Inspirational quotes Total Quotes: 432 |
| "Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action." | |
| Author: Benjamin Disraeli | |
| "A leader is a deal in hope. " | |
| Author: Napoleon Bonaparte | |
| "It is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather. " | |
| Author: Danish Proverb | |
| "You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. " | |
| Author: Unknown | |
| "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. " | |
| Author: George Patton | |
| "Where there is no vision, the people perish. " | |
| Author: Proverbs 29:18 | |
| "The best way out is always through." | |
| Author: Robert Frost | |
| "Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points. " | |
| Author: Horace | |
| "In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer. " | |
| Author: Henry W. Longfellow | |
| "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." | |
| Author: William B. Sprague | |
| "I light my candle from their torches. " | |
| Author: Robert Burton | |
| "Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. " | |
| Author: Woodrow Wilson | |
| "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." | |
| Author: Samuel Johnson | |
| "The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. " | |
| Author: Publius Syrus | |
| "A bold onset is half the battle. " | |
| Author: Giuseppe Garibaldi | |
| "To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg. " | |
| Author: James Thomas | |
| "Fortune favors the brave." | |
| Author: Publius Terence | |
| "He who hesitates is lost." | |
| Author: Proverb | |
| "Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall." | |
| Author: Confucius | |
| "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." | |
| Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| "Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. " | |
| Author: Edmund Spenser | |
| "We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls." | |
| Author: Winston Churchill | |
| "He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. " | |
| Author: Solon | |
| "When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. " | |
| Author: Napoleon Bonaparte | |
| "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." | |
| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| "It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy. " | |
| Author: Seneca | |
| "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. " | |
| Author: Abraham Lincoln | |
| "What you cannot enforce / Do not command. " | |
| Author: Sophocles | |
| "For hope is but the dream of those that wake." | |
| Author: Matthew Prior | |
| "To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. " | |
| Author: Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| "It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.) " | |
| Author: Latin Proverb | |
| "Constant dripping hollows out a stone." | |
| Author: Lucretius | |
| "Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself. " | |
| Author: Thomas Carlyle | |
| "A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible. " | |
| Author: Polybius | |
| "Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." | |
| Author: Mary Shelley | |
| "We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory. " | |
| Author: Cicero | |
| "Inspiration and genius--one and the same." | |
| Author: Victor Hugo | |
| "Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. " | |
| Author: Euripides | |
| "They can because they think they can. " | |
| Author: Virgil | |
| "To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned."" | |
| Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton | |
| "Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?" | |
| Author: George Eliot | |
| "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. " | |
| Author: Thomas Jefferson | |
| "Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself. " | |
| Author: Theodore T. Hunger | |
| "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. " | |
| Author: Robert Collier | |
| "The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. " | |
| Author: Frank Loyd Wright | |
| "If you would create something, you must be something." | |
| Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| "Every artist was first an amateur." | |
| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| "A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. " | |
| Author: Elbert Hubbard | |
| "There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way. " | |
| Author: Christopher Morley | |
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