You
miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky
We
are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is
not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
Take
calculated risks.
That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton
Storms
make oaks take roots.
Proverb
If
you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond
your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra
Dream
big and dare to fail.
Norman Vaughan
With
will one can do anything.
Samuel Smiles
We
are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery,
guided each by a private chart, of which there is no
duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When
you get into a tight place and everything goes against
you, till it seems you could not hang on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Seek
the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work
at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder
The
only way of finding the limits of the possible is by
going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
Well
begun is half done.
Greek Proverb
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The
best way out is always through.
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Without
inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant.
There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with
sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder
Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
And
all may do what has by man been done.
Edward Young
Hope
is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts
the shadow of our burden behind us.
Samuel Smiles
Work
spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire
If
the wind will not serve,
take to the oars.
Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe
Latin Proverb
Men's
best successes come after their disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
No
star is lost once we have seen,
We always may be what we might have been.
Adelaide Proctor
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
Leonardo Da Vinci
You
cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown
Do
not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it
hot by striking.
William B. Sprague
Strong
lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Kenneth Hildebrand
Nothing
will ever be attempted if all possible objections must
first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
Fortune
favors the brave.
Publius Terence
When
the best things are not possible, the best may be made
of those that are.
Richard Hooker
He
who hesitates is lost.
Proverb
If
you want to succeed in the world must make your own
opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some
seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that
the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit
no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until some
one comes along and invites you to ride with him to
wealth or influence.
John
B. Gough
An
oak is not felled at one blow.
Spanish Proverb
In
doubtful matters boldness is everything.
Publilius Syrus
Great
spirits have always encountered violent opposition from
mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
Amazing
how we can light tomorrow with today.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In
every difficult situation is potential value. Believe
this, then begin looking for it.
Norman Vincent Peale
Believe
with all of your heart that you will do what you were
made to do.
Orison Swett Marden
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Each
day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning,
I say: "What is my exciting thing for today?"
Then I do the day.
Barbara Jordan |
Knowing
is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We
are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill
Nothing
great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reach
perfection.
Baltasar Gracián
For
hope is but the dream
of those that wake.
Matthew Prior
Constant
dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius
Nothing
contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady
purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley
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Words
of Wisdom /
Thoughts to Live By
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Nature
and wisdom never are at strife.
Plutarch
It
is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The
art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William James
The
first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence,
the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice,
the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabriol
Wisdom
is better than gold or silver.
German Proverb
Years
teach us more than books.
Berthold Auerbach
It
is best to learn wisdom by the experience of others.
Latin Proverb
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great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary,
that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's
neighbors, friends and family, in one's backyard.
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The
wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are
brief and pithy.
William Penn
The
middle course is the best.
Cleobulus
The
wise man should be prepared for everything that does
not lie within his control.
Pythagoras
The
only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other
woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Thomas Huxley
A
wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by
his own.
Latin Proverb
Silence
does not always mark wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Measure
a thousand times and cut once.
Turkish Proverb
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
No
man was ever wise by chance.
Seneca
He
has not learned the lesson of life who does not every
day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not seek to follow
in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho
Learn
to hold loosely all that is not eternal.
A. Maude Royden
Not
to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom.
John Milton
By
associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
Menander
The
seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the
heart.
William Hazlitt
Of
all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
John Tillotson
The
larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shore
line of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman
The
more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Catherine the Great
A
loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
One
who understands much displays a greater simplicity of
character than one who understands little.
Alexander Chase
How
prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Homer
The
man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.
Confucius
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Wisdom
is the sunlight of the soul. - German Proverb |
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