Success is measured by the obstacles - quote

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."
~ Booker T. Washington




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Famous achievement quote by Morarji Desai

"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love.
This is how the whole scheme of things works.
All good things are difficult to achieve;
and bad things are very easy to get"

~ Morarji Desai

Quote on confidence and personal power

"A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power."
~ Brian Tracy

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Quit talking and begin doing - famous quote

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
~ Walt Disney

Honesty is an active verb - famous quote

"Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself."
~ Joe Tye, America’s Values Coach

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You know more than you think you do

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."
~ Benjamin Spock

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Greatest pleasure - quote by Walter Bagehot

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
~ Walter Bagehot

Famous quotes on Fear and Courage

"Most people are paralyzed by fear. Overcome it and you take charge of your life and your world."
~ Mark Victor Hansen

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
~ Ambrose Redmoon

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."
~ Gen. George Patton

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear."
~ H.P. Lovecraft

"Courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to face it."
~ Lt. John B. Putnam Jr.

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Famous sayings on Self, positive attitude, thinking

"In everything we do, our own thoughts can help us succeed, or they can help us fail. Maintain a positive attitude."
~ Catherine Pulsifer

"Everything has changed, except our way of thinking."
~ Albert Einstein

"The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become."
~ Brian Tracy

"Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement."
~ Napoleon Hill

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
~ Thomas Jefferson

Being defeated - famous courage quote

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent"
~ Marilyn vos Savant

Famous quotes by Maya Angelou - encouragement, love

Few very famous sayings from the famous American autobiographer and poet Maya Angelou

"If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love."

"I believe that every person is born with talent."

"There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth."

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

"All great achievements require time."

"If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die."

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

"Nothing will work unless you do."

"While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man."

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Excellence is not a singular act - Shaq quote

"Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do."
~ Shaquille ONeal

Famous Time Management Quotes collection

"Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions."
~ John Randolph

"Never let yesterday use up today."
~ Richard H. Nelson

"Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves."
~ Lord Chesterfield

"To do two things at once is to do neither."
~ Publius Syrus

"One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time."
~ Unknown

"Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else."
~ Peter F. Drucker

"Never leave ’till tomorrow which you can do today."
~ Benjamin Franklin

"Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness."
~ Jean De La Bruyere

"All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that."
~ Baltasar Gracian

"Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it."
~ Unknown

People with goals succeed - quote by Earl Nightingale

"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as simple as that."
~ Earl Nightingale

Hard things should be possible - quote

"Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible."
~ Larry Wall, creator of Perl programming language

Brian Lara famous quotes collection

"I woke up at 4am with my hands sweating and couldn't get back to sleep. I've been batting the innings since then, and now it's finished I'm very happy."
(on scoring 375 vs England, Antigua 1994)

"In the past I often reacted to what I perceived to be the stresses of cricket by getting away from it and hanging out with friends. Instead of confronting problems, I would turn my back on them. Now I've realised I want to give cricket 100%."

"You can't play a patience game with them. They take command and like to take command and if you let them, they will."
(Lara on how to beat Australia Cricket Team)

"Sachin is a genius. I'm a mere mortal."
(Lara on Sachin)

"At this stage of his career it doesn't matter where Brian Lara bats. It's important that a guy stands up and wants to bat in that position. It's a pivotal position in any batting order and [Ramnaresh] Sarwan is one of the premier batsmen in our team. And if he puts up his hand and wants to do it, especially with low scores behind him, it shows a lot of character. And you're seeing the results of it all today."
(Lara during West Indies v India, 3rd Test, St Kitts, when he was asked why he didn't bat at No.3)

They think they are able - quote on ability

"They are able because they think they are able."
~ Virgil , Roman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC)

You must be the change - quote by Gandhi

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Success - a matter of hanging on quotes

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
~ William Feather

Few very famous motivational quotes

"Enthusiasm is the engine of success."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
~ Marie Curie

"Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams."
~ Robert K. Greenleaf

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made, in a very narrow field."
~ Niels Bohr

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
~ Marilyn Vos Savant

"Character is what you are in the dark."
~ D.L. Moody

"Don't find fault. Find a remedy."
~ Henry Ford

"He who thinks twice before saying nothing is wise."
~ Unknown

"I make myself rich by making my wants few."
~ Henry David Thoreau