‘One Liners’
Als alles weer eens tegen zit, zijn er vele manieren om weer even uit die put te komen.
Zelf heb ik altijd weer enorm veel baat bij de zogenaamde ‘one-liners’ van diverse beroemheden. Op deze pagina staan er talloze.
Your failures won’t hurt you until you start blaming them on others.
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off
your goal.
Henry Ford
The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George (1863-1945)
British Prime Minister
On the wall of my room when I was in rehab was a picture of the space shuttle blasting off, autographed by every astronaut now at NASA. On top of the picture it says, “We found nothing is impossible.” That should be our moto.
Christopher Reeve
Actor
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Maybe if we did a better job of listening, history wouldn’t have to repeat itself.
Trust your own insticts. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.
Billy Wilder (1906-2002)
Film producer and director
We don’t remain good if we don’t always strive to become better.
Gottfried Keller (1819-1890)
Writer
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
Bliss Carman (1861-1929)
Poet
You’ve got to take the initiative and play your game… Confidence makes the difference.
Chris Evert
Tennis Player
The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
Raymond Duncan
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Gertrude Stein (1874-1931)
Writer
Knock the “t” out of “can’t.”
George Reeves
Actor
The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.
Madeleine L’Engle
Writer
Whatever I’m doing today is important, and I will do my level best, because I’m giving up a day of my life to do it.
Pat Williams
If you let your past control your present, then you will never have a future.
Suzie Davis
Life is too short to sit on the sidelines; it is much more fun to give it your enthusiastic best.
Bob Apple
Reputation means nothing if you don’t get the job done. So stop talking and get moving.
John Gross
There are no menial jobs; anything that needs to be done is important.
Cheryl Jinx Haas
It is OK to fail, but is is not OK to ever give up.
Norman Tanaka
If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way; if you don’t, you’ll find and excuse.
Frank Banks
Not merely what we do, but what we try to do and why, are the true interpreters of what we are.
C. H. Woodward
If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.
Robert Hillyer (1895-1961)
Poet and writer
There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
Vice Lombardi (1913-1970)
Football coach
If you believe in what you’re doing, it’s amazing how much you can accomplish.
Jennifer Stockburger
Automotive engineer
Don’t stop now! We conquer by continuing.
George Matheson (1842-1906)
Theologian and hymn writer
Attitude: It is our best friend or our worst enemy.
John C. Maxwell
Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we’ll never achieve.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Journalist
We become what we expect to become. Greatness can be achieved only if we expect it from ourselves and from others!
James D. Ericson
Life-insurance executive
Perseverance: You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up, but you don’t give up.
Chuck Yeager, Test pilot
Success is not counted by how high you have climbed but by how many you brought with you.
Will Rose
Little things have big results sometimes.
Margaret Moore
That which is loved is always beautiful.
Norwegian Proverb
No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
James McCay
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
You have to be careful about being too careful.
Beryl Pfizer
Many a man never fails because he never tries.
Norman Macewan
If I’ve learned anything in my 70 years it’s that nothing’s as good or as bad as it appears.
Bushrod H. Campbell
I think one of life’s great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.
Bob Dole
Politician
Problems are not problems at all, but results that are dissatisfying.
Jerry Gillies
Writer
We learn to walk by stumbling.
Bulgarian Proverb
No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
You may fail a thousand times, but success may be hiding behind the next step. You never know how close the prize is unless you continue.
Bob Tyler
Football coach
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
Arland Gilbert
Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.
B.W.M. Yoiung
Educator
I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Oprah Winfrey
Entrepreneur
There is no one else who can ever fill your role in the same way, so it’s a good idea to perform it as well as possible.
Humphry Osmond (1917-2004)
Psychiatrist
There is a giant asleep within every man.
When the giant awakes, miracles happen.
Frederick Faust (1892-1944)
Writer
High expectations are the key to everything.
Sam Walton (1918-1992)
Founder of Wal-Mart
Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
Dan Reeves
Football coach and motivational speaker
Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
Relogious leader
Give me time enough, and I may like it.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Writer and naturalist
Education is learning what you didn’t even know you don’t know.
Daniel Joseph Boorstin (1914-2004)
Historian and writer
The First Rule of Survival: Pay Attention!
James Sitton
The only error of life is to look back and say, “I never learned from my mistakes.”
Steve A. McKown
The measure of a person is determined by what he dreams.
John Holcomb
Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.
Robert Obrien
Humorist
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Evenius (42 B.C. – 13 A.D.)
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
Pythagoras (c. 580-c.500 B.C.)
Philosopher and mathematician
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun
Olympic medalist and politician
We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.
Vaclav Havel
Czech Republic president and playwright
If the shoe fits, you’re not allowing for growth.
Robert Coons
Never grow a wishbone…where your backbone ought to be.
Clementine Paddleford (1900-1967) Food edit
Ask more of yourself than anyone can ever ask of you, and that way you’ll always be prepared for whatever is coming.
Darrin Dewitt Henson
Actor and choreographer
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
College basketball coach
We improve ourselves by victories over ourself.
There must be contests, and we must win.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
Historian
Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch.
Tug McGraw (1944-2004)
Professional baseball player
When the going gets tough, the though get creative.
Author unknown
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination
John Lennon (1940-1980)
Musician
Your struggle may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.
Author unknown
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
Writer
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis (1908-1989)
Actor
Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
Vigil Thomson (1896-1989)
Composer and music critic
Go beyond your comfort zone. If you’re not playing a big enough game, you’ll screw up the game you’re playing just to give yourself something to do.
Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.
Randall McBride, Jr.
Clergyman
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Carter
U.S. First Lady
Failures are divided into two classes–those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.
John Charles Salak
All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.
Anthony Robbins
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John Davison Rockefeller Jr.
Philantropist
Failure is an event, never a person.
William D. Brown
What would life be like if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Artist
Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
Maxwell Maltz (1899-1975)
Physician
What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.
Author Unknown
Do not let time pass without accomplishing something. Otherwise you will regret it when your hair turns gray.
Yue Fei (1103-1141)
Army general
There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
Poet and journalist
Failure seldom stops you; what stops you is the fear of failure.
Jack Lemmon (1925-2001)
Actor
Success is not a destination. It is a constant, continous journey.
George H. Denny
Educator
There’s little to say what hasn’t been said.
There’s much to do that hasn’t been done.
Earle Atkinson
What is best for you does not mean it’s best for another.
Charlie Steen
There’s a better way to do it. Find it!
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
Inventor
Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
Dan Kaercher
Editor and writer
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climed.
Frederick Douglas (1817-1895)
Abolitionist
Do something. If it doesn’t work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Jim Hightower
Socical critic
Feel the fear, and do it anyway.
Susan Jeffers
Motivational speaker and writer
If there are obstacles, the shortest line between two points may be the crooked lie.
Bertolt Brecht
Galileo
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Jeremy Collier (1650-1726)
Clergyman
What small potaoes we all are, compared with what we might be!
Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900)
Writer and editor
Trust in your own untried capacity.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
Poet and writer
Just when you think you’ve graduated from the school of experience, someone thinks up a new course.
Mary Waldrip
Journalist
The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.
George Schultz
Public official
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary
Explorer
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Politician and philosopher
The greatest things ever done on earth have been done little by little.
Thomas Guthrie
Life is not a dress rehearsal. Quit practicing what your’re going to do, and just do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today.
Marilyn Grey
Motivational speaker
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
Orison Madden (1850-1924)
Founder of Success magazine
Grant me the courage not to give up even though I think it is hopeless
Chester W. Nimitz (1885-1966)
U. S. Navy Admiral
We have no limits–we create them in our mind.
Bud Labranche
Motivational speaker and writer
Take a risk: A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
John A. Shedd
Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible.
West Point Cadet Maxim
You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this, nothing works unless you do.
Nido Qubein
Business consultant and author
Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.
W. Clement Stone (1902-2002)
Founder of Combined Insurance Co.
What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote (1924-1984)
Writer
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Lexicographer and writer
Learning is discovering that something is possible.
Fritz Perls (1893-1970)
Psychoanalyst
People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.
Mary Pettibone Poole
Writer
People are in greater need of your praise when they try and fail, than when they try and succeed.
Bob Moawad
Business leader
When you get down to the root of the meaning of the word succeed, you will find it simply means to follow through.
F.W.Nichols
Either I wll find a way, or I will make one.
Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Writer and courtier
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
Ovid (c. 43 B.C. – 18 A.D.)
Poet
Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore.
Sandor Minab
There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous Huxley
Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
Helen Hayes (1900-1993)
Actor
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
32nd U.S. President
Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.
Harry Banks
There is no limitation other than what your think.
Kenneth Mills
Philosopher, composer, and artist
Stress-Buster Tip: Do yourself a favor. Overlook at least two things today.
M.J. Ryan
Editor
A good example is the best sermon.
Tomas Fuller (1608-1661)
Clergymen
Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles (c. 496-406 B.C.)
Dramatist
There is no free tuition in the school of experience.
Failures are like skinned knees–painful, but superficial.
H. Ross Perot
Business executive
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George Patton (1885-1945)
U.S. Army General
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
Bernard Baruch (1870-1965)
Presidential advisor
There will always be a conflict between “good” and “good enough.”
Henry Martyn Leland (1843-1932)
Mechanical engineer
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Philosopher
The road to success is a toll road. Pay that small, daily fee, and you’ll be able to go most anywhere you want. Leave some time for fun, and you’ll enjoy the ride.
Steve Goodier
Writer
Always expect the best and you’ll see that the outcome is spontaneously contained in the expectation.
Deepak Chopra
Physician and writer
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan (1851-1931)
Ichthyologist and educator
Fall down. Make a mess. Break something occasionally. Know that your mistakes are your own unique way of getting to where you need to be. And remember that the story is never over.
Conan O’Brien
“Harvard Commencement Address”
Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.
Victor Kiam (1926-2001)
Business Leader
Sometimes if you want to see a change for he better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Clint Eastwood
Actor and politician
The world always steps aside for people who know where they’re going.
Miriam Viola Larsen
Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them.
Ronald McNair (1950-1986)
Astronaut
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
Lin Yutang (1895-1976)
Writer
Find reasosn to do the important things, instread of reasosns not to do them. Risk, experiment, and don’t forget to have some fun while you are at it.
Ernie Zelinski
Consultant
Few wishes come true by themselves.
Author unknown
Live as if there were no tomorrow, learn as if you would live forever.
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it should get you pretty near.
Margaret Thatcher
British prime minister
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Activist
Energy follows thought; we move toward, but not beyond, what we can imagine.
Dan Millman
Speaker and writer
Every experience is a learning experience. Every time we try something — win or lose — we learn, we grow, we attain more confidence and competence for the next time.
Pat Williams
Basketball executive
If you’re not enjoying the journey, you probably won’t enjoy the destination.
Joe Tye
Motivational speaker and coach
Success never rests. On your worst days, be good. And on your best days, be great. An on every oher day, get better.
Carmen Marano
Educator and writer
No Matter how severe the storm that is trying to blow you off the road, the important thing is to keep pushing and never give up.
Erin Brockovich
Activist
Mistakes are learning tools if held at the right end.
Some people make things happen.
Some people watch things happen.
Some people wonder what happened.
The Law of the 5 Ps
Prior
Preparation
Prevents
Poor
Performance
The pursuit of excellence is a continous process through life. Enjoy the pursuit.
Elaine L. Chao
U.S. Secretary of Labor
Form follows function.
Louis Henri Sullivan (1856-1924)
Architect
Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Cleaver (1864-1943)
Botanist
Everything is always impossible before it works.
Hunt Green
Businessman
To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.F. Gouthey
If you’re scared, just holler and you’ll find it ain’t so lonesome out there.
Joe Sugden (1870-1959)
Professional baseball player
Most of this world’s useful work is done by poeple who are pressed for time, or are tired, or don’t feel well.
Life has two rules: Number one, never quit; Number two, always remember rule number one.
Duke Ellington (1899-1974)
Musician and compoaer
It’s the start that stops most people.
Asked which of his works he would select as his masterpiece, architect Frank Lloyd Wright at the age of 83 replied, “My next one.”
Succes is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker Washington (1856-1915)
Educator
If at first you DO succeed, try something harder.
Ann Landers
Syndicated Columnist
The door of opportunity is marked “push.”
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
Theologian
You have to be able to look at yourself in the mirror every day and say, “I did the best I could.”
Bonnie Reits
Airline executive
All things at first appear difficult.
Chinese proverb
No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work on it.
Rule #1: Take yourself less seriously.
Odette Pollar
A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albrecht
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII (1881-1963)
I’ve always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
Beverly Sills
Opera singer
Defeat isn’t bitter, as long as you don’t swallow it.
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955)
Philosopher
If you’re going to play the game properly, you’d better know every rule.
Barbara Jordan (1936-1996)
Politician
Exellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.
Marva Collins
Educator
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney (1901-1966)
Film producer
Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
Ken Keyes, Jr. (1921-1995)
Writer
Nothing is particularly hard if you devide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Founder of the Ford Motor Company
Even the things you cannot imagine are possible.
Almost everything is more complicated that it seems, but almost nothing is hopeless
Vincent Barnett
Former president of Colgate University
Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.
Ted Williams (1918-2002)
Baseball player
You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
Ray Bradbury
Writer
Act as it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande (1893-1948)
Writer
We have forty million reasons for failure but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Writer
He who would go a hunderd miles should consider ninety-nine as halfway.
Japanese Proverb
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri-Louis Bergson (1859-1941)
Philosopher
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Nikki Giovanni
Poet
You can’t hit a target if you don’t have it clearly in sight.
Jo-Ellen Dimitrius and Mark Mazzarella
Give yourself a pat on the back each time you hang in there when you’re scared.
Marilyn Barrick
Psychologist and writer
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lessons afterward.
Author unknown
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
John Wooden, Retired basketball coach
Remove failure as an option and your chances for success become infinitely better.
Joan Lunden, Journalist
It is not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring.
Spanish proverb
If you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
Yiddish proverb
The woods would be very silent if only the birds with the sweetest songs were heard.
Steve Goodier
Writer and speaker
Anything in life is possible if you make it happen. And it’s never too late.
Jack La Lanne
Fitness pioneer
Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat and struggled for.
Marian Wright Edelman
President of the Children’s Defence Fund
Nothing makes us feel so strong as a call for help.
George MacDonald (1824-1905)
Writer
Do what you are afraid to do.
Mary Emerson (1774-1863)
Aunt of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
Supreme Court Justice
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Writer
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Luc de Clapers (1715-1747)
Moralist
Dreams in life may seem impossible. They are not. Impossible dreams are achieved one goal at a time.
Herman Cain
Chairman of Godfather’s Pizza
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do,
what experience tells you to do,
and what your nerves let you do.
Bruce Crampton
Professional golfer
There may be times when the best decision is to do nothing.
Ray Josephs
Business executive
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Philosopher and writer
Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
Philosopher and writer
Stop trying to impress others – strive to impress yourself.
Mike Scicchitano
Failure is not permanent and neither is success.
Success is the intersection where dreams and hard work meet.
Be Bold. If you’re going to make an error, make a doozy…
Billie Jean King
Tennis player
Paths clear before those who know where they’re going and are determined to get there.
Leonard Roy Frank
Editor and writer
Commitment is never an act of moderation!
Kenneth Mills
Philosopher, composer, and artist
Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.
Cherie Carter-Scott
Preparation yesterday will help make today productive, and productivity today will help make tomorrow’s dream a reality.
Jay Kimbel
To escape criticism — do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
Designer and writer
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
Maya Angelou
Writer
Remember every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.
James A. Brewer
Hospital worker and writer
Life is more meaningful when you are always looking to grow and working toward a goal.
Les Brown
Motivational Speaker
I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I’m in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to one, so I know it can be done. I know the impossible can become possible.
Marcia Wallace
Actor
Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)
Founder of Franciscan Order of Priests
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.
Leo Burnett (1891-1971)
Advertising executive
Statistically – 100 percent of the shots you don’t take, don’t go in.
Wayne Gretzky
Hockey player
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Sir Winston Churchil (1874-1965)
British Prime Miniser
Success isn’t permanent, and failure isn’t fatal.
Mike Ditka
Football coach
Overcomming the unexpected and discovering the unknown is what ignites our spirt. It is what life is all about.
Daniel Golden
NASA Administrator
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
U. S. First Lady
To the daring belongs the future.
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
Social activist
I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.
Martha Stewart
Entrepreneur
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
Christopher Reeve
Actor
When you reach to top, that’s where the climb begins.
Michael Caine
Actor
The journey is the reward.
Greg Norman
Professional Golfer
The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.
Brian Tracy
Career development expert
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
You can reach any goal…
IF you know what the goal is;
IF you really want it;
IF it is a good goal;
IF you believe you can each it;
IF you work to achieve it;
IF you think positively.
Norman Vincent Peale
Ignore the ones who say it’s too late to start over.
Disregard those who say you’ll never amount to anything.
Turn a deaf ear to those who say you aren’t smart enough, fast enough, tall enough, or big enough — ignore them.
Max Lucado
If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.
Carolyn Gilmore
Writer
None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for a lifetime.
Gail Godwin
Writer.
An ouce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
Philosopher and economist
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting persuit of goals — a commitment to excellence — that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti
Race car driver
“What’s your opinion of my grooming?” the young handler asked the breeder.
“It isn’t worth anything,” said the breeder.
“I know,” conceded the egotistical handler, “but give it to me anyway.”
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I shall have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Indian nationalist leader
Those things that hurt, instruct.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
Chinese proverb
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Woodberry (1855-1930)
Writer and critic
I suppose I made it look easy, but gee whiz, did I work and worry.
Fred Astaire (1899-1987)
Most people see what is, and never see what can be.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Physicist
If you don’t own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.
Roger Caras, “A Celebration of Dogs”
Never let the word “impossible” stop you from pursuing what your heart and spirit urge you to do. Impossible things come true every day.
Robert Cooper
Speaker and writer
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they never quit.
Conrad Hilton (1887-1979)
Hotel executive
As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.
Margaret Deland (1857-1945)
If the going is easy, beware! You may be going downhill.
Greg Taunt,
Writer
I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life’s greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a neverending commitment to act until they achieve.
This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.
Anthony Robbins
Speaker and writer
My favorite four-letter words are “hard work.”
John Wayne (1907-1979)
Actor
The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration; then more practice and more concentration.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1914-1956)
Golfer and Olympic gold medalist
One of our greatest illusions is that there will be more time tomorrow to do the things we really want to do than there is today.
If you can’t be good, be careful.
Time is a created thing. To say, “I don’t have time” is like saying “I don’t want to…”
Lao-Tzu (+/- 6th century B.C.)
Philosopher
People who don’t have nightmares don’t have dreams.
Robert Paul Smith
Writer
Without pressure, the work doesn’t get done at all.
William Sarayan (1908-1981)
Writer
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl Buck (1892-1973)
Writer
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to support you long enough to enable you to reach for something higher.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
Biologist & writer
Don’t let success go to your head or failure go to your heart.
The key to success is to determine your goal and then act as if it were impossible to fail–and it shall be!
Dorothea Brande
Writer
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.
John McEnroe
Tennis Pro
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry Link
Writer
We are our choices.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
Philosopher, writer and critic
A professional groomer is an amateur who didn’t quit.
Do what you do so well that those who see you do what you do are going to come back to see you do it again and tell others that they should see you do what you do.
Walt Disney (1901-1866)
Film and theme park entrepreneur
You will succeed if you believe it can be done; if you’re willing to work hard while being smart about it; if you’re willing to surround yourself with great people who will challenge you every day; if you’re willing to take on the naysayers as a challenge; and if you’re willing to strive for excellence while recognizing each day is an opportunity to learn.
Amy Love
Preparation through steady practice is the only honest avenue to achieving your potential.
Ch Chi Rodriguez
Professional golfer
People and rubber bands have one thing in common: they must be stretched to be effective.
John Maxwell
Writer
The future has several names. For the weak, it is “Impossible.” For the fainthearted, it is the “Unknown.” For the thoughtful and valiant, it is “Ideal.”
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Writer
You learn that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don’t matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there but if you want to do a job bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it done.
Jack Youngblood
Football player
You must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacle.
William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
Publisher and Kerry owner
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.
Paul “Bear” Bryant (1913-1983)
College football coach
When I work, I relax; doing nothing makes me tired
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Artist
Whenever two ways lie before us, one of which is easy and the other hard, one of which requires no exertion while the other calls for resolution and endurance, happy are those who choose the mountain path and scorn the thought of resting in the valley. They are the men and women who are destined in the end to conquer and succeed.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Writer
If there is one characteristic that all great champions share, it’s an enormous sense of pride. That’s true in all walks of life. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world – and prove to themselves – just how good they are.
Nancy Lopez
Professional golfer
Roadblocks aren’t barriers-they open your eyes to other routes.
Joyce Restaino
Writer
There are no gains without pains.
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
U.S. Statesman
The purpose of obstacles is to instruct, not obstruct.
Mark Reisenberg
Professional Speaker
Live to learn and you will learn to live.
Portuguese Proverb
It’s not so much what we know as how well we use what we know.
Ernesta Procope
Business Executive
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)
Writer
Do not wait for great strength before setting out, for immobility will weaken you further. Do not wait to see clearly before starting; one has to walk toward the light.
When you take the first step, accomplish that tiny little act, the necessity of which may be apparent only to you, you will be astonished to feel that the effort, rather than exhausting your strength, has doubled it– and that you already see more clearly what you have to do next.
Philippe Vernier
One of the greatest laborsaving inventions of today is tomorrow.
Vincent Foss
The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain–he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem–he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.
William Arthur Ward, Journalist
At last, I think I’ve discovered the secret: Do what you want to do, but DO it.
Truman Jones
Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.
J. Willard Marriott (1900-1985), Founder, Marriott Corporation
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Theodore Vail
Nothing fails like success because we don’t learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Kenneth Boulding (1910-1993), Economist and writer
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863), Painter
The reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.
Robert McKain, Writer
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Eric Butterworth, Clergyman
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), Writer
Ninety percent of those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.
Paul Meyer, Entrepreneur and writer
You may not know all the answers, but you probably won’t be asked all the questions either.
Life is not a spectator sport…. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.
Jackie Robinson (1919-1972), Baseball player
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison (1847-1931), Inventor
It’s the start that stops most people.
Every little bit helps.
Every little quit hurts.
The Champion’s Creed
I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed. And the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep trying!
Tom Hopkins
If at first you DO succeed, try something harder.
Ann Landers, Syndicated columnist
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying you succeed.
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), Educator
Winners vs. Losers
A winner says, “It may be difficult, but it’s possible.”
A loser says, “It may be possible, but it’s too difficult.”
Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.
To rise to the top you must first get to the bottom of things.
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
With a bit of courage and a dash of self-discipline, a small talent can go a long way.
Kitty Carlisle Hart, Entertainer.
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
Thomas Buxton
DON’T STOP NOW
You failed many times, although you may not remember.
The first time you tried to walk, you fell down.
The first time you tried to talk, you could hardly make a sound.
The first time you dressed yourself, you may have looked like a clown.
But you didn’t give up!
Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat?
Did you make a cartwheel the first time you tried that?
Did you jerk the car the first time you drove a stick?
Did you do it perfectly the first time you tried a magic trick?
Heavy hitters, the ones who hit the most home runs, also strike out the most, when all is said and done.
Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times, but he also hit 714 home runs.
R. H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on.
We all fail sometimes; it’s part of success.
Just don’t stop trying!
Don’t worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try . . .
Willie Jolley
STUMBLING BLOCK OR STEPPING STONE?
The best thing that ever happened to boxer Gene Tunney (a Kerry owner) was that he broke both hands in the ring. His manager felt that he could never again punch hard enough to be the heavyweight champion. Instead, Tunney decided that he would become a scientific boxer and win the title as a boxer, not a slugger. Boxing historians will tell you that he developed into one of the best boxers who ever fought. They also will tell you that as a puncher, he would not have had a chance against Jack Dempsey (another Kerry owner), who was considered by many to be the hardest hitter in heavyweight history. Tunney would never have been champion (September 23, 1926) had he not had the problem of his broken hands.
Message: The next time you encounter a difficult climb, obstacle, or problem, you should smile and say, “Here’s my chance to grow.”
Zig Ziglar
Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Success is not getting on top-but how you bounce on the bottom that counts.
General George Patton (1885-1945)
Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assissi (1181-1226)
Amateurs practice until they can get it right; professionals practice until they can’t get it wrong.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney (12901-1966)
Regret for things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Sydney Harris
All glory comes from daring to begin.
Eugene Ware
You don’t aim at the bull’s-eye. You aim at the center of the bull’s-eye!
Raymond Berry
Football coach
People who wait for something to turn up might start with their own shirtsleeves.
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Joe Sabah
Professional speaker
Don’t consider losses a waste of time. Consider them an apprenticeship.
Greg Norman
Professional golfer
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)
Journalist and economist
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
6th U.S. President
The difference between an amateur and a professional is that an amateur gives up when encountering difficulties and a professional speeds up.
Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.
Chinese proverb
The shortest way to do many things is to do one thing at a time.
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)
Physician and writer
Spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Roger Staubach
Retired pro football player
Well begun is half done.
Aristotle (384-32 B.C.)
Philosopher
I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying.
Dolly Parton, Entertainer
Babe Ruth struck out 1,339 times
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott
One of life’s little ironies: When you finally master a tough job, you make it look easy.
You can tell if you’re on the right track — it’s usually uphill.
A well-adjusted Kerry groomer is one who can forget it’s a necessity.
Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something done right is an achievement.
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Stevie Wonder
Musician
The word “begin” is full of energy. The best way to get something done is to begin. It’s truly amazing what tasks we can accomplish if only we begin. You’re never finished if you forever keep beginning.
Rev. Clifford Warren, Welsh clergyman
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left but could say, “I used every bit you gave me.”
Erma Bombeck (1927-1996)
Syndicated columnist
Success is 99 percent failure.
Soichiro Honda
Founder, Honda Motor Corporation
Good enough never is.
After a conformation show, a defeated participant went up to the the winning handler and said: “I’d give my whole life to groom as you do.” The handler replied: “I did.”
- My Dutch / NL WordPress Translation contributions: October 2022 - October 9, 2022
- My Dutch / NL WordPress Translation contributions: August 2022 - August 23, 2022
- [NL] Ultra Light digital nomad Europe travel with Ryanair / Wizz Air - August 20, 2022
- My Dutch / NL WordPress Translation contributions: July 2022 - July 27, 2022
- My Dutch / NL WordPress Translation contributions: April 2022 - April 2, 2022
- My Dutch / NL WordPress Translation contributions: March 2022 - March 10, 2022
- What is the best global travel community for 2022 ? - February 20, 2022
- My Dutch / NL WordPress Translation contributions: February 2022 - February 3, 2022
- My Dutch / NL WordPress Translation contributions: January 2022 - January 4, 2022
- My Dutch / NL WordPress Translation contributions: October 2021 - October 7, 2021
