MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Mohandas Gandhi

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Harold S. Geneen

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mohandas Gandhi

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi

Be the change that you want to see in the world.

A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

He is able who thinks he is able.
Buddha

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
Buddha

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mohandas Gandhi

Words do not pay for my dead people.
Chief Joseph

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher

Reason is the enemy of faith.
Martin Luther

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
Martin Luther

The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.
Sue Kelly

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin Franklin

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Helen Keller

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

"Your life is the sum total of all your choices up to this present minute." -- Brian Tracy

"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty." -- John D. Rockefeller

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first." -- Mark Twain

"Pay particular attention to the pursuit of knowledge. Even in a bad message there is something to learn, though it may not be recognized at the time. Look there, for it is to be seen." -- Ivy Meadors

"The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future." -- Hillary Rodham Clinton

"You must raise your aspirations, set higher goals, and make detailed plans to achieve them." -- Brian Tracy

"We must become the change we want to see." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." -- Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

"Your road in life is the one that will bring you the most satisfaction if chosen carefully and should be based on your deepest passions. You are in charge of this destiny." -- Ivy Meadors

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

"Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars – they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours." -- Mark Victor Hansen

"Make education a continuing, never-ending process." -- Nido Qubein

"Continuous personal and professional development is your key to the future." -- Brian Tracy

"Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously and continuously a plan for self-development and growth." -- David J. Schwartz

"Control your own destiny or someone else will." -- Jack Welch

"It is never to late to be what you might have been." -- George Eliot

LEADERSHIP

"An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people." -- Jack Welch

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." -- Peter F. Drucker

"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results." -- George S. Patton

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them." -- Jack Welch

KINDNESS

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." -- Dalai Lama

"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality." Mahatma Gandhi

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." -- Dalai Lama

STRONG WILL

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"A strong positive attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug." -- Patricia Neal

"Persistence is a strong will. Obstinance is a strong won't.". -- Anonymous

"Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me." -- Said Aouita

"It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit." -- George Sheehan

"What counts in a battle is what you do once the pain sets in." -- John Short, South African Coach

"To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others." -- Buddha

"With the skill and the will, you will arrive." -- Ivy Meadors

SUSTAINABILITY

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"Achieving sustainable development is perhaps one of the most difficult and one of the most pressing goals we face. It requires on the part of all of us commitment, action, partnerships and, sometimes, sacrifices of our traditional life patterns and personal interests". -- Mostafa Tolba, Chairman of the Commission on Sustainable Development

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." -- Abraham Lincoln [1864]

"The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis." --Sir Jonathon Porritt

"The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river." --Ross Perot

"Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!" -- Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr.

"I Cannot Do All the Good that the World Needs, But the World Needs All the Good That I Can Do" --Jana Stanfield

POSITIVE THINKING

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" - Eleonor Roosevelt

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.
Zig Ziglar

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
Dr. Napoleon Hill

100% of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Wayne Gretzky

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill

LEADERSHIP QUOTES


Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton


A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte


The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES


You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
George Bernard Shaw


People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elizabeth Kubler Ross


The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw


A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Maya Angelou


Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Henry Ford


Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
M.K. Gandhi


What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Ziglar