Every now and then I need a morale booster to keep me going. Reading the words of the sage and wise has always been a great way to inspire and motivate, and this quote collection won’t disappoint.
There is so much wisdom and common sense in these words and I’m confident one, or maybe even all of them, will give you the motivation and inspiration to help you accomplish your goals.
“Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.” — Romans 12:17-18
“Not what the disciple says in public prayer, not what he preaches from pulpit or platform, not what he writes on paper or in letters, but what he is in his heart which God alone knows, determines God’s revelation of himself to him. Character determines revelation.” — Oswald Chambers
“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.” — Roy T. Bennett
“We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.” — Albert Einstein
“Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.” — Mark Twain
“When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” — Dale Carnegie
“When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.”— Norman Vincent Peale
“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” — John Wooden
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.” —Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” — Thomas Edison
“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Zig Ziglar
“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.”— Elbert Hubbard
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” — Mary Anne Radmacher
“Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn’t what you get for it, but what you become for it.” — Steve Maraboli
“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” — Wilma Rudolph
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” — Thomas Jefferson
“What’s done is done. What’s gone is gone. One of life’s lessons is always moving on. It’s okay to look back to see how far you’ve come but keep moving forward.” — Roy T. Bennett
“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” — Les Brown
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” — George Lorimer
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson
“You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot—it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.” — Maya Angelou
“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.” — Robert H. Schuller
“There will never be ‘the right time’ in your life to do a great thing. You must create that time and greatness will follow.” — John A. Passaro
“No matter where you work or live or what occupation you engage in negative or undermining forces are constant. But, you have been armed with positive thinking that permeates each and very thorny bush within the garden of life.” — Catherine Pulsifer