raif’s random rants…

“You miss 100 per cent of the shots you don’t take.” - Wayne Gretzky

“Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” -Will Rogers

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

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” -Theodore Roosevelt

“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Chance favors the prepared mind.” -Louis Pasteur

“No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.” -Warren Buffett

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” - William Jennings Bryan

“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” - George Eliot

“It’s always too early to quit.” -Norman Vincent Peale

“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.” - Leonardo Da Vinci

“The journey is the reward.” -Taoist Saying

“There is nothing to fear but fear itself.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.” -Norwegian Proverb

“Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.” Lat., “Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.” -Horace

“You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.” - R. Joyce Brothers

“The field cannot be well seen from within the field.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.” -Yiddish Proverb

“Dreams have as much influence as actions.” -Stephane Mallarme

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“There is no finish line.” - Nike Corporation Motto

“The greater thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes

“You must do the things you think you cannot do.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

“Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honour of a critic.” -Jean Sibelius

“If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.” -Henry A. Kissinger

“The time is always right to do what is right.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.” -Henry Ford

“We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do.” -Martha Grimes

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” -Henry Ford

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” -Vincent van Gogh

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” - Arthur Schopenhauer

“Genius begins great works, labour alone finishes them.” -Joseph Joubert

“You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.” -Harry Firestone

“Recognition is the greatest motivator.” -Gerard C. Eakedale

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” -Thomas Alva Edison

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” -Albert Einstein

“There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less.” ~ Kurt Hahn

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

“Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summery of life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. -Louis E. Boone