1. Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile! - Og Mandino
2. Life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements. - Alice Munro,
3. An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. - Arnold Glasow
4. If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things? - George Clason (The author of the 'Richest Man in Babylon')
5. There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. - John F. Kennedy
6. When a man's fight begins with himself, he is worth something. - Robert Browning
2. Life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements. - Alice Munro,
3. An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. - Arnold Glasow
4. If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things? - George Clason (The author of the 'Richest Man in Babylon')
5. There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. - John F. Kennedy
6. When a man's fight begins with himself, he is worth something. - Robert Browning
7. The softer you sing, the louder you're heard. - Donovan, a musician.
7. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. - Harriet Beecher Stowe.
8. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. - Mae West
9. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - D.Rockfeller
10. Just as appetite comes by eating so work brings inspiration. -Igor Stravinsky
11. I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Picasso
12. Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating your energies on a limited set of targets. - Nido Qubein
13. People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
14. Good habits, once established, are just as hard to break as the bad. - Robert Puller
15. Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny. - Stephen Covey
16. We denizens of Earth have a common vice: We take what we're offered, whether we need it or not. You can get into a lot of trouble that way. -Robert Sheckley,
17. Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. - Walter Anderson
18. He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. - Nietzsche.
19. What you have to do and the way you have to do
it is incredibly simple. Whether you are
willing to do it, that’s another matter - Peter Drucker
20. I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race. -Don Marquis, humorist and poet
21. Always focus on the windshield and not the
rearview mirror. - Colin Powell
22. It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot
23. It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. - Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and explorer
24. 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 Iacoca
25. The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves. - P.D. James
26. The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. - Vince Lombardi
27. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.- Abraham Lincoln
28. What I need is someone who will make me do what I can. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts. - George Matthew Adams, newspaper columnist.
30. I like things to happen. And if they don't
happen, I like to make them happen. - Winston Churchill
31. We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. - John Buchan, poet, novelist, and politician
32. A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. - John Neal, author and critic
33. The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. - Louis de Bernieres, novelist
34. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. - Napoleon Hill
35. It’s the task that’s never started that’s more tiresome.” - Gretchen Rubin
36. We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. - Calvin Coolidge
37. The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease. - Lord Chesterfield.
38. A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself. - Georges Clemenceau,
39. Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
40. If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things? -George Clason, author of the Richest Man in Babylon.
41. There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
-John F. Kennedy
42. That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. -Doris Lessing, novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel laureate.
43. There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do. - Henry Ford
44. If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. - Thomas Alwa Edison
45. We read books to find out who we are. -Ursula K. Le Guin, author.
46. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. - Lincoln
47. The world makes way for the man who knows where
he is going. - Emerson
48. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie
49. This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in. -Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President
50. The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them. - Chinua Achebe
