Some Great Motivational Quotes

Be yourself. Who else is better qualified.
- Frank J. Giblin II

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

- Winnie the Pooh

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

- Charles Kettering


If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong


No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake

The measure of success is not whether you have tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

- John Foster Dulles


There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
- Beverly Sills

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

- John Adams

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

- Author Unknown

Lessons Of Wisdom

Mistakes are lessons of wisdom.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it for long.
Take the lesson and move forward.
Although the past cannot be changed;
How to shape the future is still in your hands.

- Unknown

Inspiring Poem - Just One

One song can spark a moment,
One flower can wake the dream
One tree can start a forest,
One bird can herald spring.

One smile begins a friendship,
One handclasp lifts a soul.
One star can guide a ship at sea,
One word can frame the goal

One vote can change a nation,
One sunbeam lights a room
One candle wipes out darkness,
One laugh will conquer gloom.

One step must start each journey.
One word must start each prayer.
One hope will raise our spirits,
One touch can show you care.

One voice can speak with wisdom,
One heart can know what's true,

One life can make a difference,
You see, it's up to you!

- Unknown

True Friendship Quotes

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings.

A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
- Apocrypha

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
- Swedish proverb

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

- Bernard Meltzer.

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.

- Cindy Lew

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.

- Anonymous

Inspiring Quotes on Life

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

- Thomas A. Kempis

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
- Cicero

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

- Danny Kaye

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

- Charles Darwin

Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy



To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.
- Jim Beggs

Inspiring Poem - Things I learned that day

I walked a mile with Pleasure,
She chattered all the way;
But left me none the wiser For all she had to say!
I walked a mile with Sorrow,
And never a word said she;
But, oh, the things I learned that day from her
When sorrow walked with me!

- Unknown

If You Think You Can

If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you don't;
If you want to win but think you can't,
It's almost a cinch you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost;
For out of the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will;
It's all in a state of mind.

Life's battles don't always go
to the stronger and faster man,
But sooner or later the man who wins
It the man who thinks he can.

- Unknown

Best Attitude Quotes

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.

It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot 

change the inevitable.

The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.

- Chuck Swindoll

It's our attitude in life that determines life's attitude toward us.
- Earl Nightingale 

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude...nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

- Thomas Jefferson

I am usually looking for something better to do. What I do seems to be monotonous and ordinary and I try to think of something better to do, something that will bring benefit to others too. But I really am not able to easily bring about such a change. What benefit I bring is not based on what I do, but it is based on the attitude I do it with. So I need to maintain an attitude of bringing benefit to as many as I can, with whatever I do. Then nothing I do will be waste or ordinary.

- Brahma Kumaris, Mt. Abu

Some Great Quotes on Courage

Courage is grace under pressure.
- Ernest Hemingway

The one who has courage to bring about a change is free from excuses. For the one who recognizes the need for bringing about a change, every situation is an excuse for doing something new. If there is no commitment to change in every situation, excuses are given and others are blamed. So there is nothing new that is done and nothing new achieved. Life becomes very interesting for us when we are willing to take up the challenges that it brings. We are not afraid of new situations and challenges but are able to make the best out of the situation, we are free from fear and have the courage to bring about a change easily and naturally.

- Brahma Kumaris, Mt. Abu

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, I'll try again tomorrow.

- Mary Anne Radmacher~Hershey

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

- Herbert Kaufman

Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.

- Carolyn Hax 

Meditate on the image of a tree and think about its meaning. Visualize the growth of the tree of life from a seed to sapling to a mature tree. Now label the various parts of the tree (roots, trunk, branches, etc.) with what you think are the specific spiritual qualities which emerge from within the soul at different stages/phases of its journey through the time of the drama of life on earth.

In the above exercise, you could identify the roots of the tree with your childhood when qualities like carefreeness, innocence, obedience, etc. emerge from within the soul; the trunk could represent your youth when qualities like courage, determination, cheerfulness, etc. emerge; the branches could symbolize your middle-life when qualities like adaptability, tolerance, co-operation, etc. emerge; and the leaves could be a symbol for old age, during which qualities like contentment, humility (egolessness), forgiveness, etc. emerge from within the soul.

- Brahma Kumaris, Mt.Abu

Clock Of Life

The clock of life is wound only once.

No man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop.

At late or early hour. Now is the only time you own.

Live, Love, Toil with a will.

Place no faith in time. For the clock may soon be still.

- Unknown

Get Success In Your Life With Positive Quotes

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
- Chinese proverb

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorothea Brande

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.
- Lynn Johnston

The Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Chinese proverb

Whenever things go wrong, we find ourselves worrying a lot about the situation or the things that are going on. Then our mind is no longer in peace but is busy worrying and breaking the situation into pieces. We find that we don't find the accurate solution immediately but are thinking in circles. While working to find solutions, it is more important to work at our own inner peace before we make an attempt to try and find a solution. With the right state of mind, we automatically find that the right decisions are being made by us thus giving us the right results.

- Brahma Kumaris, Mt.Abu

Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them...
- Anon.

Even with the best intentions, we can find ourselves stuck in cycles of negative thinking; often, these are caused due to negative self-belief. These cyclic thoughts waste our time, but more often, they are depressing or even destructive, especially if the cycle is due to a deep-rooted lack of self-esteem or self-confidence. Cyclic negative thoughts, by definition, have become a habit.

However, cycles of thinking can be positive too. Some people almost regularly respond to negative situations or events with feelings of optimism and positivity; they see success and are confident. If this is not natural to us, we can train ourselves to respond in this way. To become optimistic we need to create in our mind images of past success and generate a quiet self-assurance. Thus a cycle of positive thinking gets started and will, in time, become a habit.

- Brahma Kumaris, Mt.Abu

Great Motivational Quotes

Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.

- Jacques Barzun

See God in every person, place, and thing, and all will be well in your world.

- Louise Hay

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.              

- Theodore Roosevelt

Tis better to have loved and lost,

Than never to have loved at all.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

- Helen Keller

The quality of our life tells the quality of our contribution.

- Rosie Cash

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

- Janet Erskine Stuart

The willingness to do creates the ability to do.

- Peter McWilliams

Motivational Quotes of Life

Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.

- William Arthur Ward

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

- John Steinbeck

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

- Stephen Vincent Benet 

I don't think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

-  Author Unknown      

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

- Mother Teresa 

Seeds of Thought

One of the most important principals for achieving success is to understand that your mind is like a garden bed where you cultivate and grow the seeds of thought.

When you plant a positive seed of thought in your mind and nurture it carefully, it germinates and grows until it leads you to take action.

As soon as you begin acting on your idea, your seed of positive thought becomes a seedling of positive action.

If you continue to feed and encourage this seedling, it gradually develops into a tree of positive habit.

Once this habit has become solid and immovable, it is then only a matter of time before it blossoms to produce the fruits of success.

- by Anthony

Best Relationship Quotes

The best relationship is the one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

- Unknown

When there is the thought to do something altruistic for someone every day, there is the ability to give happiness unconditionally. Whatever the relationship or whatever the personality of the other person, the one who develops the habit of doing this, is able to remain a source of support for those around. The best gift we can give is to give happiness and to finish sorrow. When we are constantly thinking of this, not for any reward but just for the sake of it, we are able to discover and enjoy the fruit of that action. We are free from expectations and are able to enjoy the action itself.

- Brahma Kumaris, Mt.Abu

“You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and it's good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.”

- Keith Sweat 

Relationships are like crystals, you don't realize how much you love it until it breaks.

- Unknown

The specialty of the ocean is to merge. The most beautiful pearl is made of the dirt that is thrown into the ocean.  So also the power to merge actually allows one to look at the positivity in spite of the obvious negativity that is expressed by the other person. So the relationship with the other person is only with their positivity. When we are able to merge the negativity of others, and look at the positive aspect in them instead, we can automatically experience being light and positive within.  Also we find others relating to us with their positivity. We are able to be successful in our relationship with others, however difficult the personality traits of the other person may be.

- Brahma Kumaris, Mt.Abu

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