Life

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Quotes

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and

actions show that he knows where he is going

Napoleon Hill

 

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself

James Allen

 

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss

it, but that it is too low and we reach it

Michelangelo

 

Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose

John Kehoe

 

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things,

but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave

their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Jim Rohn

 

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the

ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Anthony Robbins

 

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

Mark Twain

 

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not

me? Why not now?

James Allen

 

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way.

Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past

Brian Tracy

 

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for

something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how

really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with

your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured.

Earl Nightingale

 

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though

chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither

enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that

knows neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

 

 

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

 

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you

didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away

from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.

Discover.

Mark Twain

 

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them

into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

 

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

Theodore Roosevelt

 

Fortune favours the brave.

Publius Terence

 

 

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?

Robert Browning

 

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -

that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

 

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a

keen pulsating desire, which transcends everything.

Napoleon Hill

 

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they

can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of

success.

Norman Vincent Peale

 

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

 

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is

rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our

beliefs about who we are.

Anthony Robbins

 

Every human has four endowments- self-awareness, conscience,

independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate

human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Stephen Covey

 

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is

the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into

accomplishment and wealth.

Napoleon Hill

 

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Euripides

 

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your

work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming

impossibilities.

Dale Carnegie

 

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Alexander Woollcott

 

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what

their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day

toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

 

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is

prepared to die at any time.

Mark Twain

 

There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet

understood.

Deepak Chopra

 

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

 

There are those who dream and wish and there are those who dream and

work.

Jeune.E. McIntyre.

 

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

William Feather

 

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to

be alive -- the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Don Miguel Ruiz

 

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always

your choice.

Wayne Dyer

 

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our

existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to

an infinity of choices.

Deepak Chopra

 

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be

anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold

to that desire with singleness of purpose.

Abraham Lincoln

 

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I

warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Abraham H. Maslow

 

 

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it

depends solely upon what you think.

Dale Carnegie

 

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does

anything.

Theodore Roosevelt

 

Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept

oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game

in the world -- making the most of one's best.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

 

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original

dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

 

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to

be.

Socrates

 

The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Charles Schwab

 

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and

leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really

important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your

answer.

Lee Jampolsky

 

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something

else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.

Unknown

 

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

Bruce Lee

 

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of

life.

Federico Fellini

 

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die

today.

Og Mandino

 

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can

achieve.

Napoleon Hill

 

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.

No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what

you can do today.

Earl of Chesterfield

 

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some

blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit

to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about

your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not

with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to

do.

Pope John XXIII

 

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day

when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do

and you've done it.

Margaret Thatcher

 

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

 

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've

made in the past.

Deepak Chopra

 

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul,

the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Napoleon Hill

 

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money

become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring

success to what they do.

Wayne Dyer

 

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more

intelligently.

Henry Ford

 

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is

the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what

you shall at last unveil.

James Allen

 

You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue.

Mike Murdock

 

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself

is mightier still.

Lao-Tzu

 

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually

laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new

level of living I now enjoy.

Anthony Robbins

 

If you don't risk anything, then you risk even more.

Erica Jong

 

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into

action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

Zig Ziglar

 

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.

Buddha

 

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past,

not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live in the

present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

 

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a

miracle. The other is as if everything is.

Albert Einstein

 

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've

imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

 

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can

go.

T. S. Elliot

 

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

Buddha

 

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do

not dare that they are difficult.

Seneca

 

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do

what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, "I wish someone

would come by and turn me on." What if they don't show up? You've got to

have a better plan for your life.

Jim Rohn

 

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are

not.

Andre Gide

 

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had

the confidence you desire to have.

Brian Tracy

 

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you

really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing that you think

you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more

than is required of him, he is a free man.

Chinese Proverb

 

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important

thing is to not stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

 

The better part of happiness is to wish to be what you are.

Desiderius Erasmus

 

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to

do, and then do it.

Henry Ford

 

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important

than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

 

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.

Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

 

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in

with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that

you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

 

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his

life by altering his attitudes of mind.

William James

 

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts;

for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in

ignorance.

William Wirt

 

What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do

now.

Buddha

 

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our

thoughts, we make the world.

Buddha

 

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he

becomes by it.

John Ruskin

 

A day will never be anymore than what you make of it.

Josh S. Hinds

 

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho

 

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It

will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are

only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Bruce Lee

 

There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know…

Roger H. Lincoln

 

You were born with potential.

You were born with goodness and trust.

You were born with ideals and dreams.

You were born with greatness.

You were born with wings.

You are not meant for crawling, so don't.

You have wings.

Learn to use them and fly.

Rumi

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