motivational quotes for success

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. ~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595



If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. ~Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1675



Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb



From my point of view, a book is a literary prescription put up for the benefit of someone who needs it. ~S.M. Crothers



In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. ~Cicero



Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. ~Mark Twain



What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. ~Abraham Lincoln



There is no sight on earth more appealing than the sight of a woman making dinner for someone she loves. ~Thomas Wolfe



Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it. ~Pablo Casals



The view that a peptic ulcer may be the hole in a man's stomach through which he crawls to escape from his wife has fairly wide acceptance. ~John Allan Dalrymple Anderson



I'm not offended by all the dumb-blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde. ~Dolly Parton



Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance. ~Joseph Addison



Labradors are lousy watchdogs. They usually bark when there is a stranger about, but it is an expression of unmitigated joy at the chance to meet somebody new, not a warning. ~Norman Strung



As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. ~Oscar Wilde



The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. ~Author Unknown



Sometimes what we believe as coincidence is really just getting ourselves caught in an angel booby trap. ~Grey Livingston



None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. ~Benjamin Whichcote



Art is spirituality in drag. ~Jennifer Yane



Happiness is the natural flower of duty. ~Phillips Brooks