Words to inspire by influential people

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. Charles de Montesquieu #rafikfarouk

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.  Pat Riley #rafikfarouk

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.  Elbert Hubbard #Rafikfarouk

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.  Aristotle #rafikfarouk

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.  Walter Scott #rafikfarouk

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness,  however small, is ever wasted.  Aesop #rafikfarouk

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.  John W. Gardner #rafikfarouk

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.  Jay Chiat #rafikfarouk

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies,  but just as much to stand up to our friends.  J. K. Rowling #rafikfarouk

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.  Nelson Mandela #rafikfarouk

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion.  These three are your greatest treasures.  Lao Tzu #Rafikfarouk

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.  Henry Miller #rafikfarouk

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.  Francis of Assisi #rafikfarouk

A  Satisfied  Life Is Better Than A  Successful  Life. Because Our Success Is Measured By Others. But Our Satisfaction Is Measured By Our Own  Soul, Mind And Heart. #rafikfarouk

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.  Abigail Adams #rafikfarouk

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.  John Ruskin #rafikfarouk

​​ ​ ​​ Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence, and inspiration.  Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.  ​​ Robin S. Sharma #rafikfarouk

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.  Dale Carnegie #rafikfarouk

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.  Henry David Thoreau #rafikfarouk

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.  Euripides #rafikfarouk

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.  Arthur Schopenhauer #rafikfarouk

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.  Oliver Goldsmith #rafikfarouk

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.  Charles Dickens #rafikfarouk

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world;  all knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.  Albert Einstein #rafikfarouk

​The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not "to have and to hold" but "to give and serve." There can be no other meaning. ​​Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell #rafikfarouk

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.  J. K. Rowling #rafikfarouk

F-E-A-R  has two meanings:  'Forget Everything And Run'  or  'Face Everything And Rise.'  The choice is yours.”  Zig Ziglar #Rafikfarouk

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.  William Lyon Phelps #rafikfarouk

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.  Jim Rohn #rafikfarouk

True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the  kindness , we offer to others.  Alek Wek #rafikfarouk

Silence is a source of great strength.  Lao Tzu #rafikfarouk

​​Through wisdom a house is built, And by understanding it is established; 4By knowledge the rooms are filled With all precious and pleasant riches. ​ Prov. 24:3-4​ #rafikfarouk

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.  Phillips Brooks #rafikfarouk

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys;  look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.  Sun Tzu #rafikfarouk

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.  Bono #rafikfarouk

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery,  by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.  Marcus Tullius Cicero #rafikfarouk

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.  Plato #rafikfarouk

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,  you will command the attention of the world.  George Washington Carver #rafikfarouk

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.  George Allen, Sr. #rafikfarouk

A leader must be a good listener.  He must be willing to take counsel.  He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.  James E. Faust #rafikfarouk

Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me.  It's not the toys, it's the people.  R. A. Salvatore #rafikfarouk

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.  Ronald Reagan #rafikfarouk

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.  Mark Twain #rafikfarouk

​It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.  Francis of Assisi​ #rafikfarouk

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.  Henry Ward Beecher #Rafikfarouk

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. Khalil Gibran #rafikfarouk

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.  Bernard Baruch #rafikfarouk

I've learned that people will forget what you said,  people will forget what you did,  but people will never forget how you made them feel.  Maya Angelou #rafikfarouk

Writing is an exploration.  You start from nothing and learn as you go.  E. L. Doctorow #rafikfarouk

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.  Henry Ward Beecher #rafikfarouk

Winners don't do different things.  They do things differently.  Unknown #rafikfarouk