Famous Quotes of All Time






We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle

The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William B. Sprague

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert
Einstein


Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. - Henry Ford

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become. - Oprah Winfrey

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve
been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again
in my life. And that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan

You must be the change you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving
your goals. – Goethe

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what
they want. - Zig Ziglar

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating
desire which transcends everything. - Napoleon Hill

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. - Truman Capote

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare. - Japanese Proverb

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is
the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet. - Isaac
B. Singer

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.- Unknown

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are
least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. - Charles
F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than
by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the
trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success. -
Unknown

Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined. -
Unknown

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. - Dan Stanford

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means. - Albert
Einstein

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a
certain set of attitudes. - Hugh Downs

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well
laugh about it now. - Marie Osmond

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. - Roy Goodman

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago
today. - E. Joseph Cossman

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. - Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. - Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect. - Mark
Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but
the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. - Richard B. Sheridan

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Act or accept. - Unanonymous

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without
the other is worthless. - Tim Blixseth

The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you. - Dr
Phil

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are
it will burn very briefly. - Stephen R. Covey

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things.
When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. - Norman Vincent Peale

Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world. -
Anonymous

Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent. -
Marilyn vos Savant, Author and Advice Columnist

I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones. - John
Cage

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means. - Albert
Einstein

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. - Unknown

The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Unknown

Anyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things
when they don't want to do it. - Dr. Phil

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the
responsibility for changing them. - Dr. Denis Waitley

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. - Sir
Winston Churchill

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make
mistakes but don't quit.- Conrad Hilton

Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching. - Unknown

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do,
and two, do it. - Mario Cuomo

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. - Richard Bach

Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of
life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves
and others. - Dr. Michael Norwood

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. - Dr.
Joyce Brothers

 Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. - Samuel Beckett

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses. -
Rosalind Russell

Cause Change & Lead
Accept Change & Survive
Resist Change & Die - Ray Norda, Chairman, Novell

Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep
it up! You're right on track. - Matthew Keith Groves

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. - Bill Bernbach

An obstacle is often a stepping stone. - Prescott

Life is "trying things to see if they work" - Ray Bradbury

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. - Anonymous

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. - Dennis P. Kimbro

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

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe

In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock.- Thomas Jefferson

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The
hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. - Machiavelli

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. -
Mahatma Gandhi

You are what you think about all day long. - Dr. Robert Schuller

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles
he has overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T. Washington

Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world. - Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. - Elbert Hubbard

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. - J.M.
Power

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve
hours a day - Robert Frost

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it
will be better tomorrow. - Maya Angelou

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what? -
Sydney Harris

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.-
Richard L. Evans

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. - Robert Frost

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look
fear in the face. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. - Seneca

Do first things first, and second things not at all. - Peter Drucker

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the faultfinders. - Foster's
Law

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. - Joe Clark

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill

Positive anything is better than negative thinking. - Elbert Hubbard

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who wish to sing, always find a song. - Swedish Proverb

If you're going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but
we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. – Voltaire

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery
and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves
me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. - Friedrich
Nietzsche

There is no education like adversity. – Disraeli

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Adversity introduces a man to himself. - Author Unknown

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