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Compiled by:
Ha Tran (haforhope)
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The top 1001 Inspiration QuotesAnd Then Some… on Tweetland
- Compiled by Ha Tran (haforhope)
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Introduction:I was born into a “fortune cookie” house: Inspirational quotes and Confucius’ sayings were postedeverywhere. My father believes in conducting yourself with truthfulness, integrity, kindness,generosity and doing your best in everything you do. He instilled his wisdom in me while I wasgrowing up. It was great to be raised in that kind of environment. It gave me a success-orientedmindset early on.
As important as food and drink are to my body, quotes feed my eyes, ears and mind.
Remember: When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make adecision. Don't keep putting off decisions. - Ha Tran
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Acknowledgements
My father is still alive and living in Vietnam at the age of 98. I owe him a profound debt of gratitude
for giving me the gift of life and the lessons to sustain me and conquer obstacles. He gave me the
chance to discover the one moment in time when I would find the true meaning of living life with a
promise in my heart. Without his deep, endless love and support I would not be here.
Thank you to my friends in Tweetland. You know who you are. Your friendship, your kind and warm
comments mean so much. Thank you for sharing your quotes and nuggets of wisdom.
Thank you to my friend, Tracy Keller. You were instrumental in helping me get this project
completed. The proofreading and fact-checking you did for the book are greatly appreciated.
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DedicationI want to express my profound gratitude to my dad, for he is love personified. My journey has been a
long, tough and often rough road. Dad, you are the brightest star shining in the galaxy, taking me
upward as I follow you. You are my compass in life! Your wisdom enlightens and inspires me. I have
found that your thoughts and dreams inspire and enrich all the people’s lives you touch. I am honored
to be your daughter.
Mr. Nguyen Van Tho – 98 years old
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1001 Inspirational Quotes (And Then Some)
1. The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind.
Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small
amount of heat. - Napoleon Hill
2. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be
better than yourself. - William Faulkner
3. Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and
confidence. - Hans Christian Andersen
4. Experience teaches only the teachable. - Aldous Huxley
5. The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. - Jonas Salk
6. It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will
very often get it. - W. Somerset Maugham
7. Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. - Earl Nightingale
8. If I advance, follow me. If I stop, push me. If I fall, inspire me. - Robert Cushing
9. The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart. -
Annie Dillard
10. Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on a dry river. - Author unknown
11. Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom
happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. - Benjamin Franklin
12. Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
13. Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for
benevolence, confidence, justice. - Baruch Spinoza
14. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply
gives you courage. - Lao Tzu
15. The key question isn't, 'What fosters creativity?' But it is, 'Why isn't everyone
creative?' - Abraham Maslow
16. A goal properly set is halfway reached. - Zig Ziglar
17. To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest
form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy. - Sun Tzu
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18. The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures
most. - Dale Carnegie
19. For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips
you kissed, but my soul. - Judy Garland
20. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a vision. - Author unknown
21. A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere usually
gets there. - Dale Carnegie
22. When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them
an estate of incalculable value. - Thomas Edison
23. I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to
someone. - Javan
24. Ideas have to be wedded to action. - Henry Miller
25. The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions. - Oliver
Wendell Holmes
26. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous
decision. - Peter Drucker
27. Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel
comfortable around you. - Les Brown
28. Make reason thy guide. - Solon
29. Give light and the people will find their own way. - Carl McGee
30. Any use of a human being, in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed
to him than his full status, is a degradation and a waste. - Norbert Wiener
31. A picture is worth a thousand words. - Author unknown
32. The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. - Vince Lombardi
33. Delay always breeds danger. - Miguel Cervantes
34. Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. - Dale
Carnegie
35. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. - General George Patton
36. Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer. - Marcia Wieder
37. Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire
38. A dream is always a bargain, no matter what you pay for it. - Harvey Mackay
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39. The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to
get along with people. - Roosevelt Amen
40. Laughter is the closest distance between two people. - Victor Borge
41. The days you work are the best days. - Georgia O'Keefe
42. The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job. - Zig
Ziglar
43. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -
Aristotle
44. A day without laughter is a day wasted. - Charlie Chaplin
45. This very day can be the first day of your new life. It’s all your choice. - Robin
Sharma
46. Who lies for you will lie against you. - Bosnian proverb
47. Be the change you want to see in the world. - Mohandas Gandhi
48. Today is a new life. Shut the doors on the past and the future. Live in day- tight
compartments. - Dale Carnegie
49. As a negotiator, be a good listener: The more you listen, the more you learn. The
less you talk, the less likely you are to damage your position. - Author unknown
50. Try honestly to make the other person feel important, and do it sincerely. - Dale
Carnegie
51. Things I don’t understand don’t destroy my faith in the things I do understand. -
Richard L. Evans
52. The energy of the mind is the essence of life. - Aristotle
53. You must remain focused on your journey to greatness. - Les Brown
54. Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. - John Wooden
55. It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so
that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass. -
Robert Collier
56. You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing. - Dale Carnegie
57. A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. -
Albert Schweitzer
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58. Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to
fulfill. - Aristotle
59. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. - Adlai E.
Stevenson Jr.
60. As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. - Buddy
Hackett
61. A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. - Albert Camus
62. If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. - Albert
Einstein
63. An amateur trains until he gets it right... A professional trains until he can't get it
wrong. – Author unknown
64. If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror. - John
Young
65. People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. -
John C. Maxwell
66. The longer I live, the more certain I am that enthusiasm is the little recognized
key to success. - Frederick Williamson
67. Stays committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. - Anthony
Robbins
68. Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view. - Dale Carnegie
69. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has
made all the difference. - Robert Frost
70. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your
character is what you really are; your reputation is merely what others think you
are. - John Wooden
71. In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat
is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. - Robert Collier
72. Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to
possess it. - Friedrich Nietzsche
73. Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week. - Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
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74. Balance is the enemy of art. - Richard Eyre
75. All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt
Disney
76. Do all things with love. - Og Mandino
77. It's always too soon to quit. - David T. Scoates
78. We flatter those we scarcely know/We please the fleeting guest/And deal full
many a thoughtless blow/To those who love us best. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
79. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
- W.A. Ward
80. The secret of success in life is to be ready for your opportunity when it comes. -
Earl of Beaconsfield
81. I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and
grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they
whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue
their principles unto death. - Leonardo da Vinci
82. All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit
of experience. - Henry Miller
83. The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. - Jean- Baptist Molière
84. Life... it tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. -
Richard de Vos
85. The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things
we fear. - Brian Tracy
86. It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an
opportunity and not be prepared. - Whitney Young Jr.
87. The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light
would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions. - Alan Cohen
88. The search for truth is more precious than its possession. - Albert Einstein
89. Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
90. My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. -
Tom Stoppard
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91. Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in
harmony with himself and his environment. - Oscar Wilde
92. You can't wrap love in a box, but you can wrap a person in a hug. - Author
unknown
93. My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and
why it exists as all. - Stephen Hawking
94. An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. -
Bill Bernbach
95. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others
have thrown at him. - David Brinkley
96. The future is not a gift - it is an achievement. - Harry Lauder
97. God doesn't require us to succeed, he just requires us to try. - Mother Teresa
98. Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well to
think. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
99. We don’t need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we
need is to use what we have. - Basil S. Walsh
100. It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my
intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it.
It’s my partner. - Jonas Salk
101. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill
102. Praise and attention may easily have a profound effect on an individual's entire
life. - Dale Carnegie
103. Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. -
John Dewey
104. Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies
clearly at hand. - Thomas Carlyle
105. 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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106. Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. -
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
107. I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order,
and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a
time. - Charles Dickens
108. If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile
driver. Hit the point once. Then comeback and hit it again. Then hit it again- a
tremendous whack! - Winston Churchill
109. Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of
consistently applying the basic fundamentals. - Jim Rohn
110. Ultimately truth is good, but you have to live it from the inside out. - Alan Cohen
111. A lot of people quit looking for work once they find a job. - Jim Rohn
112. If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask
yourself why and try to learn from the experience. - Dale Carnegie
113. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always
will solve the problems of the human race. - Calvin Coolidge
114. It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot
115. A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. -
Donna Roberts
116. The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come
in. - Morrie Schwartz
117. We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is
accurate or not. - Anthony Robbins
118. Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes. - J. M. Barrie
119. Loyalty is the one thing a leader cannot do without. - A.P. Gouthey
120. Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it
permanent. - Marilyn vos Savant
121. If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound
ourselves. - Thomas Edison
122. Nothing is more important than that I feel good. - Abraham-Hicks’ Teachings
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123. Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein
124. Feel the fear and do it anyway. - Susan Jeffers
125. Strike while the iron is hot. - proverb
126. Success is that old ABC- ability, breaks and courage. - Charles Luckman
127. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Author unknown
128. Every dog has his day. - proverb
129. Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. -
Winston Churchill
130. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners
who make our souls blossom. - Marcel Proust
131. Many times your most important lessons come from your mistakes...not your
successes. - Jeffrey Katzenberg
132. There is only one success - to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher
Morley
133. The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau
134. For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. - Author
unknown
135. We must always reach for the best within us. What do you suppose is the best
within us? - Ayn Rand
136. You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to
bed with satisfaction. - George Lorimer
137. The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what
they are. - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
138. Hope is the dream of a waking man. - Aristotle
139. When your self worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it. - Mark Victor
Hansen
140. Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. - J.
Thurber
141. What we think, we become. - Buddha
142. Understand your purpose in life by feeling your heart's desires. - Marcia Wieder
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143. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. - Confucius
144. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. - Jim
Rohn
145. Wherever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius
146. Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do. It's
a decision about who you are. - Neale Donald Walsch
147. The salesperson's job is to persuade people to want what they already need. - E.
St. Elmo Lewis
148. What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self actualization.- Abraham
Maslow
149. A sale isn't a thing, it's a process. It isn't standing still, it's moving. It isn't one
long job; it's a series of smaller jobs. - Author unknown
150. People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do
things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. -
Norman Vincent Peale
151. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into
the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx
152. To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
153. Winners never quit. Quitters never win. - Author unknown
154. Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living
or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness. -
Bo Bennett
155. He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty. - Senator Thomas P. Gore
156. We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the
dark to our success. - Henry David Thoreau
157. Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you,
chances are it will burn very briefly. - Stephen R. Covey
158. The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have. - Leonard Nimoy
159. The noblest search is the search for excellence. - Lyndon B. Johnson
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160. In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in
the morning. - Carl Sandburg
161. The hardest part of giving teenagers advice is finding something they don’t
already know. - Author unknown
162. The past can't see you, but the future is listening. - Destin Figuier
163. Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. -
Native American proverb
164. Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere
effort, and intelligent execution. - Aristotle
165. It always seems impossible until it’s done. - Nelson Mandela
166. A year from now you may wish you had started today. - Karen Lamb
167. A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
- Sir Winston Churchill
168. In valor there is hope. - Tacitus
169. Our intention creates our reality. - Wayne Dyer
170. Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. -
Arnold H. Glasow
171. What’s the use of worrying?/It never was worthwhile, so/Pack up your troubles in
your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile. - George Asaf
172. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies
within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
173. Enthusiasm is that ingredient of vitality mixed with a firm belief in what you are
doing that ensures the success of any project you undertake. - Dale Carnegie
174. Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it
won't taste good. - Joe Paterno
175. Most beginnings are small, and appear trivial and insignificant, but in reality they
are the most important things in life. - James Allen
176. I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. - Michelangelo
177. It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on
experience. - Jonas Salk
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178. We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
179. Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride at a gallop. - Robert Burton
180. 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. - Booker T. Washington
181. You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge. - Damon
Runyon
182. Hate the sin and love the sinner. - Gandhi
183. People who produce good results feel good about themselves - Ken Blanchard
184. A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn. - Peter Thomson
185. In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted
by some idiot doing it. - Elbert Hubbard
186. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. - Arthur Golden
187. Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. - Winston
Churchill
188. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness. - Allen Ginsberg
189. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without
hope and confidence. - Helen Keller
190. You are what you think about all day long. - Robert H. Schuller
191. Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours. - Dr. Robert
Anthony
192. People who produce good results feel good about themselves. - Ken Blanchard
193. Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden
194. The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter
Bagehot
195. We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by
what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
196. Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope, & the one unchangeable certainty is
that nothing is certain or unchangeable. - John F. Kennedy
197. Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life. -
Dr. Karl Menninger
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198. Once you choose hope, anything's possible. - Christopher Reeve
199. Everything depends on what the people are capable of wanting. - Enrico
Malatesta
200. Giving up is the ultimate tragedy. - Robert J. Donavan
201. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Winston
Churchill
202. Action is the foundational key to all success. - Pablo Picasso
203. High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. -
Charles Kettering
204. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them
quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. - Steve Jobs
205. If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
206. The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time. - Abraham
Lincoln
207. Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an
expert in anything. - W. Clement Stone
208. Education: A debt due from present to future generations. - George Peabody
209. When I feel good about me, things start happening for myself. When you look up,
you go up. - Herschel Walker
210. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and
learning from failure. - Colin Powell
211. All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will
without doubt be brief. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
212. Ambition can creep as well as soar. - Edmund Burke
213. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. -
Beverly Sills
214. There is no substitute for hard work. - Thomas Edison
215. One may walk over the highest mountain- one step at a time. - John Wanamaker
216. The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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217. Self confidence carries conviction, it makes other people believe in us. - O.S.
Marsden
218. You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have
really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. - H.
Drummond
219. People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. - Indira Gandhi
220. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower
others. - Bill Gates
221. No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized. -
James Cash Penney
222. The degree to which a man thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise. - Ayn
Rand
223. There is nothing so pathetic as a forgetful liar. - F.M. Knowles
224. Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s level of aspiration
and expectation. - Jack Nicklaus
225. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. - George S. Patton
226. Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have
preferred to talk. - Doug Larson
227. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt
228. We either make ourselves miserable or make ourselves strong. The amount of
work is the same. - Carlos Casteneda
229. We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for
our future. - George Bernard Shaw
230. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates
231. To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound
mind and a sound body. - Francis Bowen
232. Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. - Friedrich
Nietzsche
233. Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you
design for the present. - Jim Rohn
234. Self- trust is the first secret of success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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235. Think before you act and act on what you believe. - Bo Bennett
236. Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to
fulfill. - Aristotle
237. Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose. - Leo Buscaglia
238. Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. -
Bo Bennett
239. Innovation is the specific instrument to entrepreneurship. The act that endows
resources with a new capacity to create wealth. - Peter Drucker
240. The best substitute for experience is being sixteen. - Raymond Duncan
241. You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training,
grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset. - Tom Hopkins
242. One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it
comes. - Benjamin Disraeli
243. Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it
will come naturally. - David Frost
244. A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. - Pat Riley
245. No matter what you must live your life until you take your last breath. - Nguyen
van Tho
246. Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is. - Vince Lombardi.
247. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. - Henry Ford
248. You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win,
and expect to win. - Zig Ziglar
249. There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. - Henry Kissinger
250. Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other
right now that we love each other. - Leo Buscaglia
251. If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a
doer makes mistakes. - John Wooden
252. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. - Florence
Nightingale
253. Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important
sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie
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254. When life hands you lemons, don't just make lemonade. Open up a lemonade
stand. - Author unknown
255. Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope. - Author unknown
256. Self confidence carries conviction, it makes other people believe in us. - O.S.
Marsden
257. Life is truly a boomerang. What you give, you get back. - Dale Carnegie
258. You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work
by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. - Anatole France
259. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. - Jim
Rohn
260. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. -
Robert Louis Stevenson
261. Creating success is tough but keeping it is tougher. - Pete Roseg
262. The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. - Victor Hugo
263. It’s nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. - Author unknown
264. Chance favors those in motion. - James H. Austin
265. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -
Henry David Thoreau
266. You can have anything you want in life if you just help enough other people get
what they want. - Zig Ziglar
267. We learn to walk by stumbling. - Bulgarian proverb
268. The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek
opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
- Brian Tracy
269. Find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and
you'll achieve the same results. - Anthony Robbins
270. Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting
golden delicious. - Bill Meyer
271. Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push. - Joann
Thomas
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272. All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis,
what they need to know. - Alexis Carrel
273. Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. - Baltasar Gracian
274. Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any realized joy could be. -
Friedrich Nietzsche
275. When the world says, ‘Give up;’ Hope whispers, ‘Try it one more time.’ – Author
unknown
276. Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live - Author unknown
277. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to
risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk
nothing. - Author unknown
278. Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will. - A.W. Tozer
279. Stress is not a function of one's environment. - Lee Thayer
280. A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. - Baltasar Gracian
281. Fix the problem, not the blame. - Catherine Pulsifer
282. Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less,
say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours - Swedish proverb
283. To think well of every other man's condition, and to dislike our own, is one of the
misfortunes of human nature. - Robert Burton
284. Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposes, the
softest cushions to lean on in adversity. - Robert Burton
285. The character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to
environmental signals that propel life. – Author unknown
286. A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his
share of the credit. - Arnold H. Glasgow
287. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. - Albert Einstein
288. The future depends on what we do in the present. - Gandhi
289. Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are
doing the impossible. - St. Francis of Assisi
290. When you can do a common thing in an uncommon way, you will command the
attention of the world. - George Washington Carver
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291. It doesn't matter whether I'm talking to two people, ten people, or thousands of
people, I think as if I'm talking to just one person. - Carly Fiorina
292. Integrity is what you do when no one's looking. It's also what you do when
someone's pushing. - Mark Sanborn
293. What we have done for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the
world remains and is immortal. - Albert Pine
294. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. - John
Wooden
295. Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, ‘I am with you, kid. Let’s go.' - Maya
Angelou
296. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill
297. Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely. -
Author unknown
298. Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and
opportunity meet. - Roy D. Chapin Jr.
299. Each of my days are miracles. I won't waste my day; I won't throw away a
miracle. - Kelley Vicstrom
300. There is nothing entirely within our power but our own thoughts. - Rene
Descartes
301. Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you
with their results. - George S. Patton
302. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter
Drucker
303. Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that
most frequently makes for success. - Dale Carnegie
304. You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say
'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw
305. It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. - Henry David Thoreau
306. He who would travel happily must travel light. - Author unknown
307. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. - David Starr Jordan
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308. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. - Jim Rohn
309. Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. - Henry Ward
Beecher
310. The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
- John Maxwell
311. The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. - Jean- Baptist Molière
312. Do what you can — with what you have — where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt
313. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -
T.S. Eliot
314. Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due. - W.R. Inge
315. Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation. - Robert
H. Schuller
316. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman
powers to achieve. - Napoleon Hill
317. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow
where your thoughts take you. - James Allen
318. No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can
ever develop in a lifetime. - James T. McKay
319. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity
is dangerous and dreadful. - Samuel Johnson
320. Overtrying leads to underperforming. Rushing around kills quality,
communication, and innovation. - Robert J. Kriegel
321. Patience will be the key piece of wisdom which always keeps you peaceful and in
balance with yourself. - Jonathan Budd
322. When you are through changing, you are through. - Bruce Barton
323. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. - Robert Collier
324. There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at
all. - Peter Drucker
325. What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. -
Abraham Maslow
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326. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for
existing. - Albert Einstein
327. Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. - Wayne
Dyer
328. Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. - Napoleon
Hill.
329. Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Will
Rogers.
330. Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself. - Bo Bennett
331. Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel
comfortable around you. - Les Brown
332. An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. -
Bill Bernbach
333. If you can’t imitate him, don’t copy him. - Yogi Berra
334. The longer I live, the more certain I am that enthusiasm is the little recognized
key to success. - Frederick Williamson
335. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates
others. - Nelson Mandela
336. My job is to talk; your job is to listen. If you finish first, please let me know. -
Harry Herschfield
337. You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge. - Damon
Runyon
338. A miserable life begins with a miserable outlook. - Rowdy McLean
339. The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent. - Alfred Brendel
340. Tough times never last, but tough people do. - Robert H. Schuller
341. Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin
342. Nothing is more powerful than a person who knows his destiny and has chosen
now as the time to pursue it. - Jim Stovall
343. Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of
human existence - Aristotle
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344. The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth,
constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply
to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. - Aleister
Crowley
345. A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is
not the mountain far more awe inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing
through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? - Kahlil Gibran
346. Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is
over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. - Wayne Dyer
347. I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me
so much. - Mother Teresa
348. The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for
somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come
from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your
career! - Earl Nightingale
349. By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his
chosen goal or destination. - Christopher Columbus
350. Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the
vault of doubt. - William Arthur Ward
351. Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. - Lao Tzu
352. For the one who is moderate in eating, recreation, working, sleeping, and waking,
this yoga [of meditation] destroys [all] sorrow. - Bhagavad Gita
353. Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix
354. Help is always on the way, 100% of the time. - Anne Lamott
355. Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. - Buddha
356. One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and
to long life. - Alexander Bogomoletz
357. Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They’re
companions- the hero and the sidekick. - Laurence Shames
358. Ego is our silent partner- - too often with a controlling interest. - Cullen
Hightower
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359. What the eye is to the body, the intention is to the soul. - John Wesley
360. A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can't. - Author unknown
361. Everything is okay in the end, if it's not ok, then it's not the end. - Author
unknown
362. Always be a first- rate version of yourself, instead of a second- rate version of
somebody else. - Judy Garland
363. Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait. - Thomas Edison
364. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing.
It was here first. - Mark Twain
365. Luck is the intersection of effort and opportunity. – Author unknown
366. Dream as if you'll live forever... live as if you'll die today. - James Dean
367. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not
dare that they are difficult. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
368. People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. -
Eric Hoffer
369. It is luxury to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
370. The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. - George Bernard Shaw
371. There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. - Alexander
Woollcott
372. And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to
play with your hair. - Kahlil Gibran
373. Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson
374. Every time I find myself complaining about the way things are, I remind myself
that...we find only the world we look for. - W. Mitchell
375. Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. -
Robert G. Ingersoll
376. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee
Runbeck
377. It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. -
Desiderius Erasmus
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378. Know thyself is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say,
Know Others. - Menander
379. My country is the world. My country men are all mankind. - William Lloyd
Garrison
380. Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people
walk on it, the road comes into existence. - Lin Yutang
381. When people are serving, life is no longer meaning less. - John Gardner
382. Wise men learn by other men’s mistakes, fools by their own. - H.G. Bohn
383. The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the
reason for blighted dreams. - Elizabeth Gilbert
384. There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. - Zig Ziglar
385. The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial. - Tom Smothers
386. Every great leap forward in you‘re life comes after you have made a clear
decision of some kind. - Brian Tracy
387. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit
down and listen. - Winston Churchill
388. Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
- Abraham Lincoln
389. Justice delayed is justice denied. - William Ewart Gladstone
390. Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature! - Cristina Yang, character
on Grey’s Anatomy.
391. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Sir Francis Bacon
392. Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of
dignity. - Samuel Ullman
393. The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter Drucker
394. It is one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his
history. - Henry Ford
395. Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to
achievement. - Author unknown
396. It may be those who do most, dream most. - Stephen Leacock
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397. I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it
takes place every day. - Albert Camus
398. The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with
an upward look. This is an exciting world. It's cram- packed with opportunity.
Great moments wait around every corner. - Richard de Vos
399. As you climb the ladder of success, check occasionally to make sure it is leaning
against the right wall. - Author unknown
400. It is not necessary to get away from human nature but to alter its inner attitude of
mind and heart. - J.F. Newton
401. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left,
are in the gutters. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
402. Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure. - Dell
Crossword Puzzle
403. There is nothing permanent except change. - Heraclitus
404. Never make someone a priority if they only see you as an option. - Author
unknown
405. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it
comes. - Benjamin Disraeli
406. Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn. - Earl Nightingale
407. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. - Nelson Mandela
408. Load up your mind with pictures capturing your preferred tomorrow. Put the
remembrances of the past in a place where they won't block your view. - Gary
Carter
409. He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices
for those which he has. - Epictetus
410. The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped
you. - John E. Southard
411. How you do anything is how you do everything. - T. Harv Eker
412. Every master was once a disaster. - T. Harv Eker
413. Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people. -
Brian Tracy
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414. LUCK stands for Labor Under Correct Knowledge so the harder and smarter you
work the luckier you get! - Author unknown
415. Do your best, be honest, and keep your promises. - Nguyen Van Tho
416. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power,
and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
417. We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope. -
Mother Teresa
418. Desire + Expectation = Hope = A new take on life. - Ha Tran
419. Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance
in the rain. - Author unknown
420. It is always too soon to quit! - Norman Vincent Peale
421. A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. -
John Maxwell
422. Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. -
Walt Whitman
423. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of
ourselves. - Carl Jung
424. Want to make your yoga session more enjoyable and more beneficial? Then relax
as you practice.Whether you do yoga for exercise, to relieve stress, or both, you'll
get more out of it if you relax. Don't stress about how stiff you are; don't strain to
get into a pose. Just do your best and enjoy it. - Author unknown
425. The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not
worth living without it. - Harvey Milk
426. It has never been, and never will be, easy work! But the road that is built in hope
is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they
both lead to the same destination. - Marion Zimmer Bradley
427. Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to
achievement. - Author unknown
428. Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery. - Bertrand Russell
429. If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. - Gen. George S.
Patton
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430. Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope, and the one unchangeable certainty
is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. - John F. Kennedy
431. Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life. -
Dr. Karl Menninger
432. Believe in your dreams and they may come true; believe in yourself and they will
come true. - Author unknown
433. Good instincts tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. -
Michael Burke
434. Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation. -
Lois Wyse
435. Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future. - Emil Brunner
436. You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself
into one. - Henry D. Thoreau
437. Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so powerful as hope. With
hope, one can think, one can work, one can dream. If you have hope, you have
everything. - Author unknown
438. Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future. - Emil Brunner
439. I always entertain great hopes. - Robert Frost
440. Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right
story to others. - Seth Godin
441. Hope is one of those things in life you cannot do without. - Leroy Douglas
442. We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. - John F.
Kennedy
443. We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope. -
Mother Teresa
444. Without hope men are only half alive.With hope they dream and think and work.
- Charles Sawyer
445. Learn a new language and get a new soul. - Czech proverb
446. Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. - Bill Gates
447. If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. -
George Bernard Shaw
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448. Liberty means responsibly.That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard
Shaw
449. Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. - John
Lindsay
450. Order is the first requisite of liberty. - George Wilhelm Hegel
451. There is no failure except in no longer trying. - Elbert Hubbard
452. The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing
a thing exactly right. - Edward Simmons
453. The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. - Oscar
Wilde
454. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the
pessimist fears this is true. - James Branch Cabell
455. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took and excuse. - Florence
Nightingale
456. The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to
embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains. - Napoleon
Bonaparte
457. If you want one year of prosperity, grow seeds. If you want ten years of
prosperity, grow trees. If you want a lifetime of prosperity, grow your self-worth.
- Chinese proverb
458. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up. - Thomas A. Edison
459. Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. -
Samuel Johnson
460. Logic- an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice. - Elbert Hubbard
461. Love doesn’t make the world go’ round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones
462. Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be
changed. - Abraham Lincoln
463. One reason a dog is such a lovable creature is his tail wags instead of his tongue. -
Author unknown
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464. It is not necessary to get away from human nature but to alter its inner attitude of
mind and heart. - J.F. Newton
465. Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life. - Ayn
Rand
466. True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. - Paul Sweeney
467. There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. - Mark Twain
468. Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. - Zig Ziglar
469. A correspondence course of passion was, for her, the perfect and ideal
relationship with a man. - Aldous Huxley
470. Passions are vices or virtues in their highest powers. - Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
471. We are tomorrow’s past. - Mary Webb
472. How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere
else. - Buckminster Fuller
473. Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not a sum of what we have been
but what we yearn to be. - José Ortega y Gassset
474. Treat a man as he is; he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be;
and he will become as he can and should be. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
475. There’s difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker. - Charles M.
Schulz
476. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more
secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement. - Edward
Rickenbacker
477. The price of greatness is responsibilities. - Winston Churchill
478. That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work. - Donn
Piatt
479. Dreams are the touchstone of our characters. - Henry David Thoreau
480. Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were. -
Author unknown
481. The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. - Chinese proverb
482. A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. - Woodrow Wilson
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483. Stability is not immobility. - Prince Klemens von Metternich
484. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. -
William Feather
485. No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating
one peanut. - Channing Pollock
486. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to
you. - Aldous Huxley
487. Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you
started. - proverb
488. Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's
back. - Benjamin Franklin
489. We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future. - Chogyam
Trungpa
490. Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching
you. - Robert Fulghum
491. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. - Author unknown
492. Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter. - Author unknown
493. Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. - Cullen Hightower
494. You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor. - Jim Rohn
495. There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t
afford it and when he can. - Mark Twain
496. Most people seem to want tremendous improvement, instantly. But you'll
probably find it's the little things you do that eventually add up to big results. -
Joel Weldon
497. Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, but by going off the
main road; by trying the untried. - Frank Tyger
498. I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a
fingerprint and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then
find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also
allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. - Oprah Winfrey
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499. When you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The
spring will come. - Robert H. Schuller
500. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to
improve the world. - Anne Frank
501. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. - Mark Twain
502. No one can make you feel inferior without your permission. - Eleanor Roosevelt.
503. You create your opportunities by asking for them. - Patty Hansen
504. In order to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. -
Author unknown
505. The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and
not fainting. - Oswald Chambers
506. Vision is the art of seeing the invisible. - Jonathan Swift
507. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can
labor in freedom. - Albert Einstein
508. 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
509. To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires
brains. - Mary Pettibone Poole
510. We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut
511. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas
Edison
512. 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. - Honoré de Balzac
513. Money doesn’t buy happiness but I understand the despair is excellent. - Phillip
Harris
514. If you can't convince them, confuse them. - Harry S Truman
515. Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what
you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. - Epicurus
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516. Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle
seashore of the mind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
517. What the world asks of you is courage. Courage to risk rejection, ridicule and
failure. - Robert McKee
518. Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If
something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never
fixes anything. - Mary (Mrs. Ernest) Hemingway
519. If you focus on the possible when you experience difficult situations, you can
positively change your outlook, reduce your stress, and concentrate on achieving
things that otherwise may not have been possible. - Catherine Pulsifer
520. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. -
Muhammad Ali
521. Logic will get you from A to B, imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert
Einstein
522. Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation. - Peter Drucker
523. Any change, even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks
and discomforts. - Arnold Bennett
524. The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. - Joe Paterno
525. Man can manifest prosperity from the ethers by the power of ideas, vision, and
imagination. - Randy Gage
526. Write on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. - Ralph Waldo
Emerson
527. Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision. -
Stevie Wonder
528. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -
Robert Louis Stevenson
529. The hardest thing in life, is letting go of what you thought was real. - Author
unknown
530. To see things in the seed, that is genius. - Lao Tzu
531. Do it Now! - Napoleon Hill
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532. Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.
- Bertrand Russell
533. The basic reality is that the risks that scare people and the risks that kill people are
very different. - Peter Sandman
534. Because in every day of your life, there are opportunities to perform little
kindnesses for others, both by conscious acts of will and unconscious example-
Dean Koontz
535. It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of
opportunity. - Frederick Phillips
536. Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth, and every other man has a
right to knock him down for it. - Samuel Johnson
537. An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. - Kahlil Gibran
538. To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of
practical life. - Sir William Osier
539. Procrastination is opportunity's assassin. - Victor Kiam
540. You are the root of your financial success or failure. If you work on the roots, the
fruits will take care of themselves. - T.Harv Eker
541. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. - Ayn Rand
542. To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and
thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we
can. - Sydney Smith
543. Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage
to action. - Brendan Francis
544. Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. - Indira
Gandhi
545. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought
together. - Vincent Van Gogh
546. Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads
armed with nothing but their own vision. - Ayn Rand
547. The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the
impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke
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548. I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but on how high he
bounces when he hits the bottom. - George S. Patton
549. The truth of a matter will always haunt you, no matter how secret the hiding
place. - Author unknown
550. Age is like underwear, it just keeps creeping up on you. - Author unknown
551. When you consistently maintain a positive frame of mind, you'll become known
as a problem-solver rather than a complainer. People avoid complainers. They
seek out problem-solvers. - Joseph Sommerville, PhD
552. If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek
the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can have no
security: we will live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by
the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly
isolated by the changes round us. - Nena O'Neil
553. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William
Butler Yeats
554. Is enthusiasm important in selling? Yes, genuine, heartfelt enthusiasm is one of
the most potent factors of success in almost any undertaking. - Dale Carnegie
555. Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the
torch which illuminates the world. - Louis Pasteur
556. A man who is good at making excuses seldom makes anything else. - aphorism
557. We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden. -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
558. For the one who is moderate in eating, recreation, working, sleeping, and waking,
this yoga [of meditation] destroys [all] sorrow. – The Bhagavad Gita
559. We realized our niche as an oasis for calm, meditation and relaxation, so yoga
seemed to be the perfect manifestation of that environment. - Amy Hofland
560. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will
never grow. - Ronald E. Osborn
561. Yesterday is a cancelled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is the only
cash you have, so spend it wisely. - Kim Lyons
562. Everyone is gifted but some people never open their package. - Author unknown
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563. Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not remain so if you only
perceive an ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still
without. - James Allen
564. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. - Martin
Luther King, Jr.
565. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks
like work. - Thomas Edison
566. Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the
person nearest you. - Mother Teresa
567. Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and
stick to it. - George Eliot
568. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -
Harry S. Truman
569. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning
as fear. - Edmund Burke
570. Nothing happens quite by chance. It’s a question of accretion of information and
experience. - Jonas Salk
571. Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. - H.
L. Mencken
572. A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn. - Peter Thomson
573. Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. - Buddha
574. The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation...The hand is the
cutting edge of the mind. - Jacob Bronowski
575. The greatest good of a minority of our generation may be the greatest good of the
greatest number in the long run. - Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.
576. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them
feel. - Carl W. Buechner
577. The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is. -
Desiderius
578. It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to
the top. - Virginia Woolf
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579. A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. - Albert Camus
580. The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. - Samuel
Smiles
581. Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine. - Mario Fernandez
582. Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. - E. Joseph
Cossman
583. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill
584. Living in solitude, eating lightly, controlling the thought, word, and deed; ever
absorbed in yoga of meditation, and taking refuge in detachment. – The
Bhagavad Gita
585. College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial
nightmare for families. - Barbara Mikulski
586. The finest eloquence is that which gets things done. - David Lloyd George
587. One hour's meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of
prayer. - Muhammad
588. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make
dreams into reality. - Jonas Salk
589. The degree to which a man thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise. - Ayn
Rand
590. If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything
very innovative. - Woody Allen
591. It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. - Edmund Hillary
592. If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a
prophet. - Isaac B. Singer
593. If you look for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go to be a
friend, you'll find them everywhere. - Zig Ziglar
594. People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. - Earl
Nightingale
595. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make
dreams into reality. - Jonas Salk
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596. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust
upon them. - William Shakespeare
597. You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The
secret of your success is found in your daily routine. - John Max
598. We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David
Thoreau
599. Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life,
I find. - John F. Kennedy
600. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa
601. Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and
good health have vanished. - Og Mandino
602. Kindness is the important ingredient that balances out the whole picture and helps
us connect with unconditional joy. - Pema Chodron
603. Love is what we were borne with. Fear is what we learned here. - Marianne
Williamson
604. A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into
nothingness. - John Keats
605. Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare
to do our duty as we understand it. - Abraham Lincoln
606. Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. – The Bhagavad Gita
607. It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. - John
F. Kennedy
608. Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we
call theories. - Felix Cohen
609. Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it’s in my
basement…let me go upstairs and check. - M.C. Escher
610. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in
harmony. - Mohandas Gandhi
611. Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others
before your own rights. - John Wooden
612. Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. - Henry David Thoreau
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613. An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. - Mohandas Gandhi
614. The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to
excellence. - Vincent Lombardi
615. I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites. - Leon Kass
616. A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as
you walk the tightrope of life. - William A. Ward
617. Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly
understanding. - Agnes Repplier
618. Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. - Frank
Moore Colby
619. The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing
makes it happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright
620. Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? - Abraham
Lincoln
621. In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher. - The Dalai Lama
622. Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s level of aspiration
and expectation. - Jack Nicklaus
623. Some folks succeed because they’re destined to, but most succeed because they’re
determined to. - Roy Reiman
624. Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us. - Earl Nightingale
625. Life's not about waiting for the storms to pass... it's about learning to dance in the
rain. - Vivian Greene
626. Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. - The
Dalai Lama
627. Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal. - Author unknown
628. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - William Shakespeare
629. My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. -
Peter Drucker
630. Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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631. The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever areas you work in, you do have clients
and you do need to sell. - Jay Abraham
632. Renewable ethanol represents a clear opportunity to grow a significant portion of
our own fuel locally and begin to break the hold imported fuels have on us. -
Mike May
633. Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in
my tenacity. - Louis Pasteur
634. Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a
new effort necessary. - Walt Whitman
635. High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences
are survived with grace. - Tennessee Williams
636. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for
failure, which is: Try to please everybody. - Herbert Bayard Swope
637. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants
on. - Winston Churchill
638. Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. - Charles de
Gaulle
639. A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has
got to be pursued with apostolic zeal. - Mohandas Gandhi
640. The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures
most. - Dale Carnegie
641. Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. - Jim Rohn
642. Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the
unconscious. - Carl Jung
643. Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the
time. Vision with action can change the world. - Joel A. Barker
644. Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose. - Bo Bennett
645. An amateur trains until he gets it right... A professional trains until he can't get it
wrong. - Author unknown
646. A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn. - Peter Thomson
647. Hope is the dream of a waking man. - Aristotle
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648. People who produce good results feel good about themselves. - Ken Blanchard
649. There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. - Charles Dickens
650. The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose. - J Martin
Kohe
651. What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? - Robert H.
Schuller
652. Action is the foundational key to all success. - Pablo Picasso
653. Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. - J. Paul Getty
654. We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. - Albert
Einstein
655. Say what you mean, mean what you say just don’t say it mean. - Nguyen Van Tho
656. Live life with no regret: let vision guide you and passion lead the way. - Nguyen
Van Tho
657. Do your best, be honest, and keep your promises. - Nguyen Van Tho
658. People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's
why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar
659. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Remember that as you conquer
your big project. Little progresses equal big achievements. - Author unknown
660. There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. - Stephen Covey
661. The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it. -
Mack R. Douglas
662. I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep
going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was
falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of
hard work. - Lee Iacocca
663. In order to do what really matters to you, you have to, first of all, know what
really matters to you. - Dr. Edward Hallowel
664. People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. -
John C. Maxwell
665. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. - Eleanor Chaffee
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666. You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him. - Lou
Holtz
667. Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made. - Wayne Dyer
668. The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The
essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. - Baron de Coubertin
669. There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda,
you woulda done it. - Pat Riley
670. Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other
significant change. - Pat Riley
671. He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. - Red
Auerbach
672. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a
trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
673. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you
become. - Jim Rohn
674. You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's
happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone
who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words
you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. - Dale Carnegie
675. Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power.
Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him
which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought
to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored up
reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of
explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human
individual usually lives far within his limits. - William James
676. It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check
up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money can't buy.
- George Horace Lorimer
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677. Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless
vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without
that abrasive friction of conflict. - Saul Alinsky
678. Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself
peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. - Mark Victor
Hansen
679. Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to
know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its
subtleties, and its very atoms. - Kahlil Gibran
680. Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and
above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for
something and that this thing must be attained. - Marie Curie
681. My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that
achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done
the best that is within you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not
as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
- Helen Hayes
682. Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are
precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden
meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own
evolution. - Deepak Chopra
683. There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of
purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. -
Napoleon Hill
684. 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
685. Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in
opposition to some, it joins us with others similarly committed. Commitment
moves us from the mirror trap of the self absorbed with the self to the freedom of
a community of shared values. - Michael Lewis
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686. 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
687. Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have
only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand- and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie Beyon Ray
688. You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you
some answers. - Les Brown
689. All successful people, 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
690. Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon,
come out from behind the clouds! Shine. - Buddha
691. The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
692. The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. -
Oswald Chambers
693. To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of
a thousand in someone else. - The Dalai Lama
694. I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. - Galileo Galilei
695. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. - Albert
Einstein
696. Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself
peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. - Mark Victor
Hansen
697. Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to
know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its
subtleties, and its very atoms. - Kahlil Gibran
698. Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and
above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for
something and that this thing must be attained. - Marie Curie
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699. Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are
precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden
meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own
evolution. - Deepak Chopra
700. There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of
purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. -
Napoleon Hill
701. 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
702. If we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's
not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins
703. All successful people, 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
704. You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit. -
Aristotle
705. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. - Dale
Carnegie
706. Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth. - George W.
Crane
707. The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an
opportunity. - Peter Drucker
708. To build a ship, don't drum up men to gather wood, divide work and give orders.
Teach them to yearn for vast and endless sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
709. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein
710. A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. - W. C. Fields
711. As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies
confounds and saps itself. - Leonardo da Vinci
712. Nothing happens unless first a dream. - Carl Sandburg
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713. At no point can you say, Well I am successful now, I will take a nap. - Carrie
Fischer
714. You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have
something to say. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
715. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to
keep. - Scott Adams
716. Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new
year find you a better man. - Benjamin Franklin
717. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is
not to utter words, but to live by them. - John F. Kennedy
718. Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality. - Alfred
Painter
719. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. - Colin Powell
720. Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in
my tenacity. - Louis Pasteur
721. I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness
because it shows me the stars. - Og Mandino
722. The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every
opportunity. - Winston Churchill
723. Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the
torch which illuminates the world. - Louis Pasteur
724. I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order,
and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a
time. - Charles Dickens
725. So simple, but true...Nothing will work unless you do. - Maya Angelou
726. For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. - Pedro Calderon
de la Barca
727. Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be
the indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
728. People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging
oneself. - Daisaku Ikeda
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729. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -
T.S. Elliot
730. As were liberated from our fear, our presence liberates others. - Nelson Mandela
731. Change your beliefs about the nature of business and life and you will change
how you manage your career. - Carol Orsborn
732. Success is not in what you have, but who you are. - Bo Bennett
733. If you have made mistakes - there is always another chance for you - you may
have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the
falling down, but the staying down. - Mary Pickford
734. No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe
dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. - W. Clement Stone
735. The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there. -
Gene Brown
736. The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli
737. Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest
who goes far enough. - James Russell Lowell
738. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. - Howard Ruff
739. If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it
comes back, love it forever. - Doug Horton
740. There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by
circumstances to meet. - William F. Halsey
741. Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your
next moment. That is what's real. - Sara Paddison
742. Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. - Janis Joplin
743. Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by
mental capacities. - Walter Scott
744. Make your decisions principle-driven so you do what is most important to you at
the time. - David D’Arcangelo
745. All we achieve and all we fail to achieve is the direct result of our own thoughts. -
James Allen
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746. People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. -
George Bernard Shaw
747. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy
habits of thinking. - Albert Einstein
748. The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of
kindness and love. - William Wordsworth
749. Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going. - Kenneth
Blanchard
750. Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you
were. - Cherie Carter-Scott
751. Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful
man. - Robert Duvall
752. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. -
Erica Jong.
753. The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir
754. There are two major pains in life. One is the pain of discipline, the other is the
pain of regret. - Jim Rohn
755. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost
756. Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not look back on what you cannot
change. - Tom Clancy
757. Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would
be useless. - Honoré de Balzac
758. Audacity, more audacity, always audacity. - Georges Jacques Danton
759. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. -
Confucius
760. Through the picture, I see reality. Through the word, I understand it. - Sven
Lidman
761. Distance is a great promoter of admiration! - Denis Diderot
762. Be still, sad heart, and cease repining, Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy
fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must
be dark and dreary. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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763. Logic is logic. That's all I say. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
764. The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know
and then stop. - Mark Twain
765. You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows. - Bob Dylan
766. Life is full of circumstances. It's up to you how you challenge those
circumstances. - M. Mofya
767. To the rationally minded, the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work
backwards. - Frances Wickes
768. You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward
what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than
allowing it to master you. - Brian Tracy
769. Lost time is never found again. - Benjamin Franklin
770. Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you,
chances are it will burn very briefly. - Stephen Covey
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771. There's nothing more valuable than a vision that has found its time. - Victor Hugo
772. Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he. - Publilius Syrus
773. Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens. - Norton
Juster
774. To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success. - Anna Pavlova
775. Character develops itself in the stream of life. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
776. I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. - Aeschylus
777. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein
778. Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. - Charlie
Chaplin
779. It is possible to fail in many ways... while to succeed is possible only in one way.
- Aristotle
780. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and
affection. - Buddha
781. A man of courage is also full of faith. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
782. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur
C. Clarke
783. Coaching sets the pace to get the best out of others while giving the best of
yourself. - David Cottrell
784. Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with
no destination. - Fitzhugh Dodson
785. Life must be lived as play. - Plato
786. A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one. - Guy De Maupassant
787. Bluntness is a virtue. - Allison Ling
788. Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle,
love is a war; love is a growing up. - James Baldwin
789. Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. - A. Sachs
790. Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. - Friedrich
Nietzsche
791. Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of. - Socrates
792. Freedom is never given; it is won. - A. Philip Randolph
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793. I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
794. Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who
cannot be trusted to do big things. - Lawrence D. Bell
795. Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who
dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe .
796. Where there is no love put love, and you will find love. - A. Sachs
797. Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. -
Marcus Tullius Cicero
798. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give
him power. - Abraham Lincoln
799. Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. - Aristotle
800. Without a struggle, there can be no progress. - Frederick Douglass
801. It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. - Lucius
Annaeus Seneca
802. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -
Albert Einstein
803. Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. - Thomas Fuller
804. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the
other is getting it. - Oscar Wilde
805. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
- Langston Hughes
806. Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional
acceptance of life and what it brings. - Arthur Rubinstein
807. The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost
808. To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. - Anatole France
809. It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be. - Anatole France
810. The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be
loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. - André Malraux
811. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat
others. - Ayn Rand
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812. Nine tenths of education is encouragement. - Anatole France
813. Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself
up and carry on. - Winston Churchill
814. When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long
at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us. - Helen
Keller
815. Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. -
John Wooden
816. Every arrow you don't shoot misses the target. - Author unknown
817. Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time. - Arnold H.
Glasow
818. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein
819. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of
importance, it lasts so short a time. - Samuel Johnson
820. Develop and ‘attitude of gratitude.’ Say thank you to everyone you meet for
everything they do for you. - Brian Tracy
821. When you are driven by life, the odds will be with you. - Carol Orsborn
822. And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -
Abraham Lincoln
823. Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life. -
George Bernard Shaw
824. You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you
love her. - Author unknown
825. Harsh words hurt feelings, But silence breaks hearts. - Author unknown
826. A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an
accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. -
Plato
827. Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity
for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get
myself to do whatever is necessary. - Martin Luther King Jr.
828. Life without the courage for death is slavery. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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829. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain
830. Good things happen to those who hustle. - Anaïs Nin
831. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch
of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein
832. Fortune favors the brave. - Virgil
833. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply
gives you courage. - Lao Tzu
834. Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent- free in your
head. - Ann Landers
835. Love is something eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence. - Vincent
van Gogh
836. If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you
from seeing the stars. - Author unknown
837. I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so
beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. -
Vincent van Gogh
838. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely
no good. - Samuel Johnson
839. It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and
remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln
840. In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a
rock. - Thomas Jefferson
841. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor
Roosevelt
842. Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable
courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
843. Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. - Harriet
Beecher Stowe
844. Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. - Khalil Gibran
845. The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. - Albert Einstein
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846. Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always
cool and unruffled under all circumstances. - Thomas Jefferson
847. Sports do not build character. They reveal it. - John Wooden
848. Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think
of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln
849. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
850. Do everything as in the eye of another. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
851. Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to
say something. - Plato
852. Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave
footprints in your heart. - Eleanor Roosevelt
853. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. - Charles
Darwin
854. What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing. - Pablo
Picasso
855. The right to be ridiculous is something I hold dear. - Bono
856. It matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once done well is
done forever. - Thoreau
857. When any progress is made, we learn and unlearn anew what we thought we
knew before. - Thoreau
858. When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix
859. When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake. -
Stephanie Barron
860. The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. - Richard B. Sheridan
861. A positive mind finds a way it can be done. A negative mind looks for all the
ways it can't be done. - Napoleon Hill
862. Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go…it is a
substance. - TD Jakes
863. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. - Mark
Twain
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864. Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is
discipline, carrying it out. - Stephen Covey
865. A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that has found one has found a
treasure. - Ecclesiastes
866. One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching. -
Author unknown
867. Never let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can. - Gloria Mallette
868. Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. - Oscar Wilde
869. Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. - Bo Jackson
870. A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. -
Maya Angelou
871. The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world,
but to change it. - Colin Wilson
872. When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him
his dignity you rob him of his destiny. - Zig Ziglar
873. Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. -
Samuel Johnson
874. Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone
is for it. - William Penn
875. Celebration of your achievement is as important as your achievement because
success builds on success. - John Powers
876. There are only two ways to live your life. One way is as if nothing is a miracle,
the other as if everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein
877. Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. - Rabindranath
Tagore
878. As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others. -
Robert H. Schuller
879. Definition of commitment: Doing the thing you said you were going to do, long
after the mood you said it in has left you. - Darren Hardy
880. Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. - Gordon B. Hinckley
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881. Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its
eternal goal is life. - Smiley Blanton
882. Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you can't get
more time. - Jim Rohn
883. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all
yourself. - Eleanor Roosevelt
884. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are
expected to give which is everything. - Author unknown
885. Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. -
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
886. We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. -
Benjamin Disraeli
887. Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. - Kate Reid
888. The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but
because of the people who don't do anything about it. - Albert Einstein
889. Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are
consequences of our place of birth. - Aaron Hill
890. Where there is great love, there are always wishes. - Willa Cather
891. We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an
accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack
war, we have to attack that way of life. - A. J. Muste
892. Always believe in yourself. Create your own dreams and follow them until they
are reality. - A. Neilen
893. Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how.' - Viktor Frankl
894. There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2:
Everything is small stuff. - Finn Taylor
895. Nothing done with love offends me. - A.A. Attanasio
896. What if I were to tell you that evil is itself a dispensation of good? And that good
has no authority without evil? - A.A. Attanasio
897. You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You
have to go to them sometimes. - A.A. Milne
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898. The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train. - Robert
Lowell
899. The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. - A. C.
Benson
900. If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the
world. - A.E. Housman
901. Whenever you need a helping hand , you will find one at the end of your arm. -
A.E. Housman
902. There is no way to peace, peace is the way. - A. J. Muste
903. Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure
through broad organized aggressive mass action. - A. Philip Randolph
904. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. - Khalil Gibran
905. Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it
won't taste good. - Joe Paterno
906. There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that
which is lost by not trying. - Francis Bacon.
907. There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at
all. - Peter Drucker
908. Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. - Charles Caleb
Colton
909. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step
forward. - Thomas Alva Edison
910. Success is never wondering what if. - Karrie Huffman
911. The best proof of love is trust. - Dr. Joyce Brothers
912. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. - Anthony
Robbins
913. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin
914. Success is not something you chase or run after. Success is something you attract.
- Jim Rohn
915. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. - William
James
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916. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. -
William Feather
917. It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes
you. - Brian Tracy
918. Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved. - Lao
Tzu
919. I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -
Galileo Galilei
920. Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the
great. - Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
921. Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. - Lucius
Annaeus Seneca
922. You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences. -
Constantine Peter Cavafy
923. It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. - Eleanor
Roosevelt
924. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we
fall. - Nelson Mandela
925. The best substitute for experience is being sixteen. - Raymond Duncan
926. Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. - Jonathan Swift
927. Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. - Arnold H. Glasow
928. I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process. - Oprah
Winfrey
929. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
930. Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. - Plutarch
931. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. - Confucius
932. We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when
alone together. - Jean de la Bruyere
933. Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and
for no more. - Gail Hamilton
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934. You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. - Author
unknown
935. It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others
waste time. - Henry Ford
936. Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. - Jim Rohn
937. Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see. - Martin
Luther
938. They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything. -
Bill Keane
939. Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed
through life trying to save. - Will Smith
940. Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well;
whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great
aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest. - Charles Dickens
941. Time is an illusion, lunchtime, doubly so. - Douglas Adams
942. Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can
only find itself in changing forms. - Rabindranath Tagore
943. Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
944. I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority. - Rita Mae Brown
945. I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected
in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau
946. Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Helen
Keller
947. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin
Luther King, Jr.
948. After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is
better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. - Mark Twain
949. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. - Oscar Wilde
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950. A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us.
It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control. - Robert
F. Bennett
951. Always go to other peoples' funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours. - Yogi
Berra
952. Life is just one damned thing after another. - Elbert Hubbard
953. Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. - Arnold
Palmer
954. The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others. - Hasidic
proverb
955. If all you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. -
Mark Twain
956. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow
through. - Rosalynn Carter
957. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than
any one thing. - Abraham Lincoln
958. If A is success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play; and Z
is keeping your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein
959. A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. - Albert von
Szent-Györgyi
960. A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of
getting things done. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
961. Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. -
Cicero
962. The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act
accordingly. - Corra Harris .
963. Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're
scared. - Eddie Rickenbacker .
964. Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. -
Harold Wilson
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965. A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a
courageous person afterward. - Jean Paul Richter
966. The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the
next. - Mignon McLaughlin
967. You must choose the thoughts and actions that will lead you on to success. - R.C.
Allen
968. Getting money is not all a man's business; to cultivate kindness is a valuable part
of the business of life. - Samuel Johnson
969. If you gave me six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four hours
sharpening the axe. - Abraham Lincoln
970. Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by
originality, overcomes everything. - George Lois
971. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. - Joseph Chilton
Pearce
972. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
- Pablo Picasso
973. The most potent muse of all is our own inner child. - Stephen Nachmanovitch
974. The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present
moment is where work and play merge. - Stephen Nachmanovitch
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975. When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a
thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. - Confucius
976. Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. - Edgar Allan Poe
977. God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on
them. - Kahlil Gibran,
978. The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
- Frank Herbert
979. If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve
them. - Isaac Asimov
980. People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. - Lao Tzu
981. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we
can find information on it. - Samuel Johnson
982. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if
there is any reaction, both are transformed. - Carl Jung
983. Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful,
save by trial. - Sophocles, Trachiniae
984. Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept
under control. - Don Marquis
985. When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain
986. If you aren't clear about what you stand for, nobody will stand with you. - Author
unknown
987. Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a
child. - Mary MacCracken
988. Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie
well. - Samuel Butler
989. Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one
becomes rich. - Sarah Bernhardt
990. An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow
citizens. - Thomas Jefferson
991. Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. - Aristotle
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992. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not
follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus
993. Have no friends not equal to yourself. - Confucius
994. Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. - Czech proverb
995. Never explain; your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you
anyway. - Elbert Hubbard
996. People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be,
whether they will admit that or not. - Earl Nightingale
997. Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. -
Nelson Mandela
998. Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his. -
Franklin P. Jones
999. I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. -
Socrates
1000.Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and
to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. - Georgia O'Keeffe
1001.Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who
forgives. - Lawana Blackwell
1002.He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all
he sees. - Benjamin Franklin
1003.We all need a daily check up from the neck up to avoid stinkin’ thinkin’ which
ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes. - Zig Ziglar
1004.The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge. - Bertrand Russell
1005.It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose
it. - Benjamin Franklin
1006.The only time you’re safe in your life is when your heart is open. - Arnold Patent
1007.There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and
that's your own self. - Aldous Huxley
1008.No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop
1009.The more you judge, the less you love. - Honoré de Balzac
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1010.Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. -
Bill Gates
1011.Action will destroy your procrastination. - Og Mandino
1012.An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an
adventure wrongly considered. - G.K. Chesterton
1013.An excuse is a premeditated lie. - Pat Mesiti
1014.Recognition is the greatest motivator. - Gerald C. Eakedale
1015.The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. - William
Penn
1016.If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you
have learned how to live. - Lin Yutang
1017.He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of
them borrowed. - Ben Franklin
1018.There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half
of them are true. - Winston Churchill
1019.Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest
stepping stones to success. - Dale Carnegie
1020.The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -
Mohandas Gandhi
1021.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde
1022.The reason birds can fly and we cannot is simply that they have perfect faith, for
to have faith is to have wings. - James Matthew Barrie
1023.When you drink the water, remember the spring. - Chinese proverb
1024.A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real
reason. - J.P. Morgan
1025.When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears. - Czech proverb
1026.Ask advice only of your equals. - Danish proverb
1027.If you think you're leading and no one is following you, then you're only taking a
walk. - Afghan proverb
1028.A full cup must be carried steadily. - English proverb
1029.Use soft words and hard arguments. - English proverb
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1030.Charity sees the need not the cause. - German proverb
1031.Never give advice unless asked. - German proverb
1032.Change may be initiated by a single person; to become a revolution others must
follow. - Heshie Segal
1033.Praise youth and it will prosper. - Irish proverb
1034.I do and I understand. - Confucius
1035.You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. -
Irish proverb
1036.If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot. - Italian proverb
1037.It is not enough to aim; you must hit. - Italian proverb
1038.Fall seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese proverb
1039.You will find only what you bring in. - Yoda, character in the Star Wars movies
1040.If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find
it? - Dogen Zenji
1041.Every positive impulse is a prayer. - Diane Frank
1042.One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japanese proverb
1043.Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. - André Gide
1044.Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better
forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the
movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. - Brian Tracy
1045.This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I
can waste it or use it for good. What I do today is important, because I am
exchanging a day of my life for it. - Bob Tupes
1046.No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from
scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have
already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our
goals. - Brian Tracy
1047.Spend as much time working on yourself as you do on your job. - Jim Rohn
1048.The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge. - Bertrand Russell
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1049.Can you walk on water? You have done no better than a straw. Can you fly in the
air? You have done no better than a bluebottle. Conquer your heart; then you may
become somebody. - Ansari of Herat
1050.A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. - Harvey
Mackay
1051.Not everything that can be counted, counts. And not everything that counts can be
counted. - Albert Einstein
1052.To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best to make you
everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can
fight, and never stop fighting. - e. e. cummings
1053.How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to
improve the world. - Anne Frank
1054.Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks
outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. - Carl Jung
1055.When you reach the end of all the light there is and you must step out into the
darkness, remember that two things may happen: You either will find something
to stand on or you will be taught how to fly. - Author unknown
1056.All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find
you. It has been waiting for you a long time. - Clarissa Pinkola Estés
1057.I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it
itches. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth
1058.It is not necessary to regret what you cannot repair. - Samuel Johnson
1059.Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. - George
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1060.Friends, and I mean real friends, reserve nothing. The property of one belongs to
the other. - Euripides
1061.Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. - Jim
Rohn
1062.At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is
the worst. - Aristotle
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1063.Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge
anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart. - Arnold H.
Glasow
1064.I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. - Pablo Picasso
1065.May serenity circle on silent wings and catch the whisper of the wind. - Cheewa
James
1066.It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead and
find no one there. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
1067.The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. - Henry
Ward Beecher
1068.Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one
that is open. - Alexander Graham Bell
1069.There is no greater power than the power of love. It can melt the rocks. -
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1070.He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. - Raymond
Hull
1071.Surround yourself only with people who are going to lift you higher. - Oprah
Winfrey
1072.I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a
little talent. - John Wooden
1073.Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde
1074.Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and
more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can
turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude
makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for
tomorrow. - Melody Beattie
1075.You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must
want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy
that created the world. - Sheila Graham
1076.There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future
in. - Graham Greene
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1077.All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you
know. - Ernest Hemingway
1078.A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. -
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
1079.Dance as if no one were watching. Sing as if no one were listening. And live
every day as if it were your last. - Irish proverb
1080.One man with courage is a majority. - Andrew Jackson
1081.You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do
not even listen. Simply wait. Do not even wait; be quiet, still and solitary. The
world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice. It will roll in
ecstasy at your feet. - Franz Kafka
1082.The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose
horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of
things that never were. - John F. Kennedy
1083.A new baby is like the beginning of all things—wonder, hope, a dream of
possibilities. - Eda Le Shan
1084.I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when
every year there are miracles like white dogwood. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
1085.You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London
1086.It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis
every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. - Konrad Lorenz
1087.Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. - George
MacDonald
1088.Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to and couldn't do it
better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no growth, no
fruition. - Florida Scott Maxwell
1089.The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it
becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. -
Henry Miller
1090.Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are
imprinted on the cells of your body. - Dan Millman
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1091.If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. - Toni Morrison
1092.This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more
they give, the more they possess. - Rainer Maria Rilke
1093.If we can get to the truth, we can change anything. - Anthony Robbins
1094.If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never
stop loving them. Buildings burn. People die. But real love lives forever. - Sarah,
character in The Crow TV show
1095.All things are connected like the blood that unites one family. Whatever befalls
the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit on the ground, they spit on
themselves. - Chief Seattle
1096.Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do—can love things that
no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can
make music. You know what to do. - Barbara Sher
1097.Making the decision to have a child—it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to
have your heart go walking outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone
1098.When you are happy, dance around and wag your entire body. - Things We Can
Learn From a Dog, Author unknown
1099.They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world
go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from
the wonder of it? - Jeanette Winterson
1100.The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a
subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound,
demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth. -
Yuan-Sou
1101."Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things,
or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be
happier. The way it actually works is the reverse... you must first BE who you
really are, then DO what you need to do, in order to HAVE what you want." -
Margaret Young