Motivational Thoughts

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra
 Dream big and dare to fail.
 
Norman Vaughan

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
 

Thornton Wilder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
 

Arthur C. Clarke

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
 

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

And all may do what has by man been done.
 

Edward Young

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

Samuel Smiles

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
 

Voltaire

If the wind will not serve,
take to the oars.
Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe
 

Latin Proverb

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
 

Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.
 

Author Unknown

The best way out is always through.
 

Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
 

William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
 

Samuel Johnson

Fortune favors the brave.
 

Publius Terence

When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. - Richard Hooker

He who hesitates is lost.
 

Proverb

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

John B. Gough

An oak is not felled at one blow.
 

Spanish Proverb

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
 

Albert Einstein

Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
 

Orison Swett Marden

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
 

Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reach perfection.
 

Baltasar Gracián

For hope is but the dream
of those that wake.
 

Matthew Prior

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
 

Lucretius

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides

 

They can because they think they can.
Virgil

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.
 

Theodore T. Hunger

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.
 

Cicero

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
 

Frank Loyd Wright

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
 

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard

There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way. 

Christopher Morley
Success is the child of audacity.
 

Benjamin Disraeli

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
 

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
 

Aristotle Onassis

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance.
 

Owen Feltham

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
 

Vince Lombardi

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Jeremy Collier
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope