| Quote | Author |
| The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. | Albert Schweitzer 1875 - 1965 |
| The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think that the reason why, is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen. | A. A. Milne (1882-1956) |
| There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. | Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) |
| When one door closes; another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us. | Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) |
| To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream: not only plan but also believe. | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| First you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else. | Anita Roddick (1942-2007) |
| Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough. I can single-handed move the world. Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth. | Archimedes (287-212 B.C.) |
| Well done is better than well said. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Dost thou love life - then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while tryin to succeed. | Booker T. Washington(1856-1915) |
| Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. | Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) |
| The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own. | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. | Douglas Macarthur (1880 - 1964) |
| The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success? | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent. | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. | Erica Jong (born 1942) |
| I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results. | Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) |
| Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better. | Frank Spencer |
| I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. | G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| The follies a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. | Helen Rowland (1876-1950) |
| The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance, a palace or temple on the earth; and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| Those who are going nowhere usually get there. | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| My grandfather told me that there are two kinds of people; those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try and be in the first group; there was less competition there. | Indira Gandi (1917-1984) |
| We are all failures - at least, all the best of us are. | J. M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) |
| Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along; but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me; but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me; but I am the fire. | Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) |
| A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. | Lao Tzu |
| A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life; by him who interests his heart in everything. | Laurence Sterne (1713--1768). |
| Dreams are true while they last; and do we not live in dreams? | Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) |
| I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. | Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888). |
| First they ignore you; then they laugh at you; then they fight you; then you win. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. | Marcus Aurelius (AD 161-180). |
| Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one. | Marcus Aurelius (AD 161-180). |
| It is only the first step that is difficult.
| Marie de Vichy-Chamrond (1697 - 1780) |
| Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| 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 (1835-1910) |
| I see myself hitting all the routines, doing everything perfectly. I imagine all the moves and go through them in my mind. | Mary Lou Retton |
| If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all. | Michelangelo (1475-1564) |
| The beginning is the most important part of any work. | Plato |
| While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. | Publilius Syrus |
| Do not turn back when you are just at the goal. | Publilius Syrus |
| No one knows what he can do till he tries. | Publilius Syrus |
| You can outdistance that which is running after you but not what is running inside you. | Rwandan Proverb |
| Chiefly the mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.
| Sir Francis Bacon (1561- 1626) |
| I never worry about action; only inaction. | Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Let him who would move the world, first move himself. | Socrates (470-399 B.C.) |
| Opportunities multiply as they are seized. | Sun Tzu |
| Keep your eyes on the stars; and your feet on the ground. | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| Do what you can; with what you have; where you are. | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| I failed my way to success. | Thomas Edison (1847-1931) |
| If it were not for hopes; the heart would break. | Thomas Fuller (1710-1790) |
| Some folk want their luck buttered. | Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) |
| Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. | Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) |
| Aim high! It is no harder on your gun to shoot the feathers off an eagle than to shoot the fur off a skunk. | Troy Moore |
| Knowing and not doing are equal to not knowing at all. | Unknown |
| Happiness is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have. | Unknown |
| Fear can hold you prisoner; hope can set you free. | Unknown |
| Behold the tortoise. He only makes progress when he sticks out his neck. | Unknown |
| Procrastination is the thief of time. | Unknown |
| Some students drink deeply at the fountain of knowledge - others only gargle. | Unknown |
| The surest way of gaining success is believe you can succeed. | Unknown |
| Better to light a small candle than to curse in the dark. | Unknown |
| The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. | Unknown |
| Few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application. | Unknown |
| Be like the bird in flight- Pausing awhile on boughs too slight. Feels them give way beneath her; yet sings Knowing yet; that she has wings. | Victor Hugo (1802-1906) |
| Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating the people who work with me and aiming their views at a certain goal. | Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
| Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. | William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) |