my favourite inspirational quotes

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.  That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar

:-) on that note here is a small dose of motivation that will sure boost your morale. Have a nice day! 

1. Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse
2. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill
3. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
4. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.  –Robert Frost
5. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale
6. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky
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. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart
9. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth
10. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone
11. The past is a ghost, the future a dream. All we ever have is now. –Bill Cosby
12. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon
13. We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale
14. 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 safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain
15. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll
16. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker
17. The mind is everything. What you think you become.  –Buddha
18. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb
19. An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates
20. Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen
21. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs
22. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi
23. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey
24. Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso
25. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus
26. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou
27. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn
28. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford
29. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain
30. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
31. The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra
32. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.  That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
33. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. –Anais Nin
34. If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh
35. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle
36. Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus
37. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau
39. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck
40. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.  –Booker T. Washington
41. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb
42. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt
43. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair
44. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato
45. Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides
46. Start where you are. Use what you have.  Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe
47. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down ‘happy’.  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon
48. Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
49. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller
50. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius
51. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank
52. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu
53. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou
54. Happiness is not something readymade.  It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama
55. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg
56. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle
57. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb
58. You can’t fall if you don’t climb.  But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown
59. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie
60. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown
61. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine
62. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington
63. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci
64. Limitations live only in our minds.  But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti
65. You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong
66. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan
67. I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin
68. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby
69. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
70. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb
71. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach
72. It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot
73. You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey
74. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh
75. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown
76. It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.  –Ann Landers
77. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren
78. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray
79. The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at. –Jesse Owens
80. Education costs money.  But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser
81. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks
82. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius
83. If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey
84. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama
85. You can’t use up creativity.  The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou
86. Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan
87. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.
88. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt
89. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins
90. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem
91. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison
92. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. –Beverly Sills
93. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt
94. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses
95. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
96. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford
97. It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln
98. Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale
99. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin
100. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn
101. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs
102. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

How to make your life happy?

1.Have Targets and Goals.
2.Smile always.

3.Share the Happiness with Others.
4.Willing to Help Others.
5.Keep a Childlike Heart.
6.Get on Well with Different Kinds of People.
7.Keep Calm when Surprise comes.
8.Keep the sense of Humor.
9.Forgive Others.
10.Have some really good friends.
11.Always work in a team.
12.Enjoy the family gathering time.
13.BE confident and proud of yourself.
14.Respect the weak.
15.Indulge yourself sometimes.
16.Work from time to time.
17.Be brave and courageous.
18.Finally,don't be a money grubber.


Hope you Have a Very HAPPY and PEACEFUL Life.

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Quotes by Napolean Hill

Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Before success in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do.
Capability means imagination
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Before success comes in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Quotes by Einstein

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. Force always attracts men of low morality. God always takes the simplest way. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Information is not knowledge. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

The only source of knowledge is experience. The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the
appearance. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract,
positive thinking. When the solution is simple, God is answering. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Quotes on Attitude

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.- Earl Nightingale
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.- Unknown Author
Always look at what you have left.Never look at what you have lost.- Robert H. Schuller
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees only the red light. But the truly wise person is color blind.- Dr. Albert Schweitzer
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.- Norman Vincent Peale
Attitude determines altitude.- Zig Ziglar

Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.- M. Russell Ballard
Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.- Jim Rohn Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.- William James
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.- Brian Tracy
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forgiveness is not an occasional habit, it is a permanent attitude- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.- Buddha

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.- Denis Waitley
If you hang out with a loser, you are a loser. Taken from The Apprentice- Donald Trump If you think you can-you can!- Unknown Author
Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future. - Brian Tracy

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect it’s successful outcome.- William James
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.- Zig Ziglar
It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.- Zig Ziglar

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.- Napoleon Hill

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new. - Brian Tracy View all quotes by Brian Tracy, click here
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.- Thomas Jefferson
Of all the "attitudes" we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing. - Zig Ziglar

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.- Earl Nightingale
People settle for mediocrity for one reason - they're lazy. Taken from The Apprentice- Donald Trump

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't. - Jim Rohn

Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.- Zig Ziglar
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.- William James
The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for. - Zig Ziglar

The most important question to ask on the job is not, What am I getting? The most important question is, What am I becoming?- Jim Rohn

The right attitude and one arm will beat the wrong attitude and two arms every time.- David Schwartz
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.- John Wooden
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.- Muhammad Ali
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all need a daily check up from the neck up to avoid stinkin 'thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes. - Zig Ziglar

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.- Albert Einstein

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.- Brian Tracy
When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny. - Zig Ziglar
You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.- Robert Collier
You cannot tailor make the situations in life, but you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those situations before they arise. - Zig Ziglar

You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.- Wayne W. Dyer
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes by Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in
the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. Bad men are full of repentance.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Change in all things is sweet.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to
be that at which all things aim.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have
acted rightly.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of
practical wisdom would determine it. Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Happiness depends upon ourselves. He who hath many friends hath none.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of
history are singulars.

Hope is a waking dream. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various
parts of the speech.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their
weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these
also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by
jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Nature does nothing in vain.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in
themselves.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life. The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings
than because of its own foulness.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. The law is reason, free from passion. The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their
complete formation is the product of habit. The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. The secret to humor is surprise.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to
give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so. Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. We make war that we may live in peace. We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one. We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length
of time.

Well begun is half done.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Wit is educated insolence.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Ralph W Emerson Quotes

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Knowledge is an antidote to fear.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to
make it happen.
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it. The first wealth is health.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
There is no way to success in our art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in our private heart is for all men - that is genius.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. We must be our own before we can be another's.
What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Quotes from Brian Tracy

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.
An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society if that person has clear focused goals.
Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.
Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and more self confidence you will have.
Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.
Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.
Commiting your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!
Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
Develop an attitude of gratitude and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent return on energy!
Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.
Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.
Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
Goals in writting are dreams with deadlines.
If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
Incorrect assumptionslie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumption.

Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.
Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production.
Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.
Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.
Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. 95% of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.
Make a habit of dominating the listening and let the customer dominate the talking.
Money is hard to earn and easy to lose. Guard yours with care.
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be succesful.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.
Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.
Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, 50 books per year, and will guarantee your success.
Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform. Satisfy the deep subconsious needs of your customer-to feel omportant,to feel valued,respected and worthwhile.
Success equals goals; all else is commentary.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?"

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.

The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy joyous person.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

The only pressure that you use in a professional selling presentation is the presence of silence after the closing question.

The three C's of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.

Think of yourself as a resource to your clients; an advisor, counselor, mentor and friend.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power" to "mind power". We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.
Treat objections as request for further information.
Truthfulness is the main element of character.
Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.
Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
Winners make a habit of
manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations.
Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
Your true success in life begins only when you make the commitment to become excellent at what you do.

Quotes from Henry Ford

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right

Great quotes to read

overcoming difficulties:


It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.Henry Ward Beecher

Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.
Nichiren Daishonen

Ask yourself this question:"Will this matter a year from now?"
Richard Carlson

"You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow." Janis Joplin

"Let what is past flow away downstream." Japanese Proverb

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

No longer forward nor behindI look in hope and fear;But grateful take the good I find,The best of now and here.John G. Whittier

In adversity those talents are called forth which are concealed by prosperity. Horace
Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.Ralph Blum

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.Isaac Asimov

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.Henry David Thoreau

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Confucius

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving

Dreams:
Trust the dreams for hidden in them is the gate to eternity.
Kahlil Gibran

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Patrick Henry

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Lanston Hughes

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.
Henry D. Thoreau

Words of wisdom:
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

Fortune favors the brave.
Publius Terence

He who hesitates is lost.
Proverb

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are still masters of our fate.We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For hope is but the dreamof those that wake.
Matthew Prior

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius