Ann Major’s Favorite Inspiring Quotes from Famous People

Love others as well as you love yourself.
— Jesus Christ

The beginning is the most important part of any work.
—Plato

We learn to fly not by becoming fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.
— Sam Keen

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free
— Oprah Winfrey

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
— Charles Kettering

We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.
— Carlos Castaneda

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.
—Unknown

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
— General Omar Bradley

Never "for the sake of peace and quiet" deny your own experience or convictions.
— Dag Hammarskjold

Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.
— Josh Billings

Elbow grease is the best polish.
— English Proverb

Women are mean to be loved, not to be understood.
 —Oscar Wilde

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
—Emily Dickinson

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
—Lois McMaster Bujold

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
—Antoine de Saint—Exupery

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
—James Dean

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
—Mahatma Gandhi

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.
— Will Henry

 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

The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.
—Arthur C. Clarke

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
—Sigmund Freud

Sometimes the seeds of happiness are sown in darkness.
—Unknown

The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers.
—John Marks Templeton

Doubt limits you from what is already yours, but faith unlocks the door allowing you to walk in and receive it.
—Jeannette Tyson Gregory

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
—Madeleine L'Engle

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
—William Cobbett

Great souls are not those which have less passion and more virtue than common souls, but only those which have greater designs.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
—Robert Louis Stevenson

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
—Leo Burnett

The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying very small stones.
— Anonymous

"Most misfortunes are the results of misused time."
— Napoleon Hill

You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing.
— Lewis Freedman

We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am always doing things I can't do; that's how I get to do them.
— Pablo Picasso

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
— Aldous Huxley

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise——then you will discover the fullness of your life.
— Brother David Steindl-Rast

Creativity is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to God.
— Bob Moawad

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
— Doug Larson