Heaven ne’er helps the man who will not help himself.
Sophocles
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu
Industry is the parent of success.
Spanish Proverb
kites flying against the wind Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind. – Frank Harris
Thought is the seed of action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.
Samuel Butler
Often the only difference between winning and losing is momentum.
John C. Maxwell
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
Coco Chanel
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Persian Proverb
Only one thing makes a dream impossible: fear of failure.
Paulo Coehlo, The Alchemist
You must know for which harbor you are headed if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.
Seneca
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more roses.
George Eliot
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Sydney J. Harris
With the new day comes new strengths and thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Lots of things that couldn’t be done have been done.
Charles Austin Bates
We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Your world is as big as you can make it.
Georgia Douglas Johnson
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
I like things to happen and if they don’t happen, I like to make them happen.
Winston Churchill
Success often comes to those who dare and act; it seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Jawaharlal Nehru
They can conquer who believe they can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
A. P. Stanley
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare
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
canoe forging through rapids The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
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
morning sunrise over mountains 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
