Quotes from Great People-5

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new
Brian Tracy

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz

I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.
William DeMille

Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If a man does his best, what else is there?
General George S. Patton

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford

If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help with man with the wrong mental attitude.
W.W. Ziege

The big shots are only the little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley

You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let if consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star.
Jean Church

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
Abraham Lincoln

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.
Leo F. Buscaglia

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand

Life unexamined, is not worth living.
Democritus

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.
Pablo Casals

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.
Cicero

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
Julius Caesar

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.
Ayn Rand

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.
Henry Ford

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Percy Shelley

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
Robert L. Stevenson

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
Blaise Pascal

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
John Milton

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
Henry Ward Beecher

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.
Helen Keller

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