Tony Paquette

My Favorite Inspirational Quotes

  • “Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers.” — Voltaire
  • “Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.” — Carl Gustav Jung
  • “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” — Beverly Sills
  • “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” — Zig Ziglar
  • “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.” — Herbert Bayard Swope
  • “To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” — Elbert Hubbard

  • “If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.” — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  • “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” — Ruth Gordon

  • “Success is a science;  if you have the conditions, you get the result.”  — Oscar Wilde

  • “Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.” — Christian Nestell Bovee

  • “It takes a great man to be a good listener.” — Calvin Coolidge

  • “Well done is better than well said.” — Benjamin Franklin
  • “We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.” — Theodore Roosevelt
  • ”Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.” — W.H. Auden
    • “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietszche
    • “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” — Booker T. Washington
      • “You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.” — Leymah Gbowee
      • “Be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of someone else.” — Judy Garland
      • “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” — Vernon Law
      • “In the fields of observation, chance favors on the prepared mind.” — Louis Pasteur
      • “Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.” — Samuel Johnson

      • “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman

      • “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” — Roger Staubach

      • “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan

      • “Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off of the goal.” — Vince Lombardi

      • “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” — Lou Holtz

      • “You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.” — Rosalynn Carter
      • “Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.” — Tyron Edwards
      • “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.” — Lois McMaster Bujold