INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

Inspirational quotes and motivational quotes have the power to uplift our spirits and can give us the courage to pursue our dreams.

Here is a collection of some of the inspirational quotes:-

1.   He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. –Epictetus

2.  If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet. -Isaac B. Singer

3.   Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. -Napoleon Hill

4.  Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. -Sir Winston Churchill

5.  The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results. -Norman Vincent Peale

6.  Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. -Benjamin Franklin

7.  Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.  -William Durant

8.  I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed against the sweet earth's flowing breast. -Joyce Kilmer.

9.   It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. -Lou Holtz

10.   When someone tells me "no", it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them. -Karen E. Quinones Miller

11.   Your life is an occasion. Rise to it. -Suzanne Weyn

12.   Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. -Martin Luther

13.  Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us. -David Richo

14.  Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. -Paulo Coelho, Brida

15. I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody. -Lily Tomlin

16.  Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -Carl Bard

17.   I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to. -Toni Sorenson

18.  It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs. -Jillian Michaels

19.  There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I. -John Steinbeck

20.   The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
as perfect, as unspoiled,
as if you had never wasted or misapplied
a single moment in all your life.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.  -Arnold Bennett

21.  It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all three tightly braided together, creating a fourth emotion that was impossible to define. She was getting a second chance at happiness and it tickled like swallowing fifty fuzzy caterpillars.  -Lisi Harrison, Monster High

22. We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves, otherwise we harden. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

23.  You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. Lou Holtz

24.  When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope. -Pittacus Lore

25.  A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it. -Ray Davis

26.   Do not sit still; start moving now. In the beginning, you may not go in the direction you want, but as long as you are moving, you are creating alternatives and possibilities. -Rodolfo Costa

27. Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. -Lou Holtz

Feel free to share some of your own quotes.

HABITS FOR SUCCESS

Success is often curved out of building a series of practices day-in, day-out. It's the little things that we do on a daily basis that make us who we are in the long-term. 'Practice makes perfect,' its often said. Practice connoting habit and action in all the goals set out to be achieved. 
Here are some habits that help in attaining success:

(i) Talk about ideas.
 Spend time with others talking about ideas and positive things you can create. Talk about about the world, and refrain from talking about too many useless negative things that waste energy. 

(ii) Surround yourself with successful people.
Avoid people that will distract your work and destroy your dream. Instead have only happy, positive people who challenge you to improve yourself and always ready to support you. 

 (iii) Keep a daily journal.
 Keeping a journal and reflecting on your daily experiences is one of the best ways to ingrain experiences and life lessons in your mind each and every day.

It's best writing in a journal twice a day. In the morning before you start your day; to get your juices flowing and get some positive words down on paper, and at night before going to bed; to get your overflowing thoughts down on paper and to take note of what you have learnt. 

For those who don’t like writing, mindfulness meditation is recommended.  

(iv) Keep learning.

Invest time and energy into continually learning and developing new skills. It can be through reading, videos and mentoring. It helps inspire your mind and creates a flow of ideas.

(v)  Express gratitude.
If someone does something nice for you, or you find yourself in a fortunate situation, be thankful and express your gratitude. Be genuinely thankful for any help you get no matter how small.

(vi) Make sacrifices.
Get in the habit of sacrificing things that you may like in your life, for things that will help you become successful. Focus on things that will help in your development and growth.

(vii) Be positive.
Always remain positive and think positively. Never let negative thoughts creep into your mind.

(viii) Work hard.
If you work harder than everyone else, success can’t hide from you. Make it an habit of working harder than your competition.

If your habits are those of a successful, happy, productive, hard-working person, there’s no way you can’t be successful.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle.