43 Never give up quotes

1. It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do”. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke
3. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle
4. Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson
5. Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius
6. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
7. It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
8. The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. - Solomon Ibn Gabriol
9. A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. - Latin Proverb
10. Silence does not always mark wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
11. One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little. - Alexander Chase
12. Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. - Albert Einstein
13. If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else. - Yogi Berra
14. Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. - Seneca
15. The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself. - B. R. Haydon
16. What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. - Thomas Sprat
17. Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. - Henry Ward Beecher
18. Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
19. Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. - Henry David Thoreau
20. If there is no wind, row. - Latin Proverb
21. If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance. - Orville Wright
22. Never say more than is necessary. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
23. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Ghandi
24. There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right. - Martin Luther
25. It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb
26. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein
27. I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward. - Firdtjof Nansen
28. When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us. - Helen Keller
29. The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it. - Johnette Napolitano
30. You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on. - Heraclitus
31. Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. - Leo Tolstoy
32. The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. - Richard Cech
33. Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein
34. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau
35. Men do less than they ought,unless they do all they can. - Thomas Carlyle
36. First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus
37. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin
38. Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. - Thomas Fuller
39. Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. - Italian Proverb
41. As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more. - Jules Renard
42. You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one. - Henry D. Thoreau
43. The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success. - Hamilton Wright Mabie