Monday, January 31, 2011
Don't Quit before the blessing: #Quotes About Perseverance
Character consists on what you do on the third and fourth tries. – James Michener
Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success, they give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown. – H. Ross Perot
You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him. – Robert C. Savage
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith. – B.C. Forbes
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. – Walter Elliott
Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now. – Dennis Waitley and Reni L. Witt,
Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest. – Unknown Quote
It’s always too early to quit. – Norman Vincent Peale
When the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”
- Author Unknown
Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the “impossible,” we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible…abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish. – Dr. C. E. Welch (founder, Welch’s Grape Juice)
There’s only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that’s if we quit. – Unknown
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. – Albert Einstein
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. – Richard Bach Quote
Persistence is self-discipline in action. – Brian Tracy
How can we preserve our aspirations and at the same time develop the toughness of mind and spirit to face the fact that there are no easy victories? One is a tough-minded recognition that the fight for a better world is a long one. – John Garner, No Easy Victories
It’s when things get rough and you don’t quit that success comes. – Unknown
Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown. – Ross Perot
I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win. – Arnold Palmer
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. – Christopher Morley
Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts. – Coleman Cox
Americans never quit. – Douglas MacArthur
You can do it gradually – day by day and play by play – if you want to do it, if you will to do it, if you work to do it over a sufficiently long period of time. – William E. Holl
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. – Conrad Hilton
Before you speak, listen.
Before you write, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you invest, investigate.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.
Before you retire, save.
Before you die, give.
- William Arthur Ward
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. – Napoleon Hill Quote
Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don’t look back at it too long. Mistakes are life’s way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come. – Og Mandino Quote
Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit. – Unknown
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. – George Allen
Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do. – Napoleon Hill Quote
Keep going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. – Charles Keetering
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t. – Henry Ward Beecher
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. – Author Unknown
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. – Dale Carnegie
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. – Edmund Burke
Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb
He conquers who endures. -Persius
If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before! – William James
I’ve a long list of things I don’t know how I’ve done, but I’ve done them. In the end, it’s always about perseverance. – Odd Thomas in “Forever Odd” by Dean Koontz
Worthy things happen to the worthy. – Plautus
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. – Lucretius
But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory. – Ted Engstrom
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. – Lance Armstrong Quote
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. – John D. Rockefeller
When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going. – Nido Qubein
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. – Vince Lombardi
If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. – Bill Clinton
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. – Author Unknown
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. – Josh Billings
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. – Author Unknown
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. – Newt Gingrich
“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.” – Ecclesiastes 9:11
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. – G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 1893
There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. – Author Unknown
Perseverance… keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. – William Shakespeare
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Great Advice from Diane Sawyer
Embrace Curiosity
"I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when he got home, his dad asked him not what he learned in school but his dad said, 'Did you ask any great questions today?' And I always thought, what a beautiful way to educate kids that we're excited by their questions, not by our answers and whether they can repeat our answers." — Diane Sawyer
Lessons from My Father
"My dad, I still think, had the most beautiful, simple checklist for what you should do in life: Do something you really love that you would do it anyway. Do it in the most adventurous place you can do it. And make sure that it helps other people. And if you feel there's a genuine need for it, and that through that need you can help other people, you're home." — Diane Sawyer
Ideas Make Things Happen
"Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people." — Diane Sawyer
Great advice from Simon Cowell
"I'm not a master of anything. I think what I'm good at is making shows or records which a lot of people will like for the same reasons I like them. Mainly, I trust my instincts because I have very broad tastes. I genuinely believe that if I like something, other people are going to like it as well." — Simon Cowell
"You learn it as you go along. You don't get smart at 17. You just don't unless, you know, you're one in a billion. It just isn't going to happen that way. It will normally happen over time. And it's the getting there which has been the most fun. You've got to be patient and enjoy, as I said before, the process of getting there. Because I promise you, it's a lot more fun than being there." — Simon Cowell
"I would say the biggest failures I've had were at a time when I believed my own hype." — Simon Cowell
#Quotes and Sayings about the Purpose of #life
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi No eternal reward will forgive us now
For wasting the dawn.
Jim morrison
From The Wasp.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didnt get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
Author Unknown
Sometimes attributed to Buddha, but this is disputed.
I believe that the very purpose of life is to seek happiness.
Dalai Lama
The Art of Happiness.
From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax, to be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, and enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth.
Thich Nhat Hanh The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
Voltaire You see the Earth as a bright blue and white Christmas tree ornament in the black sky. It's so small and so fragile - you realize that on that small spot is everything that means everything to you; all of history and art and death and birth and love.
Russell Schweikart, astronaut To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.
Stephen MacKenna
We all possess the thunder of pure fury and the calm breeze of tranquility. If it wasn't for tomorrow, how much would we get done today? Whatever your purpose... embrace it completely. Get lost in the clouds every now and then so you never lose sight of God's wonder.
Paul Vitale Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Washington Irving I would rather be ashes than dust; I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brillant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot; I would rather be in a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow than in a sleepy and permanent planet; the proper function of man is to live, not to exist; I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them; I shall USE my time.
Jack London To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
Alan Coren
The Sanity Inspector.
How to gain, how to keep, and how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive for all they do.
William James In men whom men condemn as ill,
I find so much of goodness still,
In men whom men pronounce divine,
I find so much of sin and blot,
I do not dare to draw a line
Between the two, where God has not.
Joaquin Miller
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced; live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Cherokee Saying The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau
Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
Sophocles You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should.
Max Ehrmann
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
Joan Borysenko Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Elliot We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.
John Ruskin Life is a promise; fulfill it.
Mother Theresa
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James Michener The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose
Richard Leider
If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, denying them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson "I have done my best." That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
Lin Yutang Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller
You are what your deep driving desire is; As your deep driving desire is, so is your will; As your will is so is your deed; As your deed is so is your destiny.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Willa Cather How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice.
Each small task of everyday is part of the total harmony of the universe.
St. Theresa of Lisieux Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.
Martin Luther King
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Paul Valery
Henry David Thoreau The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friederich Nietzsche Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Euripides The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcom Forbes
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
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 The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Edward Phelps
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
Pindar However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.
Peter Quennell
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Confucius Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
D.H. Lawrence
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.
E.R. Beadle Success is never final.
Winston Churchill
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.
Donald Harington
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings.
Immanuel Kant It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.
Bertrand Russell
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.
Blaise Pascal Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William James My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Buddinton Kelland It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
George Santayana
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
Blaise Pascal
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Dr Robert Schuller So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
Ralph Waldo Emerson When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
Confucius Such as we are made of, such we be.
William Shakespeare You only live once- but if you work it right, once is enough.
Joe E. Lewis
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
We teach what we live.
Author unknown
Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.
T.S. Elliot In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life; it goes on!
Leo Buscaglia
It is better to deserve an honor and not receive it, than to receive one, and not deserve it!
Mark Twain
#Quotes to Live By
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison
Melody Beattie Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain We must be the change we want to see.
Mahatma Gandhi Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend.
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
Betty Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt This above all: To your own self, be true.
William Shakespeare He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
Anthony Robbins Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today.
Pierre de Ronsard They can because they think they can.
Virgil To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
Ken S. Keyes, Jr. It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
Albert Einstein When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
Peace Pilgrim (Mildred Lisette Norman)
Whatever you are be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from what you can do.
John Wooden I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For I shall never pass this way again.
Etienne de Grellet To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all.
Oscar Wilde Troubles, they may come and go, but good times, they're the gold.
Dave Matthews Band In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Albert Schweitzer Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
Author Unknown In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
Daniel L. Reardon Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.
Author Unknown Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.
Wilson Mizner Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius When one door of happiness closes, another opens; But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Arthur Baldwin 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 it will be worth remembering.
Ida Scott Taylor I believe in angels,
The kind that heaven sends,
I am surrounded by angels,
But I call them friends.
Author Unknown Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill Do something that the world would care about for years after you have passed on.
Lorrin L. Lee It’s not the critic that counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
Theodore Roosevelt
If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
African Proverb The best of times is now.
Oprah Winfrey
If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Christopher Columbus The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Jimmy Johnson
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher
Everything will be all right in the end, if it's not all right, it's not the end.
Author Unknown God will never give you any problems that he thinks you can't solve.
Og Mandino God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
The Serenity Prayer.
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
Tom Peters
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.
B. Olatunji
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J.K. Rowling
Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
Jamie Paolinetti
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen
If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.
Rabbi Harold Kushner Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm S. Forbes The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Peter Drucker While seeking revenge, dig two graves one for yourself.
Doug Horton Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.
Robert Louis Stevenson Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!
Allison Gappa Bottke In three words I can sum up what I’ve learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
Henry Miller
The Books in My Life.
See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.
Pope John XXIII If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
Jim Rohn The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of conflict and controversy.
Martin Luther King
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.
Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
Pooh's Little Instruction Book
Inspired by A.A. Milne.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Richard Bach
Joan Baez Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Desiderata
In youth we learn, in age we understand.
Marie von EbnerEschenbach Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
Chinese proverb Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Margaret Thatcher To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.
Brigham Young The essential question is not, How busy are you? but What are you busy at?
Oprah Winfrey
Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.
Kathryn Carpenter To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
Hippocrates
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snow flake. Let us use it before it is too late.
Marie Beynon Ray Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
Chinese Proverb Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
When you start treating people like people, they become people.
Paul Vitale
Decorate yourself from the inside out.
Andrei Turnhollow
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
E.E. Cummings
If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.
Toni Morrison I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale
The Philosopher.
One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become.
Charles DuBois I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
Alice Walker
The Color Purple.
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard
The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Ulysses S. Grant Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas à Kempis
Imitation of Christ.
Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it torn up to irrecoverable tatters.
Samuel Butler
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Leo Aikman Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.
Author Unknown
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But, it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!
Rocky Balboa movie
#Love Yourself: #Quotes about the importance of loving you!
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
Mae West Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
Byron Katie
Our first and last love is - self-love
Christian Bovee Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Veronica A. Shoffstall
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
Nicholas de Chamfort
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Anthony Powell If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Barbara De Angelis The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.
Sonya Friedman
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Oscar Wilde You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.
Author Unknown The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
Eldridge Cleaver Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
Karolina Kurkova I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
Walt Whitman
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
William Shakespeare
Henry V.
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
Alan Cohen The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
W. H. Auden
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
June Jordan Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
François de la Rochefoucauld
Don't forget to love yourself.
Soren Kierkegaard I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
Muhammad Ali If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
Kristin Chenoweth I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
June Jordan You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.
Dr Karl Menninger
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.
Paul Valery It's not your job to like me - it's mine
Byron Katie
Love brings you face to face with your self. It's impossible to love another if you cannot love yourself.
John Pierrakos He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparison with others, he has some invisible distinctions, some latent reserve of excellence, which he throws into the balance, and by which he generally fancies that it is turned in his favour.
Samuel Johnson
Getting ahead in a diffcult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren The degree to which you love yourself will determine your ability to love the other person, who will be reflecting back to you many of your own personality traits and qualities.
Sanaya Roman The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
Carl Gustav Jung Love yourself, for if you don't, how can you expect anybody else to love you?
Author Unknown
You can measure the impeccability of your word by your level of self-love. How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word. When you are impeccable with your word, you feel good; you feel happy and at peace. You can transcend the dream of hell just by making the agreement to be impeccable with your word. Right now I am planting that seed in your mind. Whether or not the seed grows depends upon how fertile your mind is for the seeds of love. It is up to you to make this agreement with yourself: I am impeccable with my word. Nurture this seed, and as it grows in your mind, it will generate more seeds of love to replace the seeds of fear. This first agreement will change the kind of seeds your mind is fertile for.
Don Miguel Ruiz He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin Living life without self-courtship has a high cost. We risk losing our sensuality, our senses, precious moments with those we love, our smile, and our joy. When we romance ourselves, it prepares a fertile garden for a profusion of love to bloom in all areas of our lives. We regain passion and now becomes a moment not to be missed!
Corrie Woods Imagine when you look in the mirror that the face looking back at you is someone you truly love. Just imagine.
www.isha.com
People often say that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
Salma Hayek We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.
Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi Devi)
My primary relationship is with myself- all others are mirrors of it. As I learn to love myself, I automatically receive the love and appreciation that I desire from others. If I am commited to myself and to living my truth, I will attract others with equal commitment. My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.
Shakti Gawain Loving yourself is healing the world.
www.motherhuggers.com Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else.
bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins) A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
Ralph Waldo Emerson In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Famous #Quotes about #life
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen
Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
Martin H. Fischer
We have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. Davies
Leisure. The healthiest response to life is joy.
Deepak Chopra When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...
And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life.
Monty Python's Life of Brian The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
Chinese Proverb What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
Lillian Dickson There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin The Best Things in Life are Free.
B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson
Song from the Musical 'Good News'.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde Here's to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!
Irish Saying The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Zeno
From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan, Act I.
Where there is love there is life.
Indira Gandhi
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
Reba McEntire Life is nothing without friendship.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.
Wilson Mizner When one door of happiness closes, another opens; But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill The best of times is now.
Oprah Winfrey
Whatever you are be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein Do all things with love.
Og Mandino Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Kahlil Gibran Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye, spoken by Mr. Spencer. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
Macbeth, 5. 5. Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
Mother Teresa
Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine... Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery.
Buddha If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne
Winnie the Pooh.
Never take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Author Unknown
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms;
Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
William Shakespeare
As You Like It, 2. 7.
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen
David Carradine In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
Charlie Brown Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
R. D. Laing Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley
Thunder on the Left
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Life is what happens to you
While you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon
Beautiful Boy
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare
King John, 3. 4
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter De Vries The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert Heinlein
Job
Life is just a bowl of pits.
Rodney Dangerfield Life is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates…you never know what you're gonna get.
Forrest Gump
Spoken by Tom Hanks in movie Forrest Gump Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
Henry J. Tillman Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
Wally 'Famous' Amos Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
William Goldman
The Princess Bride
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
Jack Handey You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye Live dangerously and you live right.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Alice Roosevelt Longworth The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson Life is the sum of all your choices.
Albert Camus I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham Cowley
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 The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
Thich Nhat Hanh The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Thomas Carlyle Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
Henry Ward Beecher In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
Robert Frost During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people, I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if it needs be it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
Nelson Mandela The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
Norman Thomas Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table. Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles Schulz
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Seneca There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
Alexander Woollcott
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What good is sitting alone in your room?
Come hear the music play.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum.
Come to the Cabaret.
Fred Ebb and John Kander There are many things in life that will catch your eye. But only a few will catch your heart.
Ben Crenshaw
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they do their lives.
Jim Rohn Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr. Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.
Frederick Buechner
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith Everything happens for a reason, people change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so you can appreciate them when they're right, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can come together.
Marilyn Monroe Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence S. Darrow
Great #Quotes from Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich
“Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.”
“Accurate analysis of over 25,000 men and women who had experienced failure, disclosed the fact that Lack of Decision was near the head of the list of the 30 major causes of failure.”
“There is but one dependable method of accumulating, and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.”
“Money, without brains, always is dangerous. Properly used, it is the most important essential of civilization.”
“Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money.”
“It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine.”
“You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.”
“Procrastination, the opposite of decision, is a common enemy which practically every man must conquer.”
“The basis of persistence is the Power of Will.”
“The “Master Mind” may be defined as: “Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose.”
“‘Let me call your attention to a great power, which is under your control.’, said Mr. Carnegie.”
“Whatever the Mind can conceive and believe, the Mind can achieve.”
“If you believe it, you can do it.”
“Failures see the hole in the donut, but do not see the donut around the hole.”
“If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.”
“Tolerance and an open mind are practical necessities of the dreamer of today.”
“In planning to acquire your share of the riches, let no one influence you to scorn the dreamer.”
“Let us not forget, Columbus dreamed of an Unknown world, staked his life on the existence of such a world, and discovered it!”
“Copernicus, the great astronomer, dreamed of a multiplicity of worlds, and revealed them!”
“Practical dreamers DO NOT QUIT!”
“The Wright brothers dreamed of a machine that would fly through the air. Now one may see evidence all over the world, that they dreamed soundly.”
“The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. DREAMS ARE THE SEEDLINGS OF REALITY.”
“The world is filled with an abundance of OPPORTUNITY which the dreamers of the past never knew.”
“Only those who become “money conscious” ever accumulate great riches.”
“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.”
“Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”
“Riches begin in the form of thought!”
“Faith removes limitations!”
20 #Inspirational and #Motivational #Quotes for #Sunday
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
George Eliot No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! (Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow)
Horace I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward 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
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu
You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
William Arthur Ward You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Christopher Columbus Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Henry Ford
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And Today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
Babatunde Olatunji We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do.
John Wooden Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Author Unknown
Attributed to Buddha, but this is disputed.
Be #Grateful: #Quotes on counting your #blessings
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Eric Hoffer
When I'm worried and I can't sleep
I count my blessings instead of sheep.
Irving Berlin
Count your gains instead of your losses.
Count your joys instead of your woes;
Count your friends instead of your foes.
Count your smiles instead of your tears;
Count your courage instead of your fears.
Count your full years instead of your lean;
Count your kind deeds instead of your mean.
Count your health instead of your wealth;
Count on God instead of yourself.
Author Unknown Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
Og Mandino Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.
Marianne Williamson Counting our blessings can transform melancholy into cheerful mass; laughter and joy are expressions of praise and thanksgiving for life's glories. When looking at the glass that symbolizes our life, we can view it as half full or half empty. The choice is ours... The more joyful we are, the more attractive we become. When we feel gratitude for our experiences, it becomes easier to see the good that always exists. When we give a smile to someone else, we are likely to receive one in return, and that smile reflects a happy heart that is open and receptive to what the good life has in store.
John Marks Templeton Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens Every positive thing in your life represents a single unique blessing. Every negative thing in your life has the opportunity to become a double blessing. For when you turn a negative into a positive, you gain twice. You are no longer burdened with the negative situation, and in addition to that you are strengthened by a new positive force.
Ralph Marston First of all that I would crave as the richest of heaven's blessings would be wisdom from my Heavenly Father bestowed daily.
Emma Hale Smith Some wish blessings, others pray for them. Some send blessings and they become one.
Joyce C. Lock Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Hamilton Wright Mabie There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end; there are not pens or paper enough in all the world.
George A. Buttrick Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
Harold Coffin Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
W. T. Purkiser Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
Titus Livius Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and worn with thanks.
Thomas Goodwin When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
Willie Nelson
Failure #Quotes that #Inspire #Success
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
Napoleon Hill
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Nightingale
Mickey Rooney Success is 99% failure.
Soichiro Honda Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Robert Kiyosaki Success has made failures of many men.
Cindy Adams Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.
Winston Churchill Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Zig Ziglar To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
James Allen There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
Colin Powell One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
Henry Ford A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison 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
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 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.
William Saroyan
No man or woman is uniformly successful… we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.
Barnaby Keeney There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.
Laurence Shames I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
Paulo Coelho Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Malcolm S. Forbes Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
Walter Brunell Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Waitley
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C.S. Lewis If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
Robert H. Schuller
If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win.
Walter Reuther I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert B. Swope I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Alva Edison
A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.
Elmer G. Letterman
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
Havelock Ellis An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Charles F. Kettering Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Denis Waitley If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
Anne Sullivan My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.
Elaine Maxwell
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, "I have failed three times," and what happens when he says, "I am a failure."
S.I. Hayakawa
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
Roger Von Oech The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
Sven Goran Eriksson
There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.
Tom Krause
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
Swami Sivananda We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.
Leo F. Buscaglia What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
May Sarton
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