Dare to Be!!!

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Dare to Be


When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.

When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.

When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.

When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.

When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.

When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.

When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.

When times are tough, dare to be tougher.

When love hurts you, dare to love again.

When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.

When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.

When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.

When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.

When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.

When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best.

Dare to be the best you can –

At all times, Dare to be!


— Steve Maraboli 

40 Most Famous Mark Twain Quotes



1. Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

2. Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

3. The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one 
degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.

4. Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn’t any. But this wrongs the jackass.

5. There has been only one Christian. They caught him and crucified him–early.

6. There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he less savage than the other savages.

7. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.

8. The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not 
already a consummate ass.

9. The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

10. Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

11. Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their 
reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

12. Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

13. Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God’s fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect.

14. I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man’s reasoning powers are not above the monkey’s.

15. I would rather have my ignorance than another man’s knowledge, because I have so much more of it.

16. In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards.

17. Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

18. Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

19. To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

20. It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

21. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it 
begins to rain.

22. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

23. Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

24. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

25. Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

26. An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

27. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young.

28. Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

29. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

30. By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean.

31. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

32. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

33. Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

34. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

35. Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

36. Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

37. Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

38. Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

39. George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.


40. Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Albert Einstein’s Most Famous Quotes



"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."

"God is subtle but he is not malicious."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."

"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."

"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"

"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."

"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of 
any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."

"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."

"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."


"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

Some Famous Quotes of Charlie Chaplin


“My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain”  

“Imagination means nothing without doing” 

“Mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs at me. “

“A day without laughter is a day wasted. “

 “We think too much and feel too little.”

 “A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.”

 “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.”

 “To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!”

 “The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”

 “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

 “Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”

 “Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.”

 “A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.”

 “I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.”

 “We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.”

 “Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.”

 “I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.”

 “What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.”

"Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded."

 “To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.”

 “I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.”

 “Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.”

 “I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.”

 “The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.”

 “Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.”

 “All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”

 “Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.”

 “I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.”

 “Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.”

 “I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.”

 “In the end, everything is a gag.”

 “I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.”

 “I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.”

 “Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.”

 “We might as well die as to go on living like this.”

 “Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.”

 “I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.”

 “I am for people. I can't help it.”

 “I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.”

 “The glamour of it all! New York! America!”

 “Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.”

 “Why should poetry have to make sense?”

 “Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.”

 “All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.”


 “That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.”

50 Life Changing Motivational And Inspirational Quotes

 “Nobody is born wise.” - African proverb

“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.” - Zig Ziglar

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill

“For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.” - Socrates

“Little by little one walks far.” - Peruvian Proverb

“That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.” - Pablo Picasso

“Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.” - Guinean proverb

“Success comes from within, not from without.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whether you believe you can or believe you can’t, you are absolutely right.” - Henry Ford

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” - Albert Einstein

 “Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.” - Pablo Picasso

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” - Thomas Jefferson

“You learn how to cut down trees by cutting them down. - Bateke proverb”

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill

“The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.” - Henry David Thoreau

“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” - Buddhist Proverb

“To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.” - Malcolm S. Forbes

“A patient person never misses a thing. - Swahili proverb”

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’” - George Bernard Shaw

“Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale ’til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.” - Washington Irving

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” - Confucius

“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.” - Zig Ziglar

“Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!” - Babe Ruth

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.” - Henry Ward Beecher

“If you do not enter the tiger’s cave, you will not catch its cub.” - Japanese saying

“Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.” - William Arthur Ward

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” - Vincent van Gogh

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” - Theodore Roosevelt

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” - Socrates

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Continuance is power and strength.” - Japanese saying

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” - Henry Ford

“Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.” - Benjamin Franklin

“You can only enter half way into the dark forest before you begin to come out the other side.” - Chinese Proverb

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.” - Winston Churchill

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” - Helen Keller

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” - Helen Keller

“Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow.” - William Shakespeare

“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.” - Michaelangelo

“A nod, you know, is as good as a wink to a blind horse.” - English Proverb

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” - Robert F. Kennedy

“The quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.” - Vince Lombardi Jr.

“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.” - William Shakespeare

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” - Booker T. Washington

“A rolling stone gathers no moss.” - English Proverb

“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” - Benjamin Franklin

“Go as far as you can see and you will see further.” - Zig Ziglar


“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.” - Benjamin Franklin

Inspirational Quotes To Live By - 20 Most Encouraging Motivational Quotes For Difficult Times

Many times, we go through tough times throughout life with some being more difficult than others. From failed dreams to break ups to losing people we love.We can become stuck and feel like we can’t move forward. However, move forward we must because regardless of what happens, life goes on.

We are giving Some Most Inspirational Quotes below that will hopefully help you find the mental strength to overcome your obstacles. If you have some similar quotes to deal with Hard Times, Please post them in comments.

“Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.” – Muhammad Ali

“Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.” – Susan Taylor

“Life is like riding a bicycle, in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H Schuller

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” – Michael Jordan

“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.” – Lou Holtz

“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” – Sarah Dessen

“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” – Lee Iacocca

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor can we be perfected without adversity.” – Unknown

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” – Leo Buscaglia

“A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose – a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.” – John Maxwell

“I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.” – James Cash Penney

“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” – Bertie Charles Forbes

“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” – Bernice Johnson Reagon

“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden

“It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.” – Dalai Lama


“Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.” – Charlie Jones

Motivational Quotes And Sayings

“So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.”
- Og Mandino

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
- William E. Channing

“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”
- Bernice Johnson Reagon

“Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte

“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”
- C. Malesherbe

“If not us, who? If not now, when?”
- Kennedy, John F.

“Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.”
- Rabbi Nochem Kaplan

“All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.”
- Walt Disney

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die tomorrow.”
- James Dean

“If you’re going to be thinking, you may as well think big.”
- Donald Trump

“Where there’s a will there’s a way.”
- English Proverb

“If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.”
- Cher

“A determined person will do more with a pen and paper, than a lazy person will accomplish with a personal computer.”
- Catherine Pulsifer

“We will either find a way, or make one!”
- Hannibal

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
- Dale Carnegie

“You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.”
- Dr. Wayne Dyer

“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.”
- Napoleon Hill

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.”
- Robert G. Ingersoll

“Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.”
- Dale Carnegie

“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.”
- Vernon Howard

“Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.”
- Sharon Stone

“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”
- John Quincy Adams

“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
- Abraham Lincoln

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
- Thomas Edison

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
- Winston Churchill

“When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters—one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.”
- John F. Kennedy

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.”
- Louis Kossuth

“Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”
- George W. Carver

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

- Mark Twain 

Some Most Inspirational Quotes

The word ”can’t“ is the most powerful negative of a man’s mind. -Paul R. Scheele

You didn’t appear on this Earth accidentally, you are not a product of mass production, you haven’t rolled out from the conveyor line. You have been carefully designed, gifted with special skills and brought out to Earth with love. -Max Lucado

In order to make progress you have to start. You start by dividing the complex tasks into the smaller and easier ones. -Mark Twain

If you want to reach high goals, you will have to take the risk. -Alberto Salazar

The ones taking a lot of risk are gaining a lot. -Robert F. Kennedy

Be ready to put everything on stake in pursuit of your dream. -Unknown

Taking risks in ones life is the same as a leap from the mountain. On the fall down wings appear. -Ray Bradbury

What do you want? Be good and stay secure? Or take the risk and become great? -Jimmy Johnson

You are given 20% of power. You will have to take the rest 80%. -Peter Neberop

Everything is doable, it’s just not that easy to figure out how. -E. Allen

Progress never comes without any risk. You cannot reach the second base if you stay in the first in Baseball. -Frederic Wilson

I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which remained in my mind. -Mark Twain

Success leaves footprints. -Anthony Robbins

I can bet, the successful man experienced more failures than luck in his life. -Kevin Sorbo

We take the walk of our lives just once. We can walk carefully on tips of our toes, hoping that we will escape bigger troubles till the end of our lives. However we are able and we have to live our lives to the fullest, make and reach our goals, realize the most daring dreams. -Bob Proctor

Every failure can be bypassed in alternate ways. When the obstacle is in your way, learn how to bypass it. -Mary Kay Ash

Take the first step in faith. You won’t see the whole staircase just take the first step. -Martin Luther King

You will never swim across the sea just by sitting and watching the water. -Rabindranath Tagore)

Contemplate on it and you will become rich. -Napoleon Hill

Build your future by looking at it. Forget the past. -Werner Erhard

 If you are ready to do more than you are paid for, the time will come when you will be paid more. -Unknown

When one door closes another opens. That’s how the law of balance of forces works. -Bryan Adams

“No” is the word in your path to “yes”. Don’t give up on your dream too soon even if your parents, relatives and friends would urge you taking the “serious” work or college studies you have no interest in. Your dreams are the real job and occupation. -Arnoldas Kubiliunas

Fall down seven times, get up eight times. -Japanese proverb

History shows that people who made the greatest achievements, usually faced the greatest obstacles on their way to success. They succeeded just because they were not scared of failures. -Forbes

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. -J.M. Power

An employee’s motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager. -Bob Nelson

Desire is the key to motivation, but it is determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek. -Mario Andretti

Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot. -Jim Rohn

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.  -Zig Ziglar

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston Churchill

If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. -David Viscott

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best. -Doris Lessing


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. -Aristotle

Funny Quotes About Women

A woman is like a tea bag. She only knows her strength when put in hot water.
-Nancy Reagan, Political Activist

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-Aristotle, Philosopher

I hate women because they always know where things are.
-James Thurber, American Humorist

A woman knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
-Malcolm de Chazal, Mauritian Writer

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
-Jules Michelet, French Historian

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
-Freya Stark, Author

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
-Gloria Steinem, American Feminist

Can you imagine a world without men?  No crime and lots of happy fat women.
-Nicole Hollander

Women want to be treated as equals, not sequels.
-Kathy Lette

Worldview of beautiful women always differs from their husbands wordview.
-J. GruĊĦas

The three words women most want to hear from a man are, “You lost weight”.
-Lori Gottlieb

A man’s face is his autobiography.  A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
-Oscar Wilde

Womanhood is a talent that exists between possible and impossible miracles.
-S. Sluckis

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
-Helena Rubinstein

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-Gloria Steinem

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

-George Meredith

A woman can keep one secret – the secret of her age.
-Voltaire

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
-Joseph Conrad

I’d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.
-Gilda Radner

Man has will, but woman has her way
-Wendell Holmes

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think
-Author Unknown

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

-Chinese saying

Funny Quotes About Men

Funny Quotes About Men
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being?
-Oscar Wilde

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
-Elayne Boosler

Men are all alike -- except the one you've met who's different.
-Mae West

Men are easy to get but hard to keep.
-Mae West

Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are.
-Oscar Wilde

It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men.
-Mae West

Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
-William Shakespeare

Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
-Mignon McLaughlin

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
-Mae West

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
-Oscar Wilde

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.
-Bruce Willis

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.
-Jeanne-Marie Roland

Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
-Will Rogers

Man has will, but woman has her way.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

If men can run the world, why can’t they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
-Linda Ellerbee

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men think, I know what I’m doing. Just show me somebody naked.
-Jerry Seinfeld

The more I know about men the more I like dogs.
-Gloria Allred

Men are simple things. They can survive a whole weekend with only three things: beer, boxer shorts and batteries for the remote control.
-Diana Jordan

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.”
-Lana Turner

A married man should forget his mistakes; no use two people remembering the same thing.”
-Duane Dewel

Men are like fish. Neither would get in trouble if they kept their mouths shut.
-Author Unknown

Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything in the house.
-Jean Kerr

A man in the house is worth two in the street.”
-Mae West

When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there’s a reason.”

-Molly McGee

Funny Marriage Quotes

To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong admit it;
Whenever you're right shut up.
-Ogden Nash

For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
-Bill Cosby

 I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
-Patrick Murray

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
-Gloria Steinem

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx

An archaeologist is best husband a woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle

A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing… she goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
-Henry Youngman

My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.
-Joyce Brothers

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye-to-eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer

My wife and I were happy for 20 years… then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
-Rita Rudner

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets.
-Ogden Nash

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.
-Lord Byron

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
-Phyllis Diller

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead… get married.
-Katharine Hepburn

Marriage is not just spiritual communion; it is also remembering to take out the trash.
-Joyce Brothers

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

-George Lichtenberg