Motivational Quotes (3)

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
-Henry Ford

To know just what has to be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
-Sir William Osler, physician

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life, and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
-Omar Bradley

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like.
But we cannot wait until tomorrow.
Tomorrow is now.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

The day will happen whether or not you get up.
-John Ciardi

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you until it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe

People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?"
do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance
of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.
-Kim Woo-Choong

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
-Og Mandino

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity.
I was forced to come up the hard way.
-J.C. Penney

Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
-Thomas Edison

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
-Dale Carnegie

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
-Napoleon Hill

No wind favors he who has no destined port.
-Montaigne

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths
rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
-John D. Rockefeller

The biggest mistake people make in life
is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
-Malcomb Forbes

Fortune sides with s/he who dares.
-Virgil

Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble.
-Frank Tyge

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-Henry Ford

Far better it is to dare mighty things, even though checkered by failure,
than to take rank with those who neither enjoy much or suffer much,
because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt

You must have long term goals
to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
-Charles C. Noble

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
-English Proverb

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
-Elbert Hubbard

To finish first, you must first finish.
-Rick Mears, Indy Car Driver

Build a dream and the dream will build you.
-Robert Schuller

Winners have simply formed the habit
of doing things losers don't like to do.
-Albert Gray

Inches make champions.
-Vince Lombardi

I could use a hundred people
who don't know there is such a word as impossible.
Henry Ford

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
Charles Kingsley, author

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
Dr. Dorothy Height

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard, American writer

Strong reasons make strong actions.
William Shakespeare

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