Famous Quotes

The famous quotes that I have listed are some of my personal favorites. I have chosen them for their proven ability to inspire. They are not your average quotes that are meant to simply entertain. These quotes are specifically selected from successful people that are sharing their insight into what it takes to be successful. You will find words like faith, persistence, preparation, enthusiasm, courage and determination used many times. They are in fact motivational quotes. I guarantee you will not have to read more than a couple pages of these quotes to become charged up and ready to take on the day. If you have a motivational quote that you would like to see posted, please send it to me. I will gladly try to include it in the list to share with others.

If you are looking for another type of quote or the ability to search for quotes by subject or author, then I suggest our links page located at the bottom of each page. I have reviewed and picked what I believe to be the best quote websites and have written a brief introduction about what each site covers.

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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
-Vincent T. Lombardi

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
-Somerset Maugham

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
-Demosthenes

All things are difficult before they are easy.
-John Norley

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
-Horace

The price of greatness is responsibility.
-Winston Churchill

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.

People forget how fast you did a job-but they remember how well you did it.
-Howard W. Newton

The reward of a thing done well is to have done it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
-Franklin Roosevelt

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
-Victor Hugo

Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
-General George S. Patton

Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
-Thomas Alva Edison

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
-John Ruskin

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
-Elmer Letterman

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.
-Voltaire

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
-Robert Half

Success is simply a matter of luck.
Ask any failure.

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
-Frederick Wilcox

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
-St. Francis De Sales

I do the best I know how, the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
-Abraham Lincoln

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
-Dr. Albert Schweitzer

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