443 Great Quotes That’ll Inspire You To Greatness

Yes, inspiration can be a fleeting feeling, but in this life that we live in, feeling inspired is very crucial to leading an exciting and positive life. In light of this, we bring you four hundred and forty three quotes to inspire you to greatness. Enjoy and feel free to share!

1. Life is about making an impact, not just an income.
2. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
3. The best way out is always through.
4. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
5. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
6. Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. -Henry Ford
7. I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become. – Oprah Winfrey
8. You must be the change you want to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
9. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. – Goethe
10. You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar
11. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. – Mahatma Gandhi
12. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. – Napoleon Hill
13. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. -Truman Capote
14. Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare. – Japanese Proverb
15. In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt
16. If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
17. Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
18. Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
19. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Mark Twain
20. Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
21. Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
22. Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
23. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
24. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
25. If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
26. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
27. If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
28. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
29. We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain
31. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. – Mark Twain
32. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain
33. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
34. The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
35. Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
36. Act or accept.
37. Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
38. The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
39. Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you. – Dr Phil
40. Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
41. People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
42. Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world. – Anonymous
43. Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.
44. I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones. – John Cage
45. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
46. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. – Unknown
47. The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Unknown
48. Anyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it. – Dr. Phil
49. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditionsmas they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
50. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
51. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don’t quit.
52. Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
53. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
54. There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it. – Mario Cuomo
55. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
56. Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. –
57. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. – Samuel Beckett
58. Flops are a part of life’s menu and I’ve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses. – Rosalind Russell
59. Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die – Ray Norda, Chairman, Novell
60. Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.
61. An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. – Bill Bernbach
62. An obstacle is often a stepping stone. – Prescott
63. Life is “trying things to see if they work”- Ray Bradbury
64. If you worry about yesterday’s failures, then today’s successes will be few. – Anonymous
65. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
66. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
67. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
68. In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
69. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
70. Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
71. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. – Mahatma Gandhi
72. You are what you think about all day long. – Dr. Robert Schuller
73. What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say
74. Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed. – Booker T. Washington
75. Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world. – J ohann Wolfgang von Goethe
76. To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. – Elbert Hubbard
77. If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. -J.M. Power
78. By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
79. I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. – Maya Angelou
80. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
81. When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what? -Sydney Harris
82. Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
83. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.
84. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. – Eleanor Roosevelt
85. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. – Seneca
86. Do first things first, and second things not at all. – Peter Drucker.
87. The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. -Foster’s Law
88. Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. – Joe Clark
89. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. -Winston Churchill
90. Positive anything is better than negative thinking. – Elbert Hubbard
91. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
92. Those who wish to sing, always find a song. -Swedish Proverb
93. If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill
94. The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. –
95. Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. – Voltaire
96. There is no education like adversity. – Disraeli
97. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche
98. Adversity introduces a man to himself.
99. 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
100. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart
101. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth
102. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone
103. Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse
104. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon
105. We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale
106. Life is about making an impact, not making an income. –Kevin Kruse
107. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill
108. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
109. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.  –Robert Frost
110. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale
111. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky
112. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart
113. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth
114. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone
115. Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse
116. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon
117. We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale
118. Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
119. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus
120. 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
121. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn
122. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford
123. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain
124. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
125. The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra
126. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.  That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
127. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. –Anais Nin
128. If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh
129. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle
130. Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus
131. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
132. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau
133. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck
134. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.  –Booker T. Washington
135. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb
136. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt
137. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair
138. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato
139. Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides
140. Start where you are. Use what you have.  Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe
141. Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
142. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller
143. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius
144. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank
145. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu
146. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou
147. Happiness is not something readymade.  It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama
148. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg
149. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb
150. You can’t fall if you don’t climb.  But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown
151. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie
152. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown
153. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine
154. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington
155. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci
156. Limitations live only in our minds.  But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti
157. You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong
158. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan
159. I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin
160. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby
161. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
162. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb
163. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach
164. It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot
165. You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey
166. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh
167. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown
168. It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.  –Ann Landers
169. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren
170. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray
171. The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at. –Jesse Owens
172. Education costs money.  But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser
173. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks
174. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius
175. If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey
176. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama
177. You can’t use up creativity.  The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou
178. Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan
179. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.
180. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt
181. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins
182. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem
183. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison
184. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. –Beverly Sills
185. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt
186. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses
187. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
188. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford
189. It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln
190. Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale
191. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin
192. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn
193. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs
194. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar
195. Fall seven times, stand up eight.” –Japanese proverb
196. “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” –Thomas Jefferson
197. “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
198. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” –

199. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hi
200. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
201. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.  –Robert Frost
202. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale
203. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky
204. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” –Japanese proverb
205. “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” –Thomas Jefferson
206. “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” –George Santayana
207. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
208. “People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.” –Andrew Carnegie
209. “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” –Benjamin Franklin
210. “Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.” –Katherine Whitehorn
211. “One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” –Arthur Ashe
212. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”–Winston Churchill
213. “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”–Norman Vincent Peale
214. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”–Wayne Gretzky
215. “Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
216. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
217. “I’m playing; I’m here. I’m going to fight until they tell me they don’t want me anymore.” –Steve Nash
218. “Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing.” –H. Stanley Judd
219. “Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.” –Author Unknown
220. “Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.” –Audrey Hepburn
221. “Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.” –Brian Tracy
222. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” –Alexander Graham Bell
223. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”–Confucius
224. “Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it.” –Marva Collins
225. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” –Robert F. Kennedy
226. “Never tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” –Author Unknown
227. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” –George Eliot
228. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” –Walt Disney
229. “Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.” –Brian Tracy
230. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” –Thomas Jefferson
231. “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.–Calvin Coolidge
232. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” –Maya Angelou
233. “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” –Theodore Roosevelt
234. Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.
235. THE GREATEST place pride gets anyone is nowhere. Humility uplifts!
236. I’m yet to see a night so dark that morning didn’t break. Hold on in spite of the pain because your morning is about to break.
237. Real growth comes, not just from studying, but from building fast as we study.
238. Where you’re going is different from where you’re coming from. In between the line, you have to consistently change your thinking if you must get there.
239. TAKE AWAY discipline from destiny and it will be reduced to destitute.
240. It is not enough to have a great vision; the fulfillment of every vision is at the mercy of the discipline employed. Every great star today became star by discipline.
241. Landlords grow rich in their sleep – John Stuart Mill
242. A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
243. Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
244. I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
     “Women fake orgasms and men fake finances.” ― Suze Orman
245. “Money Rule No. 1 : Never lose money. Rule No. 2 : Never forget Rule No. 1.” ― Warren Buffett
246. “I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.” ― Ernest Hemingway
247. “Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.” ― Warren Buffett
248. You don’t have to be like most people around you, because most people never become truly rich and wealthy.
249. The goal of retirement is to live off the interest on your assets. – Isaac Oladipupo
250. Thou shalt not forget that money is only money and not character or fame.”
     ― Steven J. Lee
251. Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like. –Will Rogers
252. A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. –Jonathan Swift
253. Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. –Epictetus
254. Money often costs too much. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
255. Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we’ve got 24 hours each. –Christopher Rice
256. It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. –David Feherty
257. Frugality includes all the other virtues. –Cicero
258. I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too. –Steve Martin
259. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. –Benjamin Franklin
260. I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy. –Warren Buffett
261. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. –Charles Dickens
262. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. –Thomas Edison
263. What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us. –Julia Cameron
264. I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for ten years. –Warren Buffett
265. A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. –Yogi Berra
266. Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. –Benjamin Franklin
267. Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
268. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. –Jim Rohn
269. Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. –Ayn Rand
270. Financial peace isn’t the acquisition of stuff. It’s learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can’t win until you do this. –Dave Ramsey
271. It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. –Seneca
272. It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages. –Henry Ford
273. He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all. –Eleanor Roosevelt
274. Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. –Franklin D. Roosevelt
275. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. –Norman Vincent Peale
276. It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy. –George Lorimer
277. You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you. –Maya Angelou
278. Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That’s not just a catchy slogan. It’s the very essence of successful investing. –J. Paul Getty
279. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. –Henry Ford
280. If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. –George Bernard Shaw.
281. How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. –Robert G. Allen
282. I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died. –Malcolm Forbes
283. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. –Steve Jobs
284. The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. –Anonymous
285. Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. –P.T. Barnum
286. Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more. –Jack Benny
287. Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. –Henry David Thoreau
288. The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. –Ben Graham
289. I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. –Thomas Jefferson
290. You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. –Dave Ramsey
291. Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self. –Nathan W. Morris
292. Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. –Zig Ziglar
293. Never spend your money before you have it. —Thomas Jefferson
294. The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. –Phillip Fisher
295. Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. –Benjamin Franklin
296. It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for. –Robert Kiyosaki
297. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. –Thomas A. Edison
298. If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know & start charging for it. –Kim Garst
299. The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind. –T.T. Munger
300. Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” –Joe Biden
301. If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough. –Vicki Robin
302. Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. –William A. Ward
303. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. –Winston Churchill
304. Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. –Charles Caleb Colton
305. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. –Albert Einstein
306. It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. –Vince Lombardi
307. It’s not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that’s important. –Zig Ziglar
308. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. –David Brinkley
309. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. –Roger Babson
310. Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. –John Wayne
311. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. –Mahatma Gandhi
312. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. –Mark Twain
313. It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. –J. K Rowling
314. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. –Bruce Lee
315. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. –Dale Carnegie
316. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
317. Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. –Robert Kiyosaki
318. You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. –Steve Jobs
319. Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed. –Abraham Lincoln
320. If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it! –Jonathan Winters
321. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
322. A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. –Henry Kravis
323. As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. –Donald Trump
324. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. –Vidal Sassoon
325. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. –Winston Churchill
326. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. –Benjamin Franklin
327. If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters. –Chris Guillebeau
328. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
329. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. –Lao Tzu
330. Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. –Oprah Winfrey
331. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt
332. The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient. –Warren Buffett
333. I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes. –George Soros
334. Persist – don’t take no for an answer. If you’re happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you’ll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years. –David Rubenstein
335. If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we’d have a pretty average record. It wasn’t hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigor. –Charlie Munger
336. When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company? –Rene Rivkin
337. If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks. –John Bogle
338. My old father used to have a saying:  If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. –Abraham Lincoln

339. It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. –Eleanor Roosevelt
340. The four most expensive words in the English language are, ‘This time it’s different.’ –Sir John Templeton
341. I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. –Pablo Picasso
342. Fortune sides with him who dares. –Virgil
343. Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. –Arthur Schopenhauer
344. If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. –Edmund Burke
345. No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself. –Plato
346. My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil. –JP Getty
347. The most beautiful thing money can buy is financial freedom. – Isaac Oladipupo
348. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
349. “Bottoms in the investment world don’t end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.” – Jim Rogers
350. “I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffett
351. “The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” – Phillip Fisher
352. “In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.” – Robert Arnott
353. How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.” – Robert G. Allen
354. “Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.” – Paul Clitheroe
355. “Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away.” – Jim Cramer
356. “The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.” – Ben Graham
357. “It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.” – Robert Kiyosaki
358. “Know what you own, and know why you own it.” – Peter Lynch

359. Financial peace isn’t about acquiring. It’s learning to  live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money  to invest.

360. “I would not pre-pay. I would invest instead and let the investments cover it.” – Dave Ramsey
361. “The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘this time it’s different.'” – Sir John Templeton
362. “Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.” – Warren Buffett
363. The world of investing can be cold and hard. But if you do thorough research and keep your head on straight, your chances of long-term success are good.
364. “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
     Ayn Rand
365. “Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shuts down for ten years.”
     Warren Buffett
366. “Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”
     Erich Fromm
367. “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”
     Jim Rohn
368. “The person who doesn’t know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn’t know where his last dollar went.”
     Unknown
369. “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
     Zig Ziglar
370. “It doesn’t matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You’re still left alone with yourself in the end.”
     Billy Idol
371. “It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.”
     George Lorimer
372. “I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.”
     Robert Bosch
373. “That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.”
     Henry David Thoreau
374. “Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.”
     Kahlil Gibran
375. “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
     Henry David Thoreau
376. “Money is like muck—not good unless it be spread.”
     Francis Bacon
377. “It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages.”
     Henry Ford
378. “If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.”
     Ben Franklin
379. “I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.”
     Warren Buffett
380. “Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.”
     Gandhi
381. “I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.”
     Malcolm Forbes
382. “If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
     Edmund Burke
383. “When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money.”
     Artemus Ward
384. “The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.”
     Unknown

     “He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.”
     Eleanor Roosevelt

385. “Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.”
     T Barnum
386. “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
     Franklin D. Roosevelt
387. “Never spend your money before you have earned it.”
     Thomas Jefferson
388. “The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.”
     T. Munger
389. “Many folks think they aren’t good at earning money, when what they don’t know is how to use it.”
     Frank A. Clark
390. “When I had money everyone called me brother.”
     Polish proverb
391. “Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.”
     Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
392. “Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”
     Miguel de Cervantes
393. “I pity that man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth shall starve in the process.”
     Benjamin Harrison
394. “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”
     Norman Vincent Peale
395. “If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.”
     Simone Weil
396. “A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.”
     Jonathan Swift
397. “Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.”
     Benjamin Franklin
398. “Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it.”
     Tim Ferriss
399. “A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.”
     Joe Moore
400. “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.”
     Maya Angelou
401. “It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”
     Oscar Wilde
402. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
     Jim Rohn
403. “Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That’s not just a catchy slogan. It’s the very essence of successful investing.”
     Paul Getty
404. “If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”
     Henry Ford
405. “Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. president
406. “Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.” — Andrew Carnegie, billionaire industrialist
407. “In the real estate business, you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.” — Johnny Isakson, U.S. senator
408. “Buy on the fringe and wait. Buy land near a growing city! Buy real estate when other people want to sell. Hold what you buy!” — John Jacob Astor, real estate and business mogul
409. “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” — Mark Twain, writer and humorist
410. “Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing.” — John Stuart Mill, political economist
411. “Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.” — Hazrat Inayat Khan, spiritualist
412. “Don’t wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.” — Will Rogers, actor
413. “I still think buying a home is the best investment any individual can make.” — John Paulson, billionaire
414. “Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.” — Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. president
415. “If you’re not going to put money in real estate, where else?” — Tamir Sapir, business mogul
416. “Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.” — Marshall Field, entrepreneur
417. “A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.” — Barbara Corcoran, real estate investor
418. “To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients’ best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.” — Anthony Hitt, real estate professional
419. “Games are won by players who focus on the playing field—not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard. If you instead focus on the prospective price change of a contemplated purchase, you are speculating. There is nothing improper about that. I know, however, that I am unable to speculate successfully, and I am skeptical of those who claim sustained success at doing so.” — Warren Buffett, billionaire investor
420. “It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.” — Anthony Trollope, novelist
421. “The best investment on Earth is earth.” — Louis Glickman, real estate investor
422. “In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models.” — Akira Mori, real estate developer
423. “I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like ‘the good Earth,’ the foundation of all our wealth.” — Jesse Jones, entrepreneur
424. “Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.” — Armstrong Williams, entrepreneur
425. Owning a home is a keystone of wealth – both financial affluence and emotional security – Suze Orman
426. Don’t wait to buy real estate, buy real estate and wait. – T. Harv Eker
427. The best investment on earth is earth. – Louis Glickman
428. Buy land, they aren’t making anymore of it. – Mark Twain
429. Your house is not an asset, it is a liability. – Robert Kiyosaki
430. 90% of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. – Andrew Carnegie
431. Everyone wants a piece of land. It’s the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or washing machine. Land will only double its value in ten years. – Sam Shepard
432. Buying real estate is not only the best way. It is the quickest way and the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy. – Marshall Field
433. Real estate is an imperishable asset, ever increasing in value. It is the most solid security that human ingenuity had devised. It is the basis of all security and about the only indestructible security. – Russell Sage
434. It’s far better to buy a wonderful property at a fair price than a fair property at a wonderful price.
435. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
436. “How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.” Roberts Allen
437. “It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.”
438. If you don’t own a home, buy one. If you own a home, buy another one. If you own two homes, buy a third.”
439. -John Paulson
440. There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.
441. Innovation is Powerful… Execution is Worshipped.
442. Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual’s cash flow and wealth.
443. The most valuable real estate in the universe is your mind. Develop it.