101 Most Inspiring Quotes, Part 3 – 101 Best Quotes of All Time Series.

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Riding on the huge popularity of 101 Most Inspiring Quotes of All Time and 101 Most Inspiring Quotes of All Time, Part 2 (even till today, the original 101 quotes article is the most highly visited article on the site!), here’s another set of over 100 quotes for you . Once again, these quotes have been carefully handpicked by me, whether it was through reading books, online resources, etc. These quotes all touch me on some level and I want to share them with you because I’m sure they will resonate with you too.

I have categorized the quotes from all 3 parts of this series. All in all, the quotes from all 3 parts of the series range from life, pursuing your dreams, setting and achieving goals, confidence, dealing with failure, achieving success, persistence, love, happiness, and many more. This part showcases quotes on action, persistence, time management, finance, love, happiness, people and the world. For quotes from other categories, check out part 1 and part 2.

101 Most Inspiring Quotes, Part 3

• Quotes on Action (20 quotes)
• Quotes on Persistence (10 quotes)
• Quotes on Time Management and Productivity (9 quotes)
• Quotes on Wealth, Money & Finance (3 quotes)
• Quotes on Love (12 quotes)
• Quotes on Happiness & Emotional Mastery (20 quotes)
• Quotes on People and The World (29 quotes)

Quotes on Action

1. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. ~ Vaclav Havel
2. The secret of life isn’t what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you. Norman Vincent Peale
3. We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
4. As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say, I just watch what they do. – Andrew Carnegie
5. Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. ~Walter Anderson
6. It’s not what you’ve got; it’s what you do that makes a difference.
7. If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. ~ Nora Roberts
8. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten – Tony Robbins
9. We think about all of our tomorrows, but we don’t know how many they are, so let’s start making the most of our Todays! – Ivana Trump
10. The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work extremely well!
11. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started”–Mark Twain
12. The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
13. “When nothing you do matters, the only thing that matters is what you do.” – Angel
14. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
15. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” —Will Rogers
16. “There is no starting or stopping. Only doing.” – Peaceful Warrior
17. “If you try, you might get exactly what you want. If you don’t, you don’t.” – Unknown
18. You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. – Paulo Coelho
19. Unless you choose to take action on what you want, nothing is ever going to come out of it.” – Esther & Jerry Hicks
20. “If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

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Quotes on Persistence

1. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard
2. “The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain
3. “The greater danger lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
4. “The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.” – Zig Ziglar
5. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
6. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that! – Rocky Balboa
7. “We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.” -Tobias Wolff
8. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
9. “Most of the important things in the world have been accompanied by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
10. “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – Calvin Coolidge

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Quotes on Time Management and Productivity

 

1. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – Life’s Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
2. “You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.” – Jim Rohn
3. “Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.” – Peter Drucker
4. Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized. – Steve Pavlina
5. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey
6. Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. Dale Carnegie
7. “Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now?’” -Richard Carlson
8. “It’s been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” -Henry Ford

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Quotes on Wealth, Money and Finance

1. “The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.” ~ Unknown
2. “Do what you love and the money will follow.” – Marsha Sinetar
3. “Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want.” ~ Richard Koch

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Quotes on Love

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1. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” -Albert Einstein.
2. “To say I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’” – Ayn Rand
3. You may be one person in this world, but to one person you mean the world.
4. “You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.” – Buddha
5. “One does not fall ‘in’ or ‘out’ of love. One grows in love.” – Leo Buscaglia
6. “If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.” – Leo Buscaglia
7. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
8. “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” – Martin Luther King, Jr
9. “Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it” – Rumi
10. “The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.” – Henry Miller
11. “A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.”-Buddha
12. “It’s the little things done consistently over time, straight from your heart, that actually have the greatest impact.”

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Quotes on Happiness and Emotional Mastery

 

1. “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha
2. “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a method of traveling.” ~Margaret Runbeck
3. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
4. For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. – Mildred Barthel
6. If things depress you, it’s because you allow yourself to be affected by it. Results are just results, and our emotions are our emotions. People draw attachment to outcomes and situations which affect their emotional state. Every situation there is always something to be learned, & if we are able to take away the important lessons, we will eventually achieve what we set out to do.”
7. “People think about what they don’t want and attract more of the same.”
8. “Worrying is the same thing as banging your head against the wall. It only feels good when you stop.” John Powers
9. “Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” – Lewis Smedes
12. “Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.” – Buddha
13. “Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly.” ~G.K. Chesterton
14. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” -Lao Tzu
15. “Discontent is the first necessity of progress.” -Thomas A. Edison
16. “You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.” – Michael Pritchard
17. “Whenever you see something you dislike, it represents something you are repelling inside of you.”
18. “To create more positive results in your life, replace “if only” with “next time”.”
19. No one can hurt you without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
20. “Rather than waste time and energy worrying, use that time and energy to constructively deal with whatever is causing the worry.”

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Quotes on People and The World

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1. “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” – Golden Rule
2. Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
3. “Do not do to others as you would not have others do to you.” – Silver Rule
4. “You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.” – Andrew Carnegie
5. “Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored & destroy the object on which it is poured.”~Ann Landers
6. “Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations.” – Stephen Covey
7. “You are the average of the five people you spend most time with.” – Jim Rohn
8. “Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.” – Rene Descartes
9. “Speak to people according to the development of their consciousness, for if you speak all things to all people, some cannot understand you and so fall into errors!” – Prophet Muhammad
10. “The people who are the hardest to love are the ones who need it the most.” – Peaceful Warrior
11. “Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.” – Robert Redford
12. If you find you are not valued and appreciated, then shift your attention to places where you will be valued and appreciated.
13. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding about ourselves. – Carl Jung
14. To raise your consciousness, surround yourself with people of higher consciousness
15. “Don’t let the noise of others opinions drown out your inner voice.” – Steve Jobs
16. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
17. “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
18. “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi
19. “Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.” -J. Gitomer
20. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter F. Drucker
21. “Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don’t like”
22. “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.” – Goethe
23. So you have some enemies…good, that means you stood up for something!” – Winston Churchill
24. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way
25. “You cannot teach a man anything; You can only help him find it within himself” – Galileo Galilei
26. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
27. “What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.”
28. “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” Ann Landers
29. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men – Martin Luther King

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