Helen Keller
Thomas Edison
Christopher Columbus
Vince Lombardi
Winston Churchill
Aristotle
Benjamin Franklin
Earl Nightingale
John Wooden
“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.”
" I learned that one gets stronger from taking action."
“Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.”
“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”
“The grass is greener where you water it.”
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
" Don’t wait for inspiration. Learn to cultivate it."
" Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."
" The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
" Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs."
" Become the motivation."
" You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
" Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."
" If not us, who? If not now, when?"
" When you can shift from dwelling in the past to focusing on the present, you gain the ability to look at problems objectively."
" It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
" If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."
" Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right."
" Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’
" Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have."
" Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become great."
"Be patient and keep working with perseverance."
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
" When ordinary people decide to step out and be part of something big, that’s when they become extraordinary."
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."
"Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try."
" Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become great."
"It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts."
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
"You must persist in the pursuit of your goal and believe that you can reach it, that you WILL reach it--even if others don't believe you will."
"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."
“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis."
"There is nothing impossible to they who will try."
"Make each day your masterpiece."
"Everything you can imagine is real."
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go."
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
"For anyone to achieve something, he will have to show a little courage. You're only on this earth once. You must give out all you've got."
"He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how."
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
"When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece."
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."
"You can do anything you set your mind to."
"Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far ranging and free as possible?"
"Wouldst thou fashion for thyself a seemly life?
Then do not fret over what is past and gone;
And spite of all thou mayst have left behind
Live each day as if thy life were just begun."
"Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded there."
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
"By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination."
"You can do anything you set your mind to."
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."
"Life either happens by design or default, you choose."
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."
"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."
"It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up."
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
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