Good communicators frequently make their point to their audiences by apt use of powerful quotations by famous people, amplifying their message with the right metaphors, and invoking everyday stories of heroism. Inspiring quotes are like gold. In this blog I am putting together some of my favorites:

1. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but where they ought to be.” – Rosalynn Carter
2. “Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.” – William H. Sheldon
3. “The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer (1906-2001)
4. “Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
5. “Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.” – Sir Francis Bacon
6. “Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.” – Dr. David M. Burns
7. “Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”-Theodore Roosevelt
8. “Only dead fish swim with the stream.” – Anonymous
9. “When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his heart no man much respects himself.” — Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens], 1835-1910
10. “Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.” — Aldous Leonard Huxley 1894-1963
11. “You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.” — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983
12. “The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.” -Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), novelist (1783-1842)
13. “You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.” -Naguib Mahfouz, writer, Nobel laureate (1911-2006)
14. “Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.” -Brenda Ueland, journalist, editor, and writer (1891-1985)
15. “We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.”-Eric Hoffer

If you, readers of my blogs, have your own favorites please share them in the Comments below, so we can all enjoy them!

Good luck!