Nail Quotes

CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION -
be the hammer, not the nail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Related topics: Bold Choice Courage Adventure Positive Motivational

For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin

If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

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

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60.
They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Ambition has one heel nailed in well,
though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
- Lao Tzu

I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin

Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono

Ambition is like love,
impatient both of delays and rivals.
- The Buddha

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Whether it be true or not, I can say for one
that I have no other so great as that
of being truly esteemed of my fellow men,
by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
- Abraham Lincoln

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
- Thomas Jefferson

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
- Marilyn Monroe

Dependence begets subservience and venality,
suffocates the germ of virtue,
and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
- Thomas Jefferson

Ambition is pitiless.
Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

Life is unlimited.
Your world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
Money that is spent or given away returns multiplied.
The more love that is given, the more love returns.
The more a helping hand is given, the more hands
are strengthened and empowered to help.
We can help each other to all be winners.
We can all have food, and jobs, and love, and happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney

The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir

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

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

If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain

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

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
- Joseph Campbell

To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

Honor, Choose, Celebrate, Dream, Act, Relax
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success... A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill

I Dream with Powerful Intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill

Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono

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

Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

Have a Vision, a Dream.
Believe in that Vision.
Live that Vision with every fiber of your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you can dream it, you can do it.
- Walt Disney

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

Don't dream it, be it.
- the movie Rocky Horror Picture Show

Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein

Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Dream. Begin. Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

I Sing Wild Songs Of Adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward

I Dream with Powerful Vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward

Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader

You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw

The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki

Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die today.
- James Dean

Your life is the manifestation of your dream;
it is an art.
You can change your life anytime if
you aren't enjoying the dream.
- don Miguel Ruiz

I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

What you dream, you can create.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie