Words to inspire by influential people

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.  Joe Paterno #Rafikfarouk

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. Harvey S. Firestone #rafikfarouk

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.  George  Crabbe #rafikfarouk

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.  Alfred Bester #Rafikfarouk

The smile of God is victory.  John Greenleaf Whittier #rafikfarouk

Hope raises no dust.  Paul Eluard #rafikfarouk

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything,  and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.  William Drummond #rafikfarouk

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner.  If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.  Barbara Sher #Rafikfarouk

No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.  Harold Hamm #Rafikfarouk

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. John Milton #rafikfarouk

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.  Gabriel Marcel @rafikfarouk

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.  Thomas J. Watson #Rafikfarouk

Obedience is the fruit of faith.  Christina Rossetti #Rafikfarouk

Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.  Bruce Rauner #Rafikfarouk

The best portion of a good man's life is his  little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.  William Wordsworth #Rafikfarouk

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.  John Templeton #Rafikfarouk

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.  William Blake #Rafikfarouk

Your life is your canvas, and you are the masterpiece.  There are a million ways to be kind, amazing, fabulous, creative, bold, and interesting.  Kerli #rafikfarouk

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.  Khalil Gibran #rafikfarouk

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.  Mattie Stepanek #rafikfarouk

In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.  August Wilhelm von Schlegel #Rafikfarouk

Time is not measured by the passing of years  but by what one does,  what one feels,  and what one achieves.  Jawaharlal Nehru #Rafikfarouk

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.​ ​ William Carey #Rafikfarouk

The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance. Sun Yat-sen #Rafikfarouk

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.  William Blake #Rafikfarouk

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.  Confucius #Rafikfarouk

Business is about people.  I t's about passion.  It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.  Tom Peters #rafikfarouk

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe #Rafikfarouk

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.  Will Durant #Rafikfarouk

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected until it is shared. Jane Porter #rafikfarouk

A single person doesn't change an organization, but culture and good people do.  Frances Hesselbein #Rafikfarouk

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.  C. S. Lewis #rafikfarouk

Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.  Adelaide Anne Procter #rafikfarouk

To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.  Chin-Ning Chu #rafikfarouk

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.  Bobby Knight #rafikfarouk

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.  Stephen Covey #rafikfarouk

Goodwill, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.  Francis Jeffrey #rafikfarouk

You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.  Andrew Carnegie  #rafikfarouk

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. John Milton #rafikfarouk

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.  Henri Bergson #rafikfarouk

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.  Aristophanes #rafikfarouk

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.  Thomas A. Edison #rafikfarouk

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.  Charles de Gaulle #rafikfarouk

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things.  You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.  Harold S. Geneen #rafikfarouk

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.  John Burroughs #rafikfarouk

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.  Chanakya #rafikfarouk

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.  Khalil Gibran #rafikfarouk

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.  Baltasar Gracian @rafikfarouk

You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.  Scott Reed #rafikfarouk

Let us always meet each other with a smile,  for the smile is the beginning of love.  Mother Teresa #rafikfarouk