Here’s the list of 365 inspirational quotes that will motivate you throughout year. These inspirational quotes contains the best of the best quotes. No matter what situation of your life is at the moment, you’ll find the quote or quotes that will lift you up from the current situation and put you on path of success, be it career, health or personal.
365 Inspirational Quotes
1. This to shall pass. – Proverb
2. Time is money. – Benjamin Franklin
3. Lost time is never found again. – Proverb
4. Dream big and dare to fail. – Norman Vaughan
5. You become what you believe. – Oprah Winfrey
6. Try not. Do or do not. There is no try. – Yoda
7. Every no gets me closer to a yes. – Mark Cuban
8. Time is the wisest counselor of all. – Pericles
9. Earn your leadership every day. – Michael Jordan
10. We become what we think about. – Earl Nightingale
11. While we are postponing, life speeds by. – Seneca
12. Whatever you are, be a good one. – Abraham Lincoln
13. A leader is a dealer in hope. – Napoleon Bonaparte
14. An unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates
15. The impossible is often the untried. – Jim Goodwin
16. A goal without a plan is just a wish. – Larry Elder
17. All great achievements require time. – Maya Angelou
18. Life is full of obstacle illusions. – Grant Frazier
19. Time lost is never found again. – Benjamin Franklin
20. Goals are dreams with deadlines. – Diana Scharf Hunt
21. The best revenge is massive success. – Frank Sinatra
22. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. – Zig Ziglar
23. The purpose of our lives is to be happy. – Dalai Lama
24. Never let yesterday use up today. – Richard H. Nelson
25. You may delay, but time will not. – Benjamin Franklin
26. Eighty percent of success is showing up. – Woody Allen
27. He who has great power should use it lightly. – Seneca
28. Live each day as if it be your last. – Marcus Aurelius
29. Fall seven times and stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb
30. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. – Jim Rohn
31. He who gains time gains everything. – Benjamin Disraeli
32. He who knows most grieves most for wasted time. – Dante
33. The greatest dreams are always unrealistic. – Will Smith
34. Map out your future, but do it in pencil. – Jon Bon Jovi
35. Education is the mother of leadership. – Wendell Willkie
36. Goals determine what you’re going to be. – Julius Erving
37. Nothing happens until something moves. – Albert Einstein
38. Nothing is ours except time. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
39. He that rises late must trot all day. – Benjamin Franklin
40. What would you do if you weren’t afraid? – Spencer Johnson
41. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky
42. Neither success nor failure are ever final. – Roger Babson
43. Always do what you are afraid to do. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
44. To do two things at once is to do neither. – Publius Syrus
45. The mind is everything. What you think you become. – Buddha
46. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. – Gloria Steinem
47. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. – Confucius
48. A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. – Ovid
49. If you’re going through hell, keep going! – Winston Churchill
50. Where there is no vision, the people perish. – Proverbs 29:18
51. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. – Latin Proverb
52. The most effective way to do it is to do it. – Amelia Earhart
53. By perseverance the snail reached the ark. – Charles Spurgeon
54. Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. – Napoleon Hill
55. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt
56. Live fully. Love openly. Make a difference. – Brendan Burchard
57. A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men. – Stephen King
58. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. – Babe Ruth
59. If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time. – Zig Ziglar
60. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. – Lao Tzu
61. There is no passion to be found playing small. – Nelson Mandela
62. Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician. – Lucille Harper
63. Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. – Publilius Syrus
64. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. – Roger Staubach
65. Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. – William Penn
66. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills
67. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. – General George Patton
68. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. – Vincent van Gogh
69. Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them. – Unknown
70. The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. – Bertrand Russell
71. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. – Vince Lombardi
72. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs
73. It is never too late to be who you might have been. – George Eliot
74. The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. – Leo Kennedy
75. We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet. – Unknown
76. Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. – John Dewey
77. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin
78. The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. – Dwight Eisenhower
79. Time will take your money, but money won’t buy time. – James Taylor
80. I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? – Benjamin Disraeli
81. Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. – Sir Claus Moser
82. Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. – Rodin
83. Take a rest. A field that has rested yields a beautiful crop. – Ovid
84. If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. – Katharine Hepburn
85. What you do has far greater impact than what you say. – Stephen Covey
86. A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self. – Charles Dickens
87. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn
88. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. – Teddy Roosevelt
89. Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else. – Peter Drucker
90. The most important question to ask is, what am I becoming? – Jim Rohn
91. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – Lao Tzu
92. Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale
93. To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. – Andre Malraux
94. You manage things; you lead people. – Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
95. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. – Arthur Ashe
96. Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved. – Swami Vivekananda
97. The best way to succeed is to double your failure rate. – Thomas Watson
98. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. – Albert Einstein
99. Don’t be stomping on ants when you have elephants to feed. – Peter Turla
100. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. – Aristotle
101. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. – Stephen R. Covey
102. What may be done at any time will be done at no time. – Scottish Proverb
103. Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once. – Drew Houston
104. People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. – John Maxwell
105. Don’t spend a dollar’s worth of time on a ten-cent decision. – Peter Turla
106. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. – George Adair
107. Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. – Alexander Dumas
108. Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today. – Benjamin Franklin
109. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. – John F. Kennedy
110. A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. – Andre Gide
111. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. – Woodrow Wilson
112. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. – Bill Bradley
113. Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war. – John Shebbeare
114. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford
115. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. – Warren Bennis
116. Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late. – William Shakespeare
117. To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. – Eva Young
118. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. – Booker T. Washington
119. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
120. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” – Audrey Hepburn
121. There is no such thing as failure. You either succeed or learn. – Kevin Kruse
122. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. – Les Brown
123. You are not defined by your past. You are prepared by your past. – Joel Osteen
124. Fear melts when you take action towards a goal you really want. – Robert Allen
125. Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. – Kevin Kruse
126. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. – Charles Swindoll
127. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon
128. Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts. – Erskine Bowles
129. Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thou shalt progress. – Maimonides
130. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs
131. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. – Maya Angelou
132. The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something. – Carl Sandburg
133. I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. – Benjamin Franklin
134. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill
135. Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama
136. What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
137. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. – Farrah Gray
138. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. – Ayn Rand
139. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. – Max Lucado
140. Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
141. He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. – Cicero
142. Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. – Cyril Parkinson
143. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. – W. Clement Stone
144. All the flowers of all of the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. – Chinese Proverb
145. It’s better to do the right thing slowly than the wrong thing quickly. – Peter Turla
146. It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. – Latin Proverb
147. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
148. The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try–angle. – Author Unknown
149. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. – Les Brown
150. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John C. Maxwell
151. If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. – John Wooden
152. Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. – Napoleon Bonaparte
153. I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. – Douglas Adams
154. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. – Stephen Covey
155. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin
156. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. – Tony Robbins
157. The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. – Bruce Feirstein
158. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. – Florence Nightingale
159. He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost. – Thomas Fuller
160. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. – Kenneth Blanchard
161. Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves. – Lord Chesterfield
162. Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it. – Unknown
163. Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you. – Mark Cuban
164. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. – Beverly Sills
165. It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
166. You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. – Charles Buxton
167. The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. Tony Blair
168. One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks. – Jack Penn
169. Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment. – James Allen
170. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
171. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. – Hector Louis Berlioz
172. If it weren’t for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn’t get done. – Michael S. Traylor
173. You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. – Rabindranath Tagore
174. Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day. – Ringo Starr
175. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers
176. It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top. – Arnold Bennett
177. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. – Unknown
178. Look to the future, because that is where you’ll spend the rest of your life. – George Burns
179. All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo
180. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. – Dalai Lama
181. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. – Japanese Proverb
182. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Eliot
183. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. – Harvey Firestone
184. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. – Chinese Proverb
185. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. – Sheryl Sandberg
186. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. – Aristotle
187. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. – Bill Gates
188. The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity. – Amelia Earhart
189. Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway. – Eleanor Roosevelt
190. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. – Maya Angelou
191. You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. – Unknown
192. You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life. – Zig Ziglar
193. How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to? – Anthony Robbins
194. A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. – Charles Darwin
195. It is better to have lived one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep. – Tibetan saying
196. Money is a wonderful thing, but it is possible to pay too high a price for it. – Alexander Bloch
197. Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. – Chinese Proverb
198. All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. – Baltasar Gracián
199. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. – Henry Ford
200. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
201. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. – Rosa Parks
202. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. – Alice Walker
203. You must get good at one of two things. Planting in the spring or begging in the fall. – Jim Rohn
204. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso
205. Money, I can only gain or lose. But time I can only lose. So, I must spend it carefully. – Unknown
206. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King Jr.
207. A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. – John C. Maxwell
208. As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. – George Bernard Shaw
209. You don’t lead by hitting people over the head–that’s assault, not leadership. – Dwight Eisenhower
210. It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. – Brian Tracy
211. A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all. – Rita Mae Brown
212. If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. – Lawrence J. Peter
213. A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. – George Patton
214. A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at. – Bruce Lee
215. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. – Tom Peters
216. Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. – Les Brown
217. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb
218. A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible. – Polybius
219. I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. – Somerset Maugham
220. To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. – Friedrich Nietzsche
221. You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. – Jim Rohn
222. After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. – Nelson Mandela
223. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. – Henry David Thoreau
224. There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. – Peter Drucker
225. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
226. So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. – Peter Drucker
227. Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. – Brian Tracy
228. You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. – Erica Jong
229. Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours. – Doug Larson
230. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
231. I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done. – Henry Ford
232. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. – Chinese Proverb
233. You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. – Unknown
234. The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100%. – Patti Digh
235. You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
236. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. – Buddha
237. In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas Jefferson
238. When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. – Napoleon Bonaparte
239. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present. – Unknown
240. I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. – Lord Chesterfield
241. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Christopher Columbus
242. It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about? – Henry David Thoreau
243. The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don’t. – Jim Rohn
244. Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. – Jean De La Bruyere
245. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams. – Oprah Winfrey
246. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain
247. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank
248. You must have long–range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short–range failures. – Charles C. Noble
249. Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. – Jesus
250. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff that life is made of. – Benjamin Franklin
251. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. – Joshua J. Marine
252. It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. – Ernest Hemingway
253. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody up. – Henry Longfellow
254. Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. – Maria Robinson
255. I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. – Warren Bennis
256. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. – Zig Ziglar
257. Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. – Jesse Jackson
258. The real pleasure of one’s life is the devotion to a great objective of one’s consideration. – George Bernard Shaw
259. Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. – Brian Tracy
260. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. – Maya Angelou
261. The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
262. We can no more afford to spend major time on minor things than we can to spend minor time on major things. – Jim Rohn
263. Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose. – Thomas Edison
264. Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. – Alfred A. Montapert
265. Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. – John Zenger
266. I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader
267. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time. – Peter Drucker
268. Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in a harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
269. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams
270. Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. – David Lloyd George
271. Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. – Stephen Covey
272. Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. – Robert H. Schuller
273. No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. – Andrew Carnegie
274. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. – Marie Curie
275. The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. – Eric Hoffer
276. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost
277. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
278. Be mindful of how you approach time. Watching the clock is not the same as watching the sun rise. – Sophia Bedford–Pierce
279. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar
280. A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. – Baltasar Gracián
281. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. – Steve Jobs
282. It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. – Winston Churchill
283. Every day of your working life is part of an interview for a job you don’t even know you’re going for yet. – Adam Darowski
284. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. – Abigail Van Buren
285. The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: “I did not have time.” – Franklin Field
286. Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. – Doug Larson
287. Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. – Sylvia Plath
288. Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. – Will Rogers
289. The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. – Sir Winston Churchill
290. 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
291. You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. – Ken Kesey
292. My responsibility is getting all my players playing for the name on the front of the jersey, not the one on the back. – Unknown
293. In a day, when you don’t come across any problems –you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path. – Swami Vivekananda
294. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. – Henry Ford
295. It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. – Samuel Johnson
296. If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. – Andrew Carnegie
297. If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh
298. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – General Dwight Eisenhower
299. Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. – Adolphe Monod
300. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. – Peter Drucker
301. If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got. – Lee Iacocca
302. Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real. – Sara Paddison
303. Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. – Ross Perot
304. Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. – M. Scott Peck
305. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. – Mae Jemison
306. Take the first step in faith. We don’t need to see the whole staircase; we just need to take the first step. – Martin Luther King Jr
307. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. – Attributed to Carl Bard
308. My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them. – Richard Branson
309. If you’re bored with life ––you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things ––you don’t have enough goals. – Lou Holtz
310. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. – Herbert Swope
311. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. – Max DePree
312. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. – Booker T. Washington
313. The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render. – Napoleon Hill
314. A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. – Lao Tzu
315. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. – Bob Dylan
316. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. – Jack Welch
317. I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn’t. – Dee Dee Myers
318. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. – Norman Schwarzkopf
319. The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. – Elbert Hubbard
320. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead
321. If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
322. A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. – John C. Maxwell
323. In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking. – Sir John Lubbock
324. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. – Leonardo da Vinci
325. The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible –and achieve it, generation after generation. – Pearl S. Buck
326. A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be. – Rosalynn Carter
327. Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. – William Jennings Bryan
328. If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. – Oprah Winfrey
329. All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do. – Norman Vincent Peale
330. It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. – Ann Landers
331. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. – Stephen Covey
332. Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. – Samuel Smiles
333. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou
334. Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. – Howard Thurman
335. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. – Henry David Thoreau
336. A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. – John Pershing
337. It’s how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it. – Marcia Wieder
338. A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. – Douglas MacArthur
339. The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself– the invisible battles inside all of us– that’s where it’s at. – Jesse Owens
340. The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. – Thomas Henry Huxley
341. Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. – General Colin Powell
342. We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather recognizing and appreciating what we do have. – Friedrich Koenig
343. Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self–esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish. – Sam Walton
344. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. – Erma Bombeck
345. For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. – John F. Kennedy
346. True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well. – Bill Owens
347. Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. – Claude Bissell
348. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Henry Thoreau
349. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt
350. Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. – Carl Sandburg
351. The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth. – Maksim Gorky
352. An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals. – Mary Kay Ash
353. Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. – Vince Lombardi
354. Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. – Lord Chesterfield
355. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self–restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. – Theodore Roosevelt
356. Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year –and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade. – Anthony Robbins
357. The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet. – Reverend Theodore Hesburgh
358. Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week. – Charles Richards
359. A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove…but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. – Forest Witcraft
360. Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. – Harry S. Truman
361. Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. – H. Jackson Brown
362. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
363. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. – Mark Twain
364. Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. – General Colin Powell
365. 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