Words to inspire by influential people

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.  Dalai Lama

Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after having an experience with you becomes your trademark.  Jay Danzie

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thought is action in rehearsal.  Sigmund Freud

Be strong when you are weak, be brave when you are scared, be humble when you are victorious. Unknown

Change is not a one-way-street. It involves two parties; the person who's changing and the people who notice it. Marshall Goldsmith (From - What' got you here, won't get you there)

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.  Thomas Huxley

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. Leonardo Da Vinci

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.  Jean-Jackues Rousseau

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.  Niccolo Machiavelli

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.  Theodore Roosevelt.

Knowledge is proud that is knows so much, wisdom is humble that it knows no more.  William Cowper

Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.  Gary Hamel

Accept responsibility for your life. Know  that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.Les Brown

Laughter brings out the child in all of us.  Bill Cosby

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.  Paul Bryant

Most people have the will to win; few have the will to prepare to win.  Bobby Knight

What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.  David Levithan

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.  George Santayna

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.  William Arthur Ward

It’s fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.  Georges Bernanos

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.  Norman Vincent Peale

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.  Scott Adams.

When what we are is what we want to be, that’s happiness.  Malcolm Forbes

Trails teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.  Charles Squrgeon

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why….  I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?  Robert Kennedy