motivational quotes to inspire and motivate you: Part 6

“There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a
well-disciplined mind may not surmount.  The wish to resist more
than half accomplishes the object.”
-   Charlotte Dacre

“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with
great ambitions.”
-  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.”
-   Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

“I am an idealist. I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
-   Carl Sandburg

“The time to begin most things is ten years ago.”
-   Mignon McLaughlin

“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength
lies solely in my tenacity.”
-   Louis Pasteur

“You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.”
-   Jim Rohn

“Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.”
-   F. Scott Fitzgerald

“When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative ”success mechanism” within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or “willpower.”
-   Maxwell Maltz

“You got to be careful if your don’t know where you’re going,
because you might not get there.”
-   Yogi Berra

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.”
-   Mae West

“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly
and try another. But above all, try something.”
-   Franklin Roosevelt

“Yoga is a light which, once lit, will never dim.
The better you practice, the brighter the flame.”
-  B. K. S. Iyengar

“To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring
one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached.
The key is action.”
-   Michael Hanson

“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition.
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”
-   Herbert Kaufman

“Success is a state of mind.  If you want success, start thinking of yourself
as a success.”
-  Dr. Joyce Brothers

“You may delay, but time will not.”
-   Benjamin Franklin

“It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey
that really matters in the end.”
-   Ursula K. LeGuin

“Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting, it’s about being so prepared to face a challenge and believing so strongly in a cause that you are fighting for that you refuse to quit.”
-   Richard J. Machowicz

“Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.”
-   Mike Ditka

“The best way out is always through.”
-   Robert Frost

“The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center.  So does a person.”
-   Norman Vincent Peale

“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing
anything very innovative.”
-   Woody Allen

“It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.”
-   Henry Ward Beecher

“An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.”
-   Vida D. Scudder

“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”
-  Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron
is his thicker layer of inhibition.”
-   Martin H. Fischer

“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people
who have the habit of making excuses.”
-   George Washington

“For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.”
-   Friedrich Nietzsche