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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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

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

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

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

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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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