Thursday, May 8, 2008

Motivational quotes for the day (Kindness)


A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity into smiles.
~Washington Irving

Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.
~Plato

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
~Mother Teresa

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
~Kahlil Gibran

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
~Robert Green Ingersoll

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Motivational quotes for the day (Self-Improvement)


Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow.
~C.R. Lawton

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
~Abraham Lincoln

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
~Aldous Huxley

Become addicted to constant and never ending self improvement.
~Anthony J. D'Angelo

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
~James Allen

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
~Zig Ziglar

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Motivational quotes (The Power Of Now)


Forever is composed of nows.
~Emily Dickinson

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
~Montaigne

Nothing is worth more than this day.
~Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe

People are always asking about the good old days. I say, why don't you say the good 'now' days?
~Robert M. Young

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
~H.G. Wells

Monday, May 5, 2008

Motivational quotes for the day (Determination)


Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
~Leonardo Da Vinci

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

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
~Calvin Coolidge

Tough times never last, but tough people do.
~Dr. Robert Schuller

We will either find a way, or make one.
~Hannibal

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Motivational quotes for the day (Strength)


Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
~Marcus Antonius

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
~Mahatma Gandhi

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
~T.S. Eliot

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
~Mother Teresa

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Motivational quotes for the day (Goals)


A goal properly set is halfway reached.
~Abraham Lincoln

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
~Andrew Carnegie

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
~Louisa May Alcott

When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
~Seneca

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
~T.S. Eliot

Friday, May 2, 2008

Motivational quotes for the day (Belief)


"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine with only interests."
-- John Stuart Mill

"Success is not what you think it is... it is what you believe it is... and most never believe..."
-- Doug Firebaugh

"If you don't think you can do it, who will? You control the most important tool in success, your mind."
-- Jeffrey Gitomer

"Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe."
-- Mark Victor Hansen