Quotes

Excellence

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. In letting our own light shine, we give people permission to shine. Who are you, not to be brilliant, fabulous and talented? You are a child of God, and playing small does not serve the world. As we are liberated from our fears, our presence auto-matically liberates others. And so I choose today to live big. My successes and mistakes teach me that the lessons are here to take us beyond our self-imposed limits, so that we may be the best persons we can imagine.”
~ Nelson Mandela

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
~ Aristotle

“Success is something you attract by the person you become.”
~ Jim Rohn

“Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better.”
~ Jim Rohn

“Don’t worry about being smarter than your competitors, because any competent competitor will be working just as hard to be smarter than you. The trick is to have no competitors.”
~ Warren Buffett, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway

“Success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis.”
~ Napoleon Hill

Money

“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”
~ Woody Allen

“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”
~ Napoleon Hill

“These individuals have riches just as we say that we “have a fever,” when really the fever has us.”
~ Seneca

Motivation

“Success is never final and failure is seldom fatal, it’s courage that counts”
~ Winston Churchill

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali / The Greatest / The Champ

“We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. The tide in the affairs of men does not remain at flood — it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is adamant to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, “Too late.” There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember–the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.”
~ Zig Ziglar

“Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: “Is this the condition that I feared?”
~ Seneca

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
~ Niccolò Machiavelli

“A great many years ago I purchased a fine dictionary. The first thing I did with it was to turn to the word “impossible,” and neatly clip it out of the book. That would not be an unwise thing for you to do.”
~Napoleon Hill

Politics

“[A] prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised … good advice, whoever it comes from, depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice.”
~ Machiavelli

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
~ Oscar Wilde

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
~ Oscar Wilde

“What chance has the innocent uncultivated liar against the educated expert? What chance have I against a lawyer?”
~ Mark Twain

“I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.”
~ Mark Twain

“Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
~ Anatole France

“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.”
~ Malcolm X

Positive Living

“For as long as space endures, for as long as living beings remain, until then may I too abide, to dispel the misery of the world.”
~ Shantideva

“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones that strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”
~ Henry Clay

“Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance.”
~ J S Mill

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
~ Margaret Mead

“You should be satisfied with what you have but never be satisfied with the amount of good you have carried out.”
~ Buddha

“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi