Inspirational & Motivational Quotes - Page 4

I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. And that I can do, I ought to do. And what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I shall do.
- Edward Everett Hale

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

I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the battlefield of victory.
- Vince Lombardi

I have been driven to my knees many times by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.
- Abraham Lincoln

I have no desire to be a teenager again. I think that would be beyond nature in a very, very dangerous way. And, in fact, this goes back to the parables of Dorian Gray and Peter Pan about eternal youth. It's disastrous. It's incredibly toxic. Within our culture in general, there's a lot of people trying to prolong their youth, in disastrous ways. It just doesn't work. The human body has finite limits.
- John Savage

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.
- Thomas Alva Edison

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
- Chinese Proverb

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
- Michelangelo

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
- Diane Sawyer

I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not what happiness really is.
- Alanis Morissette

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
- C.S. Lewis

If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
- Elbert Hubbard

If the blind put their hand in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
- Helen Keller

If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to live the life which you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau

If you ever have something bad to say about anybody, be sure the answer to these three questions is 'yes' before you say it: Is it true? Is it just? Will it do anybody any good to say it?

If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend on it that you have more business on hand than God ever intended that you should have.
- D.L. Moody

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you're doing. Love what you're doing. And believe in what you're doing.
- O.A. Battista

In character, in manner, in style, in all things...the supreme excellence is simplicity.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In Maine, we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.
- Edmund Muskie

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson

In order to do something you must be something.
- Admiral James B. Stockdale

In this country, you are still privileged to free speech...but that's as far as the Constitution goes. It doesn't guarantee listeners.

Integrity has no need of rules.
- Albert Camus

Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long. In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.
- Vince Poscente

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
- Confucius

It has become appalingly obvious that our technology has exceeeded our humanity.
- Albert Einstein

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
-Baltasar Gracian

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
- Epictetus

It is not what we get but who we become, what we contribute...that gives meaning to our lives.
- Anthony Robbins

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
- Warren Buffett

It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it was to say, "I don't know."
- W. Somerset Maugham

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
- Dick Cavett

It's better to be silent and be considered a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln

It's good to shut up sometimes.
- Marcel Marceau

It's hard to listen while you're planning something you think needs to be said.

It's just like magic: When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.
- Merrill Markoe

It's what you do when you have nothing to do that reveals who you are.