Thursday, December 20, 2012
Great Quotes from Anthony Robbins
Quality questions create a quality life. You need to burn this idea into your brain, because it’s as important as anything else you’ll learn in this book. Businesses succeed when those who make the decisions that control their destiny ask the right questions about markets or strategies or product lines. Relationships flourish when people ask the right questions about where potential conflicts exist and how to support each other instead of tearing each other down. Politicians win elections when the questions they raise—whether explicitly or implicitly—provide answers that work for them...
Why do people persist in an unsatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It’s because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they’re already experiencing.
You’ve got to remember that what drives us is our emotions. So get associated and use pain as your friend, one that can drive you to a new level of success.
The first step is understanding what your strengths are and then focusing on those strengths in what you do in your life.
“Comfort zones are plush-lined coffins.”
All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.
Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it’s 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.
THE PROBLEM-SOLVING QUESTIONS: 1 What is great about this problem? 2 What is not perfect yet? 3 What am I willing to do to make it the way I want it? 4 What am I willing to no longer do in order to make it the way I want it? 5 How can I enjoy the process while I do what is necessary to make it the way I want it?
know that the only limit to what you can have in your life is the size of your imagination and the level of your commitment to making it real.
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.
Remember, as long as you believe something, your brain operates on automatic pilot, filtering any input from the environment and searching for references to validate your belief, regardless of what it is.
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity,”
We each have over eighty different muscles in our faces, and if these muscles get accustomed to expressing depression, boredom, or frustration, then this habitual muscular pattern literally begins to dictate our states, not to mention our physical character.
One of the most powerful distinctions that I’ve made in the last ten years of my life is simply this: Emotion is created by motion. Everything that we feel is the result of how we use our bodies. Even the most minute changes in our facial expressions or our gestures will shift the way that we’re feeling in any moment, and therefore the way we evaluate our lives—the way we think and the way we act.
37 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life
“Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.” - Unknown
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown
“I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.” – Unknown
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” – Steve Jobs
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” - Joshua J. Marine
“Its hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to give up when you know its everything you want.” – Unknown
“One of the most important keys to Success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, even when you dont feel like doing it.” - Unknown
“Good things come to those who wait… greater things come to those who get off their ass and do anything to make it happen.” - Unknown
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.” - Denis Waitley
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby
“Go where you are celebrated – not tolerated. If they can’t see the real value of you, it’s time for a new start.” – Unknown
Dont be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone.. - Unknown
“The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
“Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason that it will.” - Unknown
“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Albert Einstein
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” – Steve Jobs
“Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish it.” – Unknown
“When you say “It’s hard”, it actually means “I’m not strong enough to fight for it”. Stop saying its hard. Think positive!” - Unknown
“Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.” - Unknown
“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield
“The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.” - Unknown
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
“The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.” – Joel Brown
“Self confidence is the most attractive quality a person can have. how can anyone see how awesome you are if you can’t see it yourself?” – Unknown
“We learn something from everyone who passes through our lives.. Some lessons are painful, some are painless.. but, all are priceless.” - Unknown
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. it means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” - Unknown
“Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” – Larry Winget
“Three things you cannot recover in life: the WORD after it’s said, the MOMENT after it’s missed and the TIME after it’s gone. Be Careful!” – Unknown
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard
“When the past calls, let it go to voicemail, believe me, it has nothing new to say.” - Unknown
“Rule #1 of life. Do what makes YOU happy.” - Unknown
“Walk away from anything or anyone who takes away from your joy. Life is too short to put up with fools.” – Unknown
“Love what you have. Need what you want. Accept what you receive. Give what you can. Always remember, what goes around, comes around…” – Unknwon
“Just remember there is someone out there that is more than happy with less than what you have.” – Unknown
“The biggest failure you can have in life is making the mistake of never trying at all.” – Unknown
“Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1.” - Unknown
“No one is going to hand me success. I must go out & get it myself. That’s why I’m here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world, and myself.” - Unknown
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Great Quotes From Jim Rohn
There is little difference between those who cannot read and those who will not read—the result of both is ignorance.
Do not spend time regretting the past, but invest that time wisely by preparing a better future.
An empty bank account is a sign of an ineffective past effort. It is a sign of a missed opportunity. It is a sign of too much procrastination, or laziness.
There is little difference between one who has given up his life and one who has given up his hope. There are those who will laugh at those who read useful books, and yet there is little difference between those who cannot read and those who will not read—the result of both is ignorance.
It is the human tendency to blame someone or something else for our lack of progress—we blame government, competitors, managers, inflation, pay schedules and even the traffic and weather for our circumstances.
Attitude determines choice, and choice determines results. All that we are, and all that we can become, has indeed been left unto us.
Discipline weighs ounces, and the pain of regret weighs tons.
Everything we have acquired is a result of past efforts and past thoughts. We gather intelligence or we gather ignorance, and our future will produce rewards commensurate with what we have done with the past. We must use our time to plan, to labor, to measure, to invest, to share, to refine past activity, and to add to our storehouse of knowledge. These are the seeds we must gather along the way so that the quality of our results will improve with each passing year.
We cannot have more without first becoming more. That is one of the basics.
Surely our lives are worth more than a birth certificate, a gravestone and a half-million dollars in consumed goods and services compressed between those major milestones in our lives.
Even a small amount of time can make a great deal of difference when it is spent with the right people—people who educate, encourage, inspire, and assist us in moving in the right direction. It is better to spend a little time with the right people than to spend a lot of time with the wrong people. By expanding our association to include more of the right people, and closing the doors to exclude or limit more of the wrong people, we expose ourselves to new and better sources of influence.
A tree does not grow to half its potential size and then say, “I guess that will do.” A tree will drive its roots as deep as possible. It will soak up as much nourishment as it can, stretch as high and as wide as nature will allow, and then look down as if to remind us of how much each of us could become if we would only do all that we can. Why is it that human beings, surely the most intelligent life form on earth, do not strive to achieve their maximum potential? Why is it that we allow ourselves to stop halfway? Why are we not constantly striving to become all that we can be? The reason...
We can choose rest over labor, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make.
One serves as an example to be followed, the other as an example to be avoided—as a warning to be studied, but not emulated.
The word “tip” is an abbreviation of the phrase “To Insure Promptness,” which implies that the gratuity should be given before we receive the service, not after.
The decisions we are making are not wrong, based on the information we have; it is the information we have that is causing us to make wrong decisions. Unfortunately, these wrong decisions are leading us further away from, rather than closer toward, the achievement of our goals.
Results do not respond to need. Results respond to effort… to labor… to activity. If we have done our part, the results we need will appear in a reasonable amount of time.
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Bruce Lee’s Best Motivational Quotes
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.” – Bruce Lee
“As you think, so shall you become.” – Bruce Lee
“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.” – Bruce Lee
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” – Bruce Lee
“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.” – Bruce Lee
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.” – Bruce Lee
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” – Bruce Lee
“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” – Bruce Lee
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee
“It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.” – Bruce Lee
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” – Bruce Lee
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” – Bruce Lee
“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.” – Bruce Lee
“Real living is living for others.” – Bruce Lee
“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.” – Bruce Lee
“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.” – Bruce Lee
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Presidential Debates: Quotes from both Candidates
"OURS IS A FIGHT TO RESTORE THE VALUES THAT BUILT THE LARGEST MIDDLE CLASS AND THE STRONGEST ECONOMY THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN."
"MY GRANDPARENTS WERE GIVEN THE CHANCE TO GO TO COLLEGE, BUY THEIR OWN—THEIR—THEIR OWN HOME, AND FULFILL THE BASIC BARGAIN AT THE HEART OF AMERICA'S STORY: THE PROMISE THAT HARD WORK WILL PAY OFF; THAT RESPONSIBILITY WILL BE REWARDED; THAT EVERYONE GETS A FAIR SHOT, AND EVERYONE DOES THEIR FAIR SHARE, AND EVERYONE PLAYS BY THE SAME RULES, FROM MAIN STREET TO WALL STREET TO WASHINGTON, D.C."
"[REPUBLICANS] WANT YOUR VOTE, BUT THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW THEIR PLAN. AND THAT'S BECAUSE ALL THEY HAD TO OFFER IS THE SAME PRESCRIPTION THEY'VE HAD FOR THE LAST THIRTY YEARS:
"HAVE A SURPLUS? TRY A TAX CUT."
"DEFICIT TOO HIGH? TRY ANOTHER."
"FEEL A COLD COMING ON? TAKE TWO TAX CUTS, ROLL BACK SOME REGULATIONS, AND CALL US IN THE MORNING."
"AFTER ALL THAT WE'VE BEEN THROUGH, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT ROLLING BACK REGULATIONS ON WALL STREET WILL HELP THE SMALL BUSINESSWOMAN EXPAND, OR THE LAID-OFF CONSTRUCTION WORKER KEEP HIS HOME. WE HAVE BEEN THERE, WE'VE TRIED THAT, AND WE'RE NOT GOING BACK."
"WE ARE MOVING FORWARD, AMERICA."
"KNOW THIS, AMERICA: OUR PROBLEMS CAN BE SOLVED. OUR CHALLENGES CAN BE MET. THE PATH WE OFFER MAY BE HARDER, BUT IT LEADS TO A BETTER PLACE. AND I'M ASKING YOU TO CHOOSE THAT FUTURE."
"I REFUSE TO GO ALONG WITH [LOWERING OUR DEFICITS BY SPENDING TRILLIONS MORE ON NEW TAX BREAKS FOR THE WEALTHY]. AND AS LONG AS I'M PRESIDENT, I NEVER WILL."
"AMERICA, I NEVER SAID THIS JOURNEY WOULD BE EASY, AND I WON'T PROMISE THAT NOW. YES, OUR PATH IS HARDER, BUT IT LEADS TO A BETTER PLACE. YES OUR ROAD IS LONGER, BUT WE TRAVEL IT TOGETHER. WE DON'T TURN BACK. WE LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND. WE PULL EACH OTHER UP. WE DRAW STRENGTH FROM OUR VICTORIES, AND WE LEARN FROM OUR MISTAKES, BUT WE KEEP OUR EYES FIXED ON THAT DISTANT HORIZON, KNOWING THAT PROVIDENCE IS WITH US, AND THAT WE ARE SURELY BLESSED TO BE CITIZENS OF THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH."
We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better. They came not just in pursuit of the riches of this world but for the richness of this life. Freedom.
This is when our nation was supposed to start paying down the national debt and rolling back those massive deficits. This was the hope and change America voted for. It’s not just what we wanted. It’s not just what we expected. It’s what Americans deserved.
The President hasn’t disappointed you because he wanted to. The President has disappointed America because he hasn’t led America in the right direction. He took office without the basic qualification that most Americans have and one that was essential to his task. He had almost no experience working in a business. Jobs to him are about government.
That’s what this President doesn’t seem to understand. Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn’t work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.
That is why every president since the Great Depression who came before the American people asking for a second term could look back at the last four years and say with satisfaction: “you are better off today than you were four years ago.” Except Jimmy Carter. And except this president.
This president can ask us to be patient. This president can tell us it was someone else’s fault. This president can tell us that the next four years he’ll get it right. But this president cannot tell us that YOU are better off today than when he took office.
This is when our nation was supposed to start paying down the national debt and rolling back those massive deficits. This was the hope and change America voted for. It’s not just what we wanted. It’s not just what we expected. It’s what Americans deserved.
We look to our communities, our faiths, our families for our joy, our support, in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives. The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America’s communities, large and small.
Monday, September 17, 2012
50 Inspiring Dream Big Quotes
1. “It may be that those who do most, dream most.” – Stephen Butler Leacock
2. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
4. “The future you see is the future you get.” – Robert G Allen
5. “Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.” – Adolph Monod
6. “When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.” – Greg Anderson
7. “Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.” – James Allen
8. “Follow your heart and your dreams will come true.” – Anonymous
9. “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” – Pamela Vaull Starr
10. “When you have a dream you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” – Carol Burnett
11. “What’s the purpose of living if you don’t go after your dreams?” – Samson Reiny
12. “Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.” – Dr. Dale E. Turner
13. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
14. “Capture your dreams and your life becomes full. You can, because you think you can.” – Nikita Koloff
15. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France
16. “For those who dare to dream, there is a whole world to win.” – Dhirubhai Ambani
17. “No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.” – Anonymous
18. “Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone’s gift — yours and mine.” – Barbara Sher
19. “Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there’s a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.” – Anonymous
20. “I have had dreams, and I’ve had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.” – Jonas Salk
21. “Any dream worth dreaming, is worth the effort to make it some true.” – Evan Gourley
22. “Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” – Wayne W. Dyer
23. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
24. “At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.” – Christopher Reeve
25. “This one step: choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.” – Scott Reed
26. “Life is short, live bold! Be heard, be you, dream big, take risks, don’t wait.” – Misty Gibbs
27. “It’s better to have an impossible dream than no dream at all.” – Anonymous
28. “All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” – Brian Tracy
29. “The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.” – Ben Stein
30. “Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.” - Wendy Wasserstein
31. “If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.” – Marcel Proust
32. “Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream.” – Peter McWilliams
33. “Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.” – Anais Nin
34. “Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” – Napoleon Hill
35. “There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can’t have — at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.” – Barbara Sher
36. “If you can imagine it, You can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.” – William Arthur Ward
37. “Have the courage to follow your dreams. It’s the first step towards attaining your destiny.” - Nikita Koloff
38. “Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.” – Tupac Shakur
39. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
40. “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau
41. “Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.” - Life’s Little Instructions
42. “You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” – James A. Froude
43. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Anonymous
44. “If I can dream, I can act. And if I can act, I can become.” – Poh Yu Khing
45. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
46. “Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.” – John Updike
47. “You can live your dreams if you can embrace change. It’s by taking chances that you’ll learn how to be brave.” – Nikita Koloff
48. “If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.” – Les Brown
49. “If you don’t have a dream, how can you have a dream come true?” – Jiminy Cricket
50. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. ” – Harriet Tubman
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
100 Inspirational Quotes to Live By Vol.2
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
The greatest advantage of speaking the truth is that you don't have to remember what you said."
"Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming."
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) American poet
"Worrying is the same thing as banging your head against the wall. It only feels good when you stop." - John Powers (1945 - ) American author
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
Sometimes we are limited more by attitude than by opportunities.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), The Mother
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. Publilius Syrus (~100 BC),
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
A goal is a dream with a deadline. Napoleon Hill
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
"Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be. ~ Robert Brault
Winners make it happen. Losers let it happen. Leonard Lavin
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. ~ Wayne W. Dyer
“You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!”
A good plan today is better than a great plan tomorrow. George S. Patton
“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.” Author unknown
"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality." Les Brown
Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life. Mark Twain
“Why is it that people think staying in a bad relationship is better than being single? Don’t they know that being single is the first step to finding a great relationship?”
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. ~ Dr. Seuss
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. St. Francis of Assisi
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. Les Brown
“One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be.”
Old habits can't be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed down the stairs one step at a time. Mark Twain
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley
A winner is someone who recognizes his God given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. Larry Bird
Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised. Ann Landers
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that Our aim is too high and We miss it, but that is too low and We reach it.” - Michelangelo
"In order to succeed You must fail so that You know what not to do the next time." - Anthony J. D'Angelo
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself... Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. ~ Barack Obama
Dreaming is wonderful, goal setting is crucial, but action is supreme. To make something great happen you must get busy and make it happen. Take that action step today that will put you on your path to achievement. Greg Werner
"Work like You don't need the money. Love like You've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching." - Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain
"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat." - Napoleon Hill
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - Winston Churchill
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." Norman Vincent Peale
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now. Zig Ziglar
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now. Zig Ziglar
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. Elbert Hubbard
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. Henry David Thoreau
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther. J.P. Morgan
"Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming."
Beware the barrenness of a busy life. ~Socrates
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. ~George Smith Patton
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is. Albert Einstein
The woods would be very silent if no birds sang excpt those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke
"Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more." Mother Teresa
"If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it." – Jonathan Winters
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. Plato
“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” ~Epictetus
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. Benjamin Franklin
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.—Philo, philosopher
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. —Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise. —Billy Graham
For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just following our darkest hours. (Ensign, May 1984, p. 22.)
"Work like You don't need the money. Love like You've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching." - Mark Twain
“If you will put the Word of God in your heart when you don’t need it, God will bring it out when you do need it.” - Joel Osteen
Victory is not the absence of problems; it is the presence of God’s power. - Joyce Meyer
"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward."
"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat." - Napoleon Hill
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - Winston Churchill
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein
Well done is better than well said. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706 - 1790)
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be. ~ Robert Brault
Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them quite so much.—Oscar Wilde
If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them. -Zig Ziglar
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some; it is in everyone. And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. - Nelson Mandela
Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes."
“Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.” Robert Half
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. Benjamin Franklin
"Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future."
“If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.”
Never discourage anyone.....who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato
Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes. —Irving Washington 1783-1859
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. -Albert Einstein
Remember that forgiving someone doesn’t make them right, it makes you free. - Stormie Omartian
It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another. - Nelson Mandela
“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.” - Martin Luther King, Jr
You can’t receive what you speak against. That’s an important point. So, watch your lips! It’s part of having faith. You must look beyond what you can see, even if your senses give you no assurance. Making it to your destiny depends on it. - Jesse Duplantis
“I will never give up! God is on my side, He loves me, and He is helping me!” - Joyce Meyer
When you begin each day in faith, anticipating something good, God tells the angels to go to work and to arrange things in your favor. He gives you breaks, lines up the right people, and opens the right doors. - Joel Osteen
God always uses imperfect people in imperfect situations to accomplish his will. - Rick Warren
Confidence is characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances. - John C. Maxwell
There is something in you more precious than what others have said about you. - Dr. Myles Munroe
God hasn't appointed you to mediocrity but to a life of profound harvest. - Beth Moore
“There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation than for bread.” - Mother Teresa
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent is God-given; be thankful. Praise is man-given; be humble. Conceit is self-given; be careful. —Dave Driscoll
Inspirational Quotes from the Late "King of Pop" Michael Jackson
“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.”
“Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.”
I believe we are powerful, but we don’t use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.
Believe in yourself. Study the greats and become greater. And be a scientist. Dissect. Dissect.
Work like there’s no tomorrow. Train. Strive. I mean, really train and cultivate your talent to the highest degree. Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive. Use the tools of your trade, if it’s books or a floor to dance on or a body of water to swim in. Whatever it is, it’s yours.That’s what I’ve always tried to remember.
I think it’s so important to set goals for yourself. It gives you an idea of where you want to go and how you want to get there. If you don’t aim for something, you’ll never know whether you could have hit the mark.
I believe in wishes and in a person’s ability to make a wish come true. I really do. Whenever I saw a sunset, I would quietly make my secret wish right before the sun tucked under the western horizon and disappeared. It would seem as if the sun had taken my wish with it. I’d make it right before that last speck of light vanished. And a wish is more than a wish, it’s a goal. It’s something your conscious and subconscious can help make reality.
I have always been a dreamer. I set goals for myself. I look at things and try to imagine what is possible and then hope to surpass those boundaries.
I don’t care if the whole world is against you or teasing you or saying you’re not gonna make it. Believe in yourself. No matter what.
Some of the greatest men who have made their mark on this world were treated like that-you know, “You’re not gonna do it, you’re not gonna get anywhere.” They laughed at the Wright brothers. They laughed at Thomas Edison. They laughed at Walt Disney. They made jokes about Henry Ford. They said he was ignorant. Disney dropped out of school. That’s how far they went. These men shaped and changed our culture, our customs, the way we live, the way we do things. And I think God plants those seeds through people on the earth. And I think you’re one, I’m one to bring some bliss and escapism, some joy, some magic. Because without entertainment, what would the world be like? You know? What would it really be like? It would be a totally different world for me.
People used to underestimate my ability as a songwriter. They didn’t think of me as a songwriter, so when I started coming up with songs, they’d look at me like: “Who really wrote that?” I don’t know what they must have thought - that I had someone back in the garage who was writing them for me? But time cleared up those misconceptions. You always have to prove yourself to people and so many of them don’t want to believe. I’ve heard tales of Walt Disney going from studio to studio when he first started out, trying to sell his work unsuccessfully and being turned down. When he was finally given a chance, everyone thought he was the greatest thing that ever happened.
Making the Thriller album was very hard work, but it’s true that you only get out of something what you put into it. I’m a perfectionist: I’ll work until I drop. And I worked so hard on that album.
I remember Berry Gordy sitting us all down and saying that we were going to make history together. “I’m gonna make you the biggest thing in the world,” he said, “and you’re gonna be written about in history books.” He really said that to us. We were leaning forward, listening to him, and saying, “Okay! Okay!” I’ll never forget that. We were all over at his house, and it was like a fairy tale come true listening to this powerful, talented man tell us we were going to be very big. “Your first record will be a number one, your second record will be a number one, and so will your third record. Three number one records in a row. You’ll hit the charts just as Diana Ross and the Supremes did.” This was almost unheard of in those days, but he was right; we turned around and did just that. Three in a row.
I have such admiration for Mr. Disney and what he accomplished with the help of so many talented artists. When I think about the joy he and his company have brought to millions of children - and adults - the world over, I am in awe.
Michael Jackson on being doubted in the process of making the ‘Thriller’ album (Highest selling album of all time).
I remember being in the studio once with Quincy and Rod Temperton while we were working on Thriller. I was playing a pinball machine and one of them asked me, “If this album doesn’t do as well as Off the Wall, will you be disappointed?”
I remember feeling upset - hurt that the question was even raised. I told them Thriller had to do better than Off the Wall. I admitted that I wanted this album to be the biggest-selling album of all time. They started laughing. It was a seemingly unrealistic thing to want.
There were times during the Thriller project when I would get emotional or upset because I couldn’t get the people working with me to see what I was. That still happens to me sometimes. Often people just don’t see what I see. They have too much doubt. You can’t do your best when you’re doubting yourself. If you don’t believe in yourself, who will? Just doing as well as you did last time is not good enough. I think of it as the “Try to get what you can” mentality. It doesn’t require you to stretch, to grow. I don’t believe in that.
Sometimes when you’re treated unfairly it makes you stronger and more determined
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Inspirational Quotes from the Late "King of Pop" Michael Jackson
“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.”
“Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.”
I believe we are powerful, but we don’t use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.
Believe in yourself. Study the greats and become greater. And be a scientist. Dissect. Dissect.
Work like there’s no tomorrow. Train. Strive. I mean, really train and cultivate your talent to the highest degree. Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive. Use the tools of your trade, if it’s books or a floor to dance on or a body of water to swim in. Whatever it is, it’s yours.That’s what I’ve always tried to remember.
I think it’s so important to set goals for yourself. It gives you an idea of where you want to go and how you want to get there. If you don’t aim for something, you’ll never know whether you could have hit the mark.
I believe in wishes and in a person’s ability to make a wish come true. I really do. Whenever I saw a sunset, I would quietly make my secret wish right before the sun tucked under the western horizon and disappeared. It would seem as if the sun had taken my wish with it. I’d make it right before that last speck of light vanished. And a wish is more than a wish, it’s a goal. It’s something your conscious and subconscious can help make reality.
I have always been a dreamer. I set goals for myself. I look at things and try to imagine what is possible and then hope to surpass those boundaries.
I don’t care if the whole world is against you or teasing you or saying you’re not gonna make it. Believe in yourself. No matter what.
Some of the greatest men who have made their mark on this world were treated like that-you know, “You’re not gonna do it, you’re not gonna get anywhere.” They laughed at the Wright brothers. They laughed at Thomas Edison. They laughed at Walt Disney. They made jokes about Henry Ford. They said he was ignorant. Disney dropped out of school. That’s how far they went. These men shaped and changed our culture, our customs, the way we live, the way we do things. And I think God plants those seeds through people on the earth. And I think you’re one, I’m one to bring some bliss and escapism, some joy, some magic. Because without entertainment, what would the world be like? You know? What would it really be like? It would be a totally different world for me.
People used to underestimate my ability as a songwriter. They didn’t think of me as a songwriter, so when I started coming up with songs, they’d look at me like: “Who really wrote that?” I don’t know what they must have thought - that I had someone back in the garage who was writing them for me? But time cleared up those misconceptions. You always have to prove yourself to people and so many of them don’t want to believe. I’ve heard tales of Walt Disney going from studio to studio when he first started out, trying to sell his work unsuccessfully and being turned down. When he was finally given a chance, everyone thought he was the greatest thing that ever happened.
Making the Thriller album was very hard work, but it’s true that you only get out of something what you put into it. I’m a perfectionist: I’ll work until I drop. And I worked so hard on that album.
I remember Berry Gordy sitting us all down and saying that we were going to make history together. “I’m gonna make you the biggest thing in the world,” he said, “and you’re gonna be written about in history books.” He really said that to us. We were leaning forward, listening to him, and saying, “Okay! Okay!” I’ll never forget that. We were all over at his house, and it was like a fairy tale come true listening to this powerful, talented man tell us we were going to be very big. “Your first record will be a number one, your second record will be a number one, and so will your third record. Three number one records in a row. You’ll hit the charts just as Diana Ross and the Supremes did.” This was almost unheard of in those days, but he was right; we turned around and did just that. Three in a row.
I have such admiration for Mr. Disney and what he accomplished with the help of so many talented artists. When I think about the joy he and his company have brought to millions of children - and adults - the world over, I am in awe.
Michael Jackson on being doubted in the process of making the ‘Thriller’ album (Highest selling album of all time).
I remember being in the studio once with Quincy and Rod Temperton while we were working on Thriller. I was playing a pinball machine and one of them asked me, “If this album doesn’t do as well as Off the Wall, will you be disappointed?”
I remember feeling upset - hurt that the question was even raised. I told them Thriller had to do better than Off the Wall. I admitted that I wanted this album to be the biggest-selling album of all time. They started laughing. It was a seemingly unrealistic thing to want.
There were times during the Thriller project when I would get emotional or upset because I couldn’t get the people working with me to see what I was. That still happens to me sometimes. Often people just don’t see what I see. They have too much doubt. You can’t do your best when you’re doubting yourself. If you don’t believe in yourself, who will? Just doing as well as you did last time is not good enough. I think of it as the “Try to get what you can” mentality. It doesn’t require you to stretch, to grow. I don’t believe in that.
Sometimes when you’re treated unfairly it makes you stronger and more determined
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Great Quotes from 2Pac Shakur
“Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real.”
“Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got: don't ever stop, just push it 'till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall”
“A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.”
“I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear.”
“My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.”
“During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams”
“I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, theres a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up…and handle it.”
“It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinda scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say "damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.." you gonna be like "DAMN! a ROSE grew from the CONCRETE?”
“You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the way we eat, lets change the way we live, and lets change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so its on us, to do what we gotta do to survive.”
“There’s gonna be some stuff you gonna see thats gonna make it hard to smile in the future, but through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain you gotta keep your sense of humor. you gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit…remember that.”
“I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle
I make mistakes but learn from every one
And when it’s said and done
I bet this brother be a better one
If I upset you don’t stress
Never forget, that God isn’t finished with me yet”
Great inspirational Quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
“Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”
“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.”
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo 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 street sweeper who did his job well.”
“Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they’ll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That’s love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There’s something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies. (from "Loving Your Enemies")”
“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”
Great inspirational quotes from Bob Marley
“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!”
“Don’t Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.”
“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively”
“When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open”
“Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.”
“I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.”
“Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.”
“Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned...
Everything is war. Me say war.
That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation...
Until the color of a man's skin is of
no more significance than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war!”
“If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
No More Excuses! Motivational Quotes to Get You Going
1. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle
2. The best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost
3. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
- William B. Sprague
4. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
5. Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
- Henry Ford
6. I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
- Oprah Winfrey
7. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
- Michael Jordan
8. You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
9. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Goethe
10. You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
11. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
12. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
- Napoleon Hill
13. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
- Truman Capote
14. Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb
15. In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
16. If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
- Isaac B. Singer
17. Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
- Unknown
18. Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
- Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor
19. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
20. Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
- Unknown
21. Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
- Unknown
22. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
- Dan Stanford
23. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
- Albert Einstein
24. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs
25. If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
- Marie Osmond
26. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
- Roy Goodman
27. If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
- E. Joseph Cossman
28. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain
31. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Mark Twain
32. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
33. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
34. The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
- Richard B. Sheridan
35. Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
36. "Act or accept."
- Unanonymous
37. Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
- Tim Blixseth
38. The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
39. Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
- Dr Phil
40. Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
- Stephen R. Covey
41. People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
- Norman Vincent Peale
42. Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
- Anonymous
43. Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant, Author and Advice Columnist
44. I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
- John Cage
45. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
- Albert Einstein
46. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
- Unknown
47. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Unknown
48. Anyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
- Dr. Phil
49. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
- Dr. Denis Waitley
50. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill
51. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
52. Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
- Unknown
53. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
54. There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
- Mario Cuomo
55. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
- Richard Bach
56. Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
- Dr. Michael Norwood
57. Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
58. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
59. Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
- Rosalind Russell
60. Cause Change & Lead
Accept Change & Survive
Resist Change & Die
- Ray Norda, Chairman, Novell
61. Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up! You're right on track.
- Matthew Keith Groves
62. An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
- Bill Bernbach
63. An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
- Prescott
64. Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Ray Bradbury
65. If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Anonymous
66. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
Dennis P. Kimbro
67. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
68. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
69. In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
70. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
71. Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Machiavelli.
72. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
73. "You are what you think about all day long." -- Dr. Robert Schuller
74. What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson"
75. “Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
Booker T. Washington
76. "Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
77. “To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
- Elbert Hubbard
78. If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
- J.M. Power
79. By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
- Robert Frost
80. “I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
- Maya Angelou
81. “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
- William James
82. “When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'”
- Sydney Harris
83. “Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”
- Richard L. Evans
84. “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.”
- Robert Frost
85. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
86. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
- Seneca
87. Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker.
88. The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
- Foster's Law
89. Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
- Joe Clark
90. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
91. Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
- Elbert Hubbard
92. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
93. Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
- Swedish Proverb
94. If you're going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
95. The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
96. Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
- Voltaire
97. Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882
98. There is no education like adversity.
- Disraeli
99. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
100. Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Author Unknown
Great Quotes from Will Smith
“The keys to life are running and reading. When you're running, there's a little person that talks to you and says, "Oh I'm tired. My lung's about to pop. I'm so hurt. There's no way I can possibly continue." You want to quit. If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will how to not quit when things get hard in your life. For reading: there have been gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There's no new problem you could have--with your parents, with school, with a bully. There's no new problem that someone hasn't already had and written about it in a book.”
“Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.”
“The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill. I will not be out-worked, period. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things you got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, there's two things: You're getting off first, or I'm going to die. It's really that simple, right?
You're not going to out-work me. It's such a simple, basic concept. The guy who is willing to hustle the most is going to be the guy that just gets that loose ball. The majority of people who aren't getting the places they want or aren't achieving the things that they want in this business is strictly based on hustle. It's strictly based on being out-worked; it's strictly based on missing crucial opportunities. I say all the time if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready.”
“Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away”
“Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings & emotions”
“I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.”
Great Quotes from 50 Cent’s “The 50th Law”
“Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.” (x)
“The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be 50 Cent or someone else. They do what everyone else does even if it doesn’t fit where and who they are. But you get nowhere that way; your energy is weak and no one pays attention to you. You’re running away from the one thing that you own – what makes you different.” (18) (50 Cent quote)
“Dependency is a habit that is so easy to acquire. We live in a culture that offers you all kinds of crutches – experts to turn to, drugs to cure any psychological unease, mild pleasures to help pass or kill time, jobs to keep you just above water. It is hard to resist. But once you give in, it is like a prison you enter that you cannot ever leave.” (59)
“A lower paying position that offers more room to make decisions and carve out little empires is infinitely preferable to something that pays well but constricts your movements.” (63)
“The only way to gain self-reliance or any power is through great effort and practice. And this effort should not be seen as something ugly or dull; it is the process of gaining power over yourself that is the most satisfying of all, knowing that step-by-step you are elevating yourself above the dependant masses.” (68)
“Even the worst shit that happens to you can be converted into gold if you are clever enough.” (73)
“Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can’t do anything to hurt me.” (75) (50 Cent quote)
“Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around – to defeat an opponent and lift you up.” (86)
“If bad publicity comes your way, think of it as a form of negative attention that you can easily reframe for your purposes. You can seem contrite or rebellious, whatever will stir up your base. If you ignore it, you look guilty. If you fight it, you seem defensive. If you go with it and channel it in your direction, you have turned it into an opportunity for positive attention. In general, obstacles force your mind to focus and find ways around them. They heighten your mental powers and should be welcomed.” (86)
“Move before you think you are ready. It is as if you are making it a little more difficult for yourself, deliberately creating obstacles in your path… When you feel that you must work harder to get to your goal because you are not quite prepared, you are more alert and inventive. This venture has to succeed and so it will.” (87)
“Remember: as Napoleon said, the moral is to the physical as three to one – meaning the motivation and energy levels you or your army bring to the encounter have three times as much weight as your physical resources. With energy and high morale, a human can overcome almost any obstacle and create opportunity out of nothing.” (88)
“What you must do instead is accept the fact that all events occur for a reason, and that it is within your capacity to see this reason as positive.” (90)
“If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.” (93) (Miles Davis quote)
“By a paradoxical law of human nature, trying to please people less will make them more likely in the long run to respect and treat you better.” (132)
“Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.” (159)
“Only your actions can prove your worth.” (159)
“Your own level of excitement and self-belief will convince people that you know where you are going and should be followed.” (168)
“The public is never wrong. When people don’t respond to what you do, they’re telling you something loud and clear. You’re just not listening.” (183) (50 Cent quote)
“If you feel superior at all, part of some chosen elite, then this seeps out in the work. It is conveyed in the tone and mood. It feels patronizing.” (191)
“To interact closely with the public and get its feedback might mean having to adjust your “brilliant” ideas, your preconceived notions.” (191)
“In this day and age, to reach people you must have access to their inner lives – their frustrations, aspirations, resentments. To do so, you must crush as much distance as possible between you and your audience. You enter their spirit and absorb it from within.” (194)
“Any kind of group tends to close itself off from the outside world. It is easier to operate this way. From within this bubble, people will delude themselves into thinking they have insight into how their audience or public feels.” (196)
“The goal in connecting to the public is not to please everyone or to spread yourself out to the widest possible audience. Communication is a power of intensity, not extensity and numbers. In trying to widen your appeal, you will substitute quantity for quality and will pay a price. You have a base of power – a group of people, small or large, which identifies with you.” (198)
“Our egos can inflate to any size. But when we produce something that fails to have the expected impact, we are suddenly faced with a limit – we are not as brilliant or skilled as we had imagined. In such a case, our tendency is to blame others for not understanding it or getting gin our way. Our egos are bruised and delicate – criticism from the outside seems like a personal attack, which we cannot endure.” (198-199)
“Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.” (199)
“When your work does not communicate with others, consider it your own fault – you did not make your ideas clear enough and you failed to connect with your audience emotionally. This will spare you any bitterness or anger that might come from people’s critiques. You are simply perfecting your work through the social mirror.” (199)
“You are building the foundation for something that can continue to expand. To make this happen, you will have to serve an apprenticeship. You must learn early on to endure the hours of practice and drudgery, knowing that in the end all of that time will translate into a higher pleasure – mastery of a craft and of yourself. Your goal is to reach the ultimate skill level – an intuitive feel for what must come next.” (203)
“Master the instrument, master the music, then forget all that shit and play.” (205) (Charlie Parker quote)
“Most people can’t handle boredom. That means they can’t stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they’re unhappy.” (210) (50 Cent quote)
“There is another possible relationship to boredom and empty time, a fearless one that yields much different results than frustration and escapism. It goes as follows: you have some large goal that you wish to achieve in your life, something you feel that you are destined to create. If you reach that goal, it will bring you far greater satisfaction than the evanescent thrills that come from outside diversions. To get there you will have to learn a craft – educate yourself and develop the proper skills. All human activities involve a process of mastery. You must learn the various steps and procedures involved, proceeding to higher and higher levels of proficiency. This requires discipline and tenacity – the ability to withstand repetitive activity, slowness, and the anxiety that comes with such a challenge.” (212)
“Once you start down this path, two things will happen: First, having the larger goal will lift your mind out of the moment and help you endure the hard work and drudgery. Second, as you become better at this task or craft, it becomes increasingly pleasurable. You see your improvement; you see connections and possibilities you hadn’t noticed before. Your mind becomes absorbed in mastering it further, and in this absorption you forget all your problems –fears for the future or people’s nasty games. But unlike the diversion that comes from outside sources, this one comes from within. You are developing a lifelong skill, the kind of mental discipline that will serve as the foundation of your power.” (213)
“To make this work you must choose a career or a craft that excites you in some deep way. You are creating no dividing line between work and pleasure. You pleasure comes in mastering the process itself, and in the mental immersion it requires.” (213)
“Before it is too late we must wake up and realize that real power and success can come only through mastering a process, which in turn depends on a foundation of discipline that we are constantly keeping sharp.” (214)
“They are gifted. We could never reach their level, or so we think. But we are choosing to ignore that telling period in their lives, when each and every one of them underwent a rather tedious apprenticeship in their field.” (216)
“The real secret, the real formula for power in this world, lies in accepting the ugly reality that learning requires a process, and this in turn demands patience and the ability to endure drudge work.” (220)
“Too often our concept of learning is to absorb ideas from books, to do what others tell us to, and perhaps to do some controlled exercises. But this is an incomplete and fearful concept of learning – cut off from practical experience.” (222)
“You experiment, you take some hard blows, and you see what works and doesn’t work in real time. You expose yourself and your work to public scrutiny. Your failures are embedded in your nervous system; you do not want to repeat them. Your successes are tied to immediate experience and teach you more. You come to respect the process in a deep way because you see and feel the progress you can make through practice and steady labor. Taken far enough, you gain a fingertip feel for what needs to be done because your knowledge is tied to something physical and visceral. And having such intuition is the ultimate point of mastery.” (222)
“The social process is just as important as the legal or technical one.” (226)
“Ask for more, aim high, and believe that you are destined for something great. Your sense of self-worth comes from you alone – never the opinion of others.” (233)
“Moving towards such self-belief does not mean you cut yourself off from others and their opinions of your actions. You must take constant measure of how people receive your work, and use to maximum effect their feedback. But this process must begin from a position of inner strength. If you are dependent on their judgments for your sense of worth, then your ego will always be weak and fragile.”(244)
“Their opinions are merely helping you shape your work, not your self-image.” (244)
“Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.” (247)
“At any moment we could let go of the fear and leave the job, not really certain where we are headed but confident we can do better. In that moment we have exercised free will.” (249)
“What prevents you from taking such action is not mommy, daddy, or society, but your own fears. You are essentially free to move beyond any limits others have set for you, to re-create yourself as thoroughly as you wish.” (250)
“Whenever he felt as if he had too much to lose and he held on to others or to deals out of fear of the alternative, he ended up losing a lot more. He realized that the key in life is to always be willing to walk away. He was often surprised that in doing so, or even feeling that way, people would come back to him on his terms, no fearing what they might lose in the process. And if they didn’t return, then good riddance.” (271)
“If we are afraid of death, then we are afraid of life.” (288)
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