Quotes from Great People-3

Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house, the prestige - we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing.
Marianne Williamson

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

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

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

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

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.
Henry W. Longfellow

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
Michel de Montaigne

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
Plutarch

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

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Mark Twain

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
Nelson DeMille

Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.
Zacharty Bercovitz

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph... You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.
Charles Lynch

Worry is a think stream of fear which, if encouraged, becomes a wide channel into which all other thoughts flow. Assume an attitude of positive expectancy!
Author Unknown

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison

Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.
Emile Coue

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.
Taisen Deshimaru

Champions in any field have made a habit of doing what others find boring or uncomfortable.
Author Unknown

The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill

It's easy to make a buck. It's tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw

Opportunity... often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere