Messages of Inspiration, Success Through Motivation

Motivational & Inspirational Quotes

Popular Inspirational Quotes

Andrew Carnegie on Happiness

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

— Andrew Carnegie

Robert Allen on Apprenticing

"Study anyone who's great, and you'll find that they apprenticed to a master, or several masters. Therefore, if you want to achieve greatness, reown, and superlative success, you must apprentice to a master."

— Robert Allen

Giving 100 Percent

"I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end."

— Larry Bird

Amiel on Inner Life

"The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings."

— Henri Amiel

Sigars on Joy

"This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors."

— Chuck Sigars

Your Own Terms

"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all."

— Anna Quindlen

The Intellectual Eye

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Lyon on Succeeding

"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."

— Bill Lyon

Quietly and Safely

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."

— William Dement

Stephen King on Talent

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

— Stephen King