Famous Quotes and Sayings
Famous quotes and sayings can be your secret weapon in standing out from the crowd. Your personal life can be nudged in a positive direction, and your business life can take on renewed energy. Smart Small Business Ideas is a website aimed at the entrepreneur that is willing to step out, take risks and forge a new path. Those new paths are always full of rubble. Both people and obstacles. A timely word popping into your mind can change the course of a day or the course of a life. Feed yourself with powerful thoughts. The ROI on this can't be measured. Here are a couple dozen to take your eyes off of your perceived limits. These famous quotes and sayings have stood the test of time...
Famous Quotes and Sayings Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will.
- W. Clement Stone
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Carl Bard
Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming.
- Matthew Arnold
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
- Orison Swett Marden
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward
- Thomas A. Edison
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn’t make me stronger.
- Lou Holtz
Fortune favors the brave.
- Publius Terence
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
- Harry F. Banks
I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
- Richard L. Evans
Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them, And they flew…
- Guillaume Apollinaire
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas A. Edison
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- T. S. Eliot
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
- George S. Patton
Who dares, wins.
- Anonymous
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use
- Earl Nightingale
Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ups. - Peter Davies
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford
Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?
- George Bernard Shaw
Do Something,
If It Works,
Do More Of It
If It Doesn't,
Do Something Else.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
- W. Clement Stone
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances
- James Allen
Finding famous quotes and sayings and letting them prod you to greater heights is of benefit to everyone. They have a way of weaving themselves into the very fabric of your life if you let them. He's a final one I want to leave you with... “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Begin it now.” Goethe |
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