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"Introduction:I was born into a “fortune cookie” house: Inspirational quotes and Confucius’ sayings were posted everywhere. 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 was growing up. It was great to be raised in that kind of environment. It gave me a success-oriented mindset 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 a decision. Don't keep putting off decisions." - Ha Tran.Download to read more!

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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