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1001 Quotes
19 Life moves forward in one direction only, and each day we are faced with
an actual set of circumstances, not with what might have been, not with
what we might have done, but with what is, and with where we are now, and
from this point we must proceed; not from where we were, not from where
we wish we were, but from where we are. Richard L. Evans
20 Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. John Keywood
21 Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napolean Bonaparte
22 I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final
word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil
triumphant. Martin Luther King, Jr.
23 Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the
children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the
long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or
nothing. Helen Keller
24 You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within
himself. Galileo Galilei
25 Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Origin Unknown
26 In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life it goes
on. Robert Frost
27 Be here now. Ram Dass
28 The key to success is to create a vision of who you want to be, and then
picture it as if it has already happened. Arnold Schwarzenegger
29 The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful
servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has
forgotten the gift. Albert Einstein
30 The only difference between a thought and physical reality is time,
passion, and physical activity. Peter McWilliams
31 Arrange whatever pieces come your way. Virginia Woolf
32 Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying. Christian
Furchtegott Gellert
33 Most people would rather be certain theyre miserable, than risk being
happy. Dr. Robert Anthony
34 We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly
embracing each other. Luciano Decrescenzo
35 Yes, even as you read this the universe is plotting to make you utterly
happy, healthy and successful, and there isnt a thing you can do about it.
Steve Bhaerman
36 Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. George
Bernard Shaw
37 It is not length of life, but depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson
73 To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and
thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble
through as well as I can. Og Mandino
74 Once you say youre going to settle for second, thats what happens to
you in life. John F. Kennedy
75 We are new every day. Irene Claremont de Castillego
76 The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao Tzu
77 I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you
think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
78 Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford
79 There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will
be the beginning. Louis LAmour
80 Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you
feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money
will come. Greer Garson
81 Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most
difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. Walter Anderson
82 I look back on my life like a good days work; it is done and I am satisfied
with it. Grandma Moses
83 We need only provide the spark to light the Universes fire; to hoist up
our sails so that they can be filled with its magical winds. Mike Dooley
84 The cure for a life of emptiness is a life of gratitude. Raymond Aaron
85 Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. Tony
Robbins
86 Too many people spend money they havent earned, to buy things they
dont want, to impress people they dont like. Will Rogers
87 Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements. Werner Erhard
88 The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds
left undone. Harriet Beecher Stowe
89 Whenever you find yourself anxious or upset about a business or
personal situation, it will be remarkably helpful to think about a reality of life
that seems to escape people who are under stress: Things change! Robert
Ringer
90 The easiest way to become something special is also the fastest. Just
start doing it. Dont wait for the right time. Dont worry about not being
qualified. And dont worry about getting paid for it. Just start doing it.
Michael Masterson
91 How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before
starting to improve the world. Anne Frank
92 Take the first step in faith. You dont have to see the whole staircase. Just
take the first step. Martin Luther King, Jr.
93 Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all
your activities around it. Brian Tracy
94 If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts,
liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. Andrew Carnegie
95 There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. Roger Staubach
96 The true measure of success is revealed only by looking at the obstacles
that an individual had to overcome to achieve their goals. Bill Phillips
97 If you take something that is spinning and give it a point, it becomes a
drill. Cat Shrier
98 The secret of life isnt what happens to you, but what you do with what
happens to you. Norman Vincent Peale
99 One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only
strength, which can overcome adversity. Albert Schweitzer
100 Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or
anything outside ourselves will affect us. Stephen R. Covey
101 Its not what happens to you; its what you do about it that makes the
difference. W. Mitchell
102 You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose
site of the shore. Origin Unknown
103 I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to
accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. Helen Keller
89 Whenever you find yourself anxious or upset about a business or
personal situation, it will be remarkably helpful to think about a reality of life
that seems to escape people who are under stress: Things change! Robert
Ringer
90 The easiest way to become something special is also the fastest. Just
start doing it. Dont wait for the right time. Dont worry about not being
qualified. And dont worry about getting paid for it. Just start doing it.
Michael Masterson
91 How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before
starting to improve the world. Anne Frank
92 Take the first step in faith. You dont have to see the whole staircase. Just
take the first step. Martin Luther King, Jr.
93 Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all
your activities around it. Brian Tracy
94 If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts,
liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. Andrew Carnegie
95 There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. Roger Staubach
129 Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on
what we have, but on what we are. Henry Van Dyke
130 Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous,
judgement difficult. Hypocrites
131 Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish,
but a keen pulsating desire, which transcends everything. Napoleon Hill
132 Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection
will come even more effective action. Peter Drucker
133 Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Epictetus
134 To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is
the only end of life. Robert Louis Stevenson
135 Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every
dream precedes a goal. Pamela Vaull Starr
136 Its much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going. Marshall
Thurber
137 Sow a thought, reap an act. Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap
a character. Sow a character, reap an eternal destiny. David O. McKay
138 There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from
right living. David Starr Jordan
139 The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with
the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. Colin Wilson
140 Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess
piece. Ralph Charell
141 What we have done for ourselves dies with us; what we have done for
others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pike
142 When someone does something good, applaud! Youll make two people
happy. Samuel Goldwyn
143 Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life
of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being
shared. Buddha
144 Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too
late the one that is open. Alexander Graham Bell
145 Catch a passion for helping others and a richer life will come back to
you. William H. Danforth
146 Light tomorrow with today. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
147 I will not should myself today. Origin Unknown
148 When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work
toward a definite objective or purpose, they place themselves in a position,
through the alliance, to absorb power directly from the great storehouse of
Infinite Intelligence. Napoleon Hill
149 Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. Don Marquis
150 Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman,
grasping all, loses everything. James Allen
151 The value of humour is almost a no brainer when you think about it. It
can help you get out of a tough spot... Reduce tension... And put you in a
more relaxed frame of mind. Simply put, when you learn to lighten up, the
achievement of almost any goal will go more smoothly. Robert L. Cox
152 Its never too late to be who you might have been. George Eliot
153 If everythings under control, youre going too slow. Mario Andretti
154 As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down
there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise
might. Marian Anderson
155 No man ever became great or good except through many and great
mistakes. William E. Gladstone
156 Imagination is everything. It is the preview of lifes coming attractions.
Albert Einstein
157 I do not know what the future holds, but I do know who holds the future.
Origin Unknown
158 I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in
what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendel Holmes, Sr.
159 Success isnt permanent and failure isnt fatal. Origin Unknown
160 If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money
can`t buy. Origin Unknown
161 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
162 Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes
it permanent. Marilyn Vos Savant
163 How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. Annie
Dillard
164 Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Abraham Lincoln
165 Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have
got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as
possible before handing it on to future generations. George Bernard Shaw
166 Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing
himself. Leo Tolstoy
167 Do what you love and the money will follow. Marsha Sinetar
168 The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them
into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke
169 The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a
persons determination. Tommy Lasorda
170 Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
171 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. Calvin Coolidge
172 He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Origin Unknown
173 Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln
174 Do or do not, there is no try. Yoda
175 Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn
something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others. ... No ones
education is ever complete. Sir John Templeton
176 Masters see their creations before they are created. Dr. Dennis R.
Deaton
177 The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human
beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer
aspects of their lives. William James
178 Inspiration leads to motivation; it is your spirits desire to grow and
evolve. Robert Gregoire
179 Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in
dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Carlos Castaneda
180 An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and
accomplishes without doing. Lao Tzu
181 The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman
182 When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and
copy it. Anatole France
183 Lifes a voyage thats homeward bound. Herman Melville
184 So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much
retrospect, that the path of each mans genius contracts itself to a very few
hours. Ralph Waldo Emerson
185 One doesnt discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the
shore for a very long time. Andre Gide
186 A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
187 You dont get to choose how youre going to die, or when. You can only
decide how youre going to live. Now! Joan Baez
188 Ive never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being
broke is a temporary condition. Mike Todd
189 Weve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think its
more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your
mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors. Norman Vincent Peale
190 Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. William Hazlitt
191 To be free, to be happy and fruitful, can only be attained through
sacrifice of many common but overestimated things. Robert Henri
192 Genius is only a superior power of seeing. John Ruskin
193 Named must your fear be before banish it you can. Yoda from Star Wars
194 May we never let the things we cant have, or dont have, or shouldnt
have, spoil the enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. Richard L.
Evans
195 The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking
what one has to do. Origin Unknown
196 Courage is grace under pressure. Ernest Hemingway
197 Make your recovery the first priority in your life. Robin Norwood
198 Perseverance is not a long race, it is many short races one after
another. Walter Elliot
199 Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Helen Keller
200 Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your
enemies. Nelson Mandella
201 There is only one journey: going inside yourself. Rainer Maria Rilke
202 Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only
he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road. Dag
Hammarskjold
203 Action is the foundational key to all success. Pablo Picasso
204 You must begin to understand, therefore, that the present state of your
bank account, your sales, your health, your social life, your position at work,
etc., is nothing more than the physical manifestation of your previous
thinking. If you sincerely wish to change or improve your results in the
physical world, you must change your thoughts, and you must change them
IMMEDIATELY. Bob Proctor
205 Be thankful for what you have; youll end up having more. If you
concentrate on what you dont have, you will never, ever have enough.
Oprah Winfrey
206 Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and
get busy. Dale Carnegie
207 To keep the body in good health is a duty... Otherwise we shall not be
able to keep our mind strong and clear. Buddha
208 Everyone can have a balanced life. You just need to want it... And act to
achieve it. MaryEllen Tribby
209 Youve got to ask. Asking is, in my opinion, the worlds most powerful
and neglected secret to success and happiness. Percy Ross
210 We come this way once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that
we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full,
complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams. Bob
Proctor
211 To fly as fast as thought, to be anywhere there is, you must first begin
by knowing that you have already arrived. Richard Bach
212 You cant be poor enough to help the poor. Eva Gregory
213 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. The thing is to get the work done. Dale Carnegie
214 Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Auguste
Rodin
215 Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Origin Unknown
216 Hide not your talents. They for use were made. Whats a sundial in the
shade? Benjamin Franklin
217 Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. Its not a
day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when youve had everything
to do, and youve done it. Margaret Thatcher
218 The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. John F. Kennedy
219 I plant, nurture and bring light to trees that I dont expect to stand
under. Jill Fischer
220 There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and
after that to enjoy it. Logan Pearsall Smith
221 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
222 Your attitude determines your altitude. Zig Ziglar
223 Experience is what you get when you dont get what you want. Dan
Stanford
224 Our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius
225 Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with
what happens to him. Aldous Huxley
226 Faced with the choice between changing ones mind and proving that
there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. John
Kenneth Galbraith
227 Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created
them. Albert Einstein
228 Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. Publilius Syrus
229 Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time
we do. Confucius
230 When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Origin Unknown
231 The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. Ralph Waldo
Emerson
232 There is good and bad surrounding me in this world, I choose to
embrace the good. Rod Berting
233 Dream as if youll live forever. Live as if youll die today. James Dean
234 If at first you dont succeed, try, try again. W.C. Fields
235 This above all, to thine own self be true. William Shakespeare
236 Hope springs eternal. Alexander Pope
237 You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because
thorns have roses. Ziggy
238 Even if youre on the right track, youll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
239 It has been said that [the] picturing power of the mind is the greatest
gift that God has ever given to man. It has the ability to construct images of
success before the actual experiences are born. It can paint pictures that
will fire our wills and exalt our spirits. This ability to travel ahead of our own
success can draw us on with the greatest pleasure towards the most
worthwhile objectives. Sterling w. Sill
240 Vision is the fundamental force that drives everything else in our lives.
Stephen Covey
241 If you knew everything was really all right, and that it has a happy
ending, you would not feel trepidations about your future. Abraham-Hicks
242 God does not command that we do great things, only little things with
great love. Mother Teresa
243 Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment
... intention and desire in the field of pure potentiality have infinite
organizing power. And when we introduce an intention in the fertile ground
of pure potentiality, we put this infinite organizing power to work for us.
Deepak Chopra
244 A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
245 Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to
think freely, to risk life, to be needed. Storm Jameson
246 There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always
asked to deal with what is most difficult. Rainer Maria Rilke
247 Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
Thomas Fuller
248 I believe that one of lifes greatest risks is never daring to risk. Oprah
Winfrey
249 If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year.
Today should always be our most wonderful day. Thomas Dreier
250 Failure is often the line of least persistence. Zig Ziglar
251 Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Dale Carnegie
252 There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence
without integrity. Samuel Johnson
253 Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. Ingvar Kamprad
254 There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
255 Only by discussing ourselves, holding back nothing, only by being
willing to take advice and accept direction [can] we set foot on the road to
straight thinking, solid honesty, and genuine humility. Twelve Steps and
Twelve Traditions
256 The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana
257 If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass
springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of
nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
Eleonora Duse
258 Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant
259 Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are
perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you dont do it. There
is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you
alone can fill. Jacob M. Braude
260 She said she usually cried at least once each day, not because she was
sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short. Brian
Andress
261 Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. Vince Lombardi
262 When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the
floor. Its to enjoy each step along the way. Dr. Wayne Dyer
263 What you would do willingly for free is the only thing you should ever do
for money. Raymond Aaron
264 There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for
bread. Mother Teresa
265 Try as you might, you cant control the things that happen to you. You
can only control your reaction to them. Michael Masterson
266 If you are distressed by anything internal, the pain is not due to the
thing itself but to the view you have of that thing. How you view anything is
a power you can revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius
267 Every day, we are given dozens of choices - from which foods to eat to
which parts of a newspaper to read to which words to say in any given
conversation. Many of those choices seem to be insignificant, but when you
string them all together they determine the quality of our lives. Michael
Masterson
268 What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of
little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. John Ruskin
269 If a man for whatever reason has the opportunity to lead an
extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. Jacques-Yves
Cousteau
270 Ive always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is
part of a plot to enhance my well being. Stan Dale
271 Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. Richard
Bach
272 Being alive is a joy and a privilege. Life flows easier when you greet
each new day with a smile. Thuy Vu
273 A true handicap is what we dont do with what we have, not what we
cant do with what we dont have. Christopher Brewer
274 Never let someone elses opinion of you become your reality. Origin
Unknown
275 What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius,
power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
276 Every man dies. Not every man truly lives. Braveheart (Movie)
277 We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them
with our eyes open. Jawaharlal Nehru
278 No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an
unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. Helen Keller
279 Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Abraham
Lincoln
280 If not us, who, if not now, when? Origin Unknown
281 Things do not change, we change. Henry David Thoreau
282 People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I dont
believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people
who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they cant find
them, make them. George Bernard Shaw
283 Tough times never last but tough people do. Robert Schuller
284 The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King Jr.
285 It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
286 You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that
we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. Mary Pickford
287 Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
288 When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark; you dont throw
away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. Corrie Ten
Boom
289 Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is,
there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply
dont count. Dr. Robert Anthony
290 Live well ... Laugh often ... Love much. Origin Unknown
291 The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
292 What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us. Henry David Thoreau
293 Feel the fear and do it anyway. Susan Jeffers
294 Love conquers all. Virgil
295 The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior
teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William A. Ward
296 Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Paul Boese
297 He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out
that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most
busy life. Victor Hugo
298 Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein
299 If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.
Winston Churchill
300 Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change
their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw
301 Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. Kahlil
Gibran
302 If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself
knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get
up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. Thomas J.
Watson
303 The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have. Leonard
Nimoy
304 Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purpose. Kenneth Hildebrand
305 Happiness is a state of activity. Aristotle
306 Doing more of what doesnt work wont make it work any better. Charles
J. Givens
307 Discontent is the first necessity of progress. Thomas Edison
308 Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment you have and
remember that time waits for no one. Happiness is a journey, not a
destination. Souza
309 Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things
turn out. Ty Boyd
310 It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in
chains. Thomas H. Huxley
311 Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde
312 No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than
trustworthiness. Harry Emerson Fosdick
313 We dont receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a
journey that no one can take us or spare us. Marcel Proust
314 The only urgent thing is that we make a beginning and keep trying.
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
315 Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves. It is not
something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is
something we are. John B. Sheerin
336 Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to
succeed is always to try one more time. Thomas Edison
337 The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to
grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts
338 Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working
together is success. Origin Unknown
339 The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. E.E. Cummings
340 Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves; for they shall never
cease to be amused. Origin Unknown
341 Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, youll land among the stars. Les
Brown
342 Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison
343 People dont care how much you know until they know how much you
care. John C. Maxwellzz
344 The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of
strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. Vince Lombardi
345 Work like you dont need the money, love like youve never been hurt
and dance like no one is watching. Satchel Paige
346 We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill
347 Education is that which remains when one has forgotten everything he
learned in school. Albert Einstein
348 Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didnt do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away
from the safe harbor. Catch the winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Mark
Twain
349 If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney
350 Peace is essentially a function of putting first things first. Stephen
Covey
351 First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to
do. Epictetus
352 Like two golden birds perched on the selfsame tree, intimate friends,
the ego and the self dwell in the same body. The former eats the sweet and
sour fruits of the tree of life, while the latter looks on in detachment. The
Mundaka Upanishad
353 If you are willing to admit faults, you have one less fault to admit. Origin
Unknown
354 One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
William Feather
355 Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it.
Establish your priorities and go to work. H.L. Hunt
356 I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world
is a little better for my having lived in it. Abraham Lincoln
357 Every problem has within it the seeds of its own solution. If you dont
have any problems, you dont get any seeds. Norman Vincent Peale
358 Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances; it was
somebodys name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so
then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in
cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson
359 A holiday is like recharging your car battery. If you set up the
connections wrong, no energy goes into the battery. If you do it right, you
return at full charge and your brain is able to work the way it was designed
to. Gord Johansen
360 If you dont make mistakes, youre not working on hard enough
problems. And thats a big mistake. Frank Wilczek
361 As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are
few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own
methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have
trouble. Ralph Waldo Emerson
362 Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein
363 A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. Father James Keller
364 As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to
remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves. Mahatma Gandhi
365 To accomplish great things, we must not only dream, but act. Bill
Blackman
366 It is no use waiting for your ship to come in unless you have sent one
out. Belgian Proverb
367 You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let it
consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which
refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star. Jean Church
368 If I am through learning, I am through. John Wooden
369 There are two types of people - anchors and motors. You want to lose
the anchors and get with the motors because the motors are going
somewhere and theyre having more fun. The anchors will just drag you
down. Wyland
370 Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives.
They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction.
The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and
grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long
term; its who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to
achieve your goals that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting
sense of fulfillment. Anthony Robbins
371 How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If youre still alive, it
isnt. Richard Bach
372 Obstacles are like wild animals... They are cowards but they will bluff
you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring
upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of
sight. Orison Swett Marden
373 Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear. Anthony Robbins
374 They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change
them yourself. Andy Warhol
375 What you get by achieving your goals is as important as what you
become by achieving your goals. Henry David Thoreau
376 Never give up on your dream... Perseverance is all important. If you
dont have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after youve
been told you should quit, youll never make it. Tawni ODell
377 If your ship doesnt come in, swim out to meet it. Jonathan Winters
378 Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater
benefit. Napoleon Hill
379 The heights by great men reached and kept, were not obtained by
sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in
the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
380 How poor we truly are when we measure wealth in monetary terms;
overlooking the true value of ourselves and those we love. Kelly Comeau
381 The road to success is always under construction and full of detours.
Enjoy the ride. Origin Unknown
382 Be a good listener, opportunity sometimes knocks very softly Origin
Unknown
383 I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is
the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty
near. Margaret Thatcher
384 Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few
drops on yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
385 When God closes a door, he opens a window. Origin Unknown 386 We
judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by
what we have already done. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
387 Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and
not something you do in your spare time. Marion Wright Edelman
388 Winning isnt everything; its the only thing. Vince Lombardi
389 You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you
give of yourself that you truly give. Kahlil Gibran
390 In the end, its not the years in your life that count. Its the life in your
years. Abraham Lincoln
391 Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Eleanor Roosevelt
392 The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the
ability and determination to overcome bad luck. Channing Pollock
393 Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble
remembering how to fly. Origin Unknown
394 Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and youll help them
to become what they are capable of becoming. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
395 Never give in, never give in - never, never, never. Sir Winston Churchill
396 The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the
determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of
ourselves to the task at hand. Vince Lombardi
397 Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
Thomas Dewar
398 To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could
anything be more fun. Katherine Graham
399 You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make
it true. You may have to work for it, however. Richard Bach
400 Always do right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest. Mark Twain
401 Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it. Begin it now. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
402 If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because
he hears a different drummer. Henry David Thoreau
403 Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. The Bible
404 Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly
endless. Mother Teresa
405 Men give me credit for genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I
have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night, it is before me. I
explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then ...
people are pleased to call [the effort that I made] the fruit of genius. It is the
fruit of labor and thought. Alexander Hamilton
406 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7
407 Be happy with what you have while pursuing what you want. The key to
happiness is not more. Jim Rohn
408 We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T.S.
Elliot
409 Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of
meditation or of character; and solitude in the presence of natural beauty
and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only
good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. John S. Mill
410 What you alone can contribute, no one else can contribute. Stephen
Covey
411 In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific
accomplishments fade to trivia. Charles Lindbergh
412 Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness
possible. Marcel Proust
413 After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. Italian
Proverb
414 Chance favours only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur
415 Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your
way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
416 Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow... Lawrence
Clark Powell
417 When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is
wrought in our life, or in the life of another. Helen Keller
418 You will always gravitate to that which you secretly most love. Men do
not attain that which they want but that which they are. James Allen
419 For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.
Albert Einstein
420 We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to
life. Edwin Markham
421 This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
Saint Augustine
422 The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw
423 Live not ones life as though one had a thousand years, but live each
day as the last. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
424 We can neither think nor act to good purpose until the habit of selfrestraint has become automatic. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
425 Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are
in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi
426 When youre happy for no reason, you bring happiness to your
everyday experiences rather than try to extract happiness from them. Its
not that your life always looks perfect - its that however it looks, youll still
be happy. Marci Shimoff
427 A great turning point in our lives came when we sought for humility as
something we really wanted, rather than as something we must have.
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
428 Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret B. Runbeck
429 Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you
do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it
with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and
faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever
achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson
430 The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate
the mite and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can
break him - and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits
that help him achieve the success he desires. J. Paul Getty
431 There are 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
432 I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their
maximum capabilities. Bob Nardelli
433 The tragedy of life doesnt lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies
in having no goals to reach. Benjamin Mays
434 One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of
us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden
over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside
our windows today. Dale Carnegie
435 If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn
more, do more, and become more, then you are an excellent leader. Dolly
Parton
436 There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra
or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring
riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person
will get rich with mathematical certainty. Wallace D. Wattles
437 You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting
higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything
possible to live up to those standards. Brian Tracy
438 I am happy and content because I think I am. Atain-Rene Lesage
439 You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your
eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look
toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.
Henry David Thoreau
458 What we see depends mainly on what we look for. Sir John Lubbock
459 When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Charles A. Beard
460 If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as
a nail. Abraham Maslow
461 Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word,
a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of
which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia
462 There is nothing to fear, but fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt
463 Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they
become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your
habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your
destiny. Frank Outlaw
464 Argue for your limitations, and sure enough theyre yours. Richard Bach
465 Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through
experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition
inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller
466 You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in
which you really stop to look fear in the face. Eleanor Roosevelt
467 The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves. Stephen
Covey
468 He who hesitates is lost. Proverb
469 There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesnt
mind who gets the credit. Robert Woodruff
470 A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night
and in between does what he wants to do. Bob Dylan
471 Every mess is a lock on the door that keeps abundance out. Raymond
Aaron
472 Dont use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved. Origin
Unknown
473 The best is yet to be. Robert Browning
474 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged; condemn not, and ye shall not be
condemned; forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. Luke 6:37
475 Quality of life depends on what happens between stimulus and
response. Stephen Covey
476 Nothing is, unless our thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare
477 There is just one life for each of us: our own. Euripides
478 Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like
kind ... what we sow is what we reap. And when we choose actions that
bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our karma is happiness
and success. Deepak Chopra
479 Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin
480 If you dont want to feel great about whats going on, you can always
choose to feel great in spite of whats going on. Ralph Marston
481 Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and
to play and to look up at the stars. Henry Van Dyke
482 We make our fortunes, and we call them fate. Earl of Beaconsfield
483 Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not
relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you. Stewart E.
White
484 Fail often. Fail fast. Fail Cheap. Jim Estill
485 To win you have to risk loss. Jean-Claude Killy
486 You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream,
your life wakes up and everything has meaning. Barbara Sher
487 We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. The capabilities and the
talents and the gifts and the power that is within every single individual that
is on this planet, is unlimited. Michael Beckwith
488 Genius is the ability to simplify those things we perceive as
complicated. C. W. Gran
489 I can give you a six word formula for success: think things through then follow through. Eddie Rickenbacker
490 Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people dont
recognize them. Ann Landers
491 Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up
because they are looking for ideas. Paula Poundstone
492 If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the
game, the stakes, and the quitting time. Chinese Proverb
493 Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Robert J. Sawyer
494 There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we
crave most in life happiness, freedom and peace of mind are always
attained by giving them to someone else. Peyton Cornway March
495 Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. Philo of
Alexandria
496 Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to
be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well. Jim Rohn
497 Start by doing whats necessary, then whats possible, and suddenly
you are doing the impossible. Saint Francis
498 I dont think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I
think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible
for myself, and I had to make good. Oprah Winfrey
499 Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life
you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the
nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real,
it is possible, it is yours. Ayn Rand
500 Nothing changes until you do. Origin Unknown
501 One of the most important truths about success is that it is a formula:
10 percent good ideas and 90 percent action. Michael Masterson
502 As long as you dont forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rentfree space in your mind. Isabelle Holland
503 All the resources we need are in the mind. Theodore Roosevelt
504 The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore,
while it lasts, and not spend it with no purpose. Plutarch
505 Desire is the key to motivation, but its 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
506 You have a divine right to abundance, and if you are anything less than
a millionaire, you havent had your fair share. Stuart Wilde
507 A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no
one could find fault. John Henry Newman
508 Happiness in life comes not from idleness but from working. Not
working at a job you hate, but working at tasks you care about. Michael
Masterson
509 Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are steppingstones to
greater experience... When one door closes, another always opens; as a
natural law it has to, to balance. Brian Adams
510 If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldnt
seem wonderful at all. Michelangelo
511 The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is
this: decide what you want. Ben Stein
512 It is better to wear out than to rust out. Richard Cumberland
513 You cant change the wind, you can however adjust your sails. Origin
Unknown
514 If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time, dont drag your feet.
Annot L. Sheppard
515 Its much better to prepare and not have the opportunity than to have
the opportunity and not be prepared. Origin Unknown
516 The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what
we are for what we could become. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
517 Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human
being. Each of us owes deeper thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer
518 Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to
the town gossip. Will Rogers
519 You don`t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
520 Great oaks from little acorns grow. Proverb
521 The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln
522 The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. Vince
Lombardi
523 The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and
expecting different results. Albert Einstein
524 It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved. Alfred Lord
Tennyson
525 To succeed ... you need to find something to hold on to, something to
motivate you, something to inspire you. Tony Dorsett
526 The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates
527 Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while
and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. Origin
Unknown
528 To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not
only plan, but also believe. Anatole France
529 As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically
liberates others. Nelson Mandela
530 Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John
Wooden
531 I am the captain of my soul. William Ernest Henley
532 Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape
those who dream only by night. Edgar Allen Poe
533 The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even
touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
534 No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor
Roosevelt
535 [The] moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves,
too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have
occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones
favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material
assistance, which no man could have dreamed could come his way. Goethe
536 All thoughts which have been emotionalized [given feeling] and mixed
with faith, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical
equivalent or counterpart. Napoleon Hill
537 When we change the models in our mind, we change the results in our
life. Mark Victor Hansen
538 If we know how to listen to our own hearts, we can listen to the hearts
of others. Stephen Covey
539 I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow
perhaps I shall contradict it all. Ralph Waldo Emerson
540 Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some
and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Robert Fulghum
541 Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and
you were innocent. Anger is natural. Grief is appropriate. Healing is
mandatory. Restoration is possible. Jane Rubietta
542 Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the
moments that take our breath away. George Carlin
543 The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
Samuel Smiles
544 The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, youre still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
545 All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger
(its impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of
ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things,
not the strength to suffer. Niccolo Machiavelli
546 Patience is the companion of wisdom. Saint Augustine
547 Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning one that
leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be. Oprah
Winfrey
548 Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful
the friends you choose for you will become like them. W. Clement Stone
549 Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more;
hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. Swedish Proverb
550 Its easy to be negative and unmotivated, but it takes some work to be
positive and motivated. While theres no off button for those relentless
tapes, there are things that you can do to turn down the volume and shift
your focus from negative to the positive. Donna Cardillo R.N.
551 If you spend your life improving your weaknesses, at the end of your life
you will have many strong weaknesses. Dan Sullivan
552 Never promise more than you can perform. Publilius Syrus
553 Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.
Lyndon b. Johnson
554 Be honest. Be sincere. Be genuine. With yourself and with everybody
else, as often and as much as you can. Nothing else youll resolve to do
could make a bigger difference. John Forde
555 Progress always involves risk; you cant steal second base and keep
your foot on first. Frederick Wilcox
556 You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. Thats what
makes you a winner. Venus Williams
557 The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is
not likely to make money nor find much fun in life. Charles M. Schwab
558 What you think and what you feel and what you manifest is always a
match. Every single time. No exception. Esther Hicks-Abraham
559 If opportunity doesnt knock, build a door. Milton Berle
560 Seek first to understand, then be understood. Stephen Covey
561 Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. Robert
Collier
562 I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I
have of it. Thomas Jefferson
563 You only get out what you put in. Origin Unknown
564 What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? Robert
Schuller
565 You are what you think you are. Bob Richards
566 There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and thosewho
take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Indira Gandhi
567 The highest reward for a persons toil is not what they get for it, but
what they become by it. John Ruskin
568 Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they
were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison
569 Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore
Roosevelt
571 Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that
we are powerful beyond measure. Marianne Williamson
572 Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ... I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost
573 Mans mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original
dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes
574 Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which
are important are not urgent. President Dwight Eisenhower
575 People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. Dale
Carnegie
576 Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Cicero
577 Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom ... our thoughts, our
words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around
ourselves. Swami Vivekananda
579 Dont be afraid to go out on a limb. Thats where the fruit is. Jackson
Browne
580 The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or
to recreate it. Johnette Napolitano
581 If you want to get to the top, you must first get off your bottom. Khow
Wong
582 The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green
earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive. Thich
Nhat Hanh
584 A persons true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Mohammed
585 The purpose of human life is to show compassion and the will to help
others. Albert Schweitzer
586 Every now and again take a good look at something not made with
hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you
wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are
not alone in the world. Sidney Lovett
587 Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and
making the best of it, without knowing whats going to happen next.
Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner
588 Dont limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think
they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you
can achieve. Mary Kay Ash
590 You can achieve anything you want in life, as long as you dont care who
gets the credit. U.S. President Ronald Reagan
591 Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs
the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the
source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much
smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.
Michael J. Gelb
592 The mind is like an elastic band; once stretched by a new idea, it never
regains its original dimension. Oliver Wendell Holmes
593 Its what you learn after you know it all that counts. John Wooden
594 The secret to success is action, not attitude. It doesnt matter what your
attitude is. What matters is what you do with your time. If you do the right
things you will be successful regardless of your emotional condition or
mental attitude. If you do the wrong things, no amount of positive thinking
will save you. Michael Masterson
595 Fall down seven times, get up eight times. Japanese Proverb
597 If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you
disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a
compromise. Robert Fritz
598 Work is love made visible. And if you cant work with love but only with
distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of
the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy. Kahlil Gibran
599 How will you know the taste of victory if you dont take the risk? Origin
Unknown
600 Leave everything a little better than you found it. Origin Unknown
601 Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. Vince
Lombardi
602 Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking
more than others think safe, dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
Origin Unknown
603 You must be the change you want to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
604 Everything is okay in the end. If its not okay, then its not the end.
Origin Unknown
605 If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can
become it. William A. Ward
607 Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that
cannot fly. Langston Hughes
608 You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. Michael
Jordan
609 Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. Winston Churchill
612 To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the
world. Origin Unknown
613 Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there
were only walls. Joseph Campbell
615 I cant change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to
always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean
616 You alter your destiny by altering your thoughts. Dr. Dennis R. Deaton
617 If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots.
If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible. T. Harv
Eker
619 In the beginning there was desire, which was the first seed of mind;
sages, having meditated in their hearts, have discovered by their wisdom
the connection of the existent with the non-existent. Hymn of Creation, The
Rig Veda
620 You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your
will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
621 Kiss your life. Accept it, just as it is. Today. Now. So that those moments
of happiness youre waiting for dont pass you by. Origin Unknown
622 Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
La Bruyere
623 Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that
have to occur for you to achieve your goal. George L. Morrisey
624 Intellectual growth should begin at growth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein
625 The first person gets the oyster, the second person gets the shell.
Andrew Carnegie
626 The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but
they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them. Joseph Henry
627 Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
Bill Cosby
630 It is important that you recognize your progress and take pride in your
accomplishments. Share your achievements with others. Brag a little. The
recognition and support of those around you is nurturing. Rosemarie
Rossetti
632 Its not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. Its the will to
prepare to win that matters. Paul Bear Bryant
633 If you are bored with life, if you dont get up every morning with a
burning desire to do things - you dont have enough goals. Lou Holtz
634 Experience gives you the test first, the lesson after. Origin Unknown
635 The harder you fall the higher you bounce. Horace
636 Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on
it. Danny Kaye
638 Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that
perfectly. St. Francis of De Sales
640 Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about. Dr John F
Demartini
641 It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man
can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Ralph Waldo
Emerson
642 To see a world in a grain of sand. And heaven in a wild flower, hold
infinity in the palm of your hand. And eternity in an hour. William Blake
643 The source of all creation is pure consciousness ... pure potentiality
seeking expression from the unmanifest to the manifest. And when we
realize that our true self is one of pure potentiality, we align with the power
that manifests everything in the universe. Deepak Chopra
644 Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous
activities. Aristotle
645 Optimism means expecting the best, but confidence means knowing
how to handle the worst. Never make a move if you are merely optimistic.
The Zurich Axioms
646 A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let
alone. Henry David Thoreau
647 Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for
only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right
attitude towards others. Wilfred Peterson
648 The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William
James
649 You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
Jim Rohn
650 Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is
not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich.
Wallace D. Wattles
651 Life is short, and you dont want to let it pass you by. So, Think Big...
and make your dreams come true. Paul Lawrence
652 Its time to start living the life youve imagined. Henry James
653 Do not listen to music, feel it, do not look at beauty, touch it, do not
wonder about life, experience it. Origin Unknown
654 You must do the things you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
655 Whether you think that you can, or that you can`t, you are usually right.
Henry Ford
659 Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon
660 When you are truly living your life in the now with love, adventure and
passion your final thought each night before you slip into your dreams will
be Wow, what an amazing journey What are you waiting for? Andrea
Ross
661 Any definite chief aim that is deliberately fixed in the mind and held
there, with the determination to realize it, finally saturates the entire
subconscious mind until it automatically influences the physical action of the
body toward the attainment of that purpose. Napoleon Hill
663 Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact.
William James
664 Natures intelligence functions with effortless ease ... with carefreeness,
harmony, and love. And when we harness the forces of harmony, joy, and
love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease. Deepak
Chopra
665 To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for
it. Samuel Butler
666 Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds
rise above them. Washington Irving
667 I think that is a mans duty to make all the money he can, to keep all
that he can, and give away all that he can. John D. Rockefeller Sr.
668 Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small
ones: and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to
sleep in peace. God is awake. Victor Hugo
671 Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often
it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time
runs out. Oliver Wendell Holmes
672 The trick is to learn from your mistakes, just do your best to limit your
risk. Focus every day, keep trying, learn what works, and dont torture
yourself when you take a wrong turn. Just notice it, learn from it, and change
your approach. Rich Schefren
673 The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the
one who dropped it. Lou Holtz
674 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
675 Watch for big problems, they disguise big opportunities. Origin Unknown
676 Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done
without hope or confidence. Helen Keller
677 The great end of life is not knowledge but action. Thomas Henry Huxley
678 We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual
beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
679 A ship in the harbour is safe - but that is not what ships are for. John A.
Shedd
680 It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your
mouth and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln
681 The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack. Ralph Waldo
Emerson
682 Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the
things we did not do that is inconsolable. Sydney Harris
683 Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert F.
Kennedy
685 Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your
country. President John F. Kennedy
686 We become what we think about all day long. Ralph Waldo Emerson
689 If were growing, were always going to be out of our comfort zone. John
Maxwell
690 I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought
upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin
691 I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson
692 I have four things to learn in life, to think clearly without hurry or
confusion, to love everybody sincerely; to act in everything with the highest
motives; to trust in my higher power unhesitatingly. Albert Schweitzer
693 Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what
to do. Its a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you
understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All
events, occurrences, and situations turn into
694 Its never crowded along the extra mile. Wayne Dyer
695 Only YOU can decide to be motivated. Nobody else has that power.
Accomplishing your goals begins with your decision to take action. Yes, fear
and lack of confidence can creep into your mindset. And, yes, those things
can extinguish your motivation. Toss them out. Choose to be positive. Then
take action. Youll find that taking even a single small step toward
accomplishing a goal will motivate you to take the next step. Robert L. Cox
696 Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, even if I
have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common
sense. Buddha
697 If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only
real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability. Henry Ford
698 If you keep thinking the way youve always thought, youll keep doing
what youve always done, and keep getting what youve always got. Origin
Unknown
699 Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can!
And get busy and find out how to do it. Theodore Roosevelt
700 Come to the edge. We cant. Were afraid. We cant. We will fall! Come
to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew. Guillaume
Apollinaire
701 Dont be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you cant cross a
chasm in two small jumps. David Lloyd George
702 Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must
do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
703 Turn your face to the sunshine, and all shadows fall behind. Helen Keller
704 All that we are is the result of what we have thought. Buddha
705 As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
706 Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. Henry Van Dyke
708 People say that what we are seeking is a meaning for life. I dont think
this is what were really seeking. I think what were seeking is an experience
of being alive. Joseph Campbell
709 The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not
expect to sit. Nelson Henderson
711 Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must
carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he
cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus everyones task is
unique as his specific opportunity. Viktor Frankl
714 You cant cross a sea by merely staring into the water. Rabindranath
Tagore
715 The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting
started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small
manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Mark Twain
716 I will die a very rich man financially, but it will not compare to the
richness in spirit, contribution and giving of myself helping people to see
greater visions of themselves and possibilities for their life. Origin Unknown
718 When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin
719 If a man does his best, what else is there? General George S. Patton
721 Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the
world your best anyway. Mother Teresa
722 If I am not for myself, who will be for me? Yet if I am for myself alone, of
what good am I? Hillel
723 Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. George
Washington
725 The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
726 A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if
he be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. Abraham
Maslow
727 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold
well. Josh Billings
729 Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the
mind. Alice Meynell
730 The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of. Pascal
731 Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice
or anything. If youre a man, you take it. Malcolm X
732 Dont judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you
plant. Robert Louis Stevenson
733 Most true happiness comes from ones inner life, from the disposition of
the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve,
especially in these trying times. It takes
734 Only when the clamour of the outside world is silenced will you be able
to hear the deeper vibration. Listen carefully. Sarah Ban Breathnach
735 None of us can change our yesterdays, but all of us can change our
tomorrows. Colin Powell
736 When you determine what you want, you have made the most
important decision in your life. You have to know what you want in order to
attain it. Douglas Lurtan
737 If you think youre too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a
mosquito in the room. Anita Roddick
738 Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. Ronald Reagan
740 It is the souls duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself
to its master passion. Dame Rebecca West
742 Rather than counting your years, make your years count. Origin
Unknown
743 Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those
who hustle. Abraham Lincoln
744 The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X
745 Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Henry
Ford
746 You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton
748 One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do
the work of one extraordinary man. Elbert Hubbard
750 Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans
character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln
751 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off
your goals. Henry Ford
752 The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt
753 The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to
grasp the world, but to change it. Colin Wilson
754 If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is
where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Henry David
Thoreau
756 A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
757 Challenges make you discover things about yourself, you never really
knew. Theyre what makes the instrument stretch; what make you go
beyond the norm. Cicely Tyson
758 Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
Leonardo Da Vinci
760 I cant give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a
formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. Herbert Bayard
Swope
761 Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it
takes to sit down and listen. Winston Churchill
762 Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do,
something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison
763 I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do
better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under
a spirit of criticism. Charles M. Schwab
764 Leadership is like ballroom dancing. You can lead by throwing your
weight around and yanking your followers with you. Or you can learn the
secrets of leadership and arrive at your destination sooner - with better
results and much happier followers by putting yourself in their shoes to
see things from their perspective. Michael Masterson
765 Dont compromise yourself, you are all youve got. Origin Unknown
766 Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Kahlil Gibran
767 Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to
pause and reflect. Mark Twain
769 The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. Stephen Covey
770 Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I
shall move the world. Archimedes
771 Dont walk in front of me, I may not follow. Dont walk behind me, I may
not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus
774 I want to know Gods thoughts ... the rest are details. Albert Einstein
776 If you love what you do youll never work another day in your life. Mark
Twain
777 It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and
taking action. Al Batt
778 Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after
tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. Napoleon
Hill
779 Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. Robert
Collier
780 Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone. Robert Allen
781 When life kicks you, let it kick you forward. Origin Unknown
782 We dont stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we
stop playing. George Bernard Shaw
783 And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more
painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin
786 Just as the human body can be strengthened and toned to muscular
power through ... exercise, so too can the mind be strengthened and
sharpened. You cant build a great body in a few hours; the same goes for
your intellect. Remember that the secret to the success of any exercise
program is repetition, repetition, repetition. Only then will you begin to see
results.
787 Everyone has a purpose in life ... a unique gift or special talent to give
to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we
experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the
ultimate goal of all goals. Deepak Chopra
789 Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the
rules. Ashleigh Brilliant
790 On the way to what you planned to happen, something even better
comes along. Janice Endique
791 Pay any price to stay in the presence of extraordinary people Mike
Murdock
792 There is a secret psychology to money. Most people dont know about it.
Thats why most people never become financially successful. A lack of
money is not the problem; it is merely a
794 The curve of a smile can set a lot of things straight. Origin Unknown
795 Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. Chinese
Proverb
796 Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies
solely in my tenacity. Louis Pasteur
797 You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will
be too late. Ralph Waldo Emerson
799 If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you
dont. If youd like to win, but think you cant, its almost a cinch you wont.
Lifes battles dont always go to the stronger or faster man; but soon or late
the man who wins is the one who thinks he can. Origin Unknown
801 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as
dead: his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein
803 I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any
kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me
do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
Ettiene De Grellet
804 If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away
from his desires. Epicurus
805 Would you like me to give you a formula for success? Its quite simple,
really. Double your rate of failure. Thomas J. Watson
806 The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James
807 You can have anything you want right now, as long as you begin having
it right now in an abbreviated way. Raymond Aaron
808 When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word
succeed, you find that it simply means to follow through. F. W. Nichol
809 Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in
the right order so you can have anything you want. Brian Tracy
810 I think you can accomplish anything if youre willing to pay the price.
Vince Lombardi
812 You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
Anna Quindlen
814 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.
Dale Carnegie
815 You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your
dominant aspiration. James Allen
816 If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it
Somerset Maugham
818 It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. Antoine de Saint
Exupery
819 Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are
dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals
become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate
detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal
becomes an inner commitment. Denis Waitley
820 The universe operates through dynamic exchange ... giving and
receiving are different aspects of the flow of energy in the universe. And in
our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the
universe circulating in our lives. Deepak Chopra
821 The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never
does anything. Denis Waitley
822 All the books you havent read wont help you. Mark Victor Hansen
824 Do not think that what your thoughts dwell on does not matter. Your
thoughts are making you. Bishop Steere
825 Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if
you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell. Junior Murchison
826 You have to measure what you want more of. Charles Coonradt
827 Where there is great love there are always miracles. Willa Cather
828 Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can
and should be and he will become as he can and should be. Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
829 Dreams are renewable no matter what our age. Dale Turner
831 I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better
to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be
ignorant. H.L. Mencken
833 Dont ask for it to be easy, ask for it to be worth it. Dan Kuschell
834 Although the world if full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of
it. Helen Keller
835 There is more to life than increasing its speed. Mahatma Gandhi
837 She was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of
a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. Would you
tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good
deal on where you want to get to, said the Cat. I dont much care where,
said Alice. Then it doesnt matter which way you go, said the Cat. Lewis
Carroll
838 The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. Linus Pauling
839 Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of
making excuses. George Washington Carver
841 Great minds have purposes others have wishes. Washington Irving
842 It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities
without your help. Judith Martin
843 A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes
merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. Mahatma
Gandhi
844 I have not failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that dont work. Thomas
Alva Edison
846 You know youve achieved perfection in design, not when you have
nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. Antoine
de Saint Exupery
847 There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads
onto fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in
miseries. William Shakespeare
848 Many a false step was made by standing still. Inside a fortune cookie
849 One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the
past, for it is gone: and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not
yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth
remembering. Ida Scott Taylor
850 Study anyone whos great, and youll find that they apprenticed to a
master, or several masters. Therefore, if you want to achieve greatness,
renown, and superlative success, you must apprentice to a master. Robert
Allen
853 The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. Moliere
855 Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward
together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint Exupery
856 If you always do what youve always done, youll always get what
youve always gotten. Origin Unknown
857 When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Joseph P. Kennedy
858 I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have,
beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser
than oneself. Marlene Dietrich
859 To realize ones nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Oscar Wilde
860 Its not that some people have willpower and some dont. Its that some
people are ready to change and others are not. James Gordon M.D.
863 You werent an accident. You werent mass produced. You arent an
assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted,
and lovingly positioned on the Earth by the
864 You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be
tomorrow where your thoughts take you. James Allen
865 Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
866 The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person
who is doing it. Chinese Proverb
867 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a
habit. Aristotle
869 Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. Sir
Thomas Brown
872 Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can
go. T.S. Eliot
873 I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never
happened. Mark Twain
875 Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. Bruce
Barton
876 Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Origin Unknown
877 The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch
880 The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. Elbert Hubbard
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881 Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. Earl Wilson
882 The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example. Thomas
Morell
883 Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley
884 I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You dont laugh
enough. I dont trust anyone who doesnt laugh. Maya Angelou
885 Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it
out. Lee Iacocca
887 False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but
true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. Sir
Richard Burton
888 If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders
of giants. Sir Isaac Newton
891 Your direction is more important than your speed. Richard L. Evans
892 If you dont have an assistant, you are one. Raymond Aaron
893 No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. William Blake
894 Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. John
F. Kennedy
895 Its not that Im so smart, its just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
897 Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he
will eat for a lifetime. Chinese Proverb
898 He who moves not forward goes backward. Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
900 Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each days work absorb
your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. Sir William Osler
901 When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for
your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living if you
see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself. Tecumseh,
Shawnee Chief
903 He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a
question remains a fool forever. Chinese Proverb
904 The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences
have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When
crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you
may be. Origin Unknown
907 Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint
which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. Henri
Frederic Amiel
908 Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes. Dr.
James Dobson
909 Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present
are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy
910 Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge
success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy
and love. Don Miguel Ruiz
911 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
912 When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask,
Compared to what? Sydney Harris
913 Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even
though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who
neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
916 Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be
overcome. Samuel Johnson
917 Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness
without action. Benjamin Disraeli
918 To enhance the quality of the day That is the highest of the arts.
Henry David Thoreau
919 Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses
opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde
920 You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so
much is because I have made so many mistakes. Buckminster Fuller
924 Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the
dog. Mark Twain
926 What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet
have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal. John Howe
927 Real obstacles dont take you in circles. They can be overcome.
Invented ones are like a maze. Barbara Sher
928 Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal.
See yourself doing the things youll be doing when youve reached your
goal. Earl Nightingale
929 Taking action is the real difference between the super-successful and
the wannabes. Rich Schefren
930 Authority is 20% given and 80% taken... So take it! Peter Ueberroth
931 He who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles
934 Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that
life is made of. Benjamin Franklin
935 When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so
that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. Indian proverb
936 A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a
months study of books. Chinese Proverb
937 Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it
is beyond the powers of man, but if anything is within the powers and
province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. Marcus
Aurelius Antoninus
938 You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony
with your dominant thoughts. Brian Tracy
939 Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and
be great. Jimmy Johnson
940 Success leaves clues, and opportunity knocks, but only for those who
are prepared to recognize them. Dan Giercke
942 How can you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine
what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. Lou
Holtz
944 Id rather have 1 percent of the efforts of 100 people than 100 percent
of my own efforts. J. Paul Getty
945 As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest
appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John Fitzgerald
Kennedy
947 Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already
mastered, you will never grow. Ronald E. Osborn
948 The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the
egg, not by smashing it open. Arnold Glasgow
949 He who stops being better stops being good. Oliver Cromwell
950 Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity. General George S. Patton
951 We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar
Wilde
952 If you give people light, they will find their own way. Dante
953 Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference.
They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Barbara De Angelis
954 If you dont put a value on money and seek wealth, you most probably
wont receive it. You must seek wealth for it to seek you. If no burning desire
for wealth arises within you, no wealth will arise around you. Having
definiteness of purpose for acquiring wealth is essential for its acquisition.
Dr. John Demartini
955 The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and
chewed as fast as I could. Paul Hogan
956 Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher
than you think. Benjamin Disraeli
957 The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
958 The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him
absolutely no good. Samuel Johnson
960 What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the
striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. Viktor E.
Frankl
961 Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be
successful. Malcolm S. Forbes
962 History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually
encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won
because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. B.C. Forbes
963 Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Albert Schweitzer
964 The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their
mother. Origin Unknown
965 Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has
reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to
succeed. Booker T. Washington
966 The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than
research. Rolf Potts
967 Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set
about remedying them - every day
969 The phrase I cant is the most powerful force of negation in the
human psyche. Paul R. Scheele
Mother Teresa
971 The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it
under his feet. J. Robert Oppenheimer
973 Winners never quit and quitters never win. Vince Lombardi
976 If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have
guesses enough of my own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
977 A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the
turn. Origin Unknown
978 There is no point at which you can say Well, Im successful now. I might
as well take a nap. Carrie Fisher
979 An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made
in a very narrow field. Niels Bohr
980 When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. Franklin
D. Roosevelt
981 Unless one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back,
always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative there is one
elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and endless
plans. That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence
moves, too. Goethe
982 The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural
curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Anatole
France
984 ... your real work is to decide what you want and then to focus upon it.
For it is through focusing upon what you want that you will attract it. That is
the process of creating. Esther Hicks-Abraham
985 You miss 100% of the shots you dont take. Wayne Gretzky
986 Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your
best. David O. McKay
987 The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a
leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution
comes to you, and you dont know how or why.
Albert Einstein
988 Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands. Zig Ziglar
989 The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. Oscar
Wilde
990 Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad
judgement. Jim Horning
991 Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive
it. Karl A. Menninger
993 It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him, observe him, study him,
but dont worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond.
David Joseph Schwartz
994 When you visualize, then you materialize. If youve been there in the
mind youll go there in the body. Dr. Denis Waitley
995 Don`t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you
come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs is people
who have come alive. Harold Whitman
998 You were put on this earth with a special purpose, programmed with
unique talents and abilities that have not yet been fully tapped and utilized.
When you focus all of your energies on unlocking your true potential, you
can claim your ultimate birthright. Brian Tracy
999 Why not go out on a limb; isnt that where the fruit is? Origin Unknown
1001 May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift