Persistence Inspirational All things in their being are good for something. I am born to be useful. Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people. Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people. Failure is the mother of success. - Thomas Paine Failure is the mother of success. For man is man and master of his fate. The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. -Erasmus Only he who conquers life and seizes freedom every day deserves to enjoy the freedom of life. Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness. -- R.M. Nixon Our destiny offers us not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.

Let us therefore seize our destiny without fear and with joy - Richard Nixon Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. - John Ruskin Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. -- Ruskin What makes life dreary is the want of motive. -- George Eliot Without purpose, life becomes dull. -- George Eliot Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

-- Lincoln Towering genius disdains a beaten path. He sought out hitherto unexplored areas. There is no such thing as a great talent without great will - power. -- Balzac There is no such thing as a great talent without great will - power. -- Balzac There is no great talent without great will - power. -- Balzac The good seaman is known in bad weather. Stormy seas reveal the true nature of a hero. Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. --J.H. Newman Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. --J.H. Newman Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. --J.H. Newman -- Newman Gods determine what you're going to be. -- Julius Erving Gods determine what you're going to be. -- Julius Erving Gods determine what you're going to be.

-- Owen An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. -- Robert Louis Stevenson An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. -- Stevenson While there is life there is hope. -- British proverb Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. -- A. Einstein Don't work hard for success, but rather try to become a man of value. -- Einstein You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success. -- Charles Chaplin You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success. -- Charles Chaplin -- Chaplin Pursue your object, be it what it will, steadily and indefatigably. We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. -- Mattin Luther King We must accept finite disappointment, because it is finite, but we must never lose hope, because it is infinite. -- Martin ? Luther ? King Energy and persistence conquer all things. -- Benjamin Franklin Energy and persistence conquer all things. -- Franklin Nothing seek, nothing find. Nothing sought, nothing found. Cease to struggle and you cease to live. -- Thomas Carlyle Cease to struggle and you cease to live. -- Thomas Carlyle Cease to struggle and you cease to live. -- Carlyle A thousand-li journey is started by taking the first step. Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished. -- Swetchine Only the strong know how to fight; the weak are not even qualified to fail, but are born vanquished. -- Swetchney The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. -- Bernara Shaw , all work hard to find the opportunities they want. If they can't find the opportunities, they create them themselves. -- George Bernard Shaw A strong man will struggle with the storms of fate. -- Thomas Addison A strong man will struggle with the storms of fate. -- Edison He who seizes the right moment, is the right man. -- Goethe He who seizes the right moment, is the right man.

-- Goethe Victory won't come to me unless I go to it. -- M.Moore Victory won't come to us, I must go to victory myself. -- Moore Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards. Man errs as long as he strives. -- Goethe Errors are the price of progress. -- Goethe The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do. -- Henry David Thoreau , takes away the appearance of youth again and again, but adds a dignity to the prospects of life, which is something that no smooth success can do. -- Thoreau A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. -- J. Burroughs A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. -- J. Burroughs loser. -- Burroughs

All for one, one for all.

Everyone for one, one for all. ——[French] Dumas pére Alexandre Dumas

Other men live to eat, while I eat to live.

Other men live to eat, while I eat to live. ——Socrates Socrates

Easy come, easy go.

What is easy to gain is also easy to lose. —— HazlittHearst

Love rules his kingdom without a sword.

Love rules his kingdom without a sword. ——Herbert Herbert

We soon believe what we desire.

What we desire, we soon believe it to be true. —— Chaucer

The darkest hour is that before the dawn.

The darkest hour is that before the dawn. —— Fuller Fuller

The longest day has an end.

The saddest day also has an end. —— Howell

Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.

Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. —— J. Ruskin

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. —— Heywood

One swallow does not make a summer.

One swallow does not make a summer.

—— Taverner

A man may lead a horse to the water, but he cannot make it drink.

A man may lead a horse to the river, but he cannot make it drink. Make it drink water. —— Heywood

One cannot eat one’s cake and have it.

One cannot eat one’s cake and have it in his hand. ——Davies

Time is money.

Time is money. ——Benjamin Franklin Franklin

Time and tide wait for no man.

Time waits for no man. —— Scott Scott

There is no rose without a thorn.

There is no rose without a thorn. —— Ray

Lookers-on see most of the game.

Onlookers see clearly. —— Smedley

Beggars cannot be choosers.

Beggars cannot be choosers. —— Heywood Heywood

First catch your hare.

First you must catch the rabbit, and then you can kill it. —— Thackeray

Victory won’t come to me unless I go to it.

Victory won’t come to me, I must go to victory myself. —— M. Moore Moore

A great man is always willing to be little.

A great man is always willing to be a little person. —— R. W. Emerson

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

Cowards have experienced the horror of death many times before they die. —— Julius Caesar

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.