Powerful Motivation Quotes From Famous People - PART 18

"There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second." -- Logan Pearsall Smith

"To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world." -- Unknown

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." -- Andre Gide

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." -- Helen Keller

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you." -- William James, Author

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures."
-- Charles C. Noble

"There has never been another you. With no effort on your part you were born to be something very special and set apart. What you are going to do in appreciation of that gift is a decision only you can make." -- Dan Zadra

"I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions of others." -- Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, 'Certainly I can!' -- and get busy and find out how to do it." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity." -- W. Clement Stone

"The people who will really accomplish great things in life are those who are willing to discipline their lives, who maintain their health, their vitality, their efficiency through this process of rigorous disciplining of what they take into their bodies and what they do in life. It's a very important thing in terms of championship living." -- Bob Richards, American Olympic Pole Vaulting Champion

"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either." -- Leo Burnett, American Marketing Expert

"There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it,
and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say,
'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in." -- Erma Bombeck

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. -- John Wooden (Former Head Basketball Coach at UCLA)

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." -- Michael Jordan

"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life is: could have, might have, and should have." -- Louis E. Boone

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." -- Mark Twain

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

"A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having." -- Alice Mary Hilton

"Opportunity... often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat." -- Napoleon Hill

"Put your troubles in a pocket with a hole in it." -- Old Postcard

"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments and places that take our breath away." -- Unknown

"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow." -- General George S. Patton

"Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain." -- Helen Keller

"The fastest way to succeed is to double your failure rate." -- Thomas J. Watson, Founder of IBM

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." -- Abraham Lincoln

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller
is the other." -- Erma Bombeck

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." -- John Wayne

"When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you
won't come up with a hand full of mud, either." -- Leo Burnett