Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel T. Coleridge
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality?
George Moore
Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.
Edward B. Butler
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles F. Kettering
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead. Either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
Anne Landers
Man errs so long as he strives.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Samuel Smiles
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Rene Descartes
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous L. Huxley
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford
We first make our habit, and then our habits make us.
John Dryden
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Jean Louis Agassiz
Anyone who stops learning is old. Whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays youg. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
Pennies don’t fall from heaven. They have to be earned on earth.
Margaret Thatcher
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Norman Mailer
Every man is his own enemy.
English proverb
The strongest man on the earth is the one who stands most alone.
Henrik Ibsen
It is not enough to be busy… the question is: what are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau
Boys, be ambitious, not for money, not for selfish accomplishment, not for that evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for attainment of all that a man ought to be.
William S. Clark
The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.
H. W. Arnold
There is no royal road to geometry.
Euclid
Light gains make heavy purses.
Francis Bacon
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Q. Adams
The whole problem with the world is that foolds and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas A. Edison
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William J. Bryan
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.
Richard Bach
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
Geoffrey Chaucer
The more I learn the more I realize I don’t know. The more I realize I don’t know the more I want to learn.
Albert Einstein
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
English Proverb
Be the change you wish to see in other people.
Mahatma Gandhi
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
We will either find a way, or make one.
Hannibal
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie
The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the suercilious spectators.
William Feather
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
Epicurus
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
Gustave Flaubert
True genius lies not in doing extraordinary things but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Louis H. Wilson
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until broguht to a focus.
Alexander G. Bell
And some words from the chooser of these quotations…
Happiness is not by chance, it is by choice.
Lina
You do not have to be the chosen one,
Lina
you are the one who chooses.
What would you do
Lina
if you had 3 years life to live?