| Here are some quick pieces of inspiration for those of us who need them, and who doesn't! + "Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it." - Margaret Thatcher + "Victory belongs to the most persevering" - Napolean Bonaparte + "Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." - Thomas Edison + "Fall seven times, stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb + "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials" - Chinese Proverb + "I long to achieve a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble" - Helen Keller + "The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become" - Charles Du Bos + "Full effort is full victory" - Mahatma Gandhi + "Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare" - Japanese Proverb + "It is suprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men do when they don't have to" - Walter Lin + "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson + "Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance" - Bruse Barton + "Never give up on dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." - Anonymous + "They are able because they think they are able" - Virgil + "My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny." - Elaine Maxwell + "If there were no problems, there would be no opportunities" - Anonymous + "The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it." - Anonymous + "Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the small quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow'." - Anonymous + "Winners say, 'I want to do this and I can do this", not "I would like to do this, but I don't think I can'." - Denis Waitley + "I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfilment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause, and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious." - Vince Lombardi + "After it, follow it, Follow the Gleam." - Lord Tennyson + "All things are difficult before they are easy" - Thomas Fuller + "Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fial, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'. They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes'." - Clare Boothe Luce + "I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone." - Cyrano de Bergerac + "It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies." - Arthur Calwell + "Kites rise highest agiant the wind, not with it." - Winston Churchill + "Many candles can be kindled from one candle, without diminishing it." - The Midrash + "Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson + "One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he could not do." - Henry Ford + "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one." - Ellen Hubbard + "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe + "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford NEXT PAGE BACK TO HOME |