Inspirational quotes

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and
obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the
difference.
Jenny Craig

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John Herschel

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to
meet them.
Phyllis Bottome

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail
out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with
everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his jacket on.
Lou Holtz

To get to the top actually, you must first get to the top mentally.
Chris Widener

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which
the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley

You have to set the goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable
without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and
potential.
Steve Garvey

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and
thereby rob us of our crown.
William Booth

Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.
Danielle Fotopoulis

The mind determines what is possible. The soul surpasses it.
Pilar Coolinta

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering
their attitudes of mind.
William James

Think and feel yourself there. To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result.
Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the
desired goal into view.
George Speare

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're
going to live now.
Joan Baez

A professional is a man who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.
Alistair Cooke

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky

When there is an original sound in the world, it wakens a hundred echoes.
John A. Shedd

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
Jack Penn

There is nothing on earth you cannot have - once you have mentally accepted the fact that
you can have it.
Robert Collier

It is useless to send armies against ideas.
Georg Brandes

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

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