"No man will ever be totally free who is living a lie."
Marvin J. Ashton
"We become what we think about all day long".
Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher
"We tend to get what we expect"
Norman Vincent Peale, motivator
"At any moment, you have the ability to dramatically change any area of your life, or follow your heart's deepest desires. It's yours to create, any way you want it".
Craig Townsend
"It's never too late to be what you might have been".
George Eliot
"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right".
Henry Ford
"This world is but canvas to our imaginations".
Henry David Thoreau, poet
"No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent"
Eleanor Roosavelt
"We are what we think".
Buddha
Do not think that what your thoughts dwell on does not matter. Your thoughts are making you.
Bishop Steere
Worry is a think stream of fear which, if encouraged, becomes a wide channel into which all other thoughts flow. Assume an attitude of positive expectancy!
Author Unknown
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison, inventor
“Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better"
Emile Coue
"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not"
George Bernard Shaw
"I am the greatest!"
Muhammad Ali
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours".
Thoreau, philosopher
"If at first an idea isn't absurd there is no hope for it".
Albert Einstein, inventor
"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings".
William Blake, poet / philosopher
"Your mind can just as easily show you an ocean of abundant opportunities, as it can the opposite. Its just depends what you focus upon".
Craig Townsend
"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
Albert Einstein
'I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it"
Thomas Jefferson
"It's not the situation…… it's your reaction to the situation"
Bob Conklin
"We tend to get what we expect"
Norman Vincent Peale, motivator
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph"
Thomas Paine
"Do not wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it"
Unknown
"Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve"
Napoleon Hill, motivator
"No matter what is going on in our life, there remains a part of us that is silent, powerful, wise and untouched by the external noise".
Craig Townsend
"Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance"
Samuel Johnson
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"
Albert Einstein, inventor
"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't have any seeds"
Norman Vincent Peale
"Seize the day, Carpe Diem"
Quintus Hortius Flaccus 65BC - 8BC
"The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant"
Taisen Deshimaru
"Champions in any field have made a habit of doing what others find boring or uncomfortable"
Anonymous
"To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore"
Rocky Marciano
"When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top"
Anon.
"The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed"
Dr. Denis Waitley, motivator
"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be"
Bruce Lee
"The only lack or limitation is in your own mind"
NH. Moos
"Your altitude is determined by your attitude"
Anon.
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If you are aware of your weaknesses and are constantly learning, your potential is virtually limitless".
Jay Sidhu
"The secret to acheive true success is found in your daily routine."
Author Unknown
"People may say you are going the wrong way, when it is simply a path of your own."
Anon.
"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles"
Claude M. Bristol
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is though everything is a miracle".
Albert Einstein
"The greatest pleasure in life is in doing what people say you cannot do".
Walther Bageholt
"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes".
St. Clement of Alexandria
"Faith will move mountains"
Proverb
"Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, but you have an obligation to be one".
Eleanor Roosavelt
"Integrity has no need of rules".
Albert Camus
"Those who follow the crowd are quickly lost in it".
Anonymous
"Knowledge itself is power".
Francis Bacon
"What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you".
Seneca
"Most stress comes from thinking of the past or the future. The present moment is always the most powerful time in your life".
Craig Townsend
"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm".
Henry David Thoreau
"To avoid criticism , do nothing, say nothing, be nothing".
Elbert Green Hubbard
"I can live for 2 months on a good compliment".
Mark Twain
"Follow your bliss".
Joseph Campbell
"Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action"
David Seabury
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
John Ruskin
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Plutarch
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewh
at higher.
Thomas Huxley
The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
Opportunity... often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Napoleon Hill
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau
That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
Confucius
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
Ayn Rand
If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
Brian Tracy
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz
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I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it. - William DeMille
Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If a man does his best, what else is there?
General George S. Patton
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Goethe
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.
George Matthew Adams
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help with man with the wrong mental attitude.
W.W. Ziege
The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude. If you are suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these unlovely traits echoed all about you. But if you are on your best behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are going to spend most of your working hours.
Beatrice Vincent
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
The big shots are only the little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley
You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let if 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
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
Abraham Lincoln
Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer.
Leo F. Buscaglia
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. 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
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land amongst the stars.
Jill McLemore
We are new every day.
Irene Claremont de Castillego
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't 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
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
William Barclay
The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.
James Agee
Life unexamined, is not worth living.
Democritus
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.
Pablo Casals
The real issue is not whether to grow, it is how to grow and for what purpose.
Anonymous
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things… I am tempted to think… there are no little things.
Bruce Barton
The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.
Cicero
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
Julius Caesar
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.
Ayn Rand
Anybody can do anything that he imagines.
Henry Ford
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Percy Shelley
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
Henry Ford
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
Henry Ward Beecher
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
James K. Feibleman
What life means to us is determined not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.
Lewis L. Dunnington
If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mrs. Ernest Hemingway
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Richard L. Evans
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.
Helen Keller
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Sir Winston Churchill
The men who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet to come, and that they themselves will help bring them about.
Melvin J. Evans
Great deeds are not mandated--they come from within. Responsibility belongs to those who are willing to accept it.
Ron F. Rowley
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
Robert L. Stevenson
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
Blaise Pascal
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
John Milton
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.
Thomas Crum
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
Seneca
The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.
John F. Kennedy
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! (Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow)
Horace
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar
God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.
Langenhoven
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Steven Covey
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb
There's only us, there's only this, forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.
Jonathan Larson
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you have was once among the things only hoped for.
Epicurus
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Dale Carnegie
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Dale Carnegie
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger; but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
Sydney Smith
Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.
James Harvey Robinson
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
George Horace Lorimer
He who believes is strong. Strong convictions precede great actions.
J.F. Clarke
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Helen Keller
Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope.
Turkish proverb
Expect the dawn of a new beginning in the dark nights of life.
Lloyd John Ogilvie
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash
Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
No individual raindrop considers itself responsible for the flood.
Anonymous
Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.
Leo Buscaglia
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you're already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance.
Gill Atkinson
Never frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.
Justine Milton
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
Bill Cosby
When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.
Sam Lefkowitz
How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!
Anne Frank
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson
Bad times, hard times - this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
St. Augustine
The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels is your heart. So fill your heart with good things and good things will follow you for the rest of your life.
Scott Murray
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
Charles Buxton
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it - so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Frank Scully
Success is never wondering what if.
Karrie Huffman
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop W.C. Magee
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles one has overcome trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
Edward B. Butler
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara ever turned light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
Henrik Ibsen
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Norwegian proverb
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know… One who doesn't try cannot fail and become wise.
No man or woman is uniformly successful… we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.
Barnaby Keeney
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard W. Newton
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu
There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
Cyrus Curtis
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.
Mencius
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now.
Goethe
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Japanese Proverb
What does it mean to succeed? Most people see success as being rich and famous or powerful and influential. Others see it as being at the top of their profession and standing out from the rest. The wise see success in a more personal way; they see it as achieving the goals they have set for themselves, and then feeling pride and satisfaction in their accomplishments. True success is felt in the heart, not measured by money and power. So be true to yourself and achieve the goals you set. For success is reaching those goals and feeling proud of what you have accomplished.
Tim Tweedie
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Liane Cordes