Motivational Phrases Help You Keep Focussed Your Dream
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Harold R. McAlindon
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
John Quincy Adams
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
George Matthews Adams
"We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can."
James Lane Allen
"You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place."
Maya Angelou
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it."
Corazon Aquino
"I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles."
Aristotle
"He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."
Philip Armor
"No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place."
Mary Kay Ash
"A good goal is like a strenuous exercise -- it makes you stretch."
"I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important, and with that in mind I regard everyone as special."
Isaac Asimov
"It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly."
Francis Bacon
"Knowledge itself is power."
Walther Bageholt
"The greatest pleasure in life is in doing what people say you cannot do".
Henry Ward Beecher
"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."
"A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself."
Henry William Blake
"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."
Ralph Blum
"Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Ability has nothing to do with opportunity."
"A leader is a dealer in hope."
"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
"When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out."
Claude M. Bistol
"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles."
Buddha
"We are what we think."
Christian Nestell Bovee
"Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion."
Tom Brokaw
"It's easy to make a buck. It's tougher to make a difference."
Robert Burton
"I light my candle from their torches."
Leo F. Buscaglia
"Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer."
Joseph Campbell
"Follow your bliss."
Albert Camus
"Integrity has no need of rules".
Albert Careb
"In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer."
Thomas Carlyle
"Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself."
"The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
"The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder – a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you."
Jean Church
"You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let if consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star."
Winston Churchill
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
"There is no use in saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have to succeed in doing what is necessary."
"We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."
Arthur C. Clarke
"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
John Churton Collins
"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm."
Confucius
"A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet."
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
"The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration."
"The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has."
Robert Conklin
"It's not the situation; it's your reaction to the situation."
Corneille
"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."
Emile Coue
"Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better."
Taisen Deshimaru
"The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant."
Mike Dikta
"You are never a loser until you quit trying."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action."
"There is no education like adversity."
Thomas Edison
"If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves."
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
"If at first an idea isn't absurd there is no hope for it".
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is though everything is a miracle."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"A bold heart is half the battle."
"Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
"The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions."
George Eliot
"It's never too late to be what you might have been".
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him."
"Fractures well cured make us more strong."
"It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased.
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."
"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."
"We become what we think about all day long"
"What I need is someone who will make me do what I can."
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