Motiv quotes2

MotivQuotes
Volume 2
365 Positive, Motivational Quotes one
for each day or study ahead

―Success is largely a matter of holding on when
all others have let go.‖
~ Anonymous
1©Copyright 2009, MotivQuotes

―Effective people are not problem-minded, they
are opportunity-minded. They feed
opportunities and starve problems.‖
~ Stephen Covey

―Have great hopes and dare to go all out for
them. Have great dreams and dare to live for
them. Have tremendous expectations and
believe in them.‖
~ Norman Vincent Peale

―It is what we do easily and what we like to do
that we do well.‖
~ Orison Swett Marden

"The most practical, beautiful, workable
philosophy in the world won't work - if you
won't."
~ Zig Ziglar

―It‘s enough for you to do it once for a few men
to remember you. But if you do it year after
year, then many people remember you and
they tell it to their children, and their children
and grandchildren remember and, if it
concerns books, they read them. If it is good
enough, it will last as long as there are human
beings.‖
~ Ernest Hemingway

―High expectations are the key to everything.‖
~Sam Walton

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply,
to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to
be needed."
~ Thomas Jefferson

―Every good thought you think is contributing its
share to the ultimate result of your life.‖
~ Grenville Kleiser

―Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful.‖
~ William Shakespeare

―Success means doing the best we can with what
we have. Success is the doing, not the getting;
in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a
personal standard, reaching for the highest
that is in us, being all we can be.‖
~ Zig Ziglar

―There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; it
is what we do with them that‘s important.‖
~ Ruth Ross

―If you expect nothing, you‘re apt to be
surprised. You‘ll get it.‖
~Malcom S. Forbes

―Only as high as I reach, can I grow, only as far
as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I
see, only as much as I dream can I be.‖
~ Karen Ravn

―In the long run men hit only at what they aim.‖
~Henry David Thoreau

―You can‘t put a price tag on the American
Dream. That dream is the heart and soul of
America; it is the promise that keeps our
nation forever good and generous, a model
and hope to the world.‖
~ President Ronald Reagan
October 22, 1986

―Sticks and stones may break your bones, but
words will break our hearts…‖
~ Robert Fulghum

―The path to success is to take massive,
determined action.‖
~ Anthony Robbins

―It is simply a matter of what you do best and
not worrying about what the other fellow is
going to do.‖
~ John R. Amos

―Kindness is the life‘s blood, the elixir of
marriage. Kindness makes the difference
between passion and caring. Kindness is
tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps
greater than love … Kindness is good will.
Kindness says, ―I want you to be happy.‖
Kindness comes very close to the benevolence
of God.‖
~ Randolph Ray

―It is always your next move.‖
~Napoleon Hill

―Be of good cheer. Do not think of today‘s failures,
but of the success that may come tomorrow.
You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you
will succeed if you persevere; and you will find
joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no
effort that we make to attain something
beautiful is ever lost.‖
~ Helen Keller

―One of the most difficult things is to not to
change society – but to change yourself.‖
~ Nelson Mandela

―In times of great stress or adversity, it is always
best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your
energy in to something positive.‖
~ Lee Iaccoca

―When a defining moment comes along, you can
do one of two things, define the moment or let
the moment define you.‖
~ Tin Cup

―Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.‖
~ Jonathan Swift

―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

―In golf and in life, it doesn‘t matter how far you
hit the ball. It is how close do you come to the
cup that counts.‖
~ Tin Cup

―It is you. YOU define your limits. And it is you
who can expand them when you are ready.
Now is the time to create goals high enough to
ignite your spirit and inspire you to take
action.‖
~ E.R. Haas

"Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone
or something in your life actually attracts more
of the things that you appreciate and value
into your life.―
~ Christiane Northrup, M.D.

―You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can‘t get
them across, your ideas won‘t get you
anywhere.‖
~ Lee Iaccoca

―Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-
satisfaction in knowing that you did your best
to become the best that you are capable of
becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek
ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and
all these things will be yours as well.‖
~ John Wooden

―This is a prescription for successful
achievement. No, it does not come easy. You
have to work it hard… work it smart… and
stay in the game long enough to win. When
you do, you will not only be successful, but
happy as well.‖
~ E.R. Haas

―We can do anything we want if we stick to it
long enough.‖
~ Helen Keller

"Don't spend your precious time asking "Why
isn't the world a better place?" It will only be
time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I
make it better?" To that there is an answer. "
~ Leo Buscaglia

―Twenty years from now you will become 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 harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover.‖
~Mark Twain

―Unless a man undertakes more than he can do,
he will never do all than he can.‖
~ Henry Drummond

―The newest computer can merely compound, at
speed, the oldest problem in relations between
human beings, and in the end the
communicator will be confronted with the old
problem, of what to say and how to say it.‖
~ Edward R. Murrow

“Could we change our attitude, we should not
only see life differently, but that life itself
would become different. Life would undergo a
change of appearance because we ourselves
had undergone a change in attitude.‖
~ Katherine Mansfield

―The true greatness lies in being kind, the truest
wisdom is a happy mind.‖
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

―Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever
make.‖
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

―The man who acquires the ability to take full
possession of his own mind may take
possession of anything else to which he is
justly entitled.‖
~ Andrew Carnegie

―The discipline of writing something down is the
first step for making it happen.‖
~ Lee Iaccoca

―Success is often achieved by those who don‘t
know that failure is inevitable.‖
~ Coco Chanel

―When I let go of what I am, I become what I
might be.‖
~Lao Tzu

―It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, it is
not possible to find it elsewhere.‖
~ Agnes Repplier

―Our real duty is always found running in the
direction of our worthiest desires.‖
~ Randolph S. Bourne

―The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to
you what you are. If you are loving, if you are
friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove
loving and friendly and helpful to you. The
world is what you are.
~ Thomas Dreier

―One should count each day a separate life.‖
~ Seneca

“Motivation is everything. You can do the work of
two people, but you can‘t be two people.
Instead you have to inspire the next guy down
and get him to inspire his people.‖
~ Lee Iaccoca

―When you get into a tight place and everything
goes against you, till it seems as though you
could not hang on a minute longer, never give
up then, for that is just the place and time that
the tide will turn.‖
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

―The ability to deal with people is as purchasable
a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay
more for that ability than any other under the
sun.‖
~ John D. Rockefeller

―There is a time to let things happen and a time
to make things happen.‖
~ Hugh Prather

―Start with good people, lay out the rules,
communicate with your employees, motivate
them, and reward them. If you do these things
effectively, you can‘t miss.‖
~ Lee Iaccoca

―If the ladder is not leaning against the right
wall, every step we take gets us to the wrong
place faster.‖
~ Stephen Covey

―The pearl is the oyster‘s autobiography.‖
~ Frederico Fellini

―Rule number 1 is, ―Don‘t sweat the small stuff.‖
Rule number 2 is, ―It is all small stuff.‖
~ Robert Eliot

"It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of
being grateful for every good thing that comes
to you, and to give thanks continuously. And
because all things have contributed to your
advancement, you should include all things in
your gratitude."
~Wallace D. Wattles

―Practice the presence of God just as you would
practice music.‖
~ Emilie Cady

―Three things in human life are important: The
first is to be kind. The 2nd is to be kind. The
third is to be kind.‖
~William James

―If you could get up the courage to begin, you
have the courage to succeed.‖
~ David Viscott

―How far that little candle throws his beams! So
shines a good deed in a naughty world.‖

―When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a
certain place on the floor. It‘s to enjoy each
step on the way.‖
~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

―Where you are headed is more important than
how fast you are going. Rather than always
focus on what‘s urgent, learn to focus on
what‘s really important.‖
~ Stephen Covey

"Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health,
happiness, and prosperity to every person you
meet. To make all your friends feel that there
is something in them. To look at the sunny side
of everything and make your optimism come
true. To think only of the best, to work only for
the best and expect only the best.
~ Christian D. Larson

―The grass is not, in fact, greener on the other
side of the fence.. Fences have nothing to do
with it. The grass is greenest where it is
watered. When crossing over fences, carry
water with you and tend the grass wherever
you may be.‖
~ Robert Fulghum

―If you want things to be different, perhaps the
answer is to become different yourself.‖
~ Norman Vincent Peale

"If we did all the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.―
~ Thomas Alva Edison

"There is only one real sin and that is to
persuade oneself that the second best is
anything but second best.‖
~ Doris Lessing

"Create a definite plan for carrying out your
desire and begin at once, whether you ready or
not, to put this plan into action."
~ Napoleon Hill

―A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for
what they can become and to release their
energies so they will try to get there.‖
~ David Gergen

―Try to make at least one person happy every
day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind
word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a
kind thought. Count up, if you can, the
treasure of happiness that you would dispense
in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!"
~ Lawrence G. Lovasik

―I can change. I can live out my imagination
instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my
limitless potential instead of my limiting past.‖
~ Stephen Covey

―A strong positive mental attitude will create
more miracles than any wonder drug.‖
~ Patricia Neal

―One thing we can do is make the choice to view
the world in a healthy way. We can choose to
see the world as safe with only moments of
danger rather seeing the world as dangerous
with only moments of safety.‖
~Deepak Chopra

―Think you can‘t change the world? Too late you
already have. It was changed for the better
the minute you were born. There are more
people than you can imagine who will never be
the same because they came in contact with
you, if for only a fleeting moment.‖
~ Gail Pursell Elliott

―Truly greater is the power within you than any
other power on earth.‖
~ William Arthur Ward

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough
to win."
~ Jonathan Kozol

―Develop success from failures. Discouragement
and failure are two of the surest stepping
stones to success.‖
~ Dale Carnegie

―You must try to generate happiness within
yourself. If you aren't happy in one place,
chances are you won't be happy anyplace."
~ Ernie Banks

―If I had to live my life again, I‘d make the same
mistakes, only sooner.‖
~Tallulah Bankhead

―It is the repetition of affirmations that leads to
belief. And once that belief becomes a deep
conviction, things begin to happen.‖
~ Claude M. Bristol

―It has long since come to my attention that
people of accomplishment rarely sat back and
let things happen to them. They went out and
happened to things.‖
~ Elinor Smith

―Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of
the pool or you go out in the ocean.‖
~ Christopher Reeve

―Much of the stress that people feel doesn‘t come
from having too much to do. It comes from not
finishing what they started.‖
~ David Allen

―Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and
achieves the impossible.‖
~ Charles Caleb Cotton

―The future belongs to those who see
possibilities before they become obvious.‖
~ John Scully

―The most courageous act is still to think for
yourself. Aloud.‖
~ Coco Chanel

―People begin to become successful the minute
they decide to be.‖
~ Harvey Mackay

―Success isn‘t permanent and failure isn‘t fatal.‖
~ Mike Ditka

―Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental
stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the
admiration of the ignorant with an
ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of
the world, I still go on underrating men of gold
and glorifying men of mica.‖
~ Mark Twain

―Slow down and enjoy life. It‘s not only the
scenery you miss by going to fast- you also
miss the sense of where you are going and
why.‖
~ Eddie Cantor

―When a resolute young fellow steps up to the
great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by
the beard, he is often surprised that it comes
off in his hand, and that it is only tied on to
scare away the timid adventurers.‖
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

―I am only one; but I am still one. I cannot do
everything , but still I can do something. I will
not refuse to do the something I can do.‖
~ Helen Keller

―The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will
be the beginning of a happier life for
ourselves.‖
~ Helen Keller

―Courage is going from failure to failure without
losing enthusiasm.‖
~ Sir Winston Churchill

―We know what we are, but know not what we
may be.‖

―The shortest way to do many things is to do
only one at a time.‖
~ Sydney Smiles

―Get around the right people. Associate with
positive, goal-oriented people who encourage
and inspire you.―
~ Brian Tracy

―We make a living by what we get, we make a
life by what we give.‖
~Sir Winston Churchill

"The person who gets the farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare. The
sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
~ Dale Carnegie

―You cannot change your destination overnight,
but you can change your direction overnight."
~ Jim Rohn

―Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the
angels. If we take the time, no matter how
crazy or troubled we feel, we can be find
something to be thankful for.‖
~ Terry Lynn Taylor

―Nobody can go back and start a new beginning,
but anyone can start today and make a new
ending.‖
~Maria Robinson

―There is a tide in the affairs of men, which,
when taken at the flood, leads on to fortune….
We must take the current when it serves, or lose
our ventures.‖

―I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you
enjoyed the process.‖
~ Oprah Winfrey

"How does one become a butterfly? You must
want to fly so much that you are willing to give
up being a caterpillar."
-Trina Paulus

―Be not simply good, be good for something.‖
~ Henry David Thoreau

―Goals provide the energy source that powers
our lives. One of the best ways we can get the
most from the energy we have is to focus it.
That is what goals can do for us; concentrate
our energy.‖
~ Denis Waitley

―Learn everything you can , anytime you can,
from anyone you can- there will always come a
time when you will be grateful you did.‖
~ Sarah Caldwell

―Power is the ability to do good things for
others.‖
~ Brooke Astor

―The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater
is his success, his influence, his power for
good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful
jewels of wisdom.‖
~ James Allen

―Adversity has the same effect on a man that
severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces
him to his fighting weight.‖
~ Josh Billings

―The true test of character is not how much we
know how to do, but how we behave when we
don‘t know what to do.‖
~ John Holt

―If there are a hundred steps
In thy path to success
And you have not reached it
In ninety-nine of them
Do not conclude
That the journey is a failure.‖
~ Sir Lancelot

―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

―The most important words we'll ever utter are
those words we say to ourselves, about
ourselves, when we're by ourselves.‖
~ Al Walker

―If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can
believe it, I know I can achieve it.‖
~ Jesse Jackson

―There are many ways of going forward, but only
one way of standing still."
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

―Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness
is the key to success. If you love what you are
doing, you will be successful.‖
~ Herman Cain

―Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly
in view. Realize that things that work well and
are worthily done make life truly worth living.‖
~ Grenville Kleiser

―It is the ‗follow-through‘ that makes the
difference between ultimate success and
failure, because it is so easy to stop.‖
~ Charles F. Kettering

―The thoughts we choose to think are the tools
we use to paint the canvas of our lives.‖
~ Louise Hay

―If you don‘t make mistakes, you aren‘t really
trying.‖
~ Coleman Hawkings

―I am always doing that which I cannot do, in
order that I may learn how to do it.‖
~ Pablo Picasso

―To insist on one‘s place in the scheme of things
and to live up to that place.
To empower others in their reaching for
someplace in the scheme of things.
To do these things is to make fairy tales come
true.‖
~ Robert Fulghum

―Accept no one's definition of your life, but
define yourself.‖
~ Harvey Fierstein

―At first dreams seem impossible, then
improbable, then inevitable.‖
~ Christopher Reeve

―Experience tells you what to do, confidence
allows you to do it.‖
~ Stan Smith

―We are all faced with a series of great
opportunities brilliantly disguised as
impossible situations.‖
~ Charles R. Swindoll

“No matter how small and unimportant what we are
doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon
become the step that will lead us to better things.”
~ Channing Pollock

―Focus more on your desire than on your doubt,
and the dream will take care of itself. You may
be surprised at how easily this happens. Your
doubts are not as powerful as your desires,
unless you make them so.‖
~Marcia Weider

―Never think of God‘s delays as God‘s denials.
Hold on, hold fast, hold out. Patience is
genius.‖
~ Comte de Buffon

―When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to
our ability and wade into them with joy and
enthusiasm, miracles can happen.‖
~ Arland Gilbert

―What you get by achieving your goals is not as
important as what you become by achieving
your goals.‖
~Zig Ziglar

“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence- is the
key to unlocking our potential.”

"We're so busy watching out for what's just
ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy
where we are."
~ Calvin & Hobbes

―Motivation is when your dreams put on work
clothes.‖
~ Ben Franklin

―The very essence of leadership is that you have
to have a vision.‖
~ Theodore M. Hesburgh

"There are only two ways to live your life: One is
as though nothing is a miracle, The other is as
though everything is a miracle. I believe in the
latter."
~ Albert Einstein

"One ship drives east and another drives west
with the selfsame winds that blow.
'Tis the set of sails and not the gales which
tells us the way to go. ―
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

―It is not enough to have a good mind. The main
thing is to use it well.‖
~ Rene Descartes

―Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and
has made the Lord his hope and confidence.‖
~ Jeremiah 17:7

―Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but
by the seeds you plant.‖
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

―Try not to become a man of success but a man
of value.‖
~ Albert Einstein

―I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that
if one advances confidently in the direction of
his dreams, and endeavors to live the life
which he had imagined, he will meet with a
success unexpected in common hours. ‖

―To find what you seek in the road of life, the
best proverb of all is that which says: ‗Leave
no stone unturned.‘‖
~ Edward Bulwer Lytton

―Happy are those who dream dreams and are
ready to pay the price to make them come
true.‖
~ Leon J. Suenes

―We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise,
and the better a man is, the more he is
inspired to glory.‖
~ Cicero

―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

―To every problem there is already a solution,
whether you know it or not. To every sum in
mathematics there is already a correct answer,
whether the mathematicians has found it or
not.‖
~ Grenville Kleiser

―Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't
cross a chasm in two small jumps. A person
who follows in another's track leaves no
footprints. Thus, the task is not so much to see
what no one yet has seen, but to think what
nobody yet has thought about that which
everybody sees.‖
~ Arthur Schopenhauer

―The best way to destroy an enemy is to make
him a friend.‖
~ Abraham Lincoln

"Successful people are always looking for
opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful
people are always asking, 'What's in it for
me?'"
~ Brian Tracy

―To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at
first.‖

―Take calculated risks. That is quite different
from being rash.‖
~ General George S. Patton

―We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,
therefore, is not an act but a habit.‖
~ Aristotle

―Great spirits have always encountered violent
opposition from mediocre minds.‖
~ Albert Einstein

―Honesty is the cornerstone of all success,
without which confidence and ability to
perform shall cease to exist.‖
~Mary Kay Ash

―Nothing great was ever achieved without
enthusiasm.‖

―Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing cam be done without hope and
confidence.‖
~ Helen Keller

―The art of being wise is knowing what to
overlook.‖
~ William James

―The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the
man of benevolence never worries; the man of
courage is never afraid.‖
~ Confucius

„Winning isn‟t everything, but wanting to win is.”
~ Vince Lombardi

―Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or
acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out
against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of
hope.‖
~ Robert F. Kennedy

―Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor,
upon which one walks as a matter of course
and prescriptive right.‖
~ Aldous Huxley

―People who are unable to motivate themselves
must be content with mediocrity, no matter
how impressive their other talents.‖
~ Andrew Carnegie

―There is only one way to happiness and that is
to cease worrying about things which are
beyond the power of our will.‖
~ Epictetus

―The power of imagination makes us infinite.‖
~ John Muir

―Far away in the sunshine are my highest
aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can
look up and see their beauty, believe in them,
and try to follow where they lead.‖
~ Louise May Alcott

―All men dream but not equally. Those who
dream by night in the dusty recesses of their
mind wake in the day to find that it was
vanity; but the dreamers of the day are
dangerous men, for they may act their dream
with open eyes to make it possible.‖
~ T.E. Lawrence

―Leadership: The art of getting someone else to
do something you want done because he
wants to do it.‖
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

―We are all inventors, each sailing out on a
voyage of discovery, guided each by a private
chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world
is all gates, all opportunities.‖

―Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability
to show others the way to go forward is a true
test of leadership.‖
~ Nitin Nohria

―It is better to do the wrong thing than to do
nothing.‖

―This above all: to thine own self be true, and it
must follow, as the night the day, thou canst
not be false to any man.‖

―The only time we should look back to yesterday
is to look at the positive things that were
accomplished to encourage us to do better
things today and tomorrow.‖
~ Stevie Wonder

―He who has learned how to obey will know how
to command.‖
~ Solon

―A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy
reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness
gathers love.‖
~ Basil

―Never part without loving words to think of
during your absence. It may be that you will
not meet again in this life.‖
~ Jean Paul Richter

―We were born to succeed, not to fail.‖

―Determine that the thing can and shall be done,
and then we shall find the way.‖
~ Abraham Lincoln

―We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom
of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as
the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would
get an entirely different view.‖
~ Mao Tse-Tung

―Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is
probably why so few people engage in it.‖
~ Henry Ford

―People who look down on other people don‘t
end up being looked up to.‖
~ Robert Half

―The block of granite which was an obstacle in
the pathway of the weak, became a stepping
stone in the path of the strong.‖
~ Thomas Carlyle

―The safest principle through life, instead of
reforming others, is to set about perfecting
yourself.‖
~ B. R. Haydon

―Hold yourself for a higher standard than anyone
expects of you. Never excuse yourself.‖
~ Henry Ward Beecher

―Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble
lives, as you all may, in what ever condition
you may find yourself.‖
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

―The fact is, that to do anything in this world
worth doing, we must not stand back shivering
and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump
in and scramble through as well as we can.‖
~ Robert Cushing

―Our ideas, like orange plants, spread out in
proportion to the size of the box which
imprisons the roots.‖
~ Edward Bulwer Lytton

―What does the Lord require of you? To act justly
and love mercy and walk humbly with your
God.‖
~ Micah 6:8
Holy Bible

―A real decision is measured by the fact that you
have taken a new action. If there is no action,
you haven‘t truly decided.‖
~ Tony Robbins

―Courage is resistance to fear, Mastery of fear-
not absence of fear. Except a creature be part
coward it is not a compliment to say it is
brave.‖
~ Mark Twain

―Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember;
involve me and I understand.‖
~ Anonymous

―One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary
men.
No machine can do the work of one
extraordinary man.‖
~ Elbert Hubbard

―Mistakes are part of being human. Appreciate
your mistakes for what they are: precious life
lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
Unless it is a fatal mistake, which, of course,
others can learn from.‖
~ Al Franken

―The remarkable thing is we have a choice every
day regarding the attitude we will embrace for
that day… I am convinced life is 10% what
happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And
so it is with you…. We are in charge of our
attitudes.‖
~ Charles Swindoll

―People don‘t care how much you know, until
they know how much you care.‖
~ John C. Maxwell

―The only job where you start at the top is
digging a hole.‖
~ Anonymous

―A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your
looks.‖
~ Anonymous

―Challenges are what make life interesting;
overcoming them is what makes life
meaningful.‖
~ Joshua J. Marine

―We are like tea bags- we don‘t know our own
strength until we get in hot water.‖
~ Sister Busche

―Who indeed can harm you if you are committed
deeply to doing what is right.‖
~ I Peter

“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

“Smooth seas do not a good ship‟s Captain make.”
~ Wayne C. Church

―Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply,
to enjoy simply, to think freely, to be needed.‖
~ Storm Jameson

―You are here to enable the Divine purpose of the
universe to unfold. That is how important you
are!‖
~ Wayne C. Church

―It may not be your fault that you are down, but
it‘s got to be your fault for not getting up.‖
~ Steve Davis

―Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather
the judgment that something else is more
important than fear.‖
~ Ambrose Redmoon

―With courage you will dare to take risks, have
the strength to be compassionate, and the
wisdom to be humble. Courage is the
foundation of integrity.‖
~ Keshavan Nair

―If you want to make good use of your time,
you‘ve got to know what is important and then
give it all you got.‖
~ Lee Iacocca

―My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you
will become a general. If you are a monk, you
will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a
painter, and became Picasso."
~ Pablo Picasso

―How ever mean your life is, meet it and live it;
do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not
so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you
are richest. The fault –finder will find faults
even in Paradise. Love your life.‖

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

―Patience and perseverance have a magical
effect before which difficulties disappear and
obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts
is worth infinitely more than much knowledge
that is idle.‖
~ John Quincy Adams

―The willow knows what the storm does not; that
the power to endure harm outlives the power
to inflict it.‖
~ Blood of the Martyr

― To reach the port we must sometimes sail with
the wind and sometimes against it. But we
must not drift or lie at anchor.‖
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

―The toughest part of getting to the top of the
ladder is getting through the crowd at the
bottom.‖
~ Irving Berlin

―When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot
and hang on.‖
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

―Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing
is so gentle as true strength.‖
~ St. Francis De Sales

―The daily grind of hard work gets a person
polished.‖
~ Anonymous

―There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can
circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve
of a determined soul.‖
~ Anonymous

―Anything that we have to learn we learn by the
actual doing of it… we become just by
performing just acts, temperate by performing
temperate ones, brave by performing brave
ones.‖
~ Aristotle

―It is easier to prepare and prevent than to repair
and repent.‖
~ Wayne Church

―One can never consent to creep when one feels
an impulse to soar.‖
~ Helen Keller

―The true measure of a man is how he treats
someone who can do him absolutely no good.‖
~Ann Landers

―Honest measures and weights are the Lord‘s
delight.‖
Proverbs 16:11
~The Bible

― A good character is the best tombstone. Those
who loved you and were helped by you will
remember you when forget-me-nots have
withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on
marble.‖
~ Charles H. Spurgeon

―I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue
enough to maintain what I consider the most
enviable of all titles, the character of an honest
man.‖
~ George Washington

―In the end it is not the years in your life that
count. It‘s the life in your years.‖
~ Abraham Lincoln

―Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender;
it is holy ground. There is no greater
investment.‖
~ Stephen Covey

―The starting point of achievement is desire.
Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires
produce weak results, just as a small amount
of fire produces a small amount of heat.‖
~ Napoleon Hill

―I cannot always control what goes on outside.
But I can always control what goes on inside.‖
~ Wayne Dyer

―The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the
path by means of which he can get from where
he is to where he wants to go.‖
~ John Pierpont Morgan

―The longer you wait to decide what you want to
do, the more time you are wasting. It‘s up to
you to want something so badly that your
passion shows through in your actions. Your
actions, not your words, will do the shouting
for you.‖
~ Derek Jeter

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

― A good plan today is better than a perfect plan
tomorrow.‖
~ George S. Patton

―Ability is of little account without opportunity.‖
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

―Honesty is the first chapter in the book of
Wisdom.‖
~ Thomas Jefferson

―He gives strength and increases the power of
the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall; but those
who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles; They will
run and not grow weary; they will walk and
not faint.‖
~ Isaiah 40: 29-31

―It is important that you strive for humility, but
not humiliation, for a cool-headed confidence,
not a stiff, delusional arrogance.‖
~ Michael Johnson

―It is easier in the world to live after the world‘s
opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our
own; but the great man is he who in the midst
of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the
independence of solitude.‖

―Destiny is not a matter of chance but of choice.
Not something to wish for but to attain.‖
~ Williams Jennings Bryan

―Since you get more joy out of giving joy to
others, you should put a great deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.‖
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

―Joy can be real only if people look on their life
as a service, and have a definite object in life
outside themselves and their personal
happiness.‖
~ Leo Tolstoy

―The principles we live by, in business and in
social life, are the most important part of
happiness. We need to be careful, upon
achieving happiness, not to lose the virtues
which have produced it.‖
~ Harry Harrison

―If your ship doesn‘t come in, swim out to it.‖
~ Jonathan Winters

―The pessimist sees difficulty in every
opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in
every difficulty.‖
~ Winston Churchill

―A ship is safe in a harbor, but that is not what a
ship is for.‖
~ William Shedd

―It is not our purpose to become each other; it is
to recognize each other, to learn to see the
other and honor him for what he is.‖
~ Hermann Hesse

―Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock
all the potential we are capable of.‖
~ Christy Borgeld

―If there is no struggle, there is no progress.‖
~ Frederick Douglass

―What is the use of living if it be not to strive for
noble causes and to make this muddled world
a better place for those who will live in it after
we are gone.‖
~ Winston Churchill

―Change does not necessarily assure progress,
but progress implacably requires change.
Education is essential to change, for education
creates both new wants and the ability to
satisfy them.‖
~ Henry Steele Commager

―Optimism is essential to achievement and it is
also the foundation of courage and true
progress.‖
~ Nicholas Murray Butler

―There is no better exercise for the heart than
reaching down and lifting people up.‖
~ John Andrew Holmes, Jr.

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

― Live in your imagination today, for tomorrow it
can become your reality.‖
~ Kevin Eiken Berry

―Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's
courage.―
~ Anais Nin

― If you want to knock off two birds with one
stone, arrange for them to be in the same spot
at the same time.‖
~ E.R. Haas

―Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can
change around you, but your dream will not.
Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need
not obscure it. Because the dream is within
you, no one can take it away.‖
~ Tom Clancy

―It‘s nice to be the best, but not when being the
best brings out the worst in you.‖
~ Rodney Dangerfield

―When you finally go for it today, act as if it were
impossible to fail. The confidence and
enthusiasm you generate will ensure the best
possible result.‖
~ E.R. Haas

―Some make it happen, some watch it happen,
and some say, ‗What happened?‘…
~ Anonymous

― If you have built castles in the air, your work
need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.‖

―When we walk to the edge of all the light we
have and take the step into the darkness of the
unknown, we must believe that one of two
things will happen. There will be something
solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to
fly."
~ Frank Outlaw

"The question is not what a man can scorn, or
disparage, or find fault with, but what he can
love, and value, and appreciate."
~ John Ruskin

―The main business is not to see what lies dimly
at a distance but to do what lies clearly at
hand.‖
~ Thomas Carlyle

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

―Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a
vision. But today well lived makes every
yesterday a dream of happiness , and every
tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well,
therefore, to today.
~ Anonymous

―Many of the things you count, don‘t count. Many
of the things you can‘t count, really count.‖
~ Albert Einstein

―In order to do what really matters to you, you
have to, first of all, know what really matters
to you.‖
~ Dr. Edward Hallowell

―A man's accomplishments in life are the
cumulative effect of his attention to detail.‖
~ John Foster Dulles

"It's never too late to be who you might have
been.―
~ George Eliot

―Follow your heart first. Then lead with your
goals.‖
~ E.R. Haas

―It is paradoxical but profoundly true and
important principle of life that the most likely
way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that
goal itself but at some more ambitious goal
beyond it.‖
~ Arnold Toynbee

―The secret of success in life is for a person to be
ready for opportunity when it comes.‖
~ Benjamin Disreali

―None are so old as those who have outlived
enthusiasm.‖

―Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look
the world straight in the face.‖
~ Helen Keller

―When you find yourself spinning your wheels,
change the terrain.‖
~ E.R. Haas

―Remember that when you leave this earth, you
can take with you nothing you have received–
only what you have given: a full heart enriched
by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.‖
~ St. Francis of Assisi

―Of course we all have our limits, but how can
you possibly find your boundaries unless you
explore as far and as wide as you possibly can?
I would rather fail in attempt at something
new and uncharted than safely succeed in a
repeat of something I have done.‖
~ A.E. Hotchner

―The big secret in life is that there is no big
secret. Whatever you goal, you can bet there if
you are willing to work.‖
~ Ophra Winfrey

―The greatest thing in the world is to know how
to belong to oneself.‖
~ Michel de Montaigne

―There are no limitations to your visions, except
those which you impose on them. Never limit
yourself by limiting your visions.‖
~ E.R. Haas

―You have powers you never dreamed of. You
can do things you never thought you could do.
there are no limitations in what you can do
except the limitations of your own mind.‖
~ Darwin P. Kingsley

―Genius without education is like silver in the
mine.‖
~ Benjamin Franklin

―That some achieve great success, is proof to all
that others can achieve it as well.‖
~ Abraham Lincoln

―Do not let what you cannot do interfere with
what you can do.‖
~ John Wooden

―The first and most important step toward
success is the feeling that we can succeed.‖
~ Nelson Boswell

"Wherever you are is always the right place.
There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch
up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some
higher place. Start right where you are."
~ Julia Cameron

―All of our dreams can come true- if we have the
courage to pursue them.‖
~ Walt Disney

Make this day count. "If one advances
confidently in the direction of dreams, and
endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he
will meet with success unexpected in common
hours."

―Every strike brings me closer to the next home
run."
~ Babe Ruth

"People talk about finding their lives. In reality,
your life is not something you find - it's
something you create."
~ David Phillips

―There are costs and risks to a program of action,
but they are far less than the long range risks
and costs of comfortable inaction.‖
~ John F. Kennedy

― A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has
done, of what he can do, nothing else.‖
~ Mahatma Gandhi

―Do what you can, with what you have, where
you are.‖
~ Theodore Roosevelt

―Character isn‘t inherited. One builds it daily by
the way one thinks and acts, thought by
thought, action by action.‖
~ Helen Gahagan Douglas

―Conditions are never just right. People who
delay action until all factors are favorable do
nothing.‖
~ William Feather

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the
word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for
danger, the other for opportunity. In a crisis,
be aware of danger--but recognize the
opportunity."
~ John F. Kennedy

" Most of us, swimming against the tides of
trouble the world knows nothing about, need
only a bit of praise or encouragement -- and
we will make the goal. "
~ Jerome P. Fleishman

"It's not what you do once in a while, it's what
you do day in and day out that makes the
difference."
~ Jenny Craig

―Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you
get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a
habit.‖
~ Gordon Parks

―I see that sensible men and conscientious men
all over the world were of one religion, -- the
religion of well-doing and daring, men of
sturdy truth, men of integrity and feeling for
others.

―In order to succeed, your desire for success
should be greater than your fear of failure.‖
~ Bill Cosby

―If you're not using your smile, you're like a man
with a million dollars in the bank and no
checkbook.‖
~ Les Giblin

"Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what
you know in your heart you were meant to do."
~ Leroy "Satchel" Paige

―A successful man is one who can lay a firm
foundation with the bricks others have thrown
at him.‖
~ David Brinkley

―Life takes on meaning when you become
motivated, set goals and charge after them in
an unstoppable manner.‖
~ Les Brown

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

―Get excited and enthusiastic about your own
dream. This excitement is like a forest fire- you
can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile
away.‖
~ Denis Waitley

"Few people have any next, they live from hand
to mouth without a plan, and are always at the
end of their line."

―Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the
switch.‖
~ Ivern Ball

―If you have nothing else to do, look about you
and see if there isn‘t something close at hand
that you can improve. It may make you
wealthy, though it is more likely that it will
make you happy.‖
~ George Matthew Adams

"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel
are the things that endure. These qualities are
so much more important than the events that
occur."
~ Vince Lombardi

―The foolish man seeks happiness in the
distance, the wise grows it under his feet.‖
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

―Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else
tries to light that fire under you, chances are it
will burn very briefly.‖
~ Stephen R. Covey

―Without goals and a plan to reach them, you are
like a ship that has set sail with no
destination.‖
~ Fitzhugh Dodson

―You can‘t win unless you learn how to lose.‖
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

―Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark
things seem to be or actually are, raise your
sights and see possibilities– always see them,
for they are always there.‖
~ Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

―The meaning of life is to give life meaning.‖
~ Ken Hudgins

―Planning is deciding. If you can‘t decide which
of your options to take, imagine that you don‘t
have to do it yourself. Plan it for someone
else.‖
~ E.R. Haas

"If achieving your potential requires favorable
judgment by others, you are much less likely
to succeed.―
~ Marilyn vos Savant

―Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak.
Courage is also what it takes to sit down and
listen.‖
~ Winston Churchill

― Make one person happy each day and in forty
years you will have made 14,600 human
beings for a little time at least.‖
~ Charley Willey

―The achievement of one goal should be the
starting point of another.‖
~ Alexander Graham Bell

"There is a power under your control that is
greater than poverty, greater than the lack of
education, greater than all your fears and
superstitions combined. It is the power to take
possession of your own mind and direct it to
whatever ends you may desire."
~ Andrew Carnegie

―You‘re the director– call for action and roll the
cameras.‖
~ E.R. Haas

―Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a
condition of the heart, than a set of things to
do. The visible signs of artful leadership are
expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
~ Max DePree

―Friendship is never established as an
understood relation. It is a miracle that
requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of
the purest imagination and of the rarest faith.‖
~Henry David Thoreau

―The greatest accomplishments of man have
resulted from the transmission of ideas, into
enthusiasm, into actions.‖
~ Thomas J. Vilord

―Do not not follow where the path may lead. Go
instead where there is no path and leave a
trail.‖
~ Harold R. McAlindon

―Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is
calm.‖
~ Publilius Syrus

―The greater a man is in power above others, the
more he ought to excel them in virtue. None
ought to govern who is not better than the
governed.‖
~ Publilius Syrus

―All the adversity I've had in my life, all my
troubles and obstacles, have strengthened
me.... You may not realize it when it happens,
but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in
the world for you.‖
~ Walt Disney

―Success is the good fortune that comes from
aspiration, desperation, perspiration and
inspiration.‖
~ Evan Esar

―Nature and wisdom are never at strife.‖
~ Plutarch

―The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is
silence, the second is listening, the third
memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching
others.‖
~ Solomon ibn Gabriol

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a
precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe,
to think, to enjoy, to love..."
~ Marcus Aurelius

―No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the
stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened
a new heaven to the human spirit."
~ Helen Keller

―If you don‘t know where you are going, you will
end up someplace else.‖
~ Yogi Berra

―When you are making a success of something,
it‘s not work. It is a way of life. You enjoy
yourself because you are making your
contribution to the world.‖
~Andrew Granatelli

―Nature arms each man with some faculty which
enables him to do easily some feat impossible
to any other.‖

―Most people ask for happiness on condition.
Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any
condition."
~ Arthur Rubinstein

―The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive."
~ Joe Batten

―Our character is basically a composite of our
habits. Because they are consistent, often
unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily,
express our character.‖
~ Stephen Covey

―Giving people a little more than they expect is a
good way to get back more than you
expected.‖
~ Robert Half

―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

―The more you praise and celebrate your life, the
more there is in life to celebrate.‖
~ Oprah Winfrey

―Don‘t give up at halftime. Concentrate on
winning the second half.‖
~ Coach Paul ―Bear‖ Bryant

―Forcing yourself to continue a task, after your
enthusiasm is gone, won't do you any favors.
Switch to another type of task for a while --
give yourself a chance to recharge.‖
~ E.R. Haas

―Many persons have a wrong idea of what
constitutes true happiness. It is not attained
through self-gratification but through fidelity
to a worthy purpose.‖
~ Helen Keller

"Three keys to more abundant living: caring
about others, daring for others, sharing with
others."
~ William Arthur Ward

―Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth
doing.‖
~ Theodore Roosevelt

"When I chased after money, I never had
enough. When I got my life on purpose and
focused on giving of myself and everything
that arrived into my life, then I was
prosperous."
~ Wayne Dyer

"History has demonstrated that the most notable
winners usually encountered heartbreaking
obstacles before they triumphed. They won
because they refused to become discouraged
by their defeats."
~ B. C. Forbes

―Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose,
sometimes you get rained out.‖
~ Satchel Paige

"The best thing about fear is that it provides a
wonderful opportunity to demonstrate
courage.―
~ Dr. Mardy Grothe

"Always do the things you fear the most.
Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.―
~ Erica Jong

―If you want to be respected by others the great
thing is to respect yourself."
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

"The reality of life is that your perceptions --
right or wrong -- influence everything else you
do. When you get a proper perspective of your
perceptions, you may be surprised how many
other things fall into place.―
~ Roger Birkman

―True friends are those who, when you make a
fool of yourself, don't believe that this
condition is permanent.‖
~ Erwin T. Randall

This is the end of a year of good, positive, sometimes
funny, certainly motivational quotes collected to make
every day a great day.
Actually, that is not true. Volume 2 is the second of a
collection of good, positive, sometimes funny, certainly
motivational quotes put together to make every day a
great day.
If you don‘t have it , buy it now. There are no duplicates
between any of the three collections. Contact
wchurchcpp@cox.net to order.
God Bless you!!!
~ Wayne C. Church

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