motivational quotes to inspire and motivate you: part 4

 “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
-  Og Mandino

“Positive anything is better that negative nothing.”
-   Elbert Hubbard

“One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and
imagination that ceates.  Imagination is the creative force.  Imagination
creates reality.”
-  Richard Wagner

“The intelligent want self-control; children want candy.”
-   Mevlana Rumi

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”
-   Earl Nightingale

“The world is full of willing people – some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
-   Robert Frost

“Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.”
-  Dottie Walters

“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
-  Otto Rank

“My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.”
-  Elaine Maxwell

“It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures.  Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.”
-  Samuel Smiles

“The only person who is educated is the one who has
learned how to learn… and change.”
-  Carl Rogers

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.”
-   Dale Carnegie

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
-   Samuel Beckett

“You always pass failure on the way to success.”
-  Micky Rooney

“Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom’s root.”
-   Robert Burns

“Imagination is the beginning of creation.  You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and, at last, you create what you will.”
-   George Bernard Shaw

“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.”
-   Sophocles

“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”
-  Mary Oliver

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to a captive of
the environment in which you first find yourself.”
-   Mark Caine

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
-   Thomas Jefferson

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
-   Confucius

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
-   Benjamin Franklin

“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
to believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.”
-   Bruce Barton

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving
and struggling for some goal worthy of him.  What he needs is not the
discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning
waiting to be fulfilled by him.”
-   Victor Frankl

“It’s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all
resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.”
-  Claude Bristol

“A thousand mile journey begins with one step.”
-   Lao Tse

“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we
must fervently  believe, and upon which we must vigorously act.  There
is no other route to success.”
-   Stephan A. Brennan

“We shrink from change; yet is there anything that can come into being without it?”
-   Marcus Aurelius

“Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.”
-   Anthony Robbins

“No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and
determination a person can overcome anything.”
-   B. Dodge

“Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the
roadblocks that lay before you.”
-   Denis Waitley

“Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to
stick to one thing till it gets there.”
-   Josh Billings

“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
-   Don Marquis

“What’s money anyhow? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning
and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
-   Bob Dylan

“Like a garden, the room for self-improvement grows each year.”
-   Michael Garofalo

“You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long
as you keep yourself centered.”
-  Wayne W. Dyer

“The time is always right to do what is right.”
-   Martin Luther King Jr.

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about
things which are beyond the power of our will.”
-   Epictetus

“To labor is to pray.”
-   Motto of the Benedictines

“The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again.”
-   Korman’s Law

“The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.”
-   Herbert Spencer

“A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.”
-   Ambrose Bierce

“You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.”
- Sheila Graham

“You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As your deep, driving desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
-   Upanishads