Words to inspire by influential people

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed. Cavett Robert

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. Victor Hugo

All serious daring starts from within. Eudora Welty

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.  Steven Spielberg

  Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. Gaston Bachelard

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. Jim Rohn

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play. Penelope Leach

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. (David Frost) #quotes #quote #quotations #DavidFrost

Make the decision, make it with confidence, and the world will be yours. Jaren L. Davis

Great minds discuss ideas.  average minds discuss events.  small minds discuss people.  # Eleanor #Roosevelt

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. Rabindranath Tagore

There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)

It always seems impossible until it is done. Nelson Mandela #quote

Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying,one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end. Nelson Mandela

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. #Nelson #Mandela #quotes

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. Nelson Mandela

“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.” ― Nelson Mandela

Action without Vision is only passing time, vision without action is merely day dreaming, but vision with action can change the world. Nelson Mandela

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances. Nelson Mandela

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. e e cummings  

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. Mark Twain

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. Mario Andretti

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. Erma Bombeck