| "Success is doing, not wishing." - Tom Hopkins |
| "The only real failure in life is the failure to try." - Anonymous |
| "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Donald Kendall |
| "Will opens the door to success." - Louis Pasteur |
| "We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go." - Jim Rohn |
| "Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking." - Daisetz T. Suzuki |
| "Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down." - Anonymous |
"The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach." - Benjamin Mays |
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." - Anonymous |
| "A man can do all things if he but wills them." - Leon Battista Alberti |
"You can do what you have to do,and sometimes you can
do it even better than you think you can." - Jimmy Carter |
| "When you know what you want,and you want it badly enough,you'll find a way to get it." - Jim Rohn |
"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life
contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have." - Louis E. Boone |
"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand,and the determination that
whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." - Vince Lombardi |
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success
is more important than any other one thing." - Abraham Lincoln |
| "The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour." - Japanese saying |
| "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." - Samuel Johnson |
"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation...
The hand is the cutting edge of the mind." - Jacob Bronowski |
"The difference between the impossible and
the possible
lies in a person's determination." - Tommy Lasorda |
| "The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." - Confucius |
"It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever,
the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it." - Vince Lombardi |
"Life is something like a trumpet. If you do not put anything in it
you do not get anything out.And that is the truth. " - W C Handy |
| "It's never too late to be who you might have been." - George Elliot |
| "Just do it. " - Nike |
| "Talk does not cook rice." - Chinese Proverb |
"I can not do everything, but I can do something.
I must not fail to do the something that I can do." - Helen Keller |
| "The strongest steel is the iron forged through the hottest furnace." - Camelot |
| "Obstacles are the things we see when we take our eyes off our goals." - Zig Ziglar |
"Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning;
but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing." - George Eliot |
| "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." - Chinese proverb |
"If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might
to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time." - Linda Ellerbee |
"Success will not lower its standard to us.
We must raise
our standard to success." - Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr. |
"Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field.
That payoff is incredible!" - Brian Tracy |
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. 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." - Micheal Jordan |
"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets
painful is the man who will win." - Roger Bannister |
| "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals." - Anonymous |
"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere
and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." - Christopher Reeve |
| "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 |
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with
the bricks that others throw at him." - Sidney Greenberg |
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close
they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison |
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage
in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them – every day
begin the task anew." - Saint Francis de Sales |
"You already have every characteristic necessary for success
if you recognize, claim, develop and use them." - Zig Ziglar |
"When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved,
you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working
to make things better." - Pauline R. Kezer |
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close
they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison |
| "The important thing is to dare to dream big, then take action to make it come true." - Joe Girard |
"There are no hopeless situations, there are only men
who have grown hopeless about them." - Clare Boothe Luce |
"Other people and things can stop you temporarily.
You're the only one who can do it permanently." - Zig Ziglar |
| "Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford |
"To achieve the impossible, one must think the absurd;to look where
everyone else has looked, but to see what no else has seen." - Anonymous |
| "Remember, you only have to succeed the last time." - Brian Tracy |
"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt
discarded is another step forward." - Thomas Alva Edison |
| "One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done." - Marie Currie |
"When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully
upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell |
| "Step up the stairs or stare at the steps." - Ralph Nichols |
| "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill |
" According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the
right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway." - M. Sainte-Lague |
| "Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." - Malcolm Forbes |
"There are seldom.If ever, any hopeless situations, but there are
many people who lose hope in the face of some situations." - Zig Ziglar |
| "Alas, it is like telling a child that he cannot go to school because he is illiterate." - Dr Sun Yat Sen |
"Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take
a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear." - Monroe Forester |
| "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." - Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "We will either find a way, or make one." - Hannibal |
| "As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person." - Paul Shane Spear |
| "A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits." - Richard Nixon |
| "In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time." - Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| "Failure is like skinned knees... painful but superficial." - Ross Perot |
| "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." - General George Patton |
| "Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength." - Henry Ward Beecher |
| "I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within." - Anonymous |
| "No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves." - Dwight Eisenhower |
| "Strength is a matter of a made up mind." - John Beecher |
| "After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box." - Italian Proverb |
| "What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?" - Robert Schuller |
| "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi |
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| "The only way around is through." - Robert Frost |
| "If a man knows not what harbour he seeks, any wind is the right wind." - Seneca |
| "A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory." - Arthur Golden |
"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions." - J F Clarke |
"Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated.
You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps." - David Lloyd George |
"Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning ; but give me
the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing." - George Eliot |
| "People do not lack strength; they lack will." - Victor Hugo |
| "Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it." - George Halas |
| "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt |
| "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." - John C. Maxwell |
| "Think before you act and then act decisevely. Fortune favors the brave." - Brian Tracy |
| "While this door is closing,another door is opening. It's our job to go find that door." - Matthew Perry |
| "When I was sick, I didn't want to die. When I race, I don't want to die." Dying and losing, it's the same thing." - Lance Armstrong |
| "Life is not a final exam. It's daily pop quizzes." - Ann Crittenden |
| "The greatest dreams are always unrealistic." - Will Smith |
"If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't
understand how much bigger the world is." - Angelina Jolie |
"Winning depends on where you put your priorities.
It's usually best to put them over the fence." - Jason Giambi |
"My father gave me the best advice of my life. He said, "Whatever you do,don't wake up
at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life." - George Clooney |
| "If you know you're going to fail, then fail gloriously." - Cate Blanchett |
"Be open to learning new lessons even if they contradict
the lessons you learned yesterday." - Ellen Degeneres |
| "Even the worst haircut eventually grows out." - Lisa Kogan |
| "Success is falling nine times and getting up ten." - Jon Bon Jovi |
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.
A pesimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." - Bill Vaughan |
"Life asks us to make measurable progress in reasonable time. That's why they
make those Year Four chairs so small - so you won't fit in them at age 25." - Jim Rohn |
"I've missed more than 9000 shots. I've lost almost 300 games.
I've failed over and over again in my life. And that is why i succeed." - Michael Jordan |
"My mother would cry about my blindness, but I told her I wasn't sad.
I believed God had something for me to do." - Stevie Wonder |
| "There are no regrets in life, just lessons." - Jennifer Aniston |
"You have to do a very few things right in your life - so long
as you don't do too many things wrong." - Warren Buffett |
| "If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on earth?" - Nelly |
| "Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed." - Mia Hamm |
| "The only safe thing is to take a chance." - Mike Nichols and Elaine May |
"Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on the edge and sharp.
I'm not as good when i'm comfortable." - Alex Rodriguez |
| "All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time." - Mitch Albom |
| "Be thankful for what you have - you'll end up having more." - Oprah Winfrey |
"Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes,
run to the next
window -
or break down a door." - Brooke Shields |
| "You must expect things of yourself before you can do them." - Michael Jordan |
| "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton |
| "What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire." - Stanley Kunitz |
| "Sulking about your mistakes only leads to future ones." - Bill Rancic |
| "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't make them all yourself." - Usher |
"When they said to you at graduation, "Follow your dream.",
did anybody say you have to wake up first? - Bill Cosby |
| "You never fail. You only find ways that do not work." - Billi Lim |
| "The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way." - Billi Lim |
| "Failure just means you have not succeeded yet!" - Billi Lim |
| "Failure doesn't mean you havenot accomplished anything. It means you have learnt something." - Billi Lim |
| "Failure doesn't mean you'll never make it. It just means it may take longer." - Billi Lim |
| "Mistake shows us what we need to learn." - Billi Lim |
| "Failing is only an opportunity for you to try again." - Billi Lim |
| "One who lacks courage to start has already finished." - Billi Lim |
| "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever hope to achieve greatly." - Billi Lim |
| "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 |
| "If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh |
| "Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in." - Wayne Gretzky |
| "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt |
| "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." - Earl Nightingale |
| "Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent, if no birds sang except those that sang best." - Henry Van Dyke |
| "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau |
| "It takes as much stress to be a success as it does to be a failure." - Emilio James Trujillo |
| "The best way to predict your future is to create it." - unknown |
| "In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt |
| "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." - Emile Zola |
| "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson |
| "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." - unknown |
| "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford
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| "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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| "Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn." - Arnold Schwarzenegger
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| "I'll sleep when I'm dead." - Warren Zevon
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| "While we are postponing, life speeds by." - Seneca
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| "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi
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| "The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows." - Aristotle Onassis
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| "Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." - Robert Orben
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| "Opportunities multiply as they are seized."- Sun Tzu
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| "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
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| "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill
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| " The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
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| *Some quotes in this page are copyrighted by Professor Gabriel Robins. |
