Powerful Motivation Quotes From Famous People - PART 19

"Too many people are living in a prison that they have themselves manufactured." -- Dr. Michael Beckwith, Minister

"Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds." -- Grenville Kleiser, Writer

"To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life." -- William Londen

"Half this game is ninety percent mental." -- Yogi Berra

"Today is life -- the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto." -- Dale Carnegie

"Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity." -- Jean Houston

"Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate." -- Source Unknown

"Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as
work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in
your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!" -- Og Mandino, Author

"Energy is eternal delight." -- William Blake, British Poet and Painter

"The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are." -- Thomas Dreier, Author

"We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile." -- Earl Nightingale

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." -- Chinese proverb

"There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self."
-- Seneca, Spanish-born Roman Statesman

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." -- Confucius

"Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't." -- George Lucas

"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering." -- Augustine of Hippo

"To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals." -- Benjamin Franklin

"Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it." -- Source Unknown

"History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird."
-- Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British Novelist

"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence." -- Definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy

"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders." -- Sloan Wilson

"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way." -- Edward De Bono, British Writer

It's not from a famous personality, but it's the best advice for living in the moment we have ever heard. And it's a sports quote: "Come on, you can do anything for 30 seconds." -- High school wrestling coach in Pittsburgh, PA

"The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure." -- B. C. Forbes

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think." -- Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee." -- Marian Wright Edelman, Lobbyist

"Energy and persistence alter all things." -- Benjamin Franklin

"Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character." -- Howard Whitman

"If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone." -- Donny Osmond

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." -- Dale Carnegie

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one as reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed." -- Booker T. Washington

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road." -- Henry Ward Beecher