Motivational Quotes
Personal Growth QuotesWhat is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live / with your self-respect alive and growing. - Maxwell Maltz Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly. -Marquise du Deffand Energy and persistence conquer all things. - Benjamin Franklin Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. Mark Victor Hansen If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. - Thomas Edison It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again. - Charles F. Kettering People need encouragement to take action. - Joe Vitale I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. - Anna Freud No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. - Alice Walker Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Norman Vincent Peale No one can make you feel inferior without your consent - Eleanor Roosevelt God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it. - Mother Teresa If we habitually focus on how to improve things that are already great, can you see how this spirit can transform ourselves, our organizations, families and communities. Tony Robbins Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. - Peter Marshall Just go out there and do what you've got to do. - Martina Navratilova Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. -Peter Drucker Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie Whatever good things we build end up building us. - Jim Rohn If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. - Muhammed Ali
DoubtIf you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. - Napoleon Hill Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. - Albert Schweitzer Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. -Kahlil Gibran Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. - George Iles Doubt is the father of invention. - Galileo Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself. - Tom Hopkins Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. -Colton Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. - Christian N. Bovee If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. - Francis Bacon If doubt is challenging you and you do not act, doubts will grow. Challenge the doubts with action and you will grow. Doubt and action are incompatible. - John Kanary If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalyn Carter It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. - John Burroughs Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Coaching QuotesNo man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself."
- Conrado I. Generoso
"My mentor said, ‘Let's go do it,´ not ‘You go do it.´ How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!'" - Jim Rohn If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results. - Tony Robbins No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. - Brian Tracy Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire." - Christian Nevell Bovee No one can teach you that which they have not done. Beware of who you choose to learn from. - Tom Hopkins That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward Apprentice for two years to a great, inspiring leader who'll mentor and teach you. Execute his or her requests with excellence and elegance. Meet and befriend all his or her friends, associates, bankers, clients, suppliers and actively keep them in your own Rolodex. - Mark Victor Hansen Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. - Harold S. Geneen To teach is to learn twice. - Joseph Joubert Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right. - Hannah Whitall Smith You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb himself. - Andrew Carnegie A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be. - Tom Landry
Change QuotesTo exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. - Henri Bergson Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. - Nelson Mandela We must be the change we wish to see. - Mahatma Ghandi If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. - Wayne Dyer Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them. - Henry Steele Commager There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. - Aldous Huxley They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. - Denis Waitley It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw You really can change the world if you care enough. - Marian Wright Edelman If you don't like the way the world is, you change it.You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. - Marian Wright Edelman It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to. - Marilyn Ferguson The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become. - W.E.B. Du Bois There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. -Washington Irving We know what we are, but know not what we may be. - William Shakespeare If you want to make enemies, try to change something. - Woodrow Wilson Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. - Aristotle Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Energy and persistence conquer all things. - Benjamin Franklin If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison Insist on yourself. Never imitate. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Heaven never helps the man who will not act. - Sophocles Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant. - Stephen Sigmund 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 The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. - Vince Lombardi Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. - Socrates People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. - Oliver Goldsmith Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Wisdom QuotesThinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it. - Henry Ford Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away. - Earl Nightingale Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. -Robert Stevenson Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. Zig Ziglar My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. - Clarence B. Kelland Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. - Denis Waitley The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now. - Bill Cosby Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition. - George Clason Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. Norman Vincent Peale The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. - Solomon Ibn Gabriol The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. - Thomas Huxley How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking. David Schwartz A wise man learns by the mistakes of others,a fool by his own. - Latin Proverb The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. - William Hazlitt One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little. - Alexander Chase The man of wisdom is never of two minds;the man of benevolence never worries;the man of courage is never afraid. - Confucius Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. - Garrison Keillor You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. -James Allen You can't have everything... where would you put it?- Stephen Wright I am a big believer in the 'mirror test'. All that mattersis if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell theperson you see there, that you've done your best. - John McKay Most people seem to want tremendous improvement, instantly. But you’ll probably find it’s the little things you do that eventually add up to big results. - Joel Weldon When we have done our best, we should await the result in peace. - J Lubbock We don’t stop playing because we are old; we are old because we stopped playing. - George Bernard Shaw The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Jackson Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? - Abraham Lincoln
Life QuotesI absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works. Ken Blanchard Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller Life is a marathon, it's not a sprint. Dr. Phil McGraw Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. - Thomas Fuller It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy.Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough. Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live.Resistance never really succeeds.Controlling the flow of life is impossible. - Deepak Chopra Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson he whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it. - Plutarch There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. - Rainer Maria Rilke I’m in a relationship with life. My life is just out there. I’m on the road every day. I love my life. Suze Orman To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. - Samuel Butler Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. - Earl Nightingale Life is a pure flame,and we live by an invisible sun within us. - Sir Thomas Brown People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. Eleanor Roosevelt If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth. - Mitsugi Saotome Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. Denis Waitley Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter F. Drucker The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing. - Nancy Astor Life is a progress, and not a station. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success QuotesNothing 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 Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. Zig Ziglar 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 Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. - Maxwell Maltz The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. - Frank Loyd Wright A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. - Elbert Hubbard Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe. Norman Vincent Peale I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is:Try to please everybody. - Herbert Bayard Swope Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. - Josh Billings The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. - Earl of Beaconsfield Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people. David Schwartz
Motivation QuotesIf you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. - St. Clement of Alexandra 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 People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar High self-esteem isn't a luxury. It's a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve. - Jack Canfield Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William B. Sprague We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. - Voltaire Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand. - Robert G. Allen Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. - Benjamin Disraeli Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson Give the world your best and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway. - Mother Teresa It's the little things you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness. Bob Proctor
Habit QuotesHabit is second nature, or rather, ten times nature.William James Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. Spanish Proverb To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. - Maxwell Maltz I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end. - Aristotle Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels. - Orison Swett Marden Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. - Jim Ryun Nothing is stronger than habit.- Ovid Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. - Mark Twain Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. - Stephen R. Covey Sow a thought, and you reap an act;/ Sow an act, and you reap a habit;/ Sow a habit, and you reap a character;/ Sow a character, and you reap a destiny. - Charles Reader
Wealth QuotesMoney is important, but I don’t want to spend the rest of my life working for it. - Robert Kiyosaki Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. - Laertius Diogenes To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. - Richard Baker Understand that you need to sell you and your ideas in order to advance your career, gain more respect, and increase your success, influence and income. - Jay Abraham Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.- Brian Tracy Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. Og Mandino We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. - H. L. Mencken Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. - Charles Caleb Colton A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life. Suze Orman Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. - Benjamin Franklin The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of them.. I’m stunned by how many people are actually not rich. David Bach Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. Henry David Thoreau Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that "advantage" human life. - R. Buckminster Fuller Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. - Ayn Rand Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold. - Euripides Where there are friends there is wealth. - Titus Maccius Plautus Whoever does not regard what he has as most amply wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world. - Epictetus Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another. - Richard Bach You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy. - Garth Brooks
Perseverance QuotesThe man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Chinese Proverb The important thing in life is to have great aim and to possess the aptitude and the perseverance to attain it. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Without sweat and toil no work is made perfect. - Latin Proverb Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. - Norman Vincent Peale Never give in – never, never, never, never... - Winston Churchill When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. - Franklin Roosevelt It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. - Confucius The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment. - Earl Nightingale By perseverance the snail reached the ark. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon Champions keep playing until they get it right. - Billie Jean King Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. - John Albert Michener Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. - Dan Rather Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle. - Bill Phillips Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it! - Hector Crawford Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. - Josephus Daniels Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. - Thomas A. Edison Paralyze resistance with persistence. - Woody Hayes Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. - John Quincy Adams Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. - Thomas Henry Huxley Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. - Thomas Carlyle
Relationship QuotesDo unto others as they would like done unto them. - Tony Alessandra One man all by himself is nothing. Two people who belong together make a world. - Hans MargoliusM One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; That word is love. - Sophocles Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. - Andre Gide Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. - Leo Buscaglia Presence is more than just being there. - Malcolm S. Forbes Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. - Mother Teresa Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. - Sydney Smith Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. - Thomas Moore One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. - Honore de Balzac Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. - Amy Bloom Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking. - Chinese Proverb Love is everything it is cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved. - George Elliot The life and love we create is the life and love we live. - Leo Buscaglia
Courage QuotesWhat would you do if you weren't afraid? Spencer Johnson If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can. -Unknown, Source It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes of the goal. - Henry Ford What would you attempt to do if you knew you wouldn’t fail? - Robert Shuller It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. - Theodore Roosevelt One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. - Henry Ford Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. Og Mandino The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one. - Elbert Hubbard Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. - Washington Irving Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Oliver Goldsmith Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems. - Nelson A. Rockefeller What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?- Vincent van Gogh Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. - James A. Froude Man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed – for I well know, it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. - Georges Clemenceau Feel the fear and do it anyway - Susan Jeffers He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. - Napoleon Bonaparte There is no failure except in no longer trying. - Elbert Hubbard There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing. - Sarah J. Hale Disappointments are to the soul what thunderstorms are to the air. Johann C. F. von Schiller Failure teaches success. - Japanese Saying
Spirituality QuotesHuman beings are made of body, mind and spirit. Of these, spirit is primary, for it connects us to the source of everything, the eternal field of consciousness. - Deepak Chopra A good man is not a perfect man; a good man is an honest man, faithful, and unhesitatingly responsive to the voice of God in his life. - John Fischer Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart. - Joseph Fort Newton Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them. - Mother Teresa Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It’s a phenomenal lesson. - Bob Proctor Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. - Diana Robinson Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. - Jeremy Taylor God is all Love. God is all Light. God is all Beauty. God is everything; Truth, Peace, Light, Bliss in infinite measure. He is with form; He is without form. If you experience God as Peace, then you will say God is Peace. If you experience God as Light, then you will say God is Light. If you experience God as Love, then you will say God is Love. - Sri Chinmoy
Dream QuotesGo confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away. - Tom Clancy A hero is someone who the moment prior to becoming one was a reckless, irresponsible dreamer. - Rick Beneteau All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. - Henry David Thoreau The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it. - William Faulkner 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 Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. - Lanston Hughes You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one. - Henry D. Thoreau The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt Dreams are the touchstones of our character. - Henry David Thoreau The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success. - Hamilton Wright Mabie The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. - Paul Valery A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary. - Anonymous Hope is the dream of the waking man.- French Proverb Return to top of motivational quotes page
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