Dozens of Inspiring Quotes
May 15, 2009 by Phil Gerbyshak
Filed under Business
If you’re like me, sometimes you get beaten down and feel like the world is against you. When that happens to me, I am always looking for something to motivate and inspire me. What I often find is an inspiring quote or two to pull me out of my funk. I thought I’d share a few of the new ones I’ve found that have been especially helpful to me.
“Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.” – Bud Fox
“One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” – Sigmund Freud
“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein
“Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.” – Rita Levi-Montalcini
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” – Paulo Coelho
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass
“It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.” – C.S. Lewis
“There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.” – Franz Kafka
“Don’t feel entitled to anything you don’t sweat and struggle for.” – Marian Wright Edelman
“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.” – Winston Churchill
“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Do you have a favorite quote to share?
Please leave a comment and share it because we can all use a little more inspiration!
The number 12 courtesy of abbynormy
“Impossible is not a fact, it’s just an opinion.” – Robert K. Cooper, Ph.D.
“we all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.” – Konrad Adenauer
“The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.” – Herbert Agar
“If you want to be successful, never be bigger than the front line.” – Sam Walton
Wize men talk becuase they have something to say, fools, because they have to say something.” – Plato
“An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader’s premier trait.” – Tom Peters
“Every company should work hard to obsolete its own product line … before its competitors do.” – Philip Kotler
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” – Paulo Coelho
That’s a great one. It sneaks up on you as you read it and forces a little perspective change. Good one!
“You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn’t it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.” – Marcus Cole, Character in J. Michael Straczynski’s Babylon 5
“Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.” – Sir John Harvey-Jones
“When there is something to be said, it is better if it is said right away. If it is said later, it will sound like an excuse.” – Yamamoto Tsunetomo [The Book of the Samurai]
“Wherever you go, there you are.” – Buckaroo Banzai
hmmmm…mine seem to be less about inspiration than resignation
thanks for the inspiration!