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STEVE WATKINS

Inspirational Quotes: Chris Evert, Thomas Carlyle And Others

Read inspirational quotes about working through difficulty, improving your conditions and finding a better way.

Chris Evert On Perseverance

You can't give up. If you give up, you're like everybody else.

Chris Evert, tennis champion

Thomas Carlyle On Adversity

The times are bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.

Thomas Carlyle, author

Orville Wright On Innovation

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright, inventor

Larry Bird On Setting Examples

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

Larry Bird, basketball player

Frank Lloyd Wright On Conviction

The thing always happens that you really believe in. And the belief in a thing makes it happen. And I think nothing will happen until you thoroughly and deeply believe in it.

Frank Lloyd Wright, architect

Like These Inspirational Quotes? Get More

Inspirational quotes from leaders in business, finance, the arts and other pursuits can give you the lift you need to achieve more. And just a few words from a great leader can inspire you to look at a problem in a new way. A dose of inspiration may be all you need to see an obstacle as a temporary challenge you simply need to overcome. Investor's Business Daily understands the power of inspiration. And we search for the very best inspirational quotes and make them available to you each week. You'll find how innovative thinking from successful people can help you approach your work in new ways.

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