QUOTES & THOUGHTS

QUOTES & THOUGHTS

1. Life is about making an impact, not
making an income. --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. Life isn't about getting and having,
it's about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse

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 Park

82. It does not matter how slowly you go
as long as you do not stop. –Confuicus

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