motivational quotes to inspire and motivate you: part 3

“Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.”
-  Arthur Schopenhauer

“They must change often, who would be constant in happiness.”
-  Confucius

“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair.  Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.  Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”
-  Samuel Johnson

“I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.  The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny
pushes of each honest worker.”
-  Helen Keller

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
-  William James

“Willpower is the art of replacing one habit for another.”
-  Michael Garofalo

“The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.”
-  Ben Herbster

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.”
-  Beverly Sills

“A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.”
-  Robert Hughes

“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.”
-  Channing Pollock

“Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.”
-  Samuel Smiles

“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”
-   Earl Wilson

“Awareness by itself is not enough: it must be joined by mastery.  We need gradually to develop a steering ability to keep ourselves from slipping mechanically into this or that sub-personality. Thus we become able to identify with each part of our being as we wish. We can have more choice.  It is the difference between being impotently transported by a roller coaster and, instead, driving a car and being able to choose which way to go and for what purpose to make the journey.”
-  Piero Ferrucci, What We May Be, p. 51

“If one does not know to which port he is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
-  Seneca

“We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face.”
-  Roger Crawford

“A will finds a way.”
-  Orison Swett Marden

“Determination that just won’t quit — that’s what it takes.”
-   A. J. Foyt

“The most essential factor is persistence — the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.”
-  James Whitcomb Riley

“Let’s ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.”
-  Mevlana Rumi

“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the
determination to make the right things happen.”
-  Peter Marshall

“What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier
generations … is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance
of being able to change things by one’s own efforts.”
-  Hannah Arendt

“Procrastination is the thief of time.”
-  Edward Young

“If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.”
-  Les Brown

“Mind is all that counts.”
-   Robert Collier

“Goals are discovered, not made.”
-   Richard J. Foster

“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.”
-   Douglas Noel Adams

“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than
to be a success at something you hate.”
-   George Burns

“You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.”
-  Charles Carlson

“The secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life, and in elevating them to art.”
-  William Morris

“Never give up, for this is just the place and
time that the tide will turn.”
-  Harriet Beecher Stowe

“A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first.
Indeed the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend
our time doing second things first.”
-   Robert J. McKain

“Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win.  Let not the man be discouraged who has these.”
-   James Whitcomb Riley

“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.”
-   Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
-   Moliere

“Don’t worry about genius.  Don’t worry about being clever.  Trust to hard
work, perseverance and determination.  The best motto for a long march
is: ”Don’t grumble. Plug on!”
-   Sir Thomas Treves

“Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are
some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know
to be right cannot be done.”
-   Russell W. Davenport

“Any significant long-term change requires long-term practice, whether that change has to do with playing the violin or learning to be a more open, loving person.  We all know people who say that they have been permanently changed by experiences of a moment or a day or a weekend.  But when you check it out you’ll generally discover that those who ended up permanently
changed had spent considerable time preparing for their life-changing experience or had continued diligently practicing the new behavior afterward.”
-  Michael Murphy and George Leonard

“We may think there is  willpower involved, but more likely change is due to want power.  Wanting the new addiction more than the old one.  Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.”
-  George Sheehan

“Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history.  Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.”
-  J. C. Penney

“It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.”
-  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.”
-  Henry van Dyke

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”
-  Napoleon Hill

“Life is like a game of cards.  The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play is your own will.”
-  Jawaharial Nehru

“Build your life brick upon brick,
Live a life of truth,
And you will look back on a life of truth.
Live a life of fantasy,
And you will look back on delusion.”
-  Deng Ming-Dao

“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”
-  Elbert Hubbard

“Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.  Most talents are, to some extent, a gift.  Good character, by contrast, is not given to us.  We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.”
-  John Luther

“Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.”
-   Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term;
it’s who we become, as we overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve
our goals, that can give us the deepest and most long-lasting sense of
fulfillment.”
-  Anthony Robbins

“In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do;
it is not really the time.”
-   John Lubbock

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement,
and success have no meaning.”
-   Benjamin Franklin

“Setbacks add some salt to every sweet success.”
-   Michael Garofalo

“If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.”
-  Zig Ziglar

“Change is the law of life.  And those who look only to the past or present
are certain to miss the future.”
-   John F. Kennedy

“Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look at what
they can do when they stick together.”
-   Vesta Kelly