"Tis not knowing much, but what is useful, that makes a wise man."

Thomas Fuller
 

 

 

 

 


Quotes for Motivation

All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.
-
Sir Francis Bacon
  winding staircase

 

 

 


Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
- Carl Schurz

Pursue worthy aims.
- Anna Cummins

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
-
Charles F. Kettering

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity.
- Arabian Proverb

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

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi

We make our own fortunes and call them fate.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Dream as if you'll live forever,
Live as if you'll die today.
- James Dean

The fact is, that to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble as well as we can.
- Sydney Smith

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
-
Justice O. W. Holmes

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Harold R. McAlindon - quotes on leadership

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard

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

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefor, is not an act but a habit.
-
Aristotle

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
-
Samuel Johnson

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-
Albert Einstein

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao-tzu
  path going up a mountain

There are no gains without pains.
-
Adlai Stevenson

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
-
Abraham Lincoln


 
 

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