Wisdom is like treacle. Though sweet, it is very difficult to pour!
ANCIENT CHINESE SAYING
One does not discover new lands without consenting first to lose sight of the shore for a very long time
Andre Gilde
Minds are like parachutes - they work best when open
Anon
There's nothing wrong with going out on a limb if you are positive you'll grab another should it break
John Sammers
You can't soar with the eagles if you surround yourself with turkeys
Anon
Tough times don't last - but tough people do
Anon
Winners never quit and quitters never win
Anon
Those who fail to plan are planning to fail
Anon
It's never too late to be what you might have been
George Eliot
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become
Charles Du Bos
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible
St Francis of Assisi
You don't have to be great to get going but you have to get going to be great
Les Brown
Nothing is more important than this day
Goethe
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, performing new wishes and seeing them gratified
Dr Samuel Johnson
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them
George Bernard Shaw
Though they may be covered over by the details of everyday life, your passions are still very much with you. Get in touch with them. They'll push you toward exactly where you want to go
Ralph Marston
You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside
Wayne Dyer
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
George Bernard Shaw
I have missed more than 9,000 shots, lost almost 300 games, on 26 occasions been entrusted to take the game-winning shot...and missed. I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeeded
Michael Jordan
As we move towards our dreams, we move towards our divinity
Julia Cameron
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage
Anais Nin
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade
Tom Peters
Everything that can be said, can be said clearly
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Coaching for me is an art, a dance between two people, a conversation which challenges and swirls both with visions and practicalities, but which above all communicates with the wisest parts of the soul, encouraging great choices and positive actions
George Metcalfe
I'm giving the best advice I have. You get to decide whether it's true for you.
Anon
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime
W.E.B. Du Bois
This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good
Author Unknown
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained
A Roche
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear
Gandhi.
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it, but all that had gone before
Jacob A. Riis
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom
Anais Nin
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around
Leo Buscaglia
Imagination is more important than knowledge, for while knowledge points to all there is, imagination points to all there will be
Albert Einstein
It is not the things themselves which trouble us, but the opinions that we have about these things
Epictetus, 1st century CE
It's not who we are that holds us back, it's who we think we're not
Michael Nolan
A wise man knows nothing while a fool knows everything
An ancient Chinese proverb
Smooth seas do not make a skillful sailor
African proverb
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm
Sir Winston Churchill
Your road to personal development and success will take you to many places. Let new words settle, new thoughts grow and new hopes flourish.
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