Top 25 Inspirational Quotes of 18915 - Page 487

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

William James

Inspirational, Attitude, Business

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

William J. Clinton

Inspirational Life, Overcoming, Energy

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

William Hazlitt

Inspirational, Confidence, Positive Attitude

William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.37

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

William Gilmore Simms

Inspirational, Gunpowder, Answers

William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.15

History is not was, it is.

William Faulkner

Inspirational, Motivational, History

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

William Ellery Channing

Inspirational, Character, Men

William Ellery Channing (1873). “The complete works of W. E. Channing, D. D., with an introduction”

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

William Barclay

Inspirational, Life, Taken

William Barclay (2003). “Day by Day with William Barclay: Selected Readings for Daily Reflection”, Hendrickson Publishers

In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions of incompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability to create. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completion date, then do it.

William Arthur Ward

Inspirational, Loss, Energy

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

Walter Isaacson

Inspirational, Talking, People

Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Voltaire

Inspirational, Change, Determination

Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.1615, e-artnow

There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending.

Vladislav Tretiak

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

Virginia Woolf

Inspirational, Believe, Belief

Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2001). “The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction”, p.53, Oxford University Press, USA

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Inspirational, Life, God

Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.56, Penguin

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

Twyla Tharp

Inspirational, Air, Ideas

With enough emotional intensity and repetition, our nervous systems experience something as real, even if it hasn't occurred yet.

Tony Robbins

Real, Inspirational Life, Emotional

Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Tony Robbins

Inspirational, Becoming, Accepting

Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.

Toni Morrison

Inspirational, Graduation, Art

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Tom Stoppard

Inspirational, Growing Up, Maturity

Tom Stoppard (2012). “Tom Stoppard Plays 2: The Dissolution of Dominic Boot; 'M' is for Moon Among Other Things; If You're Glad I'll Be Frank; Albert's Bridge; Where Are They Now?; Artist Descending a Staircase; The Dog It Was That Died; In the Native State; On 'Dover Beach'”, p.103, Faber & Faber