YOU NEED MOTIVATION!!! DON'T YOU???

1. A day will never be anymore than what you make of it. Josh S. Hinds
2. A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard
3. A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. Nelson Mandela
4. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Confucius

A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it. Anonymous 

1. A thief believes everybody steals. E.W. Howe
2. Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets. Clark Mistakes
3. Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for? Robert Browning
4. All life is an experiment. Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy
6. All that we are is the result of what we have thought. Buddha
7. All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth. Napoleon Hill
8. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. Abraham Lincoln
9. An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. Buddha
10. Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. Dale Carnegie
11. As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie
12. Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by. John Sales
13. At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer. Lee Jampolsky
14. Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. Henry David Thoreau
15. Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill
16. Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. James Allen
17. Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have. Brian Tracy
18. Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde
19. Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. Pope John XXIII
20. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmond
21. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can doth at. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr.
22. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive — the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Don Miguel Ruiz
23. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire, which transcends everything. Napoleon Hill
24. Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. Malcolm Forbes
25. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha
26. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden
28. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. Basho
29. Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. George MacDonald
30. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt
31. Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. David Lloyd George
32. Don’t wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. Anon
33. Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. James Allen
34. Dreams are the touchstones of our character. Henry David Thoreau
35. Every exit is an entry somewhere. Tom Stoppard
36. Every human has four endowments-self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change. Stephen Covey
37. Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. Richard Bach
38. Everything has been figured out, except how to live. Jean-Paul Sartre Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you’ve made in the past. Deeps Chopra
39. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford
40. Fall seven times, stand up eight. Japanese Proverb
41. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
42. Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. Michael Richard
43. Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours. Swedish Proverb
44. Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? James Allen
46. Fortune favours the brave. Publius Terence
47. Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when decide how to respond. Jeffery Borenstein
48. Friends are treasures. Horace Bruns
49. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined. Henry David Thoreau
50. Great spirits have always encountered violen to pposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein
51. He is able who thinks he is able. Buddh
52. aHe who angers you conquers you. Elizabeth Kenny
53. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. Lao-Tzu
54. He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead. Unknown
55. He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. Anonymous
56. Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t. Richard Bach
57. High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. Jack Kinder
58. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bid that cannot fly. Langston Hughes
59. I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk. Anthony Robbins
60. I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts. Horace Mann
61. I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Chinese Proverb
62. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau
63. I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. Leo Rosten
64. If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. Chinese Proverb
65. If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that … I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it. John Lennon
66. If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. Henry Kissinger
67. If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. Bruce Lee
68. If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. Dale Carnegie
69. If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life. Abraham H. Maslow
70. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. Maya Angelou
71. If you don’t risk anything, then you risk even more. Erica Jong
72. If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. Maya Angelou
73. If you love something, let it go. If it comes back it’s yours. If it doesn’t, it never really was in the first place. Unknown
74. If you want rainbows, you have to put up with the rain. Dolly Parton
75. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein
76. Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. Napoleon Bonaparte
77. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost
78. Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past. Brian Tracy
79. It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. Buddha
80. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. Andre Gide
81. It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. Jeseph Joubert
82. It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. Ursula K. LeGuin
83. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt
84. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. Seneca
85. It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. Rene Descartes
86. It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. Baha’u'llah
87. It is not length of life, but depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson
88. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
89. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine De Saint-Exupery
90. It takes a great man to be a good listener. Calvin Coolidge
91. It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson
92. It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. Ornette Coleman
93. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. Unknown
94. It’s always too early to quit. Norman Vincent Pearle
95. It’s not the situation … It’s your reaction to the situation Robert Conklin
96. I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. Anthony Robbins
97. Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes … they’re just friends waiting to be made. Jeffery Borenstein
98. 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
99. Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Earl of Chesterfield
100. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Goethe
101. Knowledge is power. Francis Bacon
102. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Albert Einstein
103. Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured. Earl Nightingale
104. Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you. Jim Rohn
105. Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. Peter Marshall
106. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most mendread it. George Bernard Shaw
107. Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life. Morarji Desai
108. Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. American Indian Proverb
109. Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi
110. Live free or die. New HampshireLive out of your imagination, not your history. Stephen Covey
111. Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it’s when you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it. Margaret Thatcher
112. Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. Betty Smith
113. Looking back, I have this to regret, that too oftenwhen I loved, I did not say so. David Grayson
114. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide
115. Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
116. May you live every day of your life. Jonathan Swift
117. Men are born to succeed, not to fail. Henry David Thoreau
118. Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open. Lord Thomas Dewar
119. Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. Harvey Fierstein
120. Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up. Jesse Jackson
121. No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again. Buddha
122. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt
123. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. Harry Emerson Fosdick
124. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson
125. Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. Ralph W. Sockman
126. Nurture your mind with great thoughts. Benjamin Disraeli
127. One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. John Wanamaker
128. One should not stand at the foot of a sick person’s bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel. Jewish Folk Saying
129. One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time. Anonymous
130. One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regain sits original dimensions. Oliver Wendel Holmes
131. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Elliot
132. Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
133. Our strength grows out of our weakness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
134. People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln
135. People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. Norman Vincent Peale
136. People only see what they are prepared to see. Ralph Waldo Emerson
137. People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. Abigail Van Buren
138. Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. Henry Kaiser
139. Real riches are the riches possessed inside. B. C. Forbes
140. Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think. Dale Carnegie
141. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world — making the most of one’s best. Harry Emerson Fosdick
142. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. Les Brown
143. Simplicity is the key to brilliance. Bruce Lee
144. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Carl Sagan
145. Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E. M. Forster
146. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. Conrad Hilton
147. Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Chinese Proverb
148. Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve
149. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. Oscar Wilde
150. The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, “I wish someone would come by and turn me on.”What if they don’t show up? You’ve got to have a better plan for your life. Jim Rohn

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