“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
Original from Zig Ziglar https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zig_Ziglar
Misattributed
“Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway”
“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
Source: The Road
“Never, never, never give in!”
Variant: Never, never, never give up.
“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
Variant: Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going”
“You can do anything, but not everything.”
Source: Rework
“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
Attributed
Source: As quoted in The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) by John Cook, p. 548
“Your life only gets better when you get better.”
“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”
“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”
Ch. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=pDlxjZ-z-woC&q=%22A+witty+woman+is+a+treasure+a+witty+beauty+is+a+power%22&pg=PA2#v=onepage.
Source: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885)
Variant: You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be
The candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
"Vesalius in Zante (1564)", in North American Review (November 1902), p. 631
Variant: There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.
“It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.”
Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”
Variant: In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting”
Variant: It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
Source: The Alchemist
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”
“Making money is art. And working is art. And good business is the best art.”
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), p. 92
Context: Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. After I did the thing called 'art' or whatever it's called, I went into business art. I wanted to be an Art Businessman or a Business Artist. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. During the hippies era people put down the idea of business – they'd say 'Money is bad', and 'Working is bad', but making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
“Make the most of yourself…. for that is all there is of you.”
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
“The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.”
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles
“It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.”
“Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”
“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
Variant: It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
“I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.”
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
As quoted in Wake-up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk through your Life, Love, or Career! (1992) by Eric Allenbaugh, p. 65
“Very little is needed to make a happy life.”
ἐν ὀλιγίστοις κεῖται τὸ εὐδαιμόνως βιῶσαι
VII, 67
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
Time Must Have a Stop (1944)
“You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.”
“How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?”
Source: Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
As quoted in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989) by Jeffrey M. Elliot
"Back in the Saddle - An Essay by Lance Armstrong", as quoted in The Book of Action (2006) by Jeramy L. Patrick and Justin L. Helms, p. 68
Source: Armstrong, Lance. It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life. New York: Berkley Books, 2001
“Live for each second without hesitation”
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.”
“When they give you lined paper, write the other way.”
Misattributed
Variant: If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
Source: Epigraph, in Fahrenheit 451 a translation of a statement by Juan Ramón Jiménez
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Variant: Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Source: The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.”
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”
Attribution debunked in Langworth's Churchill by Himself. The earliest close match located by the Quote Investigator is from the 1953 book How to Say a Few Words by David Guy Powers.
Misattributed
Variant: Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Source: 1953, How to Say a Few Words by David Guy Powers, Quote p. 109, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York. Referenced by Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/28/success
Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 3 (p. 27)
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
Variant: Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.
Source: Brida (1990).
Context: When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990)
Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
This quote is widely attributed to Margaret Thatcher on various websites, and also appears in a number of books, including The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, Columbia University Press (1989), ed. Robert Andrews, p. 320 : ISBN 0231069901. 9780231069908 , but without any further source information such as date, location or any other context.
One valid Thatcher quote which may be the basis for the version above appears in the Second Carlton Lecture http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105799 (‘Why Democracy Will Last’), delivered at the Carlton Club, London (November 26, 1984) : Mr. Chairman, each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can’t take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew. You know that marvellous quotation from Goethe : ‘That which thy fathers bequeathed thee / Earn it anew if thou would possess it.’
Thatcher also expressed this thought in a Speech to Atlantic Bridge (May 14, 2003) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/111266, delivered at the St. Regis Hotel, New York City : My friends, every generation has to fight anew the battle for liberty.
Disputed
“If they give you lined paper, write the other way.”
“Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.”
Source: Notes On A Scandal
“The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.”
“Do the thing and you will have the power.”
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
Source: Music is My Mistress
“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”
“Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.”
“I have been bent and broken, but -I hope- into a better shape.”
“Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.”
Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
“In matters of style, swim with the current: in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
As quoted in Careertracking: 26 success Shortcuts to the Top (1988) by James Calano and Jeff Salzman; though used in an address by Bill Clinton (31 March 1997), and sometimes cited to Notes on the State of Virginia (1787) no earlier occurence of this has yet been located.
Disputed
“Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.”
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”
“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste”
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer.”
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
The alchemist, p. 141.
Variant: There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)
“Sadness can find you anywhere, anytime, so you better have fun when you can.”
Source: The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
Source: The Open Door (1957) This quotation is often contracted into: Security is mostly a superstition... Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. or paraphrased: Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
“But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
“Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”
“I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me.”
“The best way to predict your future is to create it”
“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.”
