Афоризмы и высказывания известных людей на английском языке

🖋 It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how good you look.
David Roth

🖋 I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.
George Burns

🖋 The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno

🖋 You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore

🖋 The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.
Luella Phelan

🖋 Nothing recedes like success.
Walter Winchell

🖋 Every new day is as important as yesterday.
Elizabeth Taylor

🖋 Assurance is two-thirds success.
Proverb

🖋 Success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone.
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🖋 The best is yet to come. I am going to live to be one hundred... and I am going to go on learning.
Shirley MacLaine

🖋 Success is more attitude then aptitude.
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🖋 For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
Margaret Atwood

🖋 Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
Vin Scully

🖋 The sin is not falling down, but staying down.
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🖋 If you live long enough and fight hard enough, a sense of comforting continuity comes.
Myrna Loy

🖋 This is worse than a crime, it’s a blunder.
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🖋 One’s determination will lead to others success.
Haran Alal

🖋 The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

🖋 Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
Charles Finley

🖋 I would rather sing one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
Cecilia Bartoli

🖋 Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
Alonzo Newton Benn

🖋 How do you measure success? To laugh often, and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a redeemed social condition, or a job well done; to know even one other life has breathed because you lived this is to have succeeded.
Ralph Emerson

🖋 Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield

🖋 Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
Frank Wright

🖋 It takes a long time to grow young.
Pablo Picasso

🖋 In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
Kirk Douglas

🖋 You've got to look in the mirror and go, "This is reality, and it's all right."
Linda Ronstand

🖋 It is not enough that I succeed. Others must fail.
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🖋 You cannot be strong in the big, important things if you are weak in the little things.
Ralph Marston

🖋 I like adulthood to the extent that I'm more free to be a child.
Mike Myers

🖋 You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
Beverly Sills

🖋 Do not look where you fell but where you slipped.
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🖋 Victory goes to the player who makes the second-to-last mistake.
Savielly Tartakower

🖋 What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.
Lewis Dunnington

🖋 Failure is not an option.
Apollo 13

🖋 Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert Kennedy

🖋 One must never for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

🖋 We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson

🖋 Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.
Terry McMillan

🖋 When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.
George Washington

🖋 I'm still buying green bananas! I guess that makes me an optimist. Don't worry about me...
Sarah Delany

🖋 Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.
Henry Ford

🖋 If you are going to do something, do it right or do not do it at all.
Adam Southard

🖋 The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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🖋 people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren

🖋 The less routine the more life.
Amos Alcott

🖋 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings

🖋 If at first you don’t succeed, try doing it the way you were told.
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🖋 I am at one with the little invisible beings in the air -- they who had begun as blue Flax flowers. The song is more joyous in youth, fuller and stronger in middle age; it quavers a little as the years go on and on: but the song itself is never ended.
Kate Douglas

🖋 If A equals success, then the formula is A=X+Y+Z, where X is “work,” Y is “play,” and Z is “keep your mouth shut.”
Albert Einstein

🖋 Pleas'd to look forward, pleas'd to look behind, and count each birthday with a grateful mind.
Alexander Pope

🖋 All of us, until age four or five, see ourselves as the center of the universe. Some of us outgrow it. Some of us don't.
Tony Curtis

🖋 Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky

🖋 Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.
Hans Christian Andersen

🖋 I haven’t failed; I’ve found ten thousand ways that don’t work.
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🖋 Fortune favors the bold.
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🖋 Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Richter

🖋 Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.
Richard Sapir

🖋 Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think.
Lauren Bacall

🖋 One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.
Frances Burnett

🖋 The secret of a happy life is to accept change gracefully.
Jimmy Stewart

🖋 The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi

🖋 The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way, they remember you.
Josef Sternberg

🖋 Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
John Wooden

🖋 Good is not good enough when better is expected.
Lou Lamoriello

🖋 If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
Jan McKeithen

🖋 May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift

🖋 I have not failed. I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.
Thomas Edison

🖋 Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much or suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

🖋 Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.
Lucy Montgomery

🖋 Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
Henry James

🖋 May you live as long as want and not want as long as you live.
Tom Hanks

🖋 We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
Mary McCarthy

🖋 The first rule of holes: when you’re in one, stop digging.
Molly Ivins

🖋 Let us live while we live.
Philip Doddridge

🖋 There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Eric Hoffer

🖋 The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball

🖋 There’s always room at the top.
Daniel Webster

🖋 Life at the top is frequently a lonely business.
Ronald Reagan

🖋 Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.
William Purkey

🖋 Second place is the first loser.
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🖋 Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

🖋 Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye

🖋 Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead -- that's where your future lies.
Ann Landers

🖋 Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it.
Salvador Dali

🖋 As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child.
Bill Cosby

🖋 Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

🖋 Success is never final, and failure never fatal.
Don Shula

🖋 Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka

🖋 Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.
Carter

🖋 As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is always an orphan.
Galeazzo Ciano

🖋 It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt

🖋 He who never fell never climbed.
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🖋 Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Bell

🖋 To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Colette

🖋 Success in life comes not from having the right cards, but from playing bad ones properly.
Joshua Dool

🖋 I have faith in my star, that is that I am intended to do something in the world.
Winston Churchill

🖋 If you fall walking, get up, for all must fall to gain strength.
Brian Angelo

🖋 Don't just count your years, make your years count.
Ernest Meyers

🖋 Success is not the destination, it’s the journey.
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🖋 When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain

🖋 The key to success is sincerity, and if you can fake that you can do anything.
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🖋 Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful...
Cathy Better

🖋 Experience is the name that everyone gives to his mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

🖋 Every day is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.
Isaac Watts

🖋 After her grandson Len Barker pitched a perfect game in 1981: Tell Len I’ve very proud of him. I hope he does better next time.
Tokie Lockhart

🖋 It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.
Evangeline Cory Booth

🖋 You’ll always miss one hundred percent of the shots you do not take.
Wayne Gretzky

🖋 Paradise is not a goal at the end of the road, but the road itself... More important than the road itself are the people we meet along the way. That is the real key to life.
Dolly Parton

🖋 If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.
George Brett

🖋 Youth is a gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Garson Kanin

🖋 Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Lou Brock

🖋 A successful man is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
David Brinkley

🖋 The golden age is before us, not behind us.
St. Simon

🖋 Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."
Maya Angelou

🖋 To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
Steve Prefontaine

🖋 Every age can be enchanting...
Brigitte Bardot

🖋 When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was... I've been getting younger ever since.
Shirley Black

🖋 There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi

🖋 Thoughtfulness affects success more than age and hard work.
Poye Poye

🖋 The way up and the way down are one and the same.
Thomas Eliot

🖋 Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce

🖋 I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Woodrow Wilson

🖋 Oh! Life is so full and rich.
Pearl Bailey

🖋 Risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking.
Timothy McMahon

🖋 Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.
Paul Meyer

🖋 greatly to my honour.
Charles Dickens

🖋 Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.
William Ward

🖋 The hardest part about moving on is never looking back.
Dawson Leary

🖋 Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Henry Kissinger

🖋 Try not. Do, or do not. There is no “try.”
Star Wars

🖋 Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded, because it is so easy not to battle at all, to just accept and call that acceptance inevitable.
Audre Lorde

🖋 We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling

🖋 I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is, “Try to please everybody.”
Herbert Swope

🖋 He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte

🖋 I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour — his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear — is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious.
Vince Lombardi

🖋 Man errs as long as he strives.
Goethe

🖋 If you continue to work and absorb the beauty in the world, you find that age does not necessarily mean getting old.
Pablo Casals

🖋 The strong fall down but the weak stay down.
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🖋 All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are moveable, and those that move.
Arabic Proverb

🖋 Don’t think about failure. Think about the chances you miss when you dont even try.
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🖋 Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.
Lucy Larcom

🖋 I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Benjamin Franklin

🖋 When you are falling from a mountain, you may as well attempt to fly.
“Babylon 5”

🖋 Try to find something that needs to be done that only you can do.
Margaret Mead

🖋 A life without mistakes is a mistake within itself.
Dustin Patte

🖋 Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.
Henry Dyke

🖋 Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.
Malcolm Forbes

🖋 If you work at the parts the whole will be a success.
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🖋 You know what I think about success? It sucks too much cess.
Eminem

🖋 Then came the time, when, inseparable from one's own birthday, was a certain sense of merit, a consciousness of well-earned distinction, when I regarded my birthday as a graceful achievement of my own, a monument of my perseverance, independence, and good sense, redounding

🖋 Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments.
Rose Kennedy

🖋 There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of

🖋 Winning isn’t everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.
Bear Bryant

🖋 Life itself is the proper binge.
Julia Child

🖋 Reach for the moon; even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
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