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Samuel Smiles Quotes

Posted on April 6, 2012 by

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.

Enthusiasm – the sustaining power of all great action.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Quotes about Never Giving Up

Posted on April 6, 2012 by

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Jane Addams

“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Elliot

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow–
You may succeed with another blow,
Success is failure turned inside out–
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit–
It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit. – Edgar A. Guest

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

“Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…
It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene

“Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough.
Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away,
and move on to something that’s more productive.” – Donald Trump

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C. S. Lewis

“When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.” – Winston Churchill

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult–once we truly understand and accept it–then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.” – M. Scott Peck

“I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is a step forward.” – Thomas Edison

“Be grateful for your problems, for they stimulate an “I-can-solve-it” attitude.” – Mark Victor Hansen

“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.” – Ross Perot

“Don’t give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don’t listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.” – Sidney Sheldon

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.” – Michelle Obama

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald

“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton

“The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn’t hear the referee. Never quit or give up… never… never give up.” –

Valentine’s Day Quotes

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

I’ve selected for you some great quotes for Valentine’s Day. Hope you enjoy them!

Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile – Franklin P. Jones

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu

The first time you fall in love it changes your life forever and no matter how hard you try, the feeling never goes away.

There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

Love: a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.

It’s not what you have done for me that makes me love you so much. It is the joys of who you are, and the happiness you bring.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence. – Vincent van Gogh

50 Best Inspirational Quotes

Posted on January 10, 2012January 10, 2012 by

1. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein

2. “Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.” – Wallace Wattles

3. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

4. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering the attitudes of his mind.” – William James

5. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

6. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela

7. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” – Robert Frost

8. “You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life.” – John Addison

9. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

10. “An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.” – Wallace Wattles

11. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

12. “Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.” – Stephen Covey

13. “The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.” – Joseph Joubert

14. ”Destiny is not a 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.” – Winston Churchill

15. “Don’t wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel Stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.” – Dara Henderson

16. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

17. “Vision without action is just a dream, action without vision just passes the time, vision with action can change the world” – Nelson Mandela

18. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

19. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

20. “Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose yours.” – Paulo Coelho

21. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy

22. “I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” – James Joyce

23. “I have learned that it’s not WHAT I have in my life but WHO I have in my life that counts.” – Unknown

24. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

25. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn

26. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci

27. “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” – Goethe

28. “It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined” – Henry James

29. “And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

30. “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Rogers

31. “Try not. Do or do not. There is no Try.” – Yoda (Star Wars!)

32. “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” – William Wallace

33. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

34. “There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind” – Brian Tracy

35.“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

37. “When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.” – Estee Lauder

38. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

39. “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” – Tom Bodett

40. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

41. “The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain

42. “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley

43. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

44. “Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

45. “I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.” – David Livingston

46. “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

47. “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo

48. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison

49. “Strive for progress, not perfection.” – Unknown

50. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the ones you did. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

Napoleon Bonaparte on courage

Posted on January 8, 2012 by

“It requires more courage to suffer than to die” – Napoleon Bonaparte

It takes everything to follow your heart

Posted on December 18, 2011 by

“It takes courage to follow your mind. But it takes everything to follow your heart.” – Author Unknown

All our dreams can come true

Posted on December 11, 2011 by

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney

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Courage Quotes

Posted on December 7, 2011 by

1. Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. – Tom Krause

2. The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. – Sven Goran Eriksson

3. The key to change… is to let go of fear. – Rosanne Cash

4. If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything. – Win Borden

5. A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. – William Shedd

6. Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. – Mark Victor Hansen

7. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. – Mark Twain

8. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston Churchill

9. Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

10. Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. – Paulo Coelho

11. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. – Aristotle

12. One determined person can make a significant difference; a small group of determined people can change the course of history. – Sonia Johnson

13. Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. – Bernadette Devlin

Best Judgement Quotes

Posted on November 15, 2011 by

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. – Ambrose Redmoon

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only path. – Paulo Coelho

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying. – Tom Hopkins

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your own self-love might impair your judgement. – Seneca

Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments. – Leonardo da Vinci

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities. – Friedrich Nietzsche

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. – Jean Baudrillard

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. – Jim Rohn

Kissing Quotes

Posted on November 8, 2011November 8, 2011 by

Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases. – Chinese Proverb

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. – Albert Einstein

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. – Janeane Garofalo

Stolen kisses are always sweetest. – Leigh Hunt

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek. – French Proverb

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. – Winston Churchill

I wasn’t kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth. – Chico Marx

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. – Jonathan Swift

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. – Bernard Meltzer

A kiss may ruin a human life. – Oscar Wilde