Some Additional Favorite Quotations

Today I thought I’d share with you some additional favorite quotations. I find them inspiring; I hope you will, too. If that’s the case, have it framed and place it where you’ll see it every day.

It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.

Latin Proverb

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

Albert Einstein

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Wayne Gretzky

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.

Italian Proverb

If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.

Yogi Berra

The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.

Richard Monckton Milnes

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.

Marcus Aurelius

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

George Herman “Babe” Ruth

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

Danish Proverb

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?

Robert Schuller

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

John Maxwell

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?

Brian Tracy

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Vincent Lombardi

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

Charles Schwab

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.

Leonard Cohen