July 28th, 2007
Words to inspire
When we don’t feel as positive as we would like some words from the wise can often lift our spirits and inspire.
If you have genius, industry will improve it; if you have none, industry will supply its place. Joshua Reynolds.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry D Thoreau.
If you don’t know where you are going then you are lost before you start.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Apathy can only be overcome with enthusiasm.
If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have.
No wind blows in favour of the ship that has no port of destination.
Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination.
Where ever you are BE THERE.
Bravery is being the only one who knows you are afraid.
A feeling of accomplishment is necessary to the preservation of happiness.
Winners are excited at what can happen. Losers are frightened by what might happen.
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
By changing the inner attitudes of (our) minds (we can) change the outer aspects of (our) lives.
Be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
Success comes in CANS and CANNOTS.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvable problems.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. O W Holmes.
When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before. Jacob Riis.
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination. Tommy Lasorda.
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden.
Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst is not to try.
Success is a journey, not a destination. Ben Sweetland.
It is never too late to be what you might have become. George Elliot.
The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. Chinese proverb.
The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one. Elbert Hubbard.
People can alter their lives by altering their attitudes. William James.
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. Orison Swett Marden.
Don’t wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.
There’s no thrill in easy sailing when the skies are clear and blue; there’s no joy in merely doing things which any one can do. But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you thought you’d never make. Spirella
The harder you work the luckier you get. Gary Player
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it.
It takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow.
Keep trying, It’s only from the valley that the mountain seems high.
Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln.
Happiness is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it.
Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.
It’s your attitude and not your aptitude that determines your altitude. Zig Ziglar
Far away, there in the sunshine, are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcott.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Elmer Letterman.
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