Helen Keller
"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."
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”
"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
“I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
" Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs."
" You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
Christopher Columbus
" Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."
" If not us, who? If not now, when?"
" 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."
"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."
“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."
"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."
Thomas Edison
"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."
"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."
"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?"
"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."
John Wooden