Friendship Quotes – a large collection of famous and inspirational quotes

Menu

Tag: George Elliot

Quotes about Never Giving Up

“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.” – never give up on anybody

Fitness Motivational Quotes

1. Strive for progress, not perfection. –Unknown

2. You want me to do something… tell me I can’t do it. –Maya Angelou

3. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky

4. If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying. –Unknown

5. You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. –Ruth E. Renkl

6. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. –Mahatma Gandhi

7. Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. –Norman R. Augustine

8. I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. –George Burns

9. Energy and persistence conquer all things. –Benjamin Franklin

10. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

fitness motivational quotes11. No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. –Aesop

12. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. –Albert Einstein

13. Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. –Lou Holtz

14. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. –Jim Ryan

15. I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan

16. Fear is what stops you… courages is what keeps you going. –Unknown

17. The finish line is just the beginning of a whole new race. –Unknown

18. The difference between a goal and a dream is a deadline. –Steve Smith

19. Just do it.™ –Nike

20. In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself. –Anonymous

21. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. –Mark Twain

22. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. –Anonymous

23. Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. –Oprah Winfrey

24. It’s never too late to become what you might have been. –George Elliot

25. Clear your mind of can’t. –Samuel Johnso

25 Truth Quotes

1. “People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.” – Richard J. Needham
2. “A half truth is a whole lie.” – Yiddish Proverb
3. “A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” – William Blake
4. “No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.” – Francis Bacon
5. “A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.” – Thomas Mann
6. “The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.” – Henry David Thoreau
7. “Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships.” – Unknown
8. “I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.” – Pietro Ariteno
9. “You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.” – Unknown
10. “Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected” – Mahatma Gandhi
11. “Truth never tranquilizes. The defining property of truth is its ability to disturb.” – Solomon Short
12. “It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent. You cannot take responsibility for how well another accepts your truth; you can only ensure how well it is communicated. And by how well, I don’t mean merely how clearly; I mean how lovingly, how compassionately, how sensitively, how courageously, and how completely.” – Neale Donald Walsch
13. “Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.” – Henri-Frederic Amiel
14. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you” – Friedrich Nietzsche
15. “Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” – Maya Angelou
16. “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive and unrealistic” – John F. Kennedy
17. “Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend.” – Rabindranath Tagore
18. “We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.” – Tad Williams
19. “The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie.” – Ann Landers
20. “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
21. “Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.” – George Elliot
22. “It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.” – Henry Ward Beecher
23. “A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity” – Baltasar Gracian
24. “Peace if possible, truth at all costs.” – Martin Luther
25. “Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.” – Chuck Swindoll