Words to inspire by influential people

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. Bill Gates

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.  Desmond Tutu

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Charles R. Swindoll

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.  Freya Stark

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.  Thomas A. Edison

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Never take anything for granted.  Benjamin Disraeli

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.  Thomas Jefferson

Perseverance is not a long race, it is many short races one after the other.  Walter Elliot

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.  Claude Pepper

The show that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.  Carl Jung

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.  Nelson Mandela

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.  Abraham Lincoln

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.  Sun Tzu

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.   William Arthur Ward

Presence is more than just being there.   Malcolm Forbes

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise of hope.  Bernard Williams

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. Brian Tracy