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

Some Motivational Thoughts

• If you want a chance - then take one.
  --Richard Rodney
  
• The only limits on what you can accomplish are
  the limits YOU place on your own imagination.
  --Walt Disney
  
• Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must
  have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.
  --Marie Curie
  
• What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
  --Roy Rogers
  
• A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others,
  is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
  --Wayne Dyer
  
• The three P's of success...Passion Persistence Patience.
  - Unknown
  
• The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
  - Unknown

Inspirational Success Quotes

• Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
  --Napoleon Hill
  
• If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete!
  --Jack Welch
  
• Do the hard jobs first. The easy ones will take care of themselves.
  --Dale Carnegie
  
• No one can give you wisdom. You must discover it for yourself,
  on the journey through life, which no one can take for you.
  --Sun Bear
  
• People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
  --H. Ross Perot
  
• The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
  --Ayn Rand
  
• If your life is free of failures, you are not taking enough risk.
  - Unknown
  
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Love And Relationship Ouotes

• Nothing is impossible to the willing heart.
  --Thomas Heywood
  
• I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds around my neck.
  --Emma Goldman
  
• To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
  --François Mauriac
  
• My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the bay of Portugal.
  --William Shakespeare
  
• Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
  --Dale Evans
  
• A single rose can be my garden...a single friend, my world.
  --Leo Buscaglia
  
• Loyalty is one of the most valuable traits of a true friend.
  - Unknown

Don't Follow the Follower

Processionary caterpillars travel in long, undulating lines, one creature behind the other. Jean Hanri Fabre, the French entomologist, once lead a group of these caterpillars onto the rim of a large flowerpot so that the leader of the procession found himself nose to tail with the last caterpillar in the procession, forming a circle without end or beginning.

Through sheer force of habit and, of course, instinct, the ring of caterpillars circled the flowerpot for seven days and seven nights, until they died from exhaustion and starvation. An ample supply of food was close at hand and plainly visible, but it was outside the range of the circle, so the caterpillars continued along the beaten path.

People often behave in a similar way. Habit patterns and ways of thinking become deeply established, and it seems easier and more comforting to follow them than to cope with change, even when that change may represent freedom, achievement, and success.

If someone shouts, “Fire!” it is automatic to blindly follow the crowd, and many thousands have needlessly died because of it. How many stop to ask themselves: Is this really the best way out of here?

So many people “miss the boat” because it's easier and more comforting to follow — to follow without questioning the qualifications of the people just ahead — than to do some independent thinking and checking.

A hard thing for most people to fully understand is that people in such numbers can be so wrong, like the caterpillars going around and around the edge of the flowerpot, with life and food just a short distance away. If most people are living that way, it must be right, they think. But a little checking will reveal that throughout all recorded history the majority of mankind has an unbroken record of being wrong about most things, especially important things. For a time we thought the earth was flat and later we thought the sun, stars, and planets traveled around the Earth. Both ideas are now considered ridiculous, but at the time they were believed and defended by the vast majority of followers. In the hindsight of history we must have looked like those caterpillars blindly following the follower out of habit rather than stepping out of line to look for the truth.

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything — a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing, tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood.

AUthor : Earl Nightingale

Some Inspiring Quates

• “All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
  - Gautam Buddha
  
• “You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'”
  - George Bernard Shaw
  
• The power of imagination makes us infinite."
  -John Muir
  
• "No great man ever complains of want of opportunities."
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
• “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
  - Pamela Vaull Starr
  
• "No great man ever complains of want of opportunities."
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
• “People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.”
  - Zig Ziglar
  
• "First say to yourself what you would be;and then do what you have to do."
  -Epictetus

Positive Attitude Makes Life Positive

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
- Winston Churchill

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
- William James

“A problem can not be solved with the same consciousness that created it.”
- Albert Einstein

“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.”
- Bo Bennett

“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”
- Scott Hamilton

“Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts, and habits can be acquired. An action repeated becomes an attitude realized.”
- Paul Myer

“Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.”
- John N. Mitchell

Some Positive Thinking Quotes

One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible."
- Lance Armstrong

"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."
- Nicholas Murray Butler

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence."
- Helen Keller

“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.”
- Herm Albright

“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.”
- Willie Nelson

“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else”
- Winston Churchill

“A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

Giving and Receiving : Circle Of Kindness

The Circle of Giving and Receiving

Anonymous giving and acts of kindness can lead the giver to a very lonely place in the universe. Like the Lone Ranger or some other disguised hero, we do kind things all the time and so often the people on the receiving end don’t see it or don’t recognize it.

Living a life of altruism, in its most ideal form, means setting the ego aside and not doing what we do for credit. Usually, I have no problem with this at all. But there are those days, perhaps when I’m feeling a little weak or drained, where I find myself feeling lonely with it all, feeling like I’m giving, giving, giving, to a world that is in super receiving mode and asleep to what’s being done for them. I get a little discouraged.

Even idealized heroes had their inner circle of friends who knew who they really were and what their life was all about. The Lone Ranger had Tonto. Batman had Robin and his butler, Alfred. You get the picture. Being truly altruistic means we do what we do without expectation for credit or recognition. Otherwise, it’s not truly altruistic. But at some point, we have to be good receivers to continue to be effective givers.

I remember shortly after my first child was born that my wife and I reached a point where we were really struggling to make ends meet. We both had jobs but the pay was very meager. We were both doing work that we loved doing and we were really caught up in the magic of being new parents. But a financial reality burst our bubble one day.We had nothing left in savings, and bills that were due, some overdue, could not be met.

We talked with other people about our dire circumstances. We got a lot of sympathy but we were still feeling a lot of stress and not coming up with any solutions. And then it happened. I opened the front door one morning and found a plain white envelope tucked inside the screen door. Inside the envelope was $100 dollars. I felt this tremendous sense of energy swell up within me, surrounding me like a great, warm comforter. Some kind soul anonymously gave what felt like an awful lot of money to me then. They obviously didn’t want credit for their generosity and to this day I’ve never known for certain who it was.

In those days, that $100 would have just about paid for a month’s rent. And even though it wasn’t enough to make good on all of our bills, receiving the money gave us such a sense of relief and humbleness to be blessed by some great kindness of a friend who wanted no credit from us whatsoever. We made it through that dark time, not so much from the money we’d been given, but by realizing how powerful an act of anonymous generosity can be.

I’ve paid that act of kindness forward over and over many times. And even being the veteran giver that I consider myself to be, my mind still swings like a pendulum between the extremes of totally selfless giving and the need to receive something in return occasionally. Despite the back and forth energy of the momentum that is created, my sense is that I am ever moving forward through a world that often feels thankless and uncaring. I am constantly aware that there have probably been countless occasions when I have been the receiver of many acts of kindness from others who may have been aware of what they were doing even though I was asleep to their gift.

I am committed to being more awake to what’s going on around me and to showing my gratitude whenever possible for any act of kindness given, even if it’s as small a thing as someone holding open a door for me. Living a life of kindness is like breathing: for every breath out, there has to be a breath back in. That isn’t about ego. It’s about staying alive and being fully human. Now, let’s get back to it. Hi, ho, Silver, away!


Author : Unknown