Michael Jordan's inspiring quotes

Michael Jordan, one ofthe greatest basketball players of all time.

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is a retired American professional basketball player and active businessman. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation, and was instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.

Here are some inspiring quotes from Michael Jordan:

• "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

• "I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results."

• "I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come."

• "Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

• "My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength."

Inspirational quotes from Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo, a French poet, playwright, and novelist.
His best-known works are Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris.

Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France.

In France, Hugo's literary reputation rests primarily on his poetic and dramatic output and only secondarily on his novels. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. In the English-speaking world his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (sometimes translated into English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame).

Though extremely conservative in his youth, Hugo moved to the political left as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the Panthéon.


The following are Hugo's quotes:

• "Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace."
  

• "Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. "

• "A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."
  

• "He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life."
  

• "People do not lack strength; they lack will."

Richard Bach's quotes

Richard Bach, an American writer
widely known for his bestsellers Jonathan Livingston Seagull,
Illusions and The Adventures Of A Reluctant Messiah.

The following are his inspiring quotes:

• “In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.”
  

• “In order to win, you must expect to win.”

• "You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however."
  

• “The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”

• “Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. ‘Nothing’ is the worst thing that can happen to us.”
  

Les Brown's motivational quotes

Les Brown, a renowned American professional speaker, author and television personality.

Here are his motivational quotes:

• "We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams."
  

• "I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames."
  

• "Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way."
  

• "Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life."
  

• "You must remain focused on your journey to greatness."

Quotes from Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey, a popular American television talk show host and actress.

Here are her quotes:

• "Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. "
  

• "My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
  

• "Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire."
  

• "The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."
  

• "Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus."
  

Famous Quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte, the French general who became Emperor of France
from 1804 to 1814.

Napoleon I (born Napoleone di Buonaparte, later Napoléon Bonaparte) (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who had significant impact on modern European history. He was a general during the French Revolution, the ruler of France as Premier Consul of the French Republic, Empereur des Français, King of Italy, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine.

The following are his famous quotes:

• "Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."
  

• "The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."

• "Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."
  

• "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."

• "Victory belongs to the most persevering."

Dwight David Eisenhower's quotes

Dwight David Eisenhower was a General of the Army (five star general) in the United States Army and U.S. politician, who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United States (1953–1961). During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.

As President, he oversaw the cease-fire of the Korean War, kept up the pressure on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, made nuclear weapons a higher defense priority, launched the Space Race, enlarged the Social Security program, and began the Interstate Highway System.


Here are some of his quotes:

• "Pessimism never won any battle."

• "No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves."

• "We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective."
  

• "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
  

• "It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger."
  

Robert Frost - inspiring quotes

Robert Frost was a popular American poet and a recipient of four Pulitzer awards.

Here are some of his famous and inspiring quotations:

• "The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have."
  

• “A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.”
  

• "The best way out is always through."

• "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
  

• "The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."
  

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor. As one of the most recognized figures in twentieth-century art, he is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and his depiction of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, Guernica (1937).

Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito, a series of names honouring various saints and relatives. Added to these were Ruiz and Picasso, for his father and mother, respectively, as per Spanish custom.

Here are five of his inspiring and famous quotes:

• "Action is the foundational key to all success."

• "Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."
  

• "I do not seek, I find."

• "I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."
  

• "Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working."

Vince Lombardi's inspiring quotations

Vince Lombardi is one of America's most accomplished and respected football coaches.

Here are his famous quotes:

• "Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing - the result."
  

• "The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success."
  

• "Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

• "We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible."
  

• "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."