Quotes from Great People-4

Friday, February 25, 2011

The greatest pleasure in life is in doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.
Dr. Denis Waitley

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce Lee

The only lack or limitation is in your own mind.
N. H. Moos

Your altitude is determined by your attitude.
Author Unknown

If you are aware of your weaknesses and are constantly learning, your potential is virtually limitless.
Jay Sidhu

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles
Claude M. Bristol

There are only two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein

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

Faith will move mountains.
Proverb

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, but you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Integrity has no need of rules.
Albert Camus

Those who follow the crowd are quickly lost in it.
Author Unknown

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
John Ruskin

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Plutarch

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Huxley

The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
Helen Keller

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner

What you become is more important than what you accomplish.
Author Unknown

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Abraham Lincoln

Nothing worthwhile ever happens quickly and easily. You achieve only as you are determined to achieve... and as you keep at it until you have achieved.
Robert H. Lauer

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
John Greenleaf Whittier

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise -- it makes you stretch.
Mary Kay Ash

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land amongst the stars.
Jill McLemore

We are new every day.
Irene Claremont de Castillego

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
Confucius

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
Ayn Rand

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