60 Best Of The Best Quotes For a Kick In The Butt

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
—Wayne Gretzky

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
— Ambrose Redmoon

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
— Gandhi

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
— Abraham Maslow

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
— Aristotle

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
— Lao-Tzu

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
– Albert Einstein

Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.
– Kevin Kruse

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
– Napoleon Hill

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
– Albert Einstein

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
– Robert Frost

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.
– Florence Nightingale

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
– Wayne Gretzky

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
– Babe Ruth

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
– W. Clement Stone

We must balance conspicuous consumption with conscious capitalism.
– Kevin Kruse

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
– John Lennon

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

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
– Jim Rohn

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.
– Henry Ford

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
– Mark Twain

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The best revenge is massive success.
– Frank Sinatra

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined.
– Henry David Thoreau

Start where you are. Use what you have.  Do what you can.
– Arthur Ashe

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

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
– Norman Vincent Peale

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
– Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”
– Audrey Hepburn

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
– Steve Jobs

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
– Zig Ziglar

Fall seven times and stand up eight.
– Japanese Proverb

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
– Helen Keller

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.
– Confucius

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
– Anne Frank

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
– Lao Tzu

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
– Maya Angelou

Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.
– Dalai Lama

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
– Sheryl Sandberg

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.
– Erica Jongn

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
– Bill Cosby

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
– Albert Einstein

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
– Chinese Proverb

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
– Roger Staubach

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
– George Eliot

You become what you believe.
– Oprah Winfrey

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
– Vincent van Gogh

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
– Farrah Gray

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

Education costs money.  But then so does ignorance.
– Sir Claus Moser

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.
– Rosa Parks

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
– Confucius

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
– Tony Robbins

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
– Ayn Rand

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
– Henry Ford

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
–Abraham Lincoln

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.
– Zig Ziglar

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
– M.K. Gandhi

 

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