Motivational Sayings (10)
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver
You can't do anything about the length of your life,
but you can do something about its width and depth.
- Evan Esar
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment,
full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
he fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
All you have to do is look straight and see the road,
and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
- Ayn Rand
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
To live a satisfying life requires two steps...
1. Plan your life goals.
2. Act on your plan - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we will be quiet and ready enough,
we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you,
opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not our abilities that show what we truly are.
It is our choices.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
It is hardly possible to build anything,
if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
- Lech Walesa
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When an idea reaches critical mass
there is no stopping the shift
its presence will induce.
- Marianne Williamson
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I look for what needs to be done.
After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.
If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To reach a port, we must sail -
sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Scuttle the Assumptions, dash the Expectations,
and hoist the sails of CHOICE to harness the winds of JOY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Epictetus
The way of success:
Visualize the end result,
Plan, Take action, Persevere,
Re-plan, Take action, Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
If you have zest and enthusiasm y
ou attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind.
- Norman Vincent Peale
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation.
Live wild, life free, live as master of your own fate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid;
if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.
- Tony Rothman
There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- Margaret Mead
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
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