Achieve Your Full Potential: 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life (19 page)

Abraham Lincoln

"It is not enough to begin; continuance is necessary. Mere enrollment will not make one a scholar; the pupil must continue in the school through the long course, until he masters every branch. Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance."

Miller

"Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded."

Sandra Day O'Connor

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."

Plutarch

"If you are truly flexible and go until . . . there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime." Anthony Robbins

"Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through."
Jim Rohn

"At first we hope too much, later on, not enough."

Joseph Roux

"
Tis
known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, - and of obstinacy in a bad one."

Laurence Sterne

"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit."

Mark Twain

"Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen. It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying. We must never give up, regardless of temptations, frustrations, disappointments, or discouragements."

Joseph P. Wirthlin

"I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work."

Lee Iacocca

"You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems."

Mark Victor Hansen

"Defeat is simply a signal to press onward."

Helen Keller

"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter."

Henry Fielding

"A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough."

Ronald Reagan

"Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped."

James Corbett

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little."

Plutarch

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

John Quincy
Adams

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."

John D. Rockefeller

45 Inspiring Quotes

"Ill-health of body or of
mind,
is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!"

Thomas Carlyle

"He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not."

Italian Proverb

"To get rich never your risk your health.
For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth."

Richard Baker

"The ingredients of health and long
life,
are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care."

Sir Philip Sidney

"To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life."

William
Londen

"A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs."
Joan Welsh

"The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best."

Thomas Jefferson

"The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body."

Harry J. Johnson

"I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself - I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself."
Larry King (After his 1987 heart attack)

"A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools."
Spanish Proverb

"Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, disease seeks men."
Chinese Proverb

"
He
who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."
Arabian Proverb

"The superior doctor prevents sickness
;
The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness;
The inferior doctor treats actual sickness."
Chinese Proverb

"A healthy family is sacred territory."
Anonymous

"Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die."
Anonymous

"If you like the post office, you are going to LOVE national health care."
Anonymous

"We squander health
In search of wealth;
We scheme and toil, and save,
Then squander wealth
In search of health;
And all we
get’s
the grave;
We live and boast of what we own;
We die . . . and only get a stone."
Anonymous

"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."
Henry Ward Beecher

"Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king."
Isaac Bickerstaff

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."
Siddartha
Guatama
Buddha

"Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies."
Pien
Ch'iao

"It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do."

Clergy Caleb Cotton

"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."
Benjamin Disraeli

"Where does one go from a world of insanity?
Somewhere on the other side of despair."

T. S. Elliot

"Get Health.
No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Prevention is better than cure."
Desiderius
Erasmus

"He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines."
Benjamin Franklin

"He who cures a disease may be the
skillfullest
, but he that prevents it is the safest physician."
Thomas Fuller

"Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth."
Oliver Goldsmith

"Barn-yard medicine has not given us any vaccination procedure that really protects against illness, but many that endanger the body, that even bring death."
Dr. med
Guttman

"A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within
itself
, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part."
Nathaniel Hawthorne

"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."
Hippocrates

"As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid."
John de La
Bruyre

"Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene, nine-tenths of it!?"
Henry Miller

"Variability is the law of
life,
and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease."
William
Osler

"Attention to health is life greatest hindrance."
Plato

"Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable."
Carl Ransom
Rogers

"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."
Jim
Rohn

"Happiness?
That's nothing more than good health and a poor memory."
Dr. Albert Schweitzer

"By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too."
William Shakespeare

"Some remedies are worse than the disease."
Publilius
Syrus

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd
druther
not."
Mark Twain

"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane."
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

"People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter."
James J. Walsh

175 Inspirational Quotes

"One's best success comes after their greatest disappointments."
Henry Ward Beecher

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.
Zig Ziglar

"Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest."

Mark Twain

"Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what a reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character."

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe something inside them was superior to circumstances."
Bruce Barton

"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character." Henry Clay

"Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him."

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."

Abraham Lincoln

"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at."

Goethe

"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."

Anne Frank

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."

Helen Keller

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"That which does not kill me, makes me stronger."

A SEAL Team Saying

“When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.”
Zig Ziglar

"Kindness in words creates confidence Kindness in thinking creates profoundness Kindness in giving creates love."

Lao-Tzu

“If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.”
Zig Ziglar