MotivQuotes 3

MotivQuotes
Volume 3
365 Positive, Motivational Quotes
one for each day or study ahead

"At the center of your being you have the
answer; you know who you are and you know
what you want."
~ Lao Tzu
1©Copyright 2009, MotivQuotes

"Nothing is worth more than this day. You
cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still
beyond your reach."
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but
the parent of all the others.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We hold these truths to be self-evident; That all
men are created equal; that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unalienable
rights; that among these are life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness.”
~ Thomas Jefferson

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give
me truth.”
~ Henry David Thoreau

"To dream anything that you want to dream, that
is the beauty of the human mind. To do
anything that you want to do, that is the
strength of the human will. To trust yourself,
to test your limits, that is the courage to
succeed."
~ Bernard Edmonds

“Get through the rough spots today by looking
forward to the moment when you can say "All
finished!"
~ E.R. Haas

"You are always a valuable, worthwhile human
being, not because anybody says so, not
because you're successful, not because you
make a lot of money, but because you decide
to believe it and for no other reason."
~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize
one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us
is here for."
~ Oscar Wilde

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
~ William Ellery Channing

“If you want to turn your life around, try
thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.”
~ Gerald Good

"You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do
certain things -- to compete. You can be just
an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to
reach challenging goals."
~ Sir Edmund Hillary

"With everything that has happened to you, you
can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what
has happened as a gift. Everything is either an
opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you
from growing. You get to choose."
~ Wayne Dyer

"You may believe that you are responsible for
what you do, but not for what you think. The
truth is that you are responsible for what you
think, because it is only at this level that you
can exercise choice. What you do comes from
what you think."
~ From 'A Course In Miracles'

"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint
you can at it."
~ Danny Kaye

"Guard well your spare moments. They are like
uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value
will never be known. Improve them and they
will become the brightest gems in a useful
life."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we
can choose to live in joy.“
~ Joseph Campbell

“Faith believes the incredible, sees the invisible,
and receives the impossible!”
~ Wayne C. Church

"What you must dare is to be yourself."
~ Dag Hammarskjold

"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose
wisely."
~ Karen Kaiser Clark

"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so
you can become bitter and give up. They
happen to break you down and build you up so
you can be all that you were intended to be."
~ Charles "Tremendous" Jones

"First say to yourself what you would be; and
then do what you have to do."
~ Epictetus

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile can be the source of
your joy.“
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

"We are all here for a single purpose: to grow in
wisdom and to learn to love better. We can do
this through losing as well as through winning,
by having and by not having, by succeeding or
by failing. All we need to do is to show up
openhearted for class."
~ Rachel Naomi Remen

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

“Positive thinking won't let you do anything but
it will let you do everything better than
negative thinking will.”
~ Zig Ziglar

“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”
~ Aesop

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest
form of thought, and that gratitude is
happiness doubled by wonder.”
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and
reverent lifting of the heart to God in honour
and praise for His goodness.”
~ James R. Miller

“God gave you the gift of 86,400 seconds today.
Have you used one to say "thank you"?”
~ William Arthur Ward

“Search for the best in every person and discover
ways you can be of mutual benefit to each
other.”
~ E.R. Haas

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns
what we have into enough, and more. It turns
denial into acceptance, chaos to order,
confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a
feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a
friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today, and creates a vision for
tomorrow."
~ Melody Beattie

"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."
~ Will Rogers

“When we are conscious of our personal
uniqueness and our universal nature we
express ourselves creatively. In this way we
fulfill our dreams and our life purpose."
~ Andrew Schneider

“Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the
violin.”
~ John Lubbock

"Many of us spend our lives searching for success
when it is usually so close that we can reach
out and touch it."
~ Russell H. Conwell

"The only limit to your impact is your
imagination and commitment."
~ Tony Robbins

"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming
the person you want to be."
~ David Viscott

“Success is not measured by what you
accomplish but by the opposition you have
encountered, and the courage with which you
have maintained the struggle against
overwhelming odds.”
~ Orison Swett Marden

"Deep down you know you can be remarkable.
You shouldn't settle for anything less than
your best self, reaching ever closer to your
potential--whether as a leader or in any other
part of your life."
~ Kevin Eikenberry

"For me, winning isn't something that happens
suddenly on the field when the whistle blows
and the crowds roar. Winning is something
that builds physically and mentally every day
that you train and every night that you
dream."
~ Emmitt Smith

"Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have
gears we never use."
~ Charles M. Schulz

“It is most important to know which role you're
in at any given point in time. Once you know
the role, you can then act the part
appropriately, and in the most productive way
possible.”
~ E.R.Haas

"The real truth is this: The whole world is joy.
Heaven is a festival all year long. Of all lies, the
greatest falsehood is melancholy."
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that
the first victory they won was over themselves
self-discipline with all of them came first."
~ Harry S Truman

"Focusing on what we already have and are
grateful for right now is one of the most
powerful things we can do to alter our life in a
positive way."
~ Mike Robbins

"Only some people get what they want. Those
are the people who show up to get it."
~ Dianne Houston

“When you know what you want, and you want it
badly enough, you'll find a way to get it.”
~ Jim Rohn

"Free will and determinism are like a game of
cards. The hand that is dealt you is
determinism. The way you play your hand is
free will."
~ Norman Cousins

"Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

"A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives
you a tremendous feeling of confidence and
personal power."
~ Brian Tracy

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of
99 who have only interests. "
~ John Stuart Mill

"We cannot always control our thoughts, but we
can control our words, and repetition
impresses the subconscious, and we are then
master of the situation."
~ Florence Scovel Shinn

“A day merely survived is no cause for
celebration. You are not here to fritter away
your precious hours when you have the ability
to accomplish so much by making a slight
change in your routine.”
~ Og Mandino

"Whenever you have an opportunity to laugh,
laugh;
whenever you have an opportunity to dance,
dance;
whenever you have an opportunity to sing, sing -
and one day you will find you have created your
paradise."
~ Osho

“You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot
tell you with certainty. They come
unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could
seize them with my hands - out in open air, in
the woods, while walking, in the silence of the
nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are
translated by the poet into words, by me into
tunes that sound and roar and storm about me
till I have set them down in notes. “
~ Ludwig von Beethoven

“Just don't give up trying to do what you really
want to do. Where there's love and inspiration,
I don't think you can go wrong.”
~ Ella Fitzgerald

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal,
not to people or objects."
~ Albert Einstein

"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult and
difficult as if they were easy."
~ Baltasar Gracian

“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are.
Failure is part of the process of success. People
who avoid failure also avoid success."
~ Bob Kyosaki

"Whatever you do, don't do it halfway."
~ Bob Beamon

"The best way to serve God is by going in
search of your own dreams. Only the
happy can spread happiness."
~ Paulo Coelho

“So what do we do? Anything. Something. So
long as we don't sit there. If we screw it up,
start over. Try something else. If we wait until
we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be
too late.”
~ Lee Iacocca

"Anything is possible. You can be told that you
have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent
chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to
believe, and you have to fight."
~ Lance Armstrong

"Genuine leadership comes from the quality of
your vision and your ability to spark others to
extraordinary performance."
~ Jack Welch

“As is our confidence, so is our capacity.”
~ William Hazlitt

“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he
feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to
the great God who made him.
~ Abraham Lincoln

"The great thing in the world is not so much
where we stand, as in what direction we are
moving."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

“ The right time to show your good character is
when you are pestered by somebody weaker
than you.”
~ Buddha

"It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that
determines your altitude."
~ Zig Ziglar

“The ones who want to achieve and win
championships motivate themselves.”
~ Mike Ditka

"There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or
woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda
done it."
~ Pat Riley

"When you develop yourself to the point where
your belief in yourself is so strong that you
know you can accomplish anything you put
your mind to, your future will be unlimited."
~ Brian Tracy

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

“ It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not
possession but the act of getting there, which
grants the greatest enjoyment.”
~ Carl Friedrich Gauss

"Having a dream is what keeps you alive.
Overcoming the challenges make life worth
living."
~ Mary Tyler Moore

“It's not my job to motivate players. They bring
extraordinary motivation to our program. It's
my job not to de-motivate them.”
~ Lou Holtz

“If you would lift me up you must be on higher
ground.”

“One of the strongest characteristics of genius is
the power of lighting its own fire.”
~ John W. Foster

“Who is sure of their own motives can in
confidence advance or retreat.”

“ I want you to be everything that's you, deep at
the center of your being.”
~ Confucius

“Winners take time to relish their work, knowing
that scaling the mountain is what makes the
view from the top so exhilarating.”
~ Denis Waitley

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
~ Charles Austin Beard.

“There is no end to what you can accomplish if
(or when) you don’t care who gets the credit.”
~ Florence Luscomb

“Every man has his own destiny; the only
imperative is to follow it, to accept it no matter
where it leads him.”
~ Henry Miller

“An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most
precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like
oil over the troubled sea of thought, and
keeping the mind smooth and equable in the
roughest weather.“
~ Washington Irving

“People of humor are always in some degree
people of genius.”
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“One grain may tip the scale. One man may make
the difference between victory and defeat."
~ Mulan

"No matter what people tell you, words and
ideas can change the world."
~ The Dead Poet's Society

“Be simple in words, manners, and gestures.
Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a
man laugh, you can make him think and make
him like and believe you.”
~ Alfred E. Smith

“You are never given a dream without also being
given the power to make it true. You may have
to work for it, however.”
~ Richard Bach

“The first requisite for success is the ability to
apply your physical and mental energies to one
problem incessantly without growing weary.”
~ Thomas A. Edison

“The world cares very little about what a man or
woman knows; it is what a man or woman is
able to do that counts.”
~ Booker T. Washington

“Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals;
cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the
beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness
that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of
them will grow delightful conditions, all
heavenly environment; of these if you but
remain true to them, your world will at last be
built.”
~ James Allen

“If human beings are perceived as potentials
rather than problems, as possessing strengths
instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather
than dull and unresponsive, then they thrive
and grow to their capabilities.”
~ Robert Conklin

“Let us learn to appreciate there will be times
when the trees will be bare, and look
forward to the time when we may pick the
fruit.”
~ Peter Sellers

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
~ Sally Berger

“Action springs not from thought, but from a
readiness for responsibility.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Someone's sitting in the shade today because
someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
~ Warren Buffett

“Life is like a mountain railway, with an engineer
that's brave; We must make the run
successful, from the cradle to the grave. Watch
the curves, the fills, the tunnels; never falter,
never quail; Keep your hands upon the
throttle, And your eyes upon the rail.”
~ M.E. Abbey

“Never mind your happiness; do your duty.”
~ William J. Durant

“Do not wait; the time will never be "just right."
Start where you stand, and work with
whatever tools you may have at your
command, and better tools will be found as
you go along.”
~ Napoleon Hill

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set
of circumstances, but rather a person with a
certain set of attitudes."
~ Hugh Downs

"We who lived in the concentration camps can
remember the men who walked through the
huts comforting others, giving away their last
piece of bread. They may have been few in
number, but they offer sufficient proof that
everything can be taken from a man but one
thing: The last of his freedoms - to choose
one's attitude in any given set of
circumstances, to choose one's own way."
~ Viktor E. Frankl

"To be successful, you must decide exactly what
you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay
the price to get it."
~ Bunker Hunt

"Things which matter most must never be at the
mercy of things which matter least."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Things turn out best for the people who make
the best of the way things turn out."
~ Art Linkletter

"Ability is what gives you the opportunity; belief
is what gets you there. "
~ Apollo

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give
thanks for everything that happens to you,
knowing that every step forward is a step
toward achieving something bigger and better
than your current situation."
~ Brian Tracy

"People with goals succeed because they know
where they’re going."
~ Earl Nightingale

“A successful individual typically sets his next
goal somewhat but not too much above his
last achievement. In this way he steadily
raises his level of aspiration.”
~ Kurt Lewin

"Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm
close to success.”
~ Michael Flatley

“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a
mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold
this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to
fade. Your mind will seek to develop the
picture...Do not build up obstacles in your
imagination.”
~ Norman Vincent Peale

"Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is
the capacity to translate intention into reality
and sustain it.“
~ Warren Bennis

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"As you simplify your life, the laws of the
universe will be simpler; solitude will not be
solitude, poverty will not be
poverty, nor weakness weakness."
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"The easiest thing in the world to be is you. The
most difficult thing to be is what other people
want you to be. Don't let them put you in that
position."
~ Leo Buscaglia

"Champions know there are no shortcuts to the
top. They climb the mountain one step at a
time. They have no use for helicopters!"
~ Judi Adler

“For the rest of the day keep one eye on the road
-- and one eye on the prize.”
~ E.R. Haas

“Success is not the result of spontaneous
combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”
~ Reggie Leach

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I
seem to have.“
~ Thomas Jefferson

"The best way to say, 'I love you, God,' is to live
your life doing your best. The best way to say,
'Thank you, God,' is by letting go of the past
and living in the present moment, right here
and now."
~ Don Miguel Ruiz

“Underpromise, overdeliver.”
~ Tom Peters

"Always do the right thing. This will gratify some
people and astonish the rest."
~ Mark Twain

“Demand a commitment to excellence and to
victory, and that is what life is all about."
~ Vince Lombardi

“Everyone who's serious about what they're
doing must be in constant motion forward.”
~ Ed O'Brien

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you
grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have
to fail in order to practice being brave."
~ Mary Tyler Moore

“You miss 100% of the shots you never take.”
~ Wayne Gretzky

"There are two kinds of people who never
amount to much: those who cannot do what
they are told, and those who can do nothing
else."
~ Cyrus Curtis

"I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize
before one has data. Insensibly one begins to
twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories
to suit facts."
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"The difference between what we do and what
we are capable of doing would solve most of
the world's problems."
~ Gandhi

"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging
on of an uncompleted task."
~ William James

"Don't discard your fantasies as merely wishful
thinking. Honor them as messages from the
deepest part of your being about what you can
do and directions you can choose."
~ Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer

“The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet
must talk the language of the visionary and
the idealist.“
~ Eric Hoffer

“Happiness consists in activity. It is a running
stream, not a stagnant pool.”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power
to move the hearts of men."

"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt
and doing something. It's as simple as that. A
lot of people have ideas, but there are few who
decide to do something about them now. Not
tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true
entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer."
~ Nolan Bushnell

“A hundred years from now, it won't matter what
your bank account was, the sort of house you
lived in, or the kind of car you drove, but the
world may be different because you were
important in the life of a child.”
~ Author unknown

"Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.
The soul must see through these eyes alone,
and if they are dim, the whole world is
clouded."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

"A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough.
Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is
pleasant belongs to dreams."
~ Simone Weil

"Everything you want is out there waiting for you
to ask. Everything you want also wants you.
But you have to take action to get it."
~ Jack Canfield

"The history of the world is full of men/women
who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-
confidence, bravery and tenacity."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up
your right to be wrong, because then you will
lose the ability to learn new things and move
forward with your life.”
~ Dr. David M. Burns

"Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock
rather on opportunity's door if you ardently
wish to enter.“
~ B.C. Forbes

“Do what's best for people, and in return,
people will give you their best.”
~ Author Unknown

“There is wisdom in turning as often as possible
from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the
mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters
humor.”
~ George Santayana

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

"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of
our lives, that we are dying. Then we might
live life to the limit, every minute of every day.
Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it
now! There are only so many tomorrows."
~ Michael Landon

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the
truth, they can be depended upon to meet any
national crises. The great point is to bring
them the real facts.”
~ Abraham Lincoln

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to
plan."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"I don't care how much power, brilliance, or
energy you have, if you don't harness it and
focus it on a specific target, and hold it there,
you're never going to accomplish as much as
your ability warrants."
~ Zig Ziglar

"Dreams can often become challenging, but
challenges are what we live for."
~ Travis White

"Somehow I can't believe that there are any
heights that can't be scaled by a man who
knows the secrets of making dreams come
true. This special secret - curiosity,
confidence, courage, and constancy, and the
greatest of all is confidence. When you
believe in a thing, believe in it all the way,
implicitly and unquestionable."
~ Walt Disney

“You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then
something has been lost.”
~ Martha Graham

"Demand the best from yourself, because others
will demand the best from you... Successful
people don't simply give a project hard work.
They give it their best work."
~ Win Borden

"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the
opportunity to do more."
~ Dr. Jonas Salk

"Everything can be taken from a man but one
thing; the last of the human freedoms--to
choose one's attitude in any given set of
circumstances, to choose one's own way."
~ Viktor Frankl

“Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise
the bar a little higher each time you succeed.”
~ Mia Hamm

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

“The greatest things ever done on earth have
been done little by little.”
~ Thomas Guthrie

"The world is more malleable than you think, and
it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape."
~ Bono

“Count your blessings. Once you realize how
valuable you are and how much you have
going for you, the smiles will return, the sun
will break out, the music will play, and you
will finally be able to move forward the life
that God intended for you with grace, strength,
courage, and confidence.”
~ Og Mandino

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

"Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to
shape itself to meet our expectations."
~ Richard M. DeVos

“Remember the Little Engine That Could? I think
I can, I think I can, I think I can until over the
top of the mountain he went.”
~ Wayne C. Church

"If you believe it, you can make it happen. That’s
all you need, is belief — and of course the
willingness to follow through on whatever
needs to be done on your part."
~ Barefoot Doctor

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but
talent instantly recognizes genius.”
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“All of your work may not have a finish line, but
individual tasks do. Come back tomorrow
refreshed and ready to continue anew.”
~ E.R. Haas

"If you follow no other truth, follow the truth
that within your being is called joy. If you
follow that, you're always going to be right
where you need to be, and you will always
have life within your being."
~ Sheradon Bryce

"Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot
get enough in one sitting. It needs continual
and regular top up's.“
~ Peter Davies

"The best time to plant an oak tree is 20 years
ago. The second best time is today."
~ Anonymous

“You have to expect things of yourself before you
can do them."
~ Michael Jordan

“To dream is only a start. Be daring. Be bold. Be
committed. Act now to make this day a
commitment to your vision and values.”
~ E.R. Haas

“Few things in the world are more powerful than
a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism
and hope. A "you can do it" when things are
tough.”
~ Richard M. DeVos

"Humor is the shortest distance between two
people."
~ Victor Borge

"I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty.
Empty what's full. And scratch where it
itches.“
~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"Life is always walking up to us and saying,
"Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we
do? Back off and take its picture."
~ Russell Baker

"Since you are like no other being ever created
since the beginning of time, you are
incomparable."
~ Brenda Ueland

“Some people are still unaware that reality
contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic
and unexpected, the everchanging and
renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real
life itself.
~ Berenice Abbott

“If you want to leave footprints in the sands of
time, don’t drag your feet.”
~ Arnot L. Sheppard

"They who lack talent expect things to happen
without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of
inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather
than to insufficient application. At the core of
every true talent there is an awareness of the
difficulties inherent in any achievement, and
the confidence that by persistence and
patience something worthwhile will be
realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor."
~ Eric Hoffer

"Obstacles are necessary for success... as in all
careers of importance, victory comes only after
many struggles and countless defeats.”
~ Og Mandino

"I am not judged by the number of times I fail,
but by the number of times I succeed; and the
number of times I succeed is in direct
proportion to the number of times I can fail
and keep on trying."
~ Tom Hopkins

"If you do not conquer self, you will be
conquered by self."
~ Napoleon Hill

“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to
show compassion and the will to help others.”
~ Albert Schweitzer

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
~ Benjamin Franklin

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your
calculations, if you live near him.”
~ J. R. R. Tolkien

"Our subconscious minds have no sense of
humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the
difference between reality and an imagined
thought or image. What we continually
think about eventually will manifest in our
lives."
~ Robert Collier

“With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive
to be happy.”
~ Max Ehrmann

“No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the
world, is as formidable as the will and moral
courage of free men and women.”
~ Ronald Reagan

"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to
forgive everybody everything every night
before going to bed."
~ Bernard Baruch

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head-
- that's assault, not leadership."
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The greatest genius will never be worth much if
he pretends to draw exclusively from his own
resources."

“It is in your moments of decision that your
destiny is shaped.”
~ Tony Robbins

"One of the most essential things you need to do
for yourself is to choose a goal that is
important to you. Perfection does not exist --
you can always do better and you can always
grow."
~ Les Brown

“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, 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
streetsweeper who did his job well.“
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

“Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you
it will change the way you walk, the way you
work, and the decisions you make about
teamwork, leadership, and success.”
~ Mariah Burton Nelson

“Keep fresh and energized by diversifying your
efforts. Use all the parts of your mind for best
results.”
~ E.R. Haas

"We need to give ourselves permission to act out
our dreams and visions, not look for more
sensations, more phenomena, but live our
strongest dreams -- even if it takes a lifetime."
~ Vijali Hamilton

"The strongest single factor in prosperity
consciousness is self-esteem: believing you
can do it, believing you deserve it, believing
you will get it.“
~ Jerry Gillies

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win
glorious triumphs, even though checkered by
failure, than to take rank with those poor
spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much,
because they live in the gray twilight that
knows neither victory nor defeat."
~ President Theodore Roosevelt

"Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired
and rightly lived if you take it bravely and
gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you
are setting out into an unknown country, to
meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to
win and lose many a battle."
~ Annie Besant

"A man's life always starts today. Every morning
is a beginning, a fresh start, and a man needn't
be hog-tied to the past. Whatever went before,
a man's life can begin now, today."
~ Louis L'Amour

"I cannot do all the good that the world needs,
but the world needs all the good that I can
do."
~ Jana Stanfield

“I now realize there are millions of self-made
millionaires who started with nothing. They
dug inside themselves to find the answers and
they succeeded. There is nothing anyone else
can do that I can't do.”
~ Dean Graziosi

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's
bad, it's experience."
~ Victoria Holt

"If a man can write a better book, preach a
better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap
than his neighbor, though he build his house in
the woods, the world will make a beaten path
to his door."

"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of
intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and
endure the betrayal of false friends; To
appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a
healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed
social condition; To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived. This
is to have succeeded."

“There is always room at the top.”
~ Daniel Webster

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

“With vision there is no room to be frightened.
No reason for intimidation. It's time to march
forward! Let's be confident and positive!”
~ Charles R. Swindoll

“Remember to keep calm and cheerful. Don't let petty
things annoy you
and get you off course.

“When you believe something is POSSIBLE, you
will pursue it with PASSION and zeal... taking
ACTION in spite of fear, uncertainty and doubt.
Which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of
SUCCESS!
~ E.R.Haas

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve,
you get even less than you settled for.”
~ Maureen Dowd

“Talk to the people you see everyday, Don’t talk
at them, over them, past them, or beneath
them, talk TO them.”
~ Wayne C. Church

"The thing always happens that you really
believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it
happen."
~ Frank Lloyd Wright

"Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make
kindness your daily modus operandi and
change your world.“
~ Annie Lennox

"If you run into a wall, don't turn around and
give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through
it, or work around it."
~ Michael Jordan

"Few of us ever live in the present. We are
forever anticipating what is to come or
remembering what has gone."
~ Louis L'Amour

“Deep within man dwell those slumbering
powers; powers that would astonish him, that
he never dreamed of possessing; forces that
would revolutionize his life if aroused and put
into action."
~ Orison Swett Marden

“It ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how
hard you can get it and keep moving forward.
How much you can take and keep moving
forward. That's how winning is done! Now if
you know what you're worth then go out and
get what you're worth.”
~ Rocky Balboa

“Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from
their neck saying make me feel important.”
~ Mary Kay Ash

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is
enough.”
~ Mae West

"My attitude is that if you push me towards
something that you think is a weakness, then
I will turn that perceived weakness into a
strength."
~ Michael Jordan

"You're alive. Do something. Look. Listen.
Choose. Act."
~ Barbara Hall

“Motivate them, train them, care about them,
and make winners out of them...we know that
if we treat our employees correctly, they'll
treat the customers right. And if customers
are treated right, they'll come back.”
~ J. Marriott Jr.

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the
grass on a summer day listening to the
murmur of water, or watching the clouds float
across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."
~ Sir John Lubbock

“Even as radio waves are picked up wherever a
set is tuned in to their wavelength, so the
thoughts which each of us think each moment
of the day go forth into the world to influence
for good or bad each other human mind.”
~ Christmas Humphreys

“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 and strong. Because
someday in your life you will have been all of
these.”
~ George Washington Carver

"The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and
the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.
One must therefore be a fox to recognize
traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.“
~ Niccolo Machiavelli

“You never know when a moment and a few
sincere words can have an impact on a life.”
~ Zig Ziglar

"If you think you're too small to have an impact,
try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."
~ Anita Roddick

"It is not because things are difficult that we do
not dare; it is because we do not dare that
they are difficult."
~ Seneca

“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots
of good ideas.”
~ Linus Pauling

"The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and
actualizer... He can visualize something, and
when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to
make it happen."
~ Robert L. Schwartz

“Teamwork is the ability to work together
toward a common vision. It's the fuel that
allows common people to obtain uncommon
results.”
~ Andrew Carnegie

“The secret of living a life of excellence is merely
a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence.
Really, it's a matter of programming our minds
with the kind of information that will set us
free.”
~ Charles R. Swindoll

"I wanted you to see what real courage is,
instead of getting the idea that courage is a
man with a gun in his hand. It's when you
know you're licked before you begin but you
begin anyway and you see it through no
matter what."
~ Harper Lee

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor
man perfected without trials.”
~ Chinese Proverb

“The best preparation for tomorrow is to
do today's work superbly well.”
~ Sir William Osler

“I'm not concerned with your liking me or
disliking me...all I ask is that you respect me
as a human being.”
~ Jackie Robinson

“When someone tells you the truth, lets you
think for yourself, experience your own
emotions, he is treating you as a true equal. As
a friend.”
~ Whitney Otto
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"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy,
in whatever situation I may be; for I have also
learned from experience that the greater part
of our happiness or misery depends upon our
dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
~ Martha Washington

"If it weren't for the dark days, we wouldn't
know what it is to walk in the light.”
~ Earl Campbell

"You are never too old to set another goal or to
dream a new dream.“
~ C. S. Lewis

"When someone shares something of value with
you and you benefit from it, you have a moral
obligation to share it with others."
~ Chinese Proverb

“There are two ways of exerting one's strength;
one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”
~ Booker T. Washington

"One step back does not mean defeated. It just
means that you will take the same step
forward again but wiser."
~ Jossie Estrella

“A person without a sense of humor is like a
wagon without springs --jolted by every
pebble in the road.”
~ Henry Ward Beecher

“When work, commitment, and pleasure all
become one and you reach that deep well
where passion lives, nothing is impossible.”
~ Anonymous

“Don't be discouraged by a failure....Failure is, in
a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as
every discovery of what is false leads us to
seek earnestly after what is true, and every
fresh experience points out some form of error
which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.”
~ John Keats

“If you have a talent, use it in every way
possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a
miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent
on going broke."
~ Brendan Francis

“With confidence, you can reach truly amazing
heights; without confidence, even the simplest
accomplishments are beyond your grasp.”
~ Jim Loehr

"I like thinking of possibilities. At any time, an
entirely new possibility is liable to come along
and spin you off in an entirely new direction.
The trick, I've learned, is to be awake to the
moment."
~ Doug Hall

“Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems
inescapable.”
~ B.C. Forbes

“Never stop. One always stops as soon as
something is about to happen.”
~ Peter Brook

“ To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we
must scatter it.”
~ John Templeton

“Success is a science; if you have the
conditions, you get the result.”
~ Oscar Wilde

“If you take responsibility for yourself you will
develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
~ Les Brown

“Your integrity will affect your destiny; don't
leave home without it.
~ Clarence E. Hodge

"All human actions have one or more of these
seven causes: Chance, nature, compulsions,
habit, reason, passion, desire."
~ Aristotle

“The great man is he who has not lost the heart
of a child.”
~ Mencius

"The only way most people recognize their limits
is by trespassing on them."
~ Tom Morris

"The higher your energy level, the more efficient
your body. The more efficient your body, the
better you feel and the more you will use your
talent to produce outstanding results."
~ Anthony Robbins

“How you respond to the challenge in the second
half will determine what you become after the
game, whether you are a winner or loser.”
~ Lou Holtz

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

“The true measure of a career is to be able to be
content, even proud, that you succeeded
through your own endeavors without leaving a
trail of casualties in your wake....”
~ Alan Greenspan

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the
human soul on fire.“
~ Ferdinand Foch

“Don't make friends who are comfortable to be
with. Make friends who will force you to lever
yourself up.”
~ Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

"It is not what we get. But who we become,
what we contribute ... that gives meaning to
our lives."
~ Anthony Robbins

"The size of the future you actually experience
will largely be determined by one factor: the
people you choose to connect with. When you
invite people who are truly committed to
growth into every aspect of your life, your own
potential for growth becomes truly unlimited.“
~ Dan Sullivan

"When guilt rears its ugly head confront it,
discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is
time to ask what can we do right, not what did
we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on."
~ Bernie S. Siegel

"Too often we visit the well of divine abundance
with a teacup instead of a bucket."
~ Elinor MacDonald

"There is a power in the human mind...to see
things as they are... but there is equally a
power to see things as they might be.“

"The moment of enlightenment is when a
person's dreams of possibilities become
images of probabilities.“
~ Vic Braden

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is
you're the pilot."
~ Michael Altshuler

“People with resilience harness inner strengths
and rebound more quickly from a setback or
challenge, whether it's a job loss, an illness or
the death of a loved one. Resilience means
being able to adapt to life's misfortunes and
setbacks.”
~ The Mayo Clinic

“Knowledge is power, and power is the key to
changing things.”
~ Jill Nelson

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in
setting our aim too high and falling short, but
in setting our aim too low and achieving our
mark."
~ Michelangelo

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance
you must keep moving.“
~ Albert Einstein

“Not everything that is faced can be changed.
But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
~ James Baldwin

"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of
success; for who so hopes strongly has within
him the gift of miracles."
~ Samuel Smiles

“A negative, self-defeating attitude destroys all
hope of success. A positive, proactive attitude
guarantees it. Think about it.
~ E.R. Haas, CEO

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action
of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
~ Mother Teresa

“If you want your children to keep their feet on
the ground, put some responsibility on their
shoulders.”
~ Abigail van Buren

“It is only by doing things others have not that
one can advance.”
~ General George S. Patton

“We and all others who believe in freedom as
deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet
than live on our knees.”
~ President Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The time is always right to do what is right.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I think there is something, more important than
believing: Action!
The world is full of dreamers, there aren't
enough who will move ahead and begin to take
concrete steps to actualize their vision.”
~ W. Clement Stone

“You have not lived until you have done
something for someone who can never repay
you.”
~ Anonymous

“In looking for people to hire, you look for three
qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy.
And if they don't have the first, the other two
will kill you.”
~ Warren Buffet

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“When you find yourself overpowered, as it were,
by melancholy, the best way is to go out and
do something kind to somebody or other.”
~ John Keble

"Behind an able man there are always other able
men."
~ Chinese proverb

“Never mind what others do; do better than
yourself, beat your own record from day to
day, and you are a success.”
~ William J.H. Boetcker

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest
source of learning.”
~ Bill Gates

“You can't be passionate when you feel like it.
You have to be passionate about your job,
product or cause all the time. There's no off
switch on a tiger.”
~ Harvey Mackay

“When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I
will keep on striving until I climb over, find a
pass through, tunnel underneath - or simply
stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine,
with God's help!”
~ Robert Schuller

“Everyone has the power of greatness. Not for
fame, but greatness. Because greatness is
determined by service.”
~ Martin Luther King

" Killing time murders opportunities.”
~ Unknown

"Ask yourself the easy questions and you'll have
a hard life, ask yourself the hard questions and
you'll have an easier life!"
~ Peter Thomson

301
“How many ideas have there been in the history
of man which were unthinkable ten years
before they appeared?“
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for
yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself.
Imitation is suicide."
~ Marva Collins

"The only thing even in this world are the
number of hours in a day. The difference in
winning or losing is what you do with those
hours."
~ Woody Hayes

"Start living now. Stop saving the good china for
that special occasion. Stop withholding your
love until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God."
~ Mary Manin Morrissey

"Action is the real measure of intelligence."
~ Napoleon Hill

“There is little difference in people, but that little
difference makes a big difference. The little
difference is attitude. The big difference
is whether it is positive or negative.”
~ Clement Stone

"Be master over yourself before you would be
master over others."
~ Baltasar Gracian

“Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully.
Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively.
Pursue persistently. “
~ William A. Ward

“When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your
heart' attitude and go all out with the positive
principle, you can do incredible things.”

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have
to work a day in your life."
~ Confucius

“I've never seen a monument erected to a
pessimist.”
~ Paul Harvey

“Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us
either think or feel strongly adds to our power
and enlarges our field of action.”

"There is only one you... Don't you dare change
just because you're outnumbered!"
~ Charles Swindoll

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and
believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things!
And powerful things at that, when mixed with
definiteness of purpose, and burning desire,
can be translated into riches."
~ Napoleon Hill

“Do or do not, there is no try.”
~Yoda

"The person born with a talent they are meant to
use will find their greatest happiness in using
it."

"I have found that if you love life, life will love
you back.“
~ Arthur Rubinstein

“The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-
minded, and factual realist. He sees all the
difficulties clearly... which is more than can be
said for the average negative thinker. But he
sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see
the solutions of those difficulties.”
~Norman Vincent Peale

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"Success in any endeavor does not happen by
accident. Rather, it's the result of deliberate
decisions, conscious effort, and immense
persistence... all directed at specific goals."
~ Gary Ryan Blair

“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I
can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other
hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on
what they should have or would have done, or
what they can't do.”
~ Dennis Waitley

“People have a way of becoming what you
encourage to them to be -- not what you nag them
to be.”
~Scudder N. Parker

“You're braver than you believe, and stronger
than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
~ Christopher Robin to Pooh

“To achieve great things you have first to believe
it.”
~Arsene Wenger

“A professional is someone who can do his best
work when he doesn’t feel like it.”
~ Alistair Cooke

“My idea was to do everything better than
anybody else ever had.”
~ Willie Mays

“If you don't love what you do, you won't do it
with much conviction or passion.”
~ Mia Hamm

"You are the way you are because that's the way
you want to be. If you really wanted to be any
different, you would be in the process of
changing right now.“
~ Fred Smith

"If you want to make your dreams come true,
wake up. Wake up to your own strength. Wake
up to the role you play in your own destiny.
Wake up to the power you have to choose
what you think, do, and say."
~ Keith Ellis

"No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by
turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes
a man rich. He is rich or poor according to
what he is, not according to what he has.”

"Prosperity belongs to those who learn new
things the fastest.“
~ Paul Zane Pilzer

"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too
big to attempt."
~ William Van Horne

"...the man who really counts in the world is the
doer, not the mere critic-the man who actually
does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly,
not the man who only talks or writes about
how it ought to be done.“
~ Theodore Roosevelt

"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the
goal.“

"If there were no difficulties there would be no
success; if there were nothing to struggle for,
there would be nothing to be achieved."
~ Samuel Smiles

"If winning (success) was easy, then everybody
would be doing it. It's the hard that makes it
great!"
~ A League of Their Own Movie

“It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to
accept anything but the best, you very often
get it."
~ William Somerset Maugham

"If dreams are born from imagination, then goals
are born from a promise. Knowing this, set
your goals with great care because when you
set them, you are promising yourself exactly
what you expect to get out of your life.“
~ Kent Madson

"Every person, all the events of your life are
there because you have drawn them there.
What you choose to do with them is up to
you.“
~ Richard Bach

“No one can make you feel inferior without your
consent.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“Your profession is not what brings home your
paycheck. Your profession is what you were
put on earth to do. With such passion and such
intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.”
~ Virgil

"There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the
difference between mediocrity and
accomplishment…. It gives warmth and good
feeling to all your personal relationships."

"You will become as great as your dominant
aspiration. If you cherish a vision, a lofty ideal
in your heart, you will realize it."
~ James Allen

"When you always do your best, you take action.
Doing your best is taking action because you
love it, not because you're expecting a
reward.“
~ Don Miguel Ruiz

"We become just by performing just actions,
temperate by performing temperate actions,
brave by performing brave actions."
~ Aristotle

" With greater confidence in yourself and your
abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger
plans, and commit yourself to achieving
objectives that today you only dream about."
~ Brian Tracy

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"The measure of a man's real character is what
he would do if he knew he never would be
found out."
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes,
one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can
do what he was afraid he couldn't."
~ Henry Ford

"Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind
and nourish with repetition and emotion will
one day become a reality."
~ Earl Nightingale

"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard
thing, but to turn it into glory."
~ William Barclay

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

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

"The way to acquire enthusiasm is to believe in
what you are doing, and in yourself, and in
something definite accomplished. Enthusiasm
will follow as day follows the night. "
~ Dale Carnegie

"Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm; it is a
condition of intellectual magnificence to which
we must cling as to a treasure, and not
squander in the small coin of empty words."
~ George Sand

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until
you get there."
~ Josh Billings

"Know what you want to do, hold the thought
firmly, and do every day what should be done,
and every sunset will see you that much nearer
the goal."
~ Elbert Hubbard

"It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little
better to know that you are happy; but to
understand that you're happy and to know
why and how and still be happy, be happy in
the being and the knowing, well that is beyond
happiness, that is bliss."
~ Henry Miller

"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than
bravery will."
~ James Stephens

"No matter what age you are, or what your
circumstances might be, you are special, and
you still have something unique to offer. Your
life, because of who you are, has meaning."
~ Barbara De Angelis

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the
unquestionable ability of man to elevate his
life by a conscience effort."

"You can never learn less; you can only learn
more. The reason I know so much is because I
have made so many mistakes."
~ Buckminster Fuller

"Give every man thy ear but few thy voice."
~ William Shakespeare

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has
never tried anything new."
~ Albert Einstein

"There are no limits to growth because there are
no limits of human intelligence, imagination,
and wonder."
~ President Ronald Reagan

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

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 3 is the third 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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