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Quotations: Dare To Be Great!
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NOTE: Some of the quotes on this page were submitted to me by visitors, and not all have been verified for original source or wording. I'm working hard to confirm everything, but in the meantime please be aware of the possibility for errors.
Understand that the people who care about you are not trying to discourage you — they're trying to protect you from disappointment. You must appreciate them, and, of course, ignore them. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. ~Arnold H. Glasow
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. ~Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. ~J.M. Power
We start becoming the person we're intended to be on the day we start intending it. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com, 2019
You may not know where you're going, but so long as you spread your wings the winds will carry you. ~C. JoyBell C.
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ~Robert Burns
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Henry Stanley Haskins, "Metapsychics," Meditations in Wall Street, 1940
Strive strenuously; live gently. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, as reprinted in Poor Richard Jr's Almanack, 1906
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. ~C.D. Jackson
Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them. ~Author Unknown
You can't go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending. ~James R. Sherman
God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them. ~Author Unknown
Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~Woody Allen
The wings of Will take us to places unknown to Heart, further than Imagination. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros, May 2011 entry to The Quote Garden create your own quote contest on Twitter, @quotegarden
Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle. ~Author Unknown
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996
You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. ~Charles C. Noble
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, 1995
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~Author unknown
Don't be an easy-doing child, do hard things too. Remember a blacksmith never got a big muscle by hammering an inch nail, but by swinging a heavy hammer while beating out an iron bar. Sometimes we must run hard roads, through briers, over sharp stones, and any which way. ~Sunday School Helper, 1897 [a little altered
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston
To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~E.E. Cummings, "A Poet's Advice to Students," 1955
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. ~Kongzi
You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull (b.1976, U.S. geologist), 1999
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind! ~Author unknown [First part is unknown author, circa 2000; second part is unknown author circa 1930s. See quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/04/those-who-mind.]
Put your future in good hands — your own. ~Author Unknown
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary, as quoted in The Reader's Digest, 1993
Love every color of the rainbow in your soul and every note of the tune in your heart. ~Terri Guillemets, "Suffer, shimmer, adjust," 2008
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. ~Michelangelo
The man who has done his best has done everything. ~Charles M. Schwab
There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. ~Charles D. Gill
I will annihilate the narrow margin that lies between me and my unused potency. ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), "Songs of Longing: XXVIII," At the Roots of Grasses, 1923
What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. ~John Bunyan
The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm. ~Fred Dehner
Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement. ~Max Lucado
Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!, 1990
Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~Karl Geurs and Carter Crocker, Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin, 1997 [Disney movie
Put on your dream hat and dance all the way to success! ~Terri Guillemets
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~Pablo Picasso
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ~Eleanor Powell
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~David Brinkley
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~Attributed to Hanoch McCarty
The secret to wellness is being your own guardian angel. ~Terri Guillemets, "Gratitude going forward," 1995
Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams. ~Patch Adams
The shell must break before the bird can fly. ~Alfred Tennyson
There is no need to reach high for the stars. They are already within you — just reach deep inside yourself! ~Terri Guillemets
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. ~Virgil, et al. See: quoteinvestigator.com/2015/02/03/you-can
[Y]ou can do it, even if you can't. Just keep can'ting until eventually you can. ~Jarod Kintz, Goodreads bio
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. ~Allen H. Neuharth
In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality. ~Kristian Kan, Rich By 25
Success comes in cans, not cant's. ~Author Unknown
So…
be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray
or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea,
you're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting.
So…get on your way!
~Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!, 1990
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan
Share your sparkle wherever you are. ~Dodinsky
May you always remember that you are a sacred and beautiful rainbow. You are here to love and to share your special gifts. ~Rachel Rose Zoller, My Body Is a Rainbow: A Book about Our Chakras, 2016, www.rachaelrosezoller.com
Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. ~Max L. Forman
Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs. ~Dan Zadra
Keep shining, beautiful one. The world needs your light. ~Author Unknown
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife,
Some pure ideal of a noble life
That once seemed possible? Did we not hear
The flutter of its wings, and feel it near,
And just within our reach? It was. And yet
We lost it in this daily jar and fret,
And now live idle in a vague regret;
But still our place is kept, and it will wait,
Ready for us to fill it, soon or late.
No star is ever lost we once have seen,
We always may be what we might have been.
~Adelaide Anne Procter, A Legend of Provence
The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. ~Author Unknown
I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ~Larry Bird
Eye contact is the best accessory. ~Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo video game) written by Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka, and Toshihiro Kawabata
The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. ~Author Unknown
The reason most people do not recognize an opportunity when they meet it is because it usually goes around wearing overalls and looking like Hard Work. ~Author Unknown
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. ~Ann Landers
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown
Climb from the depths of your soul to the heights of your future. ~Terri Guillemets
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Marie Register Weedn (1929–2015), Flavia and the Dream Maker, 1988, flaviastore.archivea.com
There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown
Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~Oliver Goldsmith, c.1760 [quoteinvestigator.com/2014/05/27/rising]
Don't find fault; find a remedy. ~Henry Ford
The single relationship truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self... Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave nor lose. To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problem of your life, you are the only solution. ~Jo Coudert, "You Always Learn to Swim in the Winter," Advice from a Failure, 1965
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