Quotes to Live By

Success is not final, failure in not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Peace is not the absence of troubles, trials and torment, but calm in the midst of them.
Don Meyer

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

We must become the change we want to see in the world.
Gandhi

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Michael Korda

The only one who can limit your possibilities is you.
Joe Gordon

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi

Success in life consists of going from one mistake to the next without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Be what you is because if you be what you ain't, you ain't what you is.
Don Meyer

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Willis R. Whitney

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Richard M. Devos

Most men live lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau

To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents 1% of your work that results from the 99% that is called failure.
Soichiro Honda

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King

Instead of focusing on how big your problems are, focus on how big your God is! He is everything you need. He is the Great I AM, and He is the one leading and guiding you into victory in every area of your life!
Joel Osteen

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.
Unknown

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.
1 Corinthians 9:24

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer

To have a peace that passes understanding, you must give up your right to understand.
Don Meyer

Men do not fail; they give up trying.
Elihu Root

Your hopes, dreams, and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
William James

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

Stay away from people who belittle your aspirations. Small people do that. But the truly great people in the world will make you believe that you, too, can one day become great.
Mark Twain

My advice to you is never stop believing.
Lance Armstrong

To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e.e. cummings

I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald

Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Winston Churchill

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.
Norman Vincent Peale

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.
John Keating (Dead Poets Society)

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
Samuel Smiles

Mind is all that counts. You can be whatever you make up your mind to be.
Robert Collier

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not about how to achieve your dreams, it is about how you live your life. If you live the right way, the Karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.
Randy Pausch

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.
Unknown

You must be strong now. You must never give up. And when people make you cry and you are afraid of the dark, don't forget the light is always there.
Unknown

Life is not easy for any of us. We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie Curie

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Bernadette Devlin

It's not the critic that counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or whether the doer of deeds could have done them better...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust, and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and often comes up short again and again. Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause. And who, if at best in the end, knows the triumph of higher treatment and high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his soul shall never be with those cold and timid ones, who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

Our deepest fear is not that we are powerless. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Marianne Williamson

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you -- gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
Tennessee Williams

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
Ronald Reagan

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
Samuel Johnson

Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: It is the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any circumstances, to choose one's way.
Victor Frankl

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.
Steven Kaggwa

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van Gogh

If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
Unknown

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius

When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, 'Try it one more time.'
Unknown

Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.
Brian Tracy

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want something badly enough.
Randy Pausch

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."
Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle