TOP 100 INSPIRATIONAL AND POWERFUL QUOTES THAT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK.

100 inspirational and powerful quotes

Quotes are short words and carries powerful meaning. Quote can gear us up and help us to go for the best. In todays post, I presented 100 inspirational and powerful quotes that will change the way you think.

1. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other .” Abraham Lincoln.

2.“I will prepare and someday my chance will come .”
Abraham Lincoln.

3.“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my axe”.
Abraham Lincoln

4.“One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprise, is to find  they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.”
 Henry Ford

5.“Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.”
   Napoleon Hill

6.“One of the main weakness of mankind is the average man’s familiarity with the word impossible.”
  Napoleon Hill

7.“Action is the foundational key to all success .”
 Pablo Picasso

8.“Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.”
Plato

9.“Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed. “
 Jim Rohn

10.“The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.”
Goal setting  Jim Rohn

11.“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.”
 Jim Rohn

12.“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes of you .”
  Maya Angelou

13.“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
  Benjamin Disraeli

14.“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but  I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.”
  Abraham Lincoln

15.“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.”Confucius

16.I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

17."Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." Albert Einstein

18."If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all." Oscal Wilde

19."Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting." Edmud Burke

20."Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you." Robert Fulgham

21."The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing"  Voltaire

22."Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses." Confucius

23. "Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion." Dalai Lama

24."Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude" Dale Carneige

25."Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier." Albert Schweizer

26."It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come." Dalai Lama

27."Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Jesus Christ

28."Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." Joseph Addison

29."You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you." Meryl Streep

30."Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence" Aristole

31."Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people." Martin Luther King

32."A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be" Abraham H Maslow

33."Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound." James Allen

34."Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it." Victor Frankl

35."A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society." Bhimrao R Ambedkar

36."People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little." Jean-Jacques Rousseau

37."Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." Eleanor Roosevelt

38."Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." Victor Frankl

39."The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out." John Wooden

40."Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses."  Democritus

41. "A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me." Abraham Lincoln

42."Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other." Scott Peck

43."In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire." Paul Coelho

44."All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother." Abraham Lincoln

45."Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken." Abert Camus

46."Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet." Plato

47."Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." Confucius

48."Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear." John Lennon

49."When you love you should not say, God is in my heart, but rather, I am in the heart of God. and think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course." Khalil Gibran

50."Love is too young to know what conscience is." William Shakespear

51."Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile." Mother Teresa

52."Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." Mother Teresa

53."What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family." Mother Teresa

54."The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving." Fulton Sheen

55."Do you have to have a reason for loving?" Brigitte  Bardot

56."Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses." Lao Tzu

57."Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable." Mohandas Gandhi

58."Ultimately love is everything." Scott Peck

59."Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery." Wendell  Berry

60."Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts." Marianne Williamson

61."If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." Thomas Edison

62."Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow." Antony Robbins
63."Our patience will achieve more than our force." Edmud Burke

64."The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power." Mary Pickford

65."Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." Napoleon Hill

66."Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." Mother Teresa

67."Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one." Anthony Robbins

68."When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them." Marily Monroe

69."There is always room at the top." Daniel Webster

70."Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering" Paulo Coelho

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

72."There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." Aldous Huxley

73."I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be." Abraham Lincoln

74."Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me." Chet Atkins

75."Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." John Wooden

76."My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style" I know why the cage bird sing Maya Angelou

77."Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another."

 Desmond Tutu
78."The man with no imagination has no wings." Muhammad Ali

79."When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably." Walt Disney

80."First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst." Dale Carnegie

81."I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it." Arthur Williams

82."A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth." Aesop

83."Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day." Jim Rohn

84."You have committed a double mistake, firstly by not keeping the engagement yesterday and secondly, by coming when you were not expected." Visvesvaraya

85."Failing to prepare is preparing to fail." John Wooden

86."Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error." Cicero

87."To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace." Cicero

88."Failure cannot cope with persistence." Napoleon Hill

89."At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice." Maya Angelou

90."Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." Henry Ford

91."Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved." Lao Tzu

92."Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas Edison

93."One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat." Napoleon Hill

94."Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." Abraham Lincoln

95."In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention." Simone Weil

96."Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays." Soren Kirkegaard

97."I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries." Marie Curie

98."I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying." Nelson Mandela

99."We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives" John F Kennedy

100."All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire." Aristole

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