Quotes by Great Quotes

“We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.” – John Henry Newman

“The height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment…he who cannot establish a dominion over himself will have no dominion over others. He who masters himself shall be a king.” – Spencer W Kimball

“What a man can imagine or conceive in his mind he can accomplish, impossibles are possible as thinking men make them so.” – Henry J Kaiser

“The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.” – John Ruskin

“What progress can there be for a man unconscious of his faults? Such a man has lost the fundamental element of growth, which is the realization that there is something bigger, better, and more desirable than the condition in which he now finds himself. In the soil of self-satisfaction, true growth has poor nourishment…heaven pity the man who is unconscious of fault! Pity him also who is ignorant of his ignorance!” – David O McKay

“The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself…every step of our progress toward success is a sacrifice.” – Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

“What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.” – Louis Nizer

“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” – Richard L Evans

“They may forget what you said-but they will never forget how you made them feel.” – Carl W Buehner

“This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what he has given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.” – Seneca

“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.” – William Hazlitt

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” – Eva Young

“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.” – Robert Brault

“We are not endeavoring to get ahead of others, but to surpass ourselves.”- Hugh B Brown

“The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.” – Samuel Johnson

“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment.” – Bertrand Russell

“The habits of time are the soul’s dress for eternity.” – George B Cheever

“The heart of him who truly loves is a paradise on earth, he has God in himself, for God is love.” – Lamennais

“He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.” – Omar Khayyam

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – John Calvin Coolidge

“Men are punished by their sins, not for them.” – Albert Hubbard

“Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.” – Unknown

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” – Henry Ford

“Once begun, a task is easy; half the work is done.” – Horace

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.” – Sophocles

“Opportunity always involves some risk. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.” – Frederick Wilcox

“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” – Joseph Fort Newton

“Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.” – Woody Allen

“Some day, in the years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now…now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.” – Phillips Brooks

“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.” – Dr. Willis R Whitney

“Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.” – Bonnell Thornton

“The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.” – Russell Lynes

“The best angle from which to approach a problem is the try-angle.”- Unknown

“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Life is full of obstacle illusions.” – Grant Frazier

“Life is no brief candle to me. it is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Emancipate yourself from inner-slavery, for none but ourselves can free our mind.” – Bob Marley

“He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.” – Omar Khayyam