Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
Two stonecutters were asked what they were doing.
The first said, "I'm cutting this stone into blocks."
the second replied, "I'm on a team that's building a cathedral."
Unknown
Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling block.
It's just a matter of how you view them.
Unknown
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
Unknown
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Some goals are so worthy, it's glorious even to fail.
Unknown
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
The biggest mistake you can make
is to believe that you work for someone else.
Unknown
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Anonymous
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Elliot
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao-Tzu
To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.
Confucius
Everyone has talent.
What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be.
Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
The right name is the one who seizes the moment.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,
as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
People often say that this person has not yet found himself,
But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
John Cotton Dana
Always do right.
this will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
You see thing; and say, "Why?"
But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
Robert F. Kennedy
Well begun is half done.
Aristotle
Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?
Shakespeare
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry.
Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension.
One of these days is Yesterday...
And the other day I do not worry about until Tomorrow.
Robert Jones Burdette
To what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause;
He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
sir Richard Burton
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
Lord Chesterfield
One must not always think so much about what one should do,
but rather what one should be.
Meister Eckhart
For everything you have missed, you have gained something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Somebody siad that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle replied,
That maybe it couldn't, but he whould be one
Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried.
Edgar A. Guest
A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben Jonson
A person travels the world over in search of what he needs
and returns home to find it.
George Moore
Things cannot always go your way.
Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations,
cultivate the gift of taciturnity,
and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work,
so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your
complaints.
Osler
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
Publilius Syrus
The key to happiness is having dreams;
The key to success is making them come true.
Unknown
Far better it is to dare mighty thing, to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer
much,
because they live in the gray twilight that know not victory nor defeat.
Unknown
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
charles Caleb Colton
When in doubt tell the truth.
Mark Twain
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about,
and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
The follies which a man regrets most in life are those which he
didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
Helen Rowland
If you do not tellthe truth about yourself
you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
To lose is to learn.
Anonymous
The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.
Cervantes
Learn to say 'No';
it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
charles Haddon Spurgeon
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Gary Player
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
Adlai Stevenson
In the midst of winter,
I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus