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Saturday, April 21, 2012

My Favourite Quotes

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
When you don't know what harbor you're
aiming for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
 
The greatest discovery is that a human being can alter his life
by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James

If there is no dull and determined effort,
there will be no brilliant achievement.
Hsun-tzu

He who would learn to fly
must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance;
one cannot fly into flying.
Nietzsche

We can do anything we want if
we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller

The merit of an action lies
in finishing it to the end.
Genghis Khan

Live every act fully,
as if it were your last.
Buddha

No man ever became great except
through many and great mistakes.
William E. Gladstone


Only by great risks can
great results be achieved.
Xexes

You must act as if it is
impossible to fail
Ashanti Proverb

All things at first appear difficult.
Chinese Proverb

The beginnings of all things are small.
Cicero

Action must be taken at once; there
is no time to be lost.
Miguel Hidalgo


In the middle of difficulty lies
opportunity.
Albert Einstein


Never , never, never,  never give up.
Winston Churchill


Nothing in life is to be feared. It is
only to be understood.
Marie Curie


Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius


If you are not ready today, you will
be even less ready tomorrow.
Ovid


Hear and forget. See and remember.
Do and understand.
Chinese Proverb


Nothing is so difficult that it cannot be
accomplished by diligence.
Terence


Things do not happen. Things are made
to happen.
John F. Kennedy


One must learn by doing the thing: though you
think you know it, you can't be certain until you try.
Sophocles


Nothing would be done at all it we waited until it
could be done so well that no one could find fault
with it.
Cardinal Newman

Do the little things well now. In time great things
will be presented to you, waiting to be done.
Persian Proverb

There is no darkness but ignorance.
Shakespeare

Happy are those who can call today their own:
who, secure within can say, tomorrow, do thy
worst, for I have lived today.
John

One should count each day a separate life.
Seneca

Who can say with certainty that
one will live to see tomorrow?
Tibetan Proverb

No matter how hard the past, you
can always begin again today.
Buddha

The beginning is the most
important part of the work.
Plato

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