Favourite Quotes

These page is a collection of quotes I come across and love. Feel free to comment on any of them  you like. I will surely respond :)

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work ~Thomas Edison
Adversity causes some men to break, others to break record - William A. Ward
Think of Failure as a stone: can either be a stumbling block or a stepping stone - Samuel Ekundayo LDP
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake ~ Henry David Thoreau 
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes ~James A. Froude 
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up ~Paul Valery
Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall ~Oliver Goldsmith 
One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again ~ Henry Ford
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideas - Samuel Ullman  
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great ~Joe Sabah
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials ~Chinese Proverb
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The happiest people in life don't necessarily have d best of everything. They just try to make d best of everything ~John. C. Maxwell
Failure is the tuition you pay for success ~Walter Brunell
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible ~Vince Lombardi
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have ~Vince Lombardi
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. ~Vince Lombardi
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change ~ Wayne Dyer
God often uses our mess as a message and our tests as testimonies - Unknown
Success is a journey, not a destination ~Ben Sweetland 
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream - C. S. Lewis
Rise to the occasion; don't fall for it - Samuel Ekundayo
In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable" ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
Successful people refer to their failure as “learning experiences” while failures call theirs bad luck - Samuel Ekundayo LDP
Money flows in the direction of our ideas, being rich is a mindset, being poor is also a mindset - Sam Adeyemi
If I had ten hours to cut down a tree, I would spend the first six hours sharpening my axe - Abraham Lincoln
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one, it makes you that much stronger - Dale Carnegie
When the direction of your life is defined by the momentum of the crowd; success stares at you and waves goodbye - Samuel Ekundayo LDP
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win - Mahatma Gandhi
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present - Roger Babson
Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own ~ Robert Collier
Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain - Robert A. Cook
Don’t allow yourself to be side-tracked by people who are not on track - Unknown 
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become -Charles duBos
You don't have to have a job, a car or a wife for your life to have meaning. Just have a head" - Samuel Ekundayo LDP
The fact that you fail does not make you the tail. You are the head - Samuel Ekundayo LDP
If God be for you, only you can be against yourself - Samuel Ekundayo LDP
Our greatest assets aren't theones we've acquired with money but the ones on our inside that money cannot buy - Samuel Ekundayo LDP
For every seed of greatness, there are thorns to fight its growth - Samuel Ekundayo LDP
We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them - William Arthur Ward