Momsey's Favourite Sayings and Quotes!

“Visionary people are visionary partly because of the very great many things they don't see". Berkeley Rice.

 "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." Ralph Waldo Emerson (American poet)

" A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting its shoes on." Mark Twain.
“Experience is a dim lamp which only lights the one who bears it”.....Louis-Ferdinand Celine.

“Whatever the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” ...Clement Stone..
“Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.” Helen Keller.

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

“Aim at the sun. You may not reach it, but you will fly higher than if you never aimed at all.”...
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” ...

“Out of challenges grow miracles.”

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen of them.” John Steinbeck

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
“Great people are ordinary people with extraordinary amounts of determination.”

“Those who say it cannot be done shouldn't interrupt the people doing it.”
“If you cannot do something well, at least, do something.”

“What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny compared to what lies within us.”...Emerson

"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret to success.” ...Henry Ford (1863-1947) U.S. Industrialist.

“However beautiful the strategy, we should occasionally look at the results.” Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965) British statesman and Prime Minister.

“Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.” Joseph Conrad.
“You fail to learn anything when you claim to be the expert.” Aaron Hotchner, chief of the BAU, 'Criminal Minds'
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” Aristotle.
“What we think, or what we know or what we believe in is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.” John Ruskin (1819-1900)

And finally: "I understand the concept of cooking and cleaning. Just not as it applies to me."