Quotes from Great People

Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Dr. Robert Schuller

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
Tommy Lasorda

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.
Doris Lessing

They can because they think they can.
Virgil

I am the greatest!
Muhammad Ali

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson

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

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

We are what we think.
Buddha

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain

It's never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

We tend to get what we expect.
Norman Vincent Peale

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
Henry David Thoreau

No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Jackson

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Vince Lombardi

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right.
Henry Ford

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

We become what we think about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.
Confucius

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns
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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! (Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow)
Horace/Quintus Hortius Flaccus

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard

Do not wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it
Author Unknown

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
Colin Powell

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night of the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare