Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational and motivational quotes have the power to get us through a bad week, and can even give us the courage to pursue our life’s dreams. In the book ‘4 Keys to Happiness and Fulfillment at Work’, Kevin Kruse shares surprising research into the triggers of workplace motivation. So in the spirit of self-motivation, and in the current December days of reflection, here are some inspirational quotes:

1. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill
2. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
3. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost
4. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan
5. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone
6. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon
7. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain
8. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll
9. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker
10. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs
11. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi
12. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey
13. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus
14. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou
15. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon

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