Quotations

"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good I am satisfied."
Alfred Nobel

"There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet."
William Frederick Halsey

"Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do."
Albert Gray

"I miss all the shots I don't take."
"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is."
Wayne Gretzky

"You cannot have success without the failures."
H. G. Hasler

“Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.”
Rob Gilbert

"You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal."
Mia Hamm

"If you don’t have a dream how can you make a dream come true?"
Oscar Hammerstein

"You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world."
William Hazlitt

"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up." Alfred North Whitehead.

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." John Wooden.

"You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be." Robert Collier.

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." Anonymous.

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
Annatole France

"You have to pretend you're 100% sure. You have to take action; you can't or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure."
Andrew Grove

"A stumble may prevent a fall."
"Misfortunes tell us what fortune is."
Thomas Fuller

"No plan survives first contact with the enemy."
Tommy Franks

"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken to hatching the egg, not by smashing it."
Arnold H. Glasgow

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."
Chinese proverb .

"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
Epictetus.

"I have generally found that a man who is good at an excuse is good at nothing else."
"Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults."
"Often, genius is nothing more than a greater aptitude for patience."
"When a man boasts of what he'll do tomorrow we should like to find out what he did yesterday."
Benjamin Franklin

"Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it."
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
Bill Gates

"A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected and outlast the unbearable."
Billy Graham

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
Andre Gide

"If you have talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke."
Brendan Francis

"The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching."
Dennis Green

"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose."
E. M. Gray

"We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.”
F. A. Hayek

"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."
Helen Hays

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right.
"There isn't a person anywhere that isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can."
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
Henry Ford

"You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence."
John B. Gough

"The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly."
Corra Harris

"Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can."
Lowell Thomas

"O love what you do and feel that is matters how could anything be more fun?"
Katherine Graham

"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Michael J. Fox

"A battle is lost less through casualties than by discouragement."
Frederick II

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
"Each step upward makes me feel stronger and fit for the next step."
"Let us become the change we seek in this world."
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Mohandas Gandhi

"Thought is behavior in rehearsal."
Sigmund Freud

"Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it."
Michael Friedsam

"Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible."
Frank Gaines

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
Galileo Galilei

"Once you get people laughing, they're listening, and you can tell them almost anything."
Herbert Gardner

"Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are."
John Seman Garns

"When you stick your head above the crowd, you can expect a few tomatoes thrown your way."
Jean Paul Getty

"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."
Edward Gibbon

"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."
"To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the ocean by the frailty of its foam, To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconsistencies."
"Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. "
Kahlil Gibran

"Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas."
Mimfa A. Gibson

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
Robert H. Goddard

"Daring ideas are like chessman moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."
"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself greater than he is."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”
Ray Goforth

"By your thoughts you are daily, even hourly, building your life; you are carving your destiny."
Ruth Barrack Golden

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."
Oliver Goldsmith

"If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way."
Jane Goodall

“The impossible is often the untried.”
Jim Goodwin

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
Martin Luther King

“A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative
he refuses to dwell on it.”
Norman V. Peale

"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
Dale Carnegie .

"Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was."
Robert Louis Stevenson .

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
Orison Swett Marden .

"The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary."
Thomas Edison.

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."
Pablo Picasso.

"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."
Plutarch.

"If you don’t climb the mountain, you can’t view the plain."
Anonymous.

"Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk."
Anonymous.


"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."
Anonymous.

"Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage."
Frederick Pierce.

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
Robert Francis Kennedy .

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances."
Bruce Barton.

"This became a credo of mine . . . attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
Bette Davis .

"Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can."
Henry Drummond .

"Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."
Dag Hammarskjöld.

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."
Napolean Hill.

"We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys."
Eric Hoffer.


"It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever — the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. "
Vince Lombardi.

"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."
Niccoló Machiavelli.

“You've got to be before you can do, and do before you can have.
“You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there. “
“The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.”
Zig Ziglar.

"Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit."
Hugh Nibley.

"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation."
Jack Niklaus

"There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting."
Dr. Theodor Reik.