Motivational Quotations

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." 
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.George S. Patton
Storms make oaks take roots. 
Proverb


If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.St. Clement of Alexandra
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.Thornton Wilder
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. 
Arthur C. Clarke


Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. 
Johann Gottfried Von Herder


And all may do what has by man been done. 
Edward Young


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.Aristotle
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. 
Samuel Smiles


Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. 
Voltaire


If the wind will not serve,take to the oars. 
Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe 
Latin Proverb


Men's best successes come after their disappointments. 
 Henry Ward Beecher


You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. 
Author Unknown


The best way out is always through. 
Robert Frost


Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. 
William B. Sprague


Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. 
Samuel Johnson


Fortune favors the brave. 
Publius Terence


When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. 
Richard Hooker


He who hesitates is lost. 
Proverb


If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until some one comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.
John B. Gough


Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. 
Albert Einstein


Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do. 
Orison Swett Marden


Knowing is not enough; we must apply.Willing is not enough; we must do. 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


We are still masters of our fate.We are still captains of our souls. 
Winston Churchill


Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson


For hope is but the dreamof those that wake. 
Matthew Prior


Constant dripping hollows out a stone. 
Lucretius


Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. 
Mary Shelley

30 Seconds Speech by Bryan Dyson

“Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. 
You name them – Work, Family, Health, Friends and Spirit and you’re keeping all of these in the air.

You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls – Family, Health, Friends and Spirit– are made of glass. If you drop one of these; they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for it.

Work efficiently during office hours and leave on time. 
Give the required time to your family, friends and have proper rest. 
Value has a value only if its value is valued.”

 Bryan Dyson – Former CEO of Coca Cola 

Quotations about Driving

Here are some of quotations about driving that I find rather amusing...



It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road.  ~Author Unknown


The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.  ~Dudley Moore


Leave sooner, drive slower, live longer.  ~Author Unknown



Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.  ~H.G. Wells


Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!  ~Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr.


A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.  ~Arnold Toynbee


Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.  ~Albert Einstein


I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.  ~Author Unknown


Hug your kids at home, but belt them in the car.  ~Author Unknown


A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.  ~American Proverb


Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
~Alan M. Eddison


Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.  ~Author Unknown


The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers.  ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"


The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.  ~Edward Abbey


Restore human legs as a means of travel.  Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.  ~Lewis Mumford


I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights.  I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.  ~Steven Wright


You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.  ~Author Unknown


Automobiles are not ferocious.... it is man who is to be feared.  ~Robbins B. Stoeckel


No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.  ~Garrett Hardin, The Ecologist, February 1974


Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Driving a brand new car feels like driving around in an open billfold with the dollars flapping by your ears as they fly out the window.  ~Grey Livingston


A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.  ~Bill Vaughan


Each year it seems to take less time to fly across the ocean and longer to drive to work.  ~Author Unknown


If everything comes your way, you are in the wrong lane.  ~Author Unknown


Anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.  ~Author Unknown


The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit.  ~Jason Love


Making a left turn in L.A. is one of the harder things you're going to learn in life.  ~Lawrence Kasdan and Meg Kasdan, (movie), spoken by the character Mack


I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian.... That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs.  But I know they'll get me someday.  ~Will Rogers


Recklessness is a species of crime and should be so regarded on our streets and highways.  ~Marlen E. Pew


Stupidity is not a handicap.  Park elsewhere!  ~Author unknown, as seen on a shirt


The greater part of my official time is spent on investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn, and each stationary.  ~An English Lord Chief Justice, quoted in 2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers, Writers & Raconteurs by Edward F. Murphy


Life is too short for traffic.  ~Dan Bellack


For every "Drive Safely" sign, shouldn't there be a "Resume Normal Driving" sign?  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.  ~Will Rogers


What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?  ~Samuel Hoffenstein


Take most people, they're crazy about cars.  They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer.  I don't even like old cars.  I mean they don't even interest me.  I'd rather have a goddam horse.  A horse is at least human, for God's sake.  ~J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye


Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.  ~Jason Love


Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety.  ~Australian Traffic Rule, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren


The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.  ~Charles M. Allen


The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.  ~Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964


And I, I took the road less traveled by.  I was using a GPS system.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


It finally happened.  I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions."  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Walking isn't a lost art - one must, by some means, get to the garage.  ~Evan Esar


On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking 40 days to find a place to park.  ~Curtis McDougall


Remember folks, street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.  ~Jim Samuels


I'm not sure... about automobiles.... With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization - that is, in spiritual civilization.  It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls.  I am not sure.  But automobiles have come, and they bring a greater change in our life than most of us suspect.  They are here, and almost all outward things are going to be different because of what they bring.  They are going to alter war, and they are going to alter peace.  I think men's minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles; just how, though, I could hardly guess.  But you can't have the immense outward changes that they will cause without some inward ones, and it may be that... the spiritual alteration will be bad for us.  Perhaps, ten or twenty years from now, if we can see the inward change in men by that time, I shouldn't be able to defend the gasoline engine, but would have to agree... that automobiles 'had no business to be invented.'  ~Eugene, from Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons, 1918


You can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamn contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbrush and cactus.  When traces of blood begin to mark your trail, you'll see something, maybe.  ~Edward Abbey


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