The 50 Greatest Thoughts on Life And Achievement

1
Go confidently in the direction of your
dreams.  Live the life you imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

2
Seize the day,
put no trust in the morrow.
Horace

3
Follow your bliss.  Find where it is
and don't be afraid to follow it.
Joseph Campbell

4
No wind serves him who addresses
his voyage to no certain port.
Michel de Montaigne

5
Be brave, and rise superior to 
your sorrows, and maintain a 
spirit that cannot be broken.
Ovid

6
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
Old time is still a flying
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick

7
I beg you take courage; the brave 
soul can mend even disaster.
Catherine of Russia

8
Whatever you can do, or dream 
you can, begin it.  Boldness has 
genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

9
First say what you would be,
then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

10
Blessed is he who 
has found his work.
Thomas Carlyle

11
It matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley

12
All battles are first 
won or lost in the mind.
Joan of Arc

13
Still round the corner there may wait,
a new road or a secret gate.
J.R.R. Tolkien

14
We always attract into our lives 
whatever we think about the most strongly,  
expect on the deepest levels, 
and/or imagine most vividly.
Shakti Gawain

15
Be bold, and mighty forces 
will come to your aid.
Basil King

16
Great things are not something 
accidental but must certainly be willed.
Vincent Van Gogh

17
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream,
so shall you become.  Your vision is the
promise of what you shall at last unveil.
John Ruskin

18
Have the courage of your desire.
George Gissing

19
And life is what we make it,
always has been, always will be.
Grandma Moses

20
Cherish your visions, your ideals, 
the music that stirs in your heart.  
If you remain true to them, 
your world will at last be built.
James Allen

21
The self-image we harbor is the key 
to the success or failure of our most 
cherished plans and aspirations.  
Maxwell Maltz

22
Your habitual thinking and imagery 
mold, fashion, and create your destiny;
for as a man thinketh, so is he.
James Allen

23
Sometimes I go about with pity for 
myself and all the while Great Winds 
are carrying me across the sky.
Ojibway Saying

24
Life is either a daring 
adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

25
It is the character of a brave and 
resolute man not to ruffled by 
adversity and not to desert his post.
Cicero

26
 Never despair, but if you do,
work on in despair.
Edmund Burke

27
It is the constant and determined 
effort that breaks down all resistence, 
and sweeps away all obstacles.
Claude M. Bristol

28
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful
undertaking is the one thing that insures 
the successful outcome of our venture.
William James

29
Nothing will come of nothing,
dare mighty things.
William Shakespeare

30
Whatever the mind of man 
can conceive and believe, 
it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill

31
Undoubtedly, we become 
what we envisage.
Claude M. Bristol

32
Nothing can add more power to
your life than concentrating all your 
energies on a limited set of targets.
Nido Qubein

33
Believe in yourself.  Have faith in your 
abilities!  Without a humble but 
reasonable confidence in your own powers, 
you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale

34
Begin with an intense burning 
desire for something definite.
Napoleon Hill

35
A man without a purpose is 
like a ship without a rudder.
Thomas Carlyle

36
Your thoughts, vividly imagined 
and repeated, charged with emotion, 
become your reality.
Earl Nightingale

37
Our life is what 
our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurilious

38
Life is too short to be little.
Benjamin Disraeli

39
A wildflower on the mountain top would
not change places with a rose in the garden.
Armenian Proverb

40
All men should strive to learn
before they die, what they are 
running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber 

41
Thoughts mixed with definiteness 
of purpose, persistence, and a 
burning desire are powerful things.
Napoleon Hill

42
Live your life while you have it.
Life is a splendid gift--there 
is nothing small about it.
Florence Nightingale

43
Adversity has the effect of eliciting 
talents, which in prosperous circumstances 
would have lain dormant. 
Homer

44
If one advances confidently in the direction 
of his dreams, and endeavors to live the 
life he has imagined, he will meet with a 
success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

45
Ask not what tomorrow may bring, 
but count as blessing every 
day that Fate allows you.
Horace

46
He is wise who does not grieve 
for the things he has not, but 
rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus

47
It is the character of a brave and 
resolute man not to ruffled by 
adversity and not to desert his post.
Cicero

48
Be still my heart, thou hast
known worse than this.
Homer

49
  Let us go singing as far as we go:
the road will be less tedious.
Virgil

50
The woods are lovely dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost