Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Faith)


A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.
~Author Unknown

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. ~B.C. Forbes

Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.
~Rabindranath Tagore


Faith is spiritualized imagination.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.
~Corrie Ten Boom




Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Motivational quotes for the day (Light)


Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.
~Michael Strassfeld

There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
~Edith Wharton


People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
~Anthony J. D'Angelo

When you possess light within, you see it externally.
~Anaïs Nin

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


His high endeavors are an inward light
That makes the path before him always bright.
~William Wordsworth



Monday, March 2, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Abundance)


Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
~Wayne Dyer

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
~Elliot Phillpotts

Life is a field of unlimited possibilites.
~Deepak Chopra


He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
~John Petit-Senn

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Appreciation)


Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
~Margret Cousins

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
~Elbert Hubbard

Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
~Voltaire

Appreciation is fertilizer for the soul.
~Valynnda Slack

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day. (Calmness)


The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
~James Allen

Calmness is the cradle of power.
~Josiah Holland

Calmness is always Godlike
~George Herbert

Happiness is a state of mind; happiness means calmness of mind...
~Unknown

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
~Edward Bulwer

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
~Ralph Blum

Friday, February 27, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Blessings)


Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
~W.T. Purkiser

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some
~Charles Dickens

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits.
~John Calvin

Every burden is a blessing.
~Walt Kelly

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day(Optimism)


A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.
~Leonard Louis Levinson

An optimist is the human personification of spring.
~Susan J. Bissonette

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
~Helen Keller

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness
~Mark Twain

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (The Present Moment)


Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
~Buddha

The point of power is always in the present moment.
~Louise L. Hay

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

God himself culminates in the present moment.
~Henry David Thoreau

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
~Emmet Fox

Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives.
~Wayne Dyer

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Humor)


Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
~Mark Twain

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
~William James


Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he/she is involved in tragic events.
~E.T. "Cy" Eberhart

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
~Max Eastman


A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road.
~Henry Ward Beecher


Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ~Roman Gary

Monday, February 23, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Thinking Big)

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.~Albert Einstein

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.~Walt Disney


Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.~Les Brown

Looking to the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots representing towns and villages on a map. Why, I ask myself, shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?~Vincent Van Gogh

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Stress)


Give your stress wings and let it fly away.
~Carin Hartness

Stress is poison.
~Agavé Powers

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
~Chinese Proverb

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness
~Richard Carlson

There is no stress in the world. There are only people thinking stressful thoughts, and then acting on them.
~Wayne Dyer

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Ralph Waldo Emerson)


"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."

"The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul."

"No one can cheat you out of ulitmate success but yourself. "

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

"Write it in your heart that every day is the best day of the year."

Friday, February 20, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Helping)


I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
~Edward Everett Hale

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
~William James

He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.
~Sunshine Magazine

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
~Nelson Henderson

No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy.
~Knights of Pythagoras

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
~Winston Churchill

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Motivational quotes for the day (Adversity)


I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
~Jewish Proverb

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
~Rose F. Kennedy

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
~Theodore Rubin

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
~African Proverb

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Self-Talk)


The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.
~Ralph Charell

Every waking moments we talk to ourselves about the things we experience. Our self-talk, the thoughts we communicate to ourselves, in turn control the way we feel and act.
~John Lembo

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
~W. Clement Stone

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
~Denis Waitley


Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Smile)


Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
~Mark Twain

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day.
~Author Unknown

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
~Mother Teresa

You're never fully dressed without a smile.
~Martin Charnin

Peace begins with a smile.
~Mother Teresa

Monday, February 16, 2009

Motivational Quotes (Nisargadatta Maharaj)


"A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part."

"When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the Supreme State will come to you uninvited and unexpected. "

"There is nothing to practise. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking"

"Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only."

"The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the paper is the common factor, always present, rarely perceived. When the ribbon is removed, typing leaves no trace on the paper. So is my mind - the impressions keep on coming, but no trace is left."

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Excellence)


Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.
~Brian Tracy
Don't get complacent. Push yourself out of your comfort zone and set higher standards of achievement for yourself. Once you've achieved a standard of excellence, never let it rest--push yourself even higher.
~Dave Anderson

Anything less than a commitment to excellence is an acceptance of mediocrity.
~Brian Tracy

Excellence can be attained if you...
* Care more than others think is wise.
* Risk more than others think is safe.
* Dream more than others think is practical.
* Expect more than others think is possible.
~Jim Gentil

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Motivational Quotes (Love)


Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.
~Malagasy Proverb

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.
~Henry David Thoreau

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
~John Bulwer

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.
~Werner Erhard

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
~Author Unknown

I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.
~Thomas Moore

Friday, February 13, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Worry)


If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. ~Don Herold

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

~Glenn Turner

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

~Swedish Proverb

You can never worry your way to enlightenment.

~Ed Northstrum

Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there.

~Author Unknown

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Greatness)


Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
~William Shakespeare


Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
~Blaise Pascal


It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
~Edward Gardner


The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
~Ella Wilcox




Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Contentment)


Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
~ Helen Keller

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
~Laura Ingalls Wilder

Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
~Patch Adams


Present moment contentment means present moment peace.
~Anonymous

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Imagination)


The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination.
~Emily Dickinson

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
~Mark Twain


They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
~Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora"

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.
~George Scialabba


People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ~William Butler Yeats

Monday, February 9, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Joy)


One joy scatters a hundred grieves.
~Chinese Proverb

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
~Mother Teresa

Joy is not in things, it is in us.
~Richard Wagner

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.
~Lin Yutang

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Motivational quotes for the day (Harmony)


Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay
~Sallust

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
~James Allen

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
~Marcus Aurelius

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Motivational quotes for the day (Self-Love)


You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
~Buddha

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
~Benjamin Franklin

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well
~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
~Francois Rochefoucauld



Friday, February 6, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Affirmations)


Constant repetition carries conviction.
~Robert Collier

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
~Claude M. Bristol

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
~David Viscott

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.
~Robert Collier

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Beauty)


Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
~Anne Frank

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
~Turkish Proverb

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
~Confucius

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
~Walt Whitman

Beauty... is the shadow of God on the universe.
~Gabriela Mistral








Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Motivational quotes for the day (Achievement)


Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
~Thomas Carlyle

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
~Aristotle

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration ... and expectation.
~Jack Nicklaus

The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.
~Harold Wilkins

Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.
~Robert Kennedy

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Motivational quotes for the day (Trust)


"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

~Indira Gandhi

"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

~Booker T. Washington

"One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

~E. M. Forster

Monday, February 2, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Fascination/Curiosity)


The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

~Felix Frankfurter

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

~Samuel Johnson

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

~Albert Einstein

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (The Present Moment)


The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
~Buddha

The point of power is always in the present moment.
~Louise L. Hay

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath.
~Akhenaton

Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever.
~Wayne Dyer

Friday, January 30, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Determination)


Where the determination is, the way can be found.
~George S. Clason

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
~George Allen

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
~William J.H. Boetcker

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always, wins - not through strength but by perseverance.
~H. Jackson Brown

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Hope)


Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
~Christopher Reeve

Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all.
~Emily Dickinson

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.
~George Iles

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.
~George Weinberg


When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God.
~Charles L. Allen

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
~Victor Hugo

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
~Robert Ingersoll

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Greatness)


There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
~Benjamin Franklin

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
~Blaise Pascal

Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
~William Shakespeare

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day ( Gifts)


The only gift is a portion of thyself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
~George MacDonald

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
~Author Unknown

Monday, January 26, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Discouraged)

Don't accept discouragement, keep going!
Less stress will result by not allowing discouragement to be your attitude!
~Catherine Pulsifer

Never, never, never quit!
~Winston Churchill


I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
~Thomas Alva Edison


The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem - he is challenged by it.
~William Arthur Ward


A problem is a chance for your to do your best.
~Duke Ellington


Every seed knows its time- all in good time.
~Russian Proverb


Sunday, January 25, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Effort)


We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
~William James

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
~William James

You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.
~Henry David Thoreau

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Excellence)


If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
~Colin Powell

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
~Abraham Lincoln

Anything less than a commitment to excellence, is an acceptance of mediocrity.
~Brian Tracy

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

Friday, January 23, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Laughter)


Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
~Victor Hugo

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.
~Raymond Hitchcock

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
~Yiddish Proverb


The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
~E.E. Cummings

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
~Jean Houston

Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.
~Author Unknown





Thursday, January 22, 2009

Motivational Quote for the day (Being yourself)


We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
~Judy Garland

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
~Shirley MacLaine


Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Letting Go/Gratitude)


Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
~Oprah Winfrey

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
~Lao Tzu

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

As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world.
~Adabella Radici

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
~Ralph H. Blum

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Motivational qoutes for the day (Empathy/Caring)


"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
~Leo F. Buscaglia

"Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success."
~Jim Rohn

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these."
~George Washington Carver

"My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind."
~Mahatma Gandhi

Monday, January 19, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Forgiveness)


Bitterness and an unforgiving spirit can be likened to you taking poison and expecting that someone else would die from the effect. Forgiveness is about setting the prisoner in your heart free only to discover that all along, you had been the real prisoner.

~Tope Popoola

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.

~Robert Muller

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.

~Bernard Baruch

We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.

~Denis Waitley

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Limits and Limitations)


There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
~Bruce Lee

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.
~Richard Bach

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
~Gerald Jampolsky

All limitations are self-imposed.
~Ernest Holmes

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder
~Ronald Regan

Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities
~Terry Josephson

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Wisdom)


Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
~William Wordsworth

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
~Sophocles


The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
~William James

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
~George Bernard Shaw

Friday, January 16, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Inner Peace)


Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
~St. Francis de Sales

One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.
~Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama

Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake.
~Paramahansa Yogananda

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
~Peace Pilgrim

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
-~Gerald Jampolsky

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.
~Harry Emerson Dosdick

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Belief)


Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
~William James

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
~James Allen

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.
~P.T. Barnum

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
~Anthony Robbins

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
~Frank Lloyd Wright

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Motivational Quotes for the day (Thoughts/ Thinking)


It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
~Christian Nevell Bovee

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
~Buddha

The ancestor of every action is a thought.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought is free
~William Shakespeare

Change your thoughts, and you change your world
~Norman Vincent Peale said

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
~Henry David Thoreau said

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