Dare to be wise; begin!
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits
for the river to run out before he crosses.
- Horace
Set
out wisely at first; custom will make every virtue more easy and pleasant to you
than any vice can be.
- English proverb
The
beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Plato
"Omnium
rerum principia parva sunt." (Everything has a small
beginning.)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The
greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams.
The oak sleeps in the acorn.
- James Allen (1864-1912), Writer.
The
secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
So live as if you
were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time
as wrongly as you are about to act now!"
It seems to me that there is nothing that would stimulate a man's sense
of responsibileness more than this maxim, which invites him to imagine first
that the present is past and, second that the past may yet be changed and
amended. Such a precept confronts
him with life's finiteness as well as
the finality of what he makes out of
both his life and himself.
- Victor E. Frankl
Whether you think you can or think you
can't—you are right.
- Henry Ford
Be not afraid of life. Believe
that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James (1842-1910)
Belief
that a problem can be solved is essential to its solution.
- Nicholas Pratt
Your
chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in
yourself.
- Robert Collier
If
you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don’t.
If you would like to win but think you can’t,
It’s almost certain that you won’t.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger woman or man,
But sooner or later, those who win
Are those who think they can.
"Your
biggest challenge isn't someone else. It's the ache in your lungs and the
burning in your legs, and the voice inside you that yells 'CAN'T", but you
don't listen. You just push harder. And then you hear the voice
whisper 'can'. And you discover that the person you thought you were is no
match for the one you really are."
- Unknown
"our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt"
- W. Shakespeare
The thing always
happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
We tend to get what we expect.
- Norman Vincent Peale
When
you believe and think I can, you activate your motivation, commitment,
confidence, concentration, and excitement, all of which relate directly to
achievement.
- Jerry Lynch, Ph.D., Runner’s World,
August 1994
This
I do believe above all, especially in my times of greater discouragement, that I
must believe—that I must believe in my fellow men—that I must believe in
myself—and I must believe in God—if life is to have any meaning.
- Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995), U.S.
congresswoman and senator.
The
key to success is to determine your goal and then act as if it were impossible
to fail—and it shall be!
- Dorothea Brande, Writer
You've
got to be brave and you've got to be bold.
Brave enough to take your chance on your own discriminations—what's
right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.
- Robert Frost
What
you can do, or dream
you can, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power
and magic in it.
- Goethe
Be
bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.
- Basil King
Freedom
lies in being bold.
- Robert Frost
Learn
to love good books. There are
treasures in books that all the money of the world cannot buy, but that the
poorest laborer can have for nothing.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Be
as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits
and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
- Paxton Hood
Think
excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an
excited person. Life will take on a
new zest, deeper interest and greater meaning.
You can think, talk, and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or
into unhappiness. By the same
process you can build up inspiration, excitement, and a surging depth of joy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
No
man is an Island, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a
part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as
well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Manner of thy friends or of thine
owne were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; and
therefor never send to know for whom the bell tolls: It tolls for thee.
- John Donne
Don't
open a shop unless you know how to smile.
- Jewish proverb
Never
Fear the want of business. A man
who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
- Thomas Jefferson
The
secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onasis
Every
business has two financial objectives: One is to make money; the other, more
elusive, is to make money consistently.
- Dave Liniger, founder, RE/MAX International Inc.
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