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Welcome	to	Gurutropolis,	and	thank-you	for	requesting	your	own	
copy	of	our	ebook	1001 Guru Thoughts.	A	regular	practice	in	our	
Gurutropolis	culture	is	to	share	some	of	our	favourite	quotes	with	each	
other.	This	has	become	a	regular	feature	in	each	of	our	meetings,	and	
always	sets	the	tone	for	positive,	enlightening,	and	inspiring	discussion.

Quote #858 in our book nicely sums up the benefits we see in
maintaining this practice: “I love quotations because it is a joy to find
thoughts	one	might	have,	beautifully	expressed	with	much	authority	by	
someone	recognized	wiser	than	oneself.”		Marlene Dietrich.

And	we	also	think	you’ll	agree	with	this	statement	by	Galileo Galilei,	
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within
himself.”		(Quote	#24)		That	is	why	we	feel	there	is	so	much	value	in	
sharing	this	collection	of	quotes	from	the	ages,	to	inspire	you	to	Find
Your Inner Guru.	

Enjoy	this	compilation	as	part	of	your	spiritual	journey.	Allow	it	to	inspire	
you	to	think	grander	thoughts,	and	achieve	higher	goals	and	dreams.


With	much	love,	gratitude	and	respect,	

The Gurutropolis Team




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When	the	student	is	ready,	the	master	appears.		Buddhist Proverb

2	    We	deem	those	happy	who	from	the	experience	of	life	have	learnt	
      to	bear	its	ills	without	being	overcome	by	them.		Carl Jung

3	    Sometimes	our	light	goes	out	but	is	blown	again	into	flame	by	an	
      encounter	with	another	human	being.	Each	of	us	owes	the	deepest	
      thanks	to	those	who	have	rekindled	this	inner	light.			
      Albert Schweitzer

4	    In	the	faces	of	men	and	women,	I	see	God.	 Walt Whitman

5	    In	detachment	lies	the	wisdom	of	uncertainty	...	in	the	wisdom	
      of	uncertainty	lies	the	freedom	from	our	past,	from	the	known,	
      which	is	the	prison	of	past	conditioning.	And	in	our	willingness	to	
      step	into	the	unknown,	the	field	of	all	possibilities,	we	surrender	
      ourselves	to	the	creative	mind	that	orchestrates	the	dance	of	the	
      universe.	 Deepak Chopra

6	    The	obvious	is	that	which	is	never	seen	until	someone	expresses	it	
      simply.	 Kahlil Gibran

7	    Strength	lies	in	differences,	not	in	similarities.		Stephen Covey

8	    You	cannot	step	twice	into	the	same	river,	for	other	waters	are	
      continually	flowing	on.	 Heraclitus

9	    We	are	the	opening	verse	of	the	opening	page	of	the	chapter	of	
      endless	possibilities.	 Rudyard Kipling

0	   It	is	vain	to	do	with	more	what	can	be	done	with	less.			
      William of Occam

	   Take	a	rest.	A	field	that	has	rested	gives	a	beautiful	crop.		Ovid

2	   Every	time	we	leave	home	and	go	to	another	place,	we	open	up	
      the	possibility	of	having	something	wonderful	happen	to	us.			
      Joseph Dispenza

3	   If	you	are	willing	to	do	more	than	you	are	paid	to	do,	eventually	
      you	will	be	paid	to	do	more	than	you	do.		Origin Unknown

4	   Everyone	who	got	to	where	they	are	had	to	begin	where	they	
      were.		Richard Paul Evans

5	   Don’t	squander	the	gift	of	extra	time	by	spending	it	on	something	
      that’s	not	really	important.	Commit	yourself	to	spending	every	
      minute	of	it	on	the	goal	you	want	to	accomplish.			
      Michael Masterson




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6	   Limitations	live	only	in	our	minds.		But	if	we	use	our	imaginations,	
      our	possibilities	become	limitless.	 Jamie Paolinetti

7	   Living	at	risk	is	jumping	off	the	cliff	and	building	your	wings	on	the	
      way	down.		Ray Bradbury

8	   You	can	be	anything	you	want	to	be,	if	only	you	believe	with	
      sufficient	conviction	and	act	in	accordance	with	your	faith;	for	
      whatever	the	mind	can	conceive	and	believe,	the	mind	can	
      achieve.		Napoleon Hill

9	   Life	moves	forward	in	one	direction	only,	and	each	day	we	are	
      faced	with	an	actual	set	of	circumstances,	not	with	what	might	
      have	been,	not	with	what	we	might	have	done,	but	with	what	is,	
      and	with	where	we	are	now,	and	from	this	point	we	must	proceed;	
      not	from	where	we	were,	not	from	where	we	wish	we	were,	but	
      from	where	we	are.		Richard L. Evans

20	   Nothing	is	impossible	to	a	willing	heart.		John Keywood

2	   Victory	belongs	to	the	most	persevering.	 Napolean Bonaparte

22	   I	believe	that	unarmed	truth	and	unconditional	love	will	have	the	
      final	word	in	reality.	That	is	why	right,	temporarily	defeated,	is	
      stronger	than	evil	triumphant.		Martin Luther King, Jr.

23	   Security	is	mostly	a	superstition.	It	does	not	exist	in	nature,	nor	
      do	the	children	of	men	as	a	whole	experience	it.	Avoiding	danger	
      is	no	safer	in	the	long	run	than	outright	exposure.	Life	is	either	a	
      daring	adventure,	or	nothing.		Helen Keller

24	   You	cannot	teach	a	man	anything,	you	can	only	help	him	find	it	
      within	himself.	 Galileo Galilei

25	   Pain	is	inevitable,	suffering	is	optional.		Origin Unknown

26	   In	three	words	I	can	sum	up	everything	I’ve	learned	about	life	-	it	
      goes	on.		Robert Frost

27	   Be	here	now.		Ram Dass

28	   The	key	to	success	is	to	create	a	vision	of	who	you	want	to	be,	and	
      then	picture	it	as	if	it	has	already	happened.		Arnold Schwarzenegger

29	   The	intuitive	mind	is	a	sacred	gift	and	the	rational	mind	is	a	faithful	
      servant.		We	have	created	a	society	that	honours	the	servant	and	
      has	forgotten	the	gift.		Albert Einstein




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30	   The	only	difference	between	a	thought	and	physical	reality	is	time,	
      passion,	and	physical	activity.	Peter McWilliams

3	   Arrange	whatever	pieces	come	your	way.		Virginia Woolf

32	   Live	as	you	will	have	wished	to	have	lived	when	you	are	dying.		
      Christian Furchtegott Gellert

33	   Most	people	would	rather	be	certain	they’re	miserable,	than	risk	
      being	happy. Dr. Robert Anthony

34	   We	are,	each	of	us,	angels	with	only	one	wing,	and	we	can	only	fly	
      embracing	each	other.	 Luciano Decrescenzo

35	   Yes,	even	as	you	read	this	the	universe	is	plotting	to	make	you	
      utterly	happy,	healthy	and	successful,	and	there	isn’t	a	thing	you	
      can	do	about	it.	 Steve Bhaerman

36	   Liberty	means	responsibility.	That	is	why	most	men	dread	it.			
      George Bernard Shaw

37	   It	is	not	length	of	life,	but	depth	of	life.		Ralph Waldo Emerson

38	   We	would	accomplish	many	more	things	if	we	did	not	think	of	
      them	as	impossible.		C. Malesherbes

39	   Victory	belongs	to	the	most	persevering.		Napoleon

40	   Your	subconscious	mind	does	not	argue	with	you.	It	accepts	what	
      your	conscious	mind	decrees.	If	you	say,	“I	can’t	afford	it,”	your	
      subconscious	mind	works	to	make	it	true.	Select	a	better	thought.	
      Decree,	“I’ll	buy	it.	I	accept	it	in	my	mind.”	 Dr. Joseph Murphy

4	   Doing	what	you	love	is	the	cornerstone	of	having	abundance	in	
      your	life.		Wayne Dyer

42	   Listen	a	hundred	times.	Ponder	a	thousand	times.	Speak	once.		
      Origin Unknown

43	   Ignore	the	rules.	There	are	no	rules.	There	are	no	regulations.	You	
      get	out	and	you	do	what	you	need	to	do	because	you	believe	in	
      what	you’re	doing.		John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten)

44	   Most	people	give	up	when	they’re	about	to	achieve	success.		They	
      quit	on	the	one-yard	line.		They	give	up	at	the	last	minute	of	the	
      game,	one	foot	from	a	winning	touch	down.		H. Ross Perot




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45	   You	must	take	personal	responsibility.		You	cannot	change	the	
      circumstances,	the	seasons,	or	the	wind,	but	you	can	change	
      yourself.		Jim Rohn

46	   Hard	work	spotlights	the	character	of	people:	some	turn	up	their	
      sleeves,	some	turn	up	their	noses,	and	some	don’t	turn	up	at	all.		
      Sam Ewig

47	   When	anyone	has	offended	me,	I	try	to	raise	my	soul	high	that	the	
      offense	cannot	reach	me.		Rene Descartes

48	   Don’t	let	your	fears	stand	in	the	way	of	your	dreams.			
      Origin Unknown

49	   I	keep	my	ideals,	because	in	spite	of	everything,	I	still	believe	that	
      people	are	really	good	at	heart.	 Anne Frank

50	   The	past	does	not	equal	the	future.		Anthony Robbins

5	   There	is	no	security	on	this	Earth,	there	is	only	opportunity.			
      General Douglas MacArthur

52	   Smile!	And	the	world	will	smile	with	you!		Origin Unknown

53	   There	is	no	cure	for	birth	and	death,	save	to	enjoy	the	interval.		
      George Santayana

54	   When	you	come	to	the	edge	of	all	the	light	you	know	and	are	
      about	to	step	off	into	the	darkness	of	the	unknown,	faith	is	
      knowing	one	of	two	things	will	happen:	There	will	be	something	
      solid	to	stand	on	or	you	will	be	taught	to	fly.	 Barbara Winter

55	   Life	isn’t	about	finding	yourself.	Life	is	about	creating	yourself.		
      George Bernard Shaw

56	   A	pessimist	sees	the	difficulty	in	every	opportunity;	an	optimist	
      sees	the	opportunity	in	every	difficulty.		Sir Winston Churchill

57	   Yesterday	is	history,	tomorrow	is	a	mystery.	Today	is	a	gift.	That	is	
      why	it	is	called	Present.		Origin Unknown

58	   Keep	away	from	people	who	try	to	belittle	your	ambitions.	Small	
      people	always	do	that,	but	the	really	great	make	you	feel	that	you,	
      too,	can	become	great.		Mark Twain

59	   Do	not	take	life	too	seriously.		You	will	never	get	out	of	it	alive.		
      Elbert Hubbard




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60	   It	is	in	the	everyday	and	the	commonplace	that	we	learn	patience,	
      acceptance,	and	contentment.		Richard J. Foster

6	   Your	talent	is	God’s	gift	to	you.	What	you	do	with	it	is	your	gift	
      back	to	God.	 Leo Buscaglia

62	   Things	which	matter	most	must	never	be	at	the	mercy	of	things	
      which	matter	least.	 Goethe

63	   If	one	advances	confidently	in	the	direction	of	his	dreams,	and	
      endeavours	to	live	the	life	which	he	has	imagined,	he	will	meet	
      with	success	unexpected	in	common	hours.		Henry David Thoreau

64	   The	key	to	motivation	is	motive.		Stephen Covey

65	   Wisdom	is	knowing	I	am	nothing,	love	is	knowing	I	am	everything,	
      and	between	the	two	my	life	moves.		Nisargadatta Maharaj

66	   A	man	who	is	occupied	in	doing	a	very	difficult	thing	and	doing	it	
      very	well,	never	loses	his	self	respect.		George Bernard Shaw

67	   Be	governed	by	your	internal	compass,	not	by	some	clock	on	the	
      wall.		Stephen Covey

68	   How	far	you	go	in	life	depends	on	your	being	tender	with	the	
      young,	compassionate	with	the	aged,	sympathetic	with	the	striving,	
      and	tolerant	of	the	weak	-	because	some	day	you	will	have	been	
      all	of	these.		George W. Carver

69	   Change	can	allow	you	to	accomplish	a	goal	every	once	in	a	while,	
      but	consistent	achievement	happens	only	if	you	love	what	you	are	
      doing.		Bart Conner

70	   We	must	not,	in	trying	to	think	about	how	we	can	make	a	big	
      difference,	ignore	the	small	daily	differences	we	can	make	which,	
      over	time,	add	up	to	big	differences	that	we	often	cannot	foresee.		
      Marian Wright Edelman

7	   Learn	how	to	fail	intelligently,	for	failing	is	one	of	the	greatest	arts	
      in	the	world.		Charles Kettering

72	   To	know	and	not	to	do	is	not	yet	to	know.		Zen Saying

73	   To	do	anything	truly	worth	doing,	I	must	not	stand	back	shivering	
      and	thinking	of	the	cold	and	danger,	but	jump	in	with	gusto	and	
      scramble	through	as	well	as	I	can.	 Og Mandino




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74	   Once	you	say	you’re	going	to	settle	for	second,	that’s	what	
      happens	to	you	in	life.		John F. Kennedy

75	   We	are	new	every	day.		Irene Claremont de Castillego

76	   The	journey	of	a	thousand	miles	must	begin	with	a	single	step.			
      Lao Tzu

77	   I	can	take	the	next	thing	that	comes	along.	You	must	do	the	thing	
      you	think	you	cannot	do.		Eleanor Roosevelt

78	   Nothing	is	particularly	hard	if	you	divide	it	into	small	jobs.			
      Henry Ford

79	   There	will	come	a	time	when	you	believe	everything	is	finished.	
      That	will	be	the	beginning.		Louis L’Amour

80	   Starting	out	to	make	money	is	the	greatest	mistake	in	life.	Do	what	
      you	feel	you	have	a	flair	for	doing,	and	if	you	are	good	enough	at	
      it,	the	money	will	come.	 Greer Garson

8	   Our	lives	improve	only	when	we	take	chances	-	and	the	first	and	
      most	difficult	risk	we	can	take	is	to	be	honest	with	ourselves.		
      Walter Anderson

82	   I	look	back	on	my	life	like	a	good	day’s	work;	it	is	done	and	I	am	
      satisfied	with	it.		Grandma Moses

83	   We	need	only	provide	the	spark	to	light	the	Universe’s	fire;	to	hoist	
      up	our	sails	so	that	they	can	be	filled	with	its	magical	winds.		
      Mike Dooley

84	   The	cure	for	a	life	of	emptiness	is	a	life	of	gratitude.			
      Raymond Aaron

85	   Setting	goals	is	the	first	step	in	turning	the	invisible	into	the	visible.		
      Tony Robbins

86	   Too	many	people	spend	money	they	haven’t	earned,	to	buy	things	
      they	don’t	want,	to	impress	people	they	don’t	like.		Will Rogers

87	   Your	life	works	to	the	degree	you	keep	your	agreements.			
      Werner Erhard

88	   The	bitterest	tears	shed	over	graves	are	for	words	left	unsaid	and	
      deeds	left	undone.		Harriet Beecher Stowe




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89	    Whenever	you	find	yourself	anxious	or	upset	about	a	business	or	
       personal	situation,	it	will	be	remarkably	helpful	to	think	about	a	
       reality	of	life	that	seems	to	escape	people	who	are	under	stress:	
       Things	change!		Robert Ringer

90	    The	easiest	way	to	become	something	special	is	also	the	fastest.		
       Just	start	doing	it.		Don’t	wait	for	the	“right”	time.		Don’t	worry	
       about	not	being	qualified.		And	don’t	worry	about	getting	paid	for	
       it.		Just	start	doing	it.		Michael Masterson

91	    How	wonderful	it	is	that	nobody	need	wait	a	single	moment	
       before	starting	to	improve	the	world.		Anne Frank

92	    Take	the	first	step	in	faith.		You	don’t	have	to	see	the	whole	
       staircase.		Just	take	the	first	step.		Martin Luther King, Jr.

93	    Decide	upon	your	major	definite	purpose	in	life	and	then	organize	
       all	your	activities	around	it.		Brian Tracy

94	    If	you	want	to	be	happy,	set	a	goal	that	commands	your	thoughts,	
       liberates	your	energy,	and	inspires	your	hopes.		Andrew Carnegie

95	    There	are	no	traffic	jams	along	the	extra	mile.	 Roger Staubach

96	    The	true	measure	of	success	is	revealed	only	by	looking	at	the	
       obstacles	that	an	individual	had	to	overcome	to	achieve	their	
       goals.		Bill Phillips

9	    If	you	take	something	that	is	spinning	and	give	it	a	point,	it	
       becomes	a	drill.		Cat Shrier

98	    The	secret	of	life	isn’t	what	happens	to	you,	but	what	you	do	with	
       what	happens	to	you.		Norman Vincent Peale

99	    One	who	gains	strength	by	overcoming	obstacles	possesses	the	
       only	strength,	which	can	overcome	adversity.	 Albert Schweitzer

100	   Our	ultimate	freedom	is	the	right	and	power	to	decide	how	
       anybody	or	anything	outside	ourselves	will	affect	us.			
       Stephen R. Covey

101	   It’s	not	what	happens	to	you;	it’s	what	you	do	about	it	that	makes	
       the	difference.		W. Mitchell

102	   You	cannot	discover	new	oceans	unless	you	have	the	courage	to	
       lose	site	of	the	shore.		Origin Unknown

103	   I	long	to	accomplish	a	great	and	noble	task,	but	it	is	my	chief	duty	
       to	accomplish	small	tasks	as	if	they	were	great	and	noble.			
       Helen Keller



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89	    Whenever	you	find	yourself	anxious	or	upset	about	a	business	or	
       personal	situation,	it	will	be	remarkably	helpful	to	think	about	a	
       reality	of	life	that	seems	to	escape	people	who	are	under	stress:	
       Things	change!		Robert Ringer

90	    The	easiest	way	to	become	something	special	is	also	the	fastest.		
       Just	start	doing	it.		Don’t	wait	for	the	“right”	time.		Don’t	worry	
       about	not	being	qualified.		And	don’t	worry	about	getting	paid	for	
       it.		Just	start	doing	it.		Michael Masterson

91	    How	wonderful	it	is	that	nobody	need	wait	a	single	moment	
       before	starting	to	improve	the	world.		Anne Frank

92	    Take	the	first	step	in	faith.		You	don’t	have	to	see	the	whole	
       staircase.		Just	take	the	first	step.		Martin Luther King, Jr.

93	    Decide	upon	your	major	definite	purpose	in	life	and	then	organize	
       all	your	activities	around	it.		Brian Tracy

94	    If	you	want	to	be	happy,	set	a	goal	that	commands	your	thoughts,	
       liberates	your	energy,	and	inspires	your	hopes.		Andrew Carnegie

95	    There	are	no	traffic	jams	along	the	extra	mile.	 Roger Staubach

96	    The	true	measure	of	success	is	revealed	only	by	looking	at	the	
       obstacles	that	an	individual	had	to	overcome	to	achieve	their	
       goals.		Bill Phillips

9	    If	you	take	something	that	is	spinning	and	give	it	a	point,	it	
       becomes	a	drill.		Cat Shrier

98	    The	secret	of	life	isn’t	what	happens	to	you,	but	what	you	do	with	
       what	happens	to	you.		Norman Vincent Peale

99	    One	who	gains	strength	by	overcoming	obstacles	possesses	the	
       only	strength,	which	can	overcome	adversity.	 Albert Schweitzer

100	   Our	ultimate	freedom	is	the	right	and	power	to	decide	how	
       anybody	or	anything	outside	ourselves	will	affect	us.			
       Stephen R. Covey

101	   It’s	not	what	happens	to	you;	it’s	what	you	do	about	it	that	makes	
       the	difference.		W. Mitchell

102	   You	cannot	discover	new	oceans	unless	you	have	the	courage	to	
       lose	site	of	the	shore.		Origin Unknown

103	   I	long	to	accomplish	a	great	and	noble	task,	but	it	is	my	chief	duty	
       to	accomplish	small	tasks	as	if	they	were	great	and	noble.			
       Helen Keller



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104	   You	can	have	everything	in	life	you	want	if	you’ll	just	help	enough	
       other	people	get	what	they	want.		Zig Ziglar

105	   Love	is	a	bird,	she	needs	to	fly.		Madonna

106	   The	greatest	mistake	you	can	make	in	life	is	continually	fearing	that	
       you’ll	make	one. Elbert Hubbard

107	   If	you	don’t	like	something,	change	it.	If	you	can’t	change	it,	
       change	your	attitude.		Maya Angelou

10	   People	are	like	stained	glass	windows,	they	sparkle	and	shine	
       when	the	sun	is	out,	but	when	darkness	sets	in	their	true	beauty	is	
       revealed	only	if	there	is	a	light	from	within.		Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

109	   Well	done	is	better	than	well	said.	 Benjamin Franklin

110	   It	is	not	the	strongest	of	the	species	that	survive,	nor	the	most	
       intelligent,	but	the	one	most	responsive	to	change.		Charles Darwin

111	   People	will	forget	what	you	said,	people	will	forget	what	you	did,	
       but	people	will	never	forget	how	you	made	them	feel.			
       Maya Angelou

112	   Try	not	to	become	a	man	of	success,	but	rather	try	to	become	a	
       man	of	value.		Albert Einstein

113	   You	can	do	what	you	want	to	do.		David Thomas

114	   The	best	way	to	predict	the	future	is	to	create	it.		Peter Drucker

115	   The	ultimate	measure	of	a	man	is	not	where	he	stands	in	moments	
       of	comfort	and	convenience,	but	where	he	stands	at	times	of	
       challenge	and	controversy.		Martin Luther King Jr.

116	   Do	not	go	where	the	path	may	lead.		Go	instead	where	there	is	no	
       path	and	leave	a	trail.		Ralph Waldo Emerson

117	   Destiny	is	not	a	matter	of	chance,	it	is	a	matter	of	choice.	It	is	not	
       something	to	be	waited	for,	but	rather	something	to	be	achieved.		
       William Jennings Bryan

11	   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.		Serenity Prayer

119	   You	see	things;	and	you	say	‘Why?’	But	I	dream	things	that	never	
       were;	and	I	say	‘Why	not?’	 George Bernard Shaw




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20	   The	creative	mechanism	within	you	is	impersonal.	It	will	work	
       automatically	and	impersonally	to	achieve	goals	which	you	yourself	
       set	for	it.	Present	it	with	success	goals,	and	it	functions	as	a	success	
       mechanism.	Present	it	with	negative	goals,	and	it	operates	just	as	
       impersonally	and	just	as	faithfully	as	a	failure	mechanism.			
       Dr. Maxwell Maltz

2	   Ask,	and	it	shall	be	given	you;	seek,	and	ye	shall	find;	knock,	and	it	
       shall	be	opened	unto	you.		Matthew 7:7

22	   You	must	go	after	your	wish.	As	soon	as	you	start	to	pursue	a	
       dream,	your	life	wakes	up	and	everything	has	meaning.		
       Barbara Sher

23	   The	sage	does	not	hoard,	and	thereby	bestows.	The	more	he	lives	
       for	others,	the	greater	his	life.	The	more	he	gives	to	others,	the	
       greater	his	abundance.	 Lao Tzu

24	   The	happiness	of	your	life	depends	upon	the	quality	of	your	
       thoughts	...	take	care	that	you	entertain	no	notions	unsuitable	to	
       virtue	and	reasonable	nature.	 Marcus Aurelius

25	   When	you	work	you	are	a	flute	through	whose	heart	the	
       whispering	of	the	hours	turn	to	music	...	and	what	is	it	to	work	with	
       love?	It	is	to	weave	the	cloth	with	threads	drawn	from	your	heart,	
       even	as	if	your	beloved	were	to	wear	that	cloth	...			Kahlil Gibran

26	   Only	as	we	connect	with	our	conscience	can	we	create	the	fire	
       within.		Stephen Covey

27	   Live	in	the	present,	allow	the	flow	of	the	universe	to	deliver	your	
       dreams	and	enjoy	the	ride.		Austin Beasley

28	   A	peacock	who	sits	on	his	tail	is	just	another	turkey.			
       Origin Unknown

29	   Happiness	is	inward,	and	not	outward;	and	so,	it	does	not	depend	
       on	what	we	have,	but	on	what	we	are.		Henry Van Dyke

30	   Life	is	short,	art	long,	opportunity	fleeting,	experience	treacherous,	
       judgement	difficult.		Hypocrites

3	   Desire	is	the	starting	point	of	all	achievement,	not	a	hope,	not	a	
       wish,	but	a	keen	pulsating	desire,	which	transcends	everything.		
       Napoleon Hill




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32	   Follow	effective	action	with	quiet	reflection.	From	the	quiet	
       reflection	will	come	even	more	effective	action.		Peter Drucker

33	   Fortify	yourself	with	contentment,	for	this	is	an	impregnable	
       fortress.		Epictetus

34	   To	be	what	we	are,	and	to	become	what	we	are	capable	of	
       becoming,	is	the	only	end	of	life.		Robert Louis Stevenson

35	   Reach	high,	for	stars	lie	hidden	in	your	soul.		Dream	deep,	for	
       every	dream	precedes	a	goal.		Pamela Vaull Starr

36	   It’s	much	easier	to	ride	a	horse	in	the	direction	it	is	going.			
       Marshall Thurber

37	   Sow	a	thought,	reap	an	act.	Sow	an	act,	reap	a	habit.	Sow	a	habit,	
       reap	a	character.	Sow	a	character,	reap	an	eternal	destiny.				
       David O. McKay

38	   There	is	no	real	excellence	in	all	this	world	which	can	be	separated	
       from	right	living.		David Starr Jordan

39	   The	average	man	is	a	conformist,	accepting	miseries	and	disasters	
       with	the	stoicism	of	a	cow	standing	in	the	rain.		Colin Wilson

40	   Do	your	own	thinking	independently.	Be	the	chess	player,	not	the	
       chess	piece.	 Ralph Charell

4	   What	we	have	done	for	ourselves	dies	with	us;	what	we	have	done	
       for	others	and	the	world	remains	and	is	immortal.		Albert Pike

42	   When	someone	does	something	good,	applaud!	You’ll	make	two	
       people	happy.		Samuel Goldwyn

43	   Thousands	of	candles	can	be	lighted	from	a	single	candle,	and	the	
       life	of	the	candle	will	not	be	shortened.	Happiness	never	decreases	
       by	being	shared.	 Buddha

44	   Sometimes	we	stare	so	long	at	a	door	that	is	closing,	that	we	see	
       too	late	the	one	that	is	open.		Alexander Graham Bell

45	   Catch	a	passion	for	helping	others	and	a	richer	life	will	come	back	
       to	you.		William H. Danforth

46	   Light	tomorrow	with	today.		Elizabeth Barrett Browning

47	   I	will	not	“should”	myself	today.		Origin Unknown




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48	   When	two	or	more	people	coordinate	in	a	spirit	of	harmony	and	
       work	toward	a	definite	objective	or	purpose,	they	place	themselves	
       in	a	position,	through	the	alliance,	to	absorb	power	directly	from	
       the	great	storehouse	of	Infinite	Intelligence.		Napoleon Hill

49	   Procrastination	is	the	art	of	keeping	up	with	yesterday.	
       Don Marquis

50	   Nature	gives	all,	without	reservation,	and	loses	nothing;	man	or	
       woman,	grasping	all,	loses	everything. James Allen

5	   The	value	of	humour	is	almost	a	‘no	brainer’	when	you	think	about	
       it.	It	can	help	you	get	out	of	a	tough	spot...	Reduce	tension...	And	
       put	you	in	a	more	relaxed	frame	of	mind.		Simply	put,	when	you	
       learn	to	lighten	up,	the	achievement	of	almost	any	goal	will	go	
       more	smoothly.	 Robert L. Cox

52	   It’s	never	too	late	to	be	who	you	might	have	been.		George Eliot

53	   If	everything’s	under	control,	you’re	going	too	slow.		Mario Andretti

54	   As	long	as	you	keep	a	person	down,	some	part	of	you	has	to	be	
       down	there	to	hold	him	down,	so	it	means	you	cannot	soar	as	you	
       otherwise	might.		Marian Anderson

55	   No	man	ever	became	great	or	good	except	through	many	and	
       great	mistakes.		William E. Gladstone

56	   Imagination	is	everything.	It	is	the	preview	of	life’s	coming	
       attractions.		Albert Einstein

57	   I	do	not	know	what	the	future	holds,	but	I	do	know	who	holds	the	
       future.		Origin Unknown

58	   I	find	the	great	thing	in	this	world	is	not	so	much	where	we	stand,	
       as	in	what	direction	we	are	moving. Oliver Wendel Holmes, Sr.

59	   Success	isn’t	permanent	and	failure	isn’t	fatal.	 Origin Unknown	

60	   If	you	want	to	feel	rich,	just	count	all	of	the	things	you	have	that	
       money	can`t	buy.		Origin Unknown

6	   Be	more	concerned	with	your	character	than	your	reputation,	
       because	your	character	is	what	you	really	are,	while	your	
       reputation	is	merely	what	others	think	you	are.		John Wooden

62	   Being	defeated	is	often	a	temporary	condition.	Giving	up	is	what	
       makes	it	permanent.		Marilyn Vos Savant




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63	   How	we	spend	our	days	is	of	course	how	we	spend	our	lives.		
       Annie Dillard

64	   Most	people	are	about	as	happy	as	they	make	up	their	mind	to	be.	
                                                                       	
       Abraham Lincoln

65	   Life	is	no	brief	candle	to	me.	It	is	a	sort	of	splendid	torch	which	
       I	have	got	a	hold	of	for	the	moment,	and	I	want	to	make	it	burn	
       as	brightly	as	possible	before	handing	it	on	to	future	generations.		
       George Bernard Shaw

66	   Everyone	thinks	of	changing	the	world,	but	no	one	thinks	of	
       changing	himself.		Leo Tolstoy

67	   Do	what	you	love	and	the	money	will	follow.		Marsha Sinetar

68	   The	only	way	to	discover	the	limits	of	the	possible	is	to	go	beyond	
       them	into	the	impossible.		Arthur C. Clarke

69	   The	difference	between	the	impossible	and	the	possible	lies	in	a	
       person’s	determination.		Tommy Lasorda

70	   Courage	is	the	price	that	life	exacts	for	granting	peace.			
       Amelia Earhart

7	   Nothing	in	the	world	can	take	the	place	of	persistence.	Talent	will	
       not;	nothing	is	more	common	than	unsuccessful	men	with	talent.	
       Genius	will	not;	unrewarded	genius	is	almost	a	proverb.	Education	
       will	not;	the	world	is	full	of	educated	derelicts.	Persistence	and	
       determination	alone	are	omnipotent.		Calvin Coolidge

72	   He	who	has	health	has	hope,	and	he	who	has	hope	has	
       everything.		Origin Unknown

73	   Whatever	you	are,	be	a	good	one.		Abraham Lincoln

74	   Do	or	do	not,	there	is	no	try.		Yoda

75	   Wherever	we	are	and	whatever	we	are	doing,	it	is	possible	to	learn	
       something	that	can	enrich	our	lives	and	the	lives	of	others.		...	No	
       one’s	education	is	ever	complete.		Sir John Templeton

76	   Masters	see	their	creations	before	they	are	created.			
       Dr. Dennis R. Deaton

77	   The	greatest	revolution	of	our	generation	is	the	discovery	that	
       human	beings,	by	changing	the	inner	attitudes	of	their	minds,	can	
       change	the	outer	aspects	of	their	lives.		William James




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78	   Inspiration	leads	to	motivation;	it	is	your	spirits	desire	to	grow	and	
       evolve.		Robert Gregoire

79	   Any	path	is	only	a	path,	and	there	is	no	affront	to	oneself	or	to	
       others,	in	dropping	it	if	that	is	what	your	heart	tells	you.			
       Carlos Castaneda

80	   An	integral	being	knows	without	going,	sees	without	looking,	and	
       accomplishes	without	doing.		Lao Tzu

8	   The	larger	the	island	of	knowledge,	the	longer	the	shoreline	of	
       wonder.	 Ralph W. Sockman

82	   When	a	thing	has	been	said	and	said	well,	have	no	scruple.	Take	it	
       and	copy	it.		Anatole France

83	   Life’s	a	voyage	that’s	homeward	bound.	 Herman Melville

84	   So	much	of	our	time	is	preparation,	so	much	is	routine,	and	so	
       much	retrospect,	that	the	path	of	each	man’s	genius	contracts	itself	
       to	a	very	few	hours.		Ralph Waldo Emerson

85	   One	doesn’t	discover	new	lands	without	consenting	to	lose	sight	of	
       the	shore	for	a	very	long	time.		Andre Gide

86	   A	person	who	has	never	made	a	mistake	has	never	tried	anything	
       new.	 Albert Einstein

87	   You	don’t	get	to	choose	how	you’re	going	to	die,	or	when.	You	can	
       only	decide	how	you’re	going	to	live.	Now!	 Joan Baez

88	   I’ve	never	been	poor,	only	broke.		Being	poor	is	a	frame	of	mind.		
       Being	broke	is	a	temporary	condition.		Mike Todd

89	   We’ve	all	heard	that	we	have	to	learn	from	our	mistakes,	but	I	think	
       it’s	more	important	to	learn	from	successes.	If	you	learn	only	from	
       your	mistakes,	you	are	inclined	to	learn	only	errors.			
       Norman Vincent Peale

90	   Prosperity	is	a	great	teacher;	adversity	is	a	greater.		William Hazlitt

9	   To	be	free,	to	be	happy	and	fruitful,	can	only	be	attained	through	
       sacrifice	of	many	common	but	overestimated	things.		Robert Henri

92	   Genius	is	only	a	superior	power	of	seeing.		John Ruskin

93	   Named	must	your	fear	be	before	banish	it	you	can.		
       Yoda from Star Wars




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94	   May	we	never	let	the	things	we	can’t	have,	or	don’t	have,	or	
       shouldn’t	have,	spoil	the	enjoyment	of	the	things	we	do	have	and	
       can	have.		Richard L. Evans

95	   The	secret	to	happiness	is	not	in	doing	what	one	likes	to	do,	but	in	
       liking	what	one	has	to	do.		Origin Unknown

96	   Courage	is	grace	under	pressure.	 Ernest Hemingway

97	   Make	your	recovery	the	first	priority	in	your	life.		Robin Norwood

98	   Perseverance	is	not	a	long	race,	it	is	many	short	races	one	after	
       another.		Walter Elliot

99	   Alone	we	can	do	so	little;	together	we	can	do	so	much.			
       Helen Keller

200	   Resentment	is	like	drinking	poison	and	then	hoping	it	will	kill	your	
       enemies.		Nelson Mandella

20	   There	is	only	one	journey:	going	inside	yourself.		Rainer Maria Rilke

202	   Never	look	down	to	test	the	ground	before	taking	your	next	step;	
       only	he	who	keeps	his	eye	fixed	on	the	far	horizon	will	find	his	
       right	road.		Dag Hammarskjold

203	   Action	is	the	foundational	key	to	all	success.		Pablo Picasso

204	   You	must	begin	to	understand,	therefore,	that	the	present	state	
       of	your	bank	account,	your	sales,	your	health,	your	social	life,	
       your	position	at	work,	etc.,	is	nothing	more	than	the	physical	
       manifestation	of	your	previous	thinking.	If	you	sincerely	wish	to	
       change	or	improve	your	results	in	the	physical	world,	you	must	
       change	your	thoughts,	and	you	must	change	them	IMMEDIATELY.		
       Bob Proctor

205	   Be	thankful	for	what	you	have;	you’ll	end	up	having	more.	If	you	
       concentrate	on	what	you	don’t	have,	you	will	never,	ever	have	
       enough.		Oprah Winfrey

206	   Inaction	breeds	doubt	and	fear.	Action	breeds	confidence	and	
       courage.	If	you	want	to	conquer	fear,	do	not	sit	home	and	think	
       about	it.	Go	out	and	get	busy.	 Dale Carnegie

207	   To	keep	the	body	in	good	health	is	a	duty...	Otherwise	we	shall	not	
       be	able	to	keep	our	mind	strong	and	clear. Buddha

208	   Everyone	can	have	a	balanced	life.		You	just	need	to	want	it...	And	
       act	to	achieve	it.		MaryEllen Tribby




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209	   You’ve	got	to	ask.		Asking	is,	in	my	opinion,	the	world’s	most	
       powerful	and	neglected	secret	to	success	and	happiness.			
       Percy Ross

20	   We	come	this	way	once.		We	can	either	tiptoe	through	life	and	
       hope	that	we	get	to	death	without	being	too	badly	bruised	or	we	
       can	live	a	full,	complete	life	achieving	our	goals	and	realizing	our	
       wildest	dreams.		Bob Proctor

2	   To	fly	as	fast	as	thought,	to	be	anywhere	there	is,	you	must	first	
       begin	by	knowing	that	you	have	already	arrived.		Richard Bach

22	   You	can’t	be	poor	enough	to	help	the	poor.		Eva Gregory

23	   If	you	believe	in	what	you	are	doing,	then	let	nothing	hold	you	up	
       in	your	work.		Much	of	the	best	work	of	the	world	has	been	done	
       against	seeming	impossibilities.		The	thing	is	to	get	the	work	done.		
       Dale Carnegie

24	   Nothing	is	a	waste	of	time	if	you	use	the	experience	wisely.			
       Auguste Rodin

25	   Life	can	only	be	understood	backwards,	but	it	must	be	lived	
       forwards.		Origin Unknown

26	   Hide	not	your	talents.	They	for	use	were	made.		What’s	a	sundial	in	
       the	shade?	 Benjamin Franklin

27	   Look	at	a	day	when	you	are	supremely	satisfied	at	the	end.		It’s	not	
       a	day	when	you	lounge	around	doing	nothing;	it’s	when	you’ve	
       had	everything	to	do,	and	you’ve	done	it.		Margaret Thatcher

28	   The	time	to	repair	the	roof	is	when	the	sun	is	shining.			
       John F. Kennedy

29	   I	plant,	nurture	and	bring	light	to	trees	that	I	don’t	expect	to	stand	
       under.		Jill Fischer

220	   There	are	two	things	to	aim	at	in	life:	first,	to	get	what	you	want,	
       and	after	that	to	enjoy	it.		Logan Pearsall Smith

22	   It	is	difficult	to	say	what	is	impossible,	for	the	dream	of	yesterday	is	
       the	hope	of	today	and	the	reality	of	tomorrow.		Robert H. Goddard

222	   Your	attitude	determines	your	altitude.	 Zig Ziglar

223	   Experience	is	what	you	get	when	you	don’t	get	what	you	want.			
       Dan Stanford




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224	   Our	life	is	what	our	thoughts	make	it.		Marcus Aurelius

225	   Experience	is	not	what	happens	to	a	man.	It	is	what	a	man	does	
       with	what	happens	to	him.		Aldous Huxley

226	   Faced	with	the	choice	between	changing	one’s	mind	and	proving	
       that	there	is	no	need	to	do	so,	almost	everyone	gets	busy	on	the	
       proof.		John Kenneth Galbraith

227	   Problems	cannot	be	solved	at	the	same	level	of	awareness	that	
       created	them.		Albert Einstein

228	   Many	receive	advice,	only	the	wise	profit	from	it.		Publilius Syrus

229	   Our	greatest	glory	is	not	in	never	falling,	but	in	getting	up	every	
       time	we	do.		Confucius

230	   When	life	gives	you	lemons,	make	lemonade.		Origin Unknown

23	   The	reward	of	a	thing	well	done	is	to	have	done	it.			
       Ralph Waldo Emerson

232	   There	is	good	and	bad	surrounding	me	in	this	world,	I	choose	to	
       embrace	the	good.	Rod Berting

233	   Dream	as	if	you’ll	live	forever.		Live	as	if	you’ll	die	today.			
       James Dean

234	   If	at	first	you	don’t	succeed,	try,	try	again.		W.C. Fields

235	   This	above	all,	to	thine	own	self	be	true.		William Shakespeare

236	   Hope	springs	eternal.		Alexander Pope

237	   You	can	complain	because	roses	have	thorns	or	you	can	rejoice	
       because	thorns	have	roses.	 Ziggy

238	   Even	if	you’re	on	the	right	track,	you’ll	get	run	over	if	you	just	sit	
       there.		Will Rogers

239	   It	has	been	said	that	[the]	picturing	power	of	the	mind	is	the	
       greatest	gift	that	God	has	ever	given	to	man.	It	has	the	ability	to	
       construct	images	of	success	before	the	actual	experiences	are	
       born.	It	can	paint	pictures	that	will	fire	our	wills	and	exalt	our	spirits.	
       This	ability	to	travel	ahead	of	our	own	success	can	draw	us	on	
       with	the	greatest	pleasure	towards	the	most	worthwhile	objectives.		
       Sterling w. Sill




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240	   Vision	is	the	fundamental	force	that	drives	everything	else	in	our	
       lives.		Stephen Covey

24	   If	you	knew	everything	was	really	all	right,	and	that	it	has	a	
       happy	ending,	you	would	not	feel	trepidations	about	your	future.		
       Abraham-Hicks

242	   God	does	not	command	that	we	do	great	things,	only	little	things	
       with	great	love.		Mother Teresa

243	   Inherent	in	every	intention	and	desire	is	the	mechanics	for	its	
       fulfillment	...	intention	and	desire	in	the	field	of	pure	potentiality	
       have	infinite	organizing	power.	And	when	we	introduce	an	
       intention	in	the	fertile	ground	of	pure	potentiality,	we	put	this	
       infinite	organizing	power	to	work	for	us.	 Deepak Chopra

244	   A	superior	man	is	modest	in	his	speech,	but	exceeds	in	his	actions.		
       Confucius

245	   Happiness	comes	of	the	capacity	to	feel	deeply,	to	enjoy	simply,	to	
       think	freely,	to	risk	life,	to	be	needed.	 Storm Jameson

246	   There	are	no	classes	in	life	for	beginners:	right	away	you	are	always	
       asked	to	deal	with	what	is	most	difficult.		Rainer Maria Rilke

247	   Some	have	been	thought	brave	because	they	were	afraid	to	run	
       away.		Thomas Fuller

248	   I	believe	that	one	of	life’s	greatest	risks	is	never	daring	to	risk.		
       Oprah Winfrey

249	   If	we	are	ever	to	enjoy	life,	now	is	the	time,	not	tomorrow	or	next	
       year.	Today	should	always	be	our	most	wonderful	day.			
       Thomas Dreier

250	   Failure	is	often	the	line	of	least	persistence.		Zig Ziglar

25	   Nothing	can	bring	you	peace	but	yourself.		Dale Carnegie

252	   There	can	be	no	friendship	without	confidence,	and	no	confidence	
       without	integrity.		Samuel Johnson

253	   Only	those	who	are	asleep	make	no	mistakes.	 Ingvar Kamprad

254	   There	are	many	things	of	which	a	wise	man	might	wish	to	be	
       ignorant.	 Ralph Waldo Emerson




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255	   Only	by	discussing	ourselves,	holding	back	nothing,	only	by	being	
       willing	to	take	advice	and	accept	direction	[can]	we	set	foot	on	
       the	road	to	straight	thinking,	solid	honesty,	and	genuine	humility.		
       Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

256	   The	wisest	mind	has	something	yet	to	learn.		George Santayana

257	   If	the	sight	of	the	blue	skies	fills	you	with	joy,	if	a	blade	of	grass	
       springing	up	in	the	fields	has	power	to	move	you,	if	the	simple	
       things	of	nature	have	a	message	that	you	understand,	rejoice,	for	
       your	soul	is	alive.		Eleonora Duse

258	   Behold	the	turtle.	He	makes	progress	only	when	he	sticks	his	neck	
       out.		James Bryant Conant

259	   Whoever	you	are,	there	is	some	younger	person	who	thinks	you	
       are	perfect.	There	is	some	work	that	will	never	be	done	if	you	don’t	
       do	it.	There	is	someone	who	would	miss	you	if	you	were	gone.	
       There	is	a	place	that	you	alone	can	fill.	 Jacob M. Braude

260	   She	said	she	usually	cried	at	least	once	each	day,	not	because	she	
       was	sad,	but	because	the	world	was	so	beautiful	…	and	life	was	so	
       short.		Brian Andress

26	   Confidence	is	contagious.	So	is	lack	of	confidence.		Vince Lombardi

262	   When	you	dance,	your	purpose	is	not	to	get	to	a	certain	place	on	
       the	floor.	It’s	to	enjoy	each	step	along	the	way.		Dr. Wayne Dyer

263	   What	you	would	do	willingly	for	free	is	the	only	thing	you	should	
       ever	do	for	money.	 Raymond Aaron

264	   There	is	more	hunger	for	love	and	appreciation	in	this	world	than	
       for	bread. Mother Teresa

265	   Try	as	you	might,	you	can’t	control	the	things	that	happen	to	you.	
       You	can	only	control	your	reaction	to	them.		Michael Masterson

266	   If	you	are	distressed	by	anything	internal,	the	pain	is	not	due	to	the	
       thing	itself	but	to	the	view	you	have	of	that	thing.	How	you	view	
       anything	is	a	power	you	can	revoke	at	any	moment.			
       Marcus Aurelius

267	   Every	day,	we	are	given	dozens	of	choices	-	from	which	foods	to	
       eat	to	which	parts	of	a	newspaper	to	read	to	which	words	to	say	
       in	any	given	conversation.		Many	of	those	choices	seem	to	be	
       insignificant,	but	when	you	string	them	all	together	they	determine	
       the	quality	of	our	lives.		Michael Masterson




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268	   What	we	think	or	what	we	know	or	what	we	believe	is,	in	the	end,	
       of	little	consequence.		The	only	consequence	is	what	we	do.			
       John Ruskin

269	   If	a	man	for	whatever	reason	has	the	opportunity	to	lead	an	
       extraordinary	life,	he	has	no	right	to	keep	it	to	himself.			
       Jacques-Yves Cousteau

270	   I’ve	always	been	the	opposite	of	a	paranoid.		I	operate	as	if	
       everyone	is	part	of	a	plot	to	enhance	my	well	being.		Stan Dale

27	   Sooner	or	later,	those	who	win	are	those	who	think	they	can.		
       Richard Bach

272	   Being	alive	is	a	joy	and	a	privilege.	Life	flows	easier	when	you	greet	
       each	new	day	with	a	smile.			Thuy Vu

273	   A	true	handicap	is	what	we	don’t	do	with	what	we	have,	not	what	
       we	can’t	do	with	what	we	don’t	have.		Christopher Brewer

274	   Never	let	someone	else’s	opinion	of	you	become	your	reality.		
       Origin Unknown

275	   What	you	can	do,	or	dream	you	can,	begin	it;	boldness	has	genius,	
       power	and	magic	in	it.	 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

276	   Every	man	dies.	Not	every	man	truly	lives.	 Braveheart (Movie)

277	   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.		Jawaharlal Nehru

278	   No	pessimist	ever	discovered	the	secrets	of	the	stars,	or	sailed	to	
       an	unchartered	land,	or	opened	a	new	heaven	to	the	human	spirit.	    	
       Helen Keller

279	   Am	I	not	destroying	my	enemies	when	I	make	friends	of	them?		
       Abraham Lincoln

280	   If	not	us,	who,	if	not	now,	when?		Origin Unknown

28	   Things	do	not	change,	we	change.		 Henry David Thoreau

282	   People	are	always	blaming	their	circumstances	for	what	they	are.	
       I	don’t	believe	in	circumstances.	The	people	who	get	on	in	the	
       world	are	the	people	who	get	up	and	look	for	the	circumstances	
       they	want	and	if	they	can’t	find	them,	make	them.			
       George Bernard Shaw




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283	   Tough	times	never	last	but	tough	people	do.		Robert Schuller

284	   The	time	is	always	right	to	do	what	is	right.		Martin Luther King Jr.

285	   It	is	not	enough	to	have	a	good	mind,	the	main	thing	is	to	use	it	
       well.	 Rene Descartes

286	   You	may	have	a	fresh	start	any	moment	you	choose,	for	this	thing	
       that	we	call	failure	is	not	the	falling	down,	but	the	staying	down.		
       Mary Pickford

287	   Happiness	lies	in	the	joy	of	achievement	and	the	thrill	of	creative	
       effort.		Franklin D. Roosevelt

288	   When	a	train	goes	through	a	tunnel	and	it	gets	dark;	you	don’t	
       throw	away	the	ticket	and	jump	off.		You	sit	still	and	trust	the	
       engineer.	 Corrie Ten Boom

289	   Waiting	is	a	trap.	There	will	always	be	reasons	to	wait.	The	truth	is,	
       there	are	only	two	things	in	life,	reasons	and	results,	and	reasons	
       simply	don’t	count.		Dr. Robert Anthony

290	   Live	well	...	Laugh	often	...	Love	much.		Origin Unknown

29	   The	great	pleasure	in	life	is	doing	what	people	say	you	cannot	do.		
       Walter Bagehot

292	   What	lies	behind	us	and	what	lies	before	us	are	tiny	matters	
       compared	to	what	lies	within	us.		Henry David Thoreau

293	   Feel	the	fear	and	do	it	anyway.	 Susan Jeffers

294	   Love	conquers	all.	 Virgil

295	   The	mediocre	teacher	tells.	The	good	teacher	explains.	The	
       superior	teacher	demonstrates.	The	great	teacher	inspires.		
       William A. Ward

296	   Forgiveness	does	not	change	the	past,	but	it	does	enlarge	the	
       future.	 Paul Boese

297	   He	who	every	morning	plans	the	transaction	of	the	day	and	
       follows	out	that	plan,	carries	a	thread	that	will	guide	him	through	
       the	maze	of	the	most	busy	life.	Victor Hugo

298	   Imagination	is	more	important	than	knowledge.	 Albert Einstein

299	   If	we	are	together	nothing	is	impossible.	If	we	are	divided	all	will	
       fail.	Winston Churchill




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300	   Progress	is	impossible	without	change,	and	those	who	cannot	
       change	their	minds	cannot	change	anything.		George Bernard Shaw

30	   Faith	is	a	knowledge	within	the	heart,	beyond	the	reach	of	proof.		
       Kahlil Gibran

302	   If	you	stand	up	and	be	counted,	from	time	to	time	you	may	get	
       yourself	knocked	down.	But	remember	this:	A	man	flattened	by	an	
       opponent	can	get	up	again.	A	man	flattened	by	conformity	stays	
       down	for	good.		Thomas J. Watson

303	   The	miracle	is	this	-	the	more	we	share,	the	more	we	have.		
       Leonard Nimoy

304	   Strong	lives	are	motivated	by	dynamic	purpose.			
       Kenneth Hildebrand

305	   Happiness	is	a	state	of	activity.	 Aristotle

306	   Doing	more	of	what	doesn’t	work	won’t	make	it	work	any	better.		
       Charles J. Givens

307	   Discontent	is	the	first	necessity	of	progress.		Thomas Edison

308	   Happiness	is	the	way.	So	treasure	every	moment	you	have	and	
       remember	that	time	waits	for	no	one.	Happiness	is	a	journey,	not	a	
       destination.	 Souza

309	   Things	turn	out	best	for	the	people	who	make	the	best	of	the	way	
       things	turn	out.		Ty Boyd

30	   It	is	far	better	for	a	man	to	go	wrong	in	freedom	than	to	go	right	
       in	chains.		Thomas H. Huxley

3	   Anyone	who	lives	within	their	means	suffers	from	a	lack	of	
       imagination.		Oscar Wilde

32	   No	virtue	is	more	universally	accepted	as	a	test	of	good	character	
       than	trustworthiness.		Harry Emerson Fosdick

33	   We	don’t	receive	wisdom;	we	must	discover	it	for	ourselves	after	a	
       journey	that	no	one	can	take	us	or	spare	us.		Marcel Proust

34	   The	only	urgent	thing	is	that	we	make	a	beginning	and	keep	
       trying.		Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

35	   Happiness	is	not	in	our	circumstances	but	in	ourselves.	It	is	not	
       something	we	see,	like	a	rainbow,	or	feel,	like	the	heat	of	a	fire.	
       Happiness	is	something	we	are.	 John B. Sheerin




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36	   Knowing	yourself	is	the	beginning	of	all	wisdom.		Aristotle

37	   I	couldn’t	wait	for	success,	so	I	went	ahead	without	it.	
       Jonathan Winters

38	   Goals	are	dreams	with	deadlines.		Diana Scharf Hunt

39	   Personal	relationships	are	the	fertile	soil	from	which	all	
       advancement,	all	success,	all	achievement	in	real	life	grows.			
       Ben Stein

320	   Find	something	to	do	that	really	inspires	you,	that	keeps	you	up	at	
       night,	that	you	simply	love	to	do.		Michael Masterson

32	   Maybe	you	made	a	mistake	that’s	been	haunting	you.	Or	you	
       never	got	around	to	that	“thank	you”.	So	you	have	a	choice.	A	
       lifetime	of	nagging	regret	(if	it’s	lasted	this	long,	it	ain’t	going	away)	
       -	or	taking	a	moment	now	to	deal	with	it.		Charlie Byrne

322	   If	you	want	to	achieve	a	high	goal,	you’re	going	to	have	to	take	
       some	chances.		Alberto Salazar

323	   All	blame	is	a	waste	of	time.		No	matter	how	much	fault	you	find	
       with	another,	and	regardless	of	how	much	you	blame	him,	it	will	
       not	change	you.		Wayne Dyer

324	   You	want	to	set	a	goal	that	is	big	enough	that	in	the	process	of	
       achieving	it	you	become	someone	worth	becoming.		Jim Rohn

325	   You	will	never	leave	where	you	are,	until	you	decide	where	you’d	
       rather	be.		Dexter Yager

326	   Success	comes	in	cans;	failure	comes	in	cants.	Origin Unknown

327	   Live	your	life	as	an	exclamation,	not	an	explanation.			
       Origin Unknown

328	   A	man	can	succeed	at	almost	anything	for	which	he	has	unlimited	
       enthusiasm.		Charles M. Schwab

329	   If	we	all	did	all	the	things	we	are	capable	of	doing	we	would	
       literally	astound	ourselves.		Thomas Edison

330	   Life	is	a	succession	of	lessons	which	must	be	lived	to	be	
       understood.	 Helen Keller

33	   If	we	don`t	change,	we	don`t	grow.		If	we	don`t	grow,	we	aren`t	
       really	living.		Gail Sheehy




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332	   Attitude	is	a	little	thing	that	makes	a	big	difference.			
       Sir Winston Churchill

333	   Use	what	talent	you	possess:	the	woods	would	be	very	silent	if	no	
       birds	sang	except	those	that	sang	best.		Henry Van Dyke

334	   Too	many	people	are	thinking	of	security	instead	of	opportunity.	
       They	seem	more	afraid	of	life	than	death.		James F. Bymes

335	   Nothing	can	stop	the	man	with	the	right	mental	attitude	from	
       achieving	his	goal;	nothing	on	earth	can	help	the	man	with	the	
       wrong	mental	attitude.		Thomas Jefferson

336	   Our	greatest	weakness	lies	in	giving	up.	The	most	certain	way	to	
       succeed	is	always	to	try	one	more	time.	 Thomas Edison

337	   The	universe	is	full	of	magical	things	patiently	waiting	for	our	wits	
       to	grow	sharper.		Eden Phillpotts

338	   Coming	together	is	a	beginning;	keeping	together	is	progress;	
       working	together	is	success.	 Origin Unknown

339	   The	most	wasted	of	all	days	is	one	without	laughter.			
       E.E. Cummings

340	   Blessed	are	they	who	can	laugh	at	themselves;	for	they	shall	never	
       cease	to	be	amused.		Origin Unknown

34	   Shoot	for	the	moon.	Even	if	you	miss,	you’ll	land	among	the	stars.		
       Les Brown

342	   Genius	is	one	percent	inspiration	and	ninety-nine	percent	
       perspiration.		Thomas Edison

343	   People	don’t	care	how	much	you	know	until	they	know	how	much	
       you	care.		John C. Maxwellzz

344	   The	difference	between	a	successful	person	and	others	is	not	a	
       lack	of	strength,	not	a	lack	of	knowledge,	but	rather	in	a	lack	of	will.	
                                                                               	
       Vince Lombardi

345	   Work	like	you	don’t	need	the	money,	love	like	you’ve	never	been	
       hurt	and	dance	like	no	one	is	watching.		Satchel Paige

346	   We	make	a	living	by	what	we	get,	but	we	make	a	life	by	what	we	
       give. Sir Winston Churchill

347	   Education	is	that	which	remains	when	one	has	forgotten	
       everything	he	learned	in	school.		Albert Einstein




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348	   Twenty	years	from	now	you	will	be	more	disappointed	by	the	
       things	you	didn’t	do	than	by	the	ones	you	did	do.		So	throw	off	the	
       bowlines.	Sail	away	from	the	safe	harbour.	Catch	the	winds	in	your	
       sails.	Explore.	Dream. Mark Twain

349	   If	you	can	dream	it,	you	can	do	it.	 Walt Disney

350	   Peace	is	essentially	a	function	of	putting	first	things	first.			
       Stephen Covey

35	   First	say	to	yourself	what	you	would	be,	and	then	do	what	you	
       have	to	do.		Epictetus

352	   Like	two	golden	birds	perched	on	the	selfsame	tree,	intimate	
       friends,	the	ego	and	the	self	dwell	in	the	same	body.	The	former	
       eats	the	sweet	and	sour	fruits	of	the	tree	of	life,	while	the	latter	
       looks	on	in	detachment.		The Mundaka Upanishad

353	   If	you	are	willing	to	admit	faults,	you	have	one	less	fault	to	admit.		
       Origin Unknown

354	   One	way	to	get	the	most	out	of	life	is	to	look	upon	it	as	an	
       adventure.		William Feather

355	   Decide	what	you	want,	decide	what	you	are	willing	to	exchange	for	
       it.	Establish	your	priorities	and	go	to	work.		H.L. Hunt

356	   I	have	an	irrepressible	desire	to	live	till	I	can	be	assured	that	the	
       world	is	a	little	better	for	my	having	lived	in	it.		Abraham Lincoln

357	   Every	problem	has	within	it	the	seeds	of	its	own	solution.		If	you	
       don’t	have	any	problems,	you	don’t	get	any	seeds.			
       Norman Vincent Peale

358	   Shallow	men	believe	in	luck,	believe	in	circumstances;	it	was	
       somebody’s	name,	or	he	happened	to	be	there	at	the	time,	or	
       it	was	so	then,	and	another	day	it	would	have	been	otherwise.	
       Strong	men	believe	in	cause	and	effect.		Ralph Waldo Emerson

359	   A	holiday	is	like	recharging	your	car	battery.	If	you	set	up	the	
       connections	wrong,	no	energy	goes	into	the	battery.	If	you	do	it	
       right,	you	return	at	full	charge	and	your	brain	is	able	to	work	the	
       way	it	was	designed	to.			Gord Johansen

360	   If	you	don’t	make	mistakes,	you’re	not	working	on	hard	enough	
       problems.	And	that’s	a	big	mistake.		Frank Wilczek




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36	   As	to	methods	there	may	be	a	million	and	then	some,	but	
       principles	are	few.	The	man	who	grasps	principles	can	successfully	
       select	his	own	methods.	The	man	who	tries	methods,	ignoring	
       principles,	is	sure	to	have	trouble.		Ralph Waldo Emerson

362	   Reality	is	merely	an	illusion,	albeit	a	very	persistent	one.			
       Albert Einstein

363	   A	candle	loses	nothing	by	lighting	another	candle.			
       Father James Keller

364	   As	human	beings,	our	greatness	lies	not	so	much	in	being	able	
       to	remake	the	world...	as	in	being	able	to	remake	ourselves.		
       Mahatma Gandhi

365	   To	accomplish	great	things,	we	must	not	only	dream,	but	act.			
       Bill Blackman

366	   It	is	no	use	waiting	for	your	ship	to	come	in	unless	you	have	sent	
       one	out.		Belgian Proverb

367	   You	can	come	out	of	the	furnace	of	trouble	two	ways:	if	you	let	it	
       consume	you,	you	come	out	a	cinder;	but	there	is	a	kind	of	metal	
       which	refuses	to	be	consumed,	and	comes	out	a	star.		Jean Church

368	   If	I	am	through	learning,	I	am	through.		John Wooden

369	   There	are	two	types	of	people	-	anchors	and	motors.	You	want	to	
       lose	the	anchors	and	get	with	the	motors	because	the	motors	are	
       going	somewhere	and	they’re	having	more	fun.	The	anchors	will	
       just	drag	you	down.		Wyland

370	   Goals	are	a	means	to	an	end,	not	the	ultimate	purpose	of	our	
       lives.	They	are	simply	a	tool	to	concentrate	our	focus	and	move	us	
       in	a	direction.	The	only	reason	we	really	pursue	goals	is	to	cause	
       ourselves	to	expand	and	grow.	Achieving	goals	by	themselves	
       will	never	make	us	happy	in	the	long	term;	it’s	who	you	become,	
       as	you	overcome	the	obstacles	necessary	to	achieve	your	goals	
       that	can	give	you	the	deepest	and	most	long-lasting	sense	of	
       fulfillment.		Anthony Robbins

37	   How	do	you	know	if	your	mission	in	life	is	finished?	If	you’re	still	
       alive,	it	isn’t.	 Richard Bach

372	   Obstacles	are	like	wild	animals...	They	are	cowards	but	they	will	
       bluff	you	if	they	can.	If	they	see	you	are	afraid	of	them,	they	are	
       liable	to	spring	upon	you;	but	if	you	look	them	squarely	in	the	eye,	
       they	will	slink	out	of	sight.	 Orison Swett Marden




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373	   Focus	on	where	you	want	to	go,	not	on	what	you	fear.			
       Anthony Robbins

374	   They	always	say	time	changes	things,	but	you	actually	have	to	
       change	them	yourself.		Andy Warhol

375	   What	you	get	by	achieving	your	goals	is	as	important	as	what	you	
       become	by	achieving	your	goals.		Henry David Thoreau

376	   Never	give	up	on	your	dream...	Perseverance	is	all	important.		If	
       you	don’t	have	the	desire	and	the	belief	in	yourself	to	keep	trying	
       after	you’ve	been	told	you	should	quit,	you’ll	never	make	it.			
       Tawni O’Dell

377	   If	your	ship	doesn’t	come	in,	swim	out	to	meet	it.	 Jonathan Winters

378	   Every	negative	event	contains	within	it	the	seed	of	an	equal	or	
       greater	benefit.		Napoleon Hill

379	   The	heights	by	great	men	reached	and	kept,	were	not	obtained	by	
       sudden	flight,	but	they,	while	their	companions	slept,	were	toiling	
       upward	in	the	night.		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

380	   How	poor	we	truly	are	when	we	measure	wealth	in	monetary	
       terms;	overlooking	the	true	value	of	ourselves	and	those	we	love.		
       Kelly Comeau

38	   The	road	to	success	is	always	under	construction	and	full	of	
       detours.		Enjoy	the	ride.		Origin Unknown

382	   Be	a	good	listener,	opportunity	sometimes	knocks	very	softly.		
       Origin Unknown

383	   I	do	not	know	anyone	who	has	got	to	the	top	without	hard	work.		
       That	is	the	recipe.		It	will	not	always	get	you	to	the	top,	but	should	
       get	you	pretty	near.		Margaret Thatcher

384	   Happiness	is	a	perfume	you	cannot	pour	on	others	without	getting	
       a	few	drops	on	yourself.		Ralph Waldo Emerson

385	   When	God	closes	a	door,	he	opens	a	window.		Origin Unknown

386	   We	judge	ourselves	by	what	we	feel	capable	of	doing,	while	others	
       judge	us	by	what	we	have	already	done.			
       Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

387	   Service	is	the	rent	we	pay	for	being.		It	is	the	very	purpose	of	life,	
       and	not	something	you	do	in	your	spare	time.		
       Marion Wright Edelman



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388	   Winning	isn’t	everything;	it’s	the	only	thing.		Vince Lombardi

389	   You	give	but	little	when	you	give	of	your	possessions.		It	is	when	
       you	give	of	yourself	that	you	truly	give.	 Kahlil Gibran

390	   In	the	end,	it’s	not	the	years	in	your	life	that	count.	It’s	the	life	in	
       your	years.		Abraham Lincoln

39	   Better	to	light	a	candle	than	curse	the	darkness.		Eleanor Roosevelt

392	   The	only	good	luck	many	great	men	ever	had	was	being	born	with	
       the	ability	and	determination	to	overcome	bad	luck.			
       Channing Pollock

393	   Friends	are	angels	who	lift	us	to	our	feet	when	our	wings	have	
       trouble	remembering	how	to	fly.		Origin Unknown

394	   Treat	people	as	if	they	were	what	they	ought	to	be,	and	you’ll	help	
       them	to	become	what	they	are	capable	of	becoming.		
        Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

395	   Never	give	in,	never	give	in	-	never,	never,	never.			
       Sir Winston Churchill

396	   The	price	of	success	is	hard	work,	dedication	to	the	job	at	hand,	
       and	the	determination	that	whether	we	win	or	lose,	we	have	
       applied	the	best	of	ourselves	to	the	task	at	hand.		Vince Lombardi

397	   Minds	are	like	parachutes.	They	only	function	when	they	are	open.		
       Thomas Dewar

398	   To	love	what	you	do	and	feel	that	it	matters,	how	on	earth	could	
       anything	be	more	fun.	 Katherine Graham

399	   You	are	never	given	a	wish	without	also	being	given	the	power	to	
       make	it	true.	You	may	have	to	work	for	it,	however.		Richard Bach

400	   Always	do	right;	this	will	gratify	some	and	astonish	the	rest.			
       Mark Twain

40	   Whatever	you	can	do,	or	dream	you	can,	begin	it.		Boldness	has	
       genius,	power	and	magic	in	it.		Begin	it	now.			
       Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

402	   If	a	man	does	not	keep	pace	with	his	companions,	perhaps	it	is	
       because	he	hears	a	different	drummer.		Henry David Thoreau

403	   Do	unto	others	as	you	would	have	them	do	unto	you.		The Bible




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

405	   Men	give	me	credit	for	genius.	All	the	genius	I	have	lies	in	this:	
       When	I	have	a	subject	in	hand,	I	study	it	profoundly.		Day	and	
       night,	it	is	before	me.		I	explore	it	in	all	its	bearings.	My	mind	
       becomes	pervaded	with	it.		Then	...	people	are	pleased	to	call	[the	
       effort	that	I	made]	the	fruit	of	genius.		It	is	the	fruit	of	labour	and	
       thought.		Alexander Hamilton

406	   For	as	he	thinketh	in	his	heart,	so	is	he.		Proverbs 23:7

407	   Be	happy	with	what	you	have	while	pursuing	what	you	want.	The	
       key	to	happiness	is	not	more.		Jim Rohn

408	   We	shall	not	cease	from	exploration.	And	the	end	of	all	our	
       exploring	will	be	to	arrive	where	we	started	and	know	the	place	for	
       the	first	time.		T.S. Elliot

409	   Solitude,	in	the	sense	of	being	often	alone,	is	essential	to	any	
       depth	of	meditation	or	of	character;	and	solitude	in	the	presence	
       of	natural	beauty	and	grandeur	is	the	cradle	of	thought	and	
       aspirations	which	are	not	only	good	for	the	individual,	but	which	
       society	could	ill	do	without.		John S. Mill

40	   What	you	alone	can	contribute,	no	one	else	can	contribute.		
       Stephen Covey

4	   In	wilderness	I	sense	the	miracle	of	life,	and	behind	it	our	scientific	
       accomplishments	fade	to	trivia.		Charles Lindbergh

42	   Happiness	serves	hardly	any	other	purpose	than	to	make	
       unhappiness	possible.		Marcel Proust

43	   After	the	game,	the	king	and	the	pawn	go	into	the	same	box.		
       Italian Proverb

44	   Chance	favours	only	the	prepared	mind. Louis Pasteur

45	   Very	little	is	needed	to	make	a	happy	life;	it	is	all	within	yourself,	in	
       your	way	of	thinking.		Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

46	   Write	to	be	understood,	speak	to	be	heard,	read	to	grow...	
       Lawrence Clark Powell

47	   When	we	do	the	best	that	we	can,	we	never	know	what	miracle	is	
       wrought	in	our	life,	or	in	the	life	of	another.		Helen Keller




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48	   You	will	always	gravitate	to	that	which	you	secretly	most	love.	Men	
       do	not	attain	that	which	they	want	but	that	which	they	are.			
       James Allen

49	   For	an	idea	which,	at	first,	does	not	seem	absurd,	there	is	no	hope.		
       Albert Einstein

420	   We	have	committed	the	Golden	Rule	to	memory;	let	us	now	
       commit	it	to	life.		Edwin Markham

42	   This	is	the	very	perfection	of	a	man,	to	find	out	his	own	
       imperfection.			Saint Augustine

422	   The	reasonable	man	adapts	himself	to	the	world;	the	unreasonable	
       one	persists	in	trying	to	adapt	the	world	to	himself.	Therefore	all	
       progress	depends	on	the	unreasonable	man.		George Bernard Shaw

423	   Live	not	one’s	life	as	though	one	had	a	thousand	years,	but	live	
       each	day	as	the	last.		Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

424	   We	can	neither	think	nor	act	to	good	purpose	until	the	habit	of	
       self-restraint	has	become	automatic.			
       Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

425	   Happiness	is	when	what	you	think,	what	you	say,	and	what	you	do	
       are	in	harmony.	 Mahatma Gandhi

426	   When	you’re	‘happy	for	no	reason,’	you	bring	happiness	to	your	
       everyday	experiences	rather	than	try	to	extract	happiness	from	
       them.	It’s	not	that	your	life	always	looks	perfect	-	it’s	that	however	
       it	looks,	you’ll	still	be	happy.		Marci Shimoff

427	   A	great	turning	point	in	our	lives	came	when	we	sought	for	
       humility	as	something	we	really	wanted,	rather	than	as	something	
       we	must	have.	 Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

428	   Happiness	is	not	a	station	you	arrive	at,	but	a	manner	of	traveling.		
       Margaret B. Runbeck

429	   Enthusiasm	is	one	of	the	most	powerful	engines	of	success.	When	
       you	do	a	thing,	do	it	with	all	your	might.	Put	your	whole	soul	into	
       it.	Stamp	it	with	your	own	personality.	Be	active,	be	energetic,	
       be	enthusiastic	and	faithful,	and	you	will	accomplish	your	object.	
       Nothing	great	was	ever	achieved	without	enthusiasm.			
       Ralph Waldo Emerson




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430	   The	individual	who	wants	to	reach	the	top	in	business	must	
       appreciate	the	might	and	force	of	habit.	He	must	be	quick	to	
       break	those	habits	that	can	break	him	-	and	hasten	to	adopt	those	
       practices	that	will	become	the	habits	that	help	him	achieve	the	
       success	he	desires.		J. Paul Getty

43	   There	are	two	ways	to	live	your	life.		One	is	as	though	nothing	is	a	
       miracle.		The	other	is	as	though	everything	is	a	miracle.			
       Albert Einstein

432	   I	absolutely	believe	that	people,	unless	coached,	never	reach	their	
       maximum	capabilities.		Bob Nardelli

433	   The	tragedy	of	life	doesn’t	lie	in	not	reaching	your	goal.	The	
       tragedy	lies	in	having	no	goals	to	reach.		Benjamin Mays

434	   One	of	the	most	tragic	things	I	know	about	human	nature	is	that	
       all	of	us	tend	to	put	off	living.	We	are	all	dreaming	of	some	magical	
       rose	garden	over	the	horizon	-	instead	of	enjoying	the	roses	that	
       are	blooming	outside	our	windows	today.		Dale Carnegie

435	   If	your	actions	create	a	legacy	that	inspires	others	to	dream	more,	
       learn	more,	do	more,	and	become	more,	then	you	are	an	excellent	
       leader.	 Dolly Parton

436	   There	is	a	science	of	getting	rich,	and	it	is	an	exact	science,	like	
       algebra	or	arithmetic.	There	are	certain	laws	which	govern	the	
       process	of	acquiring	riches,	and	once	these	laws	are	learned	and	
       obeyed	by	anyone,	that	person	will	get	rich	with	mathematical	
       certainty.		Wallace D. Wattles

437	   You	can	become	an	even	more	excellent	person	by	constantly	
       setting	higher	and	higher	standards	for	yourself	and	then	by	doing	
       everything	possible	to	live	up	to	those	standards.		Brian Tracy

438	   I	am	happy	and	content	because	I	think	I	am.		Atain-Rene Lesage

439	   You	must	live	in	the	present,	launch	yourself	on	every	wave,	
       find	your	eternity	in	each	moment.		Fools	stand	on	their	island	
       opportunities	and	look	toward	another	land.		There	is	no	other	
       land,	there	is	no	other	life	but	this.		Henry David Thoreau

440	   We	have	an	innate	desire	to	endlessly	learn,	grow,	and	develop.		
       We	want	to	become	more	than	what	we	already	are.		Once	
       we	yield	to	this	inclination	for	continuous	and	never-ending	
       improvement,	we	lead	a	life	of	endless	accomplishments	and	
       satisfaction.		Chuck Gallozzi




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44	   For	every	failure,	there’s	an	alternative	course	of	action.		You	just	
       have	to	find	it.		When	you	come	to	a	road	block,	take	a	detour.		
       Mary Kay Ash

442	   Learn	to	get	in	touch	with	the	silence	within	yourself	and	know	that	
       everything	in	life	has	a	purpose.		Elisabeth Kubler-Ross M.D.

443	   Create	your	future	from	your	future,	not	your	past.		Werner Erhard

444	   Making	a	success	of	the	job	at	hand	is	the	best	step	toward	the	
       kind	you	want.		Bernard M. Baruch

445	   Everyone	has	a	defining	moment.		Either	you	define	the	moment	
       or	the	moment	will	define	you.		Origin Unknown

446	   Use	the	stumbling	blocks	of	life	as	stepping	stones	to	success.		
       Origin Unknown

447	   If	you	must	make	a	mistake,	at	least	make	a	new	one.	
       Origin Unknown

448	   If	a	man	is	called	to	be	a	streetscaper,	he	should	sweep	streets	
       even	as	Michelangelo	painted,	or	Beethoven	composed	music	or	
       Shakespeare	wrote	poetry.		He	should	sweep	streets	so	well	that	all	
       the	hosts	of	heaven	and	earth	will	pause	to	say,	here	lived	a	great	
       streetscaper	who	did	his	job	well.		Martin Luther King, Jr.

449	   Every	day	in	every	way	I	am	getting	better	and	better.			
       Origin Unknown

450	   Success	seems	to	be	connected	with	action.		Successful	people	
       keep	moving.		They	make	mistakes,	but	they	don`t	quit.			
       Conrad Hilton

45	   Education	is	not	filling	a	bucket,	but	lighting	a	fire.		William Yeats

452	   Strength	does	not	come	from	winning.		Your	struggles	develop	
       your	strengths.		When	you	go	through	hardships	and	decide	not	
       to	surrender,	that	is	strength.		Mahatma Gandhi

453	   Success	leaves	clues.		Jim Rohn

454	   When	one	door	closes	another	opens,	but	we	often	look	so	long	
       and	so	regretfully	upon	the	closed	door	that	we	do	not	see	the	
       one	which	has	opened	for	us.		Alexander Graham Bell

455	   And	now	here	is	my	secret,	a	very	simple	secret.	It	is	only	with	the	
       heart	that	one	can	see	rightly,	what	is	essential	is	invisible	to	the	
       eye.		Antoine de Saint-Exupery




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456	   You	can	make	more	friends	in	two	months	by	becoming	interested	
       in	other	people	than	you	can	in	two	years	by	trying	to	get	other	
       people	interested	in	you.	 Dale Carnegie

457	   The	way	I	see	it,	if	you	want	the	rainbow,	you	gotta	put	up	with	the	
       rain.		Dolly Parton

458	   What	we	see	depends	mainly	on	what	we	look	for.			
       Sir John Lubbock

459	   When	it	is	dark	enough,	you	can	see	the	stars.	 Charles A. Beard

460	   If	the	only	tool	you	have	is	a	hammer,	you	tend	to	see	every	
       problem	as	a	nail.		Abraham Maslow

46	   Too	often	we	underestimate	the	power	of	a	touch,	a	smile,	a	kind	
       word,	a	listening	ear,	an	honest	compliment,	or	the	smallest	act	of	
       caring,	all	of	which	have	the	potential	to	turn	a	life	around.			
       Leo Buscaglia

462	   There	is	nothing	to	fear,	but	fear	itself.		Franklin D. Roosevelt

463	   Watch	your	thoughts;	they	become	words.		Watch	your	words;	
       they	become	actions.	Watch	your	actions;	they	become	habits.	
       Watch	your	habits;	they	become	character.	Watch	your	character;	it	
       becomes	your	destiny.	 Frank Outlaw

464	   Argue	for	your	limitations,	and	sure	enough	they’re	yours.			
       Richard Bach

465	   Character	cannot	be	developed	in	ease	and	quiet.	Only	through	
       experience	of	trial	and	suffering	can	the	soul	be	strengthened,	
       ambition	inspired,	and	success	achieved.		Helen Keller

466	   You	gain	strength,	courage,	and	confidence	by	every	experience	in	
       which	you	really	stop	to	look	fear	in	the	face.		Eleanor Roosevelt

467	   The	challenge	is	not	to	manage	time,	but	to	manage	ourselves.		
       Stephen Covey

468	   He	who	hesitates	is	lost.	 Proverb

469	   There	is	no	limit	to	what	a	man	can	do	or	where	he	can	go	if	he	
       doesn’t	mind	who	gets	the	credit.		Robert Woodruff

470	   A	man	is	a	success	if	he	gets	up	in	the	morning	and	goes	to	bed	at	
       night	and	in	between	does	what	he	wants	to	do.		Bob Dylan




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47	   Every	mess	is	a	lock	on	the	door	that	keeps	abundance	out.		
       Raymond Aaron

472	   Don’t	use	time	or	words	carelessly.		Neither	can	be	retrieved.		
       Origin Unknown

473	   The	best	is	yet	to	be.		Robert Browning

474	   Judge	not,	and	ye	shall	not	be	judged;	condemn	not,	and	ye	shall	
       not	be	condemned;	forgive,	and	ye	shall	be	forgiven. Luke 6:37

475	   Quality	of	life	depends	on	what	happens	between	stimulus	and	
       response.		Stephen Covey

476	   Nothing	is,	unless	our	thinking	makes	it	so.			William Shakespeare

477	   There	is	just	one	life	for	each	of	us:	our	own.	 Euripides

478	   Every	action	generates	a	force	of	energy	that	returns	to	us	in	like	
       kind	...	what	we	sow	is	what	we	reap.	And	when	we	choose	actions	
       that	bring	happiness	and	success	to	others,	the	fruit	of	our	karma	
       is	happiness	and	success.		Deepak Chopra

479	   Failure	to	prepare	is	preparing	to	fail.		Benjamin Franklin

480	   If	you	don’t	want	to	feel	great	about	what’s	going	on,	you	can	
       always	choose	to	feel	great	in	spite	of	what’s	going	on.			
       Ralph Marston

48	   Be	glad	of	life,	because	it	gives	you	the	chance	to	love	and	to	work	
       and	to	play	and	to	look	up	at	the	stars.			Henry Van Dyke

482	   We	make	our	fortunes,	and	we	call	them	fate.		Earl of Beaconsfield

483	   Do	not	attempt	to	do	a	thing	unless	you	are	sure	of	yourself;	but	
       do	not	relinquish	it	simply	because	someone	else	is	not	sure	of	
       you.		Stewart E. White

484	   Fail	often.	Fail	fast.	Fail	Cheap.		Jim Estill

485	   To	win	you	have	to	risk	loss.		Jean-Claude Killy

486	   You	must	go	after	your	wish.	As	soon	as	you	start	to	pursue	a	
       dream,	your	life	wakes	up	and	everything	has	meaning.			
       Barbara Sher

487	   We	are	unlimited	beings.	We	have	no	ceiling.	The	capabilities	and	
       the	talents	and	the	gifts	and	the	power	that	is	within	every	single	
       individual	that	is	on	this	planet,	is	unlimited.		Michael Beckwith




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488	   Genius	is	the	ability	to	simplify	those	things	we	perceive	as	
       complicated. C. W. Gran

489	   I	can	give	you	a	six	word	formula	for	success:	think	things	through	
       -	then	follow	through.		Eddie Rickenbacker

490	   Opportunities	are	usually	disguised	as	hard	work,	so	most	people	
       don’t	recognize	them.		Ann Landers

49	   Adults	are	always	asking	kids	what	they	want	to	be	when	they	
       grow	up	because	they	are	looking	for	ideas.			Paula Poundstone

492	   If	you	must	play,	decide	on	three	things	at	the	start:	the	rules	of	
       the	game,	the	stakes,	and	the	quitting	time.		Chinese Proverb

493	   Learning	to	ignore	things	is	one	of	the	great	paths	to	inner	peace.		
       Robert J. Sawyer

494	   There	is	a	wonderful	mythical	law	of	nature	that	the	three	things	
       we	crave	most	in	life	happiness,	freedom	and	peace	of	mind	-	are	
       always	attained	by	giving	them	to	someone	else.			
       Peyton Cornway March

495	   Be	kind,	for	everyone	you	meet	is	fighting	a	great	battle.			
       Philo of Alexandria

496	   Be	like	a	sponge	when	it	comes	to	each	new	experience.	If	you	
       want	to	be	able	to	express	it	well,	you	must	first	be	able	to	absorb	
       it	well.	 Jim Rohn

497	   Start	by	doing	what’s	necessary,	then	what’s	possible,	and	suddenly	
       you	are	doing	the	impossible.		Saint Francis

498	   I	don’t	think	of	myself	as	a	poor	deprived	ghetto	girl	who	made	
       good.	I	think	of	myself	as	somebody	who	from	an	early	age	knew	I	
       was	responsible	for	myself,	and	I	had	to	make	good.			
       Oprah Winfrey

499	   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.		Ayn Rand

500	   Nothing	changes	until	you	do.		Origin Unknown

50	   One	of	the	most	important	truths	about	success	is	that	it	is	a	
       formula:	10	percent	good	ideas	and	90	percent	action.			
       Michael Masterson




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502	   As	long	as	you	don’t	forgive,	who	and	whatever	it	is	will	occupy	
       rent-free	space	in	your	mind.	 Isabelle Holland

503	   All	the	resources	we	need	are	in	the	mind.		Theodore Roosevelt

504	   The	whole	life	of	man	is	but	a	point	of	time;	let	us	enjoy	it,	
       therefore,	while	it	lasts,	and	not	spend	it	with	no	purpose.		Plutarch

505	   Desire	is	the	key	to	motivation,	but	it’s	determination	and	
       commitment	to	an	unrelenting	pursuit	of	your	goal	-	a	
       commitment	to	excellence	-	that	will	enable	you	to	attain	the	
       success	you	seek.		Mario Andretti

506	   You	have	a	divine	right	to	abundance,	and	if	you	are	anything	less	
       than	a	millionaire,	you	haven’t	had	your	fair	share.		Stuart Wilde

507	   A	man	would	do	nothing	if	he	waited	until	he	could	do	it	so	well	
       that	no	one	could	find	fault.		John Henry Newman

508	   Happiness	in	life	comes	not	from	idleness	but	from	working.	Not	
       working	at	a	job	you	hate,	but	working	at	tasks	you	care	about.		
       Michael Masterson

509	   Difficulties	are	opportunities	to	better	things;	they	are	stepping-
       stones	to	greater	experience...	When	one	door	closes,	another	
       always	opens;	as	a	natural	law	it	has	to,	to	balance.		Brian Adams

50	   If	people	knew	how	hard	I	had	to	work	to	gain	my	mastery,	it	
       wouldn’t	seem	wonderful	at	all.		Michelangelo

5	   The	indispensable	first	step	to	getting	the	things	you	want	out	of	
       life	is	this:		decide	what	you	want.	 Ben Stein

52	   It	is	better	to	wear	out	than	to	rust	out.	 Richard Cumberland

53	   You	can’t	change	the	wind,	you	can	however	adjust	your	sails.		
       Origin Unknown

54	   If	you	want	to	leave	footprints	in	the	sands	of	time,	don’t	drag	your	
       feet.		Annot L. Sheppard

55	   It’s	much	better	to	prepare	and	not	have	the	opportunity	than	to	
       have	the	opportunity	and	not	be	prepared.		Origin Unknown

56	   The	important	thing	is	this:	to	be	able	at	any	moment	to	sacrifice	
       what	we	are	for	what	we	could	become.	 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi




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57	   Sometimes	our	light	goes	out	but	is	blown	into	flame	by	another	
       human	being.		Each	of	us	owes	deeper	thanks	to	those	who	have	
       rekindled	this	light.		Albert Schweitzer

58	   Live	in	such	a	way	that	you	would	not	be	ashamed	to	sell	your	
       parrot	to	the	town	gossip.	 Will Rogers

59	   You	don`t	have	to	see	the	whole	staircase,	just	take	the	first	step.		
       Martin Luther King, Jr.

520	   Great	oaks	from	little	acorns	grow. Proverb

52	   The	best	thing	about	the	future	is	that	it	comes	only	one	day	at	a	
       time.		Abraham Lincoln

522	   The	only	place	success	comes	before	work	is	in	the	dictionary.		
       Vince Lombardi

523	   The	definition	of	insanity	is	doing	the	same	thing	over	and	over	
       and	expecting	different	results.		Albert Einstein

524	   It	is	better	to	have	loved	and	lost	than	to	never	have	loved.			
       Alfred Lord Tennyson

525	   To	succeed	...	you	need	to	find	something	to	hold	on	to,	
       something	to	motivate	you,	something	to	inspire	you.	 Tony Dorsett

526	   The	unexamined	life	is	not	worth	living.		Socrates

527	   Some	people	come	into	our	lives	and	quickly	go,	some	stay	for	a	
       while	and	leave	footprints	in	our	hearts,	and	we	are	never,	ever	the	
       same.		Origin Unknown

528	   To	accomplish	great	things,	we	must	not	only	act,	but	also	dream;	
       not	only	plan,	but	also	believe.		Anatole France

529	   As	we	are	liberated	from	our	own	fear,	our	presence	automatically	
       liberates	others.		Nelson Mandela

530	   Do	not	let	what	you	cannot	do	interfere	with	what	you	can	do.		
       John Wooden

53	   I	am	the	captain	of	my	soul.		William Ernest Henley

532	   Those	who	dream	by	day	are	cognizant	of	many	things	which	
       escape	those	who	dream	only	by	night.	 Edgar Allen Poe




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533	   The	best	and	most	beautiful	things	in	the	world	cannot	be	seen	or	
       even	touched.	They	must	be	felt	with	the	heart.		Helen Keller

534	   No	one	can	make	you	feel	inferior	without	your	consent.			
       Eleanor Roosevelt

535	   [The]	moment	one	definitely	commits	oneself,	then	Providence	
       moves,	too.		All	sorts	of	things	occur	to	help	one	that	would	never	
       otherwise	have	occurred.		A	whole	stream	of	events	issues	from	
       the	decision,	raising	in	one’s	favour	all	manner	of	unforeseen	
       incidents	and	meetings	and	material	assistance,	which	no	man	
       could	have	dreamed	could	come	his	way.			Goethe

536	   All	thoughts	which	have	been	emotionalized	[given	feeling]	and	
       mixed	with	faith,	begin	immediately	to	translate	themselves	into	
       their	physical	equivalent	or	counterpart.	 Napoleon Hill

537	   When	we	change	the	models	in	our	mind,	we	change	the	results	in	
       our	life.		Mark Victor Hansen

538	   If	we	know	how	to	listen	to	our	own	hearts,	we	can	listen	to	the	
       hearts	of	others. Stephen Covey

539	   I	wish	to	say	what	I	think	and	feel	today,	with	the	proviso	that	
       tomorrow	perhaps	I	shall	contradict	it	all.		Ralph Waldo Emerson

540	   Be	aware	of	wonder.	Live	a	balanced	life	-	learn	some	and	think	
       some	and	draw	and	paint	and	sing	and	dance	and	play	and	work	
       every	day	some.		Robert Fulghum

54	   Someone	may	have	stolen	your	dream	when	it	was	young	and	
       fresh	and	you	were	innocent.	Anger	is	natural.	Grief	is	appropriate.	
       Healing	is	mandatory.	Restoration	is	possible.		Jane Rubietta

542	   Life	is	not	measured	by	the	number	of	breaths	we	take,	but	by	the	
       moments	that	take	our	breath	away.		George Carlin

543	   The	shortest	way	to	do	many	things	is	to	do	only	one	thing	at	
       once.		Samuel Smiles

544	   The	trouble	with	the	rat	race	is	that	even	if	you	win,	you’re	still	a	
       rat.		Lily Tomlin

545	   All	courses	of	action	are	risky,	so	prudence	is	not	in	avoiding	
       danger	(it’s	impossible),	but	calculating	risk	and	acting	decisively.	
       Make	mistakes	of	ambition	and	not	mistakes	of	sloth.	Develop	the	
       strength	to	do	bold	things,	not	the	strength	to	suffer.			
       Niccolo Machiavelli




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546	   Patience	is	the	companion	of	wisdom.		Saint Augustine

547	   Right	now	you	are	one	choice	away	from	a	new	beginning	-	one	
       that	leads	you	toward	becoming	the	fullest	human	being	you	can	
       be.		Oprah Winfrey

548	   Be	careful	the	environment	you	choose	for	it	will	shape	you;	be	
       careful	the	friends	you	choose	for	you	will	become	like	them.			
       W. Clement Stone

549	   Fear	less,	hope	more;	whine	less,	breathe	more;	talk	less,	say	more;	
       hate	less,	love	more;	and	all	good	things	are	yours.			
       Swedish Proverb

550	   It’s	easy	to	be	negative	and	unmotivated,	but	it	takes	some	work	
       to	be	positive	and	motivated.	While	there’s	no	off	button	for	those	
       relentless	“tapes,”	there	are	things	that	you	can	do	to	turn	down	
       the	volume	and	shift	your	focus	from	negative	to	the	positive.		
       Donna Cardillo R.N.

55	   If	you	spend	your	life	improving	your	weaknesses,	at	the	end	of	
       your	life	you	will	have	many	strong	weaknesses.		Dan Sullivan

552	   Never	promise	more	than	you	can	perform.		Publilius Syrus

553	   Yesterday	is	not	ours	to	recover,	but	tomorrow	is	ours	to	win	or	to	
       lose.	 Lyndon b. Johnson

554	   Be	honest.	Be	sincere.	Be	genuine.	With	yourself	and	with	
       everybody	else,	as	often	and	as	much	as	you	can.	Nothing	else	
       you’ll	resolve	to	do	could	make	a	bigger	difference.		John Forde

555	   Progress	always	involves	risk;	you	can’t	steal	second	base	and	keep	
       your	foot	on	first.		Frederick Wilcox

556	   You	have	to	believe	in	yourself	when	no	one	else	does.		That’s	
       what	makes	you	a	winner.	 Venus Williams

557	   The	man	who	does	not	work	for	the	love	of	work	but	only	for	
       money	is	not	likely	to	make	money	nor	find	much	fun	in	life.		
       Charles M. Schwab

558	   What	you	think	and	what	you	feel	and	what	you	manifest	is	always	
       a	match.	Every	single	time.	No	exception.	 Esther Hicks-Abraham

559	   If	opportunity	doesn’t	knock,	build	a	door.		Milton Berle

560	   Seek	first	to	understand,	then	be	understood.		Stephen Covey




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56	   Success	is	the	sum	of	small	efforts,	repeated	day	in	and	day	out.		
       Robert Collier

562	   I	am	a	great	believer	in	luck	and	I	find	that	the	harder	I	work	the	
       more	I	have	of	it.		Thomas Jefferson

563	   You	only	get	out	what	you	put	in.		Origin Unknown

564	   What	would	you	attempt	to	do	if	you	knew	you	could	not	fail?		
       Robert Schuller

565	   You	are	what	you	think	you	are.		Bob Richards

566	   There	are	two	kinds	of	people,	those	who	do	the	work	and	those	
       who	take	the	credit.	Try	to	be	in	the	first	group,	there	is	less	
       competition	there.	 Indira Gandhi

567	   The	highest	reward	for	a	person’s	toil	is	not	what	they	get	for	it,	
       but	what	they	become	by	it.	 John Ruskin

568	   Many	of	life’s	failures	are	people	who	did	not	realize	how	close	
       they	were	to	success	when	they	gave	up.		Thomas Edison

569	   Do	what	you	can,	with	what	you	have,	where	you	are.			
       Theodore Roosevelt

570	   A	life	lived	in	fear	is	a	life	half	lived.		Proverb

57	   Our	deepest	fear	is	not	that	we	are	inadequate.		Our	deepest	fear	
       is	that	we	are	powerful	beyond	measure.		Marianne Williamson

572	   Two	roads	diverged	in	a	wood,	and	I	...	I	took	the	one	less	traveled	
       by,	and	that	has	made	all	the	difference.		Robert Frost

573	   Man’s	mind	stretched	to	a	new	idea	never	goes	back	to	its	original	
       dimensions.		Oliver Wendell Holmes

574	   Most	things	which	are	urgent	are	not	important,	and	most	things	
       which	are	important	are	not	urgent.		President Dwight Eisenhower

575	   People	rarely	succeed	unless	they	have	fun	in	what	they	are	doing.	
       Dale Carnegie

576	   Any	man	can	make	mistakes,	but	only	an	idiot	persists	in	his	error.		
       Cicero




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577	   Karma	is	the	eternal	assertion	of	human	freedom	...	our	thoughts,	
       our	words,	and	deeds	are	the	threads	of	the	net	which	we	throw	
       around	ourselves.		Swami Vivekananda

578	   Gratitude	is	the	inward	feeling	of	kindness	received.	Thankfulness	
       is	the	natural	impulse	to	express	that	feeling.	Thanksgiving	is	the	
       following	of	that	impulse.		Henry Van Dyke

579	   Don’t	be	afraid	to	go	out	on	a	limb.		That’s	where	the	fruit	is.		H.	
       Jackson Browne

580	   The	worst	thing	you	can	try	to	do	is	cling	to	something	that	is	
       gone,	or	to	recreate	it.		Johnette Napolitano

58	   If	you	want	to	get	to	the	top,	you	must	first	get	off	your	bottom.		
       Khow Wong

582	   The	miracle	is	not	to	walk	on	water.	The	miracle	is	to	walk	on	the	
       green	earth,	dwelling	deeply	in	the	present	moment	and	feeling	
       truly	alive.	 Thich Nhat Hanh

583	   Life	is	too	short	to	be	small.		Benjamin Disraeli

584	   A	person’s	true	wealth	is	the	good	he	or	she	does	in	the	world.		
       Mohammed

585	   The	purpose	of	human	life	is	to	show	compassion	and	the	will	to	
       help	others.		Albert Schweitzer

586	   Every	now	and	again	take	a	good	look	at	something	not	made	
       with	hands	-	a	mountain,	a	star,	the	turn	of	a	stream.	There	will	
       come	to	you	wisdom	and	patience	and	solace	and,	above	all,	the	
       assurance	that	you	are	not	alone	in	the	world.		Sidney Lovett

587	   Life	is	about	not	knowing,	having	to	change,	taking	the	moment	
       and	making	the	best	of	it,	without	knowing	what’s	going	to	happen	
       next.	Delicious	ambiguity.	 Gilda Radner

588	   Don’t	limit	yourself.	Many	people	limit	themselves	to	what	they	
       think	they	can	do.	You	can	go	as	far	as	your	mind	lets	you.	What	
       you	believe,	you	can	achieve. Mary Kay Ash

589	   All	meaning	is	self-created.		Virginia Satir

590	   You	can	achieve	anything	you	want	in	life,	as	long	as	you	don’t	
       care	who	gets	the	credit.		U.S. President Ronald Reagan




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59	   Brain	researchers	estimate	that	your	unconscious	data	base	
       outweighs	the	conscious	on	an	order	exceeding	ten	million	to	
       one.	This	data	base	is	the	source	of	your	hidden,	natural	genius.	In	
       other	words,	a	part	of	you	is	much	smarter	than	you	are.	The	wise	
       people	regularly	consult	that	smarter	part.		Michael J. Gelb

592	   The	mind	is	like	an	elastic	band;	once	stretched	by	a	new	idea,	it	
       never	regains	its	original	dimension.	 Oliver Wendell Holmes

593	   It’s	what	you	learn	after	you	know	it	all	that	counts.		John Wooden

594	   The	secret	to	success	is	action,	not	attitude.	It	doesn’t	matter	what	
       your	attitude	is.	What	matters	is	what	you	do	with	your	time.	If	
       you	do	the	right	things	you	will	be	successful	regardless	of	your	
       emotional	condition	or	mental	attitude.	If	you	do	the	wrong	things,	
       no	amount	of	positive	thinking	will	save	you.		Michael Masterson

595	   Fall	down	seven	times,	get	up	eight	times.	 Japanese Proverb

596	   Believe	and	act	as	if	it	were	impossible	to	fail.		Charles F. Kettering

597	   If	you	limit	your	choices	only	to	what	seems	possible	or	
       reasonable,	you	disconnect	yourself	from	what	you	truly	want,	and	
       all	that	is	left	is	a	compromise.	 Robert Fritz

598	   Work	is	love	made	visible.		And	if	you	can’t	work	with	love	but	only	
       with	distaste,	it	is	better	that	you	should	leave	your	work	and	sit	at	
       the	gate	of	the	temple	and	take	alms	of	the	people	who	work	with	
       joy.		Kahlil Gibran

599	   How	will	you	know	the	taste	of	victory	if	you	don’t	take	the	risk?	
       Origin Unknown

600	   Leave	everything	a	little	better	than	you	found	it.		Origin Unknown

60	   Practice	does	not	make	perfect,	perfect	practice	makes	perfect.		
       Vince Lombardi

602	   Excellence	is	the	result	of	caring	more	than	others	think	wise,	
       risking	more	than	other’s	think	safe,	dreaming	more	than	others	
       think	practical,	and	expecting	more	than	others	think	possible.		
       Origin Unknown

603	   You	must	be	the	change	you	want	to	see	in	the	world.	
       Mahatma Gandhi

604	   Everything	is	okay	in	the	end.		If	it’s	not	okay,	then	it’s	not	the	end.		
       Origin Unknown




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605	   If	you	can	imagine	it,	you	can	achieve	it.	If	you	can	dream	it,	you	
       can	become	it.	 William A. Ward

606	   We	will	either	find	a	way	or	make	one.		Hannibal

607	   Hold	fast	to	dreams,	for	if	dreams	die,	life	is	a	broken	winged	bird	
       that	cannot	fly.		Langston Hughes

608	   You	have	to	expect	things	of	yourself	before	you	can	do	them.		
       Michael Jordan

609	   Men	occasionally	stumble	over	the	truth,	but	most	of	them	pick	
       themselves	up	and	hurry	off	as	if	nothing	had	happened.			
       Winston Churchill

60	   The	quality	of	a	person’s	life	is	in	direct	proportion	to	their	
       commitment	to	excellence,	regardless	of	their	chosen	field	of	
       endeavour.	 Vince Lombardi

6	   Thoughts	become	things.			Mike Dooley

62	   To	the	world	you	may	be	one	person,	but	to	one	person	you	may	
       be	the	world.	 Origin Unknown

63	   Follow	your	bliss	and	the	universe	will	open	doors	for	you	where	
       there	were	only	walls.		Joseph Campbell

64	   I	think	therefore	I	am.	 Rene Descartes

65	   I	can’t	change	the	direction	of	the	wind,	but	I	can	adjust	my	sails	to	
       always	reach	my	destination.		Jimmy Dean

66	   You	alter	your	destiny	by	altering	your	thoughts.	
       Dr. Dennis R. Deaton

67	   If	you	want	to	change	the	fruits,	you	will	first	have	to	change	the	
       roots.	If	you	want	to	change	the	visible,	you	must	first	change	the	
       invisible. T. Harv Eker

68	   There	is	so	much	we	can	render	service,	to	make	a	difference	
       in	the	world	-	no	matter	how	large	or	how	small	our	circle	of	
       influence. Stephen Covey

69	   In	the	beginning	there	was	desire,	which	was	the	first	seed	of	
       mind;	sages,	having	meditated	in	their	hearts,	have	discovered	by	
       their	wisdom	the	connection	of	the	existent	with	the	non-existent.		
       Hymn of Creation, The Rig Veda




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620	   You	are	what	your	deep,	driving	desire	is.	As	your	desire	is,	so	is	
       your	will.	As	your	will	is,	so	is	your	deed.	As	your	deed	is,	so	is	your	
       destiny.		Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

62	   Kiss	your	life.	Accept	it,	just	as	it	is.	Today.	Now.	So	that	those	
       moments	of	happiness	you’re	waiting	for	don’t	pass	you	by.		
       Origin Unknown

622	   Life	is	a	tragedy	for	those	who	feel,	and	a	comedy	for	those	who	
       think. La Bruyere

623	   Developing	the	plan	is	actually	laying	out	the	sequence	of	events	
       that	have	to	occur	for	you	to	achieve	your	goal.		George L. Morrisey

624	   Intellectual	growth	should	begin	at	growth	and	cease	only	at	
       death.		Albert Einstein

625	   The	first	person	gets	the	oyster,	the	second	person	gets	the	shell.		
       Andrew Carnegie

626	   The	seeds	of	great	discoveries	are	constantly	floating	around	us,	
       but	they	only	take	root	in	minds	well	prepared	to	receive	them.		
       Joseph Henry

627	   Civilization	had	too	many	rules	for	me,	so	I	did	my	best	to	rewrite	
       them.		Bill Cosby

628	   “I	can’t	do	it”	never	accomplished	anything.	“I	will	try”	has	
       performed	wonders.		George P. Burnham

629	   There	is	a	difference	between	interest	and	commitment.		When	
       you’re	interested	in	doing	something,	you	do	it	only	when	it’s	
       convenient.	When	you	are	committed	to	something,	you	accept	
       no	excuses,	only	results.		Ken Blanchard

630	   It	is	important	that	you	recognize	your	progress	and	take	pride	
       in	your	accomplishments.		Share	your	achievements	with	others.	
       Brag	a	little.	The	recognition	and	support	of	those	around	you	is	
       nurturing.		Rosemarie Rossetti

63	   We	are	NOT	sentient,	self-respecting,	intelligent	creatures.	We	only	
       tell	ourselves	that	we	are.	The	truth	is,	we	are	driven	by	emotion.	
       We	only	use	our	thinking	brain	to	rationalize	those	emotional	
       decisions	after	they’re	made.	 Clayton Makepeace

632	   It’s	not	the	will	to	win	that	matters	-	everyone	has	that.		It’s	the	will	
       to	prepare	to	win	that	matters.		Paul “Bear” Bryant




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633	   If	you	are	bored	with	life,	if	you	don’t	get	up	every	morning	with	a	
       burning	desire	to	do	things	-	you	don’t	have	enough	goals.			
       Lou Holtz

634	   Experience	gives	you	the	test	first,	the	lesson	after.			
       Origin Unknown

635	   The	harder	you	fall	the	higher	you	bounce.		Horace

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

637	   Change	comes	from	within.		Origin Unknown

638	   Do	not	wish	to	be	anything	but	what	you	are,	and	try	to	be	that	
       perfectly.		St. Francis of De Sales

639	   In	the	middle	of	difficulty	lies	opportunity. Albert Einstein

640	   Whatever	we	think	about	and	thank	about	we	bring	about.	
       Dr John F Demartini

64	   It	is	one	of	the	most	beautiful	compensations	of	this	life	that	no	
       man	can	sincerely	try	to	help	another	without	helping	himself.		
       Ralph Waldo Emerson

642	   To	see	a	world	in	a	grain	of	sand.	And	heaven	in	a	wild	flower,	hold	
       infinity	in	the	palm	of	your	hand.	And	eternity	in	an	hour.			
       William Blake

643	   The	source	of	all	creation	is	pure	consciousness	...	pure	potentiality	
       seeking	expression	from	the	unmanifest	to	the	manifest.	And	when	
       we	realize	that	our	true	self	is	one	of	pure	potentiality,	we	align	
       with	the	power	that	manifests	everything	in	the	universe.			
       Deepak Chopra

644	   Happiness	does	not	consist	in	pastimes	and	amusements	but	in	
       virtuous	activities.		Aristotle

645	   Optimism	means	expecting	the	best,	but	confidence	means	
       knowing	how	to	handle	the	worst.		Never	make	a	move	if	you	are	
       merely	optimistic.		The Zurich Axioms

646	   A	man	is	rich	in	proportion	to	the	number	of	things	he	can	afford	
       to	let	alone.		Henry David Thoreau




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  • 3. Copyright 2009 Gurutropolis Corporation www.gurutropolis.com Welcome to Gurutropolis, and thank-you for requesting your own copy of our ebook 1001 Guru Thoughts. A regular practice in our Gurutropolis culture is to share some of our favourite quotes with each other. This has become a regular feature in each of our meetings, and always sets the tone for positive, enlightening, and inspiring discussion. Quote #858 in our book nicely sums up the benefits we see in maintaining this practice: “I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.” Marlene Dietrich. And we also think you’ll agree with this statement by Galileo Galilei, “You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.” (Quote #24) That is why we feel there is so much value in sharing this collection of quotes from the ages, to inspire you to Find Your Inner Guru. Enjoy this compilation as part of your spiritual journey. Allow it to inspire you to think grander thoughts, and achieve higher goals and dreams. With much love, gratitude and respect, The Gurutropolis Team 1001 guru thoughts
  • 4. When the student is ready, the master appears. Buddhist Proverb 2 We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. Carl Jung 3 Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light. Albert Schweitzer 4 In the faces of men and women, I see God. Walt Whitman 5 In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty ... in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe. Deepak Chopra 6 The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. Kahlil Gibran 7 Strength lies in differences, not in similarities. Stephen Covey 8 You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on. Heraclitus 9 We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities. Rudyard Kipling 0 It is vain to do with more what can be done with less. William of Occam Take a rest. A field that has rested gives a beautiful crop. Ovid 2 Every time we leave home and go to another place, we open up the possibility of having something wonderful happen to us. Joseph Dispenza 3 If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do. Origin Unknown 4 Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were. Richard Paul Evans 5 Don’t squander the gift of extra time by spending it on something that’s not really important. Commit yourself to spending every minute of it on the goal you want to accomplish. Michael Masterson www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts
  • 5. 6 Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. Jamie Paolinetti 7 Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury 8 You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. Napoleon Hill 9 Life moves forward in one direction only, and each day we are faced with an actual set of circumstances, not with what might have been, not with what we might have done, but with what is, and with where we are now, and from this point we must proceed; not from where we were, not from where we wish we were, but from where we are. Richard L. Evans 20 Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. John Keywood 2 Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napolean Bonaparte 22 I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King, Jr. 23 Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller 24 You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo Galilei 25 Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Origin Unknown 26 In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life - it goes on. Robert Frost 27 Be here now. Ram Dass 28 The key to success is to create a vision of who you want to be, and then picture it as if it has already happened. Arnold Schwarzenegger 29 The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift. Albert Einstein www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 2
  • 6. 30 The only difference between a thought and physical reality is time, passion, and physical activity. Peter McWilliams 3 Arrange whatever pieces come your way. Virginia Woolf 32 Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying. Christian Furchtegott Gellert 33 Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. Dr. Robert Anthony 34 We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other. Luciano Decrescenzo 35 Yes, even as you read this the universe is plotting to make you utterly happy, healthy and successful, and there isn’t a thing you can do about it. Steve Bhaerman 36 Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. George Bernard Shaw 37 It is not length of life, but depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson 38 We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. C. Malesherbes 39 Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon 40 Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, “I can’t afford it,” your subconscious mind works to make it true. Select a better thought. Decree, “I’ll buy it. I accept it in my mind.” Dr. Joseph Murphy 4 Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. Wayne Dyer 42 Listen a hundred times. Ponder a thousand times. Speak once. Origin Unknown 43 Ignore the rules. There are no rules. There are no regulations. You get out and you do what you need to do because you believe in what you’re doing. John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten) 44 Most people give up when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touch down. H. Ross Perot www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 3
  • 7. 45 You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. Jim Rohn 46 Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all. Sam Ewig 47 When anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul high that the offense cannot reach me. Rene Descartes 48 Don’t let your fears stand in the way of your dreams. Origin Unknown 49 I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. Anne Frank 50 The past does not equal the future. Anthony Robbins 5 There is no security on this Earth, there is only opportunity. General Douglas MacArthur 52 Smile! And the world will smile with you! Origin Unknown 53 There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana 54 When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly. Barbara Winter 55 Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw 56 A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Sir Winston Churchill 57 Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called Present. Origin Unknown 58 Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain 59 Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 4
  • 8. 60 It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment. Richard J. Foster 6 Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. Leo Buscaglia 62 Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. Goethe 63 If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau 64 The key to motivation is motive. Stephen Covey 65 Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves. Nisargadatta Maharaj 66 A man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing and doing it very well, never loses his self respect. George Bernard Shaw 67 Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall. Stephen Covey 68 How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak - because some day you will have been all of these. George W. Carver 69 Change can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing. Bart Conner 70 We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. Marian Wright Edelman 7 Learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. Charles Kettering 72 To know and not to do is not yet to know. Zen Saying 73 To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can. Og Mandino www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 5
  • 9. 74 Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life. John F. Kennedy 75 We are new every day. Irene Claremont de Castillego 76 The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao Tzu 77 I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt 78 Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford 79 There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. Louis L’Amour 80 Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come. Greer Garson 8 Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. Walter Anderson 82 I look back on my life like a good day’s work; it is done and I am satisfied with it. Grandma Moses 83 We need only provide the spark to light the Universe’s fire; to hoist up our sails so that they can be filled with its magical winds. Mike Dooley 84 The cure for a life of emptiness is a life of gratitude. Raymond Aaron 85 Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. Tony Robbins 86 Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like. Will Rogers 87 Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements. Werner Erhard 88 The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. Harriet Beecher Stowe www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 6
  • 10. 89 Whenever you find yourself anxious or upset about a business or personal situation, it will be remarkably helpful to think about a reality of life that seems to escape people who are under stress: Things change! Robert Ringer 90 The easiest way to become something special is also the fastest. Just start doing it. Don’t wait for the “right” time. Don’t worry about not being qualified. And don’t worry about getting paid for it. Just start doing it. Michael Masterson 91 How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank 92 Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step. Martin Luther King, Jr. 93 Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it. Brian Tracy 94 If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. Andrew Carnegie 95 There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. Roger Staubach 96 The true measure of success is revealed only by looking at the obstacles that an individual had to overcome to achieve their goals. Bill Phillips 9 If you take something that is spinning and give it a point, it becomes a drill. Cat Shrier 98 The secret of life isn’t what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you. Norman Vincent Peale 99 One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength, which can overcome adversity. Albert Schweitzer 100 Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. Stephen R. Covey 101 It’s not what happens to you; it’s what you do about it that makes the difference. W. Mitchell 102 You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore. Origin Unknown 103 I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. Helen Keller www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts
  • 11. 89 Whenever you find yourself anxious or upset about a business or personal situation, it will be remarkably helpful to think about a reality of life that seems to escape people who are under stress: Things change! Robert Ringer 90 The easiest way to become something special is also the fastest. Just start doing it. Don’t wait for the “right” time. Don’t worry about not being qualified. And don’t worry about getting paid for it. Just start doing it. Michael Masterson 91 How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank 92 Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step. Martin Luther King, Jr. 93 Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it. Brian Tracy 94 If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. Andrew Carnegie 95 There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. Roger Staubach 96 The true measure of success is revealed only by looking at the obstacles that an individual had to overcome to achieve their goals. Bill Phillips 9 If you take something that is spinning and give it a point, it becomes a drill. Cat Shrier 98 The secret of life isn’t what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you. Norman Vincent Peale 99 One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength, which can overcome adversity. Albert Schweitzer 100 Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. Stephen R. Covey 101 It’s not what happens to you; it’s what you do about it that makes the difference. W. Mitchell 102 You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore. Origin Unknown 103 I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. Helen Keller www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts
  • 12. 104 You can have everything in life you want if you’ll just help enough other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar 105 Love is a bird, she needs to fly. Madonna 106 The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one. Elbert Hubbard 107 If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou 10 People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross 109 Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin 110 It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin 111 People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou 112 Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein 113 You can do what you want to do. David Thomas 114 The best way to predict the future is to create it. Peter Drucker 115 The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King Jr. 116 Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson 117 Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan 11 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. Serenity Prayer 119 You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’ George Bernard Shaw www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts
  • 13. 20 The creative mechanism within you is impersonal. It will work automatically and impersonally to achieve goals which you yourself set for it. Present it with success goals, and it functions as a success mechanism. Present it with negative goals, and it operates just as impersonally and just as faithfully as a failure mechanism. Dr. Maxwell Maltz 2 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Matthew 7:7 22 You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning. Barbara Sher 23 The sage does not hoard, and thereby bestows. The more he lives for others, the greater his life. The more he gives to others, the greater his abundance. Lao Tzu 24 The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts ... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius 25 When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turn to music ... and what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth ... Kahlil Gibran 26 Only as we connect with our conscience can we create the fire within. Stephen Covey 27 Live in the present, allow the flow of the universe to deliver your dreams and enjoy the ride. Austin Beasley 28 A peacock who sits on his tail is just another turkey. Origin Unknown 29 Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. Henry Van Dyke 30 Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgement difficult. Hypocrites 3 Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire, which transcends everything. Napoleon Hill www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 9
  • 14. 32 Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. Peter Drucker 33 Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress. Epictetus 34 To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Robert Louis Stevenson 35 Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes a goal. Pamela Vaull Starr 36 It’s much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going. Marshall Thurber 37 Sow a thought, reap an act. Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap an eternal destiny. David O. McKay 38 There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. David Starr Jordan 39 The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. Colin Wilson 40 Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. Ralph Charell 4 What we have done for ourselves dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pike 42 When someone does something good, applaud! You’ll make two people happy. Samuel Goldwyn 43 Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha 44 Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open. Alexander Graham Bell 45 Catch a passion for helping others and a richer life will come back to you. William H. Danforth 46 Light tomorrow with today. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 47 I will not “should” myself today. Origin Unknown www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 0
  • 15. 48 When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work toward a definite objective or purpose, they place themselves in a position, through the alliance, to absorb power directly from the great storehouse of Infinite Intelligence. Napoleon Hill 49 Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. Don Marquis 50 Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything. James Allen 5 The value of humour is almost a ‘no brainer’ when you think about it. It can help you get out of a tough spot... Reduce tension... And put you in a more relaxed frame of mind. Simply put, when you learn to lighten up, the achievement of almost any goal will go more smoothly. Robert L. Cox 52 It’s never too late to be who you might have been. George Eliot 53 If everything’s under control, you’re going too slow. Mario Andretti 54 As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. Marian Anderson 55 No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. William E. Gladstone 56 Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. Albert Einstein 57 I do not know what the future holds, but I do know who holds the future. Origin Unknown 58 I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendel Holmes, Sr. 59 Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal. Origin Unknown 60 If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can`t buy. Origin Unknown 6 Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. John Wooden 62 Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. Marilyn Vos Savant www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts
  • 16. 63 How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. Annie Dillard 64 Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be. Abraham Lincoln 65 Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. George Bernard Shaw 66 Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy 67 Do what you love and the money will follow. Marsha Sinetar 68 The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke 69 The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination. Tommy Lasorda 70 Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart 7 Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge 72 He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. Origin Unknown 73 Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln 74 Do or do not, there is no try. Yoda 75 Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others. ... No one’s education is ever complete. Sir John Templeton 76 Masters see their creations before they are created. Dr. Dennis R. Deaton 77 The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. William James www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 2
  • 17. 78 Inspiration leads to motivation; it is your spirits desire to grow and evolve. Robert Gregoire 79 Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Carlos Castaneda 80 An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing. Lao Tzu 8 The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. Ralph W. Sockman 82 When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. Anatole France 83 Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound. Herman Melville 84 So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man’s genius contracts itself to a very few hours. Ralph Waldo Emerson 85 One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Andre Gide 86 A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein 87 You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now! Joan Baez 88 I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary condition. Mike Todd 89 We’ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it’s more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors. Norman Vincent Peale 90 Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. William Hazlitt 9 To be free, to be happy and fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things. Robert Henri 92 Genius is only a superior power of seeing. John Ruskin 93 Named must your fear be before banish it you can. Yoda from Star Wars www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 3
  • 18. 94 May we never let the things we can’t have, or don’t have, or shouldn’t have, spoil the enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. Richard L. Evans 95 The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do. Origin Unknown 96 Courage is grace under pressure. Ernest Hemingway 97 Make your recovery the first priority in your life. Robin Norwood 98 Perseverance is not a long race, it is many short races one after another. Walter Elliot 99 Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Helen Keller 200 Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. Nelson Mandella 20 There is only one journey: going inside yourself. Rainer Maria Rilke 202 Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road. Dag Hammarskjold 203 Action is the foundational key to all success. Pablo Picasso 204 You must begin to understand, therefore, that the present state of your bank account, your sales, your health, your social life, your position at work, etc., is nothing more than the physical manifestation of your previous thinking. If you sincerely wish to change or improve your results in the physical world, you must change your thoughts, and you must change them IMMEDIATELY. Bob Proctor 205 Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. Oprah Winfrey 206 Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie 207 To keep the body in good health is a duty... Otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. Buddha 208 Everyone can have a balanced life. You just need to want it... And act to achieve it. MaryEllen Tribby www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 4
  • 19. 209 You’ve got to ask. Asking is, in my opinion, the world’s most powerful and neglected secret to success and happiness. Percy Ross 20 We come this way once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams. Bob Proctor 2 To fly as fast as thought, to be anywhere there is, you must first begin by knowing that you have already arrived. Richard Bach 22 You can’t be poor enough to help the poor. Eva Gregory 23 If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. Dale Carnegie 24 Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Auguste Rodin 25 Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. Origin Unknown 26 Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade? Benjamin Franklin 27 Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it. Margaret Thatcher 28 The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. John F. Kennedy 29 I plant, nurture and bring light to trees that I don’t expect to stand under. Jill Fischer 220 There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Logan Pearsall Smith 22 It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. Robert H. Goddard 222 Your attitude determines your altitude. Zig Ziglar 223 Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want. Dan Stanford www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 5
  • 20. 224 Our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius 225 Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley 226 Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. John Kenneth Galbraith 227 Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. Albert Einstein 228 Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. Publilius Syrus 229 Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. Confucius 230 When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Origin Unknown 23 The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. Ralph Waldo Emerson 232 There is good and bad surrounding me in this world, I choose to embrace the good. Rod Berting 233 Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. James Dean 234 If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. W.C. Fields 235 This above all, to thine own self be true. William Shakespeare 236 Hope springs eternal. Alexander Pope 237 You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. Ziggy 238 Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers 239 It has been said that [the] picturing power of the mind is the greatest gift that God has ever given to man. It has the ability to construct images of success before the actual experiences are born. It can paint pictures that will fire our wills and exalt our spirits. This ability to travel ahead of our own success can draw us on with the greatest pleasure towards the most worthwhile objectives. Sterling w. Sill www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 6
  • 21. 240 Vision is the fundamental force that drives everything else in our lives. Stephen Covey 24 If you knew everything was really all right, and that it has a happy ending, you would not feel trepidations about your future. Abraham-Hicks 242 God does not command that we do great things, only little things with great love. Mother Teresa 243 Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment ... intention and desire in the field of pure potentiality have infinite organizing power. And when we introduce an intention in the fertile ground of pure potentiality, we put this infinite organizing power to work for us. Deepak Chopra 244 A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. Confucius 245 Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. Storm Jameson 246 There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. Rainer Maria Rilke 247 Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. Thomas Fuller 248 I believe that one of life’s greatest risks is never daring to risk. Oprah Winfrey 249 If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year. Today should always be our most wonderful day. Thomas Dreier 250 Failure is often the line of least persistence. Zig Ziglar 25 Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Dale Carnegie 252 There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. Samuel Johnson 253 Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. Ingvar Kamprad 254 There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. Ralph Waldo Emerson www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 7
  • 22. 255 Only by discussing ourselves, holding back nothing, only by being willing to take advice and accept direction [can] we set foot on the road to straight thinking, solid honesty, and genuine humility. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions 256 The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana 257 If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. Eleonora Duse 258 Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. James Bryant Conant 259 Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don’t do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill. Jacob M. Braude 260 She said she usually cried at least once each day, not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful … and life was so short. Brian Andress 26 Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. Vince Lombardi 262 When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way. Dr. Wayne Dyer 263 What you would do willingly for free is the only thing you should ever do for money. Raymond Aaron 264 There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. Mother Teresa 265 Try as you might, you can’t control the things that happen to you. You can only control your reaction to them. Michael Masterson 266 If you are distressed by anything internal, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to the view you have of that thing. How you view anything is a power you can revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius 267 Every day, we are given dozens of choices - from which foods to eat to which parts of a newspaper to read to which words to say in any given conversation. Many of those choices seem to be insignificant, but when you string them all together they determine the quality of our lives. Michael Masterson www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 8
  • 23. 268 What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. John Ruskin 269 If a man for whatever reason has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. Jacques-Yves Cousteau 270 I’ve always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well being. Stan Dale 27 Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. Richard Bach 272 Being alive is a joy and a privilege. Life flows easier when you greet each new day with a smile. Thuy Vu 273 A true handicap is what we don’t do with what we have, not what we can’t do with what we don’t have. Christopher Brewer 274 Never let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality. Origin Unknown 275 What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 276 Every man dies. Not every man truly lives. Braveheart (Movie) 277 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. Jawaharlal Nehru 278 No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. Helen Keller 279 Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Abraham Lincoln 280 If not us, who, if not now, when? Origin Unknown 28 Things do not change, we change. Henry David Thoreau 282 People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 9
  • 24. 283 Tough times never last but tough people do. Robert Schuller 284 The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King Jr. 285 It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well. Rene Descartes 286 You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. Mary Pickford 287 Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt 288 When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark; you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. Corrie Ten Boom 289 Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don’t count. Dr. Robert Anthony 290 Live well ... Laugh often ... Love much. Origin Unknown 29 The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot 292 What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Henry David Thoreau 293 Feel the fear and do it anyway. Susan Jeffers 294 Love conquers all. Virgil 295 The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William A. Ward 296 Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. Paul Boese 297 He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. Victor Hugo 298 Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein 299 If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail. Winston Churchill www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 20
  • 25. 300 Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw 30 Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. Kahlil Gibran 302 If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. Thomas J. Watson 303 The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have. Leonard Nimoy 304 Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purpose. Kenneth Hildebrand 305 Happiness is a state of activity. Aristotle 306 Doing more of what doesn’t work won’t make it work any better. Charles J. Givens 307 Discontent is the first necessity of progress. Thomas Edison 308 Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one. Happiness is a journey, not a destination. Souza 309 Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. Ty Boyd 30 It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains. Thomas H. Huxley 3 Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. Oscar Wilde 32 No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness. Harry Emerson Fosdick 33 We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us. Marcel Proust 34 The only urgent thing is that we make a beginning and keep trying. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions 35 Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. John B. Sheerin www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 2
  • 26. 36 Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. Aristotle 37 I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it. Jonathan Winters 38 Goals are dreams with deadlines. Diana Scharf Hunt 39 Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. Ben Stein 320 Find something to do that really inspires you, that keeps you up at night, that you simply love to do. Michael Masterson 32 Maybe you made a mistake that’s been haunting you. Or you never got around to that “thank you”. So you have a choice. A lifetime of nagging regret (if it’s lasted this long, it ain’t going away) - or taking a moment now to deal with it. Charlie Byrne 322 If you want to achieve a high goal, you’re going to have to take some chances. Alberto Salazar 323 All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. Wayne Dyer 324 You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming. Jim Rohn 325 You will never leave where you are, until you decide where you’d rather be. Dexter Yager 326 Success comes in cans; failure comes in cants. Origin Unknown 327 Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation. Origin Unknown 328 A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. Charles M. Schwab 329 If we all did all the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves. Thomas Edison 330 Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Helen Keller 33 If we don`t change, we don`t grow. If we don`t grow, we aren`t really living. Gail Sheehy www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 22
  • 27. 332 Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Sir Winston Churchill 333 Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke 334 Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. James F. Bymes 335 Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson 336 Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try one more time. Thomas Edison 337 The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts 338 Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Origin Unknown 339 The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. E.E. Cummings 340 Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves; for they shall never cease to be amused. Origin Unknown 34 Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. Les Brown 342 Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas Edison 343 People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. John C. Maxwellzz 344 The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. Vince Lombardi 345 Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt and dance like no one is watching. Satchel Paige 346 We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Sir Winston Churchill 347 Education is that which remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school. Albert Einstein www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 23
  • 28. 348 Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Mark Twain 349 If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney 350 Peace is essentially a function of putting first things first. Stephen Covey 35 First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do. Epictetus 352 Like two golden birds perched on the selfsame tree, intimate friends, the ego and the self dwell in the same body. The former eats the sweet and sour fruits of the tree of life, while the latter looks on in detachment. The Mundaka Upanishad 353 If you are willing to admit faults, you have one less fault to admit. Origin Unknown 354 One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. William Feather 355 Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. H.L. Hunt 356 I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it. Abraham Lincoln 357 Every problem has within it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds. Norman Vincent Peale 358 Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances; it was somebody’s name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson 359 A holiday is like recharging your car battery. If you set up the connections wrong, no energy goes into the battery. If you do it right, you return at full charge and your brain is able to work the way it was designed to. Gord Johansen 360 If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake. Frank Wilczek www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 24
  • 29. 36 As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. Ralph Waldo Emerson 362 Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein 363 A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. Father James Keller 364 As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves. Mahatma Gandhi 365 To accomplish great things, we must not only dream, but act. Bill Blackman 366 It is no use waiting for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. Belgian Proverb 367 You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let it consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star. Jean Church 368 If I am through learning, I am through. John Wooden 369 There are two types of people - anchors and motors. You want to lose the anchors and get with the motors because the motors are going somewhere and they’re having more fun. The anchors will just drag you down. Wyland 370 Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it’s who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment. Anthony Robbins 37 How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you’re still alive, it isn’t. Richard Bach 372 Obstacles are like wild animals... They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. Orison Swett Marden www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 25
  • 30. 373 Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear. Anthony Robbins 374 They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Andy Warhol 375 What you get by achieving your goals is as important as what you become by achieving your goals. Henry David Thoreau 376 Never give up on your dream... Perseverance is all important. If you don’t have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you’ve been told you should quit, you’ll never make it. Tawni O’Dell 377 If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it. Jonathan Winters 378 Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. Napoleon Hill 379 The heights by great men reached and kept, were not obtained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 380 How poor we truly are when we measure wealth in monetary terms; overlooking the true value of ourselves and those we love. Kelly Comeau 38 The road to success is always under construction and full of detours. Enjoy the ride. Origin Unknown 382 Be a good listener, opportunity sometimes knocks very softly. Origin Unknown 383 I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. Margaret Thatcher 384 Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson 385 When God closes a door, he opens a window. Origin Unknown 386 We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 387 Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. Marion Wright Edelman www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 26
  • 31. 388 Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing. Vince Lombardi 389 You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Kahlil Gibran 390 In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln 39 Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Eleanor Roosevelt 392 The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. Channing Pollock 393 Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. Origin Unknown 394 Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you’ll help them to become what they are capable of becoming. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 395 Never give in, never give in - never, never, never. Sir Winston Churchill 396 The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. Vince Lombardi 397 Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. Thomas Dewar 398 To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun. Katherine Graham 399 You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. Richard Bach 400 Always do right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest. Mark Twain 40 Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 402 If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Henry David Thoreau 403 Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. The Bible www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 27
  • 32. 404 Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa 405 Men give me credit for genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night, it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then ... people are pleased to call [the effort that I made] the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labour and thought. Alexander Hamilton 406 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7 407 Be happy with what you have while pursuing what you want. The key to happiness is not more. Jim Rohn 408 We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T.S. Elliot 409 Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character; and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. John S. Mill 40 What you alone can contribute, no one else can contribute. Stephen Covey 4 In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. Charles Lindbergh 42 Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. Marcel Proust 43 After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. Italian Proverb 44 Chance favours only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur 45 Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 46 Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow... Lawrence Clark Powell 47 When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. Helen Keller www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 28
  • 33. 48 You will always gravitate to that which you secretly most love. Men do not attain that which they want but that which they are. James Allen 49 For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope. Albert Einstein 420 We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. Edwin Markham 42 This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection. Saint Augustine 422 The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw 423 Live not one’s life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 424 We can neither think nor act to good purpose until the habit of self-restraint has become automatic. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions 425 Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi 426 When you’re ‘happy for no reason,’ you bring happiness to your everyday experiences rather than try to extract happiness from them. It’s not that your life always looks perfect - it’s that however it looks, you’ll still be happy. Marci Shimoff 427 A great turning point in our lives came when we sought for humility as something we really wanted, rather than as something we must have. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions 428 Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret B. Runbeck 429 Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 29
  • 34. 430 The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him - and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires. J. Paul Getty 43 There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein 432 I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities. Bob Nardelli 433 The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach. Benjamin Mays 434 One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. Dale Carnegie 435 If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are an excellent leader. Dolly Parton 436 There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty. Wallace D. Wattles 437 You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards. Brian Tracy 438 I am happy and content because I think I am. Atain-Rene Lesage 439 You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this. Henry David Thoreau 440 We have an innate desire to endlessly learn, grow, and develop. We want to become more than what we already are. Once we yield to this inclination for continuous and never-ending improvement, we lead a life of endless accomplishments and satisfaction. Chuck Gallozzi www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 30
  • 35. 44 For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a road block, take a detour. Mary Kay Ash 442 Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross M.D. 443 Create your future from your future, not your past. Werner Erhard 444 Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want. Bernard M. Baruch 445 Everyone has a defining moment. Either you define the moment or the moment will define you. Origin Unknown 446 Use the stumbling blocks of life as stepping stones to success. Origin Unknown 447 If you must make a mistake, at least make a new one. Origin Unknown 448 If a man is called to be a streetscaper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetscaper who did his job well. Martin Luther King, Jr. 449 Every day in every way I am getting better and better. Origin Unknown 450 Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don`t quit. Conrad Hilton 45 Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. William Yeats 452 Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. Mahatma Gandhi 453 Success leaves clues. Jim Rohn 454 When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. Alexander Graham Bell 455 And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupery www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 3
  • 36. 456 You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Dale Carnegie 457 The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. Dolly Parton 458 What we see depends mainly on what we look for. Sir John Lubbock 459 When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Charles A. Beard 460 If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. Abraham Maslow 46 Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia 462 There is nothing to fear, but fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt 463 Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. Frank Outlaw 464 Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours. Richard Bach 465 Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller 466 You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. Eleanor Roosevelt 467 The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves. Stephen Covey 468 He who hesitates is lost. Proverb 469 There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit. Robert Woodruff 470 A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. Bob Dylan www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 32
  • 37. 47 Every mess is a lock on the door that keeps abundance out. Raymond Aaron 472 Don’t use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved. Origin Unknown 473 The best is yet to be. Robert Browning 474 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged; condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned; forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. Luke 6:37 475 Quality of life depends on what happens between stimulus and response. Stephen Covey 476 Nothing is, unless our thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare 477 There is just one life for each of us: our own. Euripides 478 Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind ... what we sow is what we reap. And when we choose actions that bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our karma is happiness and success. Deepak Chopra 479 Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin 480 If you don’t want to feel great about what’s going on, you can always choose to feel great in spite of what’s going on. Ralph Marston 48 Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. Henry Van Dyke 482 We make our fortunes, and we call them fate. Earl of Beaconsfield 483 Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you. Stewart E. White 484 Fail often. Fail fast. Fail Cheap. Jim Estill 485 To win you have to risk loss. Jean-Claude Killy 486 You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning. Barbara Sher 487 We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. The capabilities and the talents and the gifts and the power that is within every single individual that is on this planet, is unlimited. Michael Beckwith www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 33
  • 38. 488 Genius is the ability to simplify those things we perceive as complicated. C. W. Gran 489 I can give you a six word formula for success: think things through - then follow through. Eddie Rickenbacker 490 Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. Ann Landers 49 Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas. Paula Poundstone 492 If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. Chinese Proverb 493 Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. Robert J. Sawyer 494 There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life happiness, freedom and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else. Peyton Cornway March 495 Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. Philo of Alexandria 496 Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well. Jim Rohn 497 Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. Saint Francis 498 I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. Oprah Winfrey 499 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. Ayn Rand 500 Nothing changes until you do. Origin Unknown 50 One of the most important truths about success is that it is a formula: 10 percent good ideas and 90 percent action. Michael Masterson www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 34
  • 39. 502 As long as you don’t forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind. Isabelle Holland 503 All the resources we need are in the mind. Theodore Roosevelt 504 The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it with no purpose. Plutarch 505 Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. Mario Andretti 506 You have a divine right to abundance, and if you are anything less than a millionaire, you haven’t had your fair share. Stuart Wilde 507 A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. John Henry Newman 508 Happiness in life comes not from idleness but from working. Not working at a job you hate, but working at tasks you care about. Michael Masterson 509 Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping- stones to greater experience... When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance. Brian Adams 50 If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem wonderful at all. Michelangelo 5 The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. Ben Stein 52 It is better to wear out than to rust out. Richard Cumberland 53 You can’t change the wind, you can however adjust your sails. Origin Unknown 54 If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time, don’t drag your feet. Annot L. Sheppard 55 It’s much better to prepare and not have the opportunity than to have the opportunity and not be prepared. Origin Unknown 56 The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 35
  • 40. 57 Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deeper thanks to those who have rekindled this light. Albert Schweitzer 58 Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. Will Rogers 59 You don`t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King, Jr. 520 Great oaks from little acorns grow. Proverb 52 The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. Abraham Lincoln 522 The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. Vince Lombardi 523 The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Albert Einstein 524 It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved. Alfred Lord Tennyson 525 To succeed ... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. Tony Dorsett 526 The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates 527 Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. Origin Unknown 528 To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France 529 As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Nelson Mandela 530 Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden 53 I am the captain of my soul. William Ernest Henley 532 Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Edgar Allen Poe www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 36
  • 41. 533 The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller 534 No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt 535 [The] moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed could come his way. Goethe 536 All thoughts which have been emotionalized [given feeling] and mixed with faith, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart. Napoleon Hill 537 When we change the models in our mind, we change the results in our life. Mark Victor Hansen 538 If we know how to listen to our own hearts, we can listen to the hearts of others. Stephen Covey 539 I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all. Ralph Waldo Emerson 540 Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Robert Fulghum 54 Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were innocent. Anger is natural. Grief is appropriate. Healing is mandatory. Restoration is possible. Jane Rubietta 542 Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. George Carlin 543 The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. Samuel Smiles 544 The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. Lily Tomlin 545 All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer. Niccolo Machiavelli www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 37
  • 42. 546 Patience is the companion of wisdom. Saint Augustine 547 Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be. Oprah Winfrey 548 Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. W. Clement Stone 549 Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. Swedish Proverb 550 It’s easy to be negative and unmotivated, but it takes some work to be positive and motivated. While there’s no off button for those relentless “tapes,” there are things that you can do to turn down the volume and shift your focus from negative to the positive. Donna Cardillo R.N. 55 If you spend your life improving your weaknesses, at the end of your life you will have many strong weaknesses. Dan Sullivan 552 Never promise more than you can perform. Publilius Syrus 553 Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose. Lyndon b. Johnson 554 Be honest. Be sincere. Be genuine. With yourself and with everybody else, as often and as much as you can. Nothing else you’ll resolve to do could make a bigger difference. John Forde 555 Progress always involves risk; you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. Frederick Wilcox 556 You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. That’s what makes you a winner. Venus Williams 557 The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life. Charles M. Schwab 558 What you think and what you feel and what you manifest is always a match. Every single time. No exception. Esther Hicks-Abraham 559 If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. Milton Berle 560 Seek first to understand, then be understood. Stephen Covey www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 38
  • 43. 56 Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. Robert Collier 562 I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson 563 You only get out what you put in. Origin Unknown 564 What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? Robert Schuller 565 You are what you think you are. Bob Richards 566 There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi 567 The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. John Ruskin 568 Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison 569 Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt 570 A life lived in fear is a life half lived. Proverb 57 Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. Marianne Williamson 572 Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost 573 Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes 574 Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent. President Dwight Eisenhower 575 People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. Dale Carnegie 576 Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. Cicero www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 39
  • 44. 577 Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom ... our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves. Swami Vivekananda 578 Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. Henry Van Dyke 579 Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is. H. Jackson Browne 580 The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it. Johnette Napolitano 58 If you want to get to the top, you must first get off your bottom. Khow Wong 582 The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive. Thich Nhat Hanh 583 Life is too short to be small. Benjamin Disraeli 584 A person’s true wealth is the good he or she does in the world. Mohammed 585 The purpose of human life is to show compassion and the will to help others. Albert Schweitzer 586 Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world. Sidney Lovett 587 Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner 588 Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve. Mary Kay Ash 589 All meaning is self-created. Virginia Satir 590 You can achieve anything you want in life, as long as you don’t care who gets the credit. U.S. President Ronald Reagan www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 40
  • 45. 59 Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part. Michael J. Gelb 592 The mind is like an elastic band; once stretched by a new idea, it never regains its original dimension. Oliver Wendell Holmes 593 It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. John Wooden 594 The secret to success is action, not attitude. It doesn’t matter what your attitude is. What matters is what you do with your time. If you do the right things you will be successful regardless of your emotional condition or mental attitude. If you do the wrong things, no amount of positive thinking will save you. Michael Masterson 595 Fall down seven times, get up eight times. Japanese Proverb 596 Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. Charles F. Kettering 597 If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. Robert Fritz 598 Work is love made visible. And if you can’t work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy. Kahlil Gibran 599 How will you know the taste of victory if you don’t take the risk? Origin Unknown 600 Leave everything a little better than you found it. Origin Unknown 60 Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. Vince Lombardi 602 Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other’s think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible. Origin Unknown 603 You must be the change you want to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi 604 Everything is okay in the end. If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end. Origin Unknown www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 4
  • 46. 605 If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. William A. Ward 606 We will either find a way or make one. Hannibal 607 Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes 608 You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. Michael Jordan 609 Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. Winston Churchill 60 The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour. Vince Lombardi 6 Thoughts become things. Mike Dooley 62 To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. Origin Unknown 63 Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls. Joseph Campbell 64 I think therefore I am. Rene Descartes 65 I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean 66 You alter your destiny by altering your thoughts. Dr. Dennis R. Deaton 67 If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible. T. Harv Eker 68 There is so much we can render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or how small our circle of influence. Stephen Covey 69 In the beginning there was desire, which was the first seed of mind; sages, having meditated in their hearts, have discovered by their wisdom the connection of the existent with the non-existent. Hymn of Creation, The Rig Veda www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 42
  • 47. 620 You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 62 Kiss your life. Accept it, just as it is. Today. Now. So that those moments of happiness you’re waiting for don’t pass you by. Origin Unknown 622 Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. La Bruyere 623 Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal. George L. Morrisey 624 Intellectual growth should begin at growth and cease only at death. Albert Einstein 625 The first person gets the oyster, the second person gets the shell. Andrew Carnegie 626 The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them. Joseph Henry 627 Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. Bill Cosby 628 “I can’t do it” never accomplished anything. “I will try” has performed wonders. George P. Burnham 629 There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you are committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results. Ken Blanchard 630 It is important that you recognize your progress and take pride in your accomplishments. Share your achievements with others. Brag a little. The recognition and support of those around you is nurturing. Rosemarie Rossetti 63 We are NOT sentient, self-respecting, intelligent creatures. We only tell ourselves that we are. The truth is, we are driven by emotion. We only use our thinking brain to rationalize those emotional decisions after they’re made. Clayton Makepeace 632 It’s not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters. Paul “Bear” Bryant www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 43
  • 48. 633 If you are bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don’t have enough goals. Lou Holtz 634 Experience gives you the test first, the lesson after. Origin Unknown 635 The harder you fall the higher you bounce. Horace 636 Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. Danny Kaye 637 Change comes from within. Origin Unknown 638 Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. St. Francis of De Sales 639 In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein 640 Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about. Dr John F Demartini 64 It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson 642 To see a world in a grain of sand. And heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand. And eternity in an hour. William Blake 643 The source of all creation is pure consciousness ... pure potentiality seeking expression from the unmanifest to the manifest. And when we realize that our true self is one of pure potentiality, we align with the power that manifests everything in the universe. Deepak Chopra 644 Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. Aristotle 645 Optimism means expecting the best, but confidence means knowing how to handle the worst. Never make a move if you are merely optimistic. The Zurich Axioms 646 A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. Henry David Thoreau www.gurutropolis.com 1001 guru thoughts 44