motivational quotes to inspire and motivate you: Part 7

“Willpower is the strength of mind to carry out one’s goals.”
-   Sandy Anderson

“If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength.”
-   François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

“Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.”
-   Antonio Porchia

“It is not the strongest of the species who survive, not the most intelligent, but those who are the
most adaptive to change.”
-   Charles Darwin

“Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.”
-   J. Petit-Senn

“A resolute determination is the truest wisdom.”
-  Napoleon

“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
-   Pietro Aretino

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
-   Thomas Jefferson

“It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.”
-  Mick Jagger

“It is in changing that things find purpose.”
-  Heraclitus

“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation?
I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires
strength, strength and courage to yield to.”
-   Oscar Wilde

“Do not go through life; grow through life.”
-   Eric Butterworth

“What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is
they don’t want to discourage it completely.”
-   Franklin P. Jones

“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.”
-  Eric Fromm

“You must admit you have self-control before you can use it.”
-   Carrie Latet

“Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence.
We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others.  We compete
only with our previous achievements, and we get joy.   Life is nothing but a
perpetual possibility.”
-  Sri Chinmoy

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
-   Oscar Wilde

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always
wins – not through strength but by perseverance.”
-  Jackson Brown

“Being out of control is one of the worst feelings in the world,
sometimes even worse than pain.  It is its own kind of pain.”
-   Danzae Pace

“I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.”
-   Confucius

“It’s a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
-   Buddha

“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
-   Thomas A. Edison

“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them,
if they will not apply themselves to me.
-   Michel de Montaigne

“Strength does not come from physical activity.  It comes from an indomitable will.”
-  Mahatma Gandhi

“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.  Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.”
-  Bill Gates

“If you focus on results, you will never change.  If you focus on change, you will get results.”
-  Jack Dixon

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal.  Not to people or things.”
-   Albert Einstein

“Self-respect is the root of discipline:  The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”
-   Abraham Joshua Heschel

“First say to yourself whatyou would be, and then do what you have to do.”
-   Epictetus

“Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us.  They are essential to really keep us alive.”
-  Robert H. Schuller

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
-  Thomas Jefferson

“In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without a total 100 percent dedication, you won’t be able to do this.”
-  Willie Mays

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
-  Bill Cosby

“The most useless are those who never change through the years.”
-  James Barrie

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”
-   Frank Lloyd Wright

“Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is
simply a course to develop his achievement muscle.  It’s a strengthening
of his powers of accomplishment.”
-   Eric Butterworth