FROM MY PERSONAL ARCHIVES, COMES THIS ONE (PART ONE)...

Some of the INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES that have inspired me…Perhaps it might inspire you too


1.) “Put off until tomorrow only what you are willing to die having left undone.”
-Pablo Picasso


2.) “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.”
-John F. Kennedy


3.) “The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.”
-Wayne Dyer


4.) “For with God nothing shall be impossible.”
-The Bible (Luke 1:37)



5.) “A foundation must be laid…It must receive the greatest care, and be made stronger than any other part.”
-James Allen


6.) “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
-Chinese Proverb



7.) “It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.”
-Goethe



8.) “What lies behind us and what lies before us are matters compared to what lies within us.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes




9.) “It is not how much we do but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give but how much love we put in the giving.”
-Mother Teresa



10.) “To succeed in life, you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.”
-Anita Roddick



11.) “Your struggles in life are tailor-made to the vision you are created for.”
-Colin B. Adepoju



12.) “All successful men are men of purpose. They hold fast to an idea, a project, a plan, and will not let it go…The intensity of the purpose increases with the growing magnitude of the obstacles encountered.”
-James Allen


13.) “Nothing great is easy.”
-Matthew Webb


14.) “Success is on the far side of failure.”
-Thomas J. Watson



15.) “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.”
-The Bible (James 1:2-3)



16.) “Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
-Edmund Burke



17.) “Nothing can take the place of persistence and neither can it be replaced by anything; for it is the propelling force behind our wings of success.”

-Colin B. Adepoju



18.) “Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
-Napoleon Hill



19.) “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
-Thomas Edison



20.) “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
-George Bernard Shaw



21.) “As a man thinks in his heart, so does he become.”
-The Bible (Proverbs 23:7)



22.) “The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wishes me to do… to find the idea for which I can live and die.”
-Soren Kierkegaard



23.) “To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
-Elbert Hubbard


24.) “Make no little plans;
They have no magic to stir men’s blood……
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work,
Remembering that noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.”
-Daniel Hudson Burnham




25.) “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Begin it now.”
-Goethe



26.) “Procrastination is the thief of time.”
-Edward Young



27.) “If you don’t experience dark clouds, rain and storms there is no way of measuring sunshine.”
-James Hardy



28.) “If at first an idea isn’t totally absurd, there’s no hope for it.”
-Albert Einstein



29.) “We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.”
-John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene



30.) “Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.”
-James A. Garfield



31.) “For a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again, but the wicked shall fall by calamity.”
-The Bible (Proverbs 24:16)



32.) “A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
-John F. Kennedy



33.) “Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
-Nicolas Malebranche



34.) “The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.”
-Walter Lippmann



35.) “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.”

-Lyndon B. Johnson