- Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all. Dale Carnegie
- Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson
- It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. Confucius
- You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. Margaret Thatcher
- Dreams don’t work unless you do. John C. Maxwell
- Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. Thomas Watson
- It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt
- Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. Joshua J. Marine
- Most people never run far enough on the first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you. William James
- Don’t tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work. Arthur Rubenstein
- If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it’s OK. But you’ve got to shoot for something. A lot of people don’t even shoot. Confucius
- When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. Confucius
- Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd. from I Ching written by Fu Hsi
- There has to be this pioneer, the individual with the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile that is new and different. Alfred P. Sloan
- When the world says, ‘Give up,’ Hope whispers, ‘Try one more time.’ Unknown
- It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. Walt Disney
- Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. Unknown
- Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. Napoleon Hill
- How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end. Sidney A. Friedman
- Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk. Shirley Hurstedler
- The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake. Elbert Hubbard
- Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could … Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He who wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper. Edmund Burke
- Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did. Mark Twain
- The problem human beings face is not that we aim too high and fail, but that we aim too low and succeed. Michelangelo
- What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. Viktor E. Frankl
- We find comfort among those who agree with us, and growth among those who don’t. Frank A. Clark
- No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. Voltaire
- Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. Miguel Unamuno
- We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. Elizabeth Gilbert
- The only true failure lies in the failure to start. Harold Blake Walker
- Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must also step up the stairs. Vaclac Havel
- A genius! For 37 years I’ve practiced fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius! Pablo Sarasate
- It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein
- To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Unknown
- Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be. Samuel Johnson
- Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm Forbes
- A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Gagehot
- History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. B.C. Forbes
- Don’t worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try. Sherman Finesilver
- Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison
- It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. Eddie Cantor
- Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen. Phillip Adams
- The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success. H.W. Arnold
- What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination. Unknown
- There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy. Albert Ellis
- 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. . .sail away from the safe harbor. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
- We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility. Ellen Langer
- There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there’s always another we can take, and eventually a goal thought to be too far to reach becomes achievable. Ellen Langer
- Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of being. John Wooden
- Nothing will work unless you do. John Wooden
- At God’s footstool to confess,
A poor soul knelt and bowed his head.
“I failed,” he cried. The Master said,
“Thou didst thy best, that is success.” Unknown, but quoted by John Wooden - There isn’t a person anywhere who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can. Henry Ford
- This is hard. This is fun. Carol Dweck summing up the Growth MindsetIf you don’t give anything, don’t expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it. Marva Collins
Quotes offering encouragement when it all feels too hard
June 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment