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 educator and president of Morehouse College (1895-1984)

“The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to 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

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)

“If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.”
    — 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 (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 (1856-1950)

“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)

 “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)

“Flying is always an unpleasant experience.  You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.”
    — Andrew Aitken Rooney, CBS newsman (1919-   )

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

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

 “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 (1803-1882)

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

“No good idea is ever allowed to die.”
    — attributed to Walt Disney (1901-1966)

“If you will it, it is no fairy tale.”
    — Theodore Herzl (1860-1904)

   . . . 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)

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