"If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win." - Shelley Long.
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Free Daily Motivational Self Improvement March 2
"Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is thesecret of success." - Swami Sivananda
building self esteem article - Believing In Yourself
March 3
"The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadilyand aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication." - Cecil B. DeMille
business coaching - 10 Reasons to Identify Your Values
March 4
"One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at atime, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thoughtnever belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and youthink, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'" - Margaret Thatcher
career goal - Cultivating Belief in Your Goals
March 5
"It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny." -Anthony Robbins
diet motivation - An Agent of Change
March 6
"Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be halfwon when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that youdo. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will becomeindispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all therewards you receive." - Og Mandino
business entrepreneur - Finding Your Niche
March 7
"Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance andabove all confidence in ourselves." - Marie Curie
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March 8
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, oraccept the responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley
child development - How a 7 Year Old Gets What He Wants and How You Can Too!
March 9
"Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feedopportunities and starve problems." - Stephen Covey
health problems - Managing Your Specific Phobias And Panic Attacks
March 10
"A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn'tparticularly feel like it." - Alistair Cooke
March 11
"Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased." - Ralph C. Smedley
"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." - John D. Rockefeller
"Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity." - Joseph Sugarman
"Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation." - Napoleon Hill
"You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is. It's how we use it that makes things possible." - Henry Ford
"I studied the lives of great men and women, and I found that the men andwomen who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, witheverything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work." - Harry S.Truman
"Success is measured in terms of reaching your goals, dreams, andexpectations. Your success is determined by hard work, persistence, anddetermination. If you are going to be a success in life, it is up to you... it is yourresponsibility." - Will Horton
1. "Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds fromthe achievement of one's values." - Ayn Rand
2. "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to improve the world." - Anne Frank
3. "If you can DREAM it, you can DO it." - Walt Disney
4. "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." - Jeremy Kitson
5. "Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna lefta road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have totravel the road yourself." - Stephin Levine
6. "If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy." - Anonymous
7. "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney
8. "Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary." - Mother Teresa
9. "Follow your bliss." - Joseph Campbell
10. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, theirtrue beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." - Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
12. "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. " - Antoine de St. Exupery
13. "You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." - Colette
14. "And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong
15. "I'm not afraid of death, I just don't want to be around when it happens." - Woody Allen"
16. "A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline." - Harvey Mackay
17. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by thethings that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throwoff the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
18. "Fun is about as good a habit as there is." - Jimmy Buffet
19. "Imagine." - John Lennon
20. "Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it.But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning." - Mohandas Gandhi
21. "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor hasbeen the reward for what he gave." - Calvin Coolidge
22. "Worry is like a rocking chair - it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere." - Dorothy Galyean
23. "We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do." - Ethel Barrett
24. "The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
25. "Success breeds success. Attend to your mind's most joyful,effective discovery process. Bolster the self-beliefs that addconfidence, lucidity, and tenacity to your efforts. You'll getmore out of what you notice, so heed whatever gives you wisdom." - Marsha Sinetar
26. "I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." - Jonathan Winters
27. "Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there." - John Wooden
28. "As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson
29. "Inspiration grows into full-scale creation through persistence and imagination." - Carol Lloyd
30. "Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine... [your] values and goals...Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want." - Marsha Sinetar
31. "Nothing happens unless first a dream." - Carl Sandburg
32. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
33. "If you can't be kind, at least be vague." - Judith Martin
34. "If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too." - Sue Grafton
35. "Dance like no one's watching, love like you'll never be hurt,sing like no one's listening, live like it's heaven on earth." - William Pukey
36. "If you are clear about what you want, the world responds with clarity." - Loretta Staples
37. "If you are serious about your goals, drop the conditions.Go directly to your goal. Be your goal! Conditions often disguise strategies for escaping accountability. Why not justtake charge and create the experience you are looking for?" - Eric Allenbaugh
38. "It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring ishelpful, but work and desire are invincible." - Thomas Robert Gaines
39. "Nothing happens until somebody sells something." - Mary Kay Ash
40. "Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward." - Carol Channing
41. "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; beginit well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumberedwith your old nonsense." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. "Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that itwill never begin." - Grace Hansen
43. "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller
44. "Work and play are the same. When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves." - Shakti Gawain
45. "Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask,but when we are challenged to be what we can be." - Morris Adler
46. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
47. "I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90%how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge ofour Attitudes." - Charles Swindoll
48. "The man who has no imagination has no wings." - Muhammad Ali
49. "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'." - Erma Bombeck
50. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where thereis no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
51. "You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on theirisland opportunities and look toward another land. There is noother land, there is no other life but this." - Henry David Thoreau
52. "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton
53. "Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash." - Harriet Rubin
54. "One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar." - Helen Keller
55. "I know God will not give me anything I can't Handle. I just wish that he didn't trust me so much." - Mother Teresa
56. "How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but (instead) someone." - Coco Chanel
57. "When you follow your bliss doors will open where you wouldnot have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn'tbe a door for anyone else." - Joseph Campbell
58. "Continuous effort -- not strength or intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential." - Winston Churchill
59. "The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that isdifficult." - Mme. Du Deffand
60. "Life without risks is not worth living." - Charles A. Lindbergh
61. "Each of us was born with wings...(and) has the ability togo farther than we ever thought possible, to do things beyond our wildest imaginings." - Barbara Stanny
62. "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." - Erica Jong
63. "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." - Les Brown
64. "When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So, what thehell, leap." - Cynthia Heimel
65. "Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is." - Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey
66. "Build for yourself a strongbox, fashion each part with care.When it's strong as your hand can make it, put all your troubles there. Hide there all thought of your failures, and each bitter cup that you quaff. Lock all your heartaches within it, then siton the lid and laugh." - Bertha Adams Backus
67. "It only takes one person to change your life - you." - Ruth Casey
68. "To follow, without halt, one aim: That's the secret of success." - Anna Pavlova
69. "A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot.It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to becomeporcelain." - Mildred Wite Stouven
70. "Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so." - Belva Davis
71. "Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity." - Earl Nightingale
72. "Dying seems less sad than having lived too little." - Gloria Steinem
73. "It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time." - Margery Williams
74. "Life was meant to be lived and curiosity must be kept alive.One must never, for whatever reason, turn one's back on life." - Eleanor Roosevelt
75. "One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once oneknows the necessary ingredients of happiness - simple tastes,a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vaguedream, of that I now feel certain." - George Sand
76. "People facing death don't think about what degrees they haveearned, what positions they have held, or how much wealth they have accumulated. At the end, what really matters is whom you loveand who loved you." - Bernadine Healy, MD
77. "Dying is a wild night and a new road." - Emily Dickinson
78. "Between thinking and seeing, there is a place called knowing." - Carolyn Myss
79. "Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to usto learn from." - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
80. "All the darkness in the world can not put out the light of a single candle." - Unknown
81. "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
82. "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now." - Goethe
83. "I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau
84. "If you can't be a good example then you'll just have to bea terrible warning." - Catherine Aird
85. "A woman is like a tea bag--you can't tell how strong she is until she's in hot water." - Nancy Reagan
86. "I think there is something more important than believing:Action! The world is full of dreamers. There aren't enough whowill move ahead and take concrete steps to actualize their vision." - W. Clement Stone
87. "When you get into a tight place and everything goes againstyou, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for it is just the place and time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe
88. "Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing on one's own sunshine." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
89. "You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours." - Gen. Colin Powell
90. "Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do." - Liz Smith
91. "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." - Margaret Thatcher
92. "God gives talent, work transforms talent into genius." - Anna Pavlova
93. "You learn in life that the only person you can really correctand change is yourself." - Katharine Hepburn
94. "In this world it is not what we take up, but what we giveup, that makes us rich." - Henry Ward Beecher
95. "Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then." - Katharine Hepburn
96. "Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly." - Lauren Bacall
97. "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experiencein which you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
98. "I want to do it because I want to do it." - Amelia Earhart
99. "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." - Elinor Smith
100. "It doesn't matter what you are thinking or what fear youhave, if you just do it. Action is the only thing that matters..I can see that at the end of my life, I'm going to look back andsay, 'Gosh, I wish I had taken more action'." - Diana von Welanetz Wentworth
101. "Life is no longer a mystery. I have found me." - Anne Axam
Feel like some more famous quotes? Well, here’s another 250 for you!
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. - Abraham Lincoln famous quote
Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. - St. Teresa of Avila fanus quote
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. - Barbara De Angelis - success quote
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments. - Napoleon Hill - quote
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong, honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes. - John Ruskin famous quote
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. - John Adams quote
None will improve your lot if you yourself do not. - Bertolt Brecht, 1933 Motivational quote
"When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place." - Bhagavad Gita - success quote
I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through ?then follow through. - Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker fanus quote
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. - Eleanor Roosevelt famous quote
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing is best after all. - Benjamin Spock fanus quote
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic. - John Ruskin quote
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. - William Hazlitt Motivational quote
There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. - Elisabeth Guizot quote
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. - Margaret Thatcher famous quote
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - success quote
I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done. - Mike Ditka fanus quote
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life. - Abraham H. Maslow Motivational quote
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. - James Buckham quote
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Charles Du Bos quote
The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way." -Rear Admiral Grace Hopper famous quote
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 fanus quote
"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. - Arthur James Balfour quote
I know a lot of people without brains who do an awful lot of talking. - The Scarecrow, Wizard of Oz - success quote
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. -Thomas H. Huxley quote
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. - Wayne Dyer fanus quote
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. - Barbara Sher quote
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. - Lao-Tzu famous quote
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart this you will build your life by, and this you will become. - James Lane Allen Motivational quote
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. - Kahlil Gibran fanus quote
So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race. - Ernest L. Woodward quote
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. - Greg Anderson - success quote
I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views. - Abraham Lincoln quote
Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us. - James Harvey Robinson fanus quote
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. - M ary Kay Ash famous quote
Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think. - Dale Carnegie quote
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. -Dr. Denis Waitley quote
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.- Glenn Clark quote
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco quote
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson - success quote
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. - Louisa May Alcott famous quote
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. -Wayne Dyer fanus quote
Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure. - Jim Rohn quote
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. - Theodore Roosevelt quote
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. - Andrew Carnegie - success quote
If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness. - Les Brown fanus quote
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. - Joshua L. Liebman quote
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. - Harriet Beecher Stowe famous quote
He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat. - Robert Estabrook quote
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. - James Allen quote
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it. - William James Motivational quote
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." - Helen Keller famus quote
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. -Dalai Lama famous quote
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. - Elbert Hubbard - success quote
There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. - Wayne Dyer quote
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them. - Napoleon Bonaparte quote
Yearn to understand first and to be understood second. - Beca Allen Motivational quote
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. - Charles Kingsley quote
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. - Sir James M. Barrie - success quote
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame. -Erica Jong famous quote
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin fanus quote
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. - Bertrand Russell Motivational quote
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton quote
>Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - General George S. Patton quote
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. - Thomas Jefferson famous quote
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. - Napoleon Hill - success quote
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. - Anne Frank Motivational quote
It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. - Thomas Robert Gaines quote
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 famous quote
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. - Norman Vincent Peale fanus quote
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. - Mabel Newcomber quote
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein - success quote
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. - Charles Buxton Motivational quote
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. - John Milton famous quote
Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying. - Harry Anderson, "Night Court" quote
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. - Charles Lamb - success quote
Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best. - Harry Emerson Fosdick Motivational quote
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. - Michelangelo - success quote
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. - Ann Landers quote
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams. - Amy Grant famous quote
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. - Tony Dorsett quote
It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - success quote
The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach. - Hillel Motivational quote
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. - Indira Gandhi fanus quote
Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry. - Warren Buffet fanus quote
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon quote
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. - Og Mandino - success quote
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. famous quote
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him. - Honore De Balzac Motivational quote
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. - Diana Rankin fanus quote
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. - Kahlil Gibran quote
In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed. - Clare Booth Luce quote
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. - Ralph Waldo Emerson famous quote
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 quote
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. - Galbraith's Law fanus quote
"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be." - Socrates quote
"Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory." - Les Brown famous quote
Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear. - Mark Twain - success quote
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. - Jim Rohn Motivational quote
Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other - Brian Tracy quote
Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior. - Mark Victor Hansen quote
"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great, make you feel that you too can become great." - Mark Twain fanus quote
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." - Abraham Lincoln quote
"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you." - William Arthur Motivational quote
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. - Norman Vincent Peale famous quote
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular . . . It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre. - Uta Hagen fanus quote
My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all. - Stephen Hawking quote
Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke famous quote
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. - Jim Rohn quote
The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. - Charles Schwab - success quote
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. - Mark Twain Motivational quote
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. - H. L. Mencken quote
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. - Galileo famous quote
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. - Og Mandino - success quote
It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to. - Walter Linn quote
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. - Hubert Humphrey - success quote
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau Motivational quote
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard famous quote
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. - Zig Ziglar Motivational quote
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. - Mary Kay Ash quote
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games. - Paul "Bear" Bryant quote
Every man dies. Not every man lives. - Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption Motivational quote
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today. - Les Brown quote
A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better and wiser. - Emmett Fox - success quote
No one's head aches when he is comforting another - Indian Proverb fanus quote
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of- Benjamin Franklin. famous quote
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. - Yogi Berri Motivational quote
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. - Elbert Hubbard fanus quote
Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there. - Mortimer B. Zuckerman quote
A certain amount of opposition is of great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind. - John Neal Motivational quote
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. - Lady Blessington famous quote
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser quote
>The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote
We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin quote
In business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate. - Chester L. Karrass - success quote
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Alva Edison quote
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for. - John A. Shedd famous quote
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exuperyfamus quote
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. - Charles Buxton Motivational quote
I am always willing to learn, however I do not always like to be taught. - Winston Churchill famous quote
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have. - Harry S Truman - success quote
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. - Mahatma Gandhi quote
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton fanus quote
Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift-- which is why they call it the present. - Bill Keane famous quote
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton - success quote
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. - Winston Churchill BR>You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. - Galileo Motivational quote
Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simply, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... You can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side of failure. - Thomas J. Watson famous quote
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. - Michel de Montaigne - success quote
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. - James Allen quote
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William A. Ward famous quote
Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. - Peter Drucker quote
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn - success quote
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. - James Oppenheim BR>How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver famous quote
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. - Danny Kaye Motivational quote
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt quote
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. – Confucius fanus quote
Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain. - William Jennings Bryan - success quote
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. - Laurence Sterne famous quote
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. - Franklin D. Roosevelt - success quote
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. - George Bernard Shaw quote
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo fanus quote
It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it. - W. Somerset Maugham quote
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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. -Napoleon Hill famous quote
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. -Jim Rohn quote
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention. -Diane Sawyer - success quote
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives. -Braveheart quote
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. -Leo Buscaglia. Motivational quote
[about the past] ...the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it. -Rafikki to Simba in Disney's The Lion King famous quote
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein. quote
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -Helen Keller - success quote
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.- Ralph Waldo Emerson quote
The man who has no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali famous quote
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. - Adam Smith quote
I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry. -Anthony Robbins Motivational quote
The time is always right to do what is right. - Martin Luther King, Jr quote
Nothing happens unless first a dream. -Carl Sandburg famous quote
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So, what the hell, leap. - Cynthia Heimel quote
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. - Laura Ingalls Wilder famus quote
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - John Lubbock quote
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. - Dale Carnegie famous quote
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. -Robert H. Schuller quote
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. -Adlai E. Stevenson quote
Time is the wisest counsellor. -Pericles - success quote
"You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind. -Darwin P. KingsleyMotivational quote
Too much of a good thing is just right - Mae West. quote
"Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy." Jim Rohn quote
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. -Tony Dorsett famous quote
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. -Japanese Proverbfamus quote
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 famus quote
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. - Martin Luther King, Jr. quote
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do." - Helen Keller quote
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. - Langston Hughes - success quote
As a man thinketh, so is he . - Proverbs 23:7 famous quote
"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach." -Tony Robbins Motivational quote
"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'" - Brian Tracy famus quote
"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands." -Robert M. Pirsig famous quote
"When you take charge of your life, there is no longer a need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life." -Geoffrey F. Abert quote
"It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up." -Vince Lombardi - success quote
"Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet." -Roy D. Chapin Jr. quote
"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure." -Edward Eggleston famus quote
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. -Bertie C. Forbes quote
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." -Arthur C. Clarke famous quote
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. -Earl Nightingale Motivational quote
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -Martin Luther King, Jr. - success quote
"Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet." -Roy D. Chapin Jr. quote
"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure." -Edward Eggleston famous quote
"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."-Herodotus quote
"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." - Benjamin Disraeli Motivational quote
"There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learned a very, very small part of what it can do." - Isaac Bashevis Singer quote
"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."- Brian Tracy quote
"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost." -Robert H. Schuller famous quote
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. -Robert Schuller< famous quote
It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles. - Claude M. Bristol - success quote
The longest journey of any person is the journey inward. - Dag Hammerskjvld famus quote
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. - Lao-Tzu quote
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. -Ralph Waldo Emerson - success quote
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch quote
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? -Abraham Lincoln famus quote
Men always want to be a womans first love - women like to be a mans last romance. -Oscar Wilde famous quote
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It's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it that makes the difference. -W. Mitchell Motivational quote
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. - Andrew Carnegie quote
Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees. -Williard Marriott famous quote
All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. -Brian Tracy - success quote
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. - Emily Dickinson Submitted by Stephen Hedrick quote
Looking to the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots representing towns and villages on a map. Why, I ask myself, shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France? - Vincent Van Gogh Submitted by Stephen Hedrick quote
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.- John Dewey famous quote
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. -Indira Gandhi Motivational quote
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - success quote
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) quote
If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know. - Thomas Wolfe famous quote
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results. - Anthony Robbins Motivational quote
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. J. Donald Walters quote
The path to success is to take massive, determined action. - Anthony Robbins famus quote
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.- Tony Dorsett - success quote
At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable. --Christopher Reeve", Submitted by Mark Houck quote
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. --Sir Winston Churchill famous quote
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us tostick it out. - Arthur Koestler quote
You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success. - Zig Ziglar Motivational quote
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. - James Dean quote
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. - Unknown famous quote
Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey quote
The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am, they REVEAL who I am. - Dr. Laura Schlessinger - success quote
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck quote
He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. - Chinese Proverb - success quote
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. -James Oppenheim famous quote
If you can dream it, you can do it. - Walt Disney quote
There is only one success - to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley Motivational quote
To Climb Steep Hills requires slow pace at first. - William Shakespeare quote
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. -John Kenneth Gilbraith. famus quote
-Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. -Chinese Proverb quote
-If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. - Arthur Koestler famous quote
-Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right. -Henry Ford quote
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals. - Jim Rohn quote
Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey quote
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. - Thomas Carlyle Motivational quote
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein - success quote
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney quote
It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow famous quote
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals -. Zig Ziglar quote
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Chinese Proverb famous quote
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. -William M. Thackeray famus quote
"No one can make you feel inferior without your permission" -Eleanor Roosevelt. Submitted by Mark Houck Motivational quote
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. - Thomas Carlyle - success quote
The noblest search is the search for excellence. - Lyndon B. Johnson quote
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. - John Greenleaf Whittier quote
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain Motivational quote
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T. Washington quote
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 famous quote
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Ann Landers - success quote
It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude. Zig Ziglar famus quote
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. Denis Waitley quote
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. - Benjamin Disraeli Motivational quote
Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought. Napolean Hill quote
Just Do It. - Nike - success quote
Adventure is not outside a man. it is within. - David Grayson quote
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. - Chinese proverb famous quote
Age is amatter of feeling...not of years. - George William Curtis quote
Hitch your wagon to a star. - Ralph Waldo Emerson - success quote
A good laugh is sunshine in the house. William makepeace Thackeray quote
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. - Mahatma Gandhi Motivational quote
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has everything. - Arabian Proverb famus quote
Light is the task where many share the toil. - Homer quote
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. - Gilbert K. Chesterton - success quote
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. - Humboldt quote
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow famous quote
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. - Publilius Syrus quote
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine with only interests. - John Stuart Mill Motivational quote
You must look into people, as well as at them. - Lord Chesterfield quote
Charity sees the need, not the cause. - German Proverb - success quote
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison famous quote
He's no failure. He's not dead yet. - William Lloyd George quote
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. -Benjamin Franklin quote
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. - Christopher Morley quote
Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen. famus quote
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. - Mark Twain famous quote
Most games are lost, not won. - Casey Stengel - success quote
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. - Harry Truman, American President (b. 1884) Motivational quote
Many hands make the Light work. - Leroy W. Jones - success quote
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. - Vincent T. Lombardi quote
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. - Napoleon Hill famous quote
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. - Aldous Huxley Motivational quote
The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson famous quote
Vision is the art of seeing the invisible. - Jonathan Swift- success quote
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? - Abraham Lincoln famus quote
He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever. - Tom Connelly quote
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well to think. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Motivational quote
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- success quote
It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it. - W. Somerset Maugham quote
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My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all. - Stephen Hawking quote
Failure is not the worst thing in the world, The very worst is not to try.- Anonymous famous quote
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. - Dale Carnegie quote
Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. - Henry Ford Motivational quote
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. -Helen Keller quote
Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought. Motivational quote
Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit. - success quote
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. famous quote
The best way to have what you want, is to want what you have. Motivational quote
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got quote
It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude. Motivational quote
Of all our human resources, the most precious is the desire to improve quote
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today, and the realities of tomorrow. - success quote
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor souls, who neither enjoy much or suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. famous quote
Insults
Nancy Astor (to Winston Churchill): If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee! Churchill: And if I were your husband I would drink it.
Bessie Braddock (to Winston Churchill): Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.
Last week I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement. (Mark Twain)
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. (Groucho Marx)
Lawyers
It's not the people who are in prison worry me. It's the people who aren't. (Arthur Gore)
Love, Sex, Men vs Women
It's not the men in my life that counts - it's the life in my men. (Mae West)
Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me. (Mae West)
It's better to be looked over than overlooked. (Mae West)
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. (Mae West)
It's been so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up whom. (Joan Rivers)
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds. (Joan Rivers)
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired. (Mae West)
My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects. (Les Dawson)
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never. (Jack Benny)
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. (Rudyard Kipling)
A man is only as old as the woman he feels. (Groucho Marx)
I chased a woman for almost two years only to discover her tastes were exactly like mine - we were both crazy about girls. (Groucho Marx)
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. (Bill Vaughan)
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. (Charlotte Whitton)