What follows are some great inspirational quotes by some of the worlds finest mentors, successful men and women, such as the late, great Earl Nightingale, Zig Ziglar, Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins, Les Brown and many others.

Ever since I was a kid I used to get inspired by reading what some of these successful individuals were saying. I even used to write some of their quotes down in a small spiral notebook and carry it in my back pocket (don’t tell anyone I told you that!). I’ve always loved this kind of stuff and it inspires me to be the best that I can be in life. I hope this page inspires you as much as it inspires me when I read these.

Enjoy and without further ado…

“Venture nothing and life is less then it should be.” - Malcolm Forbes

“You can’t criticize what you don’t understand.” - Bob Dylan

“Thoughts can move mountains but sometimes you have to bring a shovel.” - Unknown

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just the first step.” -Dr.Martin L. King Jr

“I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.” - Zig Ziglar

“The best way to double your money is to fold it up and put it back in your pocket.” - Paul Watters

“An alcoholic isn’t one who drinks to much but one who can’t drink enough.” - Foster Brooks

“Don’t worry how others think of you. Your reputation is how others think of you while your character is what you really are.” - Denis Waitley

“A dog is the only being that loves you more than you love yourself.” - Fritz von Unruh

“If at first you don’t succeed, your running about average.” - M.H. Alderson

“It is more difficult to organize peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not well organized.” - Aristotle

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” - Dale Carnegie

“Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffin, you die.” - Stan Dale

“All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” - Walt Disney

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” - General Dwight D. Eisenhower

“You never test the depth of a river with both feet.” - Confucious

“You cannot get to the top by sitting on your bottom.” - Les Brown

“You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.”
-Thomas Moit

“He who has begun his task has half done it.” - Horace

“Patience will come to those who wait for it.” - Jim Rohn

“The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.” - Earl Nightengale

“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” - Anonymous

“You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going.” - Mike Litman

“Energy flows where attention goes.” - from The Secret

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you imagined!” - Henry David Thoreau

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” - John Wooden

“There are three types of people in this life: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who ask “what happened?” - Anonymous

“For those that live in fear, everything that rustles is a rattlesnake.” - Unknown

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” - Vince Lombardi

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” - Winston Churchill

“Without a sense of urgency, desire loses it’s value.” - Jim Rohn

“Success and failure are exactly the same thing. They are the result of being willing to take a chance. The only people that get to experience either one are those that are willing to take that chance.” - Mike McGroarty

“Yep!” - my Mom :-). (I miss your sense of humor Mom!)

“If starting a business was rocket science all businesses would be owned by rocket scientists. You don’t need an MBA to start a business. Many entrepreneurs, including me, never even went to college. I drove by a college once. It looked really hard so I kept going.” - Tim Knox

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” - Aristotle

“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” - Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

“Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.” - Menard

“Elbow grease is still the best lubricant for success.” - Menard

“A wise old bird sat on an oak; the more he saw the less he spoke; the less he spoke the more he heard; why aren’t we like that wise old bird?” - Anonymous

“If you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” - Abraham Lincoln

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” - Unknown

“The headless horseman was a myth, but the headless driver is a stark reality.” -Earnest Barker

“Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.” - L.J. Gray

“Why is it that the memory enables us to remember the favors we do for others, but not the favors others do for us?” - Anonymous

“Each failure is a stepping stone to success, which in turn will become a very long and lovely stone walkway into the castle of your dreams.” - John Dilemme

“Those that think, govern over those who labor.” - Marshall Sylver

“Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often more accurate than you are willing to believe.”

“Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.”

“What you don’t know doesn’t hurt you; it’s what you suspect that causes all the trouble.”

“There will always be two kinds of people: those who say what they think and those who keep their friends.”

“For those that live in fear, everything that rustles is a rattlesnake.” - Vince Lombardi

“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”

“Act as though it were impossible to fail.”

“The most welcome surprise you can give your wife on your anniversary is to remember it.”

“You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.”

F-O-C-U-S = Follow One Course Until Successful

“Poor people have big screen tv’s, wealthy people have big libraries.”

“Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.” - J.C. Penny

“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.” - Randy Pausch

“It is not about achieving your dreams but living your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you.” - Randy Pausch

“The bridge between where you are today and where you want to be tomorrow is knowledge” -Bruce Stafford, CEO PBMP

“As Confucius said, “Man who chases two rabbits catches neither.” - Gary Bencivenga, world renowned copywriter

“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”

“Greater qualities are needed to bear good fortune than bad.”

“Everybody’s business is nobody’s business.”

“If you live within your income you will get along without worry - and without a lot of other things too.”

“Winners do what others want to do but don’t.”

“It is easy to see through people who make spectacles of themselves.”

“To change one’s life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.” - William James

“The world is run by people who show up. When you talk to any successful person, they all say that in life, there are either results, or excuses.” - Woody Allen

“A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.” - General George Patton

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for what they want. And if they cannot find it - they make it.” - George Bernard Shaw

“As a man thinketh, so he is.” - Unknown

“Imagine yourself to be - and you shall be.” - Chris Farrell OIM

“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” - Dr. Robert Schuller

“It is proven that successful people have the ability to hit delete to doubt - as they have a clear and defined vision of what the end result is.” - Chris Farrell OIM

“A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.” - Gen. George S. Patton

“If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn’t thinking.” - Gen. George S. Patton

“If you can’t convince them, confuse them.” - Harry S. Truman

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” - Coach John Wooden

“The price of greatness is responsibility.” - Winston Churchill

“The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.” - Winston Churchill

“Execution is everything. Without great execution you work harder than you should to accomplish less than you could.” - Jeff Turner

“People with ideas get rich while people with skills work for them.” - Jim Cockrum