Showing posts with label motivational quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label motivational quotes. Show all posts

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Quotes of the Day

"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times." - Niccolo Machiavelli

"Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too." - Thomas Fuller

"A man with no imaginations has no wings." - Muhammad Ali

"When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen." - Arland Gilbert

"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him." - James Allen

Friday, November 19, 2010

Motivational Quotes

"Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills." -Peter Davies


"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success." -Henry David Thoreau


"No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."
-Harry Emerson Fosdick


"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!" -Anne Frank


"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."
-Mario Andretti


"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." -Roger Bannister


"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king." -John Milton


"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and endless plans: That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." -Goethe


"Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing." -Abraham Lincoln


"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."
-John Homer Miller


"The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives."
-Walter Chrysler


"You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning." -Barbara Sher


"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance." -Samuel Johnson


"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." -Robert Frost

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Quotes Of Inspirations From Some Great People

All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and
have an idea that is obviously impossible.

-- Dr. Frank Richards (1875-1961) English Writer


I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at
once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

-- William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist


Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to
hard work, perseverance and determination.

-- Sir Frederick Treves (1853-1923) English Surgeon

Top 10 Famous Quotes For Acceptance

Acceptance says, "True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me."
- Catharine Marshall




Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.
- Kathleen Casey Theisen




God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr




You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.
- Old German proverb




We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.




It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
- Simone de Beauvoir




The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
- Maureen Dowd




"Good enough never is" has become the motto of this company.
- Debbi Fields




Self-complacency is fatal to progress.
- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster




Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
- Arthur Gordon

Top 10 Famous Quotes For Absence

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
- Colette




Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
- La Rochefoucauld




Absent in body, but present in spirit.
- Bible




Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
- Alphonse de Lamartine




Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
- Robert Louis Stevenson




The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
- Ouida




Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
- Tacitus




The absent are always wrong.
- English proverb




Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly




Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her. - Helen Rowland

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have. -Basil S. Walsh

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Friday, November 12, 2010

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. -Theodore Roosevelt
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. -Henry David Thoreau
Perseverance: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success. -Ambrose Bierce
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Good things happen to those who hustle." -Anais Nin
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor. -John Milton

Monday, November 8, 2010

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. -Charles Caleb Colton
"Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones." -Benjamin Disraeli

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. -Helen Keller

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. -Jospeph Addison

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

The Right Mental Attitude

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

-Theodore T. Hunger

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

The World is All Opportunities

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.

-Thornton Wilder

Monday, November 1, 2010

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody. -Josh Billings