Quotes from Great People-6

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.
Thomas Crum

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
Seneca

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.
John F. Kennedy

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you have was once among the things only hoped for.
Epicurus

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Dale Carnegie

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Dale Carnegie

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Helen Keller

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash

Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov

No individual raindrop considers itself responsible for the flood.
Author Unknown

Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.
Leo Buscaglia

Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you're already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance.
Gill Atkinson

Never frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.
Justine Milton

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
Bill Cosby

When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.
Sam Lefkowitz

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!
Anne Frank

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson

Bad times, hard times - this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
St. Augustine

The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels is your heart. So fill your heart with good things and good things will follow you for the rest of your life.
Scott Murray

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
Charles Buxton

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it - so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Frank Scully

Success is never wondering what if.
Karrie Huffman

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop W.C. Magee

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte