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

William Blake

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

William JenningsBryan

"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things."

Frank Clark

"This became a credo of mine . . . attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."

Bette Davis

"We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself. . . . It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting."

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

"Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can."

Henry Drummond

"Hell, there are no rules here , we're trying to accomplish something."

Thomas Alva Edison

"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective."

General Dwight David Eisenhower

"What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities And be a member of the team. In no country but America, I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements."

Benjamin F. Fairless

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."

Kahlil Gibran

“You can finish school, and even make it easy – but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.”

Zig Ziglar

"If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty."

Heber J. Grant

"Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."

Dag Hammarskj’ld

"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."

Helen Hayes

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."

Napolean Hill

“Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people.”

Zig Ziglar

"We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys."

Eric Hoffer

"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work."

H. L. Hunt

"Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon, deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits." William James

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

Robert Francis Kennedy

"It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. "

Vince Lombardi

“Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side.”

Zig Ziglar

“You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.”

Zig Ziglar

"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."

Niccol Machiavelli

“The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.”

Zig Ziglar

"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we might have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do."

Gian-Carlo Menotti

"Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. . . . Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement."

Leo J. Muir

"Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit."

Hugh Nibley

"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration . . and expectation."

Jack Nicklaus

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

General George Smith Patton, Jr.

"Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage." Frederick Pierce

"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."

Ayn Rand

"She looked at the crowd and she felt, simultaneously, astonishment that they should stare at her, when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible, and a sense of fitness that they should be here, that they should want to see it, because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others."

Ayn Rand

"There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting."

Dr. Theodor Reik

"A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high."

William Sharp

“Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.”

Zig Ziglar

"The things we accept as normal and enjoy today were considered impossible twenty-five years ago and beyond the power of man to achieve. The early "Buck Rogers" and "Flash Gordon" comic strips were fantastic and considered outside the realm of man's attainment. They were considered figments of man's imagination, but now many of these miraculous, imaginative things have become realities and man is pushing onward toward new and higher goals of achievement. We are now mentally prepared for every new invention and advancement in technology and the sciences, but, nevertheless, stand amazed at man's powers to create and achieve. These outstanding accomplishments, which approach the miraculous, to me are unquestioned evidence of man's divine nature. Man has sent up satellites which circle the globe. He has taken the breathtaking, miraculous ride about the earth. He expects to circle the moon and even land man on the outer planets; also he considers feasible floating platforms in outer space as intermediate stations for interplanetary travel."

Delbert L. Stapley

“When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.”

Zig Ziglar

“The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.”