inspiration to get through the day...Enjoy!

Inspirational

How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you
have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal.~ Coach Jim Valvano

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.~Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. ~Henry David Thoreau

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. ~Leon J. Suenes

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. ~Epictetus

Success

They can because they think they can. ~Virgil

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. ~Thomas Jefferson

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself. ~Theodore T. Hunger

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

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
~Frank Loyd Wright

Life  

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain. ~Anonymous

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. ~ Robert Frost

Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you. ~Anonymous

Today is the fist day of the rest of your life. ~Anonymous  

I can't change the world, but I can change the world in me. ~Bono (U2)

Dreams

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. ~Henry David Thoreau

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. ~Patrick Henry

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one. ~Henry D. Thoreau

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. ~Paul Valery

Personal Growth

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. ~Vince Lombardi

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else. ~Yogi Berra

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. ~Robert Cushing

Everyday do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow. ~Doug Firebaugh

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. ~L. A. Rouchefolicauld

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. ~Thomas Edison

 

Procrastination

You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over. ~Paul H. Dunn

Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today. ~English Proverb

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date. ~Anonymous

You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
~Professor Harold Hill (The Music Man)

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. ~Theodore Roosevelt

Fear of Failure

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. ~George Herman "Babe" Ruth

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
~Henry Ford

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard

Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~Oliver Goldsmith

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. ~Napoleon Bonaparte

Don’t Worry

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be much the more grateful. ~Horace

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable. ~Seneca

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. ~Albert Einstein

It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid. ~Publius Syrus

Time Management

You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. ~Charles Bruxton

I recommend you take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves. ~Earl of Chesterfield

A man who dares waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. ~Charles Darwin

Happiness

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. ~Helen Keller

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. ~Albert Schweitzer

Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul. ~Sir J. Stephen

Remember sadness is always temporary. This, too, shall pass. ~Chuck T. Falcon

Concern should drive us into action, not depression. ~Karen Horney