It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
Lajos Kossuth
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions
form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
Tyron Edwards
Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open.
Thomas Dewar
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be
expected only from the strong.
Leo Rosten
Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.
Gucci Slogan
You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must
make it.
Charles Buxton
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is
ready, we shall never begin.
Ivan Turgenev
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that
matters, in the end.
Ursula Le Guin
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine
what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work
every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy
One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in
your key result areas.
Brian Tracy
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the
more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
Horace Bushnell
Three rules of work: Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
There are no elevators in the house of success.
H. H. Vreeland
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream
always wins – not through strength, but through persistence.
Buddha
Have your heart in your life’s work, and be stout-hearted. Do
something, act always, and do it now. Don’t be afraid. Many a man
has been defeated by his doubts—lack of confidence. Take your risks
—you cannot eliminate them, you cannot escape them. You can
diminish them by dominating them.
Batten’s Wedge
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things
you didn’t do than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the
trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity.
Douglas MacAurthur
Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small
people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you
too can become great.
Mark Twain
When one door of happiness closes, another opens:
but often we look so long at the closed door that
we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging
on after others have let go.
William Feather
Shoot for the moon.
Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
Les Brown
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
From Inspiring Adages, Maxims
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man
contemplates it. bearing with him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can
alter his life by altering his attitude.
William James
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Alexander the Great
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
The Buddha
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will
prevent you from seeing the stars.
Rabindranath Tagore
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is
where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
Inspiration and genius–one and the same.
Victor Hugo
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
If you would create something,
you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the
more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
Horace Bushnell
Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere
of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier
steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself.
W. C. Doane
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the
name of inspiration?
George Eliot
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle
Let thy words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:2 from Words of Wisdom
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to
make them come true.
Leon J. Suenes
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir
First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are
in harmony.
Anonymous
When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more
clearly.
Michel de Montaigne
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The maxims of men disclose their hearts.
French Proverb
To select well among old things, is almost equal to inventing new
ones.
Nicholas Charles Trublet
I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the
thread that binds them is my own.
Michel de Montaigne
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the
mind.
William R. Alger
What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what
flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the
cultivated and the thinking.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Stealing someone else’s words frequently spares the embarrassment
of eating your own.
Peter Anderson
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles
It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part
of a book.
Vicesimus Knox
A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of
intellectual gems.
William B. Sprague
It is delightful to transport one’s self into the spirit of the past, to see
how a wise man has thought before us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good sayings are like pearls strung together. – Chinese Proverb
A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. – Arabic Proverb
Proverbs are the cream of a nation’s thought. – Unknown
There is not less wit, not less invention, in applying rightly a thought
one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that book. –
Pierre Boyle
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and
indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence;
when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will. – Joseph
Joubert
It is delightful to transport one’s self into the spirit of the past, to see
how a wise man has thought before us, and to what glorious height we
have at last reached.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as
when they first passed through their authors’ minds ages ago. –
Samuel Smiles
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
Joseph Joubert
The proverb answers where the sermon fails.
W. G. Simms
Human success is a quotation from overhead.
Charles H. Parkhurst
A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of
preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated
during all this time.
Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
Sir J. Mackintosh
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind, than in
the one where they sprung up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family;
a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims
and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand
valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of
truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold. –
Tryon Edwards
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is
where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
Inspiration and genius–one and the same.
Victor Hugo
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
If you would create something,
you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the
more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
Horace Bushnell
Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere
of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier
steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself.
W. C. Doane
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the
name of inspiration?
George Eliot
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle
Let thy words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:2 from Words of Wisdom
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to
make them come true.
Leon J. Suenes
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir
First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher