Achieve Your Full Potential: 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life (12 page)

Eric Hoffer

"Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."

Langston Hughes

"I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."

Victor Hugo

"Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts scepters in their hands or miters on their heads, shifts the scene of pleasure with endless variety, bids all the forms of beauty sparkle before them, and gluts them with every change of visionary luxury."

Johnson

"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."

Thomas Edward Lawrence

"It may be that those who do most, dream most."

Stephen
Butler
Leacock

"Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you."

Herman Melville

"An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted."

Arthur Miller

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

Edgar Allan Poe

"Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page.
They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.
Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then.
Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.

Edgar Allan Poe

"The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true."

Edgar Allan Poe

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their grey visions they obtain glimpses of eternity."

Edgar Allan Poe

"You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day."

Alexandar Pope

"Mysterious power, whence hope ethereal springs!
Sweet heavenly relic of eternal things!
Inspiring oft deep thoughts of things divine:
The past, the present, and the future time.
Thy reminiscences transport the soul
To memory’s
Paradise
, its future goal."

Parley P. Pratt

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil."

John Ruskin

"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities."

Delmore Schwartz

"Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.”

William Shakespeare

"When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness."

Tecumseh of the
Shawnees

"How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!"
Logan
Pearsall Smith

"Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it."

John Sterling

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."

Henry David Thoreau

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

Henry David Thoreau

"We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams."

Count Leo Tolstoy

"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born."

Dr. Dale E. Turner

"My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected."

Anna M. Uhlich

"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

Woodrow Wilson

"But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet, Tread softly because you tread on n dreams."

William
Butler
Yeats

"However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight."

Lin Yutang

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."

Erma Bombeck

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."

Ben Stein

97 Inspirational Quotes

"Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies, especially in this hemisphere. None of the wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong."
Ronald Reagan

"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better."
Jim Rohn

“You will never be a leader unless you first learn to follow and be led."
Tiorio

"The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says "I"; The leader says "WE". The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, "GO"; the leader says "LET'S GO!"

H. Gordon Selfridge

"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal."

Vince Lombardi

"I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a "transformer" in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader."

Stephen R. Covey

"A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group."

Russell H. Ewing

"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."
Arnold
Glasow

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives."

Theodore Roosevelt

 
"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

Lao-Tzu

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be."

Rosalynn Carter

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Muriel Strode

"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."
Jim Rohn

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

Theodore Roosevelt

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."

James Crook

"Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve." Toma Landry

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."

Sam Walton

"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent."

Douglas McCarther

"You manage things; you lead people."

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

"If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!"

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."

Lao-Tzu

"It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved." Thomas Wolfe

"An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag."

Viking Proverb

"It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character, it forces you to make decisions based upon your beliefs and not what other people think. In life, and in business, you have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone. But, what makes you a leader is having the courage of your convictions."

Queen Latifah

"Entrepreneurs are the forgotten heroes of
America
."

Ronald Reagan

"Eagles don't flock - you have to find them one at a time."

H. Ross Perot

"My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together."

Colin Powell

"Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow."
Chinese Proverb

"The marksman hitteth the target partly by pulling, partly by letting go. The boatsman reached the landing partly by pulling, partly by letting go."
Egyptian Proverb

"The man whose authority is recent is always stern."
Aeschylus

"The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it."
Elaine Agather

"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it."
Marian Anderson

"Asked what his secret was for lasting so long and being so successful as the president of
Yale
University
, Dr. James R. Angell explained: "Grow antennae, not horns."
Dr. James Rowland Angell

"A most important key to successful leadership is your ability to direct and challenge the very best that is in those whom you lead."
Anonymous

"Success for leadership is . . . knowing the great art of directing others without their noticing it."
Anonymous

"He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander."
Aristotle

"Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"It's great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently."
Keith Bellow

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."
Warren G. Bennis

" . . . power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership."
Warren G. Bennis