List of Great / Inspirational Quotes

153 of my personal favourites which you may find of value:

  1. Imagination rules the world – Napoleon Bonaparte
  2. Either you control fear or fear controls you – Sam King
  3. A drop of honey attracts more flies than a gallon of gall – Abraham Lincoln
  4. If you risk nothing, then you risk everything – Geena Davis
  5. Why is the only real source of power, without it you are powerless – The Merovingian
  6. The same wall that keeps out disappointment keeps out happiness – Jim Rohn
  7. There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge – Napoleon Hill
  8. You see, there is only one constant; one universal; it is the only real truth: causality – action, reaction; cause, and effect. – The Merovingian
  9. We will either find a way or make one – Hannibal
  10. There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction – John F. Kennedy
  11. Everything is testing – Sam King
  12. He who walks with the wise grows wise – Proverbs 13:20
  13. First we make our habits, then our habits make us – Charles C. Noble
  14. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all – Oscar Wilde
  15. Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest – Napoleon Bonaparte
  16. Either you run the day or the day runs you – Jim Rohn
  17. The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage – Thucydides
  18. The truth is generally seen, rarely heard – Baltasar Gracian
  19. Win through your actions, never through argument – Robert Greene
  20. “I’ll write a letter a week, they can’t ignore me forever” — “Please stop sending us letters!”
  21. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  22. The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead – Aristotle
  23. Most people are so stupid they don’t know they’re stupid – Sam King
  24. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken – Oscar Wilde
  25. If you fear no more than yes it’s unlikely you’ll achieve success – Sam King
  26. Success is where preparation and opportunity meet – Bobby Unser
  27. If you’re not living on the edge you’re taking up too much room – Anonymous
  28. If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm – Vince Lombardi
  29. Neatness rejects involvement – Lewis M. Smith
  30. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today – Thomas Jefferson
  31. I would rather have a good plan today than a perfect plan two weeks from now – General George S. Patton
  32. He who persists shall conquer – Ancient Greek proverb
  33. Life is a checkerboard and the player opposite you is time – Napoleon Hill
  34. The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they’re too heavy to be broken – Warren Buffett
  35. Good words are worth much and cost little – George Herbert
  36. 77% of statistics are made up – Anonymous
  37. I may not know what the future holds – but I know who holds the future – Lou Holtz
  38. Shallow men believe in luck; strong men believe in cause and effect – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  39. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent – Eleanor Roosevelt
  40. We are bound by nothing except belief – Ernest Holmes
  41. You do not have because you do not ask – James 4:2
  42. Success is the greatest revenge of all. There is nothing you can say or do that will irritate your detractors more – Bill Bartmann
  43. By failing to prepare – you are preparing to fail – Benjamin Franklin
  44. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eye off your goals – Anonymous
  45. Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right! – Henry Ford
  46. Most people are so closed-minded they deny they’re closed-minded – Sam King
  47. If you want something you’ve never had, you have to do something you’ve never done – Mike Murdock
  48. A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm – Charles Schwab
  49. The impossible: what nobody can do – until somebody does – Anonymous
  50. Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration – Thomas Edison
  51. Dreams don’t work unless you do – Peter Daniels
  52. Everyone wants you to be successful – just not more successful than they are – Larry Winget
  53. The secret of success is to go from failure to failure without any loss of enthusiasm – Sir Winston Churchill
  54. If you don’t understand the law of c and e, you’re going to end up in a and e – Sam King
  55. Don’t let your results dictate your thinking, let your thinking dictate your results – Sam King
  56. God is in the details – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  57. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no – Nora Roberts
  58. I don’t have thoughts, I have tests – Jay Abraham
  59. If you want to be rich just find out what everyone else is doing and do exactly the opposite – Robert T. Kiyosaki
  60. In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. – Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
  61. Cleverness has never been associated with long delays – Sun Tzu
  62. If you’re going through hell – keep going – Sir Winston Churchill
  63. No matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides – Baruch Spinoza
  64. Failure is an attitude, not an outcome – Harvey MacKay
  65. The purpose of life is a life of purpose – Richard Byrne
  66. Don’t wish it was easier – wish you were tougher – Jim Rohn
  67. A jug fills drop by drop – The Buddha
  68. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs – Henry Ford
  69. Only dead fish go with the flow – Anonymous
  70. My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there – Charles Kettering
  71. Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. – Marilyn vos Savant
  72. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so – William Shakespeare
  73. Change your thoughts and you change your world – Norman Vincent Peale
  74. There’s no time like the present – Anonymous
  75. Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives – Napoleon Hill
  76. Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it – Napoleon Hill
  77. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness – Napoleon Hill
  78. Remember that your real wealth can be measured not by what you have, but by what you are – Napoleon Hill
  79. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go – T. S. Eliot
  80. Persistence beats resistance – Anonymous
  81. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely – John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
  82. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king – Desiderius Erasmus
  83. People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it – Chinese Proverb
  84. A person without knowledge is in a world without light – Baltasar Gracian
  85. A fine retreat is as good as a gallant attack – Baltasar Gracian
  86. Win the crowd and you will win your freedom – Proximo
  87. Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it – Albert Camus
  88. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  89. Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  90. FEAR is an acronym in the English language for “False Evidence Appearing Real” – Neale Donald Walsch
  91. Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority – Elbert Hubbard
  92. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it – Anonymous
  93. Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
    Watch your words, for they become actions.
    Watch your actions, for they become habits.
    Watch your habits, for they become character.
    Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
    - Anonymous
  94. Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in – Napoleon Bonaparte
  95. Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it – Jules Renard
  96. The ancestor of every action is a thought – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  97. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Rohn
  98. Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something – Plato
  99. A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion – Chinese Proverb
  100. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go – Oscar Wilde
  101. Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose – Tom Krause
  102. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Herman Cain
  103. You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. – Albert Einstein
  104. Success comes in cans; failure in cant’s – Anonymous
  105. For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? – James Allen
  106. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude – Zig Ziglar
  107. Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. – Anonymous
  108. To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. – Brandi Snyder
  109. Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families – Anonymous
  110. True friendship isn’t about being there when it’s convenient; it’s about being there when it’s not. – Anonymous
  111. One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching – Anonymous
  112. The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do – Walter Bagehot
  113. If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were. – Anonymous
  114. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat – Lily Tomlin
  115. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes time and annoys the pig. – Unknown
  116. Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist – Unknown
  117. You miss 100% of the shots you never take – Wayne Gretzky
  118. Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. – James Byrant Conant
  119. If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of mortgage payments
  120. Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls-Royce to get advice from those who take the subway – Warren Buffett
  121. The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket – Elbert Hubbard
  122. To know and not to do is not yet to know – Zen saying
  123. Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. This is not a catchy slogan. It is the very essence of successful investment. – J. Paul Getty
  124. The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  125. My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil. – J. Paul Getty
  126. I don’t think I’ll get married again. I’ll just find a woman I don’t like and give her a house. – Lewis Grizzard
  127. For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope. – Albert Einstein
  128. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain – Mark Twain
  129. It’s only when the tide goes out that you can see who’s swimming naked – Warren Buffett
  130. I’d rather have 1 percent of the efforts of 100 people than 100 percent of my own efforts – J. Paul Getty
  131. A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books – Chinese Proverb
  132. I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary condition. – Mike Todd
  133. Discontent is the first necessity of progress – Thomas Edison
  134. Father to son: get a job. Work. Save your money. Soon, you’ll have enough to stop working. Son: but, I’m not working now.
  135. The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell – Andrew Carnegie
  136. If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all – Michelangelo
  137. You may ask me for anything you like except time – Napoleon I
  138. Man who chases two rabbits loses both – Chinese Proverb
  139. Conventional wisdom isn’t wisdom, it’s just conventional – Dan Pena
  140. Either you’re in or you’re in the way – Anonymous
  141. The road to success is always under construction – Lily Tomlin
  142. There’s only one thing I can’t do – nothing!
  143. Do it right away – instead of doing it absolutely right – Dan Pena
  144. I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious – Vince Lombardi
  145. If the niggas hate then let ‘em hate, watch the money pile up – 50 cent
  146. No fears. No limits. No regrets. – Sam King
  147. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people – Eleanor Roosevelt
  148. Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. – Jim Rohn
  149. After all is said and done, more is said than done – Anonymous
  150. Sometimes they say ‘yes’, sometimes they say ‘no’… but if you don’t ask, you don’t know – Sam King
  151. We’re all self-made, but only the successful will admit it – Earl Nightingale
  152. You’re born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you’re up in the rarefied atmosphere and you’ve forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake son. – Eddie Temple
  153. The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it. - Morpheus