Top 10 Famous Absence Quotes

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

- Colette

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

- La Rochefoucauld

Absent in body, but present in spirit.

- Bible

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

- Ouida

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

- Tacitus

The absent are always wrong.

- English proverb

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her. - Helen Rowland

Top 10 Famous Acceptance Quotes

Acceptance says, "True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me."

- Catharine Marshall

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

- Kathleen Casey Theisen

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.

- Old German proverb

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

- Simone de Beauvoir

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

- Maureen Dowd

"Good enough never is" has become the motto of this company.

- Debbi Fields

Self-complacency is fatal to progress.

- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

- Arthur Gordon

Top 10 Famous Ability & Achievement Quotes

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

- Helen Keller

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor, magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and 20 or 30 billion dollars and, vroom! There he is, up on a rock, a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

- Russell Baker

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

- Werner Heisenberg

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

- Mason Cooley

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

- Edmund Burke

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

- William Van Horne

The best is the enemy of the good.

- Voltaire

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

- Niels Bohr

Insperatonal Thought from Some Great People

All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and
have an idea that is obviously impossible.

-- Dr. Frank Richards (1875-1961) English Writer


I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at
once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

-- William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist


Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to
hard work, perseverance and determination.

-- Sir Frederick Treves (1853-1923) English Surgeon

Few Motivational Sayings

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance.
Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
--Jim Rohn


Either you run the day or the day runs you.
--Jim Rohn


Time is more value than money. You can get more money,
but you cannot get more time.
--Jim Rohn

Realize that good is present in your life right nowand more will be added onto you.
--Unknown

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
--Unknown

Self Help, Self Motivational Quotes

Patience is passion tamed.

-- Lyman Abbott


Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in
the past.

-- Tyron Edwards


Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through
which you must see the world.

-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright


Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

-- J. Andrews


Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

-- J. Andrews

Some Leadership Quotations

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man'ssuperiority to all that befalls him.
-- Romain Gary (1914-1980) French Writer


Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.
-- Ruth McKenney


Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leaderwho seems to think they have good qualities.
-- John Richelsen

Positive Thoughts for Better Life

The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude. If you are
suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these
unlovely traits echoed all about you. But if you are on your best
behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you
are going to spend most of your waking hours.

-- Beatrice Vincent


I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with
decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know
where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe
and are acting from.

-- William Faulkner (1897-1962) American Writer


Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

-- Jean de la Fontaine


Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks,
breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

-- Mary Lou Cook

Gratitude is what defines a successful life.- Jim Rohn

Some Motivational Thoughts By Jim Rohn

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology
and not complain when things don't go well.
--Jim Rohn


Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
--Jim Rohn


Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
--Jim Rohn


To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself:
First, what could I do?
Second, what could I read?
And third, who could I ask?
--Jim Rohn

Some Inspiring thoughts from JIm Rohn

• The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants
  and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering
  if something could have materialized - never knowing.
  
• If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
  
• Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to
  draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
  
• The more you know the less you need to say.
  

Some Good Motivational Thoughts

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit
behind it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice how
he acts when he loses money.

- New England Proverb

"Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some
achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon
them."

- William Shakespeare

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a
man's character, give him power."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Our lives teach us who we are."

- Salman Ruhdie

Self Improvement Quotations

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit
behind it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice how
he acts when he loses money.

- New England Proverb

"Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some
achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon
them."

- William Shakespeare

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a
man's character, give him power."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Our lives teach us who we are."

- Salman Ruhdie

Self Motivational Thoughts

To make headway, improve your head.
--B. C. Forbes


The optimist proclaims that we live in
the best of all possible worlds; and
the pessimist fears this is true.
--James Branch Cabell


The doors of wisdom are never shut.
--Benjamin Franklin



Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way,
in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes;
its what we do with them that's important.
--Jim Rohn

Success Thoughts

A goal without a plan is just a wish.
--Larry Elder

To follow, without halt, one aim:
There's the secret of success.
--Anna Pavlova


Success is dependent on effort.
--Sophocles


Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
--Jim Rohn

Positive Quotes for Love and Relationship

When I learn something new - and it happens every day
- I feel a little more at home in this universe, a
little more comfortable in the nest.
--Bill Moyers

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
--Carl Jung

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
--Shirley MacLaine

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The walls we build around us to keep
sadness out also keeps out the joy.
--Jim Rohn