Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / New
Stats: 3,148,897 members, 7,802,892 topics. Date: Saturday, 20 April 2024 at 02:00 AM

Inspirational Qoutes For You - Nairaland / General - Nairaland

Nairaland Forum / Nairaland / General / Inspirational Qoutes For You (911 Views)

Post Inspirational & Motivational Quotes You Know Here.. / 103 Best Motivational/inspirational Qoutes / Add Your Qoutes Here! (2) (3) (4)

(1) (Reply) (Go Down)

Inspirational Qoutes For You by Joshpet1(m): 12:14am On Nov 16, 2013
Inspirational quotes and motivational quotes
have the power to get us through a bad week,
and can even give us the courage to pursue
our life’s dreams. So in the spirit of self
motivation, here are 100 inspirational quotes.
1. Whatever the mind of man can conceive
and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon
Hill
2. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it
living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs
3. Strive not to be a success, but rather to
be of value. –Albert Einstein
4. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
took the one less traveled by, and that
has made all the difference. –Robert
Frost
5. The common question that gets asked in
business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good
question, but an equally valid question
is, ‘why not?’ -Jeffrey Bezos
6. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t
take. –Wayne Gretzky
7. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my
career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26
times I’ve been trusted to take the game
winning shot and missed. I’ve failed
over and over and over again in my life.
And that is why I succeed. –Michael
Jordan
8. Every strike brings me closer to the next
home run. –Babe Ruth
9. Definiteness of purpose is the starting
point of all achievement. –W. Clement
Stone
10. Life is what happens to you while you’re
busy making other plans. –John Lennon
11. We become what we think about. –Earl
Nightingale
12. Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things that you
didn’t do than by the ones you did do,
so throw off the bowlines, sail away
from safe harbor, catch the trade winds
in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.
–Mark Twain
13. Life is 10% what happens to me and
90% of how I react to it. –John Maxwell
14. If you do what you’ve always done,
you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –
Tony Robbins
15. The mind is everything. What you think
you become. –Buddha
16. The best time to plant a tree was 20
years ago. The second best time is now.
–Chinese Proverb
17. An unexamined life is not worth living.
–Socrates
18. Eighty percent of success is showing up.
–Woody Allen
19. Don’t wait. The time will never be just
right. –Napoleon Hill
20. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to
win is. –Vince Lombardi
21. I am not a product of my
circumstances. I am a product of my
decisions. –Stephen Covey
22. Every child is an artist. The problem is
how to remain an artist once he grows
up. –Pablo Picasso
23. You can never cross the ocean until you
have the courage to lose sight of the
shore. –Christopher Columbus
24. I’ve learned that people will forget what
you said, people will forget what you
did, but people will never forget how you
made them feel. –Maya Angelou
25. Either you run the day, or the day runs
you. –Jim Rohn
26. Whether you think you can or you think
you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford
27. The two most important days in your
life are the day you are born and the
day you find out why. –Mark Twain
28. Whatever you can do, or dream you can,
begin it. Boldness has genius, power
and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
29. The best revenge is massive success. –
Frank Sinatra
30. People often say that motivation
doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.
That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig
Ziglar
31. Inspiration exists, but it must find you
working. –Pablo Picasso
32. If you hear a voice within you say “you
cannot paint,” then by all means paint
and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent
Van Gogh
33. There is only one way to avoid criticism:
do nothing, say nothing, and be
nothing. –Aristotle
34. Obstacles are those frightful things you
see when you take your eyes off the
goal. –Henry Ford
35. The only person you are destined to
become is the person you decide to be.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. Go confidently in the direction of your
dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
–Henry David Thoreau
37. When I stand before God at the end of
my life, I would hope that I would not
have a single bit of talent left and could
say, I used everything you gave me. –
Erma Bombeck
38. Successful people are always looking for
opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking,
“What’s in it for me?” – Brian Tracy
39. Certain things catch your eye, but
pursue only those that capture the
heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb
40. Believe you can and you’re halfway
there. –Theodore Roosevelt
41. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the
other side of fear. –George Addair
42. We can easily forgive a child who is
afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of
life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato
43. Once you choose hope, anything’s
possible. –Christopher Reeve
44. Start where you are. Use what you have.
Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe
45. When I was 5 years old, my mother
always told me that happiness was the
key to life. When I went to school, they
asked me what I wanted to be when I
grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They
told me I didn’t understand the
assignment, and I told them they didn’t
understand life. –John Lennon
46. Fall seven times and stand up eight. –
Japanese Proverb
47. When one door of happiness closes,
another opens, but often we look so
long at the closed door that we do not
see the one that has been opened for
us. –Helen Keller
48. Everything has beauty, but not everyone
can see. –Confucious
49. How wonderful it is that nobody need
wait a single moment before starting to
improve the world. –Anne Frank
50. When I let go of what I am, I become
what I might be. –Lao Tzu
51. The difference between a successful
person and others is not lack of
strength not a lack of knowledge but
rather a lack of will. –Vince Lombardi
52. Happiness is not something readymade.
It comes from your own actions. –Dalai
Lama
53. The only way of finding the limits of the
possible is by going beyond them into
the impossible. –Arthur C. Clarke
54. First, have a definite, clear practical
ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have
the necessary means to achieve your
ends; wisdom, money, materials, and
methods. Third, adjust all your means
to that end. –Aristotle
55. If the wind will not serve, take to the
oars. –Latin Proverb
56. You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But
there’s no joy in living your whole life
on the ground. –Unknown
57. Whoever loves much, performs much,
and can accomplish much, and what is
done in love is done well. –Vincent Van
Gogh
58. Too many of us are not living our
dreams because we are living our fears.
–Les Brown
59. Challenges are what make life
interesting and overcoming them is
what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J.
Marine
60. The way to get started is to quit talking
and begin doing. –Walt Disney
61. I have been impressed with the urgency
of doing. Knowing is not enough; we
must apply. Being willing is not enough;
we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci
62. Limitations live only in our minds. But if
we use our imaginations, our
possibilities become limitless. –Jamie
Paolinetti
63. Expose yourself to your deepest fear;
after that, fear has no power, and the
fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes.
You are free. –Jim Morrison
64. What’s money? 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
65. I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100
ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin
Franklin
66. In order to succeed, your desire for
success should be greater than your
fear of failure. –Bill Cosby
67. A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new. – Albert
Einstein
68. The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is
doing it. –Chinese Proverb
69. There are no traffic jams along the extra
mile. –Roger Staubach
70. It is never too late to be what you might
have been. –George Eliot
71. You become what you believe. –Oprah
Winfrey
72. I would rather die of passion than of
boredom. –Vincent van Gogh
73. A truly rich man is one whose children
run into his arms when his hands are
empty. –Unknown
74. It is not what you do for your children,
but what you have taught them to do
for themselves, that will make them
successful human beings. –Ann Landers
75. If you want your children to turn out
well, spend twice as much time with
them, and half as much money. –
Abigail Van Buren
76. Build your own dreams, or someone else
will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah
Gray
77. Without deviation from the norm,
progress is not possible. –Frank Zappa
78. Education costs money. But then so
does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser
79. Remember that the happiest people are
not those getting more, but those giving
more. –H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
80. It does not matter how slowly you go as
long as you do not stop. –Confucius
81. Let the refining and improving of your
own life keep you so busy that you have
little time to criticize others. –H.
Jackson Brown, Jr.
82. Remember that not getting what you
want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of
luck. –Dalai Lama
83. You can’t use up creativity. The more
you use, the more you have. –Maya
Angelou
84. Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman
Vaughan
85. Our lives begin to end the day we
become silent about things that matter.
–Martin Luther King Jr.
86. Do what you can, where you are, with
what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt
87. The most common way people give up
their power is by thinking they don’t
have any. –Alice Walker
88. Dreaming, after all, is a form of
planning. –Gloria Steinem
89. It’s your place in the world; it’s your
life. Go on and do all you can with it,
and make it the life you want to live. –
Mae Jemison
90. You may be disappointed if you fail, but
you are doomed if you don’t try. –
Beverly Sills
91. Remember no one can make you feel
inferior without your consent. –Eleanor
Roosevelt
92. Life is what we make it, always has
been, always will be. –Grandma Moses
93. The question isn’t who is going to let
me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn
Rand
94. When everything seems to be going
against you, remember that the airplane
takes off against the wind, not with it. –
Henry Ford
95. It’s not the years in your life that count.
It’s the life in your years. –Abraham
Lincoln
96. Change your thoughts and you change
your world. –Norman Vincent Peale
97. Either write something worth reading or
do something worth writing. –Benjamin
Franklin
98. Nothing is impossible, the word itself
says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn
99. The only way to do great work is to love
what you do. –Steve Jobs
100. If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
–Zig Ziglar

















Get yourself d useful ones n apply it to your daily activities




U can also add more
Re: Inspirational Qoutes For You by Dahkogrin007(m): 12:22am On Nov 16, 2013
Bravo
Re: Inspirational Qoutes For You by Joshpet1(m): 12:26am On Nov 16, 2013
cool
Dahkogrin007: Bravo
Thanks..... glad u love it


Hoping It's useful
Re: Inspirational Qoutes For You by Nobody: 12:34am On Nov 16, 2013
superb, nice one
Re: Inspirational Qoutes For You by Joshpet1(m): 12:36am On Nov 16, 2013
cool
ueskman: superb, nice one
I sight u bro

(1) (Reply)

Dis Airforce1 Dey Try Me Sha / What I Want For Christmas / How Many Friends Do You Have On Facebook

(Go Up)

Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health
religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket

Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 31
Disclaimer: Every Nairaland member is solely responsible for anything that he/she posts or uploads on Nairaland.