Inspiring Quotes
“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul”
-Ella Wilcox
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a step ..”
-Lao Tzu
“It is not because things are difficult we do not dare; It is because we do not dare that they are difficult”
-Seneca
“Be the change you want to see in the world”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Every person is enthusiastic at times. One person has enthusiasm for 30 minutes; another person has it for 30 days, but it is the person who has it for 30 years who makes a success of life”
-Edward Butler George
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear”
-Source unknown
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
-Carl Jung
“Do the thing you are afraid to do and the death of fear is certain.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.”
-Winston Churchill
“People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-Abraham Lincoln
“There are three kinds of people; those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.”
-Nicholas Butler Murray
“It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.”
-Edmund Spenser.
“You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were and say “Why Not?”.
-George Bernard Shaw
“It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.”
-W. Somerset Maugham
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.”
-Abraham Lincoln
“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we repsond to them.”
-Epictetus
“Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.”
-Source Unknown.
“Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears”.
-Richard Wilkins
“Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.”
-Ralph Charell
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan
but also believe.”
-Anatole France
Creative Quotes:
“Creative activities increase creative ability.”
Harry Lorayne
“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.”
Joel Arthur Barker
“What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
Goethe
“Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions – if only they had taken the first step and then followed through.”
Robert M Hayes
“Often the best ideas come from cutting across disciplinary boundaries and looking into other fields for new ideas and questions.”
Roger van Oech
“The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.”
George A Dorsey
“A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.”
Richard Branson
“If we do not change fast enough, we’re going to miss so many chances … change means the abandonment of rules which have served us well.”
Lee Kuan Yew
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
R Buckminster Fuller
“Creativity and change are two sides of the same coin …. Creativity is needed to respond successfully to changes and creativity in turn, results in change.”
J L Adams
“There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”
Denis Waitley
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There’s another unspoken truth about creativity. It isn’t so much about original creation as it is about using old ideas in new ways, places and combinations.”
Robert Sutton
“To be consistently creative is to be empowered. There is nothing that can truly secure a better future for you than having the ability to be creative at will, to solve problems, and develop new concepts whenever required.”
Marsh Fisher
“Creativity comes from having an inquisitive mind, from being easily bored, from wanting to challenge the status quo. It comes from people who look for alternatives.”
Twyla Tharp
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”
Issac Newton
“Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.”
William Plomer
“Creativity lies in our ability to shed the almost automatic responses inculcated in us by every day demands.”
Nicola Alberto De Carlo
“The demands on our creative abilities have doubled in every generation.”
Peter Drucker
“I have found that ideas come when you have a great desire to find them; the mind becomes a kind of watcher for ideas.”
Charlie Chaplin
“A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.”
Denis Waitley
“Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A hundred people will have the same innovative and promising idea today, each erroneously believing that he or she is alone. As many as ten may get as far as protecting the idea. But only one will do all the mundane ordinary, very uncreative hard work of raising capital, finding vendors, and developing a business to capitalize on. Ninety nine won’t. One will.”
Dan S Kennedy
“The creative person is flexible – he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.”
Frank Goble
“Having fun unleashes creativity. It is one of the seeds you plant to get ideas.”
Jack Foster
“Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.”
C W Cerar
“The rule of business is how fast you can get your idea to market. Those whose systems do not allow them to move quickly are doomed.”
Ken Tuchman
“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip, and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.”
Charlie Brower
“The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.”
Kent M Keith
“Since it doesn’t cost you a dime to dream, you’ll never short change yourself when you stretch your imagination.”
Robert Schuller
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
William Blake
“Creative thinking is not a talent; it is a skill that can be learnt. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and where appropriate profits.”
Edward de Bono
“There is always more room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.”
Anthony Robbins
“Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.”
Anthony Robbins
“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.”
Jack London
“The mind opens doors the hand cannot reach.”
Jon-Henri Damski
“I shut my eyes in order to see.”
Paul Gauguin
“Your thoughts are the primary creative forces in your life. You create your entire world by the way you think. All the people and situations of your life have only the meaning you give them by the way you think about them. And when you change your thinking, you can change your life, sometimes in seconds.”
Brian Tracy
“Live out your imagination, not your history.”
Stephen Covey
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.”
Earl Nightingale
“Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.”
Ken Hakuta
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”
Dr Edwin Land
“Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our mental resources.”
William James
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so full of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”
Bertrand Russell
“The problem is never how to get new innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.”
Dee Hock
“It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.”
Decouvertes
“Implicitly or explicitly, creativity always begins with a question. And in both your business and personal lives, the quality of your creativity is determined by the quality of your questions.”
Michael Ray
“All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas – not money.”
Robert Collier
“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”
Naguib Mahfouz
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