Words to inspire by influential people

The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it. Kalpana Chawla #Rafikfarouk

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.  Jimmy Dean #Rafikfarouk

It's not what happens to you,  but how you react to it that matters.  Epictetus #Rafikfarouk

Our character is what we do  when we think no one is looking.  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. #Rafikfarouk

If you have knowledge,  let others light their candles in it.  Margaret Fuller #Rafikfarouk

I learned that trust truly does change everything. Once you create trust--genuine trust- and competence-based trust-- almost everything else falls into place. Stephen M.R. Covey #Rafikfarouk

Success is the sum of small efforts -  repeated day in and day out.  Robert Collier #Rafikfarouk

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.  George Santayana #Rafikfarouk

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.  Thomas a Kempis #Rafikfarouk

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. Helen Keller #Rafikfarouk

A will finds a way.  Orison Swett Marden

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.  T. S. Eliot #Rafikfarouk

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.  Niccolo Machiavelli #Rafikfarouk

Fortune favours the bold.  Virgil #Rafikfarouk

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.  Robert Baden-Powell #Rafikfarouk

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.  Wilfred Grenfell #Rafikfarouk

Develop success from failures.  Discouragement and failure  are two of the surest stepping stones to success.  Dale Carnegie #Rafikfarouk

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.  Daniel J. Boorstin #Rafikfarouk

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.  Tokugawa Ieyasu #Rafikfarouk

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs. Dante Alighieri #Rafikfarouk

When one paints an ideal,  one does not need to limit one's imagination.  Ellen Key #Rafikfarouk