Motivational Quotes

"To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first."

-Shakespeare, Henry VIII. Act I. Sc


All of us had or still struggle with health problem, what usually give us strength are support of family and friends. Sometimes we happen to read a quote that really makes a difference and make us see our problems in another angle.

Be part, post your favorite motication quote here.

lots health~

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

- Winston Churchill

" The strongest oak in the forest is not the one protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."

Napoleon Hill

"Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded."

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” :)

Dr. Napoleon Hill

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."

Theodore Roosevelt

We cannot know what we can do in advance.
The only way to find out is to go all-out trying,
Thinking only success.

~ Royal Robbins

On Success

To laugh often and love much;
To win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children;
To earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To give of oneself;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch,
or a redeemed social condition;
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exaltation;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived…
This is to have succeeded.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

-- Bertrand Russell

"Success is never ending, failure is never final."

- Dr Robert Schuller

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."

Chinese Proverb

The truth shall set you free!

You can't wait for Inspiration.
You have to go after it with a Club.

(Jack London)

Commitment comes before success.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

-- Douglas Adams

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

- John Wooden

Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear.
-Anthony Robbins

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves
"Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?"
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give
other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

~ From the Inaugural Speech of Nelson Mandela





P.S. - My own caveat: He didn't say be an arrogant a-hole. He said be Brilliant, Gorgeous, Talented, Fabulous.

If there is no wind, row

Carrying anger around with you is only injurious to You.

Most of the people you're mad at don't even know it.

The rest don't really care.

Let it go...

The First Rule Is To Keep An Untroubled Spirit.

The Second Is To Look Things In The Face
And Know Them For What They Are.

~ Marcus Aurelius

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”
Sandra Carey

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves
"Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?"
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give
other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

~ From the Inaugural Speech of Nelson Mandela





P.S. - My own caveat: He didn't say be an arrogant a-hole. He said be Brilliant, Gorgeous, Talented, Fabulous.


Gina,

This is one of my favorite quotes.Thanks for posting it.I passed it on to a lot of people. ;)

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

- Ben Franklin

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

- John Wooden

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the night saying, 'I will try again tommorow.'"

Any thing we do, any role we play,
Even any emotion we feel or any value we respect
Is sustained in being only by
Our own constantly remade decision.

--- Jean-Paul Sartre


~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *

Every minute...of every day...we get to decide how we want to be.

"A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths;
feels your fears but fortifies your faith;
sees your anxieties but frees your spirit;
recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities." - William Arthur Ward

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

-- Steve Jobs

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

-- Steve Jobs


Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! I LOVE, love, love this!

Why does it take so LONG sometimes to TRULY accept this into our lives??

Get busy livin'...or get busy dyin'.

~ Red (Morgan Freeman), The Shawshank Redemption



And...isn't that the friggin' truth. It's one or the other baby...there ain't no in-between. If you don't feel alive...like you're LIVING your life...it's time to dig the trench or make some changes.

Don't take life so seriously. It isn't permanent.

- Author Unknown

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
-Arabian Proverb

And why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up

Thomas Wayne to a young Bruce Wayne from Batman Begins

Success in life consists of going from one mistake to the next
without losing enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

This is one of my favorite quotes. I happened upon it one day about 3 years ago when I was in the middle of having a nervous breakdown trying to get a huge document out the door, right before Christmas. I believe that one can apply this quote...this attitude...to MANY areas of their life:



"It's a little like wresting a gorilla.
You don't quit when you're tired.
You quit when the gorilla is tired."

--- Robert Strauss

Our greatest glory comes not from never falling, but rather from rising every time we fall ;)

Confusious

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Leonardo Davinci

Better to stop short than fill to the brim.
Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt.
Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.
Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow.
Retire when the work is done.
This is the way of heaven.

-Tau Tah Ching

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

--Machiavelli

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.


~ Marianne Williamson

Every achiever I have ever met says, "My life turned around when I began to believe in me."

- Robert Schuller

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

-- Indira Gandhi

Don't Quit

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,

When the funds are low, and the debts are high,

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit....

Rest if you must, but don't you quit.



Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,

And you never can tell how close you are,

It may be near when it seems afar.

So, stick to the fight when you're hardest hit....

It's when things go wrong that you musn't quit.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel towards our distant goal. ;)

Helen Keller

"And what is as important as knowledge?" asked the mind. "Caring and seeing with the heart," answered the soul.

- Author Unknown

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

--Victor Hugo

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.

Author Unknown

Confucious say man with watch always know what time it is; Man with two watch never sure.

Fall seven times; stand up eight.

- Japanese Proverb

How should we view and respond to change? Does change threaten, or invigorate us?

The dynamic nature of life allows us three choices: Adapt to change and grow, ignore it and stagnate, or consciously reject it and degenerate. Although we are constantly in search of happiness, periodic discontent caused by change can be a helpful tool of progression. As Producer Dorian Drage says, "Growth is always preceded by discontent."

But growth, like happiness, is a choice. Choose to respond to change productively and you will continually grow to unprecedented levels.

~ Kirk Wiesler

I heard him speak once. Fantastic motivational speaker. Funny, funny, funny, funny man. Look for his website. You can sign up to receive emails of his "T4D" (Thought 4 the day). If you sign up for it, you'll receive an email with a motivational comment or quote.

Here's a quote he posted today:

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
- Buddha. Hindu Prince Gautama Siddhartha, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.

Failure is an event, never a person.

- William D. Brown

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

You must show no mercy, nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you...for your greatness will silence them all.

--Ultimate Warrior--

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

~ Unknown

LOL @ Sg.

My son has that on a T-shirt.

My favorite one is "It's all fun and games until someone loses a nut."

But you have to see the picture:

http://www.wilkinsandolander.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/beas_fungames_nut.jpg

I swear I laugh uncontrollably every time I see it! I don't know why it hits me so.

LOL @ Sg.

My son has that on a T-shirt.

My favorite one is "It's all fun and games until someone loses a nut."

But you have to see the picture:

http://www.wilkinsandolander.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/beas_fungames_nut.jpg

I swear I laugh uncontrollably every time I see it! I don't know why it hits me so.

That is really cute, Kristin.

“Two Japanese monks are on a long foot journey back to their monastery. One monk is very old and the other is very young. They walk along in silence. The heavy rains have turned their path into mud; puddles are everywhere. They proceed directly, stoically.

“The two monks pass a rich country home. A beautiful lady –a Geisha—in beautiful robes, is at the threshold of the house. She contemplates the large puddle before her. Her dainty white feet and her trailing robes are threatened with soil.

“The younger monk leaves the path to assist the Geisha. He lifts her over the puddle to dry ground, and then he returns to his older partner. The older monk shows silent rage within his face.

“The two monks continue their journey for three days. They exchange no words.

“Finally, safe within the walls of their temple, the older monk releases his anger at the younger monk: ‘You should be ashamed of yourself! We monks are not permitted to go near females. It is dangerous. Why did you do it?’

“The younger monk replied, ‘I left the woman back there. Why are still carrying her?”

"You will never get ahead of others as long as you are trying to get even."

--- Zig Ziglar

" When the weight of the world becomes your problem, you will be notified.

Until then, start with the small stuff and chill out."

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."

Christian Holy Bible

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

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

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Anonymous

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown

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

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

Has any1 done this quote:
When life gives you lemons,make lemonade
Don't remember who said this.

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." Muhammed Ali

Fate can only take you so far, after that it's up to you.

:yes:

Some people follow their dreams.

Others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.

Fate can only take you so far, after that it's up to you.

:yes:


I LOVED YOUR QUOTE SCIENCE GODDESS!!!
I was contemplating my fate today.

Here is a good quote I wanted to post I heard yesterday.I loved it.I forgot the name of the originator of this quote but a "project runaway" program on Bravo is where I heard it.

"Great passion can make people power-mad ,but what other way is there to live?"

"Success in life comes not from holding a good hand of cards, but playing the hand you hold well."

This one is posted right over my desk, and I read it frequently.

The List:

The most destructive habit.... Worry
The greatest joy.... Giving
The greatest loss.... Loss of self respect
The most satisfying work.... Helping others
The ugliest personality trait.... Selfishness
The most endangered species.... Dedicated leaders
Our greatest natural resource.... Our youth
The greatest "shot in the arm".... Encouragement
The greatest problem to overcome.... Fear
The most effective sleeping pill.... Peace of mind
The most crippling failure disease.... Excuses
The most powerful force in life.... Love
The most dangerous pariah.... A gossiper
The worlds most incredible computer.... The brain
The worst thing to be without.... Hope
The deadliest weapon.... The tongue
The two most power filled word.... I can
The greatest asset.... Faith
The most worthless emotion.... Self pity
The most beautiful attire.... A smile
The most prized possession.... Intergrity
The most powerful channel of
communication.... Prayer
The most contagious spirit.... Enthusiasm

Nandara