1 000 Inspirational Quotes for Stepping
1,000 Quotes for Stepping Out-of-the-Mind
1,000 Quotes for Stepping Out-of-the-Mind by Eli Landa www.evolutionarypathways.com Copyright 2012 Eli Landa
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Dedicated to all the inspiring souls I have met and have yet to meet along the way.
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Table of Contents
Introduction..................................................................................................................... 8
How to Use This Book .................................................................................................... 8
Funny Words of Wisdom ................................................................................................ 9
Negativity Quotes.......................................................................................................... 16
Friendship Quotes ......................................................................................................... 23
Quotes about Letting Go ............................................................................................... 27
Quotes about Life .......................................................................................................... 35
Determination Quotes.................................................................................................... 39
Achievement Quotes ..................................................................................................... 45
Adversity Quotes........................................................................................................... 51
Funny Procrastination Quotes........................................................................................ 56
Purpose Quotes ............................................................................................................. 59
Action Quotes ............................................................................................................... 62
Success Quotes.............................................................................................................. 67
Quotes about Truth........................................................................................................ 70
Mind Quotes ................................................................................................................. 75
Quotes about Fear ......................................................................................................... 77
Initiative Quotes ............................................................................................................ 80
Quotes on Happiness ..................................................................................................... 84
Quotes about Character ................................................................................................. 88
Quotes on Trust ............................................................................................................. 95
Procrastination Quotes .................................................................................................. 98
Quotes on Excellence .................................................................................................. 105
Quotes about Forgiveness ............................................................................................ 107
Thought Provoking Quotes.......................................................................................... 110
Confidence Quotes ...................................................................................................... 114
Diligence Quotes ......................................................................................................... 116
Quotes on Courage ...................................................................................................... 118
Gratitude Quotes ......................................................................................................... 121
Motivation Quotes....................................................................................................... 123
Integrity Quotes........................................................................................................... 126
Quotes about Learning ................................................................................................ 129
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Quotes about Goals ..................................................................................................... 132
Quotes about Thinking ................................................................................................ 135
Quotes about Vision .................................................................................................... 139
Quotes about Freedom................................................................................................. 142
Quotes about Reality ................................................................................................... 144
Habit Quotes ............................................................................................................... 146
Quotes on Discipline ................................................................................................... 148
Quotes on Belief.......................................................................................................... 151
Persistence Quotes ...................................................................................................... 153
Zen Quotes - Realization Quotes ................................................................................. 155
Quotes about Confusion .............................................................................................. 163
Quotes about Relationships and Marriage .................................................................... 165
Self Improvement Quotes ............................................................................................ 169
Positive Attitude Quotes .............................................................................................. 173
Hard Work Quotes ...................................................................................................... 177
Quotes about Service ................................................................................................... 180
Quotes about Experience ............................................................................................. 182
Closing Thoughts ........................................................................................................ 185
Recommend This Book ............................................................................................... 185
About Eli..................................................................................................................... 185
Connect with Eli.......................................................................................................... 185
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Introduction
"A human beings mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Like water, the mind takes on the shape of the 'container' it is poured into. The thoughts we think, the ideas we absorb, the beliefs we adopt - all have a powerful impact on the direction of our lives. It is wise to proactively consider the thoughts and words we allow our mind to entertain.
This collection of inspirational thoughts and empowering ideas is real food-for-thought.
As soon as we start feeding the mind with nutritious, high quality products, it begins to grow strong. With an abundant supply of rich and essential ingredients to draw upon, negativity and self-defeating beliefs simply waste away.
Thoughts lead to words. Words lead to actions. Actions lead to habits. Habits shape our character, and this becomes our destiny. Allow these inspirational thoughts to elevate your thinking, spark your creativity and expand your mind.
How to Use This Book
The inspirational thoughts and sayings in this book have been categorized for your convenience and ease of search. You may choose to go through this book from beginning to end in sequential order, or you have the option of clicking on the category title that interests you. This will take you directly to the quotes pertaining to your immediate interests and needs.
As you come across thoughts and ideas that strike a powerful cord in you, that inspire you, write them down in a diary or personal development journal. Create a collection of power thoughts to inspire yourself as you walk the path of life. Tailor a nourishing environment for your mind, one which will encourage you to create a rich and fulfilling life. Copyright 2012 Eli Landa at www.evolutionarypathways.com
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Funny Words of Wisdom
"I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly a list of beautiful quotations from minds profound - if I can only remember any of the damn things."
~Dorothy Parker
Humour, laughter or a genuine smile - so simple, yet so powerful. Funny words of wisdom puts a smile on your face and at the same time opens the door to your heart.
The true power of humour comes from the simple fact that it takes us out-of-the-mind.
All we need to do is try to explain a joke to know that this is true. Once a joke is analyzed, once it is returned to the confines of the mind, the humour in it dies.
The same is true for wisdom. Nothing quells wisdom faster than a quick, judgemental comment from the mind. Wisdom enters a mind that is open, a mind free of constraints and preconceived notions.
Humour and laughter bypass the usual refrains of the mind. With an open mind and an open heart, we are able to absorb new information and integrate new experiences. Funny words of wisdom are an incredible gift.
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"The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived."
~Oscar Wilde
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"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
~Jules Renard
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"My marriage had its ups and downs like everyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of connection with someone."
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~John Scalzi
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"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?"
~Jane Austen
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"I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise."
~Robert Frost
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything and people who know absolutely nothing."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"The trouble with the rat-race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat."
~American comedienne Lily Tomlin
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"What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?"
~Doctor Who
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"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
~Albert Schweitzer
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"I can resist anything but temptation."
~Oscar Wilde
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"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"To be stupid, selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
~Gustavo Flaubert
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"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except exercise, get up early, or be respectable."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."
~Thomas Statz
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"If nobody spoke unless they had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech."
~W. Somerset Mangham
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"The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as him and hates them for it."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"A jury consists of twelve people chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
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~Robert Frost
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"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
~George Burns
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."
~Will Rogers
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"Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does."
~Unknown
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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape."
~Anon
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"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
~Oscar Wilde
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"The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."
~Jane Austen
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"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
~Euripides
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"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income."
~Errol Flynn
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"Marriage is a great institution; but I am not ready for an institution yet."
~Mae West
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"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
~Oscar Wilde
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged that, a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
~Jane Austen
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"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
~Douglas Adams
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"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Always get married in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day."
~Mickey Rooney
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"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
~Rita Rudner
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"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
~Oscar Wilde
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"When I meet a man I ask myself 'Is this the man I want my children to spend the weekends with?'"
~Rita Rudner
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"I am an old man and have known many troubles. But most of them never happened."
~Mark Twain
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"The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools."
~Doug Larson
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Negativity Quotes
"You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering."
~Henri Frederic Amiel
Negativity is a powerful obstacle on the path to self-improvement and motivation. It is also an opportunity. A log can either extinguish a roaring fire or become its fuel. It all depends on the size of the fire that is burning.
There are two main sources of negativity - internal and external. Inner negativity is entirely self-generated, whereas outer negativity is generated through other people.
The interesting thing about external negativity is that it can't affect us unless we become internally negative. You could say that one 'is hooked' when outer negativity 'hooks into' internal negativity.
That is why an inside-out approach to dealing with negativity is so powerful. Use these negativity quotes to stoke the fire within. Before you know it you will be burning through huge logs of negativity and, as a result, generating a powerful light to mark your way.
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"If you don't know the struggle, you don't know your strength."
~Mary Kay
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"The greatest grief we cause ourselves."
~Sophocles
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"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns."
~Kenji Miyazawa
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"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning." Copyright 2012 Eli Landa at www.evolutionarypathways.com
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~George Baker
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Obstacle Illusion
"It's an obstacle illusion, my grandson said.
Out of the mouths of babes, great wisdom spreads.
How many obstacles were really there or simply a fantasy of your despair?
You each create your hopes and dreams, through your thoughts so dear.
Are they obstacle illusions? Or positive, strong, and clear?"
~Unknown
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"In every adversity lies the seed of an equal or greater opportunity."
~Napoleon Hill
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"View all problems as challenges. Look upon negativities that arise as opportunities to learn and to grow. Don't run from them, condemn yourself, or bury your burden in saintly silence. You have a problem? Great. More grist for the mill. Rejoice, dive in, and investigate." ~Banta Henepola Gunaratana, "Mindfulness in Plain English"
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"When things are at their worst, I find something always happens."
~W. Somerset Mangham
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Find a Better Job
"Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business; why not find a better job." ~Hafiz
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Elegance
"It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.
Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself.
Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance."
~Hafiz
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"Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, and causes you to bump into people not going your way."
~Ferber
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"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it." ~George Bernard Shaw
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"To regret deeply is to live afresh."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."
~Dag Hammarskjold
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"When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone. For you are not alone, nay. God is within and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?"
~Epictetus
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"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself."
~Mark Twain
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"Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"He, who has never hoped, can never despair."
~George Bernard Shaw
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Invictus
"Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole; I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeoning of chance, my head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears, looms but the horror of the shade; and yet the menace of the years, finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul."
~William Ernest Henley
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"Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow."
~Ann Radcliffe
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"Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured." ~Homer
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"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it is digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."
~Samuel Johnson
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"Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver."
~Sophocles
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"Guilt comes when a person accepts that his actions were wrong. But guilt is an illness...The only medicine for guilt is to look ahead and persevere. It is inevitable in life that one will commit some wrongs. The average person hides his embarrassment. But the superior one accepts that actions were wrong and then never does them again. Such a one not only purges a weakness, but eliminates the necessity of guilt as well."
~From "The Craft of the Warrior" by Robert L. Spencer
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"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs."
~Euripides
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"I just realized that there are going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with them in the right way."
~Trey Parker and Matt Stone
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"Forgiveness multiplies and melts rigid postures. Try again and again with self forgiveness. Be the kind parent to yourself you may not have had."
~Sark
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"Live through your life without pressure and in the utmost contentment, even if all are clamouring what they will against you, even if wild beasts are tearing off the limbs of this poor lump of a body accredited to you. What in all this prevents the mind from preserving itself in tranquility, in true judgement of circumstance and readiness to use any event submitted to it? So that judgement says to circumstance:
'This is what you really are, however different you may conventionally appear'; and ready use says to event: 'I was looking for you. I always take the present moment as raw material for the exercise of rational and social virtue - in short, for the art of man or
God.'"
~From "The Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius
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"Let yourself go with dis-ease, be with it, and keep it company. This is the way to be rid of it."
~Bruce Lee
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"Forget your sadness, anger, grudges and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in a breeze. Do not indulge yourself in such feelings."
~Masaaki Hatsumi
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"The only cure for grief is action."
~George Henry Lewes
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"No good has ever come from feeling guilty - neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object, but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties."
~The Tragedy of the Commons
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"If you don't want negative energy to impact on you, stop resisting it. Simply redirect your focus."
~Unknown
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"In a dark time, the eye begins to see."
~Theodore Roethke
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
~Marcus Aurelius
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"Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.
Without reactions the world becomes clear."
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~The Buddha
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"Be too large for worry; too noble for anger; too strong for fear and too content to permit the presence of trouble. Be so powerful that nothing can disturb your peace of mind."
~The Optimist Creed
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"Whenever you fall, pick something up."
~Oswald Avery
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"Anger. Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you.
Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if you allow him to get you irritated."
~Miyamoto Musashi
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"One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence fate, whereas one may weaken the constitution by the waste of energy while indulging in them."
~George Julius Hackenschmidt
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"The heaviest thing I can carry is a grudge."
~Unknown
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"There are no small upsets. They are all equally disturbing to my peace of mind."
~From "A Course in Miracles"
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Friendship Quotes
"To the world you may just be somebody. But to somebody, you may just be the world."
~Unknown
Friendship quotes help us to preserve and maintain the sacred bond of friendship. In this day and age of computers and virtual reality, friendship quotes serve as an important reminder of the true value of friends. Glued to a computer screen for sometimes hours a day, we often lose touch with the value of friendship and real connection with others.
Friends and friendships help us put the exclusive world of our thinking into perspective.
They put our thinking to the test. They help us see our true thoughts and to gracefully, if somewhat reluctantly, let go of all the rest. In this way friends bring out the best in us.
True friends are often the first to shake us up, talk some sense into us, and generally help us step out-of-the-mind when we seem to need it most. Without these life-giving friendships, we easily become trapped in our own thinking, trapped in our own minds, without the ability to see a way out. True friendships help bring us back to ourselves.
They help bring us back to life.
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"People will forget what you said; but they will never forget how you made them feel."
~Carl Buehner
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"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
~Aristotle
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"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."
~William Blake
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"A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else."
~Unknown
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"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
~Albert Camus
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"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
~Helen Keller
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"My friend, if I could give you one thing I would give you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are."
~Barbara A. Billings
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"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy-for friendship's sake."
~William Blake
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"The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart; mark and avoid him."
~Cicero
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"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
~Robert Louis Stevenson
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"Without friends no one would choose to live, though they had all other goods."
~Aristotle
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"Not what we give, but what we share. For the gift without the giver is bare."
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~James Russell Lowell
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"I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones." ~Oscar Wilde
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"Everyone has a gift for something, even if it's the gift of being a good friend."
~Marian Anderson
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"There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness."
~Cicero
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"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend. But it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful; a meaningful friend - a meaningful day."
~The Dalai Lama
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"May you always have love to share, health to spare, and friends that care."
~Unknown
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"On this day: Mend a quarrel. Search out a forgotten friend. Dismiss a suspicion, and replace it with trust."
~Unknown
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"Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks of our tentative houses and parts of them always remain. Friendship asks the truth and wants the truth, hollows and fills, ages with us, and we through it. It cradles us like family. It is ecology and mystery and language - all three. Our grown-up friendships - especially the really meaningful ones
- model for our children what we want them to have throughout their lives."
~Beth Kephart (Author)
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Quotes about Letting Go
"In the end there are three things that matter in life: How well did you love? How fully did you live? And how deeply did you learn to let go?"
~Buddha
In the Western culture, letting go is most often associated with loss. We are not taught the importance of letting go. Instead, we learn how to hold-on, how to secure and how to possess. Letting go isn't easy for the mind. The mind loves holding on. It holds onto emotions, ideas, opinions, beliefs, judgements and points of view. It holds onto people and relationships. It will even hold onto an image of ourselves that we have long outgrown.
The mind is powerful, but it doesn't know how to relinquish its hold. Just as we can't force ourselves to fall asleep at night, so we can't force ourselves to let go. Letting go is a natural outcome of stepping out-of-the-mind.
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"What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now."
~Buddha
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"The future is always beginning now."
~Mark Strand
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"Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head."
~Ann Landers
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"We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging, to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want."
~Joe Vitale
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"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
~Henry Ellis
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"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
~Dr. Seuss
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"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence.
A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. A time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."
~Gloria Naylor
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"You change for two reasons: Either you learn enough that you want to, or you've been hurt enough that you have to."
~Unknown
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"Sometimes you love something so much that it hurts to leave it, but you must.
Sometimes it hurts too much to hold on to that thing you love. And sometimes you let go of what you love because it hurts, but then just sometimes you get it back and live happily ever after."
~Anonymous
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"The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character."
~Isabelle Eberhardt
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"How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."
~Trina Paulus
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"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Let it go."
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~Albert Einstein
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"Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to."
~Anonymous
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"All appears to change when we change."
~Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel
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"I don't let go of thoughts, I question them and then they let go of me."
~Byron Katie
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"You know you love someone when you know you want them to be happy, even if their happiness means that you are not a part of it."
~Anonymous
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"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
~Alexander Graham Bell
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"Freedom isn't worth having if it doesn't involve the freedom to make mistakes."
~Mahatma Gandhi
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"True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you."
~Anonymous
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"The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them."
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~John Seely Brown
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"People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on."
~Bill Cosby
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"If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace." ~Ajahn Chah
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"When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection." ~Debra Messing
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"If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go."
~Sarah Dessen
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"Anything I can not transform into something marvellous, I let go."
~Anais Nin
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"Some people think it's holding that makes one strong-sometimes it's letting go."
~Unknown
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"Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties."
~Gail Sheehy
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"You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there."
~Unknown
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"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and realize that prisoner was you."
~Lewis B. Smedes
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"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us."
~Joseph Campbell
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"Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself."
~Deborah Reber
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"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."
~Albert Einstein
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"Letting go doesn't mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be." ~Anonymous
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"Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities."
~Dalai Lama
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"Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day." ~Zen Saying
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."
~Robert Frost
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"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."
~Charles Kettering
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"Life is a process of becoming. A combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."
~Anais Nin
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"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
~Thomas Szasz
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"Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go."
~Kate Winslet
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"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"The past is history, the future, a mystery. The here and now is a gift. That is why it's called the present."
~Unknown
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"Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security."
~John Allen Paulos
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"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
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"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
~John D. Rockefeller
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"A man is not old until regrets take the place of his dreams."
~Proverb
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"In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost."
~Anne Sophie Swetchine
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"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward."
~Anonymous
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"There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value."
~Ellen Goodman
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"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it."
~Mary Engelbreit
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"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood."
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~Karen Casey
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"Fears over tomorrow and regrets over yesterday are twin thieves that rob us of the moment." ~Anonymous
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Quotes about Life
"Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to that which is known to us of nature."
~Saint Augustine
Life is intelligent. It has a wisdom all its own. To gain access to this wisdom we are often called upon to step out-of-the-mind - leaving behind our own old ideas about life and the way we think it should be. When we open up like this, new inspiration enters our lives.
We experience renewal. We feel refreshed. We experience the gift of life. The quotes below help us tap into natural inspiration.
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"There are unknown forces within nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her; without reserve she leads them to us; she shows us those forms which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect."
~Auguste Rodin
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"Each one of us has all the wisdom and knowledge we ever need right within us. It is available to us through our intuitive mind, which is our connection with universal intelligence." ~Shakti Gawain
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"For anything to happen, the entire universe must coincide. It is wrong to believe that anything in particular can cause an effect. All causes are universal."
~Form "I Am That" DVD
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"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."
~Aristotle
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"We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for."
~Marie Ebner Von Exchenbach
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others."
~M.F.K. Fisher
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"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages."
~Jacques Deval
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"There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change."
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living." ~Dale Carnegie
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"Progress never moves in a straight line. It's a spiral pathway, now going, now returning, holding on and letting go, winning and losing, giving and receiving."
~Dennis Augustine
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"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."
~William Blake
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"A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end."
~Aristotle
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"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man."
~Euripides
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"Wisdom comes with winters."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Just as hostility begets more hostility, its absence brings peace. These are timeless truths." ~"The Middle Length Discourses (Buddhist texts)
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"The tree wants to remain calm, but the winds blow ceaselessly; children want to care for their parents, but their parents do not wait..."
~Ancient Adage
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"Water is the only drink for a wise man."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations."
~James O. Donnell Bennett
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"You can't have an up without a down. You can't have a left without a right. This is duality. If you have a problem, you must already have the solution. The question is, do you really want the solution, or do you want to perpetuate the problem?"
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~Byron Katie
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Determination Quotes
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
~Ayn Rand
Determination quotes highlight a quality of the human spirit that not only helps us overcome adversity, but also has the power to inspire others to do the same. It is a quality that can be acquired by anyone who so desires. Determination is available to anyone who is willing to cultivate it and plant it firmly in the heart.
Determination often means defying the voices in our head that try to keep us small. It is an antidote to self-doubt and fear in their many guises. Our mind may tell us that something just can't be done; yet in our heart and soul we feel that it can and should be done. Our brain may tell us that it doesn't make sense to defy the odds; yet our heart tells us to go on regardless.
Being determined means overcoming and going beyond our limitations.
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"Every good and excellent thing stands moment by moment on the razor's edge of danger and must be fought for."
~Unknown
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"When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish - it is then that you must not hesitate."
~Dag Hammarskjold
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"The best way out is always through."
~Robert Frost
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"Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation."
~Thomas Henry Huxley
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"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
~Vince Lombardi
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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; un-rewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
~Calvin Coolidge
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"A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on."
~Author Unknown
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"The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will dissipate, be lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence."
~Marie Edgeworth
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"We will either find a way, or make one."
~Hannibal
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"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." ~George Lorimer
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"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from
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~W. H. Murray
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"Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You're the only one who can do it permanently." ~Zig Ziglar
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"The hour is ripe and yonder lies the way."
~Virgil
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"Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold."
~Dr. A. B. Meldrum
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"Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination."
~Unknown
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"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."
~James Cook
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"Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail."
~Marva Collins
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"The determination to win is the better part of winning."
~Daisaku Ikeda
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"And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high."
~Ayrton Senna
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"If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you."
~Les Brown
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"If you want to do something… get up and actually do it!"
~Heinrich Boll
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"Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe dedicated."
~Unknown Author
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"Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done."
~Russell W. Davenport
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"Determination is the wake-up call to the human will."
~Anthony Robbins
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"The longer I live, the surer I become that the truest real difference between the success and the failure, between the strong and the weak, between the rich and the poor, between the great and the average, is just plain will power, invincible determination, a purpose once set and then death or victory. And no fine manners, education or brilliance, no talent, opportunity or culture can make any two-legged creature a man without it."
~Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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"To the timid soul, nothing is possible."
~John Bach
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"To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life." ~Sir William Osler
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"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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"Strength is a matter of the made-up mind."
~John Beecher
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"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough." ~John Christian Bovee
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"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
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"The greatest oak was once a little nut that held its ground."
~Unknown
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"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."
~Tommy Lasorda
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"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
~Henry Ward Beecher
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"Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose." ~Benjamin Disraeli
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"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."
~George Halas
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"Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense."
~Winston Churchill
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"What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists…and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want…and are fully determined not to quit until you get it."
~Alexander Graham Bell
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"To him who is determined it remains only to act."
~Italian Proverb
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"There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or you're out. There is no such thing as life in-between."
~Pat Riley
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Achievement Quotes
"Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footsteps on the moon."
~Anon
How do we overcome self-doubt and small thinking to achieve what we most desire?
How do we step out-of-the-mind to create a reality that manifests our highest hopes and dreams? This is the question addressed by many of these inspired thoughts and quotes about achievement.
Expand your thinking, stretch your mind, enlarge your 'realm of possibility' and take action to overcome self-doubt and insecurity. This will take you on an upward spiral of personal growth, self improvement and motivation. Use the inspiration below to guide you every step of the way.
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"There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can."
~Henry Ford
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"We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going day in and day out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs."
~Arnold Bennett
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"If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure."
~David Ambrose
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"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."
~Maureen Dowd
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"The determination to win is the better part of winning."
~Daisaku Ikeda
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"As soon as your dream becomes stronger than your doubts & fears, your dream begins to manifest."
~Marc Allen
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"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to success, not going all the way and not starting."
~Unknown
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"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
~Michael Jordan
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"Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold." ~Dr. A. B. Meldrum
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"One of the big differences between the non-achiever and the achiever is that the latter has mastered the art of applying the obvious."
~Allan Cox
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"How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."
~Trina Paulus
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"Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done."
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~Russell W. Davenport
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"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else." ~Albert Einstein
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"The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse."
~Sir John Marks Templeton
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"If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do."
~Fred Saberhagen
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"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"
~Muhammad Ali
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"Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so."
~Charles De Gaulle
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"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance." ~Samuel Johnson
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"People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be."
~Harvey Mackay
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"You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it."
~Robert Anthony
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"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."
~Vince Lombardi
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"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts."
~Dan Gable
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"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
~Darrel Royal
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"The greatest oak was once a little nut that held its ground."
~Unknown Author
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"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
~John Wooden
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"That's precisely the question everyone should be asking - why the hell not? Why not you; and why not now?"
~Timothy Ferris
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"You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge."
~Damon Runyon
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"Some people focus on what they're going through; champions focus on what they are going to."
~Grant M. Bright
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"The principle is competing against your self. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before."
~Steve Young
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"You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional." ~Joe Paterno
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"Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time." ~Lou Brock
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"One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride."
~Richard Nelson Bolles
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"He who stops being better, stops being good."
~Oliver Cromwell
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"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." ~Roger Bannister
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"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
~Albert Einstein
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"Every good and excellent thing stands moment by moment on the razor's edge of danger and must be fought for."
~Unknown
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Adversity Quotes
"When the world says, 'give up!' Hope whispers, 'Try it one more time.'"
~Author Unknown
Adversity is part of life. Sometimes it is the world outside that puts us to the test, as if to say, 'give up!' Sometimes it is the world inside that carries the same message, 'give up!'
Adversity can come from within or without. When it comes as a combination of both, it is especially intimidating.
So why don't we just give-up? What keeps us going? There is another voice inside us, a voice that is for overcoming adversity - the voice of life. It tells us to LIVE! It invites us to step beyond the limiting messages of the mind. It encourages us to give it everything we've got.
Adversity isn't meant to stop us from living. It is meant to make us strong. Adversity is life's way of helping us to grow.
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~Unknown
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"Even the most daring and accomplished people have undergone tremendous difficulty.
In fact, the more successful they became, the more they attributed their success to the lessons learned during their most difficult times. Adversity is our teacher. When we view adversity as a guide towards greater inner growth, we will then learn to accept the wisdom our soul came into this life to learn."
~Barbara Rose
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"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
~Albert Einstein
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"If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure."
~David Ambrose
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"The greatest oak was once a little nut that held its ground."
~Unknown Author
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"How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."
~Trina Paulus
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"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
~Seneca
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"Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold."
~Dr. A. B. Meldrum
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"Some people focus on what they're going through; champions focus on what they are going to."
~Grant M. Bright
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"The only way to overcome is to hang in. Even I'm starting to believe that."
~Dan O'Brien
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~Samuel Johnson
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"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye."
~Helen Keller
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"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
~Michael Jordan
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"The difference between men who succeed or fail is their ability to handle pressure."
~Edwin Louis Cole
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"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." ~Muhammad Ali
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"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost."
~George Shultz
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"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
~George Eliot
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~Lou Brock
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"Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary." ~Ray Knight
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"One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride."
~Richard Nelson Bolles
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"Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up, but kept going no matter what."
~Spryte Loriano
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"The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do."
~Dennis Waitley
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"Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve."
~Robert Burns
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"Each warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!" ~Pat Riley
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"Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it."
~Mark Twain
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"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
~Henry Ford
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Funny Procrastination Quotes
"If and When were planted, and Nothing grew."
~Proverb
Procrastination is no laughing matter, or is it? When it comes to overcoming procrastination we usually cry rather than laugh. Yet, humour has power. Its effect is prompt and profound.
Humour, laughter, smiles...all open the mind and free our thoughts. We momentarily forget our worries, fears and concerns and are present in the moment. We may even completely forget to procrastinate and find ourselves moved to action. Yeah, right! But then again, why not?! Enjoy…
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~Unknown
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"The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up."
~Unknown
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"One of the greatest labour-saving inventions of today is tomorrow."
~Vincent T. Foss
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"He who hesitates is last."
~Mae West
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"When there is a hill to climb, don't think that waiting will make it smaller."
~Anonymous
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"If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done."
~Unknown
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"Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded."
~Sandra Day O'Connor
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"Hard work pays off later. Laziness pays off now. I've always been one for being in the moment. ~Anonymous
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"Procrastination always gives you something to look forward to."
~Joan Konner
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"Procrastination is like a credit card; it's a lot fun until you get the bill."
~Christopher Parker
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"I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."
~Anonymous
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"After all is said and done, more is said than done."
~Anonymous
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"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
~Mark Twain
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"The best part about procrastination is that you are never bored, because you have all kinds of things that you should be doing."
~Anonymous
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"Someday is not a day of the week."
~Author Unknown
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"Warning: dates on this calendar are closer than they appear."
~Anonymous
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"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment."
~Robert Benchley
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"Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week."
~Spanish Proverb
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"If something's hard to do, then what's the point?!"
~Homer Simpson
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"The worst form of procrastination is reading a procrastination quote, feeling the guilt and not doing anything about it."
~Unknown
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Purpose Quotes
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
~George Bernard Shaw
Without purpose and direction we find ourselves drifting the seas of life. Being tossed here and there, battered by the waves - we struggle. Purpose helps us steer our course and gives meaning to our efforts.
Living with purpose requires us to go beyond our limitations and step outside the boundaries of the mind. This is why having a purpose makes us come alive.
Without a purpose, exploration, personal growth, and self improvement all come to a grinding halt. Stagnation sets in with all its adverse effects.
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"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
~Robert Byrne
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"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart."
~Rumi
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"Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye".
~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
~Eddie Cantor
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"The true joy of life is being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap ... being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"The lion is most handsome when looking for food."
~ Rumi
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"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."
~Ben Stein
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"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Strong reasons make strong actions."
~William Shakespeare
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"Granted that I must die, how shall I live?"
~Michael Novak
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"Let yourself be silently drawn by the pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." ~Rumi
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Your Path
"Your path has its own simple beauty and mystery.
It is never what you think it is.
Yet it is never beyond your ability to intuit the next step."
~Paul Ferrini
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Action Quotes
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."
~John Dewey
Action quotes are a great reminder of the importance of using the body, and not just the mind, to achieve our goals. Both body and mind, working in unison towards a common goal, is our most powerful way forward.
Action forms the bridge that takes us from thinking to being, from imagining to creating.
Yet, there are times when we find this bridge blocked or obstructed. Taking action can be challenging when this happens.
Taking action requires motivation, purpose, initiative, and often courage. Without these action is nothing more than a thought. We think alone about action. But we do very little.
We create an internal barrier that seems hard to break through. Taking that one step outof-the-mind can make all the difference. These action quotes may help inspire that step.
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"Depend not on fortune, but on conduct."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"It is of no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence.
The only consequence is what we do."
~John Ruskin
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"You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind."
~Irish Proverb
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"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."
~Japanese Proverb
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"If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act."
~Lee J. Iacocca
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"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."
~Jacob Bronowski
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"Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity."
~William Blake
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"A rolling stone gathers no moss."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial."
~Sophocles
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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"The true method of knowledge is experiment."
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~William Blake
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"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."
~Aristotle
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"All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes."
~Cicero
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"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only thing one never regrets is one's mistakes."
~Oscar Wilde
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"The only cure for grief is action."
~George Henry Lewes
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"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
~Confucius
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"You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are so must be his spirit."
~Demosthenes
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"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions."
~Dorothy Day
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"You ask me why I do not write something...I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results."
~Florence Nightingale
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"Words without actions are the assassins of idealism."
~Herbert Hoover
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"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
~John Locke
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"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Words without action are like wheels without traction. It is how you live that counts."
~Geoff Thompson
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"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."
~Hannah Arendt
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"Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act."
~Dan Millman
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"Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it."
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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"No matter what we feel or know, no matter what our potential gifts or talents, only action brings them to life. Those of us who only think we understand concepts such as commitment, courage, and love, one day discover that we only know when we act; doing becomes understanding."
~Dan Millman (from the book "The Life You Were Born to Live")
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"Emotion is created by motion."
~Tony Robbins
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"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
~Chinese Proverb
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"Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer."
~Niccolo Machiavelli
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"People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action..."
~Moshe Feldenkrais
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Success Quotes
"Nature never repeats herself and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another."
~Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Success means different things to different people. This is as it should be. We all need to find the specific brand of success that suits our individual character and abilities. Once we find our personal definition of success, it becomes a shining beacon to guide and motivate us on our path through life.
Whatever your personal brand of success may be, it is important to make sure that it's your own. This is not as obvious as it may seem. Most of the ideas running around in our head we have received from others. Many voices vie for our attention, yet only a few are really our own. How do we know which voices to follow? How do we identify and find our true inner calling?
These quotes on success may help. Use them as a mirror reflecting back to you the true meaning of success. As you browse through these quotes, pay attention to how your body reacts. When you come across a quote that brings goose bumps to your skin or that sends a tingle down your spine, you will know you have connected with a definition of success that is true for you.
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"What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point."
~Orison Swett Marden
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"Ask yourself, 'what's more important - being real and being myself, or becoming successful? And ask the question knowing that you never actually have to choose between being real and being successful. You simply have to choose between being real and striving to be successful. Get the difference?
~Thomas Leonard
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"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort."
~Jesse Owens
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"A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements."
~Orison Swett Marden
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"I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending."
~Charles Handy
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"The trouble with the rat-race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat."
~Lily Tomlin
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"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
~Woody Allen
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"Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavour, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances."
~Orison Swett Marden
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"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you." ~Anthony Robbins
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Quotes about Truth
"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of."
~Helen Keller
Truth is beyond belief.
Suppose the mind believes that we are inadequate or unworthy and that we are not, and never will be, good enough. These are words that come from a negative mind. But is this the truth?
No, it isn’t. This is nothing more than a belief in the mind, leaving the truth far behind.
When we learn to be suspicious of the negativity that is so often the doctrine of the mind, there is no telling the depths of reality and truth we will find. Aligned with what we can’t yet see, the truth has the power to set us free.
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"Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them."
~ Alan Watts
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"I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than to say the things I don't."
~W. Somerset Mangham
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"Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts. It comes from seeing what is true."
~Buddha
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"If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth." ~Hans Reichenbach
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"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."
~Winston Churchill
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"Truly, to tell lies is not honourable. But when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonourably is pardonable."
~Sophocles
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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do."
~William Blake
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"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes." ~Henry David Thoreau
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"The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth."
~Cicero
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"Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends."
~Aristotle
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"Justice is truth in action."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you."
~William Blake
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"Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?"
~Cicero
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not - when I come to die discover that I had not lived."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'"
~Cicero
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"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
~Oscar Wilde
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"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"There is nothing so powerful as Truth - and often nothing so strange."
~Daniel Webster
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"That which you seek, is causing you to seek."
~Cheri Huber
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"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."
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~Benjamin Disraeli
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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Do not think that this is all there is. More and more wonderful teachings exist..."
~Yamaoka Tesshu
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"Movement is part of the direct path. On the direct path, people have no need for external religion, because personal spiritual truth is what the person is and does."
~Unknown
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
~Oscar Wilde
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"The heart of things, which cannot be seen with the eyes: that is where the seed of
Buddha lies. Make it grow and grow and truth will be yours."
~Unknown
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"The world is wide, full of happenings. Keep this in mind and never believe 'I'm the only one who knows.'"
~Yamaoka Tesshu
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"Know that in a remote place, in a cloud-covered valley; there is still a sacred pine that passes through the chill of the ages."
~From 'At the Time of Awakening' by Zen Master Keizan Denkoroku
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"Only a lion can recognize a lion's roar."
~Kodo Sawaki
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"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth."
~Oscar Wilde
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"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded." ~W. Somerset Mangham
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Mind Quotes
"I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind can comprehend it."
~Harry Emerson Fosdick
We live within two worlds.
The first world is the private, small world that exists between our own two ears - the thinking world of the mind. The second world is the one that exists outside of the mind and is independent of our thinking.
Conscious self-improvement and personal growth depend, to a large extent, on our understanding of the relationship between these two worlds and how they interact and influence each other. When we venture beyond an inner boundary created by our thinking, we discover both our subjective and objective lives expanding. In those instances, life becomes workable and so much more exciting.
Working with the mind is an adventure and a quest. You need not travel 'to dusty lands' as a renowned Zen master, Dogen, once said. All you need is readily at hand - your mind and the thrilling opportunities that come with stepping out-of-the-mind.
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"All things are ready, if our minds be so."
~Shakespeare (King Henry V)
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"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body."
~Cicero
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"To keep the body in good health is a duty...Otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."
~Buddha
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"The truly still mind, with which you were born, is the mind that moves freely. Without ignoring anything, it reacts wholeheartedly to everything it encounters, to everything on which it reflects. And yet, for all that, it is the mind that is never seized by anything, but is always ready to react on the spot to whatever it encounters next. The mind that is still is the mind that never forfeits its freedom and is able to constantly keep rolling and rolling and rolling."
~From "Novice to Master" by Soko Morinaga
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"You need to get rid of all the trash in your mind. Trash is anything that prevents you from being in the present moment."
~From "The Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman
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"One need not be a chamber to be haunted; one need not be a house; the brain has corridors surpassing material place."
~Emily Dickinson
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"Virtuous monks don't use your minds mistakenly. The great ocean never detains dead bodies; but all you do is rush about the world carrying them on your shoulders."
~Rinzai (Zen Master)
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Quotes about Fear
"There has never been a greater illusion than fear. Fear exists only whilst you believe in it - whilst you fear it. So...stop believing, stop fearing. Set up a shadow inventory, write down all your fears and set out on your warrior path. Make this your life purpose and gold will be smelt from your terror."
~Geoff Thompson
It has been said that FEAR is an acronym standing for False Evidence Appearing Real.
Of course, not all fear is based on false evidence and not all fear is an obstacle to living our lives fully. If we learn to develop the right relationship with our fears, then fear becomes a stepping stone instead of a stumbling block on our path.
Fear can stop us in our tracks or it can spur us on to great achievements. There is nothing inherently negative about fear - it is our relationship with fear that determines the positive or negative results. Use these inspiring thoughts and quotes to build a positive relationship with the fears in your life.
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"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear." ~Edmund Burke
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"None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear."
~Ferdinand Foch
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"Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully."
~Francis Moore Lappe
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"Fear is a question: What are you afraid of and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of selfknowledge if you explore them."
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~Marilyn Furgeson
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"Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person."
~Dr. David M. Burns
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"We must make sure that we live our lives in the present and respond to things that are real - not to our fears of what once was or what might someday be."
~Anthony Robbins
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"To him who is in fear, everything rustles."
~Sophocles
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"When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of. And then you're going to get the only respect in the world that matters: self-respect. And that's pretty much what my journey's been."
~Sylvester Stallone
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"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves.
The basis of optimism is shear terror."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."
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~Rainer Maria Rilke
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"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past; I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
~From Frank Herbert's movie "Dune"
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Initiative Quotes
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."
~George Bernard Shaw
Taking initiative is an important part of personal growth and leading a fulfilling life.
Initiative is needed for conscious change to occur. Without it, things continue as they always did and consequences remain as they are. The river of our lives continues to flow unabated. To take initiative, we need to throw a boulder in that creak. We need to divert the waters and re-direct the flow of our energies. Taking initiative helps break the cycle of inertia that protects us from the unexpected, but also, from the personal growth and fulfillment we crave.
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"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."
~George Eliot
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"There are many paths, but the only one that leads to the top of the mountain, is the one you make yourself."
~Ancient Chinese Saying
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"Initiative is the agent which translates imagination into action."
~General Lyman L. Lemnitzer
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"Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be."
~Malcolm Forbes
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"Do not lie in a ditch, and say God help me; use the lawful tools He hath lent thee."
~English proverb
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"Eagles don't flock."
~Ross Perot
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"What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance; it doesn't come every day."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"You have to recognize that every 'out front' manoeuvre you make is going to be lonely, but if you feel entirely comfortable, then you're not far enough ahead to do any good.
That warm sense of everything going well is usually the body temperature at the centre of the herd."
~John Masters
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"If opportunity doesn't knock - build a door."
~Milton Berle
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"You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence." ~Abraham Lincoln
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"Initiative is doing the right things without being told."
~Elbert Hubbard
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"Success comes to the person who does today what you were thinking about doing tomorrow." ~Unknown
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"Take stands, take risks, take responsibility."
~Muriel Siebert
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"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."
~Orison Swett Marden
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"Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know your path and follow it wherever it may lead you. Do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps."
~Eileen Caddy in "Footprints on the Path"
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"I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody else's advice."
~W. Somerset Mangham
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"Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past."
~Sophocles
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"A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe."
~Georges Clemmanceau
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"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be."
~Rosalyn Carter
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"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"A weak man has doubts before a decision is made. A strong man has them afterwards."
~Karl Kraus
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"Well begun is half done."
~Aristotle
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"The wisest men follow their own direction."
~Euripides
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"Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight."
~Marcus Aurelius ("The Meditations")
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"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
~Chinese Proverb
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Quotes on Happiness
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet." ~James Oppenhaim
Most of us spend enormous amounts of time, money and energy courting happiness. Yet, how many of us really understand the happiness we chase? How many of us know how to catch this butterfly called 'happiness' which flits away just as we try to capture it in our net? Besides the happiness we seek, there is also happiness borne of no effort. Watching a sunset, or taking a tranquil walk on the beach. Laying peacefully in a meadow or listening to the swaying trees as we walk through a forest. Watching children laugh and losing themselves in play. All of these are moments of happiness we naturally experience. At times like these our self-centred thoughts are swept away, naturally suspended, and a strange happiness overtakes us. Losing ourselves in this way, happiness finds us without delay. ****
"No man is happy who does not think himself so."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be."
~Abraham Lincoln
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"The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it."
~Al Batt
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"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but in the mastery of his passions."
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~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." ~Ayn Rand
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"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it."
~C.P. Snow
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"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
~Helen Keller
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"If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it."
~Immanuel Herman Fichte
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"Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot." ~Josh Billings
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"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness."
~Lao Tzu
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
~Mahatma Ghandi
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"Very little is needed to make a happy life."
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~Marcus Aurelius
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"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."
~Robertson Davies
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"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination."
~Roy M. Goodman
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"Happiness comes from the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
~Storm Jameson
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"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
~William Cowper
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"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"There will be rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better; we find comfort somewhere."
~Jane Austen
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"A happy life consists in tranquility of mind."
~Cicero
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"To love what you do, and feel that it matters, what could be more fun?"
~Katherine Graham
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"Not only in places especially set up for training, but anytime and anywhere, the person who exerts himself or herself with dignity, without worrying about results and without giving into disappointment, is a true practitioner, a true person of the Way. I believe that just this is the form of true human well-being."
~From "Novice to Master" by Soko Morinaga
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Quotes about Character
"People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world."
~Michael Josephson
Character and destiny is the last stepping stone of out-of-the-mind self improvement and motivation. Thoughts and words lead to actions and habits...which coalesce into character and walk hand-in-hand with destiny. One stepping stone can hardly be separated from the other. The thoughts we habitually entertain leave a strong impression on us. Our character is imperceptibly shaped by every single thought we choose to believe. It goes without saying that we should choose our thinking wisely. These quotes on character give us shining examples that light the way.
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"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."
~Aristotle
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"Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight."
~Marcus Aurelius
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"To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought to have the greatest bearing on excellence of character."
~Aristotle
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"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
~John Wooden
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"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines - or indicates - his fate."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious."
~Samyutta Nikaya
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"To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - herein lays the perfection of character."
~"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius
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"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right?
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right."
~Martin Luther King
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"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."
~Sir Winston Churchill
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"You should not live one way in private, another in public."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."
~Aristotle
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"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience." ~Euripides
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"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Dignity consists not in possessing honours, but in the consciousness that we deserve them." ~Aristotle
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"If you would convince a man that he does wrong - do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him."
~Cicero
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"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."
~Aristotle
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"In the men of highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power and glory."
~Cicero
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"Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings."
~Euripides
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"Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity." ~John Brown
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"Life ought to be a struggle of desires toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul." ~Rebecca West
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"Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath."
~Solon
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"The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate."
~Euripides
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"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. Real nobility lies in being superior to your former self."
~Whitney Young
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"The difference between a moral man, and a man of honour, is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught."
~H.L. Mencken
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"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."
~Euripides
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"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honour is what you know about yourself." ~Lois McMaster Bujold
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"Honour does not have to be defended."
~Robert J. Sawyer
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"Be honourable yourself, if you wish to associate with honourable people."
~Welsch Proverb
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"When good men die, their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them."
~Euripides
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"Human dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendour throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority."
~James Thurber
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"Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life."
~Marcus Aurelius
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"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."
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~Michael J. Fox
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"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
~Rabbi Abraham Herschel
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"During a blacksmithing demonstration, the apprentice stopped hammering the hot iron bar and asked his teacher 'Is it straight enough?' The old master replied, 'It's either straight or it ain't.'"
~From "Buddhadharma" Quarterly (summer 2004)
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"Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world."
~Real Live Preacher
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"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble."
~Washington Irving
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"Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path."
~The Buddha in the Dhammapada
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"Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down."
~Sir Henry Wotton
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"A fair exterior is a silent recommendation."
~Publilius Cyrus
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Quotes on Trust
"It is hard to go through life without trust. That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all - oneself."
~Graham Greene
To trust, or not to trust - is the choice we face time and again as we walk our unique pathways through life. Should we trust, for example, that life can be fundamentally good?
Can we trust ourselves to cope with anything that life might throw our way? How practiced are we at trusting our intuition and gut-level feelings?
We often desperately want to trust in the positive ways described above. Without trust we bring unnecessary anxiety and stress into our lives. Because we don’t trust, fear and hesitation enters in.
Trust doesn't come easily to a doubtful and calculating mind. More often than not, a step out-of-the-mind is needed for trust to take place.
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"When you go the way of life you will come to a chasm. When you do - jump! It is not as wide as it looks."
~Native Indian Saying
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"When I am trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously."
~Shakti Gawain
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"You may be deceived if you trust too much; but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."
~Frank Crane
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"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interests, that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us, but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end."
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~H. L. Mencken
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"Your greatest enemy are the hesitating ideas and doubts. Don't give them quarter."
~Shodo Harada Roshi
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"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."
~William Blake
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"The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust."
~Henry L. Stimson
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"A person who trusts no one can't be trusted."
~Jerome Blattner
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"Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil, and still more the man who is indifferent to everything."
~Johann K. Lavater
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"Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it; and better to be sometimes cheated than not to trust." ~Samuel Johnson
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"A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else."
~Cardinal de Retz
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"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth. The former course is silly; the latter, a mark of prudence."
~Democritus
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"Trust one who has gone through it."
~Virgil
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"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."
~Ovid
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"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of."
~Helen Keller
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"There is no hell worse than not being able to trust in your fellow man."
~Shodo Harada Roshi
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Procrastination Quotes
"Tear thyself from delay."
~Horace
Who hasn't felt helpless at one time or another trying to figure out how to stop procrastinating? We want to get into action, be productive and move forward, yet there seems to be an invisible hand holding us back. This invisible hand is nothing other than our own mind getting in the way.
Make no mistake about it, procrastination is a disease. It is a disease of the mind. It can have many causes, but only one effect - preventing us from ever discovering our true capabilities. To overcome this foe we need to conquer the invisible enemy within. One of the quotes below may help you step out-of-the-mind and provide the inspiration you need to defeat procrastination. ****
"There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks."
~George David Lloyd
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"Procrastination is the thief of time."
~Edward Young
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"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to success, not going all the way and not starting."
~Unknown
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"In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it."
~Charles Baudelaire
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"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started."
~David Allen
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"Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried."
~Unknown Author
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"Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible."
~George H. Lorimer
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"I spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung."
~Rabindranath Tagore
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"He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal."
~Baltasar Graci
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"Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all."
~Mignon McLaughlin
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"If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow."
~Ovid
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"Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it."
~Salvador Dali
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"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one."
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~Mark Twain
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"Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin."
~Victor Kiam
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"The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin."
~Hesiod
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"Procrastination and worry are the twin thieves that will try to rob you of your brilliance but even the smallest action will drive them from your camp."
~Gil Atkinson
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"There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back."
~Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
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"If you want to do something… do it!"
~Heinrich Boll
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"He who awaits much can expect little."
~Marquez Gabriel Garcia
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"'One of these days' is none of these days."
~Unknown
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"Begin, while others procrastinate. Work, while others wish."
~William Arthur Ward
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"What may be done at any time will be done at no time."
~Scottish Proverb
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"Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live."
~M. Scott Peck from 'The Road Less Traveled'
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"To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing."
~Eva Young
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"To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead." ~Mandino, Og
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"Why always 'not yet?' Do flowers in spring say, 'not yet?'
~Norman Douglas
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"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
~Martin Luther King Junior
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"Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform."
~Edward Young
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"He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin."
~Horace
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"Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday
I'll" philosophy".
~Denis Waitley
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"How soon not now, becomes never."
~Martin Luther King Junior
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"Delay always breeds danger, and to protract a great design is often to ruin in it."
~Miguel de Cervantes
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"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
~Parkinson's Law
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"Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing so futile."
~Bertrand Russell
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"The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started."
~Dawson Trotman
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"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
~Abraham Lincoln
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"One ought never to turn ones back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"
~Winston Churchill
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"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."
~William James
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"You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again."
~Benjamin Franklin
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"The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion."
~Hannah Moore
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"Postpone not a good action."
~Irish Proverb
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"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
~Theodore Roosevelt
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"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation?"
~Jane Austin
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"Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
~Baltasar Gracian
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"A year from now you may wish you had started today."
~Karen Lamb
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"We have met the enemy and he is us."
~Walt Kelly
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"If you procrastinate when faced with a big, difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time."
~Robert Collier
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"Procrastination is, hands down, our favourite form of self-sabotage."
~Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby
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"Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision."
~Harry A. Hopf
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"There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world."
~William Penn
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"Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come to this: that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it."
~Charles Buxton
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"Delay not to seize the hour!"
~Aeschylus
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Quotes on Excellence
"The renown, which riches or beauty confer, is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession."
~Sallust
The pursuit of excellence is a choice. We all have the freedom to stay stuck in our minds
(bound by current habits and limitations) or we can set out to improve our present situation. The best thing about excellence is that it's a process. This makes it readily available to anyone. For those who wish to strive for excellence it is never any further away than a decision or a step out-of-the-mind.
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"The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence." ~John F. Kennedy
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"Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that leaves your hands that whatever you do shall bear the hall-mark of excellence."
~Orison Swett Marden
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."
~Aristotle
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"Strive for excellence, not perfection."
~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business."
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~Michael J. Fox
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"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."
~Pearl Buck
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"It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."
~Sir Winston Churchill
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
~Aristotle
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"No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with."
~Jane Austen
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Quotes about Forgiveness
"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."
~Henry David Thoreau
Learning how to forgive, whether it is to forgive ourselves or others, isn't the easiest thing to do. We may want to forgive. We may think it is best to forgive. We may even have tried to forgive. Yet we can’t bring ourselves to full forgive and really let go. A part of us just won't relinquish that hold.
It isn't a coincidence that forgiving contains the words for and giving. Forgiveness is forgiving. Still, we hold back. How do we give when we feel that so much has been taken away? This is the challenge of forgiveness.
Sooner or later in life we will come across circumstances that call upon us to forgive.
Whether it is forgiving ourselves or forgiving others the challenge is the same. We need to forgive with both head and heart. Genuine forgiveness is a total experience that leaves no room for reservation or doubt. These forgiveness quotes gives us a place to start.
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"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
~Jessamyn West
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"It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise."
~Nancy Thayer
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"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and realize that prisoner was you."
~Lewis B. Smedes
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"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."
~Oscar Wilde
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"People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on."
~Bill Cosby
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"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."
~Victoria Holt
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"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."
~Paul Boese
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"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
~Thomas Szasz
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"The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself."
~Confucius
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"You go against yourself when you judge or blame yourself for anything."
~Don Miguel Ruiz
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
~Mahatma Gandhi
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"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."
~Charles Kettering
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"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
~Leslie Poles Hartley
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"Never ruin an apology with an excuse."
~Kimberly Howard
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
~Mark Twain
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Thought Provoking Quotes
"An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly."
~Edwin P. Whipple
Thought provoking quotes have a way of getting us to think differently about things. It is a great aid for stepping out-of-the-mind to explore new ground. Our mind expands and grows and we grow along with it.
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"All wisdom is plagiarism; only stupidity is original."
~Hugh Thompson Kurr (theologian)
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"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good."
~Seneca
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"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
~Oscar Wilde
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"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"To do two things at once is to do neither."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"Tradition is a guide, not a jailer."
~W. Somerset Mangham
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"What you cannot enforce, do not command."
~Sophocles
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"Everything in moderation, including moderation."
~Oscar Wilde
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"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"No man loves life like he who is growing old."
~Sophocles
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"Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing. Age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that make them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only."
~William Blake
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"Hope is a waking dream."
~Aristotle
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously...Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."
~Jane Austen
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"There are some remedies worse than the disease."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"Advice is judged by results, not by intentions."
~Cicero
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"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace."
~Oscar Wilde
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"It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
~Albert Einstein
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"One day you will take my heart completely and make it fierier than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet."
~Rumi
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"Time eases all things."
~Sophocles
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"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
~Oscar Wilde
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"It is not every question that deserves an answer."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"Law stands mute in the midst of arms."
~Cicero
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Confidence Quotes
"Stop saying I can't. When you start something, say 'I can.' Then do it. That's the key to putting the mind and the body together to do what you set out to do."
~Unknown
The mind is a powerful 'organ of doubt'. Doubt wouldn't be possible without the mind.
When we understand that doubt is an integral part of the mind then we see that our task isn't to eliminate doubt. Our task is to step out-of-the-mind.
Confidence is an inner quality that we connect with automatically as we step into the natural flow of things. Focused on the task at hand we forget about ourselves, and in the process, our confidence rises to the surface. Use these confidence quotes to go beyond the thin veil of self-doubt. A truth is waiting.
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"There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your ability. Learn to repeat endlessly, 'It all depends on me.'"
~Andre Gide
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"Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger."
~Arnold Palmer
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"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."
~Baltasar Gracian
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"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."
~Hasidic Saying
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"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."
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~Mark Twain
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"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." ~Rosalyn Carter
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"A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are and do what you ought to do, the way you should do it.
You have got to discover you, what you do - and trust it."
~Barbra Streisand
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"If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price." ~Anon
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Diligence Quotes
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavour."
~Henry David Thoreau
Diligence quotes force us to look right into the crux of the matter: the need to apply systematic effort in order to succeed in our endeavours. This is especially true when it comes to self improvement and motivation. Consistent application is the key to consistent and reliable results.
Diligence requires the application of self-discipline, persistence and generous doses of motivation. It is no mistake that it is often associated with the development of character.
There is a fourth ingredient that is implied by diligence and that is paying attention.
Being diligent is to pay attention to whatever it is that needs to be done. As such, diligence is a powerful expression of caring. By being diligent we show we care about whatever it is we have set out to do. We should not be surprised then, that what we care for thrives.
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"Strain every nerve to gain your point."
~Cicero
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"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
~Jules Renard
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"Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay, are dragged - towards evil."
~Hippocrates
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"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy."
~Mahatma Ghandi
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"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know that it has got to get down to work."
~Pearl S. Buck
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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
~Henry David Thoreau
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Quotes on Courage
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
~Seneca
Courage may not be the quality of choice for those looking for the easiest way out.
Difficulty is a given in life. Courage and positive change are optional.
To step out-of-the-mind is to sojourn into the unknown. The known being our comfort zone - the unknown is often viewed as unsettling. Yet, to unsettle ourselves is to venture into new territory. These inspirational thoughts may encourage us to take the necessary steps in fulfilling our dreams and aspirations.
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"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
~Joseph Chilton Pearce
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"When you go the way of life you will come to a chasm. When you do - jump! It is not as wide as it looks."
~Native Indian Saying
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"Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor."
~Jackson Browne
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"He has not learned the lesson of life that does not every day surmount a fear."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know your path and follow it wherever it may lead you. Do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps."
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~Eileen Caddy in "Footprints on the Path"
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"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."
~Jean Paul Richter
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"It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"Leap and the net will appear."
~Julia Margaret Cameron
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"Life is 'trying things to see if they work.'"
~Ray Bradbury
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"The weak in courage are strong in cunning."
~William Blake
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"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies."
~Aristotle
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"The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence; that petty fears and petty pleasures are but a shadow of reality."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
~Cicero
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"Some men die in shrapnel, some go down in flames. Most men perish inch by inch playing little games."
~"Business Beyond the Box" by John O'Keefe
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"A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger."
~Euripides
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"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only thing one never regrets is one's mistakes."
~Oscar Wilde
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"It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life; and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin."
~Katharine Butler Hathaway
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"Don't hope that people won't attack you. Rely on your ability to respond."
~Unknown
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"Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours."
~Richard Bach
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Gratitude Quotes
"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."
~Lionel Hampton
The mind is a stranger to gratitude. Constantly thinking about the future or the past, the mind is out of touch with the present moment - the place where gratitude and appreciation live. To experience the simplicity of gratitude requires stepping out of the worries, fears and doubts that so often occupy the mind.
Gratitude quotes remind us how to appreciate life, even as we strive to improve our lot.
Gratitude and appreciation aren't just feelings and emotions - they are attitudes which enable action. When appreciation and gratitude are firmly implanted, we have a stable platform from which to pursue our goals and dreams for the future.
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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."
~Cicero
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"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." ~ Francois-Marie Arouet, called Voltaire (1694-1778)
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"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."
~John Berry
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"Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far."
~Euripides
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"To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches."
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~Cicero
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"If you have one wish, wish for everything to be exactly as it is. Then wait patiently for your wish to come true. Don't waste precious life moments wishing things were different." ~Unknown
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"It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation."
~Roberto Benigni
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"A person, who falls on the earth, stumbling on a stone, will stand up by means of the same earth they fell on. You complain because you think earth is the problem, having caused your fall. Without the earth, you wouldn't fall, but you wouldn't stand up either.
Falling and standing up are both great aids given to you by the earth."
~From "Crooked Cucumber" by David Chadwick
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"We don't know how long we will live, so while we have our life, why not make use of it.
Before we even make use of it, why don't we appreciate it...existence is wonderful and precious." ~Unknown
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Motivation Quotes
“Motivation is what happens to us when we run out of excuses."
~Evolutionary Pathways
Motivation is what drives us. It’s what makes us do what we do. Connecting with this drive makes us feel vibrantly alive. This is when we experience personal breakthroughs, grow in improvement and broaden our horizons.
When motivation is running high, our connection with life is strong and our purpose is clear. Tapping into a geyser of inspirational motivation is a sure sign that we are on the right track.
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"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
~Malcolm S. Forbes
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"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you really want, and all that is left is a compromise."
~Robert Fritz
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"Follow your heart. If you can't find it, just jump and your heart will start beating so fast you will wake up."
~Anonymous
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"Strong reasons make strong actions."
~William Shakespeare
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~Rumi
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"Do it because you believe (in) it; not because you fear it."
~overheard somewhere
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"Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
~William Blake
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"All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you."
~Rainer Maria Rilke
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"We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water."
~Rumi
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"Ambition is everything. You've got to follow your dream. That way, when you fail, you can always say: 'Well, at least I tried.'"
~From the movie "I want candy" (2007)
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"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
~William Blake
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"Remember, we will all do more to avoid pain than we will to gain pleasure."
~Anthony Robbins
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"I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequences, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures."
~Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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"Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... Passion and expression are beauty itself."
~William Blake
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Integrity Quotes
"Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want." ~Margaret Meade
Integrity is about being ourselves. It's about matching thoughts to words to actions. If we are thinking one thing but say another, or say one thing yet act differently, then we have momentarily fallen out-of-integrity.
Integrity quotes remind us of the importance of being ourselves, instead of living up to other people's standards or expectations.
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"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do." ~Freya Stark
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"Ask yourself, 'what's more important - being real and being myself, or becoming successful? And ask the question knowing that you never actually have to choose between being real and being successful. You simply have to choose between being real and striving to be successful. Get the difference?
~Thomas Leonard
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"Be honest to yourself. You can never be healthy if you smoke, take drugs or drink excessive amounts of alcohol. Denial leads to a life of misery."
~Unknown
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"To thy own self be true; and as sure as night follows day, thou canst be false to any man." ~William Shakespeare
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"Be yourself. Everyone else is taken."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."
~Confucius
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"When you want to sit - sit. When you want to stand - stand. Above all - don't wobble."
~Zen Master
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"The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead."
~Richard Bach
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"What you are is God's gift to you; what you do with yourself is your gift to God."
~Danish Proverb
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"The world is full of people that have stopped listening to themselves and have listened only to their neighbours to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are that they should be living for."
~Joseph Campbell
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"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying amen to what the world says you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."
~Robert Louis Stevenson
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"When the old Hasidic master called Zusya - a most playful, humble and genuine human being - was on his deathbed, very close to the end, all who loved him were crowded about, weeping and straining to hear his last words. At a certain point he said, 'You know, when I get there, they will not ask me, 'Why were you not one of the great ones? They will ask me, 'Why were you not Zusya?'"
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~From "Upside Down Zen"
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"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness."
~Shakti Gawain
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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
~Oscar Wilde
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"No bird soars too high if it soars with its own wings."
~William Blake
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Quotes about Learning
"Be a student, not a follower."
~Jose Ortega
The journey of self-improvement is open to everyone. The only 'criteria' for entry is an open mind. There is nothing that is impossible if we keep an open mind.
Opening our mind allows new life to enter. New rivers of knowledge and experience can now flow through us, bringing renewal and the refreshing potential for positive change.
Consistent learning, and an open mind, keeps our energy from growing stale. Learning is the antidote to stagnation.
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"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."
~Jose Ortega
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"That is what learning is. You finally understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
~Doris Lessing
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"Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardour and attended to with diligence."
~Abigail Adams
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"Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning.
The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient."
~Eugene S. Wilson
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"It is better to learn late than never."
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~Publilius Cyrus
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"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
~George Santayana
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"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds may take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind."
~Cicero
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"Much learning does not teach understanding."
~Heraclitus
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"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked."
~Lord Chesterfield
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"We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction."
~Malcolm Gladwell
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"Learning is not compulsory...neither is survival."
~W. Edwards Deming
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"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one."
~Cicero
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"Some people will never learn anything...because they understand everything too soon."
~Alexander Pope
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
~Cicero
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"Don't look for more honour than your learning merits."
~Jewish Proverb
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"What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers."
~Martina Horner
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Quotes about Goals
"Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident."
~Nietzsche
Like a hose is to water, our mind loves working with goals that channel its powers towards worthwhile ends. Goals can be a great tool for stepping out-of-the-mind.
In the same way a person caught in quick-sand may use a rope to pull himself free, goals can take us beyond the boundaries of our current situation - where new thinking, new actions, new habits and, ultimately, a new life awaits.
Use these quotes to imbue your next purposeful step in living an inspired life.
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"If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals."
~Brian Tracey
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"A goal properly set is halfway reached."
~Abraham Lincoln
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"Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight year ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to be."
~Anthony Robbins
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"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
~W. Somerset Mangham
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"Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long-run; it's who we become, as we overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve our goals, that can give us the deepest and most longlasting sense of fulfillment."
~Anthony Robbins
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"Failing to achieve your goal can mean achieving your real goal."
~Unknown
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"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable."
~Seneca
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"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."
~Anthony Robbins
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"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking others to live as one wishes to live." ~Oscar Wilde
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"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals."
~Henry Ford
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"One reason so few of us get what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular."
~Anthony Robbins
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"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."
~ Earl Nightingale
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"Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility."
~Anthony Robbins
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"Don't try to prove anything. Just act the way you want, and don't be a hypocrite. No one is perfect. What is important is that you have a goal that you strive for. You must try to be good purely as a challenge, an adventure. Then the pursuit of the challenge will become discipline. Just take purity as a goal. If you really want it, you will put all else aside to achieve it."
~From the book "Chronicles of Tao"
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"Reality forms around your commitments. The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it."
~Max Stiengart
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Quotes about Thinking
"Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, and do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire."
~Orison Swett Marden
Thinking can be one of our greatest assets or one of our worst nightmares. Caught in the grip of habitual thought patterns, we readily lose touch with what is actually happening around us. Over-thinking our problems doesn't necessarily help us resolve them. In fact, thinking too much often makes us feel hesitant and confused and we find ourselves worse off than before.
Thoughts hold energy - they are creative. The quality of our thinking has a determining influence on the quality of our lives. Stepping out-of-the-mind enables us to develop a constructive and empowered relationship with our thinking. This is what we want.
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"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."
~Rumi
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
~Marcus Aurelius
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"We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere."
~Orison Swett Marden
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"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride."
~Sutta Nipata
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"The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." ~William Blake
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"Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence."
~Rumi
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"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"No man is happy who does not think himself so."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"They are never alone, those who are accompanied by noble thoughts."
~Sir Philip Sydney
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"Reason is like an officer when the king appears - the officer loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun."
~Rumi
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"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."
~Confucius
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"Internal dialogue, thinking or whatever you want to call it holds you back from action. It is the rehearsal of an act or action. When there is complete commitment to an action, no matter how small and subtle or how large and violent, if it is complete and there is no
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~From "The Craft of the Warrior" by Robert L. Spencer
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"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"The warrior is here, now. Your sorrow, your fears and anger, regret and guilt, your envy and plans and cravings live only in the past or in the future...When thoughts touch the present they dissolve."
~From "The Way Of The Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman
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"We know too much and feel too little. At least we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs."
~Bertrand Russell
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"No one should be judge in his own case."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"Stop f***ing about and building your fear giant with your unschooled thought, your undivided attention. Instead lend your thoughts to might. Invest your attention in divine purpose. What is divine purpose? To create light for yourself by dissolving shadow. And when you dissolve the shadow of one man, you light a beacon for all men. Start now."
~Geoff Thompson
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"Your mind, intellect, and consciousness are spinning around - let them have rest."
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~Fukanzazengi (Zen Text)
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Quotes about Vision
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
~Henry David Thoreau
In his book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", Stephen R. Covey talks about
'beginning with the end in mind'. We need vision to shape new realities and coax dormant potential into concrete action.
Vision can be seen as the wings of our heart. We must be aware, however, of self-doubt and other afflictions-of-the-mind that will try to clip the wings of our vision - especially if our dreams and desires have only begun to take root. This is when our vision needs the most nurturing.
Day-in and day-out new realities are envisioned and carried out by millions of people.
We must put aside self-doubt to ensure that we won't miss out!
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"We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere."
~Orison Swett Marden
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"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."
~Japanese Proverb
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"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
~Oscar Wilde
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"There are few things more wonderful than knowing where you want to go and being on the path to getting there."
~Earnie Larson
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"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
~Langston Hughes
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"You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'" ~George Bernard Shaw
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"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavours to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place."
~Cicero
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Where there is no vision the people parish."
~The Bible
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
~Albert Einstein
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"Imagination, unleashed, provides us with a sense of certainty and vision that goes far beyond the limitations of the past."
~Unknown
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Quotes about Freedom
"Freedom is never letting your fears stop you from following your heart."
~Susie Switzer
However much we may feel restricted by the current circumstances of our lives - freedom can always be found within. True freedom is freedom from the mind.
Every time we surmount a fear, every time we ignore the cries of 'I can't', every time we exercise diligence and practice self-discipline we cultivate the freedom that comes with stepping out-of-the-mind.
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"Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains."
~Jean Jacques Rousseau
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"For the Stoic, then, doing philosophy meant practicing how to 'live': that is, how to live freely and consciously. Consciously in that we pass beyond the limits of individuality, to recognize ourselves as a part of the reason-animated cosmos. Freely, in that we give up desiring that which does not depend on us and is beyond our control, as to attach ourselves only to what depends on us: actions which are just and in conformity with reason." ~From "Philosophy As A Way Of Life" by Pierre Hadot
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"He who binds to himself a joy does the winged life destroy; but he who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in eternity's sun rise."
~William Blake
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"People have become the tools of their tools."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away." ~Aitken Roshi
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Dropping Keys
"The small man builds cages for everyone he knows. While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long for the beautiful rowdy prisoners." ~Hafiz
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"I must create a system or be enslaved by that of another man; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."
~William Blake
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"The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquility. Servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death."
~Cicero
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"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages."
~Jacques Deval
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Quotes about Reality
"Every second of every hour of every day, each of us creates a reality that we live and breathe in."
~Geoff Thompson
We live in two worlds. One is the subjective world of our own creation. The other is an objective world that exists beyond the confines of our mind. Our total experience of reality is determined by the unique interaction that takes place between these two worlds.
How we think about what is 'out there' will influence the way in which we experience objective reality. And what we experience of objective reality will undoubtedly influence the way we think.
Recognizing that our pre-conceived notions about reality - are not reality itself - opens up incredible opportunities for changing our experience of life. The way we experience life is more malleable than we thought. Stepping out-of-the-mind helps us to see this.
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"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have permanent and absolute existence; that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Better to be a student of reality than a master of illusion."
~Albert Timen (Head instructor of Kapap Academy)
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"Reality, as you experience it, will conform to your beliefs about how it is."
~Unknown
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"This is your reality, and if you leave it to others, they will simply feed, force, or coerce you into their reality. And what's the fun in that?"
~Geoff Thompson
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"To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality and to assert the emptiness of things is also to miss their reality. The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking and there is nothing you will not be able to know."
~Hsin Hsin Ming
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Habit Quotes
"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters."
~Nathaniel Emmons
Habit quotes are important reminders of the powerful role that habit plays in our lives.
Initially we carry our habits. Yet, before we know it, our habits start carrying us! In which direction they carry us depends on the degree to which we have learned to work with our habits.
Habits are channels for energy to flow through. If we aren't meeting our objectives it's a pretty safe bet that our habits aren't congruent with our aims. Our habits aren't allowing the energy to flow freely towards our objectives. Use these habit quotes to redirect the flow and grow.
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"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."
~Aristotle
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"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
-Jim Rohn
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"I never knew a person to overcome a bad habit gradually."
~John R. Mott
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"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income."
~Errol Flyn
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"Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels." ~Orison Swett Marden
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."
~Aristotle
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"Excess on occasion can be exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
~W. Somerset Mangham
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"Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet." ~Henry David Thoreau
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Quotes on Discipline
"Rather the pain of discipline, than the pain of regret."
~Bob Andrews
Nobody is born with self-discipline. Self-discipline is the ability to apply oneself and to have control over one’s feelings. It is a quality that once acquired, contributes to our basic happiness in all that we do. It is a positive, personal resource that will always come to our aid. Following are quotes on discipline that may help inspire and strengthen this quality in our lives.
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"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."
~Leonardo da Vinci
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"I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequences, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures."
~Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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"Reason should direct, and appetite obey."
~Cicero
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"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; a sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
~Rabbi Abraham Herschel
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"Do not consider painful what is good for you."
~Euripides
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"When considering the mindset prescribed by the Katori Shinto Ryu toward the arduous pursuit of one's own humanity, one saying in our tradition stands out: 'The control of one's self is a far greater feat than the defeat of a thousand enemies."
~From "Katori Shinto Ryu: Warrior Tradition"
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"Consider your true goals. Do you want to control others, or discipline yourself? Do you want to fight others, or live in harmony with them?"
~Unknown
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"One should have purpose, conviction and goals. Self indulgence is Tao [life] too; but is it freedom? In your self indulgence, you could destroy yourself recklessly. In the pursuit of your self indulgence, you might have an impulse to do something, but you would not be able to achieve it because you lacked ability. Therefore, you would have no freedom, and I would judge freedom better than mere self-indulgence."
~From the book "Chronicles of Tao"
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"Learn to convert the discomfort of discipline into the satisfaction of personal growth."
~Anthony Robbins
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"Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings."
~Euripides
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"People sometimes subscribe to the mistaken notion that discipline is restriction. This is not true. Discipline enables one to act. Only with discipline can one truly be all that one wishes to be. With discipline, one is able to carry out a decision free from fear, doubt, ambivalence, and laziness. Being a warrior means being disciplined. Training is discipline. Fighting is discipline. Discipline is freedom."
~From the book "The Craft of the Warrior" by Robert Spencer
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"Obedience is human nature. The slave obeys others. The free person obeys himself."
~Unknown
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"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you." ~Anthony Robbins
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"Returning to the topic of lifespan, there is an old poem that beautifully captures the shortness of life: 'How poignant is human life. Like dew on a morning glory.' The morning glory blossoms in the morning, only to wilt in the evening. But how much shorter are our own lives, likened to the dew atop the flowers of the morning glory, which will soon vanish under the rays of the morning sun? Within the span of our allotted days, we must cherish every fleeting moment, live a meaningful life each and every day, and endeavour to live to the fullest so as to leave neither wasted energy nor regret when our end is near."
~From "Katori Shinto Ryu: Warrior Tradition"
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Quotes on Belief
"To believe in something is to move towards what you believe in."
~Masaaki Hatsumi
What do you believe in? The answer to this question determines the focus of your energies and the direction of your life. 'Belief' isn't interchangeable with 'wishful thinking'. There are essential differences between the two.
When we believe in something, our will is channelled in the direction of our belief. Belief and action go hand-in-hand. Invariably, our actions are guided by the beliefs we hold.
Wishful thinking, on the other hand, goes hand-in-hand with inaction. It keeps us trapped in a future that never comes. Understanding the inseparable link between belief and action enables us to confidently navigate the course of our lives.
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"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of."
~Helen Keller
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"The belief that becomes truth for me...is that which allows me the best use of my strengths, the best means of putting my virtues into action."
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
~Theodore Roosevelt
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"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Do not believe blindly what other people say, even the Buddha. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity, and peace. That is the path for you to follow."
~Ananda
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"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
~Napoleon Hill
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"What one man can do another man can do."
~From the film "The Edge" (1997)
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Persistence Quotes
"There may be no heroic connotation to the word 'persistence', but the quality is to character of man what carbon is to steel."
~Napoleon Hill
Persistence has an extremely powerful force behind it. When water persists, it bores through rock. When wind persists, it influences the growth of trees and the shape of mountains. When we apply persistence to our endeavours nothing can really stop us.
When we persist we can change things for the better. Although its immediate application may be difficult, persistence actually serves to make things easier in the long run.
Without persistence we may give up too soon, or fail to apply enough efforts to achieve success. The following inspirational thoughts may help us to persist and prevail.
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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; un-rewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
~Calvin Coolidge
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"Do not turn back when you are just at the goal."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"The fool who persists in his folly will become wise."
~William Blake
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"While there's life, there's hope."
~Cicero
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"Keep going."
~Masaaki Hatsumi
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"Flowing water purifies itself every ten miles."
~Ancient Saying
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"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"'Take what you want', said God, 'and pay for it.'"
~Spanish Proverb
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"Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself."
~ Unknown
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Zen Quotes - Realization Quotes
"One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul."
~W. Somerset Mangham
Zen quotes remind us of the incredible mysteries that exist both in and out of the mind.
To sharpen our mind, to enliven our awareness, to awaken the full vitality of our dormant being - this was the mission of the Zen Masters.
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"Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...true happiness is born of selfreliance."
~The Laws Of Manu
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"The term 'human being' suggests our true calling in this life."
~From "Upside Down Zen" by Susan Murphy
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"Thus shall ye think of this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, a flash of lightening in a summer cloud, a flickering lamp, a phantom, a dream."
~Kongokyo (The Diamond Sutra)
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"Make no mistake! Outside there is no dharma; inside, there is nothing to be obtained.
Better than grasp at the words from my mouth, take it easy and do nothing. Don't continue [thoughts] that have already arisen and don't let those that haven't yet arisen be aroused. Just this will be worth far more to you than a ten year's pilgrimage."
~From "The Records Of Linji"
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"Where do we practice from?"
~From "Being Without Self" by Jeff Shore
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"You would ripen quickly, if you stay in your nothingness."
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment."
~Kodo Sawaki
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"Reason sets the boundaries [of life] far too narrowly for us...Day after day we live far beyond the bounds of our consciousness; without our knowledge, the life of the unconscious is also going on within us. The more critical reason dominates - the more impoverished life becomes; but the more of the unconscious...we are capable of making conscious, the more of life we integrate."
~Carl Jung
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"Your mind, intellect, and consciousness are spinning around - let them have rest."
~Fukanzazengi
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"To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever."
~Dogen Zenji
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"Someone asked Master Ryozan, what is the great matter of the patched robe monk? He answered: no living, no dying; no up, no down; no good, no bad. It is the great death. It is the matter of dying completely, and only this."
~Zen Master
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"A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the infinite in words?"
~W. Somerset Mangham
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"Daito Kokushi, the founder of Daitokuji temple and one of the most illustrious Zen masters in Japanese history, in his final words admonished: 'Be ever mindful, throughout the twenty-four hours of the day, to apply yourselves to the study of the Unthinkable."
~From "Novice to Master" by Soko Morinaga
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"Even a flea can travel a thousand miles when clinging to the horse's tail."
~Takamatsu Sensei
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"Great effort, without fail, brings great light."
~Hakuin
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"On the one hand, even though you apply yourself to, and are successful in reaping benefits for yourself, without transcending the barriers of old age, sickness, and death, you will not be tranquil in the evening of your life. On the other hand, if you cling to the idea of emptiness and fall into nihilism, it is easy to make the mistake of passing your whole life in vein. But there is another way: the middle way, falling into neither extreme.
This middle way is called the Dharma gate of liberation, liberation form both the exhaustible (being) and the inexhaustible (non-being)."
~From "Novice to Master" by Soko Morinaga
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"Zazen is nothing special; it is returning to the natural condition."
~Zen Master
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"No holiness; only emptiness."
~Bodhidharma
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"Your mind moving, when your body is not - this is not your natural condition."
~Zen Master
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"...Zazen [life/reality] didn't begin when I put my feet up in the full lotus posture. Zazen
[life/reality] will not end when I bring my legs back down..."
~From "Being Without Self" by Jeff Shore
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"The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences."
~Hsin Hsin Ming
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"Once you realize that all comes from within, that the world in which you live is not projected onto you, but by you, your fear comes to an end."
~From "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Enlightenment comes up first and it means to just be present. If you want to be what you want to be, be present. Just stand up straight, with stability, and then simultaneously your effort turns into practice. Then from this practice the teaching will come up later."
~From "Returning To Silence" by Dainin Katagiri
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"Zazen is sitting upright and letting delusions be."
~"Living and Dying In Zazen" by Motoko Ikebe
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"Satori has no beginning; practice has not end!"
~Kodo Sawaki Roshi
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"'I am this'; 'I am that' is a sign of not enquiring, not examining, a sign of mental weakness or lethargy."
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Practicing the way means to live the present day."
~From Dogen's 'Fukanzazengi'
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"Stop all external connections; have no concerns within; make the mind a stone wall, and enter the great way."
~Boddhidharma
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"A day of religious practice is a treasure; a hundred priceless years without that practice are a hundred years of regret."
~Dogen Zenji
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"There is only one substance, not two or three. Form is condensed emptiness, emptiness is thinned out form."
~From "I Am That" DVD
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"I have gone on at great length about life in a Zen monastery, a subject that may seem totally unrelated to your own lives. Yet all people, regardless of how their lives are structured, hold themselves dear. Everyone wants to be happy. And enlightenment is the starting point of happiness. We can use the words 'true self confidence' in place of
'enlightenment'. Confidence in the true self is a necessary requisite to happiness."
~From "Novice to Master" by Soko Morinaga
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"Coming home is letting go, allowing resistance to drop away as it softens in the mind of breathing. Is it effortful to let go? Letting go is already dropping effort."
~From "Upside Down Zen" by Susan Murphy
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"Be patient with your practice. Trust in the Buddha way. Throw yourself into your practice, yet with calmness and composure. When conditions are right, when the fruit is ripe, it naturally falls to the ground."
~From "Being Without Self" by Jeff Shore
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"What is the formless dojo?"
~An Apprentice Asks A Zen Master
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"There is nothing to it!"
~Rinzai's exclamation upon his awakening
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"Q: How am I to reach perfection? M: Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you. Do not rely on your work for realization.
It may profit others, but not you. Your hope lies in keeping silent in your mind and quiet in your heart. Realized people are very quiet."
~From "I Am That"
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"Not concerned with outer things; without having any troubles inside; if one's mind is like a wall, he would at the same time be in Tao (truth)."
~Bodhidharma (the first patriarch of Zen)
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"People who sit Zazen trying to become something, not letting go of the things they are holding onto, but trying to obtain or attain a certain state of mind, move further and further away from what this clarifying of mind, this repentance, can do. When we try to find some state of mind that we have experienced before, or who have an idea about what our state of mind should be and strive to attain that goal, our sitting becomes more and more cumbersome; when we cannot find the state of mind we think we should be attaining, the weight of the ego becomes heavier and heavier. This process I am describing - of clarifying our behaviour - is a way of emptying rather than of putting on."
~From "The Path To Bodhidharma" by Shodo Harada Roshi
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"If you grasp the point, you are like a dragon gaining the water, like a tiger taking to the mountains." ~Fukanzazengi
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"There is only life. There is nobody who lives a life."
~From "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains."
~Rumi
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"Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it."
~Chogyam Trungpa (Tibetan Master)
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"'Look right under you feet!' - that's the essence of Zen. Everyone nowadays is fixated, looking ahead, always ahead. But grabbing them by the nose and making them attentive to what lies at their very feet - that's what Zazen meditation is all about."
~From "He's Leaving Home"
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"Only what is dead in you can die. What is alive in you cannot die."
~From "I Am That"
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"Make no mistake! Outside there is no dharma; inside, there is nothing to be obtained.
Better than grasp at the words from my mouth, take it easy and do nothing. Don't continue [thoughts] that have already arisen and don't let those that haven't yet arisen be aroused. Just this will be worth far more to you than a ten year's pilgrimage."
~From "The Records Of Linji"
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"Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation."
~Rumi
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"Where are you? I am here. What time is it? It is now. Who are you? I am this moment."
~From "The Peaceful Warrior"
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"As long as you have the idea of influencing events, liberation is not for you. The very notion of doership, of being a cause is bondage."
~From "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"What the mind invents, the mind destroys. But the real is not invented and cannot be destroyed. Hold on to that over which the mind has no power..."
~From "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise."
~Surangama Sutra
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"He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun."
~Rumi
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"If you live the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion." ~Zen Master Lin-Chi
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"Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, are the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible."
~Allan Watts
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"Nothing, physical or mental, can give you freedom. You are free once you understand that your bondage is of your own making and you cease forging the chains that bind you." ~From "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Quotes about Confusion
"However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene - it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole."
~Muriel Rukeyser
The quotes below help us reflect on confusion. Paradoxically, as we reflect upon confusion clarity begins to dawn.
Clarity is strong; confusion is weak. While clarity brings with it vitality and power, confusion impedes the flow of our energies. Confusion is the result of a war that is happening in the mind. Clarity comes from stepping out-of-the-mind and leaving that war behind. ****
"The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes."
~Pema Chodron
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"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem, in my opinion, to characterize our age." ~Albert Einstein
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"There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis."
~Malcolm Gladwell
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"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts."
~Rita Mae Brown
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"A weak man has doubts before a decision is made. A strong man has them afterwards."
~Karl Kraus
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"We live in a time in which most people believe there is not much inside - only what teachers, parents, and others have put there."
~Unknown
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"Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking." ~Malcolm Gladwell
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Quotes about Relationships and Marriage
"My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of connection with someone."
~John Scalzi
Relationships can be one of the most challenging, yet rewarding, areas of personal growth. As if understanding ourselves wasn't enough of a challenge, in a relationship we have the added difficulty of understanding our counterpart and understanding the dynamic that evolves in-between. Wow. No wonder this area of life can seem so perplexing. An important truth to keep in mind in dealing with our relationships with others is to remember that the primary relationship we have in life is the relationship we have with ourselves. If this relationship is suffering, it puts us at a severe disadvantage when relating to others.
Befriending ourselves first, is at the heart of personal growth and self-improvement of any kind. If we treat ourselves badly, if we indulge in negative thinking and give in to negative emotions this is what we will bring into our relationships with others. When we are proactively positive the same thing holds true.
Enjoy these quotes on relationships. Use their inspiration to cultivate a positive relationship first with yourself, and then with others.
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"When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs." ~Oscar Wilde
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"A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learn to enjoy their differences."
~Dave Maurer
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"I wonder, of all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie."
~Edith Wharton
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"One man's folly is another man's wife."
~Helen Rowland
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"Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes - in the sense that almost certainly
(in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to."
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Marriage is a great institution; but I am not ready for an institution yet."
~Mae West
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"Always get married in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day."
~Mickey Rooney
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"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
~Rita Rudner
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"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly."
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~Voltaire
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"Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely."
~William Penn
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"I pay very little regard to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person." ~Jane Austen
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"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." ~Minon McLaughlin
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"If you would marry suitably, marry your equal."
~Ovid
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"A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her."
~Oscar Wilde
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
~Jane Austen
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"When I meet a man I ask myself 'Is this the man I want my children to spend the weekends with?'"
~Rita Rudner
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"A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life."
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~W. Somerset Mangham
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"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."
~Oscar Wilde
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"To be an adult is to be alone."
~Jean Rostand
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"A woman's head is always influenced by her heart; but a man's heart by his head."
~Lady Marguerite Blessinton
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"When men and women agree, if only in their conclusions, their reasons are always different." ~George Santayana
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"One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing."
~Oscar Wilde
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Self Improvement Quotes
"Every blade of grass has an angel that bends over it and whispers, 'grow, grow.'"
~The Talmud
The journey of life is one that spans the distance between who we are now and who we are to become. Self-improvement and conscious personal growth is completely in our own hands. It is a proactive undertaking.
Instead of whiling away our time, we choose to use our life to advance in understanding and awareness. In this way there is little room for regret. Use the following words of wisdom to inspire your way.
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"You can do little about the length of your life, but you can do much about its width and depth." ~H.L. Mencken
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"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."
~George Eliot
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"He enjoys true leisure that has the time to improve his soul's estate."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."
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~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life." ~Robert Maclver
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"The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done - we can see it, understand it, learn from it, and change. So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger, but in wisdom, understanding and love."
~Jennifer Edwards
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"Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him."
~Rumi
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"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
~Sophocles
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"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"It is life itself that must be our practice. It is not enough to hear spiritual truth or even to have your own spiritual insights. Every aspect of what happens to us must become part of a learning experience."
~Unknown
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"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyse you; they are supposed to help you discover who you are."
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~Lewis Duncome
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"The only security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way."
~Tony Robbins
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"In every adult there lurks a child - an eternal child, one who is always becoming, is never complete, and calls for unceasing care, attention and education. That is the part of the human personality which wants to develop and become whole."
~Carl Jung
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"There is nothing noble about being superior to others. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."
~Ernest Hemingway
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"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and learn to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not seek the answer, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them." ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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"Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student."
~George Iles
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"We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Knowledge and understanding is not the same thing. Knowledge is built on the experience of the past; understanding is built on the experience of the present. Jesus
Christ, another teacher whose insights have also given way to various dogmatic and
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~Bruce Lee
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"Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning.
The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient."
~Eugene S. Wilson
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"It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper understanding." ~Vincent Van Gogh
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"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."
~Epictetus
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Positive Attitude Quotes
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
~Albert Einstein
There are times when we feel uplifted by life and other times when we feel down trodden. With a positive attitude we lift ourselves up. With a negative attitude we let ourselves down. Our attitude influences our behaviour and the way we feel about ourselves and our lives.
Succumbing to negative thoughts and influences is easy and fairly common. It takes initiative, courage and persistence to strengthen the mind and fortify it against negative influences. These quotes will serve you well in building a strong positive attitude.
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"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."
~Zig Ziglar
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"When I do good, I feel good; when I do badly, I feel bad. That's my religion."
~Abraham Lincoln
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"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
~William James
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"It's never too late to become what you might have been."
~George Eliot
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"Whatever you do, do with all your might."
~Cicero
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"It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
~W. Somerset Mangham
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"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can."
~John Wooden
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"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
~Winston Churchill
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"Concentration, Full Confidence, Pure Will. With these 3, what cannot be accomplished?" ~From "I Am That" by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions."
~William J. Johnson
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"A warrior can be injured but not offended. For a warrior there is nothing offensive about the acts of her fellow human beings, as long as she herself is acting in the proper mood."
~"The Craft Of The Warrior" by Robert Spencer
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"Soft as cotton on the outside; hard as steal on the inside."
~Tai Chi Adage
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"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him."
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~Booker T. Washington
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"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"What we build with our hands will eventually fall apart. What we build with our hearts will last forever."
~Unknown
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"Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds."
~Laura Ingalls Wilder
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"We need to learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."
~Gandhi
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"None are as old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now."
~Ancient Chinese saying
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"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference."
~Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Keep your ideals high enough to inspire you and low enough to encourage you."
~Unknown
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"Nothing will help you sell yourself more than the power of your personal enthusiasm."
~Mary Kay
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"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."
~Soren Kierkegaard
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"If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect some blisters."
~Rotator
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"Power dwells with cheerfulness."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."
~Ben Franklin
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"When you have been wronged, a poor memory is your best response."
~Unknown
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"When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer."
~Regina Brett
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Hard Work Quotes
"Per ardura et astra [through hardship to the stars]."
~Latin Proverb
It is entirely possible to work very hard and not get very far. If we are going to go for it, giving the task at hand everything we've got, it is vital that we work smart, not just hard.
We need to be effective in our efforts. We need to be judicious in the expenditure of our time and energy. We need to be purposeful. Everything we do should count.
Through hard work we develop character and grow in fortitude. This determines who we become. Use these quotes to form your own guiding inspiration…
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"I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
~Muhammad Ali
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done."
~James Ling
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"Stop trying to squeeze professional results out of recreational hours."
~Geoff Thompson
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"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
~Thomas Jefferson
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"Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past."
~Sophocles
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"The one important thing that I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous."
~Margot Fonteyn
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"If you can`t stand the pain, and you can`t stand the rain, then you better take the easy way." ~Oliver Pigott
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"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it's too late."
~W. Somerset Mangham
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"Plough deep while sluggards sleep."
~Benjamin Franklin
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"A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman." ~George Bernard Shaw
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"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"More sweat; less blood."
~Ancient Chinese Saying meaning that the more you train in times of peace, the less you bleed in times of war.
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Quotes about Service
"All of us were born for one another."
~"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius
Each of us is born with unique talents, abilities and inclinations which are meant to be shared with others. Service is a natural extension of living and expressing our full potential. Working on personal growth and self-improvement is a service to both ourselves and others. Successfully overcoming a limitation in ourselves is an undeniable example to others of what is possible.
Positive change in our life catalyzes positive change in the lives of others. Even if we aren't acknowledged for it, and even if no-one ever knows, this is service of the highest order. ****
"True fulfilment is, I believe, vicarious. We get our deepest satisfaction from the fulfilment, growth and happiness of others. It takes time, often a lifetime, to realize this."
~Charles Handy in "Masters of The Wired World"
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"He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"When you motivate, you are serving yourself. When you inspire, you are serving others." ~ODE Magazine
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"The greatest good you could do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"If your foot is suffering from a thorn, and your hand says, 'I don't care', in the end the foot will suffer and the hands will suffer."
~Buddhadharma quarterly
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"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another." ~Anonymous
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"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."
~Mother Theresa
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"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own."
~Ben Sweetland
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"We will receive not what we idly wish for, but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service."
~Earl Nightingale
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Quotes about Experience
"Your body, and not just your head, is the field in which you experience everything that happens in your life."
~The Barefoot Doctor
Experience is life. To have experienced something is to have lived it. New thinking can lead to new ways of taking action, which leads us into new worlds of experience.
Experience is our interface with reality, the juncture where the mind meets the body and the world at large. Let's step out-of-the-mind now to examine and experience anew…
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
~Teilhard de Chardin
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"Emotion is created by motion."
~Tony Robbins
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"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more."
~Mark Twain
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"Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement."
~Will Rogers
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"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"Our creativity does not consist in being right all the time, but in making all our experiences, including the apparently mistaken and imperfect ones, a holy whole."
~Matthew Fox
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"The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct."
~Cicero
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"What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song, or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children." ~William Blake
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Closing Thoughts
Make no mistake about it. Surrounding ourselves with inspiring ideas from some of the greatest of minds can be a catalyst for change. I hope you enjoyed this book and that you will use the thoughts within to elevate your thinking and enrich your life.
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Table of Contents
Introduction..................................................................................................................... 8
How to Use This Book .................................................................................................... 8
Funny Words of Wisdom ................................................................................................ 9
Negativity Quotes.......................................................................................................... 16
Friendship Quotes ......................................................................................................... 23
Quotes about Letting Go ............................................................................................... 27
Quotes about Life .......................................................................................................... 35
Determination Quotes.................................................................................................... 39
Achievement Quotes ..................................................................................................... 45
Adversity Quotes........................................................................................................... 51
Funny Procrastination Quotes........................................................................................ 56
Purpose Quotes ............................................................................................................. 59
Action Quotes ............................................................................................................... 62
Success Quotes.............................................................................................................. 67
Quotes about Truth........................................................................................................ 70
Mind Quotes ................................................................................................................. 75
Quotes about Fear ......................................................................................................... 77
Initiative Quotes ............................................................................................................ 80
Quotes on Happiness ..................................................................................................... 84
Quotes about Character ................................................................................................. 88
Quotes on Trust ............................................................................................................. 95
Procrastination Quotes .................................................................................................. 98
Quotes on Excellence .................................................................................................. 105
Quotes about Forgiveness ............................................................................................ 107
Thought Provoking Quotes.......................................................................................... 110
Confidence Quotes ...................................................................................................... 114
Diligence Quotes ......................................................................................................... 116
Quotes on Courage ...................................................................................................... 118
Gratitude Quotes ......................................................................................................... 121
Motivation Quotes....................................................................................................... 123
Integrity Quotes........................................................................................................... 126
Quotes about Learning ................................................................................................ 129
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Quotes about Goals ..................................................................................................... 132
Quotes about Thinking ................................................................................................ 135
Quotes about Vision .................................................................................................... 139
Quotes about Freedom................................................................................................. 142
Quotes about Reality ................................................................................................... 144
Habit Quotes ............................................................................................................... 146
Quotes on Discipline ................................................................................................... 148
Quotes on Belief.......................................................................................................... 151
Persistence Quotes ...................................................................................................... 153
Zen Quotes - Realization Quotes ................................................................................. 155
Quotes about Confusion .............................................................................................. 163
Quotes about Relationships and Marriage .................................................................... 165
Self Improvement Quotes ............................................................................................ 169
Positive Attitude Quotes .............................................................................................. 173
Hard Work Quotes ...................................................................................................... 177
Quotes about Service ................................................................................................... 180
Quotes about Experience ............................................................................................. 182
Closing Thoughts ........................................................................................................ 185
Recommend This Book ............................................................................................... 185
About Eli..................................................................................................................... 185
Connect with Eli.......................................................................................................... 185
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Introduction
"A human beings mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Like water, the mind takes on the shape of the 'container' it is poured into. The thoughts we think, the ideas we absorb, the beliefs we adopt - all have a powerful impact on the direction of our lives. It is wise to proactively consider the thoughts and words we allow our mind to entertain.
This collection of inspirational thoughts and empowering ideas is real food-for-thought.
As soon as we start feeding the mind with nutritious, high quality products, it begins to grow strong. With an abundant supply of rich and essential ingredients to draw upon, negativity and self-defeating beliefs simply waste away.
Thoughts lead to words. Words lead to actions. Actions lead to habits. Habits shape our character, and this becomes our destiny. Allow these inspirational thoughts to elevate your thinking, spark your creativity and expand your mind.
How to Use This Book
The inspirational thoughts and sayings in this book have been categorized for your convenience and ease of search. You may choose to go through this book from beginning to end in sequential order, or you have the option of clicking on the category title that interests you. This will take you directly to the quotes pertaining to your immediate interests and needs.
As you come across thoughts and ideas that strike a powerful cord in you, that inspire you, write them down in a diary or personal development journal. Create a collection of power thoughts to inspire yourself as you walk the path of life. Tailor a nourishing environment for your mind, one which will encourage you to create a rich and fulfilling life. Copyright 2012 Eli Landa at www.evolutionarypathways.com
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Funny Words of Wisdom
"I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly a list of beautiful quotations from minds profound - if I can only remember any of the damn things."
~Dorothy Parker
Humour, laughter or a genuine smile - so simple, yet so powerful. Funny words of wisdom puts a smile on your face and at the same time opens the door to your heart.
The true power of humour comes from the simple fact that it takes us out-of-the-mind.
All we need to do is try to explain a joke to know that this is true. Once a joke is analyzed, once it is returned to the confines of the mind, the humour in it dies.
The same is true for wisdom. Nothing quells wisdom faster than a quick, judgemental comment from the mind. Wisdom enters a mind that is open, a mind free of constraints and preconceived notions.
Humour and laughter bypass the usual refrains of the mind. With an open mind and an open heart, we are able to absorb new information and integrate new experiences. Funny words of wisdom are an incredible gift.
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"The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived."
~Oscar Wilde
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"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
~Jules Renard
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"My marriage had its ups and downs like everyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of connection with someone."
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~John Scalzi
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"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?"
~Jane Austen
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"I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise."
~Robert Frost
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything and people who know absolutely nothing."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"The trouble with the rat-race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat."
~American comedienne Lily Tomlin
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"What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?"
~Doctor Who
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"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
~Albert Schweitzer
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"I can resist anything but temptation."
~Oscar Wilde
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"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"To be stupid, selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
~Gustavo Flaubert
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"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except exercise, get up early, or be respectable."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."
~Thomas Statz
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"If nobody spoke unless they had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech."
~W. Somerset Mangham
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"The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as him and hates them for it."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"A jury consists of twelve people chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
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~Robert Frost
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"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
~George Burns
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."
~Will Rogers
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"Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does."
~Unknown
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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape."
~Anon
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"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
~Oscar Wilde
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"The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."
~Jane Austen
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"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
~Euripides
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"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income."
~Errol Flynn
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"Marriage is a great institution; but I am not ready for an institution yet."
~Mae West
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"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
~Oscar Wilde
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged that, a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
~Jane Austen
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"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
~Douglas Adams
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"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Always get married in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day."
~Mickey Rooney
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"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
~Rita Rudner
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"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
~Oscar Wilde
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"When I meet a man I ask myself 'Is this the man I want my children to spend the weekends with?'"
~Rita Rudner
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"I am an old man and have known many troubles. But most of them never happened."
~Mark Twain
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"The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools."
~Doug Larson
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Negativity Quotes
"You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering."
~Henri Frederic Amiel
Negativity is a powerful obstacle on the path to self-improvement and motivation. It is also an opportunity. A log can either extinguish a roaring fire or become its fuel. It all depends on the size of the fire that is burning.
There are two main sources of negativity - internal and external. Inner negativity is entirely self-generated, whereas outer negativity is generated through other people.
The interesting thing about external negativity is that it can't affect us unless we become internally negative. You could say that one 'is hooked' when outer negativity 'hooks into' internal negativity.
That is why an inside-out approach to dealing with negativity is so powerful. Use these negativity quotes to stoke the fire within. Before you know it you will be burning through huge logs of negativity and, as a result, generating a powerful light to mark your way.
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"If you don't know the struggle, you don't know your strength."
~Mary Kay
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"The greatest grief we cause ourselves."
~Sophocles
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"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns."
~Kenji Miyazawa
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~George Baker
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Obstacle Illusion
"It's an obstacle illusion, my grandson said.
Out of the mouths of babes, great wisdom spreads.
How many obstacles were really there or simply a fantasy of your despair?
You each create your hopes and dreams, through your thoughts so dear.
Are they obstacle illusions? Or positive, strong, and clear?"
~Unknown
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"In every adversity lies the seed of an equal or greater opportunity."
~Napoleon Hill
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"View all problems as challenges. Look upon negativities that arise as opportunities to learn and to grow. Don't run from them, condemn yourself, or bury your burden in saintly silence. You have a problem? Great. More grist for the mill. Rejoice, dive in, and investigate." ~Banta Henepola Gunaratana, "Mindfulness in Plain English"
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"When things are at their worst, I find something always happens."
~W. Somerset Mangham
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Find a Better Job
"Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business; why not find a better job." ~Hafiz
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Elegance
"It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.
Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself.
Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance."
~Hafiz
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"Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, and causes you to bump into people not going your way."
~Ferber
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"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it." ~George Bernard Shaw
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"To regret deeply is to live afresh."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."
~Dag Hammarskjold
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"When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone. For you are not alone, nay. God is within and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?"
~Epictetus
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"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself."
~Mark Twain
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"Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"He, who has never hoped, can never despair."
~George Bernard Shaw
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Invictus
"Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole; I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeoning of chance, my head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears, looms but the horror of the shade; and yet the menace of the years, finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul."
~William Ernest Henley
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"Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow."
~Ann Radcliffe
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"Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured." ~Homer
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"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it is digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."
~Samuel Johnson
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"Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver."
~Sophocles
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"Guilt comes when a person accepts that his actions were wrong. But guilt is an illness...The only medicine for guilt is to look ahead and persevere. It is inevitable in life that one will commit some wrongs. The average person hides his embarrassment. But the superior one accepts that actions were wrong and then never does them again. Such a one not only purges a weakness, but eliminates the necessity of guilt as well."
~From "The Craft of the Warrior" by Robert L. Spencer
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"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs."
~Euripides
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"I just realized that there are going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with them in the right way."
~Trey Parker and Matt Stone
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"Forgiveness multiplies and melts rigid postures. Try again and again with self forgiveness. Be the kind parent to yourself you may not have had."
~Sark
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"Live through your life without pressure and in the utmost contentment, even if all are clamouring what they will against you, even if wild beasts are tearing off the limbs of this poor lump of a body accredited to you. What in all this prevents the mind from preserving itself in tranquility, in true judgement of circumstance and readiness to use any event submitted to it? So that judgement says to circumstance:
'This is what you really are, however different you may conventionally appear'; and ready use says to event: 'I was looking for you. I always take the present moment as raw material for the exercise of rational and social virtue - in short, for the art of man or
God.'"
~From "The Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius
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"Let yourself go with dis-ease, be with it, and keep it company. This is the way to be rid of it."
~Bruce Lee
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"Forget your sadness, anger, grudges and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in a breeze. Do not indulge yourself in such feelings."
~Masaaki Hatsumi
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"The only cure for grief is action."
~George Henry Lewes
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"No good has ever come from feeling guilty - neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object, but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties."
~The Tragedy of the Commons
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"If you don't want negative energy to impact on you, stop resisting it. Simply redirect your focus."
~Unknown
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"In a dark time, the eye begins to see."
~Theodore Roethke
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
~Marcus Aurelius
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"Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.
Without reactions the world becomes clear."
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~The Buddha
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"Be too large for worry; too noble for anger; too strong for fear and too content to permit the presence of trouble. Be so powerful that nothing can disturb your peace of mind."
~The Optimist Creed
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"Whenever you fall, pick something up."
~Oswald Avery
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"Anger. Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you.
Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if you allow him to get you irritated."
~Miyamoto Musashi
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"One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence fate, whereas one may weaken the constitution by the waste of energy while indulging in them."
~George Julius Hackenschmidt
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"The heaviest thing I can carry is a grudge."
~Unknown
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"There are no small upsets. They are all equally disturbing to my peace of mind."
~From "A Course in Miracles"
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Friendship Quotes
"To the world you may just be somebody. But to somebody, you may just be the world."
~Unknown
Friendship quotes help us to preserve and maintain the sacred bond of friendship. In this day and age of computers and virtual reality, friendship quotes serve as an important reminder of the true value of friends. Glued to a computer screen for sometimes hours a day, we often lose touch with the value of friendship and real connection with others.
Friends and friendships help us put the exclusive world of our thinking into perspective.
They put our thinking to the test. They help us see our true thoughts and to gracefully, if somewhat reluctantly, let go of all the rest. In this way friends bring out the best in us.
True friends are often the first to shake us up, talk some sense into us, and generally help us step out-of-the-mind when we seem to need it most. Without these life-giving friendships, we easily become trapped in our own thinking, trapped in our own minds, without the ability to see a way out. True friendships help bring us back to ourselves.
They help bring us back to life.
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"People will forget what you said; but they will never forget how you made them feel."
~Carl Buehner
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"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
~Aristotle
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"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."
~William Blake
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"A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else."
~Unknown
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"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
~Albert Camus
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"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
~Helen Keller
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"My friend, if I could give you one thing I would give you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are."
~Barbara A. Billings
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"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy-for friendship's sake."
~William Blake
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"The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart; mark and avoid him."
~Cicero
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"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
~Robert Louis Stevenson
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"Without friends no one would choose to live, though they had all other goods."
~Aristotle
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"Not what we give, but what we share. For the gift without the giver is bare."
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~James Russell Lowell
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"I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones." ~Oscar Wilde
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"Everyone has a gift for something, even if it's the gift of being a good friend."
~Marian Anderson
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"There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness."
~Cicero
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"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend. But it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful; a meaningful friend - a meaningful day."
~The Dalai Lama
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"May you always have love to share, health to spare, and friends that care."
~Unknown
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"On this day: Mend a quarrel. Search out a forgotten friend. Dismiss a suspicion, and replace it with trust."
~Unknown
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"Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks of our tentative houses and parts of them always remain. Friendship asks the truth and wants the truth, hollows and fills, ages with us, and we through it. It cradles us like family. It is ecology and mystery and language - all three. Our grown-up friendships - especially the really meaningful ones
- model for our children what we want them to have throughout their lives."
~Beth Kephart (Author)
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Quotes about Letting Go
"In the end there are three things that matter in life: How well did you love? How fully did you live? And how deeply did you learn to let go?"
~Buddha
In the Western culture, letting go is most often associated with loss. We are not taught the importance of letting go. Instead, we learn how to hold-on, how to secure and how to possess. Letting go isn't easy for the mind. The mind loves holding on. It holds onto emotions, ideas, opinions, beliefs, judgements and points of view. It holds onto people and relationships. It will even hold onto an image of ourselves that we have long outgrown.
The mind is powerful, but it doesn't know how to relinquish its hold. Just as we can't force ourselves to fall asleep at night, so we can't force ourselves to let go. Letting go is a natural outcome of stepping out-of-the-mind.
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"What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now."
~Buddha
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"The future is always beginning now."
~Mark Strand
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"Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head."
~Ann Landers
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"We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging, to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want."
~Joe Vitale
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"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
~Henry Ellis
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"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
~Dr. Seuss
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"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence.
A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. A time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."
~Gloria Naylor
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"You change for two reasons: Either you learn enough that you want to, or you've been hurt enough that you have to."
~Unknown
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"Sometimes you love something so much that it hurts to leave it, but you must.
Sometimes it hurts too much to hold on to that thing you love. And sometimes you let go of what you love because it hurts, but then just sometimes you get it back and live happily ever after."
~Anonymous
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"The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character."
~Isabelle Eberhardt
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"How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."
~Trina Paulus
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"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Let it go."
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~Albert Einstein
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"Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to."
~Anonymous
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"All appears to change when we change."
~Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel
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"I don't let go of thoughts, I question them and then they let go of me."
~Byron Katie
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"You know you love someone when you know you want them to be happy, even if their happiness means that you are not a part of it."
~Anonymous
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"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
~Alexander Graham Bell
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"Freedom isn't worth having if it doesn't involve the freedom to make mistakes."
~Mahatma Gandhi
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"True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you."
~Anonymous
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"The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them."
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~John Seely Brown
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"People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on."
~Bill Cosby
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"If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace." ~Ajahn Chah
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"When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection." ~Debra Messing
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"If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go."
~Sarah Dessen
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"Anything I can not transform into something marvellous, I let go."
~Anais Nin
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"Some people think it's holding that makes one strong-sometimes it's letting go."
~Unknown
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"Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties."
~Gail Sheehy
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"You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there."
~Unknown
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"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and realize that prisoner was you."
~Lewis B. Smedes
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"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us."
~Joseph Campbell
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"Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself."
~Deborah Reber
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"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."
~Albert Einstein
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"Letting go doesn't mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be." ~Anonymous
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"Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities."
~Dalai Lama
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"Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day." ~Zen Saying
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."
~Robert Frost
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"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."
~Charles Kettering
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"Life is a process of becoming. A combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."
~Anais Nin
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"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
~Thomas Szasz
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"Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go."
~Kate Winslet
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"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"The past is history, the future, a mystery. The here and now is a gift. That is why it's called the present."
~Unknown
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"Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security."
~John Allen Paulos
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"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
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"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
~John D. Rockefeller
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"A man is not old until regrets take the place of his dreams."
~Proverb
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"In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost."
~Anne Sophie Swetchine
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"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward."
~Anonymous
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"There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value."
~Ellen Goodman
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"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it."
~Mary Engelbreit
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"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood."
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~Karen Casey
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"Fears over tomorrow and regrets over yesterday are twin thieves that rob us of the moment." ~Anonymous
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Quotes about Life
"Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to that which is known to us of nature."
~Saint Augustine
Life is intelligent. It has a wisdom all its own. To gain access to this wisdom we are often called upon to step out-of-the-mind - leaving behind our own old ideas about life and the way we think it should be. When we open up like this, new inspiration enters our lives.
We experience renewal. We feel refreshed. We experience the gift of life. The quotes below help us tap into natural inspiration.
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"There are unknown forces within nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her; without reserve she leads them to us; she shows us those forms which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect."
~Auguste Rodin
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"Each one of us has all the wisdom and knowledge we ever need right within us. It is available to us through our intuitive mind, which is our connection with universal intelligence." ~Shakti Gawain
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"For anything to happen, the entire universe must coincide. It is wrong to believe that anything in particular can cause an effect. All causes are universal."
~Form "I Am That" DVD
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"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."
~Aristotle
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"We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for."
~Marie Ebner Von Exchenbach
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others."
~M.F.K. Fisher
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"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages."
~Jacques Deval
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"There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change."
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living." ~Dale Carnegie
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"Progress never moves in a straight line. It's a spiral pathway, now going, now returning, holding on and letting go, winning and losing, giving and receiving."
~Dennis Augustine
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"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."
~William Blake
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"A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end."
~Aristotle
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"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man."
~Euripides
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"Wisdom comes with winters."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Just as hostility begets more hostility, its absence brings peace. These are timeless truths." ~"The Middle Length Discourses (Buddhist texts)
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"The tree wants to remain calm, but the winds blow ceaselessly; children want to care for their parents, but their parents do not wait..."
~Ancient Adage
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"Water is the only drink for a wise man."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations."
~James O. Donnell Bennett
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"You can't have an up without a down. You can't have a left without a right. This is duality. If you have a problem, you must already have the solution. The question is, do you really want the solution, or do you want to perpetuate the problem?"
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~Byron Katie
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Determination Quotes
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
~Ayn Rand
Determination quotes highlight a quality of the human spirit that not only helps us overcome adversity, but also has the power to inspire others to do the same. It is a quality that can be acquired by anyone who so desires. Determination is available to anyone who is willing to cultivate it and plant it firmly in the heart.
Determination often means defying the voices in our head that try to keep us small. It is an antidote to self-doubt and fear in their many guises. Our mind may tell us that something just can't be done; yet in our heart and soul we feel that it can and should be done. Our brain may tell us that it doesn't make sense to defy the odds; yet our heart tells us to go on regardless.
Being determined means overcoming and going beyond our limitations.
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"Every good and excellent thing stands moment by moment on the razor's edge of danger and must be fought for."
~Unknown
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"When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish - it is then that you must not hesitate."
~Dag Hammarskjold
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"The best way out is always through."
~Robert Frost
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"Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation."
~Thomas Henry Huxley
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"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
~Vince Lombardi
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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; un-rewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
~Calvin Coolidge
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"A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on."
~Author Unknown
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"The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will dissipate, be lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence."
~Marie Edgeworth
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"We will either find a way, or make one."
~Hannibal
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"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." ~George Lorimer
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"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from
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~W. H. Murray
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"Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You're the only one who can do it permanently." ~Zig Ziglar
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"The hour is ripe and yonder lies the way."
~Virgil
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"Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold."
~Dr. A. B. Meldrum
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"Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination."
~Unknown
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"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."
~James Cook
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"Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail."
~Marva Collins
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"The determination to win is the better part of winning."
~Daisaku Ikeda
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"And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high."
~Ayrton Senna
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"If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you."
~Les Brown
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"If you want to do something… get up and actually do it!"
~Heinrich Boll
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"Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe dedicated."
~Unknown Author
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"Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done."
~Russell W. Davenport
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"Determination is the wake-up call to the human will."
~Anthony Robbins
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"The longer I live, the surer I become that the truest real difference between the success and the failure, between the strong and the weak, between the rich and the poor, between the great and the average, is just plain will power, invincible determination, a purpose once set and then death or victory. And no fine manners, education or brilliance, no talent, opportunity or culture can make any two-legged creature a man without it."
~Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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"To the timid soul, nothing is possible."
~John Bach
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"To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life." ~Sir William Osler
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"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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"Strength is a matter of the made-up mind."
~John Beecher
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"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough." ~John Christian Bovee
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"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
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"The greatest oak was once a little nut that held its ground."
~Unknown
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"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."
~Tommy Lasorda
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"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
~Henry Ward Beecher
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"Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose." ~Benjamin Disraeli
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"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."
~George Halas
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"Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense."
~Winston Churchill
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"What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists…and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want…and are fully determined not to quit until you get it."
~Alexander Graham Bell
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"To him who is determined it remains only to act."
~Italian Proverb
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"There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or you're out. There is no such thing as life in-between."
~Pat Riley
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Achievement Quotes
"Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footsteps on the moon."
~Anon
How do we overcome self-doubt and small thinking to achieve what we most desire?
How do we step out-of-the-mind to create a reality that manifests our highest hopes and dreams? This is the question addressed by many of these inspired thoughts and quotes about achievement.
Expand your thinking, stretch your mind, enlarge your 'realm of possibility' and take action to overcome self-doubt and insecurity. This will take you on an upward spiral of personal growth, self improvement and motivation. Use the inspiration below to guide you every step of the way.
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"There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can."
~Henry Ford
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"We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going day in and day out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs."
~Arnold Bennett
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"If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure."
~David Ambrose
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"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."
~Maureen Dowd
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"The determination to win is the better part of winning."
~Daisaku Ikeda
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"As soon as your dream becomes stronger than your doubts & fears, your dream begins to manifest."
~Marc Allen
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"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to success, not going all the way and not starting."
~Unknown
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"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
~Michael Jordan
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"Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold." ~Dr. A. B. Meldrum
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"One of the big differences between the non-achiever and the achiever is that the latter has mastered the art of applying the obvious."
~Allan Cox
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"How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."
~Trina Paulus
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"Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done."
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~Russell W. Davenport
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"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else." ~Albert Einstein
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"The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse."
~Sir John Marks Templeton
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"If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do."
~Fred Saberhagen
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"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"
~Muhammad Ali
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"Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so."
~Charles De Gaulle
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"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance." ~Samuel Johnson
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"People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be."
~Harvey Mackay
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"You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it."
~Robert Anthony
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"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."
~Vince Lombardi
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"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts."
~Dan Gable
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"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
~Darrel Royal
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"The greatest oak was once a little nut that held its ground."
~Unknown Author
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"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
~John Wooden
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"That's precisely the question everyone should be asking - why the hell not? Why not you; and why not now?"
~Timothy Ferris
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"You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge."
~Damon Runyon
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"Some people focus on what they're going through; champions focus on what they are going to."
~Grant M. Bright
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"The principle is competing against your self. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before."
~Steve Young
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"You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional." ~Joe Paterno
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"Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time." ~Lou Brock
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"One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride."
~Richard Nelson Bolles
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"He who stops being better, stops being good."
~Oliver Cromwell
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"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." ~Roger Bannister
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"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
~Albert Einstein
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"Every good and excellent thing stands moment by moment on the razor's edge of danger and must be fought for."
~Unknown
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Adversity Quotes
"When the world says, 'give up!' Hope whispers, 'Try it one more time.'"
~Author Unknown
Adversity is part of life. Sometimes it is the world outside that puts us to the test, as if to say, 'give up!' Sometimes it is the world inside that carries the same message, 'give up!'
Adversity can come from within or without. When it comes as a combination of both, it is especially intimidating.
So why don't we just give-up? What keeps us going? There is another voice inside us, a voice that is for overcoming adversity - the voice of life. It tells us to LIVE! It invites us to step beyond the limiting messages of the mind. It encourages us to give it everything we've got.
Adversity isn't meant to stop us from living. It is meant to make us strong. Adversity is life's way of helping us to grow.
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"Every good and excellent thing stands moment by moment on the razor's edge of danger and must be fought for."
~Unknown
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"Even the most daring and accomplished people have undergone tremendous difficulty.
In fact, the more successful they became, the more they attributed their success to the lessons learned during their most difficult times. Adversity is our teacher. When we view adversity as a guide towards greater inner growth, we will then learn to accept the wisdom our soul came into this life to learn."
~Barbara Rose
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"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
~Albert Einstein
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"If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure."
~David Ambrose
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"The greatest oak was once a little nut that held its ground."
~Unknown Author
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"How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."
~Trina Paulus
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"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
~Seneca
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"Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold."
~Dr. A. B. Meldrum
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"Some people focus on what they're going through; champions focus on what they are going to."
~Grant M. Bright
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"The only way to overcome is to hang in. Even I'm starting to believe that."
~Dan O'Brien
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~Samuel Johnson
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"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye."
~Helen Keller
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"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
~Michael Jordan
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"The difference between men who succeed or fail is their ability to handle pressure."
~Edwin Louis Cole
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"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." ~Muhammad Ali
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"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost."
~George Shultz
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"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
~George Eliot
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~Lou Brock
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"Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary." ~Ray Knight
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"One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride."
~Richard Nelson Bolles
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"Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up, but kept going no matter what."
~Spryte Loriano
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"The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do."
~Dennis Waitley
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"Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve."
~Robert Burns
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"Each warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!" ~Pat Riley
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"Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it."
~Mark Twain
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"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
~Henry Ford
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Funny Procrastination Quotes
"If and When were planted, and Nothing grew."
~Proverb
Procrastination is no laughing matter, or is it? When it comes to overcoming procrastination we usually cry rather than laugh. Yet, humour has power. Its effect is prompt and profound.
Humour, laughter, smiles...all open the mind and free our thoughts. We momentarily forget our worries, fears and concerns and are present in the moment. We may even completely forget to procrastinate and find ourselves moved to action. Yeah, right! But then again, why not?! Enjoy…
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"One of these days I'm going to get help for my procrastination problem."
~Unknown
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"The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up."
~Unknown
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"One of the greatest labour-saving inventions of today is tomorrow."
~Vincent T. Foss
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"He who hesitates is last."
~Mae West
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"When there is a hill to climb, don't think that waiting will make it smaller."
~Anonymous
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"If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done."
~Unknown
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"Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded."
~Sandra Day O'Connor
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"Hard work pays off later. Laziness pays off now. I've always been one for being in the moment. ~Anonymous
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"Procrastination always gives you something to look forward to."
~Joan Konner
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"Procrastination is like a credit card; it's a lot fun until you get the bill."
~Christopher Parker
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"I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."
~Anonymous
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"After all is said and done, more is said than done."
~Anonymous
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"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
~Mark Twain
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"The best part about procrastination is that you are never bored, because you have all kinds of things that you should be doing."
~Anonymous
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"Someday is not a day of the week."
~Author Unknown
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"Warning: dates on this calendar are closer than they appear."
~Anonymous
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"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment."
~Robert Benchley
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"Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week."
~Spanish Proverb
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"If something's hard to do, then what's the point?!"
~Homer Simpson
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"The worst form of procrastination is reading a procrastination quote, feeling the guilt and not doing anything about it."
~Unknown
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Purpose Quotes
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
~George Bernard Shaw
Without purpose and direction we find ourselves drifting the seas of life. Being tossed here and there, battered by the waves - we struggle. Purpose helps us steer our course and gives meaning to our efforts.
Living with purpose requires us to go beyond our limitations and step outside the boundaries of the mind. This is why having a purpose makes us come alive.
Without a purpose, exploration, personal growth, and self improvement all come to a grinding halt. Stagnation sets in with all its adverse effects.
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"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
~Robert Byrne
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"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart."
~Rumi
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"Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye".
~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
~Eddie Cantor
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"The true joy of life is being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap ... being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"The lion is most handsome when looking for food."
~ Rumi
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"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."
~Ben Stein
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"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Strong reasons make strong actions."
~William Shakespeare
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"Granted that I must die, how shall I live?"
~Michael Novak
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"Let yourself be silently drawn by the pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." ~Rumi
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Your Path
"Your path has its own simple beauty and mystery.
It is never what you think it is.
Yet it is never beyond your ability to intuit the next step."
~Paul Ferrini
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Action Quotes
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."
~John Dewey
Action quotes are a great reminder of the importance of using the body, and not just the mind, to achieve our goals. Both body and mind, working in unison towards a common goal, is our most powerful way forward.
Action forms the bridge that takes us from thinking to being, from imagining to creating.
Yet, there are times when we find this bridge blocked or obstructed. Taking action can be challenging when this happens.
Taking action requires motivation, purpose, initiative, and often courage. Without these action is nothing more than a thought. We think alone about action. But we do very little.
We create an internal barrier that seems hard to break through. Taking that one step outof-the-mind can make all the difference. These action quotes may help inspire that step.
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"Depend not on fortune, but on conduct."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"It is of no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence.
The only consequence is what we do."
~John Ruskin
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"You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind."
~Irish Proverb
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"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."
~Japanese Proverb
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"If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act."
~Lee J. Iacocca
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"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."
~Jacob Bronowski
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"Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity."
~William Blake
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"A rolling stone gathers no moss."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial."
~Sophocles
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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"The true method of knowledge is experiment."
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~William Blake
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"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."
~Aristotle
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"All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes."
~Cicero
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"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only thing one never regrets is one's mistakes."
~Oscar Wilde
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"The only cure for grief is action."
~George Henry Lewes
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"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
~Confucius
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"You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are so must be his spirit."
~Demosthenes
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"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions."
~Dorothy Day
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"You ask me why I do not write something...I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results."
~Florence Nightingale
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"Words without actions are the assassins of idealism."
~Herbert Hoover
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"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
~John Locke
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"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Words without action are like wheels without traction. It is how you live that counts."
~Geoff Thompson
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"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."
~Hannah Arendt
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"Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act."
~Dan Millman
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"Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it."
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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"No matter what we feel or know, no matter what our potential gifts or talents, only action brings them to life. Those of us who only think we understand concepts such as commitment, courage, and love, one day discover that we only know when we act; doing becomes understanding."
~Dan Millman (from the book "The Life You Were Born to Live")
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"Emotion is created by motion."
~Tony Robbins
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"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
~Chinese Proverb
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"Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer."
~Niccolo Machiavelli
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"People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action..."
~Moshe Feldenkrais
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Success Quotes
"Nature never repeats herself and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another."
~Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Success means different things to different people. This is as it should be. We all need to find the specific brand of success that suits our individual character and abilities. Once we find our personal definition of success, it becomes a shining beacon to guide and motivate us on our path through life.
Whatever your personal brand of success may be, it is important to make sure that it's your own. This is not as obvious as it may seem. Most of the ideas running around in our head we have received from others. Many voices vie for our attention, yet only a few are really our own. How do we know which voices to follow? How do we identify and find our true inner calling?
These quotes on success may help. Use them as a mirror reflecting back to you the true meaning of success. As you browse through these quotes, pay attention to how your body reacts. When you come across a quote that brings goose bumps to your skin or that sends a tingle down your spine, you will know you have connected with a definition of success that is true for you.
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"What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point."
~Orison Swett Marden
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"Ask yourself, 'what's more important - being real and being myself, or becoming successful? And ask the question knowing that you never actually have to choose between being real and being successful. You simply have to choose between being real and striving to be successful. Get the difference?
~Thomas Leonard
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"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort."
~Jesse Owens
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"A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements."
~Orison Swett Marden
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"I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending."
~Charles Handy
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"The trouble with the rat-race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat."
~Lily Tomlin
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"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
~Woody Allen
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"Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavour, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances."
~Orison Swett Marden
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"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you." ~Anthony Robbins
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Quotes about Truth
"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of."
~Helen Keller
Truth is beyond belief.
Suppose the mind believes that we are inadequate or unworthy and that we are not, and never will be, good enough. These are words that come from a negative mind. But is this the truth?
No, it isn’t. This is nothing more than a belief in the mind, leaving the truth far behind.
When we learn to be suspicious of the negativity that is so often the doctrine of the mind, there is no telling the depths of reality and truth we will find. Aligned with what we can’t yet see, the truth has the power to set us free.
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"Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them."
~ Alan Watts
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"I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than to say the things I don't."
~W. Somerset Mangham
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"Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts. It comes from seeing what is true."
~Buddha
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"If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth." ~Hans Reichenbach
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"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."
~Winston Churchill
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"Truly, to tell lies is not honourable. But when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonourably is pardonable."
~Sophocles
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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do."
~William Blake
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"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes." ~Henry David Thoreau
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"The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth."
~Cicero
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"Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends."
~Aristotle
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"Justice is truth in action."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you."
~William Blake
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"Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?"
~Cicero
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not - when I come to die discover that I had not lived."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'"
~Cicero
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"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
~Oscar Wilde
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"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"There is nothing so powerful as Truth - and often nothing so strange."
~Daniel Webster
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"That which you seek, is causing you to seek."
~Cheri Huber
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"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."
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~Benjamin Disraeli
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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Do not think that this is all there is. More and more wonderful teachings exist..."
~Yamaoka Tesshu
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"Movement is part of the direct path. On the direct path, people have no need for external religion, because personal spiritual truth is what the person is and does."
~Unknown
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
~Oscar Wilde
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"The heart of things, which cannot be seen with the eyes: that is where the seed of
Buddha lies. Make it grow and grow and truth will be yours."
~Unknown
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"The world is wide, full of happenings. Keep this in mind and never believe 'I'm the only one who knows.'"
~Yamaoka Tesshu
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"Know that in a remote place, in a cloud-covered valley; there is still a sacred pine that passes through the chill of the ages."
~From 'At the Time of Awakening' by Zen Master Keizan Denkoroku
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"Only a lion can recognize a lion's roar."
~Kodo Sawaki
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"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth."
~Oscar Wilde
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"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded." ~W. Somerset Mangham
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Mind Quotes
"I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind can comprehend it."
~Harry Emerson Fosdick
We live within two worlds.
The first world is the private, small world that exists between our own two ears - the thinking world of the mind. The second world is the one that exists outside of the mind and is independent of our thinking.
Conscious self-improvement and personal growth depend, to a large extent, on our understanding of the relationship between these two worlds and how they interact and influence each other. When we venture beyond an inner boundary created by our thinking, we discover both our subjective and objective lives expanding. In those instances, life becomes workable and so much more exciting.
Working with the mind is an adventure and a quest. You need not travel 'to dusty lands' as a renowned Zen master, Dogen, once said. All you need is readily at hand - your mind and the thrilling opportunities that come with stepping out-of-the-mind.
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"All things are ready, if our minds be so."
~Shakespeare (King Henry V)
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"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body."
~Cicero
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"To keep the body in good health is a duty...Otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."
~Buddha
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"The truly still mind, with which you were born, is the mind that moves freely. Without ignoring anything, it reacts wholeheartedly to everything it encounters, to everything on which it reflects. And yet, for all that, it is the mind that is never seized by anything, but is always ready to react on the spot to whatever it encounters next. The mind that is still is the mind that never forfeits its freedom and is able to constantly keep rolling and rolling and rolling."
~From "Novice to Master" by Soko Morinaga
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"You need to get rid of all the trash in your mind. Trash is anything that prevents you from being in the present moment."
~From "The Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman
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"One need not be a chamber to be haunted; one need not be a house; the brain has corridors surpassing material place."
~Emily Dickinson
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"Virtuous monks don't use your minds mistakenly. The great ocean never detains dead bodies; but all you do is rush about the world carrying them on your shoulders."
~Rinzai (Zen Master)
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Quotes about Fear
"There has never been a greater illusion than fear. Fear exists only whilst you believe in it - whilst you fear it. So...stop believing, stop fearing. Set up a shadow inventory, write down all your fears and set out on your warrior path. Make this your life purpose and gold will be smelt from your terror."
~Geoff Thompson
It has been said that FEAR is an acronym standing for False Evidence Appearing Real.
Of course, not all fear is based on false evidence and not all fear is an obstacle to living our lives fully. If we learn to develop the right relationship with our fears, then fear becomes a stepping stone instead of a stumbling block on our path.
Fear can stop us in our tracks or it can spur us on to great achievements. There is nothing inherently negative about fear - it is our relationship with fear that determines the positive or negative results. Use these inspiring thoughts and quotes to build a positive relationship with the fears in your life.
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"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear." ~Edmund Burke
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"None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear."
~Ferdinand Foch
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"Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully."
~Francis Moore Lappe
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"Fear is a question: What are you afraid of and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of selfknowledge if you explore them."
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~Marilyn Furgeson
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"Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person."
~Dr. David M. Burns
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"We must make sure that we live our lives in the present and respond to things that are real - not to our fears of what once was or what might someday be."
~Anthony Robbins
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"To him who is in fear, everything rustles."
~Sophocles
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"When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of. And then you're going to get the only respect in the world that matters: self-respect. And that's pretty much what my journey's been."
~Sylvester Stallone
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"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves.
The basis of optimism is shear terror."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."
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~Rainer Maria Rilke
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"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past; I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
~From Frank Herbert's movie "Dune"
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Initiative Quotes
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."
~George Bernard Shaw
Taking initiative is an important part of personal growth and leading a fulfilling life.
Initiative is needed for conscious change to occur. Without it, things continue as they always did and consequences remain as they are. The river of our lives continues to flow unabated. To take initiative, we need to throw a boulder in that creak. We need to divert the waters and re-direct the flow of our energies. Taking initiative helps break the cycle of inertia that protects us from the unexpected, but also, from the personal growth and fulfillment we crave.
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"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."
~George Eliot
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"There are many paths, but the only one that leads to the top of the mountain, is the one you make yourself."
~Ancient Chinese Saying
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"Initiative is the agent which translates imagination into action."
~General Lyman L. Lemnitzer
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"Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be."
~Malcolm Forbes
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"Do not lie in a ditch, and say God help me; use the lawful tools He hath lent thee."
~English proverb
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"Eagles don't flock."
~Ross Perot
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"What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance; it doesn't come every day."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"You have to recognize that every 'out front' manoeuvre you make is going to be lonely, but if you feel entirely comfortable, then you're not far enough ahead to do any good.
That warm sense of everything going well is usually the body temperature at the centre of the herd."
~John Masters
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"If opportunity doesn't knock - build a door."
~Milton Berle
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"You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence." ~Abraham Lincoln
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"Initiative is doing the right things without being told."
~Elbert Hubbard
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"Success comes to the person who does today what you were thinking about doing tomorrow." ~Unknown
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"Take stands, take risks, take responsibility."
~Muriel Siebert
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"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."
~Orison Swett Marden
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"Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know your path and follow it wherever it may lead you. Do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps."
~Eileen Caddy in "Footprints on the Path"
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"I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody else's advice."
~W. Somerset Mangham
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"Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past."
~Sophocles
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"A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe."
~Georges Clemmanceau
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"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be."
~Rosalyn Carter
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"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"A weak man has doubts before a decision is made. A strong man has them afterwards."
~Karl Kraus
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"Well begun is half done."
~Aristotle
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"The wisest men follow their own direction."
~Euripides
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"Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight."
~Marcus Aurelius ("The Meditations")
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"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
~Chinese Proverb
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Quotes on Happiness
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet." ~James Oppenhaim
Most of us spend enormous amounts of time, money and energy courting happiness. Yet, how many of us really understand the happiness we chase? How many of us know how to catch this butterfly called 'happiness' which flits away just as we try to capture it in our net? Besides the happiness we seek, there is also happiness borne of no effort. Watching a sunset, or taking a tranquil walk on the beach. Laying peacefully in a meadow or listening to the swaying trees as we walk through a forest. Watching children laugh and losing themselves in play. All of these are moments of happiness we naturally experience. At times like these our self-centred thoughts are swept away, naturally suspended, and a strange happiness overtakes us. Losing ourselves in this way, happiness finds us without delay. ****
"No man is happy who does not think himself so."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be."
~Abraham Lincoln
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"The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it."
~Al Batt
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"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but in the mastery of his passions."
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~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." ~Ayn Rand
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"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it."
~C.P. Snow
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"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
~Helen Keller
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"If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it."
~Immanuel Herman Fichte
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"Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot." ~Josh Billings
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"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness."
~Lao Tzu
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
~Mahatma Ghandi
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"Very little is needed to make a happy life."
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~Marcus Aurelius
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"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."
~Robertson Davies
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"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination."
~Roy M. Goodman
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"Happiness comes from the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
~Storm Jameson
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"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
~William Cowper
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"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"There will be rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better; we find comfort somewhere."
~Jane Austen
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"A happy life consists in tranquility of mind."
~Cicero
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"To love what you do, and feel that it matters, what could be more fun?"
~Katherine Graham
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"Not only in places especially set up for training, but anytime and anywhere, the person who exerts himself or herself with dignity, without worrying about results and without giving into disappointment, is a true practitioner, a true person of the Way. I believe that just this is the form of true human well-being."
~From "Novice to Master" by Soko Morinaga
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Quotes about Character
"People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world."
~Michael Josephson
Character and destiny is the last stepping stone of out-of-the-mind self improvement and motivation. Thoughts and words lead to actions and habits...which coalesce into character and walk hand-in-hand with destiny. One stepping stone can hardly be separated from the other. The thoughts we habitually entertain leave a strong impression on us. Our character is imperceptibly shaped by every single thought we choose to believe. It goes without saying that we should choose our thinking wisely. These quotes on character give us shining examples that light the way.
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"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."
~Aristotle
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"Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight."
~Marcus Aurelius
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"To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought to have the greatest bearing on excellence of character."
~Aristotle
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"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
~John Wooden
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"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines - or indicates - his fate."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious."
~Samyutta Nikaya
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"To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - herein lays the perfection of character."
~"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius
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"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right?
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right."
~Martin Luther King
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"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."
~Sir Winston Churchill
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"You should not live one way in private, another in public."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."
~Aristotle
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"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience." ~Euripides
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"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Dignity consists not in possessing honours, but in the consciousness that we deserve them." ~Aristotle
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"If you would convince a man that he does wrong - do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him."
~Cicero
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"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."
~Aristotle
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"In the men of highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power and glory."
~Cicero
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"Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings."
~Euripides
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"Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity." ~John Brown
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"Life ought to be a struggle of desires toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul." ~Rebecca West
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"Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath."
~Solon
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"The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate."
~Euripides
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"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. Real nobility lies in being superior to your former self."
~Whitney Young
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"The difference between a moral man, and a man of honour, is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught."
~H.L. Mencken
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"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."
~Euripides
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"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honour is what you know about yourself." ~Lois McMaster Bujold
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"Honour does not have to be defended."
~Robert J. Sawyer
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"Be honourable yourself, if you wish to associate with honourable people."
~Welsch Proverb
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"When good men die, their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them."
~Euripides
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"Human dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendour throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority."
~James Thurber
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"Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life."
~Marcus Aurelius
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"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."
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~Michael J. Fox
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"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
~Rabbi Abraham Herschel
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"During a blacksmithing demonstration, the apprentice stopped hammering the hot iron bar and asked his teacher 'Is it straight enough?' The old master replied, 'It's either straight or it ain't.'"
~From "Buddhadharma" Quarterly (summer 2004)
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"Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world."
~Real Live Preacher
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"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble."
~Washington Irving
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"Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path."
~The Buddha in the Dhammapada
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"Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down."
~Sir Henry Wotton
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"A fair exterior is a silent recommendation."
~Publilius Cyrus
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Quotes on Trust
"It is hard to go through life without trust. That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all - oneself."
~Graham Greene
To trust, or not to trust - is the choice we face time and again as we walk our unique pathways through life. Should we trust, for example, that life can be fundamentally good?
Can we trust ourselves to cope with anything that life might throw our way? How practiced are we at trusting our intuition and gut-level feelings?
We often desperately want to trust in the positive ways described above. Without trust we bring unnecessary anxiety and stress into our lives. Because we don’t trust, fear and hesitation enters in.
Trust doesn't come easily to a doubtful and calculating mind. More often than not, a step out-of-the-mind is needed for trust to take place.
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"When you go the way of life you will come to a chasm. When you do - jump! It is not as wide as it looks."
~Native Indian Saying
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"When I am trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously."
~Shakti Gawain
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"You may be deceived if you trust too much; but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."
~Frank Crane
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"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interests, that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us, but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end."
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~H. L. Mencken
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"Your greatest enemy are the hesitating ideas and doubts. Don't give them quarter."
~Shodo Harada Roshi
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"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."
~William Blake
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"The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust."
~Henry L. Stimson
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"A person who trusts no one can't be trusted."
~Jerome Blattner
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"Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil, and still more the man who is indifferent to everything."
~Johann K. Lavater
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"Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it; and better to be sometimes cheated than not to trust." ~Samuel Johnson
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"A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else."
~Cardinal de Retz
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"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth. The former course is silly; the latter, a mark of prudence."
~Democritus
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"Trust one who has gone through it."
~Virgil
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"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."
~Ovid
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"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of."
~Helen Keller
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"There is no hell worse than not being able to trust in your fellow man."
~Shodo Harada Roshi
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Procrastination Quotes
"Tear thyself from delay."
~Horace
Who hasn't felt helpless at one time or another trying to figure out how to stop procrastinating? We want to get into action, be productive and move forward, yet there seems to be an invisible hand holding us back. This invisible hand is nothing other than our own mind getting in the way.
Make no mistake about it, procrastination is a disease. It is a disease of the mind. It can have many causes, but only one effect - preventing us from ever discovering our true capabilities. To overcome this foe we need to conquer the invisible enemy within. One of the quotes below may help you step out-of-the-mind and provide the inspiration you need to defeat procrastination. ****
"There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks."
~George David Lloyd
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"Procrastination is the thief of time."
~Edward Young
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"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to success, not going all the way and not starting."
~Unknown
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"In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it."
~Charles Baudelaire
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"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started."
~David Allen
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"Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried."
~Unknown Author
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"Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible."
~George H. Lorimer
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"I spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung."
~Rabindranath Tagore
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"He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal."
~Baltasar Graci
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"Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all."
~Mignon McLaughlin
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"If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow."
~Ovid
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"Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it."
~Salvador Dali
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"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one."
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~Mark Twain
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"Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin."
~Victor Kiam
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"The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin."
~Hesiod
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"Procrastination and worry are the twin thieves that will try to rob you of your brilliance but even the smallest action will drive them from your camp."
~Gil Atkinson
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"There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back."
~Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
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"If you want to do something… do it!"
~Heinrich Boll
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"He who awaits much can expect little."
~Marquez Gabriel Garcia
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"'One of these days' is none of these days."
~Unknown
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"Begin, while others procrastinate. Work, while others wish."
~William Arthur Ward
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"What may be done at any time will be done at no time."
~Scottish Proverb
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"Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live."
~M. Scott Peck from 'The Road Less Traveled'
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"To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing."
~Eva Young
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"To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead." ~Mandino, Og
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"Why always 'not yet?' Do flowers in spring say, 'not yet?'
~Norman Douglas
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"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
~Martin Luther King Junior
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"Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform."
~Edward Young
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"He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin."
~Horace
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"Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday
I'll" philosophy".
~Denis Waitley
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"How soon not now, becomes never."
~Martin Luther King Junior
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"Delay always breeds danger, and to protract a great design is often to ruin in it."
~Miguel de Cervantes
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"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
~Parkinson's Law
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"Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing so futile."
~Bertrand Russell
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"The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started."
~Dawson Trotman
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"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
~Abraham Lincoln
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"One ought never to turn ones back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"
~Winston Churchill
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"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."
~William James
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"You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again."
~Benjamin Franklin
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"The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion."
~Hannah Moore
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"Postpone not a good action."
~Irish Proverb
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"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
~Theodore Roosevelt
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"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation?"
~Jane Austin
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"Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
~Baltasar Gracian
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"A year from now you may wish you had started today."
~Karen Lamb
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"We have met the enemy and he is us."
~Walt Kelly
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"If you procrastinate when faced with a big, difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time."
~Robert Collier
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"Procrastination is, hands down, our favourite form of self-sabotage."
~Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby
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"Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision."
~Harry A. Hopf
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"There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world."
~William Penn
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"Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come to this: that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it."
~Charles Buxton
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"Delay not to seize the hour!"
~Aeschylus
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Quotes on Excellence
"The renown, which riches or beauty confer, is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession."
~Sallust
The pursuit of excellence is a choice. We all have the freedom to stay stuck in our minds
(bound by current habits and limitations) or we can set out to improve our present situation. The best thing about excellence is that it's a process. This makes it readily available to anyone. For those who wish to strive for excellence it is never any further away than a decision or a step out-of-the-mind.
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"The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence." ~John F. Kennedy
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"Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that leaves your hands that whatever you do shall bear the hall-mark of excellence."
~Orison Swett Marden
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."
~Aristotle
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"Strive for excellence, not perfection."
~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business."
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~Michael J. Fox
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"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."
~Pearl Buck
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"It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."
~Sir Winston Churchill
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
~Aristotle
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"No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with."
~Jane Austen
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Quotes about Forgiveness
"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."
~Henry David Thoreau
Learning how to forgive, whether it is to forgive ourselves or others, isn't the easiest thing to do. We may want to forgive. We may think it is best to forgive. We may even have tried to forgive. Yet we can’t bring ourselves to full forgive and really let go. A part of us just won't relinquish that hold.
It isn't a coincidence that forgiving contains the words for and giving. Forgiveness is forgiving. Still, we hold back. How do we give when we feel that so much has been taken away? This is the challenge of forgiveness.
Sooner or later in life we will come across circumstances that call upon us to forgive.
Whether it is forgiving ourselves or forgiving others the challenge is the same. We need to forgive with both head and heart. Genuine forgiveness is a total experience that leaves no room for reservation or doubt. These forgiveness quotes gives us a place to start.
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"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
~Jessamyn West
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"It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise."
~Nancy Thayer
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"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and realize that prisoner was you."
~Lewis B. Smedes
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"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."
~Oscar Wilde
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"People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on."
~Bill Cosby
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"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."
~Victoria Holt
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"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."
~Paul Boese
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"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
~Thomas Szasz
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"The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself."
~Confucius
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"You go against yourself when you judge or blame yourself for anything."
~Don Miguel Ruiz
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
~Mahatma Gandhi
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"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."
~Charles Kettering
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"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
~Leslie Poles Hartley
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"Never ruin an apology with an excuse."
~Kimberly Howard
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
~Mark Twain
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Thought Provoking Quotes
"An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly."
~Edwin P. Whipple
Thought provoking quotes have a way of getting us to think differently about things. It is a great aid for stepping out-of-the-mind to explore new ground. Our mind expands and grows and we grow along with it.
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"All wisdom is plagiarism; only stupidity is original."
~Hugh Thompson Kurr (theologian)
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"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good."
~Seneca
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"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
~Oscar Wilde
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"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"To do two things at once is to do neither."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"Tradition is a guide, not a jailer."
~W. Somerset Mangham
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"What you cannot enforce, do not command."
~Sophocles
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"Everything in moderation, including moderation."
~Oscar Wilde
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"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"No man loves life like he who is growing old."
~Sophocles
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"Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing. Age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that make them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only."
~William Blake
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"Hope is a waking dream."
~Aristotle
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously...Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."
~Jane Austen
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"There are some remedies worse than the disease."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"Advice is judged by results, not by intentions."
~Cicero
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"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace."
~Oscar Wilde
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"It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
~Albert Einstein
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"One day you will take my heart completely and make it fierier than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet."
~Rumi
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"Time eases all things."
~Sophocles
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"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
~Oscar Wilde
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"It is not every question that deserves an answer."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"Law stands mute in the midst of arms."
~Cicero
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Confidence Quotes
"Stop saying I can't. When you start something, say 'I can.' Then do it. That's the key to putting the mind and the body together to do what you set out to do."
~Unknown
The mind is a powerful 'organ of doubt'. Doubt wouldn't be possible without the mind.
When we understand that doubt is an integral part of the mind then we see that our task isn't to eliminate doubt. Our task is to step out-of-the-mind.
Confidence is an inner quality that we connect with automatically as we step into the natural flow of things. Focused on the task at hand we forget about ourselves, and in the process, our confidence rises to the surface. Use these confidence quotes to go beyond the thin veil of self-doubt. A truth is waiting.
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"There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your ability. Learn to repeat endlessly, 'It all depends on me.'"
~Andre Gide
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"Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger."
~Arnold Palmer
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"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."
~Baltasar Gracian
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"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."
~Hasidic Saying
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"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."
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~Mark Twain
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"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." ~Rosalyn Carter
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"A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are and do what you ought to do, the way you should do it.
You have got to discover you, what you do - and trust it."
~Barbra Streisand
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"If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price." ~Anon
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Diligence Quotes
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavour."
~Henry David Thoreau
Diligence quotes force us to look right into the crux of the matter: the need to apply systematic effort in order to succeed in our endeavours. This is especially true when it comes to self improvement and motivation. Consistent application is the key to consistent and reliable results.
Diligence requires the application of self-discipline, persistence and generous doses of motivation. It is no mistake that it is often associated with the development of character.
There is a fourth ingredient that is implied by diligence and that is paying attention.
Being diligent is to pay attention to whatever it is that needs to be done. As such, diligence is a powerful expression of caring. By being diligent we show we care about whatever it is we have set out to do. We should not be surprised then, that what we care for thrives.
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"Strain every nerve to gain your point."
~Cicero
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"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
~Jules Renard
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"Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay, are dragged - towards evil."
~Hippocrates
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"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy."
~Mahatma Ghandi
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"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know that it has got to get down to work."
~Pearl S. Buck
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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
~Henry David Thoreau
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Quotes on Courage
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
~Seneca
Courage may not be the quality of choice for those looking for the easiest way out.
Difficulty is a given in life. Courage and positive change are optional.
To step out-of-the-mind is to sojourn into the unknown. The known being our comfort zone - the unknown is often viewed as unsettling. Yet, to unsettle ourselves is to venture into new territory. These inspirational thoughts may encourage us to take the necessary steps in fulfilling our dreams and aspirations.
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"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
~Joseph Chilton Pearce
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"When you go the way of life you will come to a chasm. When you do - jump! It is not as wide as it looks."
~Native Indian Saying
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"Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor."
~Jackson Browne
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"He has not learned the lesson of life that does not every day surmount a fear."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know your path and follow it wherever it may lead you. Do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps."
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~Eileen Caddy in "Footprints on the Path"
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"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."
~Jean Paul Richter
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"It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"Leap and the net will appear."
~Julia Margaret Cameron
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"Life is 'trying things to see if they work.'"
~Ray Bradbury
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"The weak in courage are strong in cunning."
~William Blake
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"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies."
~Aristotle
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"The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence; that petty fears and petty pleasures are but a shadow of reality."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
~Cicero
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"Some men die in shrapnel, some go down in flames. Most men perish inch by inch playing little games."
~"Business Beyond the Box" by John O'Keefe
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"A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger."
~Euripides
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"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only thing one never regrets is one's mistakes."
~Oscar Wilde
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"It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life; and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin."
~Katharine Butler Hathaway
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"Don't hope that people won't attack you. Rely on your ability to respond."
~Unknown
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"Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours."
~Richard Bach
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Gratitude Quotes
"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."
~Lionel Hampton
The mind is a stranger to gratitude. Constantly thinking about the future or the past, the mind is out of touch with the present moment - the place where gratitude and appreciation live. To experience the simplicity of gratitude requires stepping out of the worries, fears and doubts that so often occupy the mind.
Gratitude quotes remind us how to appreciate life, even as we strive to improve our lot.
Gratitude and appreciation aren't just feelings and emotions - they are attitudes which enable action. When appreciation and gratitude are firmly implanted, we have a stable platform from which to pursue our goals and dreams for the future.
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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."
~Cicero
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"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." ~ Francois-Marie Arouet, called Voltaire (1694-1778)
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"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."
~John Berry
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"Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far."
~Euripides
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"To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches."
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~Cicero
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"If you have one wish, wish for everything to be exactly as it is. Then wait patiently for your wish to come true. Don't waste precious life moments wishing things were different." ~Unknown
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"It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation."
~Roberto Benigni
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"A person, who falls on the earth, stumbling on a stone, will stand up by means of the same earth they fell on. You complain because you think earth is the problem, having caused your fall. Without the earth, you wouldn't fall, but you wouldn't stand up either.
Falling and standing up are both great aids given to you by the earth."
~From "Crooked Cucumber" by David Chadwick
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"We don't know how long we will live, so while we have our life, why not make use of it.
Before we even make use of it, why don't we appreciate it...existence is wonderful and precious." ~Unknown
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Motivation Quotes
“Motivation is what happens to us when we run out of excuses."
~Evolutionary Pathways
Motivation is what drives us. It’s what makes us do what we do. Connecting with this drive makes us feel vibrantly alive. This is when we experience personal breakthroughs, grow in improvement and broaden our horizons.
When motivation is running high, our connection with life is strong and our purpose is clear. Tapping into a geyser of inspirational motivation is a sure sign that we are on the right track.
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"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
~Malcolm S. Forbes
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"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you really want, and all that is left is a compromise."
~Robert Fritz
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"Follow your heart. If you can't find it, just jump and your heart will start beating so fast you will wake up."
~Anonymous
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"Strong reasons make strong actions."
~William Shakespeare
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~Rumi
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"Do it because you believe (in) it; not because you fear it."
~overheard somewhere
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"Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
~William Blake
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"All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you."
~Rainer Maria Rilke
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"We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water."
~Rumi
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"Ambition is everything. You've got to follow your dream. That way, when you fail, you can always say: 'Well, at least I tried.'"
~From the movie "I want candy" (2007)
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"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
~William Blake
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"Remember, we will all do more to avoid pain than we will to gain pleasure."
~Anthony Robbins
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"I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequences, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures."
~Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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"Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... Passion and expression are beauty itself."
~William Blake
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Integrity Quotes
"Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want." ~Margaret Meade
Integrity is about being ourselves. It's about matching thoughts to words to actions. If we are thinking one thing but say another, or say one thing yet act differently, then we have momentarily fallen out-of-integrity.
Integrity quotes remind us of the importance of being ourselves, instead of living up to other people's standards or expectations.
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"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do." ~Freya Stark
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"Ask yourself, 'what's more important - being real and being myself, or becoming successful? And ask the question knowing that you never actually have to choose between being real and being successful. You simply have to choose between being real and striving to be successful. Get the difference?
~Thomas Leonard
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"Be honest to yourself. You can never be healthy if you smoke, take drugs or drink excessive amounts of alcohol. Denial leads to a life of misery."
~Unknown
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"To thy own self be true; and as sure as night follows day, thou canst be false to any man." ~William Shakespeare
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"Be yourself. Everyone else is taken."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."
~Confucius
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"When you want to sit - sit. When you want to stand - stand. Above all - don't wobble."
~Zen Master
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"The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead."
~Richard Bach
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"What you are is God's gift to you; what you do with yourself is your gift to God."
~Danish Proverb
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"The world is full of people that have stopped listening to themselves and have listened only to their neighbours to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are that they should be living for."
~Joseph Campbell
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"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying amen to what the world says you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."
~Robert Louis Stevenson
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"When the old Hasidic master called Zusya - a most playful, humble and genuine human being - was on his deathbed, very close to the end, all who loved him were crowded about, weeping and straining to hear his last words. At a certain point he said, 'You know, when I get there, they will not ask me, 'Why were you not one of the great ones? They will ask me, 'Why were you not Zusya?'"
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~From "Upside Down Zen"
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"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness."
~Shakti Gawain
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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
~Oscar Wilde
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"No bird soars too high if it soars with its own wings."
~William Blake
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Quotes about Learning
"Be a student, not a follower."
~Jose Ortega
The journey of self-improvement is open to everyone. The only 'criteria' for entry is an open mind. There is nothing that is impossible if we keep an open mind.
Opening our mind allows new life to enter. New rivers of knowledge and experience can now flow through us, bringing renewal and the refreshing potential for positive change.
Consistent learning, and an open mind, keeps our energy from growing stale. Learning is the antidote to stagnation.
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"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."
~Jose Ortega
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"That is what learning is. You finally understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
~Doris Lessing
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"Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardour and attended to with diligence."
~Abigail Adams
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"Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning.
The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient."
~Eugene S. Wilson
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"It is better to learn late than never."
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~Publilius Cyrus
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"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
~George Santayana
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"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds may take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind."
~Cicero
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"Much learning does not teach understanding."
~Heraclitus
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"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked."
~Lord Chesterfield
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"We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction."
~Malcolm Gladwell
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"Learning is not compulsory...neither is survival."
~W. Edwards Deming
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"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one."
~Cicero
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"Some people will never learn anything...because they understand everything too soon."
~Alexander Pope
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
~Cicero
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"Don't look for more honour than your learning merits."
~Jewish Proverb
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"What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers."
~Martina Horner
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Quotes about Goals
"Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident."
~Nietzsche
Like a hose is to water, our mind loves working with goals that channel its powers towards worthwhile ends. Goals can be a great tool for stepping out-of-the-mind.
In the same way a person caught in quick-sand may use a rope to pull himself free, goals can take us beyond the boundaries of our current situation - where new thinking, new actions, new habits and, ultimately, a new life awaits.
Use these quotes to imbue your next purposeful step in living an inspired life.
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"If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals."
~Brian Tracey
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"A goal properly set is halfway reached."
~Abraham Lincoln
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"Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight year ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to be."
~Anthony Robbins
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"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
~W. Somerset Mangham
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"Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long-run; it's who we become, as we overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve our goals, that can give us the deepest and most longlasting sense of fulfillment."
~Anthony Robbins
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"Failing to achieve your goal can mean achieving your real goal."
~Unknown
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"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable."
~Seneca
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"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."
~Anthony Robbins
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"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking others to live as one wishes to live." ~Oscar Wilde
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"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals."
~Henry Ford
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"One reason so few of us get what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular."
~Anthony Robbins
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"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."
~ Earl Nightingale
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"Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility."
~Anthony Robbins
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"Don't try to prove anything. Just act the way you want, and don't be a hypocrite. No one is perfect. What is important is that you have a goal that you strive for. You must try to be good purely as a challenge, an adventure. Then the pursuit of the challenge will become discipline. Just take purity as a goal. If you really want it, you will put all else aside to achieve it."
~From the book "Chronicles of Tao"
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"Reality forms around your commitments. The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it."
~Max Stiengart
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Quotes about Thinking
"Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, and do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire."
~Orison Swett Marden
Thinking can be one of our greatest assets or one of our worst nightmares. Caught in the grip of habitual thought patterns, we readily lose touch with what is actually happening around us. Over-thinking our problems doesn't necessarily help us resolve them. In fact, thinking too much often makes us feel hesitant and confused and we find ourselves worse off than before.
Thoughts hold energy - they are creative. The quality of our thinking has a determining influence on the quality of our lives. Stepping out-of-the-mind enables us to develop a constructive and empowered relationship with our thinking. This is what we want.
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"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."
~Rumi
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
~Marcus Aurelius
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"We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere."
~Orison Swett Marden
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"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride."
~Sutta Nipata
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"The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." ~William Blake
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"Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence."
~Rumi
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"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"No man is happy who does not think himself so."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"They are never alone, those who are accompanied by noble thoughts."
~Sir Philip Sydney
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"Reason is like an officer when the king appears - the officer loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun."
~Rumi
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"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."
~Confucius
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"Internal dialogue, thinking or whatever you want to call it holds you back from action. It is the rehearsal of an act or action. When there is complete commitment to an action, no matter how small and subtle or how large and violent, if it is complete and there is no
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~From "The Craft of the Warrior" by Robert L. Spencer
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"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"The warrior is here, now. Your sorrow, your fears and anger, regret and guilt, your envy and plans and cravings live only in the past or in the future...When thoughts touch the present they dissolve."
~From "The Way Of The Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman
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"We know too much and feel too little. At least we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs."
~Bertrand Russell
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"No one should be judge in his own case."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"Stop f***ing about and building your fear giant with your unschooled thought, your undivided attention. Instead lend your thoughts to might. Invest your attention in divine purpose. What is divine purpose? To create light for yourself by dissolving shadow. And when you dissolve the shadow of one man, you light a beacon for all men. Start now."
~Geoff Thompson
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"Your mind, intellect, and consciousness are spinning around - let them have rest."
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~Fukanzazengi (Zen Text)
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Quotes about Vision
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
~Henry David Thoreau
In his book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", Stephen R. Covey talks about
'beginning with the end in mind'. We need vision to shape new realities and coax dormant potential into concrete action.
Vision can be seen as the wings of our heart. We must be aware, however, of self-doubt and other afflictions-of-the-mind that will try to clip the wings of our vision - especially if our dreams and desires have only begun to take root. This is when our vision needs the most nurturing.
Day-in and day-out new realities are envisioned and carried out by millions of people.
We must put aside self-doubt to ensure that we won't miss out!
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"We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere."
~Orison Swett Marden
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"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."
~Japanese Proverb
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"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
~Oscar Wilde
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"There are few things more wonderful than knowing where you want to go and being on the path to getting there."
~Earnie Larson
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"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
~Langston Hughes
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"You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'" ~George Bernard Shaw
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"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavours to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place."
~Cicero
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Where there is no vision the people parish."
~The Bible
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
~Albert Einstein
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"Imagination, unleashed, provides us with a sense of certainty and vision that goes far beyond the limitations of the past."
~Unknown
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Quotes about Freedom
"Freedom is never letting your fears stop you from following your heart."
~Susie Switzer
However much we may feel restricted by the current circumstances of our lives - freedom can always be found within. True freedom is freedom from the mind.
Every time we surmount a fear, every time we ignore the cries of 'I can't', every time we exercise diligence and practice self-discipline we cultivate the freedom that comes with stepping out-of-the-mind.
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"Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains."
~Jean Jacques Rousseau
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"For the Stoic, then, doing philosophy meant practicing how to 'live': that is, how to live freely and consciously. Consciously in that we pass beyond the limits of individuality, to recognize ourselves as a part of the reason-animated cosmos. Freely, in that we give up desiring that which does not depend on us and is beyond our control, as to attach ourselves only to what depends on us: actions which are just and in conformity with reason." ~From "Philosophy As A Way Of Life" by Pierre Hadot
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"He who binds to himself a joy does the winged life destroy; but he who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in eternity's sun rise."
~William Blake
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"People have become the tools of their tools."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away." ~Aitken Roshi
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Dropping Keys
"The small man builds cages for everyone he knows. While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long for the beautiful rowdy prisoners." ~Hafiz
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"I must create a system or be enslaved by that of another man; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."
~William Blake
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"The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquility. Servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death."
~Cicero
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"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages."
~Jacques Deval
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Quotes about Reality
"Every second of every hour of every day, each of us creates a reality that we live and breathe in."
~Geoff Thompson
We live in two worlds. One is the subjective world of our own creation. The other is an objective world that exists beyond the confines of our mind. Our total experience of reality is determined by the unique interaction that takes place between these two worlds.
How we think about what is 'out there' will influence the way in which we experience objective reality. And what we experience of objective reality will undoubtedly influence the way we think.
Recognizing that our pre-conceived notions about reality - are not reality itself - opens up incredible opportunities for changing our experience of life. The way we experience life is more malleable than we thought. Stepping out-of-the-mind helps us to see this.
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"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have permanent and absolute existence; that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Better to be a student of reality than a master of illusion."
~Albert Timen (Head instructor of Kapap Academy)
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"Reality, as you experience it, will conform to your beliefs about how it is."
~Unknown
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"This is your reality, and if you leave it to others, they will simply feed, force, or coerce you into their reality. And what's the fun in that?"
~Geoff Thompson
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"To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality and to assert the emptiness of things is also to miss their reality. The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking and there is nothing you will not be able to know."
~Hsin Hsin Ming
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Habit Quotes
"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters."
~Nathaniel Emmons
Habit quotes are important reminders of the powerful role that habit plays in our lives.
Initially we carry our habits. Yet, before we know it, our habits start carrying us! In which direction they carry us depends on the degree to which we have learned to work with our habits.
Habits are channels for energy to flow through. If we aren't meeting our objectives it's a pretty safe bet that our habits aren't congruent with our aims. Our habits aren't allowing the energy to flow freely towards our objectives. Use these habit quotes to redirect the flow and grow.
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"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."
~Aristotle
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"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
-Jim Rohn
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"I never knew a person to overcome a bad habit gradually."
~John R. Mott
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"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income."
~Errol Flyn
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"Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels." ~Orison Swett Marden
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."
~Aristotle
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"Excess on occasion can be exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
~W. Somerset Mangham
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"Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet." ~Henry David Thoreau
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Quotes on Discipline
"Rather the pain of discipline, than the pain of regret."
~Bob Andrews
Nobody is born with self-discipline. Self-discipline is the ability to apply oneself and to have control over one’s feelings. It is a quality that once acquired, contributes to our basic happiness in all that we do. It is a positive, personal resource that will always come to our aid. Following are quotes on discipline that may help inspire and strengthen this quality in our lives.
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"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."
~Leonardo da Vinci
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"I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequences, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures."
~Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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"Reason should direct, and appetite obey."
~Cicero
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"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; a sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
~Rabbi Abraham Herschel
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"Do not consider painful what is good for you."
~Euripides
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"When considering the mindset prescribed by the Katori Shinto Ryu toward the arduous pursuit of one's own humanity, one saying in our tradition stands out: 'The control of one's self is a far greater feat than the defeat of a thousand enemies."
~From "Katori Shinto Ryu: Warrior Tradition"
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"Consider your true goals. Do you want to control others, or discipline yourself? Do you want to fight others, or live in harmony with them?"
~Unknown
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"One should have purpose, conviction and goals. Self indulgence is Tao [life] too; but is it freedom? In your self indulgence, you could destroy yourself recklessly. In the pursuit of your self indulgence, you might have an impulse to do something, but you would not be able to achieve it because you lacked ability. Therefore, you would have no freedom, and I would judge freedom better than mere self-indulgence."
~From the book "Chronicles of Tao"
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"Learn to convert the discomfort of discipline into the satisfaction of personal growth."
~Anthony Robbins
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"Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings."
~Euripides
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"People sometimes subscribe to the mistaken notion that discipline is restriction. This is not true. Discipline enables one to act. Only with discipline can one truly be all that one wishes to be. With discipline, one is able to carry out a decision free from fear, doubt, ambivalence, and laziness. Being a warrior means being disciplined. Training is discipline. Fighting is discipline. Discipline is freedom."
~From the book "The Craft of the Warrior" by Robert Spencer
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"Obedience is human nature. The slave obeys others. The free person obeys himself."
~Unknown
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"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you." ~Anthony Robbins
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"Returning to the topic of lifespan, there is an old poem that beautifully captures the shortness of life: 'How poignant is human life. Like dew on a morning glory.' The morning glory blossoms in the morning, only to wilt in the evening. But how much shorter are our own lives, likened to the dew atop the flowers of the morning glory, which will soon vanish under the rays of the morning sun? Within the span of our allotted days, we must cherish every fleeting moment, live a meaningful life each and every day, and endeavour to live to the fullest so as to leave neither wasted energy nor regret when our end is near."
~From "Katori Shinto Ryu: Warrior Tradition"
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Quotes on Belief
"To believe in something is to move towards what you believe in."
~Masaaki Hatsumi
What do you believe in? The answer to this question determines the focus of your energies and the direction of your life. 'Belief' isn't interchangeable with 'wishful thinking'. There are essential differences between the two.
When we believe in something, our will is channelled in the direction of our belief. Belief and action go hand-in-hand. Invariably, our actions are guided by the beliefs we hold.
Wishful thinking, on the other hand, goes hand-in-hand with inaction. It keeps us trapped in a future that never comes. Understanding the inseparable link between belief and action enables us to confidently navigate the course of our lives.
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"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of."
~Helen Keller
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"The belief that becomes truth for me...is that which allows me the best use of my strengths, the best means of putting my virtues into action."
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
~Theodore Roosevelt
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"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Do not believe blindly what other people say, even the Buddha. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity, and peace. That is the path for you to follow."
~Ananda
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"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
~Napoleon Hill
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"What one man can do another man can do."
~From the film "The Edge" (1997)
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Persistence Quotes
"There may be no heroic connotation to the word 'persistence', but the quality is to character of man what carbon is to steel."
~Napoleon Hill
Persistence has an extremely powerful force behind it. When water persists, it bores through rock. When wind persists, it influences the growth of trees and the shape of mountains. When we apply persistence to our endeavours nothing can really stop us.
When we persist we can change things for the better. Although its immediate application may be difficult, persistence actually serves to make things easier in the long run.
Without persistence we may give up too soon, or fail to apply enough efforts to achieve success. The following inspirational thoughts may help us to persist and prevail.
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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; un-rewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
~Calvin Coolidge
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"Do not turn back when you are just at the goal."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"The fool who persists in his folly will become wise."
~William Blake
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"While there's life, there's hope."
~Cicero
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"Keep going."
~Masaaki Hatsumi
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"Flowing water purifies itself every ten miles."
~Ancient Saying
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"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"'Take what you want', said God, 'and pay for it.'"
~Spanish Proverb
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"Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself."
~ Unknown
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Zen Quotes - Realization Quotes
"One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul."
~W. Somerset Mangham
Zen quotes remind us of the incredible mysteries that exist both in and out of the mind.
To sharpen our mind, to enliven our awareness, to awaken the full vitality of our dormant being - this was the mission of the Zen Masters.
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"Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...true happiness is born of selfreliance."
~The Laws Of Manu
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"The term 'human being' suggests our true calling in this life."
~From "Upside Down Zen" by Susan Murphy
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"Thus shall ye think of this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, a flash of lightening in a summer cloud, a flickering lamp, a phantom, a dream."
~Kongokyo (The Diamond Sutra)
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"Make no mistake! Outside there is no dharma; inside, there is nothing to be obtained.
Better than grasp at the words from my mouth, take it easy and do nothing. Don't continue [thoughts] that have already arisen and don't let those that haven't yet arisen be aroused. Just this will be worth far more to you than a ten year's pilgrimage."
~From "The Records Of Linji"
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"Where do we practice from?"
~From "Being Without Self" by Jeff Shore
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"You would ripen quickly, if you stay in your nothingness."
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment."
~Kodo Sawaki
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"Reason sets the boundaries [of life] far too narrowly for us...Day after day we live far beyond the bounds of our consciousness; without our knowledge, the life of the unconscious is also going on within us. The more critical reason dominates - the more impoverished life becomes; but the more of the unconscious...we are capable of making conscious, the more of life we integrate."
~Carl Jung
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"Your mind, intellect, and consciousness are spinning around - let them have rest."
~Fukanzazengi
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"To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever."
~Dogen Zenji
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"Someone asked Master Ryozan, what is the great matter of the patched robe monk? He answered: no living, no dying; no up, no down; no good, no bad. It is the great death. It is the matter of dying completely, and only this."
~Zen Master
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"A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the infinite in words?"
~W. Somerset Mangham
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"Daito Kokushi, the founder of Daitokuji temple and one of the most illustrious Zen masters in Japanese history, in his final words admonished: 'Be ever mindful, throughout the twenty-four hours of the day, to apply yourselves to the study of the Unthinkable."
~From "Novice to Master" by Soko Morinaga
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"Even a flea can travel a thousand miles when clinging to the horse's tail."
~Takamatsu Sensei
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"Great effort, without fail, brings great light."
~Hakuin
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"On the one hand, even though you apply yourself to, and are successful in reaping benefits for yourself, without transcending the barriers of old age, sickness, and death, you will not be tranquil in the evening of your life. On the other hand, if you cling to the idea of emptiness and fall into nihilism, it is easy to make the mistake of passing your whole life in vein. But there is another way: the middle way, falling into neither extreme.
This middle way is called the Dharma gate of liberation, liberation form both the exhaustible (being) and the inexhaustible (non-being)."
~From "Novice to Master" by Soko Morinaga
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"Zazen is nothing special; it is returning to the natural condition."
~Zen Master
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"No holiness; only emptiness."
~Bodhidharma
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"Your mind moving, when your body is not - this is not your natural condition."
~Zen Master
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"...Zazen [life/reality] didn't begin when I put my feet up in the full lotus posture. Zazen
[life/reality] will not end when I bring my legs back down..."
~From "Being Without Self" by Jeff Shore
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"The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences."
~Hsin Hsin Ming
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"Once you realize that all comes from within, that the world in which you live is not projected onto you, but by you, your fear comes to an end."
~From "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Enlightenment comes up first and it means to just be present. If you want to be what you want to be, be present. Just stand up straight, with stability, and then simultaneously your effort turns into practice. Then from this practice the teaching will come up later."
~From "Returning To Silence" by Dainin Katagiri
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"Zazen is sitting upright and letting delusions be."
~"Living and Dying In Zazen" by Motoko Ikebe
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"Satori has no beginning; practice has not end!"
~Kodo Sawaki Roshi
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"'I am this'; 'I am that' is a sign of not enquiring, not examining, a sign of mental weakness or lethargy."
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Practicing the way means to live the present day."
~From Dogen's 'Fukanzazengi'
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"Stop all external connections; have no concerns within; make the mind a stone wall, and enter the great way."
~Boddhidharma
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"A day of religious practice is a treasure; a hundred priceless years without that practice are a hundred years of regret."
~Dogen Zenji
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"There is only one substance, not two or three. Form is condensed emptiness, emptiness is thinned out form."
~From "I Am That" DVD
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"I have gone on at great length about life in a Zen monastery, a subject that may seem totally unrelated to your own lives. Yet all people, regardless of how their lives are structured, hold themselves dear. Everyone wants to be happy. And enlightenment is the starting point of happiness. We can use the words 'true self confidence' in place of
'enlightenment'. Confidence in the true self is a necessary requisite to happiness."
~From "Novice to Master" by Soko Morinaga
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"Coming home is letting go, allowing resistance to drop away as it softens in the mind of breathing. Is it effortful to let go? Letting go is already dropping effort."
~From "Upside Down Zen" by Susan Murphy
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"Be patient with your practice. Trust in the Buddha way. Throw yourself into your practice, yet with calmness and composure. When conditions are right, when the fruit is ripe, it naturally falls to the ground."
~From "Being Without Self" by Jeff Shore
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"What is the formless dojo?"
~An Apprentice Asks A Zen Master
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"There is nothing to it!"
~Rinzai's exclamation upon his awakening
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"Q: How am I to reach perfection? M: Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you. Do not rely on your work for realization.
It may profit others, but not you. Your hope lies in keeping silent in your mind and quiet in your heart. Realized people are very quiet."
~From "I Am That"
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"Not concerned with outer things; without having any troubles inside; if one's mind is like a wall, he would at the same time be in Tao (truth)."
~Bodhidharma (the first patriarch of Zen)
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"People who sit Zazen trying to become something, not letting go of the things they are holding onto, but trying to obtain or attain a certain state of mind, move further and further away from what this clarifying of mind, this repentance, can do. When we try to find some state of mind that we have experienced before, or who have an idea about what our state of mind should be and strive to attain that goal, our sitting becomes more and more cumbersome; when we cannot find the state of mind we think we should be attaining, the weight of the ego becomes heavier and heavier. This process I am describing - of clarifying our behaviour - is a way of emptying rather than of putting on."
~From "The Path To Bodhidharma" by Shodo Harada Roshi
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"If you grasp the point, you are like a dragon gaining the water, like a tiger taking to the mountains." ~Fukanzazengi
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"There is only life. There is nobody who lives a life."
~From "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains."
~Rumi
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"Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it."
~Chogyam Trungpa (Tibetan Master)
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"'Look right under you feet!' - that's the essence of Zen. Everyone nowadays is fixated, looking ahead, always ahead. But grabbing them by the nose and making them attentive to what lies at their very feet - that's what Zazen meditation is all about."
~From "He's Leaving Home"
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"Only what is dead in you can die. What is alive in you cannot die."
~From "I Am That"
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"Make no mistake! Outside there is no dharma; inside, there is nothing to be obtained.
Better than grasp at the words from my mouth, take it easy and do nothing. Don't continue [thoughts] that have already arisen and don't let those that haven't yet arisen be aroused. Just this will be worth far more to you than a ten year's pilgrimage."
~From "The Records Of Linji"
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"Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation."
~Rumi
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"Where are you? I am here. What time is it? It is now. Who are you? I am this moment."
~From "The Peaceful Warrior"
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"As long as you have the idea of influencing events, liberation is not for you. The very notion of doership, of being a cause is bondage."
~From "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"What the mind invents, the mind destroys. But the real is not invented and cannot be destroyed. Hold on to that over which the mind has no power..."
~From "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise."
~Surangama Sutra
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"He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun."
~Rumi
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"If you live the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion." ~Zen Master Lin-Chi
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"Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, are the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible."
~Allan Watts
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"Nothing, physical or mental, can give you freedom. You are free once you understand that your bondage is of your own making and you cease forging the chains that bind you." ~From "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Quotes about Confusion
"However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene - it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole."
~Muriel Rukeyser
The quotes below help us reflect on confusion. Paradoxically, as we reflect upon confusion clarity begins to dawn.
Clarity is strong; confusion is weak. While clarity brings with it vitality and power, confusion impedes the flow of our energies. Confusion is the result of a war that is happening in the mind. Clarity comes from stepping out-of-the-mind and leaving that war behind. ****
"The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes."
~Pema Chodron
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"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem, in my opinion, to characterize our age." ~Albert Einstein
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"There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis."
~Malcolm Gladwell
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"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts."
~Rita Mae Brown
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"A weak man has doubts before a decision is made. A strong man has them afterwards."
~Karl Kraus
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"We live in a time in which most people believe there is not much inside - only what teachers, parents, and others have put there."
~Unknown
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"Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking." ~Malcolm Gladwell
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Quotes about Relationships and Marriage
"My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of connection with someone."
~John Scalzi
Relationships can be one of the most challenging, yet rewarding, areas of personal growth. As if understanding ourselves wasn't enough of a challenge, in a relationship we have the added difficulty of understanding our counterpart and understanding the dynamic that evolves in-between. Wow. No wonder this area of life can seem so perplexing. An important truth to keep in mind in dealing with our relationships with others is to remember that the primary relationship we have in life is the relationship we have with ourselves. If this relationship is suffering, it puts us at a severe disadvantage when relating to others.
Befriending ourselves first, is at the heart of personal growth and self-improvement of any kind. If we treat ourselves badly, if we indulge in negative thinking and give in to negative emotions this is what we will bring into our relationships with others. When we are proactively positive the same thing holds true.
Enjoy these quotes on relationships. Use their inspiration to cultivate a positive relationship first with yourself, and then with others.
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"When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs." ~Oscar Wilde
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"A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learn to enjoy their differences."
~Dave Maurer
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"I wonder, of all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie."
~Edith Wharton
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"One man's folly is another man's wife."
~Helen Rowland
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"Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes - in the sense that almost certainly
(in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to."
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Marriage is a great institution; but I am not ready for an institution yet."
~Mae West
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"Always get married in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day."
~Mickey Rooney
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"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
~Rita Rudner
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"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly."
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~Voltaire
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"Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely."
~William Penn
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"I pay very little regard to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person." ~Jane Austen
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"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." ~Minon McLaughlin
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"If you would marry suitably, marry your equal."
~Ovid
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"A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her."
~Oscar Wilde
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
~Jane Austen
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"When I meet a man I ask myself 'Is this the man I want my children to spend the weekends with?'"
~Rita Rudner
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"A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life."
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~W. Somerset Mangham
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"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."
~Oscar Wilde
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"To be an adult is to be alone."
~Jean Rostand
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"A woman's head is always influenced by her heart; but a man's heart by his head."
~Lady Marguerite Blessinton
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"When men and women agree, if only in their conclusions, their reasons are always different." ~George Santayana
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"One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing."
~Oscar Wilde
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Self Improvement Quotes
"Every blade of grass has an angel that bends over it and whispers, 'grow, grow.'"
~The Talmud
The journey of life is one that spans the distance between who we are now and who we are to become. Self-improvement and conscious personal growth is completely in our own hands. It is a proactive undertaking.
Instead of whiling away our time, we choose to use our life to advance in understanding and awareness. In this way there is little room for regret. Use the following words of wisdom to inspire your way.
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"You can do little about the length of your life, but you can do much about its width and depth." ~H.L. Mencken
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"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."
~George Eliot
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"He enjoys true leisure that has the time to improve his soul's estate."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."
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~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life." ~Robert Maclver
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"The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done - we can see it, understand it, learn from it, and change. So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger, but in wisdom, understanding and love."
~Jennifer Edwards
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"Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him."
~Rumi
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"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
~Sophocles
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"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"It is life itself that must be our practice. It is not enough to hear spiritual truth or even to have your own spiritual insights. Every aspect of what happens to us must become part of a learning experience."
~Unknown
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"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyse you; they are supposed to help you discover who you are."
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~Lewis Duncome
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"The only security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way."
~Tony Robbins
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"In every adult there lurks a child - an eternal child, one who is always becoming, is never complete, and calls for unceasing care, attention and education. That is the part of the human personality which wants to develop and become whole."
~Carl Jung
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"There is nothing noble about being superior to others. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."
~Ernest Hemingway
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"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and learn to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not seek the answer, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them." ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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"Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student."
~George Iles
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"We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Knowledge and understanding is not the same thing. Knowledge is built on the experience of the past; understanding is built on the experience of the present. Jesus
Christ, another teacher whose insights have also given way to various dogmatic and
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~Bruce Lee
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"Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning.
The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient."
~Eugene S. Wilson
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"It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper understanding." ~Vincent Van Gogh
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"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."
~Epictetus
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Positive Attitude Quotes
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
~Albert Einstein
There are times when we feel uplifted by life and other times when we feel down trodden. With a positive attitude we lift ourselves up. With a negative attitude we let ourselves down. Our attitude influences our behaviour and the way we feel about ourselves and our lives.
Succumbing to negative thoughts and influences is easy and fairly common. It takes initiative, courage and persistence to strengthen the mind and fortify it against negative influences. These quotes will serve you well in building a strong positive attitude.
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"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."
~Zig Ziglar
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"When I do good, I feel good; when I do badly, I feel bad. That's my religion."
~Abraham Lincoln
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"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
~William James
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"It's never too late to become what you might have been."
~George Eliot
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"Whatever you do, do with all your might."
~Cicero
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"It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
~W. Somerset Mangham
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"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can."
~John Wooden
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"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
~Winston Churchill
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"Concentration, Full Confidence, Pure Will. With these 3, what cannot be accomplished?" ~From "I Am That" by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions."
~William J. Johnson
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"A warrior can be injured but not offended. For a warrior there is nothing offensive about the acts of her fellow human beings, as long as she herself is acting in the proper mood."
~"The Craft Of The Warrior" by Robert Spencer
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"Soft as cotton on the outside; hard as steal on the inside."
~Tai Chi Adage
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"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him."
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~Booker T. Washington
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"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"What we build with our hands will eventually fall apart. What we build with our hearts will last forever."
~Unknown
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"Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds."
~Laura Ingalls Wilder
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"We need to learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."
~Gandhi
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"None are as old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now."
~Ancient Chinese saying
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"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference."
~Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Keep your ideals high enough to inspire you and low enough to encourage you."
~Unknown
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"Nothing will help you sell yourself more than the power of your personal enthusiasm."
~Mary Kay
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"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."
~Soren Kierkegaard
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"If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect some blisters."
~Rotator
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"Power dwells with cheerfulness."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."
~Ben Franklin
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"When you have been wronged, a poor memory is your best response."
~Unknown
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"When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer."
~Regina Brett
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Hard Work Quotes
"Per ardura et astra [through hardship to the stars]."
~Latin Proverb
It is entirely possible to work very hard and not get very far. If we are going to go for it, giving the task at hand everything we've got, it is vital that we work smart, not just hard.
We need to be effective in our efforts. We need to be judicious in the expenditure of our time and energy. We need to be purposeful. Everything we do should count.
Through hard work we develop character and grow in fortitude. This determines who we become. Use these quotes to form your own guiding inspiration…
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"I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
~Muhammad Ali
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done."
~James Ling
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"Stop trying to squeeze professional results out of recreational hours."
~Geoff Thompson
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"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
~Thomas Jefferson
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"Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past."
~Sophocles
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"The one important thing that I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous."
~Margot Fonteyn
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"If you can`t stand the pain, and you can`t stand the rain, then you better take the easy way." ~Oliver Pigott
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"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it's too late."
~W. Somerset Mangham
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"Plough deep while sluggards sleep."
~Benjamin Franklin
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"A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman." ~George Bernard Shaw
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"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."
~Henry David Thoreau
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"More sweat; less blood."
~Ancient Chinese Saying meaning that the more you train in times of peace, the less you bleed in times of war.
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Quotes about Service
"All of us were born for one another."
~"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius
Each of us is born with unique talents, abilities and inclinations which are meant to be shared with others. Service is a natural extension of living and expressing our full potential. Working on personal growth and self-improvement is a service to both ourselves and others. Successfully overcoming a limitation in ourselves is an undeniable example to others of what is possible.
Positive change in our life catalyzes positive change in the lives of others. Even if we aren't acknowledged for it, and even if no-one ever knows, this is service of the highest order. ****
"True fulfilment is, I believe, vicarious. We get our deepest satisfaction from the fulfilment, growth and happiness of others. It takes time, often a lifetime, to realize this."
~Charles Handy in "Masters of The Wired World"
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"He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly."
~Publilius Cyrus
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"When you motivate, you are serving yourself. When you inspire, you are serving others." ~ODE Magazine
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"The greatest good you could do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"If your foot is suffering from a thorn, and your hand says, 'I don't care', in the end the foot will suffer and the hands will suffer."
~Buddhadharma quarterly
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"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another." ~Anonymous
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"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."
~Mother Theresa
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"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own."
~Ben Sweetland
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"We will receive not what we idly wish for, but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service."
~Earl Nightingale
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Quotes about Experience
"Your body, and not just your head, is the field in which you experience everything that happens in your life."
~The Barefoot Doctor
Experience is life. To have experienced something is to have lived it. New thinking can lead to new ways of taking action, which leads us into new worlds of experience.
Experience is our interface with reality, the juncture where the mind meets the body and the world at large. Let's step out-of-the-mind now to examine and experience anew…
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
~Teilhard de Chardin
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"Emotion is created by motion."
~Tony Robbins
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"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more."
~Mark Twain
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"Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement."
~Will Rogers
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"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do."
~Benjamin Disraeli
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"Our creativity does not consist in being right all the time, but in making all our experiences, including the apparently mistaken and imperfect ones, a holy whole."
~Matthew Fox
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"The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct."
~Cicero
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"What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song, or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children." ~William Blake
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Closing Thoughts
Make no mistake about it. Surrounding ourselves with inspiring ideas from some of the greatest of minds can be a catalyst for change. I hope you enjoyed this book and that you will use the thoughts within to elevate your thinking and enrich your life.
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