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Having Troubles Seeing the Flash Version of the Quotes Above? "Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." "Everyone who has achieved financial independence will tell you that – at least in the early days you have to work smarter and harder. The price of success must be paid in full, and it must be paid in advance. There are no shortcuts." "Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth." "You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself." "Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome." "If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins." Life is full of endings, but every ending is a new beginning. Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could be any different. "Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art." You can bear any how if you have a why. "There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet." "Any experience can be transformed into something of value." What every child is looking for is to know, "Do your eyes light up when I walk into the room?" We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." "The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind." There is plenty for everyone, including me. "To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state." What you resist persists and grows larger. "The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention." Habits, if not resisted, soon become necessity. Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization. When we create harmony in our minds and hearts we will find it in our lives. The inner creates the outer....always. "Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in." Your body is your vehicle for life. As long as you are here, live in it. Love, honor, respect and cherish it, treat it well and it will serve you in kind. "There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do." The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. "Before I can walk in another person's shoes, I must first remove my own." People do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. (To put it another way: When you stop working on what it is you're trying to get and start working on YOU, only then will you get what it is you want.) "Worry is like a rocking chair. It uses up all your energy, but where does it get you?" You will not suddenly develop wealth consciousness if and when you become "wealthy". It's the other way around. You develop wealth consciousness by eliminating worry, by trusting in the universe and in your own inner resources. Once you secure your wealth consciousness, true abundance is just around the corner. Laugh until it helps! Ordinary people believe in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible and by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible. Love all, serve all. "To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have." There is no security on this earth, only opportunity. "One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. His response was a question: 'Where do you want to go?' 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.'" There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment . . . It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships. "On the important subject of values, we discern a marked deterioration in traditional values essential to competitiveness. A lack of both individual and institutional leadership has eroded respect for community and nationhood. We concluded that values of integrity, social justice, and moral leadership are not only necessary in themselves, but lead directly to competitive advantage. Our standard of living and our standard of values are inseparable." In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is. "Explore your higher latitudes . . . be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, open new channels, not of trade but of thought." Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos. When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us. "Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, have truth-- a knowledge of things as they are." "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." After witnessing the power of the force, Luke Skywalker exclaimed, "I don't believe it!" His Jedi mentor responded... "That is why you fail." "When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, helps others by themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them." "Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good." "If people are going to solve their problems, the first thing they've got to do is get honest. If somebody comes to me and says, 'How do I get to Chicago?' my first question's going to be, 'Well, where are you?'" Anyone can be polite to a king, but it takes a civilized person to be polite to a beggar. "People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals that do not inspire them." "Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes." "What we do to impress others are the very things others find most annoying." "Wounded people are dangerous; they know they can survive." "Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values." "We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become." "The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." "Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal." "Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you." "What we love we shall grow to resemble." "As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." "Every really new idea looks crazy at first." "Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creative." "Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act." "All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible." "All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea." "A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided." "All of us need to grow continuously in our lives." "Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed." "Chase your passion, not your pension." "Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes." "The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success." "A goal is a dream with a deadline." "Honor your commitments with integrity." "Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." "We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present." "Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: that wisdom preserves the life of its possessor." "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." "An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." "Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own." "The key to why things change is the key to everything." "A man’s own self is his friend, a man’s own self is his foe." "Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him." "One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world making the most of one's best." "Great minds have purposes, others have wishes." "In life, as in chess, forethought wins." "Trials, temptations, disappointments all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before." "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." "For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else." "In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility." "The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of planning in life, and the tragic brevity of time. "When we bend and stretch, reach for the stars, we may find that the stars we are reaching for exist within us, waiting to illumine a deeper insight and greater awareness, to shine into our lives, our environment, and into the lives of others. Each of us has purpose and a mission that only we can fulfill right where we are." "Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." "Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts." "Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you." "It is the follow through that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop." "Doreene Clement has created the best Journal. This is my fourth year using it and I love remembering the good times." "A powerful, life changing concept. Well done in every way! As you get clear about yourself, the whole world will become clear around you." "Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them." "The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts." "All glory comes from daring to begin." The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right for you. Live your own dreams. And you will know the meaning of happiness. "I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation." "We tend to get what we expect." "What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort." "Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience." When we complain, we remain. When we whine, we stay behind. When we praise, we raise. "Excellence can be attained if you Care more than others think is wise, Risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than others think is practical, and Expect more than others think is possible." Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. "Situations come to pass, they never come to stay. And when we allow them to pass and disappear into the past like shadows, our vibrant spiritual selves remain, powerful in the present moment. That is the constant, the unchanging, in an ever changing world. "When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." "No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently." "We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic." "A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement." Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. . . . Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny. Be happy. It's one way of being wise. Goal setting starts with a pad of paper, a pen and you." Remember this that very little is needed to make a happy life. Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace. At some point in your life if you're lucky you throw practicality to the wind and start living. (C) 2006 Free-Great-Quotes.com |