MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES

From the Josephson Institute of Ethics:

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“[T]he tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal.  The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.  It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. …  It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.  Not failure, but low aim is sin.”
    — Benjamin Elijah Mays, American pastor and educator, president of Morehouse College (1895–1984)

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.”
    — Arthur C. Clarke, English science-fiction writer (1917–2008)

“Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.”
    — Terry Josephson, 20th/21st-century motivational author


For contrast:  Quotes by Founders of Detroit’s Big Three:

“Forget past mistakes.  Forget failures.  Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.”
    — William C. Durant, founder of General Motors (1861–1947)

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
    — Henry Ford (1863–1947)

“The real secret of success is enthusiasm.”
    — Walter Percy Chrysler (1875–1940)


From Woopidoo quotations:

“In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.”
    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, and dramatist (1749–1832)

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world.  The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
    — George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist (1856–1950)

“I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.”
    — Amory Bloch Lovins, American environmentalist (1947–   )

“If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.”
    — Dr. Phillip Calvin McGraw (Dr. Phil), American TV personility and psychologist (1950–   )

From “Living a Better Life”®:

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    — Armandine Aurore Lucille Dupin Dudevant (George Sand), French novelist (1804–1876)

“Excellence is not an act but a habit.  The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.”
    — Marva Collins, American educator (1936–   )

“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
    — Donald Trump, American real-estate tycoon and TV personility (1946–   )

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.”
    — Jonathan Harshman Winters III, American comedian (1925–   )


Some Great Britons:

“It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.”
    — William David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech, British diplomat (1918–1985)

“Engineers are extremely necessary for these purposes; wherefore it is requisite that, besides being ingenious, they should be brave in proportion.”
    — attributed to Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer and inventor (1806–1859)

“Growth that lasts does not threaten our children’s future.  It recognises that our planet is a gift that must be cherished.  That tomorrow is our responsibility as much as today. ”
    — Nick Clegg, British politician and current Deputy Prime Minister (1967–   )

“The spread of civilization may be likened to a fire; First, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.”
    — Nikola Tesla, Serbo-American inventor (1856–1943)

“It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.”
    — Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (1867–1912)
 
In Memoriam — Andy Rooney

“Flying is always an unpleasant experience.  You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.”
    — Andrew Aitken Rooney, American newswriter/television commentator (1919 January 14 – 2011 November 5)

“A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.”
    — Richard Buckminster Fuller, American polymath (1895–1983)

“ … people don't know what they want until you show it to them.”
    — Steven Paul Jobs, American entrepreneur and visionary (1955 February 24 – 2011 October 5)

“An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.”
    — Vinod Khosla, Indian-American venture capitalist (1955–   )

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
     — Alan Curtis Kay, American computer innovator (1940–   )

“We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they’ve never had to present a working model.”
    — Charles Kettering, American inventor (1876–1958)

“The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”
    — Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (1875–1961)

“It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.”
    — Emmanuel Radnitzky (Man Ray), American photographer and artist (1890–1976)

“Money is in some respects like fire ;  it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.”
    — Phineas Taylor Barnum, American showman (1810–1891)

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
    — Albert Einstein, German-Swiss-American physicist (1879–1955)

“Nature does not demand that we be perfect.  It requires only that we grow.”
    — Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman (1907–1948)

“For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment.”
    — Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)  (1835–1910)

“Change is the law of life.  And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
     — John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–1963)

“Do not go where the path may lead ;  go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Transcendentalist philosopher, essayist, and poet (1803–1882)

“It is not … the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts.  ….  It is simply service that measures success.”
    — George Washington Carver, American inventor, botanist, and educator (1864?–1943)

“… the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.”
    — Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

“If you will it, it is no dream.”
    — Theodor Herzl, Founder of modern Zionism (1860–1904)

“Dream – Think – Build”
    — Various sources:   1   2   3

  . . . and finally . . .

“I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. … I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
     — Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931)

“If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.”
     — George Westinghouse (1846–1914)

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