This set of highly inspirational quotes by giants will instill the vaccination of positive attitude inside you.
We simply like to keep our doubt aside when giants like Voltaire, Steve Jobs, Richard Bach, Mark Twain, Swami Sivananda, Socrates, George Bernard Shaw, Dalai Lama, Albert Einstein, Mother Teresa and Charles Darwin share the words of wisdom !
1. Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t. – Richard Bach
2. Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up. – Anonymous
3. You can’t just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality. – Steve Maraboli
4. If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. – Jack Dixon
5. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. – Cyril Connolly
6. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain
7. Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. – Anonymous
8. Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve. – Wilfred Peterson
9. Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. – James Lowell
10. I believe that things should be let go once they are discussed. Apology accepted. End of story. – Brad Goreski
11. Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. – Voltaire
12. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. – Steve Jobs
13. Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths. – Etty Hillesum
14. Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs – Ann Landers
15. Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end. – Swami Sivananda
16. Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late. – Seth Goden
17. Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe. – Claudia Black
18. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. – Buddha
19. Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. – George Bernard Shaw
20. He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. – Socrates
21. Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields. – Peter Borden
22. The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. – Alan Watts
23. When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry; show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. – Anonymous
24. Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. – Mark Twain
25. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – Dalai Lama
26. Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching. – Satchel Paige
27. There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. – Aldous Huxley
28. The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
29. I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. – Jimmy Dean
30. The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking. – Albert Einstein
31. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. – Mother Teresa
32. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams
33. In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Anonymous
34. Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. – Mother Teresa
35. Success will never lower its standard to accommodate us; we have to raise our standard to achieve it. – Anonymous
36. If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right; you’ll probably never do much of anything. – Win Borden
37. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston Churhcill
38. You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. – George Lorimer
39. The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own. – Benjamin Disraeli
40. Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow. – Dirk Benedict
41. By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. – Robert Frost
42. Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and door will open where you didn’t know they were going to be. – Joseph Campbell
43. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. – Maya Angelou
44. Never fake yourself just to look perfect because perfection is never real and reality is never perfect. – Anonymous
45. Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want. – Alan Cohen
46. Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. – Belva Davis
47. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and keep it lit. – Mary Lou Retton
48. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison
49. Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it. – Mary Abigail Dodge
50. Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. – Henry James
51. After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: What did I do right? and What would I do differently? – Brian Tracy
52. If it’s free, it’s advice, if you pay for it, it’s counseling; if you can use either one, it’s a miracle. – Jack Adams
53. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. – Dr. Seuss
54. When I was young I observed that Nine out of ten things I did were failures, So I did ten times more work. – Bernard Shaw
55. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost
56. Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from. – Seth Godin
57. Our greatest fear should not be of failure … but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. – Francis Chan
58. You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. But you can decide how you’re going to live now. – Joan Baez
59. You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win; and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose. – Lou Holtz and John Heisler
60. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
61. The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. – Roy L. Smith
62. Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding. – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
63. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. – Walt Disney
64. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start; anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. – Carl Bard
65. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar
66. 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
67. Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. There is no terrain you cannot overcome. – Irisa Hail
68. There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. – Henri Bergson
69. If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point. – Dirk Benedict
70. Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. – Peter Drucker
71. Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. – Mary Lou Cook
72. It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. – Robert G. Ingersoll
73. 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
74. Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. – Vaibhav Shah
75. Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it. – Dr. Phil
76. Sometimes when I say ‘I’m okay’, I want someone to look me in the eyes, hug me tight and say, ‘I know you’re not’. – Anonymous
77. Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday. – Brian Tracy
78. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. – Conrad Hilton
79. A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. – Henry Ford
80. The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. – Eric Hofer
81. Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. – Meister Eckhart
82. It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles Darwin
83. Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep the faith. It will all be worth it in the end. – Anonymous
84. Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little. – Buddha
85. All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life. – Rollo May
86. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody. – Herbert B. Swope
87. Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. – George Sheehan
88. Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. – Mae Jemison
89. The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is; the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting. – Zig Ziglar
90. I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful. – Warren Buffett
91. Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. – Jesse Jackson
92. 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
93. If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. – Albert Einstein
94. In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, The stream always wins – Not through strength, but through persistence. – Buddha
95. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Herman Cain
96. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. – Lucille Ball
97. Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. – Bruce Lee
98. 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
99. 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
100. 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
101. You can always take the easy way out & give up but real strength comes when you decide to keep pushing no matter what the circumstances are. – Anonymous
102. You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie
103. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain
104. Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. – Vincent Van Gogh
105. You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. – Clay P. Bedford
106. In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. – Theodore Roosevelt
107. There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed. – Ray Goforth
108. Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. – William James
109. Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. – Charles F. Kettering
110. Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. – Orison Swett Marden
111. Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. – Leo F. Buscaglia
112. The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. – Albert Ellis
113. Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. – Zig Ziglar