„When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.“
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
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„The secret to getting ahead is getting started.“
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
„It is never too late to be what you might have been.“
— George Eliot English novelist, journalist and translator 1819 - 1880
„Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.“
— Leo Tolstoy Russian writer 1828 - 1910
— Socrates classical Greek Athenian philosopher -470 - -399 BC
This is actually a quotation http://books.google.com/books?id=FUIHmRHf8SUC&lpg=PA130&dq=%22not%20on%20fighting%20the%20old%20but%20on%20building%20the%20new%22&pg=PA130#v=onepage&q=%22not%20on%20fighting%20the%20old%20but%20on%20building%20the%20new%22&f=false from a character named Socrates in Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_the_Peaceful_Warrior, by Dan Millman.
Misattributed
„It's not how you start, but it's how you finish.“
— Michael Phelps American swimmer 1985
Upon winning four Gold medals after the silver medal in his first race in Rome 2009.
„Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.“
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
As quoted by LIFE magazine (2 May 1955)
1950s
Variant: Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
„Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.“
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
„Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.“
— Rumi Iranian poet 1207 - 1273
As quoted in Path for Greatness : Spiritualty at Work (2000) by Linda J. Ferguson, p. 51
„Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.“
— Bruce Lee Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker 1940 - 1973
„The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.“
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr. American writer 1940
Source: P.S. I Love You
— Karl Popper Austrian-British philosopher of science 1902 - 1994
Colin Powell in My American Journey (1995)
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„Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.“
— Ian Maclaren British theologian and writer 1850 - 1907
The British Weekly, 1897. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/
Misattributed
Variant: Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle.
„And the whole [is] greater than the part.“
Καὶ τὸ ὅλον τοῦ μέρους μεῖζον
ἐστιν
Elements, Book I, Common Notion 8 (5 in certain editions)
Cf. Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book Η 1045a 8–10: "… the totality is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the whole is something besides the parts … [πάντων γὰρ ὅσα πλείω μέρη ἔχει καὶ μὴ ἔστιν οἷον σωρὸς τὸ πᾶν]"
Euclid’s Elements
Original: (el) Καὶ τὸ ὅλον τοῦ μέρους μεῖζον [ἐστιν].
„The harder I work, the luckier I get.“
— Samuel Goldwyn American film producer (1879-1974). 1879 - 1974
Misattributed
„Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.“
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
Variant: A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
„Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.“
— Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author 1942 - 2018
— Amelia Earhart, book Last Flight
Letter to her husband George P. Putnam, on the eve of her last flight
Last Flight (1937)
Context: Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
„There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.“
— Zig Ziglar American motivational speaker 1926 - 2012
