I’m a huge fan of quotes.
I feel that if they’re read & pondered daily – their ideals will soon become evident in our lives – and we’ll internalize them.
Many quotes, I feel, are perfectly applicable to bloggers & their blogs.
“Your blog is your unedited version of yourself.” – Lorelle
I’ve started this collection of quotes as a motivator for making yourself, your blog & your writing more successful, inspired & creative.
Take the time to share your favorite quotes with the blogging community – and leave them as a comment.
- “And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that’s there.” – Steve Ballmer
- “I sincerely believe blogging can save America.” – John Jay Hooker
- “Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.” – Marian Wright Edelman
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
- “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi
- “The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.” – Adam Rickitt
- “You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.” – Author Unknown
- “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” – Thomas Edison
- “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
- “Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Ive decided im gonna become a rapper on Twitter, Im gonna call myself Twittycent.” – Leigh Caraccioli
- “There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley
- “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
- “Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.” – Josh Billings
- “Making money from blogging requires you to do only two things: drive a lot traffic, then maximize the income from that traffic.” – John Chow
- “Blogs are whatever we make them. Defining ‘blog’ is a fool’s errand.” – Michael Conniff
- “No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
- “Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.” – Thornton Wilder
- “As I have repeatedly written in one form or other, blogging is not about writing posts. Heck, that’s the least of your challenges. No, blogging is about cultivating a mutually beneficial relationships with an ever-growing online readership, and that’s hard work.” – Alister Cameron
- “Link to your enemies. Link to your competitors. Link to everyone. Instead of being sticky, be linky.” – Robert Scoble
- “Don’t focus on having a great blog. Focus on producing a blog that’s great for your readers.” – Brian Clark
- “The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.” – Garrett M. Graff
- “Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You’re the only one who can do it permanently.” – Zig Ziglar
- “For me, the future of journalism is blogging. ” – Mary Jo Foley
- “Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.” – Evan Esar
- “Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.” – Dennis Waitley
- “A blog is in many ways a continuing conversation.” – Andrew Sullivan
- “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “The consumption of blogs is often avid and occasionally obsessive. But more commonly, it is utterly natural, as if turning to them were no stranger than … picking one’s way through the morning’s newspapers. The daily reading of virtually everyone under 40 — and a fair few folk over that age — now includes a blog or two, and this reflects as much the quality of today’s bloggers as it does a techno-psychological revolution among readers of news and opinion.” – Tunku Varadarajan
- “Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.” – Euripides
- “The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.” – Henry W. Longfellow
- “The reason blogging is often put into the passive category is because if you use direct monetization through Adsense, banners, etc, you earn while you sleep.” – Chris Garrett
- “Blogging is the new poetry.” – Author Unknown
- “Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” – George S. Patton
- “I read blogs every day, for all sorts of reasons, but I turn to blogs especially when I want to hear alternative viewpoints — for example, information on a particular medical treatment from the viewpoint of patients receiving it, rather than doctors administering it; reports from the battlefield seen through the eyes of soldiers rather than politicians; thoughts on a particular technology from the standpoint of engineers rather than executives.” – Jim Buckmaster
- “Blogging is a conversation not a code.” – Mike Butcher
- “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” – Dr. Seuss
- “Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.” – Theodore T. Hunger
- “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- “Yes, blogging is entertainment. It is performance. Each blog post a show, sometimes an opera, sometimes a 30 second commercial. Like a show, it may start with a bang, lead you along from song to song, have a great climatic moment, then leave the audience wanting more.” – Lorelle
- “Readers subscribe to blogs when they provide an informational or entertainment value so great that it would be a loss to not subscribe to it.” – Maki
- “To be sure, the blogosphere is subject to all of the same risks as the Internet itself. Many blogs are loaded with vanity posts, half-truths, rumors, and even intentional distortions.” – Christopher Cox
- “Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field.” – Penelope Trunk
- “Blogging is a communications mechanism handed to us by the long tail of the Internet.” – Tom Foremski
- “Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.” – Thomas Carlyle
- “We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.” – Winston Churchill
- “We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “In at least one way we are atypical bloggers. That’s because we just keep on posting. The typical blogger, like most people who go on diets and budgets, quits after a few months, weeks, or in many cases, days.” – Stephen J. Dubner
- “The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” – Frank Loyd Wright
- “It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: “Leave no stone unturned.”” – Edward Bulwer Lytton
- “Unless you restrict your reading habits to a really small segment of the blogging population, or you are a blogging machine like Robert Scoble, a feed reader is only going to give you a small window of what is happening in the blogosphere.” – Andy Beard
- “A blog is merel y a tool that lets you do anything from change the world to share your shopping list.” – Author Unknown
- “A blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent ‘post’ (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom.” – Darren Rowse
- “Your blog is your unedited version of yourself.” – Lorelle
- “Seek to understand then be understood.” – Stephen R. Covey
- “Blogging is not rocket science, it’s about being yourself, and putting what you have into it.” – Author Unknown
- “The personal nature of the blog is what they find appealing.” – Ethan G. Salwen
- “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “I realised that blogging is in itself another form of creative writing.” – Author Unknown
- “If you would create something, you must be something.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Inspiration and genius–one and the same.” – Victor Hugo
- “The first thing you need to decide when you build your blog is what you want to accomplish with it, and what it can do if successful.” – Ron Dawson
- “A blog is what all “websites wanted to be” updated on a regular basis, contains content that is of interest to a select or target audience and is easy to update and change.” – Author Unknown
- “Blogging is using a new medium for what it is good for – connecting and interacting.” – George Siemens
- “Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.” – Leon J. Suenes
- “Blogging is an art, same as any other method of self-expression. Some are better at it than others.” – Hugh Macleod
- “The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.” – Horace Bushnell
- “Blogging is best learned by blogging…and by reading other bloggers.” – George Siemens
- “The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust… you pay folks to blog about a product and you compromise that. I would almost care about this, but it’s so obvious to everyone that this is either a joke or an idiot that there is nothing more to say.” – Jason Calacanis
- “Blogging is hard because of the grind required to stay interesting and relevant.” – Sufia Tippu
- “The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle
- “He who hesitates is lost.” – Ancient Proverb
