Charles Kettering's inspiring quotations

Charles Franklin Kettering was an American inventor who holds more than 300 patents. He headed the research for General Motors

for 27 years. Among his inventions were the electrical starting motor and the Freon refrigerant.

Here are some of Charles Kettering's quotes:

1. "A problem well stated is a problem half-solved."

2. "An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."

3. "High achievement always takes place in the frameworkof high expectation."

4. "It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again."

5. "Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down."

Inspiring Quotes from Lucille Ball

Lucille Désirée Ball, widely known as Lucille Ball was an American actress for film,
television, stage and radio. She had a highly successful television career for more than thirty years and received thirteen nominations and four wins from the Emmy Awards.

Here's are some of her inspiring quotes:

1. "One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."

2. "Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."

3. "I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not."

4. "The more things you do, the more you can do."

5. "I'm not funny. What I am is brave."