“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” (Nu te ingrijora de esecuri, ingrijoreaza-te de sansele pe care le pierzi cand nici macar nu incerci.)
Jack Canfield
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” (Provocarile sunt cele care fac viata interesanta si depasirea lor e ceea ce face viata semnificativa.)
Joshua J. Marine
"No great man ever complains of want of opportunities." (Nici un om mare nu se plange din lipsa de oportunitati.)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” (Accepta responsabilitatea pentru viata ta. Cunoaste faptul ca tu esti cel ce te va duce acolo unde vrei sa mergi si nimeni altcineva.)
Les Brown
"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them." (Sensul lucrurilor nu se gaseste in insusi acele lucruri, ci in atitudinea noastra fata de ele.)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." (Abilitatea este ceea ce esti capabil sa faci. Motivatia determina ceea ce faci. Atitudinea determina cat de bine o vei face.)
Raymond Chandler
"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes." (Hraniti-va mintile cu ganduri mari. Sa crezi in eroic creaza eroi.)
Benjamin Disraeli
"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering." (Cel mai autentic lucru al nostru este capacitatea noastra de a crea, de a birui, de a indura, de a transforma, de a iubi si de a fi mai mari decat suferinta noastra.)
Ben Okri
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love." (Ieri ne supuneam regilor si ne plecam gaturile in fata imparatilor. Dar azi ingenunchem doar adevarului, urmam doar frumusetea si ne supunem doar dragostei.)
Khalil Gibran
"Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven." (Lacrimile sunt adesea telescopul prin care oamenii vad departe in paradis.)
Henry Ward Beecher
"What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?" (Ce lucru maret ai incerca daca ai stii ca nu poti esua?)
Robert H. Schuller
"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself." (Fii credincios acelui lucru care exista inlauntrul tau.)
Andre Gide
"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one." (Nu conteaza cate teluri ai reusit sa atingi, tu trebuie sa iti setezi privirea spre altele mai inalte.)
Jessica Savitch
"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health." (Ceea ce este numit geniu este abundenta de viata si sanatate.)
Henry David Thoreau
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." (Secretul in a inainta este de a incepe.)
Mark Twain
"When deeds speak, words are nothing." (Cand faptele vorbesc, cuvintele sunt nimic.)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
"You change your life by changing your heart." (Iti schimbi viata, schimbandu-ti inima.)
Max Lucado
"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed." (Prefer sa incerc sa fac ceva maret si sa esuez decat sa nu fac nimic si sa reusesc.)
Robert H. Schuller
"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." (Fericirea nu este ceva ce amani pentru viitor; e ceva ce tu proiectezi pentru prezent.)
Jim Rohn
"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines." (Problemele nu sunt semne de oprire, ele sunt orientari.)
Robert H. Schuller
"Either you run the day or the day runs you." (Fie tu iti vei conduce ziua ori ziua te va conduce pe tine.)
Jim Rohn
"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." (Daca vrei sa iti invingi frica nu sta acasa si te gandi la ea. Iesi si ocupa-te."
Dale Carnegie
"Well done is better than well said." (Bine facut e mai bun decat bine zis.)
Benjamin Franklin
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." (Ceea ce primesti pentru ca iti atingi telurile nu e la fel de important fata de ceea ce devii prin atingerea telurilor tale.)
Henry David Thoreau
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." (Vrei sa stii cine esti? Nu intreba. Actioneaza! Actiunea te va delimita si defini.)
Thomas Jefferson
"The weapons with which the ill dispositions of the world are to be combated are moderation, gentleness, a little indulgence of others, and a great distrust of ourselves." (Armele cu care dispozitia bolnava a lumii trebuie sa fie combatuta sunt moderatia, blandetea, un pic de indulgenta pentru ceilalti si o mare neincredere in noi insine.)
Edmund Burke
"For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; Ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love." (Daca vrem sa pastram, atunci trebuie sa impartim acea binecuvantare de sus. Daca ne oprim din a darui, ne oprim din a avea; asta e legea dragostei.)
Anonim
Hope is a waking dream. (Speranta este trezirea unui vis.)
Augustine
“The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater.” (Lumea este intr-adevar plina de pericole si in ea exista multe locuri intunecate. Dar, totusi, exista si multe care sunt inca bune. Si, desi, in toate locurile, dragostea este acum amestecata cu durere, ea inca creste, poate, mai mareata.)
J.R.R. Tolkien
"The only disability in life is a bad attitude." (Singura dizabilitate in viata e o atitudine gresita.)
Scott Hamilton
"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes." (Daca nu speri, nu vei gasi niciodata ceea ce e dincolo de sperantele tale.)
Clement din Alexandra
"Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks." (Fara inspiratie cele mai bune puteri ale mintii raman adormite. Exista in noi combustibilul ce trebuie aprins cu scantei.)
Johann Gottfried Von Herder
"Every artist was first an amateur." (Fiecare artist a fost la inceput un amator.)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action." (Experienta e copilul gandului si gandul e copilul actiunii.)
Benjamin Disraeli
"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." (Circumstantele tale prezente nu vor determina unde vei putea merge; ele determina doar de unde incepi.)
Nido Qubein
"A person who will not take care of the little things will not take care of the big things, for big things are but an accumulation of little things." (O persoana care nu are grija de lucrurile mici nu va avea grija nici de lucrurile mari, pentru ca lucrurile mari nu sunt decat o acumulare de lucruri mici.)
Jack Hyles
"Give light and people will find the way." (Daruieste lumina si oamenii vor gasi calea.)
Ella Baker
"The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up." (Cea mai mare zi din viata ta si a mea e atunci cand ne asumam responsabilitatea totala pentru atitudinile noastre. In acea zi crestem cu adevarat.)
John C. Maxwell
"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." (Istoria va trebui sa inregistreze ca cea mai mare tragedie a acestei perioade de tranzitie sociala nu a fost galagia stridenta a oamenilor rai, ci linistea ingrozitoare a oamenilor buni.)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next." (Daca vei citi istoria vei afla ca crestinii care au facut cele mai multe lucruri in prezent sunt cei ce s-au gandit cel mai mult la viata (lumea) viitoare.)
C.S. Lewis
"One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time." (Unul din cele mai mari dezavantaje a grabei e ca iti ia asa de mult timp.)
G.K. Chesterton
"Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today." (Persevereaza. Obstacolele sunt in sens propriu la aceasi dimensiune maine, la fel ca si azi.)
Robert H. Schuller
“Stories never really end ... even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.” (Povestile nu se sfarsesc niciodata ... chiar daca cartile pretind ca acestea o fac. Povestile continua intotdeauna. Ele nu se sfarsesc la ultima pagina, la fel cum nici nu incep la prima.)
Cornelia Funke