Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Some Inspiring Quotes

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
~Henry David Thoreau

"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do!"
~Walter Bagehot

"You can sit around and wait for the good things to happen to you, or you can go out and make them happen."
~Unknown

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
~Taylor Benson

"Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst thing is not to try."
~Unknown

"Failure is the path of least persistence."
~Unknown

"Patience is counting down without blasting off."
~Unknown

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
~Will Rogers

"We must conquer war or war will conquer us."
~Ely Culbertson

"It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not."
~Albert Brooks

"Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success."
~Michael Eisner

"The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have."
~Carol Clurman

"Live your life so that if someone says 'Be yourself' it's good advice."
~Robert Orben

"There are no speed limits on the road to excellence."
~David Johnson

"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are."
~Tobias Wolff

"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling, enduring, and accomplishing."
~George Sheehan

"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."
~Clarence Thomas

"There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by."
~Annie Dillard

"Sometimes you have to put your foot down to get a leg up."
~Dave Weinbaum

"The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat."
~A.J. Cronin

"Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows."
~Michael Landon

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."
~William Osler

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
~Unknown

"It may be that those who do most, dream most."
~Stephen Leacock

"Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be."
~Jimmy Johnson

"The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them."
~James Oliver

"I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
~Goethe

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."
~J.M. Power

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