Motivational and Inspirational Quotes Collection

1. It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Take calculated risks. 
3. That is quite different from being rash. George S. Patton
4. Storms make oaks take roots. 
   Proverb
5. If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. 
   St. Clement of Alexandra
6. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. Thornton Wilder
8. The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. 
   Arthur C. Clarke
9. Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. Johann Gottfried Von Herder
10. And all may do what has by man been done. Edward Young
11. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. 
    Aristotle
12. Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. Samuel Smiles
13. Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.Voltaire
14. If the wind will not serve,take to the oars. 
    Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe 
    Latin Proverb
15. Men's best successes come after their disappointments. Henry Ward 
16. Beecher
17. You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. 
    Author Unknown
18. The best way out is always through.
    Robert Frost
19. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. 
    William B. Sprague
20. Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. 
    Samuel Johnson
21. Fortune favors the brave. 
    Publius Terence
22. When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. - Richard Hooker
23. He who hesitates is lost. 
    Proverb
24. If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until some one comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. 
    John B. Gough
25. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein
26. Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Orison Swett Marden
27. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. 
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
28. We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls. 
    Winston Churchill
29. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. 
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. For hope is but the dream of those that wake. 
    Matthew Prior
31. Constant dripping hollows out a stone. 
    Lucretius
32. Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. 
    Mary Shelley