Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Motivational quotes for the day (Self-esteem)


Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
~Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
~James Allen

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
~Denis Waitley

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.
~Jean De La Bruyere

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
~Baltasar Gracian

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
~Malcolm S. Forbes

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Motivational quote for the day (Choice/Choices)


It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
~Jean Nidetch

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.
~Edgar A. Guest

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
~Liz Carpenter

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
~Lou Buscaglia

Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.
~Fredrick Bailes

Monday, April 28, 2008

Motivational quotes for the day (Enthusiasm)


Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be ENTHUSIASTIC as a leader. You can't light a fire with a wet match!
~Unknown

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
~Norman Vincent Peale

Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
~John Wesley

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
~Kahlil Gibran

If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.
~Norman Vincent Peale

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Motivational quotes for the day (Positive thinking)


Little minds attain and are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.
~Washington Irving

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
~Bernhard Berenson

A person is limited only by the thoughts the he chooses.
~James Allen

There is nothing that cannot be achieved by firm imagination.
~Japanese Proverb

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Dr. Joyce Brothers

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
~Chinese Proverb

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Motivational quotes for the day (Counting your blessings/ Gratitude)


It is always wise to stop wishing for things long enough to enjoy the fragrance of those now flowering.
~Patrice Gifford

Count your joys instead of your woes; count your friends instead of your foes.
~Irish Proverb

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"
~William A. Ward

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
~Meister Eckhart

Appreciation is fertilizer for the soul.
~Valynnda Slack

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. ~Epictetus