Words of Wisdom – It’s Time To Inspire

Quotes are more than just a few words; they have the power to change your life into exactly what you want it to be. They can inspire anyone and serve as a guide to success.

Motivating quotes, with their ability to inspire, are simple, quick, and low-cost solution that improves your overall outlook on life and makes you feel better about yourself. Reading quotes on a regular basis will boost your motivation and encourage you to move forward and begin what you’ve been putting off. It will provide encouragement and have a positive effect on both your behaviour and your mind.

Here are some of my all-time favourite quotes. Every morning, I look forward to reading them. They provide me with new perspectives, hope and courage. They inspire me to improve my life on a daily basis.

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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. 

Sandra Carey – author

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. 

Jimmy Johnson – NFL coach

People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Steve Jobs – co-founder of Apple Computer.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas Alva Edison – American inventor

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Lee Frost – American poet

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway – American writer

Turn your wounds into wisdom. 

Oprah Winfrey – American talk show host and television producer

Learn how to take criticism seriously but not personally.

Hillary Clinton

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Paulo Coelho – Brazilian novelist 

Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard – American writer

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It is incredibly empowering to know that your future is in your hands.

Keanu Reeves – American actor

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Wayne Dyer – author and a motivational speaker

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Napoleon Hill – American self-help author

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy – a Russian writer (regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time)

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Brené Brown – an American professor and author

I know that if things were going to improve, I was the one responsible for making it happen.

James Clear – writer

All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

Robin Sharma – a Canadian writer

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

Persian Proverb

It soon became clear that doing one thing better and better might be more satisfying than staying an amateur at many different things.

Angela Duckworth – an American science author

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Warren Buffett – one of the greatest investor of all time

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world. Now I am.

Elon Musk – founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Steve Jobs – co-founder of Apple Computer

You have to put shutters on, set a goal, don’t listen to the noise, and just go forward.

Kevin O’Leary – Canadian businessman and television personality

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

Winston Churchill

Live simply so others may simply live.

Mother Teresa

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Barack Obama

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Vince Lombardi – an American football coach.

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche – a German philosopher

Life isn’t about finding yourself; it’s about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.

Henry David Thoreau – an American poet and philosopher

Happiness and freedom begin with one principle. Some things are within your control and some are not.

Epictetus – a Greek philosopher

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Benjamin Franklin

I don’t need it to be easy, I need it to be worth it.

Lil Wayne – an American singer

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Warren Buffett – an American investor

Forget the failures. Keep the lessons.

Dalai Lama

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

Elon Musk – founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla

Happiness and freedom begin with one principle. Some things are within your control and some are not.

Epictetus – a Greek philosopher

If you can’t even acknowledge your failures, how can you cut the rope and move on?

Kevin O’Leary –  a Canadian businessman

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.

Elon Musk – founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla

Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!

Kevin O’Leary –  a Canadian businessman

You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be… better.

Elon Musk – founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla

We have a strict ‘no-assholes policy’ at SpaceX.

Elon Musk – founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Elon Musk – founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars, people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

Elon Musk – founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla

My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.

Elon Musk – founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla

Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. … Hardly anyone does that, and it’s incredibly helpful.

Elon Musk – founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla

Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when it’s not, or you’re gonna get fixated on a bad solution.

Elon Musk – founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla

Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.

Warren Buffett – one of the greatest investor of all time

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Wayne Gretzky – one of the greatest hockey players in the history of the sport.

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Warren Buffett – one of the greatest investor of all time

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Warren Buffett – one of the greatest investor of all time

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

What matters most is how well you walk through fire.

Charles Bukowski – an American poet and novelist

You do not find the happy life. You make it.

Camilla Eyring Kimball

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.

Warren Buffett – one of the greatest investor of all time

Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.

Warren Buffett – one of the greatest investor of all time

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Warren Buffett – one of the greatest investor of all time

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Warren Buffett – one of the greatest investor of all time

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Warren Buffett – one of the greatest investor of all time

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

Elon Musk – founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Warren Buffett – one of the greatest investor of all time

The best motivator in the world is money and if that doesn’t work try more money.

Kevin O’Leary – Canadian businessman and television personality

My partners…taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.

Kevin O’Leary – Canadian businessman and television personality

I like to take risks. That’s how I make money. But they are calculated risks.

Kevin O’Leary – Canadian businessman and television personality

Assholes get rich because they’re not afraid to ask for what they want.

Kevin O’Leary – Canadian businessman and television personality

It pains me to see good entrepreneurs chase bad opportunities.

Kevin O’Leary – Canadian businessman and television personality

Work hard, be kind and amazing things will happen.

Conan O’Brien – an American television host

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Losers make excuses. Winners make money.

Kevin O’Leary – Canadian businessman and television personality

The key to success that I would’ve taught myself 20 years ago – shut up and listen.

Kevin O’Leary – Canadian businessman and television personality

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Charles Kettering – an American inventor, engineer and businessman

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Thomas Paine – political activist and philosopher.

What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

Kevin O’Leary – Canadian businessman and television personality

The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines.

Kevin O’Leary – Canadian businessman and television personality

The only reason to do business is to make money; that’s the only reason for doing business.

Kevin O’Leary – Canadian businessman and television personality