50 motivational quotes: Make your choice!

Choose your favourite quote and discuss it either orally in class or as a composition. Also, look into the author.

1. You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Unknown Author
2. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. William B. Sprague
3. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt
4. Fortune favors the brave. Publius Terence
5. He who hesitates is lost. Proverb
6. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein
7. Constant dripping hollows out a stone. Lucretius
8. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. W.W. Ziege
9. There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley
10. To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. Shakespeare
11. People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar
12. That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. Abraham Lincoln
13. People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. Anne Sullivan
14. Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher
15. What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? Robert Schuller
16. Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. Theodore N. Vail
17. Our greatest battles are that with our own minds. Jameson Frank
18. Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph.Unknown Source
19. For every mountain there is a miracle. Robert H. Schuller
20. The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges. Martin Luther King Jr.
21. Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors. African Proverb
22. We will either find a way, or make one! Hannibal
23. In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.Anonymous
24. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. Muhammad Ali
25. Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. African Proverb
26. If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. Marva Collins
27. We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never make a mistake never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles
28. A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw
29. There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth - not going all the way, and not starting. Buddha
30. If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. Thomas Watson, Sr
31. Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
32. I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. George Burns
33. Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. German Proverb
34.  In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength, but through persistence. Buddha 
35. Who dares wins. Winston Churchill
36. Leap and the net will appear. Julia Cameron
37. If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
38. You see things and say, 'Why?", but I dream things and say, 'Why not? George Bernard Shaw
39. The smoothest way is full of stones. Yiddish Proverb
40. Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. Chinese Proverb
41. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. Les Brown
42. The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. Moliere
43. May you live all the days of your life.Jonathan Swift
44. There are no short cuts to any place worth going. Unknown author. 
45. Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. Vista M. Kelly
46. Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. Grace Hansen
47. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain
48. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. Seneca
50. Pay no attention to what critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic. Jean Sibelius