Get Inspired! Success quotes to grease your wheels.

John Sammers Hypnotherapy and NLP Therapy

Inspirational Quotes

Here's a few words from others to inspre, encourage and stimulate.

Words are how we express our thoughts and are extremely powerful. When used positively they shape our reality — not only our own but the very fabric of our world..

Know thyself.
Socrates

Wisdom is like treacle. Though sweet, it is very difficult to pour!
Ancient Chinese Saying

One does not discover new lands without consenting first to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gilde

Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Minds are like parachutes - they work best when open.
Anon

There's nothing wrong with going out on a limb if you are positive you'll grab another should it break.
John Sammers

You can't soar with the eagles if you surround yourself with turkeys.
Anon

Tough times don't last - but tough people do.
Anon

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Anon

Reality is not only stranger than we suppose but stranger than we can suppose.
J. B. S. Haldane

It's never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles Du Bos

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St Francis of Assisi

Those who fail to plan are planning to fail.
Anon

You don't have to be great to get going but you have to get going to be great.
Les Brown

Nothing is more important than this day.
Goethe

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, performing new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Dr Samuel Johnson

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw

Though they may be covered over by the details of everyday life, your passions are still very much with you. Get in touch with them. They'll push you toward exactly where you want to go.
Ralph Marston

You have a greater grasp on reality when you let go of your opinion of it.
John Sammers

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
Wayne Dyer

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw

I have missed more than 9,000 shots, lost almost 300 games, on 26 occasions been entrusted to take the game-winning shot...and missed. I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeeded.
Michael Jordan

As we move toward our dreams we move toward our divinity.
Julia Cameron

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Tom Peters

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Coaching for me is an art, a dance between two people, a conversation which challenges and swirls both with visions and practicalities, but which above all communicates with the wisest parts of the soul, encouraging great choices and positive actions.
George Metcalfe

I'm giving the best advice I have. You get to decide whether it's true for you.
Anon

We don't see things the way they are, we see things the way we are.
Anais Nin

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!
Lord Byron

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.
Carl Jung

The spirit down here in man and the spirit up there in the sun, in reality are only one spirit, and there is no other one.
The Upanishads

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Aart Van Der Leeuw

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the law of the universe will be simpler.
H.D. Thoreau

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Gustav Jung

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
Winston Churchill

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.
Emily Dickinson

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

...perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
Plato

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
Max Planck, Nobel Prize-winning Father of Quantum Theory

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Democritus of Abdera

What we are looking for is what is looking.
St. Francis of Assisi

Your road to personal development and success will take you to many places. Let new words settle, new thoughts grow and new hopes flourish.

Wisdom is like treacle. Though sweet, it is very difficult to pour! Ancient Chinese Saying

One does not discover new lands without consenting first to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.Andre Gilde

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Minds are like parachutes - they work best when open. Anon

There's nothing wrong with going out on a limb if you are positive you'll grab another should it break.John Sammers

You can't soar with the eagles if you surround yourself with turkeys. Anon

Tough times don't last - but tough people do.Anon

Winners never quit and quitters never win.Anon

It's never too late to be what you might have been.George Eliot

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.Charles Du Bos

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible. St Francis of Assisi

You don't have to be great to get going but you have to get going to be great.Les Brown

Nothing is more important than this day.Goethe

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, performing new wishes and seeing them gratified. Dr Samuel Johnson

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.George Bernard Shaw

Though they may be covered over by the details of everyday life, your passions are still very much with you. Get in touch with them. They'll push you toward exactly where you want to go.Ralph Marston

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.Wayne Dyer

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.George Bernard Shaw

I have missed more than 9,000 shots, lost almost 300 games, on 26 occasions been entrusted to take the game-winning shot...and missed. I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeeded.Michael Jordan

As we move toward our dreams we move toward our divinity.Julia Cameron

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.Anais Nin

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.Tom Peters

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.Ludwig Wittgenstein

Coaching for me is an art, a dance between two people, a conversation which challenges and swirls both with visions and practicalities, but which above all communicates with the wisest parts of the soul, encouraging great choices and positive actions.George Metcalfe

I'm giving the best advice I have. You get to decide whether it's true for you.Anon

IT'S YOUR LIFE!