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5. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” –Theodore Roosevelt

 

6. “The mind is everything. What you think, you become.” –Buddha

 

7. “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” –John F. Kennedy

8. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” –Les Brown

 

9. “Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.” – Jim Rohn

 

10. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” –Aristotle

 

11. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” –Abraham Lincoln ( Famous Quotes By Great Leaders))

 

12. “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” –Bruce Lee

 

13.  “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” –Swami Vivekananda

 

14. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” –Sir Winston Churchill

 

15. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas A. Edison

 

16. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” –Oprah Winfrey

 

17. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” –Dhirubhai Ambani (Famous Quotes By Great Leaders)

 

18. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” –Maya Angelou

 

19. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

20. “Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.” –Mark Twain

 

21. “History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” –Abba Eban

 

22. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” –Sir Winston Churchill

 

23. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” –Lao Tzu

 

24. “A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” –Ayn Rand

 

25. “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” –J.K. Rowling

26. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” –William Shakespeare

27.  “Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.” – Jim Rohn

28.  “When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.” –Abraham Lincoln

29. “Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.” – Jim Rohn

30. “Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

31.  “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” –Jim Rohn

32.  “Don’t wish it was easier wish you were better, don’t wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom” –Jim Rohn

33. “One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of your attention.” – Jim Rohn

34.  “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude. Be kind, but not weak; and be bold, but not bully. Be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; and be proud, but not arrogant; have humour, but without folly.” –Jim Rohn

35.  “Learning is the beginning of wealth. It is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.” – Jim Rohn

36. “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn

37. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment” – Jim Rohn

38.  “If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.” – Jim Rohn

39. “A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.” – Jim Rohn

40. “This life is what you make it. No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends – they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything – they’re your true best friends. Don’t let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they’ll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them – actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can’t give up because if you give up, you’ll never find your soulmate. You’ll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” –Marilyn Monroe

 

41. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” –Stephen Covey (Quotes By Great Leaders)

 

42. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” –Vincent van Gogh

43. “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.” – Jim Rohn

44. “Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.” – Jim Rohn

45. “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” – Jim Rohn

47.  “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn

48.  “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

49.  “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” –Charles Darwin

50. “Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort.” –Mark Twight

51. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

52. “Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.” –Jim Rohn

53. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald

54. “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower

55. “Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.” –Denis Waitley

56. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman

57. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou

58. “Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.” – Napoleon Hill

 

59. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie

 

60. “If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.” – Walt Disney (Powerful Quotes by great leaders)

 

Famous Self Improvement Quotes By Famous People

61. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” –Nelson Mandela (Quotes By Great Leaders)

 

62. “The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.” –Peter Drucker

 

63. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” –Benjamin Franklin

 

64. “For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.” –Steve Jobs

65. “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” –Mark Twain

 

66. “The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.” –A. A. Milne

 

67. “I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.” –Adolf Hitler

 

68. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” –Socrates

69. “It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.” –Theodore Roosevelt

 

70. “Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto their leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.” –Julius Caesar

71. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.” –Steve Jobs (Powerful Quotes By Great Leaders)

72. “I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.” –Edith Sitwell

73. “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” –Marilyn Monroe

74. “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential…These are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” –Confucius

75. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” –Confucius

76. “There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.” –Albert Guinon

77. “A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.” –Baltasar Gracian

78. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” –Mark Caine

79. “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

80. “A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it’s the stupid ones who need advice.” –Bill Cosby

 

81. “I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” –Jimi Hendrix

82. “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.” –Erica Jong

 

83. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” –Albert Einstein (Famous Quotes by Great Leaders)

84. “It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.” –Adolf Hitler

 

85. “Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile.” –Mark Twain

86. “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

87. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” –Nido Qubein

88. “If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.” –Steve Jobs

89. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” –Sir Winston Churchill

90. “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” –Oprah Winfrey

91. “Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.” –Sara Blakely

92. “Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.” –Anne Sweeney

93. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” –Helen Keller

 

94. “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” –Tony Robbins

 

95. “When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” –Audre Lorde

 

96. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” –Mark Twain

 

97. “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know and start charging for it.” –Kim Garst

 

98. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” –Marianne Williamson

99. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” –David Brinkley

 

100. “Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.” –Roger Babson

 

Powerful Quotes on Self Improvement by Great Leaders

 

 “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” –Thomas Jefferson

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” –Booker T. Washington (Quotes By Great Leaders)

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” –Vince Lombardi

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” –Steve Jobs

 

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” –Ayn Rand

 

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” –Michael Jordan

 

“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” –Henry Van Dyke

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” –Oprah Winfrey (Quotes By Great Leaders)

“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She’s not perfect – you aren’t either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break – her heart. So don’t hurt her, don’t change her, don’t analyze and don’t expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she’s not there.” –Bob Marley

 

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.” –Bruce Lee

“We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.” –Sir Winston Churchill

 

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” –Mark Twain

 

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” –Bill Cosby

“Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.” –Richelle Mead

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” –Groucho Marx

“Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.” –Khalil Gibran

Powerful Quotes On Success By Great Leaders

“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.” –Zig Ziglar

“When love is not madness, it is not love.” – Pedro Calderón de la Barca

 

“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.” – John Lennon

“It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.” –Albert Einstein

“It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.” –Richard Evans

 

 “If you were half as funny as you think you are, you’d be twice as funny as you are now.” –Cassandra Clare

 

Famous Success Quotes by Great Leaders

“The best revenge is massive success.” –Frank Sinatra

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” –John F. Kennedy (Quotes By Great Leaders)

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.” –John Lennon

“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” –Albert Einstein

“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.” –George Bernard Shaw

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” –Steve Jobs (Quotes By Great Leaders)

 “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” –Jimi Hendrix

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” –Albert Einstein Success Quotes

 

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” –Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” – Bertrand Russell

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.” –Albert Camus

 Powerful Quotes by Great Leaders

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.” –Lao Tzu

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.” –Socrates

“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.” –Santosh Kalwar

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” –Robert Frost

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” –Plato

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” –Walter Cronkite

“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” –John C. Maxwell

World Famous Quotes by Great Leaders

 

“If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.” –Agatha Christie

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” –Robert Frost

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” –J.K. Rowling

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” –Alfred Tennyson

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” –Sir Winston Churchill

“We become what we think about.” –Earl Nightingale

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” –Chinese Proverb

“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” –Jim Rohn

 

“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” –Chinese Proverbs

 

“Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” –Ancient Indian Proverb

 

Motivational Quotes by Great Leaders

“Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.” – Jim Rohn

 

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn

 

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

 

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” – Jim Rohn

 

“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

 

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” –Henry Ford

 

“It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” –Abraham Lincoln

 

“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” –Oscar Wilde

 

“Limitations live only in our minds.  But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” –Jamie Paolinetti

 

“Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you.” –Henry J. Kaiser

Business Success Quotes by Great Leaders

 

“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.” –Abigail Van Buren

 

“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” –H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it’s only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.” –Albert Einstein

 

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” –Beverly Sills

 

“The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.” –John Naisbitt

 

“No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others.. or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.” –Calvin Coolidge

 

“Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn (Business Success Quotes by business leaders)

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” –C.S. Lewis

 

“Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” –Vince Lombardi