Coco Chanel's quotes

Gabrielle Chanel who we all know as Coco Chanel was a French dress designer whose career enjoyed 60 years on top of Parisian haute couture. Her empire was made phenomenal by the extraordinary success of the perfume Chanel No. 5, which was introduced in 1922.

Here are some inspiring quotes from Coco Chanel:

1. "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."

2. "I've never done anything by halves."

3. "Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them."

4. "I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like."

5. "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

Louisa May Alcott's quotations

Louisa May Alcott, an American novelist best known for her novel "Little Women" published in1868.

Quotes from Louisa Alcott:

1. "He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."

2. "Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well."

3. "We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing."

4. "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

5. "Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it."

Quotes from Henry Valentine Miller

Henry Valentine Miller, an American painter and writer, known for his famousnovels Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring.

Here are Henry Miller's quotes:

1. “Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire. ”

2. “Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”

3. "Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring."

4. "In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."

5. "What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs."

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."

Quotes from Antoine de Saint Exupery

Antoine de Saint Exupery was a French writer and aviator. He is most famous for his story The Little Prince.

Here are some of his inspiring quotations:

1. "A goal without a plan is just a wish."

2. "True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."

3. "The one thing that matters is the effort."

4. "Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded."

5. "The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."

Henry David Thoreau's quotes

Henry David Thoreau was an American author and philosopher. He is best known for his book Walden and his essay Civil Disobedience.

Here are his inspiring quotes:

1. "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

2. "It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? "

3. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. "

4. "All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must possess if we are to face the future as finishers."

5. "As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.To make a deep mentalpath, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to
dominate our lives."

Quotes from Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian. I have been inspired by his quotes. The following are his quotations:

1. "Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle
is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a
strengthening of his powers of accomplishment."

2. "Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment."

3. "Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."

4. "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. "

5. “Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.”