Good Quotes

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Constant dripping hollows out a stone - Lucretius

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. - Josh Billings

The secret of success in life is for a man is to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. - Earl of Beaconsfield

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. - Benjamin Disraeli

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

Some More Quotes

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. - St. Clement of Alexandra

Impatience never commanded success. - Edwin H. Chapin

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best. - John Tillotson

To select well among old things, is almost equal to inventing new ones. - Nicholas Charles Trublet

Some More Quotes

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. - St. Clement of Alexandra

Impatience never commanded success. - Edwin H. Chapin

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best. - John Tillotson

To select well among old things, is almost equal to inventing new ones. - Nicholas Charles Trublet

More Good Quotes

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.

Love can make you do things that you never thought possible. - Phil Collins

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. - Edgar Watson Howe

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

To live is so startling it leaves very little time for anything else. - Emily Dickinson

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare

Love is everything it's cracked up to be... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. - Erica Jong

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. - W H Auden

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. - Lord Byron

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself. - Jean Anouilh

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his. - Franklin P Jones

The wisest mind has something yet to learn. - George Santayana

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. - Dr. David M Burns

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds. - Hugh Elliott

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that. - Jay Leno

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. - Menander

The first duty of love is to listen. - Paul Tillich

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal. - Mike Ditka

You always pass failure on the way to success. - Mickey Rooney

I only know of one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high. - Wilbur Wright

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. - Anna Freud

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough. - Jerome Agel

Love is all you need. - Paul McCartney

Progress isnt made by early risers or hard workers, but by lazy people, trying to find easier ways to do the same. - Henry Ford

A good plan for today is better than a better plan for tomorrow - George Paton

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you will be doing the impossible. - St. Francis of Assisi

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal.

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental, but I shall fight them out. - Pele

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. - Sopholces

Humour is also a way of saying something serious. - T. S. Eliot

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. - Elsa Maxwell

If money helps a man do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better. - Swami Vivekananda

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. - Bill Nye

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive. - John Sheffield

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. - Mother Teresa

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King

There is no 'I' in 'TEAM', but there is an 'I' in 'WIN' - Michael Jordan

Everything is practice. - Pele

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. - Lee Iacocca

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. - Quintilian

Some Good Quotes

Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside. - Brian Tracy

Every morning has a new beginning, a new blessing, a new hope. It's a perfect day coz it's God's gift.

Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves. - Robert Rodriguez

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.- - Helen Keller

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. - Brian Tracy

The fastest way to your own expectations is to add passion to your labour. - Mike Litman

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. - William Saroyan

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. - Bob Newhart

Never walk on the traveled path, because it only leads you where the others have been - Graham Bell

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air. - John Quincy Adams

What luck for leaders that men do not think. - Adolf Hitler

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. - Jimmy Buffet

Nothing fails like success. - Gerald Nachman

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. - Mahatma Gandhi

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. - Jane Austen

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. - Marcel Proust

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. - Casey Stengel

Awesome Quotes from Great Individual

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. - John F Kennedy

Fear is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. - Abraham Lincoln

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. - Sun-tzu, The Art of War.

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them. - Man Ray

You see things and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and say, "Why not?". - George Bernard Shaw

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. - Mason Cooley

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. - Will Rogers

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. - Colin Powell

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - Herm Albright

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. - Alphonse Karr

There are no mistakes made in life, there are only lessons learnt.

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions. - Cullen Hightower

Darkness cannot be driven out by darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let is disappear. - John Lennon

The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you refuse to take the turn.

Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice. - Stanley Horowitz

Great Quotes

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. - Patricia Neal

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow. - Victor Hugo

The key to realising a dream is to focus not on success but on significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning. - Oprah Winfrey

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. - Theophrastus

A single day is enough to make us a little larger. - Paul Klee

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. - Bonnie Friedman

We need men who can dream of things that never were. - John F Kennedy

Hope is a waking dream. - Aristotle

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. - Sir Winston Churchill

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. - Ralph W Sockman

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary. - Mahatma Gandhi

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. - Arthur Golden

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. - Anna Freud

An optimist is the human personification of spring - Susan J Bissonette

You can find on the outside only what you possess on the inside. - Adolfo Montiel Ballesteros

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Samuel Johnson

Beautiful Words

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. - Robert Collier

Try not to be become a man of success but a man of value. - Albert Einstein

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S Patton

A wise man learns from the mistakes of others, a fool from his own. - Latin proverb

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Years teach us more than books - Berthold Auerbach

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

Condemn none: If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way. - Swami Vivekananda

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. - Peter Drucker

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. - Lee Iacocca

The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter Drucker

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. - Swami Vivekananda

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. - Peter Drucker

Inspiring Words

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius

The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost

They can because they think they can. - Virgil

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. - Shakespeare

Life is a lesson, you learn it when you're tough. - Limp Bizkit (MI2 theme)

Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own. - Peter Anderson