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Zig Ziglar Goals Use what talent you possess - the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. Henry vanDyke Being Yourself I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. Baldwin Positive Thinking For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.
Guest Age May your troubles be less and your blessings be more. Irish Quotes Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. Thomas Jefferson Brotherhood He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. Arabian Proverb Hope Do what you can, where you are, with what you've got.
Theodore Roosevelt Graduation The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. Mark Twain Books Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: John Ruskin Beauty It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
Seneca Dare There is often a much simpler way of doing things - if you make the effort to look for it. Edward de Bono, Simplicity Simplicity Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another's uniqueness. Ola Joseph Diversity The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. Charles Kettering Imagination A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Mary Kay Enthusiasm Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. Thomas Jefferson Random There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. Clement Stone Positive Attitude It always seems impossible until its done. Nelson Mandela Possibilities Joy is the feeling of grinning inside. Melba Colgrove Joy Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. Peter F Drucker Decision One of the best things to do to feel inspired and positive is to read the biographies and stories of achievers.
Brandon Cutt, Positive Thinking Best "Christmas is that one time of the year that the world is inspired to find peace. It could be considered a miracle when you think about the issues that face our world. Monday , December 17, You can go to work each day and just punch in on the clock and dread being there and do as little as possible.
Mark Dudley, Morning Inspirations I Saturday , December 15, I'm grateful for charity that provides the opportunity to help others in need. Aliya Saige, Daily Blessings Friday , December 14, And once you accept that path to mediocrity then, as Yoda would say, "forever will it dominate your destiny. Go change the world and let your friends follow you. Nick Maley, The Do or Do Not Outlook Thursday , December 13, Our personal reality - or how we perceive and experience the world - is, to a great extent, formed by our beliefs. Yet remember you should that you make it also for the silent ones who stand at your shoulder.
Having a specific meaning and purpose in your life helps to encourage you towards living a fulfilling and inspired life. Vic Johnson, Goal Setting: Gandhi No matter how you rush into the 7 days of each week, at least one day will be your relax and recharge day. Kathy Henn How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice.
35 Inspirational Quotes for When You Need a Little Pick-Me-Up helen keller inspirational quote. Getty ImagesBetsy Farrell. Helen Keller. Share the best motivational quotes collection by famous authors, experts on success, goals, life, leadership. Get motivational, inspirational ideas.
This is equally true for our relationship with our self. Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Connection Loving and taking care of another person is rewarding and fulfilling far beyond just meeting your own needs. You're a dad Self-esteem is more than merely recognizing one's positive qualities. It is an attitude of acceptance and nonjudgment toward self and others. You can get inspiration from other people's assignments, but the way you will execute yours will be different.
No two people can do the same thing the same way. Aloted Omoba, Super Working Mum Whatever challenges you may face, whatever circumstances are weighing you down, you can choose your response. Shruti Soni, A Workbook to a Stress Free Life in 21 Days We spend so much time being comfortable that we forget to allow in all those new and exciting possibilities which will stretch our lives and allows us to grow healthily. Jacqui Wrampling, Powerful Choices When you wish to feel more positive, you can decide to be calm and direct your thoughts.
Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion You deserve to have a good day today. Not because of some universal law that necessitates good things happening to worthwhile people, but because we all do. Like flowing water, life is perpetual movement. Bruce Lee May you also be inspired by nature and may its wisdom motivate you to take a trip to the outdoors and spend some time reconnecting with nature's beauty.
Cesar Iriarte, Nature's Wisdom As we start each day, it is up to each of us to choose joy and happiness to encompass our entire day. Kathy Henn, Daily Inspiration Work on it every day! Even when you down and out! Even when you not feeling it, still do it! Eric Thomas Whatever you appreciate and give thanks for will increase in your life.
Sanaya Roman Ideas are just words on the page until people bring them to life. Mother Teresa People love people who are sincerely enthusiastic. By being enthusiastic you will create an energetic atmosphere. Peter van Geest, New Job All is possible with the will to change, some self-motivation. It is your life; you are at the helm! Steven Levi, Off The Wall Thinking The beauty of embracing a positive mental attitude is that you are able to adapt to changes and challenges that confront you and even go an extra mile of serving as an icon of inspiration.
It's what allows us to progress, to be creative, to invent, and to solve the world's most critical issues. Paul David Brand, Living Well As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion Mandela, more than any other global figure, is known for forgiving his enemies.
Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire. No matter what challenges or setbacks and disappointments you may encounter along the way, you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal. There really is only one. And that is this: You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you.
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible. Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. Horace Mann Click to tweet. There is no greatness where there is no simplicity , goodness and truth. The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow — after you have done your best to achieve success today. Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire — you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away. No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless.
You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself. You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. If you want to make enemies, try to change something. Woodrow Wilson Click to tweet. The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. If you will not rise above the things of the world, they will rise above you. Sri Sathya Sai Baba. We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. You have an obligation to change it You just do it one step at a time. The future has a way of arriving unannounced. George Will Click to tweet. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the change that we seek. The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in. Be curious, not judgmental. Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant.
It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. Travel is fatal to prejudice , bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Try to be better than yourself.
What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else and avoid trouble? If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself. Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. John Keats Click to tweet. The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become. Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Life is a progress, and not a station. Only the educated are free. Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing , the rest is mere sheep-herding. Man reading should be man intensely alive. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. You can never spend enough time with children. Dwayne Hickman Click to tweet. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them. Patience can become second nature, if taught early enough. One of those gifts to your children for which you will be hated first and loved later.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato Click to tweet. Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives. You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth. The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention… A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Just walk beside me and be my friend. The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him. Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Faith in God includes faith in his timing. Maxwell Click to tweet. One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity. Connect with those around you today. Send random texts, write a cute note, embrace your truth and share it…cause a smile today for someone else…and give plenty of hugs. If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. If you will know yourselves, then you will be known and you will know that you are the sons of the living father.
But if you do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty and you are poverty. Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly.
You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before. To love someone means to see him as God intended him. Fyodor Dostoyevsky Click to tweet. We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand. Albert Einstein Click to tweet. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
Never speak from a place of hate jealousy anger and insecurity. Evaluate your words before you let them leave your lips. By three methods we may learn wisdom: The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. Everytime you get upset at something, ask yourself if you were to die tomorrow, was it worth wasting your time being angry?
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform or pause and reflect. Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. Cicero Click to tweet. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul — and sings the tunes without the words — and never stops at all. You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life. 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. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams — Franklin D. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Be led by the dreams in your heart. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. If you can dream it, then you can achieve it.
You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be.
Put your future in good hands — your own. Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. 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. Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. Setting goals is the first step into turning the invisible into the visible. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Staying positive does not mean that things will turn out okay.