Do It Inspirational Page
As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things
you didn't do. -Zachary Scott
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for
what we do not do. -Moliere
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. -Shakespeare
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
-Samuel Johnson
It is clever, of course, to be clever; And good, of course, to be good;
But when you're so frightfully clever; As seldom to be understood;
It's sad, though if anything sadder; Not to be quite as good as you should.
- Lewis Carroll
Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere. -
Seamus Heaney (translator, Beowulf)
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all
the time. -Charles F. Kettering
One of the great discoveries man makes, one of his great surprises, is
to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. Most of the bars we
beat against are in ourselves - we put them there, and we can take them
down. -Henry Ford
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the
fragile blossom that opens in the snow. -Alice M. Swaim
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. -Jonathan Kozol
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success
or fame, the gods have called him. -Robert Louis Stevenson
Today I am more than ever frightened. I wish it would dawn upon engineers
that, in order to be an engineer, it is not enough to be an engineer.
-Jose Ortega y Gasset
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full
of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
-Calvin Coolidge
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