Messages of Inspiration, Success Through Motivation

Motivational & Inspirational Quotes

Popular Inspirational Quotes

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

When Skies Fall

"If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks."

— Francis Rabelais

Shape of Life

"Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life's affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion - of fun, love, or something that will outlast you - so the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the round lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions."

— Destin Figuier

Hubbard on Friends

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.

— Elbert Hubbard

Bushnell on Entrpreneur

"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer."

— Nolan Bushnell

Discouraged By a Failure

"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."

— John Keats

Never Too Late

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

— George Eliot

Disraeli on Perseverance

"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."

— Benjamin Disraeli

A Successful Individual

"A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration."

— Kurt Lewin

Dr. Seuss on Being Yourself

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

— Dr. Seuss