Top 10 Inspirational Quotes

give me a hand!

Sometimes I need it- a kick in the pants, a hand to pull me up, or a virtual hug. Every single one of us- unless they have been sheltered by others who have taken the blows for them- have experienced failure. So failure is universal. How a person deals with failure is not.

• 1. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. – Henry David Thoreau [If I am going to be desperate. I plan on being loud about it]
• 2. Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out. – Anton Chekhov
• 3. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietszche [I like this one, because I have found sometimes upon examining my failures, they were really due not to external factors, but to my own lack of "why"]
• 4. The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. – Marcus Aurelius
• 5. The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. – Henry David Thoreau [This is the truth. Is that cup of coffee worth the 15 minutes of work I gave up for it? New car v used car- do I have that much life left in me? Is my iPhone worth it?]
• 6. You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. -Quentin Crisp [The inspiration here? If you have friends that always sound like Quentin, find new friends]
• 7. His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. – Thomas Edison [I'll take Poetry by Inventors for $1000, Alex]
• 8. He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. – Harold Wilson
• 9. Bill Gates is a very rich man today… and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions. -Dave Barry [Said as a joke, but useful for entrepreneurs to remember]
• 10. People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. -Andrew Carnegie

And I will toss in #11 for free: If you are having trouble- ask yourself where you are in the egg-to-flying category.
11. It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. – C.S. Lewis

If you are in the egg stage, it’s near-impossible to fly. Are you at the flying stage? Then, if you aren’t flying… think about it. Why not? That might be the most important business question that that you ever ask yourself.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. -Dale Carnegie Go read every single link here.

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