Words to inspire by influential people

THE ONLY WAY TO DISCOVER THE LIMITS OF THE POSSIBLE IS TO GO BEYOND THEM IN THE IMPOSSIBLE.  Arthur C. Clarke #Rafikfarouk

GOOD QUESTIONS OUTRANK EASY ANSWERS. Paul Samuelson #Rafikfarouk

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service John Burroughs #Rafikfarouk

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. Charles Spurgeon #Rafikfarouk

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM OFTEN PRODUCES CONVENTIONAL RESULTS.  Bill Walsh #Rafikfarouk

IF YOU HAVE A DREAM, GIVE IT A CHANCE TO HAPPEN. Richard M. DeVos #Rafikfarouk

As a mentor, your role is to help guide and facilitate how that individual solves a problem or tackles an opportunity.  Diane Brink @Rafikfarouk

THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT YOU ALWAYS KNOW THE RIGHT THING TO DO. THE HARD PART IS DOING IT.  Norman Schwarzkopf #Rafikfarouk

ALL TRUE MEANING RESIDES IN THE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP TO A PHENOMENON, WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU.  Christopher McCandless #Rafikfarouk

A DESIRE PRESUPPOSES THE POSSIBILITY  OF ACTION TO ACHIEVE IT; Action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. Ayn Rand #Rafikfarouk

WHEN BOASTING ENDS, THEIR DIGNITY BEGINS. Owen D. Young #Rafikfarouk

RISK MORE THAN OTHERS THINK IS SAFE.  CARE MORE THAN OTHERS THINK IS PRACTICAL. DREAM MORE THAN OTHERS THINK IS POSSIBLE.   EXPECT MORE THAN OTHERS THINK IS POSSIBLE. Claude Bissell #Rafikfarouk

MISTAKES ARE A FACT OF LIFE.  IT IS THE RESPONSE TO THE ERROR THAT COUNTS .  Nikki Giovanni #Rafikfarouk

ACT AS IF WHAT YOU DO MAKES A DIFFERENCE.  IT DOES. William James #Rafikfarouk

SUCCESS - KEEPING YOUR MIND AWAKE AND YOUR DESIRE ASLEEP.   Walter Scott #RAFIKFAROUK

WE ALL HAVE ABILITY.  THE DIFFERENCE IS HOW WE USE IT.  Charlotte Whitton #Rafikfarouk

BE NOT THE FIRST BY WHOM THE NEW ARE TRIED, NOR YET THE LAST TO LAY THE OLD ASIDE.  Alexander Pope #RafikFarouk

I HOPE IS BUT THE DREAM OF THOSE WHO WAKE. Matthew Prior #Rafikfarouk

A SOMEBODY WAS ONCE A NOBODY WHO WATCHED TO AND DID.  John Burroughs #Rafikfarouk

I HAVE NO METHODS; ALL I DO IS ACCEPT PEOPLE AS THEY ARE.  Joan Rivers #Rafikfarouk

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ​  ​ Jacob Riis #Rafikfarouk

Be humble in your confidence yet courageous in your character. Melanie Koulouris #Rafikfarouk