Thursday, May 15, 2008

Motivational quotes for the day (Faith)


Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
~Henry Ward Beecher

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
~Henry David Thoreau

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true self.
~William James

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
~John Lancaster Spalding

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
~St. Augustine

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Motivational quotes for the day (Doing your Best)


We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.
~Albert Einstein

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
~Helen Keller

If a man does his best, what else is there?
~George S. Patton

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
~Harriet Martineau

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.
~Harold Ruopp

Never settle for anything less than your best.
~Brian Tracy

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Motivational quotes for the day (Helping Others)


Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
~Albert Schweitzer

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

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
~Laurence Leamer, King of the Night

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

In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.
~Karl Reiland

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
~William Shakespeare

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

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
~Albert Pike


Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
~Buddha

Monday, May 12, 2008

Motivational Quotes for the day (Personal Resposibility)


The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
~Joan Didion

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.
~Albert Schweitzer

Accountability breeds response-ability.
~Stephen Covey

Whatever happens, take responsibility.
~Anthony Robbins

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
~Abraham Lincoln

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Motivational Quotes for the day (Attitude)


We tend to live up to our expectations.
~Earl Nightingale

It is not the position, but the disposition.
~J.E. Dinger

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
~William John Bennett

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
~Washington Irving

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.
~Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
~William Shakespeare

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Motivational quotes for the day (Love)


Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
~Mother Teresa

A heart that loves is always young.
~Greek Proverb

Love and you shall be loved.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
~James Allen

I've decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
~Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friday, May 9, 2008

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

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.
~Pat Riley

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

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
~Marcus Aurelius

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