Because quotes regularly motivate and inspire us, I’ve compiled a list of 20 quotes (most of which I’ve never heard of before). I’ll let the quotes do the rest of the talking. Enjoy!
1. We are what we repeatedly do. Therefore excellence is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle
2. “Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain
3. “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
4. “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci
5. “Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” – E. Joseph Cossman
6. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
7. “I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I’d just been myself.” – Brittany Renée
8. “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore
9. “Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.” – Oscar Wilde
10. “The one who smiles rather than angers is always stronger.” – David Schary
11. “If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.” – Tom Krause
12. “Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.” – John Jakes
13. “To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.”
14. “We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, ‘Why did this happen to me?’ unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.”
15. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer
16. “What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
17. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Donald Laird
18. “Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things” – Frank A. Clark
19. “I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. I like that. I need to be hated.” – Howard Stern
20. “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean
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Ooh, I feel motivated now! Thanks!!!
Great list of quotes.
Nice list of quotes. Keep up the good work!
I love each and every one of these quotes. All so motivating. Thank you for this lovely lovely list.
You know, I am a sucker for good quotes..and i actually collect them.
People have a hobby of collecting coins or stamps….I collect quotes
Great list of quotes I really like “What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Hey guys! I’m glad everyone liked the quotes I put up.
@Zeenat That’s a pretty awesome hobby. Let me know if you find any more great ones
@Bunny Yes, that one really stuck out to me. It makes me want to get to work on something I’ve been putting off right now.
Hey John, I love great quotes, they are like powerful little capsules of wisdom. Good choices! Here’s one of mine, “Deciding who you want to be is more important then what you want to have. Work on the person and the rest will follow.”
I love that you always look for excellence and wisdom and that you share it with your readers.
@Jonathan Thanks! Hey I really like that quote. Like Zeenat, I guess I’m a quote collector too
@Erin Thank you very much, Erin
I just hoped you guys would find them as inspiring as I did.
Hey John, I LOVE quotes. Thanks for a great list. I’ll be tweeting some of them.
Oh great, no problem Stephen. I’m glad you like them. The quotes that you tweet are great too.
John you should havwe more than 146 readers.. some good stuff on this site
You hit my hot button. I have a UNIQUE quotes site called the Smile-Therapy Think Tank
http://smile-therapythinktank.blogspot.com/
#6.. makes you think about why are you only an option when the other is a priority.. unequal imbalance
#8. true.. get into action
#10 is awesome. got to be able to find the humor in ourselves and life. its a humble trait i think?
#11 got to reach. stretch or else you dont learn very much
#12 aka authenticism
great post JW
Tim S
@: zeenat can u email me some of the quotes u collect…i need to hear them..thank u