Dorthea Brande Quotes
Quotes by Dorthea Brande

All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande

Related topics: Motivational Positive

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande

Necessary Quotes

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure
but to be determined not to fail.
- Jimmy Carter

Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill

What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil,
but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Margaret Mead

One should respect public opinion insofar
as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison,
but anything that goes beyond this
is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- Bertrand Russell

Perspective is both a necessary
and a sufficient ground for wisdom.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin

Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Travelers, there is no path.
Paths are made by walking.
- Antonio Machado

Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain

No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker

If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill

This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill

When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin

There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett

No more walls.
- Anais Nin

Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland

Have NO EXPECTATIONS.
Life will not meet your expectations.
Choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu

There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell

Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James

About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance

Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter

I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb

No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim

There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell

When an idea reaches critical mass
there is no stopping the shift
its presence will induce.
- Marianne Williamson

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
- The Buddha

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison

There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford

Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson

No one was ever named HERO for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If the problem can be solved,
there is no use worrying about it.
If it can't be solved,
worrying will do no good.
- Tibetan proverb

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Dreams are renewable no matter what our age.
- Dale Turner

There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver

Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
he fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller

No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
- The Buddha

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus

The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung

Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver

No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies;
but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and,
as the magnet finds the iron,
so it will find, in every hour,
some heavenly blessings!
- Henry Ward Beecher

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