★ Inspirational And Motivational Quotes ★

Inspirational And Motivational Quotes

• 1 "Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise." - Anon.
• 2 "We must use time wisely and forever realise that the time is always ripe to do right." - Nelson Mendela
• 3 "Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny." - Kamran Hamid
• 4 "To measure the man, measure his heart." - Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
• 5 "Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow." - Anon.
• 6 "Leap and the net will appear." - Julie Cameron
• 7 "You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth." - Shira Tehrani
• 8 "Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg." - Anon.
• 9 "Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it." - Anon.
• 10 "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." - Mae West
• 11 "One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us." - Michael Cibenko
• 12 "Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once." - Lillian Dickson
• 13 "Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans." - Thomas La Mance
• 14 "Happiness walks on busy feet." - Kitte Turmell
• 15 "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
• 16 "The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ..." - Michel de Montaigne
• 17 "We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
• 18 "Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow." - Swedish proverb
• 19 "The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Allan K. Chalmers
• 20 "If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." - Mary Kay Ash
• 21 "Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure and stop to smell the flowers." - Walter Hagen
• 22 "Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals." - Voltaire
• 23 "The tragedy of life doesn�t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach." - Benjamin Mays
• 24 "Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try." - Mary Kay Ash
• 25 "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." - Sam Ewing
• 26 "For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' " - John Greenleaf Whittier
• 27 "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." - John Lennon
• 28 "The follies a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity." - Helen Rowland
• 29 "I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die." - William Wiley
• 30 "Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling." - Margaret Lee Runbeck
• 31 "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." - Don Herold
• 32 "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
• 33 "Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best." - Reverend Oliver G. Wilson
• 34 "A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions." - Marcus Aurelius
• 35 "The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates." - Thomas Szasz
• 36 "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen Keller
• 37 "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." - Helen Keller
• 38 "Every man is the architect of his own fortune." - Sallust
• 39 "The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates." - Thomas Szasz
• 40 "Doubt whom you will, but never yourself." - Christine Bovee
• 41 "The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention." - Anon.
• 42 "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." - Henry Ford
• 43 "Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week." - Anon.
• 44 "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
• 45 "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work." - Daniel H. Burnham
• 46 "He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for." - Moroccan Proverb
• 47 "He not busy being born is busy dying." - Bob Dylan
• 48 "Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese." - Billie Burke
• 49 "You're as old as you behave." - Harvey Mackay
• 50 "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Sally Berger
• 51 "The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness." - Max Eastman
• 52 "Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them." - Anon.
• 53 "'I can't do it' never yet accomplished anything; 'I will try' has performed wonders." - George P. Burnham
• 54 "Things are only impossible until they're not." - Jean-Luc Picard
• 55 "What you do today can change the course of your life far into the future. Today is critical. Today really counts." - Ralph S. Marston, Jr.
• 56 "The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing." - Anon.
• 57 "If I had my life to live over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes the next time." - Nadine Stair
• 58 "Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment." - Amelia Barr
• 59 "The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Anon.
• 60 "Most people are about as happy as they make their minds up to be." - Abraham Lincoln
• 61 "Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it." - David Star Jordan
• 62 "Keep true to the dreams of thy youth." - Friedrich von Schiller
• 63 "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." - Seneca
• 64 "There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein
• 65 "Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses
• 66 "Luck is when preparation meets opportunity." - Paul Fargis
• 67 "Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." - Hans Christian Anderson
• 68 "If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?" - Thomas Lovell Beddoes
• 69 "The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you're certain no other person is watching. When no one is watching, you are driven by what you expect of yourself." - Ralph S. Marston, Jr.
• 70 "Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene." - Arthur Christopher Benson
• 71 "Dying seems less sad than having lived too little." - Gloria Steinem
• 72 "The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball." - Doug Larson
• 73 "Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity." - Omar Idn Al-Halif
• 74 "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." - Robert Brault
• 75 "What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do." - Anon.
• 76 "There's only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience." - Laurence J. Peter
• 77 "To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory." - Pierre Corneille
• 78 "If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." - Jonathan Winters
• 79 "Every man dies. Not every man really lives." - William Wallace from the film 'Braveheart'
• 80 "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." - Mahatma Gandhi
• 81 "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." - John Powell
• 82 “If you're going through hell, keep going.” - Sir Winston Churchill
• 83 "I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing." - Anais Nin
• 84 "Later never exists." - Anon.
• 85 "I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." - Artur Rubenstein
• 86 "Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it." - Col. Michael Friedsman
• 87 "Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead." - Lilly Langtry
• 88 "One should count each day a separate life." - Seneca
• 89 "A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart." - Robertson Davies
• 90 "Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life." - Hugh Sidey
• 91 "Lazy people work double." - Anon.
• 92 "The most common cause of insufficient results is insufficient action." - Brian Koslow
• 93 "You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself." - Warren B. Bennis
• 94 "Life is not holding a good hand. Life is playing a poor hand well." - Danish Proverb
• 95 "If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking." - Buddhist Proverb
• 96 "When the world says, 'Give up,' / Hope whispers, 'Try it one more time.'" - Anon.
• 97 "Men are born to succeed, not fail." - Henry David Thoreau
• 98 "The most powerful thing to believe in is yourself and your own abilities." - Brian Koslow
• 99 "When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work." - George Bernard Shaw
• 100 "It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying." - Tim Robbins (from the film, "The Shawshank Redemption")
• 101 "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." - Theophrastus
• 102 "The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success." - B. C. Forbes
• 103 "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." - Harriet Beecher Stowe
• 104 "You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness." - Anon.
• 105 "Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it." - Mae West
• 106 "Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't." - Richard Bach
• 107 "Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 108 "The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present." - Anon
• 109 "We only do well the things we like doing." - Colette
• 110 "Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for." - David Starr Jordan
• 111 "All serious daring starts from within." - Eudora Welty
• 112 "But' is a fence over which few leap." - German proverb
• 113 "If you rest, you rust." - Helen Hayes
• 114 "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen Keller
• 115 "I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's." - Henry Moore
• 116 "As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more." - Jules Renard
• 117 "If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased." - Katharine Hepburn
• 118 "If you wait, all that happens is that you get older." - Larry McMurtry
• 119 "There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second." - Logan Pearsall Smith
• 120 "You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead." - Lois Platford
• 121 "No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living." - Marie Beynon Ray
• 122 "Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action..." - Theodore Roosevelt
• 123 "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." - Thomas Jefferson
• 124 "What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate." - Henry David Thoreau
• 125 "Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment." - Marsha Sinetar
• 126 "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." - Chinese proverb
• 127 "You cannot build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford
• 128 "If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home." - James A. Michener
• 129 "What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!" - Logan Pearsall Smith
• 130 "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence and determination." - Calvin Coolidge
• 131 "What makes life dreary is want of motive." - George Eliot
• 132 "The mere sense of living is joy enough" - Emily Dickinson
• 133 "To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." - Anatole France
• 134 "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville
• 135 "Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities." - William Bridges
• 136 "Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." - Danny Kaye
• 137 "To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything." - Joan Didion
• 138 "Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities." - John Wicker
• 139 "Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own necessary vegetation." - Gail Sheehy
• 140 "You must change in order to survive." - Pearl Bailey
• 141 "First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do." - Epictetus
• 142 "Give me a man who sings at his work." - Thomas Carlyle
• 143 "There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change." - Rollo May
• 144 "With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable." - Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton
• 145 "Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
• 146 "Dying seems less sad than having lived too little." - Gloria Steinem
• 147 "Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond." - Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein
• 148 "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." - Sir Winston Churchill
• 149 "Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy." - Robert Anthony
• 150 "Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was." - Richard L. Evans
• 151 "Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right." - Henry Ford
• 152 "Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." - Scottish Proverb
• 153 "Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy." -Robert Anthony
• 154 "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." - Mark Twain
• 155 "If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind." - Seneca
• 156 "To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting." - E. E. Cummings
• 157 "Monotony is the awful reward of the careful." - A. G. Buckham
• 158 "Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way." - Abraham Lincoln
• 159 "Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition." - Abraham Lincoln
• 160 "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin
• 161 "Happiness depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle
• 162 "If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?" - Basil S. Walsh
• 163 "We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." - Calvin Coolidge
• 164 "Age is nothing to a live man." - Edward E. Purinton
• 165 "I'm not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You're as old as you feel." - Elizabeth Arden
• 166 "The beginning is half of every action." - Greek proverb
• 167 "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller
• 168 "Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man." - Jimmy Lyons
• 169 "We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes." - John F. Kennedy
• 170 "The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry." - John Jensen
• 171 "Do it big or stay in bed." - Larry Kelly
• 172 "To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life." - Malcolm Forbes
• 173 "Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use." - Ruth Gordon
• 174 "It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done." - Samuel Johnson
• 175 "If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore." - Shirley Hufstedler
• 176 "Life is enthusiasm, zest." - Sir Laurence Olivier
• 177 "Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life." - Tennessee Williams
• 178 "The difference between one man and another is not mere ability� it is energy." - Thomas Arnold
• 179 "There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back." - Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister
• 180 "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind." - William James
• 181 "The best way to get something done is to begin." - Anon.
• 182 "To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing." - Eva Young
• 183 "Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank." - Ben Irwin
• 184 "Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come." - Janet E. Stuart
• 185 "Everything comes too late for those who only wait." - Elbert Hubbard
• 186 "The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live." - Joan Borysenko
• 187 "Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius
• 188 "Readiness is all." - William Shakespeare
• 189 "The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." - Jack London
• 190 "To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no." - Jean Anouilh
• 191 "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live." - Oscar Wilde
• 192 "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison
• 193 "The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." - Henry Miller
• 194 "Spend some time alone every day." - The Dalai Lama
• 195 "I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life." - Miles Davis
• 196 "You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again." - Bonnie Prudden
• 197 "I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it." - Rita Mae Brown
• 198 "Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time." - Goethe
• 199 "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." - Henry David Thoreau
• 200 "Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece." - Ralph Charell
• 201 "Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain." - Marcus Aurelius
• 202 "You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing." - Marie Stopes
• 203 "You've got to find the force inside you." - Joseph Campbell
• 204 "The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm." - Fred Dehner
• 205 "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." - Earl Nightingale
• 206 "All the so-called 'secrets of success' will not work unless you do" - Anon.
• 207 "We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it." - Mary Blake
• 208 "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort." - Sydney Smith
• 209 "He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him." - Dutch Proverb
• 210 "The world belongs to the energetic." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 211 "I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck." - Emma Goldman
• 212 "Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal." - E. Joseph Crossman
• 213 "My favourite thing is to go where I've never been" - Diane Arbus
• 214 "What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realised it sooner." - Colette
• 215 "If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it." - Immanuel von Fichte
• 216 "Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might." - Phillips Brooks
• 217 "Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of." - Charles Richards
• 218 "Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do." - Anon.
• 219 "Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." - Theodore N. Vail
• 220 "The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself." - Rita Mae Brown
• 221 "Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come." - Janet Erskine Stuart
• 222 "Men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate decision to live wisely." - Robert Grant
• 223 "He who would have fruit must climb the tree." - Thomas Fuller
• 224 "To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world, we must do something." - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• 225 "Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise." - Anon.
• 226 "It takes courage to lead a life. Any life." - Erica Jong
• 227 "Delay not to seize the hour!" - Aeschylus
• 228 "All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination." - Barbara Grizutti Harrison
• 229 "Reach high, for stars hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." - Pamela Star
• 230 "Nothing happens unless first a dream." - Carl Sandburg
• 231 "The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor." - Christian Bovee
• 232 "A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
• 233 "Once you say you are going to settle for second, that's what happens to you." - John F. Kennedy
• 234 "It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later." - Lucimar Santos de Lima
• 235 "Never let yesterday use up today." - Richard H. Nelson
• 236 "To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell
• 237 "A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows." - John Powell
• 238 "Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." - William James
• 239 "Why always, 'not yet?' Do flowers in spring say, 'not yet?'" - Norman Douglas
• 240 "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon
• 241 "God help those who do not help themselves." - Wilson Mizener
• 242 "Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it." - David Guy Powers
• 243 "Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." - Raymond Linquist
• 244 "Sweat plus sacrifice equals success." - Charles O. Finley
• 245 "What worries you, masters you." - Haddon W. Robinson
• 246 "Nothing can be done except little by little." - Charles Baudelaire
• 247 "Life is a great bundle of little things." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
• 248 "If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner." - Tallulah Bankhead
• 249 "No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back." - Turkish proverb
• 250 "The ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who would make it so." - Horatio W. Dresser
• 251 "Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed." - Sydney Smith
• 252 "There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist." - Mark Twain
• 253 "Boldness be my friend." - William Shakespeare (from Cymbeline)
• 254 "The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so." - David Hume
• 255 "There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear." - Jawaharlal Nehru
• 256 "The secret of success is constancy of purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli
• 257 "For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance." - Mignon McLaughlin
• 258 "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 259 "The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed." - Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort
• 260 "Redeem thy mis-spent time that's past: / Live this day, a if 'twere they last." - Bishop Thomas Ken
• 261 "What we love to do we find time to do." - John L. Spalding
• 262 "Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal." - Charles Buxton
• 263 "Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." - Theodore N. Vail
• 264 "To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing." - Elbert Hubbard
• 265 "Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have." - Margaret Mead
• 266 "It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not." - James Gordon, M.D.
• 267 "All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers." - Orison Swett Marden
• 268 "If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living." - Gail Sheehy
• 269 "Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." - Voltaire
• 270 "We are the hero of our own story." - Mary McCarthy
• 271 "There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning." - Christopher Morley
• 272 "If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable." - Seneca
• 273 "Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy." - Henri de Lubac, Paradoxes
• 274 "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." - Don Herold
• 275 "Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." - Scottish Proverb
• 276 "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli
• 277 "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog." - Archie Griffin
• 278 "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort." - Sydney Smith
• 279 "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau
• 280 "The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." -Allan K. Chalmers
• 281 "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli
• 282 "Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience." - Randolph Bourne, Youth and Life
• 283 "What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print." - Isadora Duncan, My Life
• 284 "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathusra
• 285 "Dying is no big deal. The least of us will manage that. Living is the trick." - Red Smith
• 286 "Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing." - Adolph Monod
• 287 "A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste." - Anon.
• 288 "The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." - Ben Stein
• 289 "A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm." - Charles M. Schwab
• 290 "A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood." - David Sarnoff
• 291 "There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." - Douglas Everett
• 292 "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
• 293 "I'll walk where my own nature would be leading; it vexes me to choose another guide." - Emily Bronte
• 294 "The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes." - Frank Lloyd Wright
• 295 "You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand." - Irene C. Kassorla
• 296 "O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!" - John Keats
• 297 "Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do." - Jose Ortega y Gasset
• 298 "The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for." - Joseph Addison
• 299 "Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it." - Joseph Campbell
• 300 "Possessions dwindle; I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more, for anyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time." - Latin Proverb
• 301 "My future is one I must make myself." - Louis L'Amour
• 302 "..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will." - Michel de Montaigne
• 303 "It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life." - Queen Christina, of Sweden
• 304 "If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself." - Rollo May
• 305 "To be free is to have achieved your life." - Tennessee Williams
• 306 "The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year." - Thomas Dreier
• 307 "Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing." - William Feather
• 308 "About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age." - Gloria Pitzer
• 309 "Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing." - Thomas Jefferson
• 310 "The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." - Michelangelo Buonarroti
• 311 "To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France
• 312 "The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become." - Harold Taylor
• 313 "Never confuse movement with action." - Ernest Hemingway
• 314 "Of all our human resources, the most precious is the desire to improve." - Anon.
• 315 "This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow." - Margaret Lindsey
• 316 "Life will reward you precisely to the extent that you express yourself, in your own unique way, to the world." - Ralph S. Marston, Jr.
• 317 "The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances." - Martha Washington
• 318 "One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey." - William Hazlitt
• 319 "Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!" - Elizabeth Barrett Browning