Quotes I would like to share:
1. A perpetually positive person is perceived to be a wizard by the average man, and can truly have a magical effect on all those they encounter. SLT
2. When your actions are aligned with, or reflect your purpose in life, you feel good. When you feel good (about your actions), you generate passion, when you have passion, you develop a focus, and when you are focused, you have power. Powerful action is what equals accomplishment. SLT
3. A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men. Rolad Dahl
4. A great deal of institutional religion seems designed to prevent the faithful from having a spiritual experience. -- Carl Jung
5. 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. William
6. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. Marianne Williamson
7. If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance. Orville Wright
8. Life is too horribly short to be bored. SLT
9. It is not the days in your life, but the life in your days that count. Brian White
10. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. Anatole
11. 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
12. Imagination is more important that knowledge. Albert Einstein
13. People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. Dale Carneige
14. Unless one has something to give people, there is nothing one can do to help them. Alan Watts
15. We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
16. People may forget what you said but they'll never forget how you made them feel.
17. Be the pebble thrown into the lake of life that begins the ripples.—SLT
18. We need to Lie, Cheat and Steal. Lie awake at night, and dream big bold powerful dreams. Cheat time away from insignificant activities. Steal good ideas from good people.-Tony Natoli
19. 1991-----175 of 500 Fortune 500 Company CEO’s were former marines. Commitment, Organization, Discipline
20. When you are down to nothing, God is up to Something!
21. I don’t know what your destiny may be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. Dr. Albert Schweithzer.
22. The chief cause of unhappiness and failure is trading what you want most for what you want now. Zig Ziglar
23. When you discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them. Zig Ziglar
24. Argue hard enough and long enough for your limitations and you will get to keep them. Richard Burke
25. You are the way you are because that is the way you want to be. If you wanted to be any different, you would be in the process of changing right now. Fred Smith
26. Men are like fine wine. They start out as grapes, and it is up to women to stomp them into something acceptable to have dinner with.
27. One cannot solve problems with the same level of knowledge that created them. Albert Einstein
28. We sometimes tow our brains around behind us to justify what we already believe.
29. There is nothing wrong with me that a little excitement won’t cure!
30. You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. – R. Buckminister Fuller
31. If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance. -- Orville Wright
32. Enthusiasm robs endurance of difficulty, and makes pleasure of duty. – Bishop Doane
33. When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out because that’s what’s inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what’s inside you. – Wayne Dyer
34. There are no bona fide mass movements; it just looks that way. There is always one man who knows his God and knows where he is going. – Richard E. Day
35. If the whole world followed you, would the world be a better place?
36. Those closest to you will stretch your vision or choke your dreams.—John Maxwell
37. “It’s important to run not on the fast track, but on your track. Pretend you have only six months to live, and make three lists: the things you have to do, the things you want to do and neither have to or want to. Then for the rest of your life, forget everything on the third list.” – Cardiologist Robert Eliot
38. 94% of all Forbes 500 executives attributed their success more to attitude than to any other ingredient. -- Cox report on American Business
39. I’m not retired, I’m refired. I’m not gonna ease up, let up, shut up, or give up until I’m taken up. As a matter of fact, I’m just getting warmed up. – Zig Ziglar
40. True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her. – Zig Ziglar
41. If you have an ability that goes beyond providing for your own needs, you have a responsibility to use that ability to reach down and help those up who do not have that capacity. As a matter of fact, if you don’t reach down and help lift up those less fortunate, the day will come when due to sheer weight of numbers, they will reach up and pull you down. – Coach Jobie Harris
42 "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." Henry Ford
43. Age doesn’t always bring wisdom, sometimes it comes alone.
44. Amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.
45. Most of our lives aim at nothing in particular, and we achieve it.
46. All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
47. "I might wish you health. And I might wish you wealth. And that good fortune would caress you But sometimes wealth brings sorrow, And health could fail tomorrow, So I'll simply say, 'God Bless You! “ Earl Nightingale?
48. Everyone can be great because everyone can serve. Martin Luther.
49. Are you pointless in a one point game?
Heaven called, or hell bound? Matt 7:13
Enter small gate, or wide gate? Mark 16:15
50. People with humility don’t think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less often. Norman Vincent Peale
51. Grace Hansen admonishes, "Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.
52. You become what you think about. Earl Nightingale
53. When those who know are able to show, those who learn are able to grow.
54. 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
55. Intention without action is only a dream. In the end it isn’t what we want to do or plan to do but what we actually do that makes any difference. How far apart are your intentions and your actions?
56. It’s what we know that just ain’t so. – Josh Billings
57. If you think education (personal development) is expensive, try ignorance. Ben Franklin.
58. Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. – Jim Rohn?
59. Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. – Ben Franklin
60. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
61. You can’t change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
62. Life begins at the boundary of your comfort zone. – Jim Porter (If you aren’t livingon the edge, you are taking up too much room) Step out of the bubble of conventionality. Be outrageous, it’s the only place that isn’t crowded….
63. Money follows integrity and purpose – Jim Porter, Venture Capitalist
64. When you are green you grow, when you are not, you rot!
65. It’s not what are that holds you back, it’s what you think you are not. – Dennis Waitley
66. Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
67. Great is the reward to those who help and give without thought of self, as it is impossible to be unselfish without gain. Unknown
68. How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at a minimum are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life, and a commitment to action. Every day, it’s important to ask and answer these questions: What’s good in my life? And What needs to be done? – Dr. Nathaniel Branden
69. We don’t know what we need to know to take us where we want to go. SLT
70. For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. (H L Mencken)
71. The practical result (of per. development, coaching, soul searching, dreaming etc) is the PROSPECT of finding what you really want in life, and obtaining the kind of commitment and confidence to take on the challenge of making it happen.
72. Change your thoughts and you change your world – Norman Vincent Peale
73. "The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination." -- J. Schaar
74. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. All progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw
75. You can’t become a legend in your own time, until you become a legend in your own mind….. ???
76. Simple kindness to one’s self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all. – Dr. David Hawkins
77. It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful. And, it is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant. - Henry Ward Beecher
78. The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. – Michael E. Gerber
79. Popcorn is nothing but a butter delivery device….
80. Start by doing what is necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.—St. Francis
81. The test of a man’s or a woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. – Croft M. Pentz
82. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Herman Cain
83. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo da Vinci
84. We are what we do repeatedly; therefore, excellence is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle
85. “Nothing will take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence, determination and hard work make the difference.”—Calvin Coolidge
86. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it… You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” -- Eleanor Roosevelt
87. It’s never hard to act ordinary, if you feel ordinary. Surrendering to life happening to you becomes the order of the day.
88. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves…
89. "They may forget what you said, they may forget what you wore, but they'll never forget how you made them feel!"
90. Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "...holy cow.... what a ride!"
91. Some people are so busy being good they forget they should be doing good.
92. It’s not what you are that holds you back, but what you think you are not. – Dr. Waitley (author of “The Psychology of Winning”)
93. When you do common things in life in an uncommon way, you command the attention of the world.
94. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie
95. “There are two ways to acquire wisdom; you can either buy it or borrow it. By buying it, you pay full price in terms of time and cost to learn the lessons you need to learn. By borrowing it, you go to those men and women who have already paid the price to learn the lessons and get their wisdom from them.” -- Benjamin Franklin
96. The simple is not necessarily profound, but the profound is nearly always simple. – SLT
97. "Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars – they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours." – Mark Victor Hansen
98. I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. – Thomas Jefferson
99. Arthur C. Clarke describes the function of wizards in his famous Three Laws of Technology:
1. When a scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right.
When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way
past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently developed technology is indistinguishable from magic.
100. Doing the impossible is easy when you're utterly committed and have pushed aside your logical mind. – Roy H. Williams -- Don Quixote's irrational commitment to Aldonza Lorenzo (Dulcinea) gives him vision and focus and purpose.
101. Suffering occurs when you feel powerless to change your situation. Pain is a part of, suffering is a choice.
102. Overcome fear by leading with your body, not your mind. The proper emotion to keep you going will come only with motion.
103. People are rewarded in public for what they practice in private.
104. "We are not creatures of circumstance, we are creators of circumstance." --Benjamin Disraeli .
105. All I Need Is Within Me Now. (Accent each word in turn as read aloud)
106. Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning. – Gloria Steinem
107. Hobson’s Choice – An apparently free choice that offers no real alternative. (After Thomas Hobson 1544-1630, English keeper of a livery stable, from his requirement that customers take either the horse nearest the stable door, or none.)
108. Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.
109. It’s your life. YOU are responsible for your results. It’s time to turn up the heat…. To get what we’ve never had, we must do what we’ve never done. From the book, “212, The Extra Degree”
110. Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. – George S. Patton
111. Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison
112. The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence, but by oft falling. -- Lucretius (Roman philosopher c. 50 B.C.)
113. Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable. -- B.C. Forbes
114. Service is the lifeblood of any organization. Everything flows from it and is nourished by it. Customer service is not a department, it’s an attitude.
115. It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life… we can never help another without helping ourselves. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
116. "What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." — Napoleon Hill
117. Our Identity (what we think we are) controls our actions. Change your identity, change your life. Stop using language that limits you. Reset your mental thermostat.
118. “Lord, Lord up above, should I kiss the girl I love?’ A voice come back saying, “Sinner, sinner down below, pucker up and let ‘er go!” (Advice on public speaking)
119. A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
120. Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. – Mark Twain
121. So life has a hill. Get over it!
122. Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself….he eventually overcame these handicaps to become…….
123. Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
124. They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an entire life to forget them.
125. We grow/change either because of pain or because of insight. (an AHA moment)
126. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams
127. “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.
128. The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. – Richard Moss
166. Business is a lot like the game of tennis. If you don't serve well, you lose! The key to success is not having customers, but having customers again.
130. "The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life." –Leo Tolstoy
131. "Procrastination is opportunity's assassin." – Victor Kiam
132. We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill
133. “THE LAW OF LEGACY” Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do things for himself. Success comes when he empowers followers to do great things with him. Significance comes when he develops leaders to do great things him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him. – John Maxwell, 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
134. There comes a special moment in everyone’s life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission---a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he finds greatness. It is his finest hour. – Winston Churchill
135. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
136. You never work for somebody else. Someone else may sign your paycheck, but you’re the one who fills in the amount. Service always equals rewards. – Earl Nightingale
137. Confidence comes not from always being right, but not fearing to be wrong. – Peter T. Mcintyre
138. Money will buy a house but not a home, a watch but not time, a bed but not rest, a book but not knowledge, a doctor but not good health, a position but not respect, blood but not life, sex but not love, acquaintances but not friends, religious status but not eternal life, a life of leisure, but not personal significance.
139. Depression=Unfocused Anger
Grief=Anger + Sorrow
Cruelty=Anger + Joy
Envy=Anger + Desire
140. Quotes From ... “SALES MOTIVATION” by Mac Anderson
Action: "Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed...every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle...when the sun comes up, you'd better be running." --Anonymous
Attitude: "It's our attitude in life that determines life's attitude toward us." --Earl Nightingale
Balance: "Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least."
--Van Goethe
Belief: "The only thing that stands between a person and what they want from life is often the will to try it and the faith to believe it's possible." --Rich Devos
Challenges: "Kites rise highest against the wind...not with it." --Winston Churchill
Commitment: "The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there." --Anonymous
Courage: "Courage is the door that can only be opened from the inside." –Terry Neil
Discipline: "To get what we've never had, we must do what we've never done." –Anonymous
Excellence: "It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very
often get it." --Somerset Maugham
Failure: "Failures are divided into two classes-those who thought and never did and those who did and
never thought." --John Charles Sak
Habits: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle
Integrity: "Wisdom is knowing the right path to take...integrity is taking it." --M.H. McKee
Knowledge: "Knowledge is like climbing a mountain; the higher you reach, the more you can see and
appreciate." --Anonymous
Passion: "Many things will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart... PURSUE THOSE." --
Anonymous
Perseverance: "In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins...not
through strength but by perseverance." --H. Jackson Brown
Responsibility: "EXCUSES are the nails used to build a house of failure." --Don Wilder
Risk: "You will always miss 100% of the shots you don't take." --Wayne Gretzky
Service: "It is one of the greatest compensations in life that no one can help another without helping
themselves." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
141. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them—Michael Jordan
142. Senility Prayer"...Grant me... The senility to forget the people I never liked and the good fortune to run into the ones that I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference."
143. "All the little things in life add up to your life. If you don't get it right then nothing else matters. It gets lonely in the promised land by yourself." -- Mr. Williams
144. Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. - Og Mandino
145. “In the face of adversity, uncertainty and conflicting sensory information, I hereby pledge to remain ever mindful of the magical, infinite, loving reality I live in. A reality that conspires tirelessly in my favor.” "I further recognize, that living within space and time, as a Creation amongst my Creations, is the ultimate Adventure, because thoughts become things, dreams come true, and all things remain forever possible.” "As a Being of Light, I hereby resolve to live, love and be happy, at all costs, no matter what, with reverence and kindness for All. So be it!” -- The oath at TUT’s Adventurers Club.
146. Actually, it's pretty simple. You have one real choice: To do your best, with what you have, from where you are. Everything else is just stalling.
147. Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. – Daniel Burnham
148. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. – Henry David Thoreau
149. "If we don't change direction soon, we're likely to arrive where we are headed." –Roy Williams
150. "In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia." – Anon
151. "An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions." -- Robert A Humphrey
152. "It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."- Oliver Wendell Holmes
153. We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in the life so wonderful, so worthwhile. -- Earl Nightingale
154. Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from, their faces into their hearts. --Martin Buxbaum
155. When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited. – Brian Tracy
156. You are where and what you are because of who you think you are. – SLT 2007
or: Who you think you are determines where and what you are.
157. “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, they make them.”– George Bernard Shaw.
158. Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz
159. Don’t wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving. You will never get there. – Neil Anderson
160. In the middle of the road of my life, I awoke in a dark wood, where the true way was wholly lost. – Dante
161. Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive. –Spiritual mentor to Gil Bailie.
162. The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. – Albert Schweitzer
163. A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
164. Save the earth. It's the only planet with chocolate!
165. Who you spend time with is who you become. Your friends will lift you up, or pull you down. People’s lives are a direct reflection of the expectations of their peer group. Love your family, choose your peers. Proximity is power. – Anthony Robbins
166. If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain.
If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees.
If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people, - Chinese Proverb