Motivational Status in English

„If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.”

„First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.”

„If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.”

„Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”

„When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

„How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

„Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

„When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

„Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

„Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.”

„When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”

„Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress.”