Monday, March 4, 2013

80 Motivational Quotes to get you going!




1.“One who asks questions is a fool for 5 minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever.”
Chinese Proverb
2.“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”
Jonathan Swift
3.“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
Will Rogers
4.“To get something you never had, you have to do something you’ve never done.”
Unknown
5.“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed”
Michael Jordan
6.“There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.”
Jonathan Swift
7.”You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take”
Wayne Gretzky
8.“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free. “
Oprah Winfrey
9.“Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There’s a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.”
Harry Browne
10.“It took us so long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
Kurt Vonnegut
11.“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
Albert Einstein
12.“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.”
Beverly Sills
13.“Do what you can with what you’ve got wherever you are.”
Theodore Roosevelt
14.“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.”
Henry Van Dyke
15.“It is not length of Life, but depth of life.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
16.“To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might just be the world.”
Author Unknown
17.“Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.”
Author Unknown
18.“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.”
Tim McGraw
19.“Laughter is the music of life.”
Sir William Osler
20.“In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.”
John Lilly
21.“Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward.”
Author Unknown
22.“Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.”
Cicero, 44 B.C.
23.“In the giving-is the getting.”
David Matoc
24.“The impossible is often the untried.”
Jim Goodwin
25.“Anyone can become angry-that is easy, but to become angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way-that is not easy.”
Aristotle
26.“Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.”
Goethe, 1749-1832
27.“Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.”
Will Rogers
28.“My religion is very simple, my religion is kindness.”
Dalai Lama
29.“The important thing is to not stop questioning.”
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
30.“It’s not your circumstances that shape you, it’s how you react to your circumstances.”
Anne Ortlund
31.“The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.”
Abraham Lincoln
32.“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
Buddha
33.“It takes strength to be gentle and kind.”
Stephen Morrisey
34.“A hero is a person who does what he or she can.”
Roman Rolland
35.“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
36.“Where there is unity there is always victory.”
Publilius Syrus
37.“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
E. Hubbard
38.“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”
Author Unknown
39.“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.”
Michael Caine
40.“It’s not denial. I’m selective about the reality I accept.”
Calvin
41.“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”
Madeleine L’Engle
42.“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”
Mother Teresa
43.“I like nonsense,it wakens up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”
Dr. Seuss
44.“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.”
Herm Albright
45.“Nothing is worth more than this day.”
Goethe
46.“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead
47.“If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average.”
M.H. Alderson
48.“Life is like a ten speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.”
Charles Schultz
49.“There is nothing permanent except change.”
Heraditus
50.“The miracle is this; the more we share, the more we have.”
Leonard Nimoy
51.“Out of clutter, find simplicity; from discord, find harmony; in the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
52.“Hope is like a road in the country. There never was a road; but, when many people walk together, the road comes into existence.”
From the National Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc.
53.“Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
John Wooden
54.“Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
John Updike, 1989, U.S. author & critic
55.“Our greatest glory is not failing, but in rising every time we fail.”
Confucius
56.“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
John Wooden
57.“Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.”
Henry Van Dyke
58.“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.“
Jonathan Swift
59.“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
Jonathan Swift
60.“Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.”
Mitzi Chandler
61.“The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It;s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the wind and rains and the scorching sun.”
Napoleon Hill
62.“It’s not the load that breaks you down; it’s the way you carry it.”
Lena Horne
63.“Keep you face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”
Helen Keller
64.“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step foward your always in the same place.”
Nora Roberts
65.“A good hand and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”
Nelson Mandela
66.“There are two ways of exerting ones strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”
Booker T. Washington
67.“Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”
John Maxwell
68.“A person that values it’s privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
Dwight Eisenhower
69.“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.”
Robert H. Goddard
70.“Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
71.“We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
Sir Winston Churchill
72.“It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret”
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
73.“We all have a few failures under our belt. It’s what makes us ready for the successes.”
Randy K. Milholland
74.“Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count.”
Anonymous
75.“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
The Dalai Lama
76.“A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose – a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.”
John Maxwell
77.“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
Albert Einstein
78.” the faintest ink is better than the best memory”
Unknown
79.“Every dog must have his day.“
Jonathan Swift
80.“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.”
Jonathan Swift


Thursday, February 28, 2013

50 Motivational Quotes that will get you out of bed!





“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”–Norman Vincent Peale
“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”–Steve Jobs
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”–Maria Robinson
“Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity.”–Albert Einstein
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”–Lyndon Johnson
“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.”–Thomas Edison
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”–Wayne Gretzky
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”–Winston Churchill
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.”–George Washington Carver
“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.”–William Arthur Ward
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”– Aristotle
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”–Albert Schweitzer
“Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.”–Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”–Chinese Proverb
“Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.”–William Arthur Ward
“Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.”–Helen Exley
“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.”–Chinese Proverb
“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.”–Michael Jordan
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”–Lance Armstrong
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”–Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I know what I have to do, and I’m going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I’ll come out a winner, and it doesn’t matter what anyone else does.”–Florence Griffith Joyner
“Every time you stay out late; every time you sleep in; every time you miss a workout; every time you don’t give 100% – You make it that much easier for me to beat you.”–Unknown
“If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don’t nurse your bruises. Get up and light-heartedly, courageously, good temperedly get ready for the next encounter. This is the only way to take life – this is also ‘playing’ the game!”–Emily Post
“We must train from the inside out. Using our strengths to attack and nullify any weaknesses. It’s not about denying a weakness may exist but about denying its right to persist.”–Vince McConnell
“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”–Stephen Covey
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”–Norman Vincent Peale
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”–Winston Churchill
“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.”–John Maxwell
“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.”– Thomas J. Watson 
“The great successful men of the world have used their imagination.  They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building.”–Robert Collier 
“It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.”–Arnold Toynbee
“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born — that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.” –Warren G. Bennis
“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”–John Kenneth Galbraith
“Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people’ — that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”–Peter F. Drucker
“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.”–John Buchan
“High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.”–George Orwell

“Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses… on your powers, instead of your problems.”–Paul J. Meyer
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”–Hal Borland
“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”–Calvin Coolidge
“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.”–Thomas Fuller



“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”–Aristotle
“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”–Charles R. Swindoll
“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal — a commitment to excellence — that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”–Mario Andretti
“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”–Pearl Buck
“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”–Vince Lombardi
“The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.”–Benjamin Mays
“By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands — your own.”–Mark Victor Hansen
“Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.”–William J. Bennett – The Book of Virtues
“The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and actualizer… He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.”–Robert L. Schwartz


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