☀ Thought of the Day

201. Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. Theodore NVail

202. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville

203. What would you do if you weren't afraid. Spencer Johnson

204. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. Washington Irving

205. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote

206. Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John RWooden

207. You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. Margaret Thatcher

208. Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

209. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

210. It always seems impossible until it’s done.

211. Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do John Wooden

212. Start where you areUse what you haveDo what you can Arthur Ashe

213. Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilitiesThey vary in their desires to reach their potential John Maxwell

214. The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well John DRockefeller

215. Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.

216. Strive for progress, not perfection.

217. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have Thomas Jefferson

218. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out Robert Collier

219. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better Jim Rohn

220. I don’t regret the things I’ve doneI regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.

221. There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done and those who don’t want to make mistakes John Maxwell

222. The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

223. You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

224. The expert in everything was once a beginner.

225. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going Beverly Sills

226. Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.

227. Some people dream of accomplishing great thingsOthers stay awake and make it happen.

228. There is no substitute for hard work Thomas Edison

229. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

230. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

231. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

232. You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.

233. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

234. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

235. If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

236. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

237. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

238. Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

239. You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.

240. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

241. I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

242. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

243. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

244. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

245. You become what you believe.

246. I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

247. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

248. It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.

249. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

250. The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at.