Inspirational Quotes
The following quotes were gathered from our campaign members, enjoy!
With thanks to:
Anna
Audrey
Michelle
Maggie
Melinda
Angel of Music
Rosey
Donna
and
Di
"As far as the film goes, I personally
feel perfectly within my rights, as a human being, to support a work of art I want to see
preserved for future generations. I only wish someone in the past could have preserved the
great composers and actors, plays and ballets for me. After all, when we are finished
making the world technically, mechanically perfect; when everyone gets to live forever,
won't we want something artistically glorious to sit down and enjoy? A hyacinth for the
soul - everyone needs one."
--- Audrey Aucott, March 31, 2000 ---
"This is something I know for a fact: You have to work hardest for
the thing you love most. And when it's music that you love, you're in for the fight of
your life."
--- Nadja Salerno-Sonneberg ---
"It ain't over till it's over."
--- Yogi Berra ---
People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no
individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about."
--- Franklin D. Roosevelt ---
"I never notice what has been done, I only see what remains to be done."
--- Marie Curie ---
"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them,
but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they
lead."
--- Louisa May Alcott ---
"To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be more
fun?"
--- Katherine Graham ---
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat."
--- Queen Victoria ---
"We fought hard. We gave it our best. We did what was right. And we made a
difference."
--- Geraldine Ferraro ---
"If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count."
--- Dexter Yager---
"Those who want to succeed will find a way,
Those who don`t will find an excuse!"
--- Leo Aguila ---
"The difference between the impossible and possible
Lies in a man's determination."
--- Tommy Lasorda ---
"Success consists of getting up just one time more than you've fallen down."
--- Author Unknown ---
"Dreams are only foolish to those who lack them."
--- Peter Reese ---
"The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us
From the support of a cause we believe to be just;
It shall not deter me."
--- Abraham Lincoln ---
"I've tried 99 times and I failed, but on the 100th try, came success."
--- Albert Einstein ---
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
--- Robert F. Kennedy ---
"Don't judge those who try and fail.
Judge only those who fail to try."
--- Anonymous ---
"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference
in this world: Those who are afraid to try themselves, and those who are afraid that you
will succeed."
--- Ray Goforth ---
"The secret of success is to be like a duck,
Smooth and unruffled on top,
But paddling furiously underneath."
--- Bill Cosby ---
"Nobody who never did nothing never made any mistakes."
--- Author Unknown ---
"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, then,
when we summon the will...they soon become inevitable."
--- Christopher Reeve ---
"There are two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle. The
other is as though everything is a miracle."
--- Albert Einstein --
"Our only limitations are those we accept."
--- Mark Fournier ---
"It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you are not."
"What's popular is not always right, and what's right is not always popular."
"May all your hopes and dreams be carried on eagle's wings."
"Ideas don't work unless you do."
"It's the engine that kills you, not the caboose!"
"You may say that you have all the answers, but you never said that they were right!"
"Darkness will not stop darkness, only light can do that. Hate will not stop hate, only love can do that."
"Laugh at yourself before others do!"
Reach for your Dreams!
And remember the lesson is in the "Reaching"!
From Lou Holtz:
"The game is best when you have a team who refuses to lose."
"If we chose to succeed we must overcome adversity."
"Be goal oriented. Write down what you would like to achieve."
"We choose our success and failure."
"It's where you are going, not where you have been."
"When you have a setback, what are you going to do? Are you going to rally and come back or are you going to wallow in self pity?"
"One thing is universal, you're going to have problems."
"Attitude starts with you and me. We set the tempo for everything."
"The most important thing in coaching, managing or life is to get people to believe in themselves."
"The most important thing in life: "All life is, all business is, is helping people get what they want"."
"A crisis makes us stronger if we react positive to it."
"Adversity is another way to measure greatness."
"Things don't just happen. There's a road map to success:
1. Have a goal.
2. Believe it's going to happen.
3. Set a plan.
4. Expect good things to happen."
"If you preach something long enough they're going to believe it."
From Oliver Wendell Holmes:
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us is of little importance when it's compared to what lies within us."
And....
"If trust, commitment and love lies at the base of any relationship or organization, I promise it'll be successful."