If you think you are beaten, you are.
by Anonymous

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
- Anonymous

Related topics: Motivational

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb

This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous

Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb

Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous

Never give up.
- Anonymous

To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)

Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous

A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous

Every dog has his day.
- Proverb

The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous

Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- Anonymous

Be who you are and say what you feel
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.
- commonly but falsely attributed to Dr. Seuss,
this misquote consists of the Bernard Baruch quote,
"Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
with additional words added anonymously.

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous

Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous

Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying

If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous

Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous

To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous

The grass is not always greener
on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you
and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Anonymous

Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous

That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb

Follow your own star.
- Anonymous

Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb

It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous

Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb

Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous

Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous

When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous

If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous

Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb

March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous

Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous

No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous

Time flies.
- Anonymous

True love has no limits.
- Anonymous

The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb

Life is a choice.
- Anonymous

A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb

Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous

Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb

Slow but steady wins the race.
- Anonymous

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