Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

Joyce Meyer

You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don't quit!

Mary Pickford

Failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Eric Thomas

If you can look up, you can get up.

John Milton

When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

Leo Buscaglia

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

Joseph Campbell

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.

Lou Holtz

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

Jim Rohn

Ask yourself, 'how long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?' I suggest you answer, 'as long as it takes.'

Elizabeth George

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

Joel Osteen

You need to get ready because I have explosive blessings coming your way.

Richard Bach

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Thomas Paine

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Sam Walton

You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.

Robert M. Pirsig

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Wally Amos

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Susanna Moodie

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

Stephen King

There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.

Steve Martin

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

Rhonda Byrne

Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them.

William Godwin

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

Washington Irving

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Zhuangzi

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

William Hazlitt

The more you do, the more you can do.

Sylvia Plath

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

Steve Jobs

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.