50 Inspirational Quotes
Part 2

Here you have Part 2 of this series, with a collection of 50 inspirational quotes.  In case you missed Part 1 containing the first listing of 50 good quotes, you can go through it by clicking here.

The quotations are not in any particular order.  I call them motivational, as since the first time I came across them, each one triggered that ‘something’ inside of me to keep moving forward.  I hope you find them as useful as much as I do.

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“You’ve only got three choices in life: Give up, give in or give it all you’ve got.” - Unknown 

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King Jr

“How long should you try? Until.” – Jim Rohn

“You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.” – Denis Waitley

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” – Wayne Dyer

“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of, so they can see that it’s not the answer.” – Jim Carrey

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself.” – Conrado I. Generoso

“Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.” – Bob Richards

“I hope when you count the stars, you begin with yourself, and may you embrace the moonlight with your dreams.” – Dodinsky

“Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.” – Norman B. Rice

“Patience is a key element of success.” – Bill Gates

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you.  This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.” – Mark Twain

“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” – Sir Winston Churchill

“If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it’s OK.  But you’ve got to shoot for something.  A lot of people don’t even shoot.” – Confucius

“It’s not so much what the job gives you, it’s what you give to the job.” – Denis Waitley

“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.” – Lemony Snicket

“It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.” – Bryant H. McGill

“Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90.  Time is a concept that humans created.” – Yoko Ono

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” – Kurt Cobain

“You are far too smart to be the only thing standing in your way.” – Jennifer J. Freeman

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr

“Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.” – W. J. Cameron

“When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.” – Samuel Goldwyn

“Wages make you a living, profits make you a fortune.  Could we start earning profits while we make a living? The answer is yes.” – Jim Rohn

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.” – Charles F. Kettering

“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.” – Wayne Dyer

“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.” – Mary Manin Morrissey

“You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou.

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein

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

“Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.”  Benjamin Franklin

“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.” Phyllis Bottome.

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr Seuss

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.” Peter Drucker

“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.” – Lee Iacocca

“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.” – John Ruskin

“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Advice is like snow… the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.” – Robert H. Schuller

“The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.” – Arthur Ashe

“You can do anything, but not everything.” David Allen

“If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.” – Anita Roddick

“The start is what stops most people.” – Don Shula

“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” – Virginia Woolf

“Learn how to separate the majors from the minors.  A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.” – Jim Rohn

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say.  I just watch what they do.” – Andrew Carnegie

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