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Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.
Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back
Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn the trade.
Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
Jack Penn
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills
If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
Ringo Starr
Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hell! There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish somep'n.
Thomas Alva Edison
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Andre Gide
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
J.M. Power
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
C.D. Jackson
Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them.
Author Unknown
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Author Unknown
God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.
Author Unknown
Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
Adolph Monod
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Life is full of obstacle illusions.
Grant Frazier
It is never too late to be who you might have been.
George Eliot
Success is 10% inspiration, 90% last-minute changes.
From a billboard advertisement
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
Woody Allen
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
Eva Young
The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.
Author Unknown
How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
Anthony Robbins
Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.
Kevin Smith
The impossible is often the untried.
Jim Goodwin
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
Vance Havner
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top.
Arnold Bennett
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
Henry Ford
Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.
Author Unknown
We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.
Robert Brault
