Timeless Quotes Part-1

ABSENCE

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire. - François de La Rouchefoucauld

ACCIDENT

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident. - Thomas Edison

ACHIEVEMENT

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. - Frank A. Clark

You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don't try. - Beverly Sills

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so. - Margaret Thatcher

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. - John Wooden

ACTION
Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless. - Unknown

Action is the basis of competition, execution, and achievement. - Nicholas Pratt

ADAPTATION
If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile. - Indian proverb

You must shift your sail with the wind. - Italian proverb

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. - Latin proverb

ADVERSITY
Every adversity contains within it the seed of an equivalent or greater good. - Princess of Serendip

When one door of happiness closes another door opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. - Hellen Keller

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater one. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. - William Hazlitt

Never give up. Never, never, never, never give up. - Winston Churchill

He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. - Herman Melville

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. - Bruce Barton

Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them. - Ethiopian proverb