Essay writing:Useful quotations

Robert Collier
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat there is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Ann Landers
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.

Conflicius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Mother Teresa
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

Henry Ford
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Winston Churchill
Never, never, never, never give up.

Albert Einstein
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Crassus
Those who aim at great deeds must suffer greatly.

Thomas Edison
There is no substitute for hard work.

Leo Tolstoi
The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.

Thomas Jefferson
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Robert Collier
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Ray A. Croc
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

You’ll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

Vince Lombardi
Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.

John F. Kentiedy
We choose to go to the moon and other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

Thucydides
The strong do what they will. The weak do what they must.

John Wooden
Talent is God given--Be Humble.
Fame is man given -- Be frankful.
Conceit is self given -- Be Careful.

Theodore Roosevelt
Do what you can, with what you have, with where you are.

Publilius Syrus Maxim
No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Terence
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

Thomas Fuller
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

William Hazlitt
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.

William Penn
No pains, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory, no cross, no crown.

Will Rogers
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.

Vince Lombardi
It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up again.

Winston Churchill
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

James Allen
The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

Samuel Johnson
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Aughey
Lost time is never found again.

Voltaire
No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.

Napoleon
Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Euipides
Leave no stone untamed.

Norman Vincent Peale
Plan your work for today and every day; then work your plan.

Henry Ford
Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

Thomas Edison
I start where the last man left off.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe,
the mind of a man can achieve.

Benjamin Franklin
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Emily Dickinson
Luck is not chance
it’s toll
Fortune’s expensive smile is earned.

Thomas Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Walter Begehot
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Abraham Lincoln
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Henry Ford
Whether you think you can or think you can’t -- you are night.

English Proverb

Where there’s a will there’s a way.
There is no failure excepting no longer trying.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.