Smile

It is a simple act,
but sometimes takes a lot of effort.

A smile can cause boundaries to melt,
hearts to warm up, and distances to reduce.

Why don't we smile more often?
 Is it too tough to smile?
The answer lies in our attitude towards life.

If we are more accepting of situations,
we will be able to smile more easily.

Always wear a smile.
Remember, without your smile,
your attire is incomplete.

- Unknown

Three Things In Life

Three Things In Life:

Three things in life that,
once gone, never come back:
Time, Words & Opportunity

Three things in life that
may never be lost:
Peace, Hope & Honesty.

Three things in life that
are most valuable:
Love, Self-confidence & Friends

Three things in life that
are never certain:
Dreams, Success & Fortune
Three things that make a man:
Hard work, Sincerity & Commitment

Three things in life that
can destroy a man:
Wine, Pride & Anger

- Unknown

That’s Why We Need Friends

Many times in our lives we are dropped, 

crumpled and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make 

and the circumstances that come our way. 

We feel as though we are worthless.

But no matter what has happened or what will happen, 

you will never lose your value. 

Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased you are still priceless to those who love you.

The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know, but by who we are.

You are special. Don’t ever forget it.

- Unknown

Promise Yourself

The Optimist Creed

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. 

To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel like there is something in them. 

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.

To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and expect only the best. 

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. 

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on the greater achievements of the future. 

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living person you meet a smile. 

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. 

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, and too strong for fear, and to happy to permit the presence of trouble.

- Unknown

Positive Attitude

More than 100 years ago, author Robert Louis Stevenson offered the following tips for maintaining a positive attitude. They still apply today.

* Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

* Make the best of your circumstances. Everyone has problems. The trick is to make laughter outweigh the tears.

* Don't take yourself too seriously. Don't think that somehow you should be protected from misfortunes that befall others.

* You can't please everybody. Don't let criticism worry you.

* Don't let your neighbor set your standards. Be yourself.

* Do the things you enjoy doing, but stay out of debt.

* Don't borrow trouble. Imaginary burdens are harder to bear than the actual ones.

* Hate poisons the soul, so don't carry grudges. Avoid people who make you unhappy.

* Have many interests. If you can't travel, read about new places.

* Don't hold post-mortems. Don't spend your life brooding over sorrows and mistakes.

* Do what you can for those less fortunate than yourself.

* Keep busy at something. A busy person never has time to be unhappy.

Life Always Has Challenges

Sometimes the world appears
To be spinning out of control.
Sometimes there seems to be no end
To the distressing news.

Sometimes it feels like troubles
Are being piled on top of troubles.
Sometimes it can look as if there
Could never be a way forward.

And yet, that way forward is always
As close as your next thought.
For no matter how difficult and discouraging
Life may have become, with each dawning moment,
A new world of positive possibilities opens up to you.

From the darkest depths of despair,
Hope does indeed grow and take flight.
Out of difficult situations, new strategies emerge
For creating real value and spreading life's goodness.

Remember that the future does not have to be
An extension of the past.
For you can act right now to create
That future out of the abundance of positive possibilities.

Life always has its challenges,
And those challenges are what enable you
To bring real value to life.
Whatever the circumstance,
Step boldly forward and
Choose to move the world positively ahead...

- Author Unknown

Great Quotes On Faith

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

- Gail Devers

Faith in one's progress brings contentment.

Even when the situation is not according to what is expected, there is contentment for the one who has faith in his own progress.  Such a person will not just sit back waiting for things to change nor will he just curse his fate.  Instead he'll do his best and use all his resources in bettering the situation.

The understanding that all life's situations are a training for me, automatically keeps me content in all situations.  There is naturally an experience of constant progress and a feeling of having gained something from all situations.

- Brahma Kumaris, Mt. Abu

Faith doesn't make anything happen - faith rests on something that has happened!

- Malcolm Smith

Where there is faith, there is greatness.

To have faith means to recognize the positivity in the self, in others and in situations. It also means a deep connection with God. The one who has faith is able to bring out the greatness in everything and everyone. So such a person reveals his greatness wherever he is. When we have unbroken faith, we have the understanding that everything that happens is for some good cause. So, we are satisfied with everything that happens in our 

lives. We are creative in our responses to the environment, which in turn, makes us truly great.

- Brahma Kumaris, Mt. Abu

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible."

- Mary Bethune

To know that the seed of selfless action will surely bear fruit at its own time is to be light.

Sometimes when involved in a task, we tend to get carried away with the result. We become so result-oriented that we begin to expect the fruit of what we have done immediately. Without the recognition of the fact that the result might take time to come, we begin to get caught up with our own expectations. This creates a lot of heaviness in our mind and we might even give up what we are doing. When we make a contribution for something, we must develop faith that whatever has to happen will happen at the right time. We don't have to eat unripe fruit, i.e., not get carried away with immediate results but have to wait patiently knowing that the fruits of our actions will ripen at their own time. With faith this is possible and we will be able to free ourselves from negativity and heaviness.

- Brahma Kumaris, Mt. Abu

Quotes on Enthusiasm

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

- Emerson

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do. 

- Norman Vincent Peale

Enthusiasm - the sustaining power of all great action.

- Samuel Smiles

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

- Charles M. Schwab

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it. 

- W. Clement Stone 

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

- Thomas J. Watson, Sr

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

Imperfect World

It's an imperfect world.
Things are as they are.
You have to work with broken tools.
Life can’t go the way you think.

Do the best you can.
Life will shape the way you shape it.

- Unknown

Some Great Motivational Quotes

* Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.   

* To handle yourself, use your head, To handle others, use your heart.

* The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

* He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses more; He who loses faith, loses all.

* Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

* Only by going too far can one possibly find out how far one can go.

* Don't be afraid to fail because only through failure do you learn to succeed.

Always Keep Your Dreams Alive

Now is a time for you to celebrate ... the accomplishment of a dream you have worked so hard to realize. 

You have shown so many people how special you are.

Now is the time to begin to pursue the next path, to reach out for the next star, 

and to achieve the things that are so important to you.

Always keep your dreams alive.

And keep them coming true.

- by Unknown

Best Excellence Quotes

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

- Vince Lombardi

When each member accepts full responsibility and strives for excellence, trust and performance increase exponentially...the team is ready to take off.

- Scott Beare 

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle

Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours . never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness. Your success and happiness lie in you. The great enduring realities are love and service. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

- Helen Keller

Committing to excellence means sharing the risk required in generating maximum returns and pursuing victory together. Effective team players know that achieving peak performance requires positive attitudes and inspiring beliefs on everyone's part. Sustaining peak performance requires humility, dignity and grace."

- John J. Murphy

Don't Forget You Are Special

Many times in our lives we are dropped, 

crumpled and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make 

and the circumstances that come our way. 

We feel as though we are worthless.

But no matter what has happened or what will happen, 

you will never lose your value. 

Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased you are still priceless to those who love you.

The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know, but by who we are.

You are special. Don’t ever forget it.

- Unknown

Achievement Quotes for Students

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. 

- Conrad Hilton

The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come. 

- C.S. Lewis

There are no shortcuts to life's greatest achievements.
- Anonymous

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. 

- Woodrow Wilson

Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage. 

- Frederick Pierce

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. 

- Ayn Rand

Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. . . . Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement. 

- Leo J. Muir

Tomorrow

Tomorrow smile at someone
That you've never seen before.
Take time to think of others that
You feel compassion for.

Tomorrow tell somebody
How they brighten up your day.
Let random acts of kindness
Put your feelings on display.

Tomorrow hug your children
Somewhat tighter than before.
Be sure to think of all the things
You can be thankful for.

Pat your dog a little longer.
Hug and kiss your husband/wife.
Thank your God for granting you
Another day of life.
- by Michael Mack

The Fighter

I fight a battle every day
Against discouragement and fear;
Some foe stands always in my way,
The path ahead is never clear!
I must forever be on guard
Against the doubts that skulk along;
I get ahead by fighting hard,
But fighting keeps my spirit strong.

I hear the croakings of Despair,
The dark predictions of the weak;
I find myself pursued by Care,
No matter what the end I seek;
My victories are small and few,
It matters not how hard I strive;
Each day the fight begins anew,
But fighting keeps my hopes alive.

My dreams are spoiled by circumstance,
My plans are wrecked by Fate or Luck;
Some hour, perhaps, will bring my chance,
But that great hour has never struck;
My progress has been slow and hard,
I've had to climb and crawl and swim,
Fighting for every stubborn yard,
But I have kept in fighting trim.

I have to fight my doubts away,
And be on guard against my fears;
The feeble croaking of Dismay
Has been familiar through the years;
My dearest plans keep going wrong,
Events combine to thwart my will,
But fighting keeps my spirit strong,
And I am undefeated still!
- S.E. Kiser

Best Integrity Quotes

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

- Douglas Adams


Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

- Charles Simmons

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

- John D. MacDonald


Integrity has no need of rules.
- Albert Camus

Best Communication Quotes

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

- Anthony Robbins

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

- James Madison 

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. 

A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

- Heinrich Heine

Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life. 

- John A. Piece

When we have the courage to speak out – to break our silence – we inspire the rest of the "moderates" in our communities to speak up and voice their views.

- Sharon Schuster



The art of communication is the language of leadership.
- James Humes

The World Can Be Won

Do not let your fire go out, spark by an irreplaceable spark,

in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved,

but have never been able to reach.

Check your road and the nature of your battle.

The world you desired can be won.

It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

- Unknown

Great Chanakya Quotes

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, 

What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply 

and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Once you start a working on something,

don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.

People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Education is the best friend.

An educated person is respected everywhere.

Education beats the beauty and the youth.

An Egoist can be won over by being Repected.

A Crazy person can be won ove by allowing him to behave in an insane manner, and

A Wise person can be won over by Truth.