Just when I think I have learned the way to live,
life changes.
- Hugh Prather
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble
through as well as we can. – Sydney Smith
Determine that the thing can and
shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
- Abraham Lincoln
The greatest thing in this world is not
so much where we are,
but in what direction we are moving.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are no shortcuts to any
place worth going. – Beverly Sills
You must have long-term goals
to keep you from being frustrated by short-range
failures.- Charles C. Noble
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off
the goal.
- Hannah More
Choosing a goal and
sticking to it changes
everything.
- Scott Reed
Nothing is particularly hard if you
divide it into small jobs.
- Henry Ford
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small
things brought together.
- Vincent Van Gogh
No matter how big and tough a
problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little
step toward solution.
Do something.- George F. Nordenholt
The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
Keep on going, and the chances are that you
will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone
ever stumbling on something
sitting down.
- Charles F. Kettering
The most important thing about getting
somewhere is starting right where we are.
- Bruce Barton
Continuous efforts – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Sir Winston Churchill
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the
essence of life.
- Anatole France
Every worthwhile accomplishment,
big or little, has its stages of drudgery
and triumph; a beginning, a
struggle, and a victory.
- Anonymous
Just when I think I have learned the way to live,
life changes.
- Hugh Prather
There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.
- Jacob K. Javits
Set short term goals and you’ll win games. Set long term goals and you’ll
win championships!
- Anonymous
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they
are far less than the long-range
risks and costs of comfortable
inaction.
- John F. Kennedy
We can do anything
we want to do if we stick to it
long enough.- Helen Keller
Readjusting is a painful
process, but most of us
need it at one time or another.
- Arthur Christopher Benson
There are no permanent
changes because
change itself is permanent.
- Ralph L. Woods
Let me tell you a secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my
tenacity. - Louis Pasteur
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge
and an opportunity, not a threat. - Prince Phillip of England
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities;
they will never come.- Jane Erskine Stuart
Nothing at all will be attempted if
all possible objections must
first be overcome.
- Samuel Johnson
Before you begin a thing, remind yourself
that difficulties and delays quite
impossible to foresee are ahead…you can only see one thing
clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental
vision of that and cling to it through
thick and thin. - Kathleen Norris
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of
true progress.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
It’s the steady, constant driving to the goal for which you’re striving,
not the speed with which you travel, that will make your
victory sure.
- Anonymous
I have accepted fear as a part of life –
specifically the fear of change…I have
gone ahead despite the pounding in the
heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.
- J.G. Hubbard
Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly
you are doing the impossible.
- Saint Francis of Assisi
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
- C. Malesherbez