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In life there are generally two ways of seeing things. When faced with situations in your life where you’ve got the choice to assume the best or worst, you’ve got to uplift yourself to get where you want to be. Here is a compilation of some great quotations to uplift you. Click the topic that interests you and sit back and bask in some evergreen reminders! About having a purpose in life Need more quotations for your speech or simply more to warm you up? CLICK HERE
“As long as you don't know where you're going it doesn't matter where you are." - Apocryphal "Make your life a mission, not an intermission." - Glasgow "People know the cost of everything but the value of nothing." - Oscar Wilde "We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." - Brandi B. "Show me, don't tell me." - Jeff Forsythe About having wisdom to see the difference
"You are the one who can stretch your own horizon." - Edgar F. Magnin "I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside." - Wayne Dyer “It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.” - Alfred Alder "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson "Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live." - Henry Van Dyke "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." - Emerson "It is the nature of the ego to take, and the nature of the spirit to give." - Native American saying "Problems are just opportunities in working clothes." – Unknown "What is popular is not always right, and what is right is not always popular." - Unknown "Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down." - Wilson Mizner "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton "Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." - Richard M. Nixon "Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination." - Roy Goodman "Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down." - John D. Wright “The scent of the rose always stays in the hand of the one giving it.” - Unknown “To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.” - Paulette Mitchell “The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” - G.K. Chesterton "What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." - Aristotle "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."- Plato “On the whole people want to be good. But not too good and not quite all the time.” - George Orwell Find out how you can get more of this great stuff! CLICK HERE "All life is an experiment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'" - Ann Landers "It takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow." - Unknown "Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." - Danny Kaye "You win some, you lose some, you wreck some." - Dale Earnhardt "When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?" - Sydney Harris "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To the degree we're not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves." - Peter McWilliams "Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams "We create our lives a thought at a time. And sometimes, it comes down to changing a thought such as 'Why did this happen to me?' into 'There is a divine plan and there is a reason for this, and my choice is to create the most positive reaction I can.'" - Dee Wallace Stone "The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it." -- Vince Lombardi Bring some sunshine to your life. We have hundreds more of these great quotes! CLICK HERE "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln "Life is too short to be small." - Benjamin Disraeli "We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us." - Billy Graham "At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, 'I was always happy.' Hopefully, we will be able to say, 'I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.'" - Barbara Deangelis "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." - Jeremy Kitson "It is not length of life, but depth of life." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal." - Cicero "I plan on growing old much later in life, or maybe not at all." - Patty Carey “Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.” - Jim Rohn Life is short. In the end, it is the life in your years that count. Start by getting more wise words to warm your heart! CLICK HERE
"You are what you think about all day long." - Dr. Robert Schuller "One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self- confidence is preparation." - Arthur Ashe "People only see what they are prepared to see." - Ralph Waldo Emerson You are what you think you are. Think success. Begin by getting more information to motivate yourself. CLICK HERE
"You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails." - Anthony Robbins “Always behave like a duck.-keep calm and unruffled on the surface and paddle like the devil underneath.” - Jacob Brauck "Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there." - John Wooden "Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action." - William James "Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes." - Brian Tracy "He who angers you conquers you." - Elizabeth Kenny "Perception is everything. Our reality is the meaning we give to events in our lives. More importantly, other people's reality or perception of us is the image that we have of ourselves that is reflected for others to see." - James D. Harris “Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.” - Magic Johnson "What's exciting about using our mind is that we can short circuit all the excuses thrown up by our fears." -- Mark Victor Hansen
"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn." - Hal Borland "When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." - Charles A Beard "Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for whom so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles." - Samuel Smiles "Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow." - Dorothy Thompson Hope without action is hopeless! Get more of this great stuff by email. Free! CLICK HERE
"The harder you work, the luckier you get." - Gary Player “Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.” - Unknown "Don't follow trends, start trends." - Frank Capra "Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "We are all in the gutter but some of us are gazing at stars" - Oscar Wilde "What the mind of a man can conceive and believe the mind of a man can achieve." - Napoleon Hill "A dream is not something that you wake up from, but something that wakes you up." - Charlie Hedges "We cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Unknown "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence therefore is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle You do not get to improve by sitting alone in the dark. To receive enlightenment, CLICK HERE "The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy." - Florence Scovel Shinn "If opportunity doesn't knock build a door." - Milton Berle "Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines." - Gary Sinise "If you hear a different drummer - dreamer, take a chance…The road you choose to travel means the difference in the dance." - D. Morgan "He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." - Booker T.Washington “When I am working on a problem I do not think about beauty, only about solving the problem. But, when I am finished, if the solution is not beautiful I know it is wrong.” - Buckminster "Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it." - Brian Tracy "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur Clark "The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart." - John Welwood "The starting point for improvement is to recognize the need." - Masaaki Imai, Kaizen "It's hard to wring my hands when I am busy rolling up my sleeves." - Linda Geraci "When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game." - Grantland Rice "Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn." - Miguel de Cervantes "Your body has limits, your spirit is infinite." - Steven Wilk "You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think." - Mortimer Adler Get more quotations today! Free by email! CLICK HERE
"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure." - Norman Vincent Peale "Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it." - William Durant "For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe." - Larry Eisenberg "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave." - Mark Twain Patience is a great virtue to have "Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit." - Charles Swindoll "Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson “Our patience will achieve more than our force." - Edmund Burke "He who jumps to conclusions falls to their death." - Mark J. Ottaviani Quit grumbling and start living. Begin by getting more quotes. CLICK HERE
"You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people to get what they want!" - Zig Ziglar "Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. . . . As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others." - Audrey Hepburn "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you don't run your own life, somebody else will." - John Atkinson
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." - William Shedd "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton "When you stand at the edge of a cliff, jump to fly, not to fall." - Cody Warner "...if you ever get a second chance in life, you've got to go all the way." - Lance Armstrong "Progress always involves risk. You can't steal second with you foot on first." - Unknown "It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt "If you're living like there is no God, you better hope you are right." - Unknown "It's never crowded along the extra mile." - Dr. Wayne Dyer “Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes." - David Viscott "The secret of business is to know something nobody else knows." - Aristotle Onassis Take calculated risks. Sign up for some personal improvement programs. CLICK HERE About capitalizing on an opportunity when you see one “You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.” - Wayne Gretzky “A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.” - Francois Sagan “In war; resolution. In defeat; defiance. In victory; magnanimity. In peace; goodwill.” - Winston Churchill
"Never let your memories be greater than your dreams." - Doug Ivester "The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, ‘In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!’" - John F. Kennedy "I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams." - Dr. Jonas Salk "Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly." - Lauren Bacall "Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare." - Japanese Proverb "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The years teach much which the days never knew." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Plan ahead in office by looking at programs to increase sagging morale and increase productivity today! CLICK HERE
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the Beautiful Stuff out." - Ray Bradbury "There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist." - Mark Twain "If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure." - David Ambrose "We aim above the mark to hit the mark." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melody Beattie You can do better than you think "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but braver five minutes longer." - Unknown. Be positive. Learn how to grow on a personal level. CLICK HERE
"If you can't do it today what makes you think you will do it tomorrow?" - Yusof Tura "Pain is just weakness leaving your body." - Keri Schrimpf "No matter how long the river, the river will reach the sea." - Eugene Fitch Ware "Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now, and do it." - Will Durant "Amazingly enough we all live inside a body that is capable of improvement everyday. What are you waiting for?" - Brock Hierlmeier "Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional." – Unknown "Nothing is totally worthless ... it can always be used as a bad example." – Unknown "The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer." - Thomas J. Watson "Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to; all they need is one reason why they can." - Willis Whitney
"Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase." - Dottie Walters "Never forget only dead fish swim with the stream." - Unknown "The shortest way to do many things is to do one at a time." - Samuel Smiles "Reach for the moon; if you fall short at least you'll be among the stars." – Unknown "If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead." - Justin Sims "If you think you can or if you think you can't, either way you are right." - Unknown "To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe in and act on it with all your heart." - Christy Borgeld "The great successful men of the world have used their imagination ... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building." - Robert Collier "The train to SUCCESS usually runs on the track of DETERMINATION." - Poh Yu Khing "It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are." - Brian Tracy "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt." - William Shakespeare Anyone can do better than what they think! But they need tools to do that. CLICK HERE Having a positive attitude makes all the difference "All of our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney "A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things." - Jacques Maritain "If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning." - Mahatma Gandhi "The Biggest room in the World is the room for Improvement." – Unknown "Positiveness hinges not on the situation, but on your perspective." - Poh Yu Khing If you think you can, this is the time to start. If you think your staff MUST, now is the time to enroll them in a motivational program. CLICK HERE "Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - Shakespeare "Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through your conversation. Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them, we can talk ourselves into being nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions. Talk peaceful to be peaceful." - Norman Vincent Peale "Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were innocent. Anger is natural. Grief is appropriate. Healing is mandatory. Restoration is possible." - Jane Rubietta "Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe." - St. Augustine "The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum." - Frances Willard Big plans for improvement in your organization? Don’t know how? CLICK HERE There’s no such thing as reward without work "A free lunch is only found in mousetraps." - John Capuzzi "You must pay in the past to receive in the future." - Taylor Simpson
"A great calamity is not to have failed, but to have failed to try." - Unknown "I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward." - Charlotte Bronte "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." - William Arthur Ward "Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." - Benjamin Disraeli The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”- Nelson Mandela "All things are difficult before they are easy" - John Morley If not quitting is important to you, look to getting TOOLS to succeed. CLICK HERE "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." - Samuel Johnson "Success don't come to you... you go to it." - Marva Collins "Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over." - F. Scott Fitzgerald "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." - Mark Twain "The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke." - W.J. Cameron "Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good." - Ernest Holmen "The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things." - Brian Tracy "Waste no tears over the grief of yesterday." - Euripides "Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Worry is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere!" - Unknown "It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage." - Henry Ward Beecher "Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant taste death but once." - William Shakespeare “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” - Anonymous "The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Great work comes from great ideas. To get real great ideas on productivity in the office, CLICK HERE. You have to stay focused to succeed “I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer.” - Hank Aaron "Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear." - Anthony Robbins "Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act." - George W. Crane “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off of your goal.” - Henry Ford "It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks." -- Helen Keller "To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it." - Bunker Hunt
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." - E. E. Cummings “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” - Victor Borge "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." -W.H. Auden "Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me." -- Alexander Pushkin "Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you've been up to." - Satchel Paige "Success is never permanent, and failure is never final." - Mike Ditka "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe "Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come." - Booker T Washington "It is not your standard of living, but the standard in which you live by, that defines your success." - Darryl E. Ramey "Out of difficulties grow miracles." - Jean De La Bruyere "I've gone through life believing in the strength and competence of others; never in my own. Now, dazzled, I discover that my capacities are real. It's like finding a fortune in the lining of an old coat." - Joan Mills "Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment. Full effort is full victory." - Mahatma Gandhi "The twin killers of success are impatience and greed." - Jim Rohn "The gift of happiness belongs to those who unwraps it." - Unknown Need more help with quotes? Go search this great library of quotable quotations. FAQs/Contact Us/Motivational & Inspirational Quotes/Useful Sites |
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