Motivational Quotes part 2

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
--Leonardo da Vinci

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
--Salvador Dali

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.
--Anita DeFrantz

We're all pilgrims on the same journeybut some pilgrims have better road maps.
--Nelson Demille

Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.
--John Dewey

Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
--The Dhammapada

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
--Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.
--Benjamin Disraeli

The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.
--Lewis Duncombe

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
--Amelia Earhart

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
--Marian Wright Edelman

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
--Maria Edgeworth

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.
--Thomas Edison

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
--Thomas Edison

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
--Thomas Edison

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
--Thomas Edison

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
--Albert Einstein

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
--Albert Einstein

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
--George Eliot

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
--George Eliot

It's never too late to be who you might have been.
--George Eliot

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
--T.S. Eliot

It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a festival only to the wise.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
--Friedrich Engels

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
--Epictetus

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
--Epicurus

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
--Susan Ertz

I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
--Euripides

Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
--Euripides

Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.
--Euripides

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
--Doug Firebaugh

For every minute you remain angry, you give up 60 seconds of peace of mind.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
--Henry Ford

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
--Henry Ford

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
--E. M. Forster

Goals are discovered, not made.
--Richard J. Foster

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
--Anatole France

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
--Viktor Frankl

The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should not want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.
--Benjamin Franklin

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
--Benjamin Franklin

Life's tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
--Benjamin Franklin

Little strokes fell great oaks.
--Benjamin Franklin

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
--Benjamin Franklin

Life is full of obstacle illusions.
--Grant Frazier

Thought is action in rehearsal.
--Sigmund Freud

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
--Robert Frost

The only way around is through.
--Robert Frost

Good is not good where better is expected.
--Thomas Fuller

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
--Thomas Fuller