" The Quote "

" Courage is the first virtue. It makes all other virtues possible. "
Aristoteles

" The word silent and the word listen are made of the same letters. "

" Bad news: time flies - Good news: you are the pilot. "

" Don't count the years in your life. Count the life in your years. "

" Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin. "

" Dreams can change your life, and eventually the world. "
Fatima Mernissi

" Break your chains and you'll be free, Cut your roots and you will die. "

" Tell me and I'll forget. Teach me and I'll learn. Involve me and I'll remember. "

" Once you have made a decision, never explain, never apologise. "
Lord Scanlon

" Don't let anyone steel your dream, no one. "

" Do what you can, with what you have, with where you are. "

" The difference between success and failure is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right. "
Edward Simmons

" Desire is the key to your motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal, a commitment to excellence, that will enable you to attain the success you seek. "
Mario Andretti

" From a barrel of one hundred oysters will come three pearls, keep opening the oysters. "

" Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. "

" There is no failure, except in no longer trying. "
Elbert Hubbard

" By perseverance, the snail reached the Ark. "
H. Spurgeon

" If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting. "
Dick Vermeil

" The harder you work, the luckier you get. "
Gary Player

" The only time you can't afford to fail is the last time you try. "
Charles Kettering

" Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. "
Goethe

" Heaven never helps the man who will not act. "
Sophocles

" Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin. "
Victor Kiam

" Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. "
William Shakespeare

" Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all. "
Helen Keller

" Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer than exposure. "
Helen Keller

" Is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out where the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with dust and sweat and blood. At best, he knows the triumph of high achievement; if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. "
Theodore Roosevelt

" Courage is the first virtue. It makes all other virtues possible. "
Aristoteles

" Dreams can change your life, and eventually the world. "
Fatima Mernissi

" Once you have made a decision, never explain, never apologise. "
Lord Scanlon

" The difference between success and failure is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right. "
Edward Simmons

" Desire is the key to your motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal, a commitment to excellence, that will enable you to attain the success you seek. "
Mario Andretti

" There is no failure, except in no longer trying. "
Elbert Hubbard

" By perseverance, the snail reached the Ark. "
H. Spurgeon

" If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting. "
Dick Vermeil

" The harder you work, the luckier you get. "
Gary Player

" The only time you can't afford to fail is the last time you try. "
Charles Kettering

" Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. "
Goethe

" Heaven never helps the man who will not act. "
Sophocles

" Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin. "
Victor Kiam

" Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. "
William Shakespeare

" Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all. "
Helen Keller

" Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer than exposure. "
Helen Keller

" Is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out where the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with dust and sweat and blood. At best, he knows the triumph of high achievement; if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. "
Theodore Roosevelt

" Success seems to be connected with action "
Conrad Hilton

" The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary "
Vidal Sassoon

" Nothing is so certain as that the evils of idleness can be shaken off by hard work. "
Seneca

" The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged them; conquered the chance and made chance their servant. "
E. H. Chaplin

" Paralyse resistance with persistence. "
Woody Hayes

" You must believe the unbelievable, snatch the possible out of the impossible. "
Don King

" Never accept failure, no matter how often it visits you. Keep on going. Never give up. Never. "
Dr Michael Smurfit

" The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them. "
P D Ouspensky

" You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. "
W S Gilbert

" We are all wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the Universe; but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of Life on Earth. "
Norman Cousins

" All glory comes from daring to begin. "
Eugene F Ware

" Well done is better than well said. "
Benjamin Franklin

" Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. "
Ronald E Osborn

" It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. "
John Wooden

" Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgement. Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? "
Martin Luther King

" 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 derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. "
Calvin Coolidge

" 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 that get on and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. "
George Bernard Shaw

" If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for the seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time acoming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. "
John B Gough

" The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. "
O W Holmes

" If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average. "
M H Alderson

" Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. "
Samuel Butler

" The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. "
Benjamin Disraeli

" The difference between possible and impossible lies in a man's determination. "
Tommy Lasorda

" A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. "
Walter Gagehot

" The man that cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. "
Roy L Smith

" Being good is good business. "
Anita Roddick

" I don't like work, no man does, but I like what is in work, the chance to find yourself. Your own reality, for yourself, not for others, what no other man can ever know. "
Joseph Conrad

" Either lead, follow, or get out of my way. "
Ted Turner

" The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. "
Dale Carnegie

" What matters is working with a few close friends, people you respect, knowing that if times did turn bad these people would hold together. "
Richard Branson

" A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. "
Bacon

" Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. "
D L George

" A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week. "
General George Patton

" Things turn out the best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out. "
Art Linkletter

" There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome. "
Anthony Robbins

" While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. "
Henry C Link

" The great end of life is not knowledge but action. "
Thomas H Huxley

" When people say to me: how do you do so many things? I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel: how do you do so little? Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the TV and treat life as if it goes on forever. "
Philip Adams

" Don't lose time in conflict; lose no time in doubt; time can never be recovered and if you miss an opportunity it may take many lives before another comes your way again. "
Bhagwan

" If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. "
Henry David Thoreau

" Growing pains sometimes may seem unbearable, but believe me, they are nothing compared with the pain of shrinking or the pain of standing still. "
Leo Burnett

" It is a complete waste of time to do something average! "
Madonna

" This is the true joy in life, when it is being used for a purpose recognised by yourself as a mighty one; The being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrapheap; The being a force of nature instead o a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. "
George Bernard Shaw

" Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. "
Edward Eggleton

" 'Come to the edge' he said. They said: 'We are afraid', 'Come to the edge' he said. They came. He pushed them .. and they flew. "
Guillaume Appolinnaire

" We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit. "
ristoteles.

" The real secret of success is enthusiasm. "
Walter Chrysler

" Imagination is more important than knowledge "
Albert Einstein.

" Many of lifes failures are people who didnt realise how close they were to success when they gave up "
Thomas Edison

" You cannot build a reputation on what you are going to do. "
Henry Ford

" Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. "
Winston Churchill

" The problem with the rat-race is that even if you win, you are still a rat. "
Lily Tomlin

" The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance it is the illusion of knowledge. "
Daniel Boorstein

" Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. "
Jules Renard

" Plan to be uncomfortable. Understand that its a necessary part of the process for success. Learn to be comfortable with discomfort. "
John Roger

" Show me a guy thats afraid to look bad, and I will show you a guy that you can beat every time. "
Rene Auberjonis

" Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed; there is so little competition. "
Elbert Hubbard

" The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at the time. "
Abraham Lincoln

" I cannot give you the formula for success; but I can give you the formula for failure, which is try to please everybody. "
Herbert B. Swope

" All glory comes from daring to begin. "
Eugene F. Ware

" He who has a Why to live, can bear almost any How. "
Nietzsche

" Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. "
E. Merson

" The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. "
Theodore Roosevelt

" The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. "
Dolly Parton

" Thinking is the hardest work there is, which probably is the reason why so few engage in it. "
Henry Ford

" I distrust camels and anyone else who can go a week without a drink. "
The Nose: winebar in South Africa.

" The secret of success lies in learning to enjoy the journey that leads to it. "
Floris 04

" Our in-depth analysis of the latest communication tools has revealed a system of unrivalled efficiency: two people, two chairs a cup of coffee and some time. "
Julius B

" Fail often in order to succeed sooner "
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" Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius. "
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