Positive Quotes to Live By

The fact is that in order to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Sydney Smith

There are three kinds of people in the world, the wills, the won'ts and the can'ts. The first accomplish everything; the second oppose everything; the third fail in everything.
Eclectic Magazine

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one the second time.
H. W. Shaw

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Either attempt it not, or succeed.
Ovid

Live each day as if your life had just begun.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.
Francoise de Maintenon

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself.
English Proverb

Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
Sophocles

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
Thomas Browne

Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle

Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with.
Robert Leighton

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli

It is not enough to aim, you must hit.
Italian Proverb

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley