Quotes & Sayings

• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -Seneca

• Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -Thomas A. Edison

• If you’re made of the right material, a hard fall is bound to result in a high bounce.

• It is your attitude and not your aptitude that determines your altitude. -Zig Zigler

• Size isn’t everything. The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine. -Bill Vaughan

• Adversities cause some men to break; others to break records. -William A. Ward

• Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. -John Wooden

• I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated. -Howard Stern

• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them. -Henry David Thoreau

• Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. -Adolph Monod

• Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. -Art Linkletter

• We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all. -Donald M. Nelson

• Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.–Marie Curie

• Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish. -Cecile M. Springer

• 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

• Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -Thomas A. Bennett

• Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. -Alfred A. Montapert

• Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. -Warren Buffett

• To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking. -Goethe

• Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. -Robert Brault

• The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. -Benjamin Mays

• If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative. -Woody Allen

• To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but also believe. -Anatole France

• It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. -Elinor Smith

• Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction. -Jawaharlal Nehru

• It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man who says the oath. -Aeschylus

• If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. -Denis Waitley

• Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. -Frederick B. Wilcox

• To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. -Robert M. Pirsig

• Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it. -Groucho Marx

• There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. -William Frederick Halsy, Jr.

• When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. -Alexander Graham Bell