Change Publishing - Achieve Your Full Potential - 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life

William Feather

"No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."

Harry Emerson Fosdick D.D

"It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don't pity them, don't feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead."

Brutus Hamilton

"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

PERSEVERANCE

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."