Showing posts with label inspiring quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiring quotes. Show all posts

Monday, April 22, 2013

A pinch of inspiration

 “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” - Michael Jordan

 ”We see things not as they are, but as we are.” - H. M. Tomlinson

“In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.” - Theodore Roosevelt

 “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

 “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” - Bill Cosby

 “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” - George Eliot

“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.”

“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”

 “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” - Michael Jordan







Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Motivational Quotes

The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.”–Benjamin Mays

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”–Pearl Buck

 All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”–John Kenneth Galbraith


“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”–Maria Robinson

 
  “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent." – Carl Sandburg  

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." – Bruce Lee

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it” – W. C. Fields

 

 

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” – Wayne Gretzky

Making sense of it all

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