QUOTES:

(1) There is no real excellence in this world which can be separated from right living. (David stars Jordan)

(2) What you are shouts so loudly in my ears that I cannot hear what you say you are. (Emerson)

(3) Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous for good and evil. The silent unconscious, unseen influence of his life, this is simply the constant radiation of what man really is and not what he pretends to be. (William George Jordan)

(3) For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the roots. (Thoreau)

(4) It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law. (Cecil b. Demille)

(5) How can we remember our ignorance? Which our growth requires. When we are always using our knowledge all the time. (Thoreau)

(6) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. (Albert Einstein)

(7) Habit is like a cable, we weave a strand of it every day and soon it cannot be broken. (Horace Mann)

(8) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence therefore is not an act but a habit. (Aristotle)

(9) Never offer what you'd hte someone for accepting, (Tara Ploughman)

(10) We must not cease from exploration, and the end of all exploring will be to arrive at where we began and to know the place for the first time. (T.S Elliot)

(11) No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. (Marylyn Ferguson)

(12) That which we obtain to easily we esteem too lightly. It is dearness that only which give everything its value. Heaven knows how to put the right price on its goods. (Thomas Paine)

(13) I know no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. (Henry David Thorea)

(14) No one can hurt you without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

(15) They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them. (Mahatma Gandhi)

(16) When we pickup one end of a stick we pick the other end too. Success in on the far end of failure. (T.J Watson)

(17) The fountain of content must spring from up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove. (Samwel Johnson)

(18) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. (Oliver Wendell Holme)

(19) Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right thing. (Peter Druker)

(20) Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written constitution. (Thomas Jefferson)

(21) Things that matter most must not be at the mercy of things that matter less. (Goath)

(22) He who is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail. (Abraham Maslow)

(23) The successful person has the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do. (E.M Gray)

(24) Everyone has his own vocation or mission in life. Therein he cannot be replaced nor can his life be repeated. Thus everyone’s task is as unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. (Frankl)

(25) Ultimately, man should not ask what the purpose of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life and he only can answer to life by answering for his own life, to life, he can only respond by being responsible. (Frankl)

(26)It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. (Roskin)

(27)There cannot be friendship without confidence and no confidence without integrity. (Samuel Johnson)

(28) If you want something to be done, give it to a busy man. (Anonymous)

(29) It is nobler to give yourself completely to one person than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. (Dag Hammerskojod)

(30) We have committed the golden rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. (Edwin Markha)

(31) Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from the little things I am tempted to think there are no little things. (Bruce Burton)

(32) We seek not to imitate the masters; rather we seek what they sought. (Carl Rogers)

(33) The heart has reasons that reason know not of. (Pascal)

(34) That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not because that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do it has increased. (Emerson)

(35) We are not human being having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience. (Teilhard Desjardin)

(36) Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living in this world. (N. Eldon Tanner)

(37) You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds. (Dag Hammarskjold)

(38)The voice of the conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also clear that it is impossible to mistake it. (Madame De Sta’l)

(39) I have so much to do today I’ll need to spend another hour on my knees. (Martin Luther)

(40)The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in silent chambers of the soul. (David O. Mackay)

(41) Some day in the years to come you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here now. Now is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation you shall miserably fail or glamorously conquer. (Phillips Brooks)

(42) A long, Healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others. (DR Hans Selye)

(43)  The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

— Oprah Winfrey

(44) A cooperative spirit enjoys a better harvest.

― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise

(45) Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

― Coco Chanel

(46)  At the end of the day, it would be wise to learn how to cooperate with others; so as not to put yourself first most of the time.

― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

(47) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

— William Faulkner

(48) The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.

― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

(49) Despite the forecast, live like it's spring.

— Lilly Pulitzer

(50) The time is always right to do what is right.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

(51) In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

― Dwight D. Eisenhower

(52) Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

― Paulo Coelho

(53) The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

— Eudora Welty

(54) I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

— Ann Richards

(55) All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

— Mark Twain

(56) Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.

― Gloria Steinem

(57) You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

— Maya Angelou

(58) A goal without a plan is just a wish.

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

(59) Being happy never goes out of style.

— Lilly Pulitzer

(60) It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit live near him.

(61) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

― Robert Frost

(62) Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

- Stephen R. Covey

(63) "Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose."

-Viktor Frankl

(64) "When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you."

 -Napoleon Hill

(65) Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.

― Bohdi Sanders, Warrior Wisdom: Ageless Wisdom for the Modern Warrior

(66) Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

― Joss Whedon

(67) “Speak less than you know; have more than you show.”

– William Shakespeare

(68) "Life is just the same with boxing, you don’t only have to anticipate the opportunities, but you also need to be ready for setbacks, if you want to win in life."

(69) “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

–Anais Nin

(70) "We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."

-Tom Robbins

(71) “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."

-Plato

(72) "I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."

-Alexander the Great

(73) "A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason."

-J.P. Morgan

(74) "Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."

-Peter Drucker

(75) “Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”

-Abraham Lincoln

(76) Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Have fun. Fall in love. Regret nothing, and don't let people bring you down. Study, think, create, and grow. Teach yourself and teach others.

(77) “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”

-Robert Louis Stevenson

(78) “I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”

-Michelle Williams

(79) “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”

-Jim Morrison

(80) Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. 

― Shannon L. Alder

(81) Only dead fish go with the flow.

- Proverb

(82) If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.

― Sean Covey, The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens

(83) We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

(84) It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.

― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

(85) Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.

― Sean Covey

(86) If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

― Shannon L. Alder

(87) We become what we repeatedly do.

― Sean Covey, The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens

(88) Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.

― Shannon L. Alder

(89) If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

(90) Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

― Sean Covey, The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens

(91) The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

(92) You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

(93) If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.

― Criss Jami, Killosophy

(94) I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

(95) Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

― Robert A. Heinlein

(96) If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

(97) It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

(98) It's not a lack of love, but a lack of spiritual qualities, that ruin relationships.

― Shannon L. Alder, The Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Bible: Spiritual Recovery from Narcissistic and Emotional Abuse

(99) Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

― Anne Frank

(100) Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

― Khaled Hosseini

(101) Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

 

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

― Bruce Lee

(102) “I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

(103) And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

- Anais Nin

(104) It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

 — Ralph Ellison

(105) You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

— Joel Osteen

(106) If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

— Beyoncé Knowles

(107) The downfall begins when a beautiful soul starts to believe that it is not beautiful.

- C. JoyBell C.

(108) Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

- Swami Sivananda.

(109) It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims

(110) Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

—  Blaise Pascal

(111) Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

― Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms

(112) No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

― Bryant McGill

(113) If you are rude, cynical, habitually-sarcastic or pessimistic, your life options are going to be very limited.

― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

(114) People don't realize how their rude words can mess with your head forever.

― Garima Soni - words world

(115) When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.

― Karen E. Quinones Miller

(116) When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.

― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

(117) We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

― Anais Nin

(118) Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

(119) Accept who you are; and revel in it.

― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

(120) We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

― Carlos Castaneda

(121) Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

 (122) To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson