Martin Svoboda
@quick, member from April 4, 2011
“It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.”
Emil Zátopek
(1922–2000) Czech Olympic long-distance runner
Attributed in "Citius, Altius, Fortius" ("Swifter, Higher, Stronger"), an unsigned article from Khaleej Times, 8 August 2008 (Galadari Printing and Publishing Co.) http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/weekend/2008/August/weekend_August25.xml§ion=weekend&col=
Emil Zátopek
(1922–2000) Czech Olympic long-distance runner
Attributed in "Making a run at the Olympic dream", an unsigned article from The StarPhoenix, 9 May 2007, at canada.com (CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc.) http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/sports/story.html?id=b111ee9e-182a-4cff-831a-f784cc7bb37e
“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”
Zig Ziglar
(1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Ziglar has often used this saying, but it originates with Phillips Brooks, as quoted in Primary Education (1916) by Elizabeth Peabody.
Misattributed
“The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for”
Zig Ziglar
(1926–2012) American motivational speaker
“Some people find fault like there is a reward for it”
Zig Ziglar
(1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Source: Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Quotes
“If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.”
Zig Ziglar
(1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Zig Ziglar
(1926–2012) American motivational speaker
As quoted in The Subconscious Diet : It's Not What You Put in Your Mouth; It Is What You Put in Your Mind (2005) by Hugh B. Sanders, p. 104 <!-- also quoted in The First Step : A Peek at the Real World (2006) by Gudmundur O. Sigurdarson, p. 41 -->
Context: Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting — in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard — reaching for the highest that is in us — becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great”
Zig Ziglar
(1926–2012) American motivational speaker
“You never know when a moment and a
few sincere words can have an impact on a life.”
Zig Ziglar
(1926–2012) American motivational speaker
“When I read about the dangers of drinking, I gave up reading”
Henny Youngman
(1906–1998) American comedian
Variant: When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”
Henny Youngman
(1906–1998) American comedian
"Forbes" - Vol. 166, Page 156, de Bertie Charles Forbes - Forbes Inc., 2000
W.B. Yeats
(1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1499/
Variant: I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Source: The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
Context: Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with the golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
“Anything forced is not beautiful”
Xenophon
(-430–-354 BC) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Source: The Art of Horsemanship
“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
Alfred Adler
(1870–1937) Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Personality Theorist
Quoted in: Phyllis Bottome, Alfred Adler: Apostle of Freedom (1939), ch. 5
Problems of Neurosis: A Book of Case Histories (1929)
“Another word for creativity is courage.”
Henri Matisse
(1869–1954) French artist
Variant: Creativity takes courage.
“I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”
Lewis Carroll
(1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Variant: I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.