Inspiring quotes from Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand, a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher, is popularly known for creating a philosophy she named "Objectivism" and for her influential and controversial ideas that have attracted both enthusiastic admiration and scathing denunciation.

Here are some of her inspiring quotes:

1. "Throughout the centuries, there were men who took first steps down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision."

2. "The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity."

3. "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."

4. "A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving."

Anita Roddick's quotes

Anita Roddick - a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner. She is widely known as the founder of The Body Shop, a cosmetics
company producing and retailing beauty products that formed ethical consumerism.
The Body Shop was one of the first to rule out the use of ingredients tested
on animals and encourage fair trade with third world countries.

Here are some of her inspiring quotes:

1. "If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just."

2. "There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it."

3. "When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun."

4. "We were most creative when our back was against the wall."

5. "But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want."

Five inspiring quotes from Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler - a Victorian author of the 19th century. He authored the Utopian satire Erewhon and the novel The Way of All Flesh. The latter was started in 1870 and published only in 1903 because it was so modern and ahead of its time.

Here are some of Samuel's inspiring quotations:

1. "All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."

2. "If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere
long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."

3. “Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.”

4. "Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground,
but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

5. "Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap."

Margaret Fuller's quotes

Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli was an American journalist, critic and women's rights activist. She wrote the book “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, considered the first major feminist work in the United States.

Here are some quotes from Margaret Fuller:

1. "I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression."

2. “Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.”

3. “Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.”

4. "Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow."

5."Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife."

George Bernard Shaw's Inspiring Quotes

George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.

He also received an Academy Award for Writing the Adapted Screenplay for the film Pygmalion in 1938.

Here are his inspiring quotations:
1. "The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react."

2. "The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."

3. "When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work."

4. "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

5. "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

Plato's Inspiring Quotes

Plato was a great philosopher, writer and mathematician. He was the founder of the Academy in Athens and a student of Socrates.

1. "All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else."

2. "The beginning is the most important part of the work."

3. "Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

4. "Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation."

5. "I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. "

Washington Irving's quotes

Washington Irving was an American essayist, biographer, historian and author known for his two best short stories “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle.”

Here are his famous inspiring quotations:

1. "Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes."

2. "One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more."

3. "Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles."

4. "There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted."

5. "Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."

Inspiring Quotes from Bill Clinton

William “Bill” Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States.

1. “Keep your eyes on the prize and don’t turn back.”

2. “Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who chose to hold him back.”

3. "Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure."

4. "Strength and wisdom are not opposing values."

5. “If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.”

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."
  

Quotes from Rene Descartes

Rene Descartes - a highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, writer and
scientist. He is also known as the Father of Modern Philosophy and the Father of Modern Mathematics.

• "I think therefore I am."

• "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get."
  

• "You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing."
  

• "Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
  

• "It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. "

Inspiring Quotes from WALT DISNEY

Walter Elias Disney a.k.a WALT DISNEY was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Disney is notable as one of the most influential and innovative figures in the field of entertainment during the twentieth century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.

Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He received sixty four Academy Award nominations out of which he won on twenty six occasions. He holds the record for an individual with the most awards and the most nominations. Disney has also won seven Emmy Awards. Disney and his staff created a number of the world's most famous fictional characters, including the one many consider Disney's alter ego, Mickey Mouse. He is also well-known as the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, France, Japan and China.

Disney died of lung cancer on December 15, 1966, a few years prior to the opening of his Walt Disney World dream project in Orlando, Florida.

and here are his famous quotes....

• "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
  

• "I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true."
  

• "Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right."
  

• "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

• "If you can dream it, you can do it."

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

Leonardo da Vinci's quotes

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born as the illegitimate son of a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant girl, Caterina, at Vinci in the region of Florence.

An Italian polymath; a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter, Verrocchio.

Leonardo has been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man" or universal genius, a man whose seemingly infinite curiosity was equalled only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.

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Also, take time to read his inspiring quotations below:

• “Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.”

• “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
  

• "Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."
  

• "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
  

• "There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see."
  

Famous Quotes from HENRY FORD

Henry Ford was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. He was a prolific inventor and was awarded 161 U.S. patents. As owner of the Ford Company he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism", that is, the mass production of large numbers of inexpensive automobiles using the assembly line, coupled with high wages for his workers. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. He did not believe in accountants; he amassed one of the world's largest fortunes without ever having his company audited under his administration. Henry Ford's intense commitment to lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put a dealership in every city in North America, and in major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation but arranged for his family to control the company permanently.
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Henry Ford's famous quotes:

• "I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."

• "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
  

• "It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."
  

• "There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."
  

• "Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.