Achieve Your Full Potential: 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life (18 page)

"Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded."
Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace

"To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate."

Howard W. Hunter

"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul’s good to do each day two things they disliked. . . . It is a precept I have followed scrupulously: for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed."
William
Somerset
Maugham

"Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality."
Neal A. Maxwell

"Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined."
Maria Montessori

"Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment."
H. Ross Perot

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."

George Washington

"Nothing is more harmful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army superiority over another."

George Washington

"One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck."
Carl Zuckmeyer

"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work 12 hours a day."

Anonymous

"The time is always right to do what is right."

Martin Luther King Jr.

"I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work."

Lee Iacocca

"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first." Josiah Quincy

"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose."

E.M. Gray

69 Inspirational Quotes

"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance."

H. Jackson Brown

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to."

George E. Allen

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."

Plutarch

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."

Walter Elliott

"It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it."

John Wooden

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."

Dale Carnegie

"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there." Josh Billings

"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."

Herodotus

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race."
Calvin Coolidge

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."

John D. Rockefeller

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

 
Winston Churchill

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

Conrad Hilton

"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying. "Here comes number seventy-one!"

Richard M. Devos

"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience." Admiral Hyman Rickover

"For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again."

[Proverbs 24:16] Bible

"He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life."

Henri Frederic Amiel

"The horizon is out there somewhere, and you just keep chasing it, looking for it, and working for it."

Bob Dole

". . . be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life."

[Revelations 2:10] Bible

". . . The race is not [always] to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. . ."

[Ecclesiastes 9:11] Bible

"With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin. With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown."

Chinese Proverb

"If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average."

M.H. Alderson

"He who does not tire, tires adversity."

Anonymous

"In order to get from what was to what will be, you must go through what is."

Anonymous

"Patience and perseverance surmount every difficulty."

Anonymous

"The dogs bark but the caravan moves on."

Anonymous

"There is no point at which having arrived we can remain."

Anonymous

"It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres."

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic - something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go. You decide to learn a language, study music, take a course of reading, train yourself physically. Will it be success or failure? It depends upon how much pluck and perseverance that word "decide" contains. The decision that nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing can detach will bring success. Remember the Chinese proverb, "With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin." Maltbie
Davenport
Babcock

"Pay as little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point. "

Maltbie
Davenport
Babcock

"A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres, and infallibly prevails at last."

Lord Chesterfield

"Never give up.
Never, never give up!
We shall go on to the end."

Winston Churchill

"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves."

Winston Churchill

"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in
France
, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. . . . And if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empires beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the fight, until in God’s own time the new world in its power and might steps forth to the rescue and liberation of the old."

Winston Churchill

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog." General Dwight Eisenhower

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."

Walter Elliott

"Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."

Richard L. Evans

"Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall."

Sydney J. Harris

"Before success comes in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do."

Napoleon Hill

"No man is ever whipped, until he quits -- in his own mind."

Napoleon Hill

"Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel."

Napoleon Hill

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."

Napoleon Hill

"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting."

Napoleon Hill

"What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement."

Napoleon Hill

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."

Elbert Hubbard

"Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance."

Dr. Samuel Johnson

"In one of the decisive battles of World War I, disastrous reports poured into the headquarters of Marshal Foch, the commander of the Allied forces. The great general never lost heart. When things were at their worst, he drafted his famous order which is now in all textbooks of military strategy: "My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!"

James Keller

"When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the athletic phenomenon of all time, won the British woman’s gold tournament, people said of her what they had said many times before: "Oh, she’s an automatic champion, a natural athlete. When Babe started golfing in earnest thirteen years ago she hit as many as 1,000 balls in one afternoon, playing until her hands were so sore they had to be taped."

James Keller

"Having chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts."