MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a
 young person, "
Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take calculated risks.
That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton

Storms make oaks take roots.
Proverb

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond
 your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage 
of discovery, 
guided each by a private chart, of which there is no
 duplicate. 
The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great
 work at some
 moment every day.
Thornton Wilder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is
 by going
 beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind
 remain dormant.
 There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited 
with sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder

And all may do what has by man been done.
Edward Young

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

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey
 toward it,
casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Samuel Smiles

Work spares us from three evils: boredom,
 vice, and need.
Voltaire

If the wind will not serve,
take to the oars.
Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe
Latin Proverb

Men's best successes come after their 
disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make
 it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague

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

Fortune favors the brave.
Publius Terence

When the best things are not possible, the best
 may be made of
 those that are. - Richard Hooker

He who hesitates is lost.
Proverb

If you want to succeed in the world must make your
 own opportunities
 as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh
 wave to toss him
 on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long
 time a coming.
 You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the
 roadside until
 some one comes along and invites you to ride with
 him to wealth
 or influence.
John B. Gough

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition
 from mediocre
 minds.
Albert Einstein


Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you
 were made to do.
Orison Swett Marden

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For hope is but the dream
of those that wake.
Matthew Prior

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind
 as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley