Life

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.  ~Henry Ford


Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.  ~Les Brown


One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ~Sidney Howard


If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.  ~Lawrence J. Peter


It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.  ~Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1770


The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.  ~Thomas Henry Huxley, An Address to the Students of the Faculty of Medicine in University College, London, May 18, 1870, On the Occasion of the Distribution of Prizes for the Session  (Thanks, Paul)


If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.  ~J.M. Power


Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them.  ~Author Unknown


Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.  ~Author Unknown


The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.  ~Ayn Rand,The Fountainhead


It is never too late to be who you might have been.  ~George Eliot


To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.  ~Eva Young


The impossible is often the untried.  ~Jim Goodwin


It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top.  ~Arnold Bennett


One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.  ~Jack Penn


There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.  ~Beverly Sills


A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.  ~Andre Gide


The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.  ~Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand, letter to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, 7 July 1763


Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.  ~David Lloyd George


Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them.  ~Author Unknown


It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.  ~Harry S. Truman


Map out your future, but do it in pencil.  ~Jon Bon Jovi, quoted in Reader's Digest, "Quotable Quotes," September 2002


Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Drift-Wood


When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.  ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.  ~John Dewey


If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.  ~Author Unknown


When the horse is dead, get off.  ~Author Unknown