Thursday, October 11, 2007

Motivational quotes for the day (Integrity)


Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
~Victor Hugo

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
~Buddha

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.
~Mark Twain

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
~Samuel Richardson

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
~Henry David Thoreau







Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Motivational quotes (Love)


Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
~Eric Fromm

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
~Jean Anouilh

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

The love game is never called off on account of darkness.
~Tom Masson

Always, always, always, always- love first.
~Anonymous





Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Motivational quotes for the day (Character)


"Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
~Abraham Lincoln


"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."
~Aesop

"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."
~Aristotle


"No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."
~Henry Ward Beecher


"Thought creates character."
~Annie Bessant


"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In thy face I see
The map of honour, truth, and loyalty
William Shakespeare

Monday, October 8, 2007

Motivational quotes for the day (Worry)


I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
~Dorothy Day

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
~John Dryden

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

Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
~Mary C. Crowley

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
~Arthur Somers Roche

Sunday, October 7, 2007

Motivational quotes for the day (Optimism)


A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
~Harry Truman

Optimism is the foundation of courage.
~Nicholas Murray Butler

I am optimistic and confident in all that
I do. I affirm only the best for myself and
others. I am the creator of my life and my
world. I meet daily challenges gracefully
and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with
positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.
~Alice Potter

You can do anything you think
you can. This knowledge is literally
the gift of the gods, for through it
you can solve every human problem.
It should make of you an incurable
optimist. It is the open door.
~Robert Collier

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Motivational Quotes for the day (Attitude)


Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
~Ralph Marston

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
~Chinese Proverb

"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately."
~A.A. Milne

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
~Arthur Rubinstein

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
~William Arthur Ward

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
~Epictetus

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Worship," The Conduct of Life, 1860

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Motivational Quotes for the day (Confidence)


Assurance is two-thirds of success.
~Gaelic Proverb

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence you have won even before you have started.
~Marcus Garvey

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something...
hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
~Roger Staubach

Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. There is no terrain you cannot overcome.
~Irisa Hail

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.
~Henry David Thoreau