motivational quotes to inspire and motivate you: part 5

“It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t.  It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.”
-  James Gordon

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
-  Bruce Lee

“Leaders aren’t born they are made.  And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.  And that’s the price we have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”
-  Vince Lombardi

“A callused palm and dirty fingernails precede a Green Thumb”
-  Michael Garofalo

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
-  Anatole France

“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie.  Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is….  A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later.  That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness.  They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.”
-   C.S. Lewis

“Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.”
-   Albert Camus

“Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.”
-   John Beecher

“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves
your arms too full to embrace the present.”
-   Jan Glidewell

“Habit is a cable.  We weave a thread of it each day,
and at last we cannot break it.”
-   Horace Mann

“Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
-   Frank Outlaw

“Who is fit to govern others?  He who governs himself.
You might as well have said: nobody.”
-   Augustus William Hare

“See first that the design is wise and just; that ascertained, pursue it resolutely.”
-   William Shakespeare

“A dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.  Hard work
is the price we must pay for success.  I think you can accomplish anything
if you’re willing to pay the price.”
-   Vince Lombardi

“It seems to me that the term ‘free will’ is one of the most manipulated and exploited terms. The real explanation of free will is not that you have free will but that your will can eventually make you free, that will can liberate you, that will can release you from slavery.”
-   Torkom Saraydarian

“I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless.”
-   Augustus William Hare

“Knowing is not enough, we must apply.  Willing is not enough, we must do.”
-  Johann von Goethe

“The principle is competing against yourself. ”
-   Steve Young

“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
-   Thomas Jefferson

“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.”
-   Goethe

“A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.”
-   Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Great minds have purpose. Others have wishes.”
-   Washington Irving

“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
-   Parkinson’s Law

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

“The secret of health both for mind and body is not to mourn for the past,
not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the
present moment wisely and earnestly.”
-   Buddha

“We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.”
-   Augustus William Hare

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as does labor the body.”
-   Seneca

“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
-   Mark Twain

“We are what we think.”
-   Buddha

“About the only time losing is more fun than winning is
when you’re fighting temptation.”
-   Tom Wilson

“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.”
-  Henry D. Thoreau

“Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up,
a sound set of values – and witnesses.”
-   Franklin P. Jones

“You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.”
-   Denis Waitley

“Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would
like it to keep in touch.”
-   Robert Orben

“The past cannot be changed, but the future is still in your power.”
-   Hugh White

“Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there
will never attain anything … Those who really want to be
yogis must give up, once and for all, this nibbling at
things.  Take up one idea.  Make that one idea your life -
think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.”
-   Swami Vivekananda