“Can you tell me which way to go?”
“Where are you trying to get to?” said the Cat.
“I don't know” came the reply
“Then it doesn't much matter which way you go”
Lewis Carroll ( Alice in Wonderland)
“Nothing is impossible. The only difference between running 6 miles and 60 miles is wanting to”
Helen Diamantides (Mountain Marathon Runner)
“If we can dream it, we can do it”
Walt Disney
“Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them”
Josie Bisset
“The soul is dyed the colour of its thoughts, day by day, what you do is who you become”
Heraclitus 535-475 BC
“Inspiration descends only in flashes, to clothe circumstances; it is not stored up in a barrel, like salt herrings, to be doled out”
Patrick White ‘Voss'
“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning”
Gloria Steinem
“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best
effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you
are ready for greater challenges.”
Pat Riley, Professional Basketball Coach
“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent
merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work
those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your
enemies. Don't knock yourself”
Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Success doesn't have to pull, tug, or chafe if we wear our real size."
Sarah Ban Breathnach
"Places and circumstances never guarantee happiness. You must decide within yourself whether you want to be happy. And once you've decided, happiness comes much easier."
Robert J. Hastings
“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself”
Mark Caine
"Look, I really don't want to wax philosophical, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colourful and lively."
Mel Brooks
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude"
Thomas Jefferson
“Each of us speaks, moves, thinks and feels in a different way, each according to the image of himself that he has built up over the years. In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us." Moshe Feldenkrais
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however."
Richard Bach
"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It pays to remember that you're never quite as good, nor as bad, as people say you are”
Graham Taylor (ex England Manager)
“Excellence is within all of us, both individually and as part of a winning team…should you dare to grasp it!”
Roger Black, Athlete
“Each of us arrives on this planet with a purpose. To fulfil that purpose is to ignite the spark within us and give meaning to our lives”
Michael Jackson
“We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced he would have an entirely different view”
Mao Tse Tung
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that you can change your circumstances by changing your attitudes of mind”
William James
“Hide not your talents – they for use were made. What is a sundial in the shade?”
Benjamin Franklin
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too, can become great”
Mark Twain
“Most people are about as happy as they make their minds up to be”
Abraham Lincoln
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow”
Helen Keller |
“The future belongs to those who believe in the power of their dreams”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“As long as the mind can envision that fact that you can do something, you can do it…as long as you really believe 100%”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe”
Anon
“There's no use trying”, she said: “one can't believe impossible things”
“I daresay you haven't had much practice” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour each day. Why, sometimes I believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast”
Lewis Carroll, ‘Through the Looking Glass'
“Hope is the thing with feathers,
that perches in he soul,
and sings the tune without the words,
and never stops – at all”
Emily Dickinson
“Those who dream by day are cognisant of many things that escape those who only dream at night”
Edgar Allen Poe ‘Eleonora'
“Commit yourself to a dream . . . Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle - he defeated the fear of trying”
Robert H. Schuller
"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent."
Sophia Loren
"Aerodynamically a bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway."
Mary Kay Ash
"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."
Sally Field
After witnessing the power of the force, Luke Skywalker exclaimed, "I don't believe it!" His Jedi mentor responded... "That is why you fail."
Star Wars (The Empire Strikes Back)
“A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by”
Christopher Morley, Actor
“What is possible would never have been achieved if, in this world, people had not repeatedly reached for the impossible.”
Max Weber
“The surest way of gaining success is to believe you can succeed”
Anon
“I see myself hitting all the routines, doing everything perfectly. I imagine all the moves and go through them in my mind”
Mary Lou Renton (Olympic Gold Medallist 1984) |
“I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot......and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why....... I succeed”
Michael Jordan
“You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow,
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime.
You can do anything you set your mind to, man”
Eminem
“The force of the waves is in their perseverance”
Gila Guri
“Doing your best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment”
Oprah Winfrey
“It's amazing how fast doors open to us when we dare to take control of a situation”
Catherine Ponder
“You may have a fresh start any time you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down”
Mary Pickford
“Nice work if you can get it, and you can get it if you try”
Ira Gershwin, ‘A Damsel in Distress'
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
Arthur Ashe (1943-1993), Professional Tennis Player
“A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something
about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true
entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer”
Nolan Bushnell, Founder of Atari Computer
“As you begin to live in the present moment, you will experience a subtle but profound change. Worrying about the future will cease. A deep peace will enfold you, a peace that says, "All is well. There is nothing to fear. Everything is unfolding according to plan, and you are being guided each step along the way."
Douglas Bloch, Words That Heal
"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."
Earl Nightingale
“There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen”
Wayne Dyer
“How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now”
Gerald Jampolsky
“You don't just luck into things. You build them step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities”
Barbara Bush
“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation?”
Jane Austen
"If you had a friend who talked to you, like you sometimes talk to yourself, would you continue to hang around with that person?"
Rob Bremer
“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is”
Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey
“Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late."
Rita Coolidge
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
Harold Whitman
“Love is effort over time”
Anonymous
“Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one is definitely committed providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would come their way. Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”
Goethe
“Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do"
Goethe
“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
“The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think that the reason why, is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen.”
A.A Milne
“Its funny but the more I practice the luckier I get.”
Gary Player
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized”
Sun Tzu
“He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed”
William James
“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?”
Elbert Hubbard
“Well done is better than well said”
Benjamin Franklin
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent”
Calvin Coolidge
“Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold water becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigours of the mind”
Leonardo da Vinci |
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