Mark Twain
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started”
“A different language is a different vision of life.”
Federico Fellini
Winston Churchill
“Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.”
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Dale Carnegie
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.”
Frank Smith
Thomas Edison
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.”
Rita Mae Brown
Confucius
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
“You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.”
Geoffrey Willans
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.”
Nelson Mandela
Babe Ruth
“You just can’t beat the person who won’t give up.”
“To have another language is to possess a second soul.”
Charlemagne
Elbert Hubbard
“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
“Change your language and you change your thoughts.”
Karl Albrecht
Nelson Mandela
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.”
Flora Lewis
Vince Lombardi
“Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”
“Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.”
Roger Bacon
James A. Michener
“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Chuck Yeager
“You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.”
“Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club – the community of speakers of that language.”
Frank Smith
Conrad Hilton
“Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.”
Chinese Proverb
Debbie Reynolds
“You just never give up. You do a task to the best of your abilities and beyond.”
“One should not aim at being possible to understand but at being impossible to misunderstand.”
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Roy T. Bennett
“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”
Albert Einstein
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
Henry Ford
“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
