Quotable Quotes

Here are some more gems from Laura Francis’s inspirational weekly e-newsletter, Killing It Online :

 

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.

– Zig Ziglar, American author, salesman and motivational speaker.

 

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

– Mark Twain, author and humourist.

 

You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.

–  Philippos Syrigos, journalist and author.

 

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.

– Michael John Bobak, digital artist.

 

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

– Robert Collier American author of self-help books.

 

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

– Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Inc.

 

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

– Albert Einstein, scientist and innovator.

 

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne, 19th century American novelist.

 

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

– John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist.

 

When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. 

– Lolly Daskal, founder of Lead From Within.

 

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

– Bruce Feirstein, American screenwriter and humourist.

 

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

– Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, poet and novelist.

 

If you're going through hell keep going.

– Winston Churchill, author, historian and British Prime Minister in World War II. 

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