Cool Famous Quotes

The importance of personal development cannot be underestimated. This is the secret that sets you apart. It is a bridge that takes you to an unrealized goal. We have spent a lot of time making some investments, and these things make us numb to the reality of short life, such as things like scrolling the Internet for hours. Entertainment is fun, but how much time do we save for ourselves? How long do we have dedicated time for personal development, where we learn and grow in a way that defines our survival? These inspirational/motivational quotes are a great way to start thinking about who you want to be.  For more great quotes, see Cool & Famous Quotes.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. –Confucius

A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else. –Criss Jami

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live. –Criss Jami

God helps those who strut their stuff. –Dan Sofer

Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart? –Ernesto Che Guevara

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do. –Haruki Murakami

Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better. –Jim Rohn

Everything is hard before it is easy –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit myself to contemplate. –John Steinbeck

I cannot let the fear of the past color the future. –Julie Kagawa

I said “Somebody should do something about that.” Then I realized I am somebody. –Lily Tomlin

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. –Pablo Picasso

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. –Paulo Coelho

Rise and rise again until lambs become lions –Robin Hood

The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts. –Roopleen

Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks. –Roopleen

It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform. –Roy T. Bennett

Changing your outside world cannot make you happy if you are an unhappy person. The real personal change can only happen from the inside out. If you firstly create the change within yourself, you can turn your life around. –Roy T. Bennett

Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others. –Roy T. Bennett

Enthusiasm can help you find the new doors, but it takes passion to open them. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don’t have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there. –Roy T. Bennett

It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is you get up one more time than you were knocked down. –Roy T. Bennett

To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong. –Roy T. Bennett

To have what you have never had, you have to do what you have never done. –Roy T. Bennett

The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying. –Roy T. Bennett

Instead of complaining about the problem and blaming others, start finding the solution. –Roy T. Bennett

Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone. –Roy T. Bennett

Great leaders create more leaders, not followers. –Roy T. Bennett

Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities. –Roy T. Bennett

Live the Life of Your DreamsWhen you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve. –Roy T. Bennett

Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart. –Roy T. Bennett

No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams. –Roy T. Bennett

Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart. –Roy T. Bennett

Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine. –Roy T. Bennett

You were born to stand out, stop trying to fit in. –Roy T. Bennett

Beliefs are choices. First you choose your bliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices. –Roy T. Bennett

Great Leaders Create More Leaders. Good leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders create more leaders, not followers. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own. –Roy T. Bennett

Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for. –Roy T. Bennett

One of the best ways to influence people is to make those around you feel important. –Roy T. Bennett

You don’t have to be good at something to be liked. –Stephen Richards

Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to. –Stephen Richards

Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want. –Steve Maraboli

If you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal – you have a wish. –Steve Maraboli

When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves. –Steve Maraboli

If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. –Steve Maraboli

People will always have opinions about your decision because they’re not courageous enough to take action on their opinion. –Steve Maraboli

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them. –Steve Maraboli

Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. –Steve Maraboli

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny. –Steve Maraboli

Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding. –Steve Maraboli

Never let the opinion of another affect your opinion of yourself. –Teresa Mummert