Closer to the Goal
I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday”
Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
~Earl Nightingale
Most
of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing
about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make
the goal.
–Jerome Fleishman
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
-Gale Sayers
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.
- Albert Einstein
Alice came to a fork in the road. “Which road do I take?” she asked.
“Where do you want to go?” responded the Cheshire cat.
“I don’t know,” Alice answered.
“Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.”
-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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.
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.