Thursday, November 29, 2007

Motivational Quotes for the day (Possibilities)


Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
~Robert H. Schuller

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
~Orison Swett Marden

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
~Deepak Chopra

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
~Dale Carnegie

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
~Brian Tracy

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.
~Norman Vincent Peale

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Motivational Quotes for the day (Calmness)


Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
~Thomas Carlyle

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
~Ralph H. Blum

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

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
~Marcus T. Cicero

Calmness is the cradle of power.
~Josiah Gilbert Holland

The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.
~William Mcfee

Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
~Thomas Jefferson

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Motivational Quotes for the day(Thankfulness)


It is always wise to stop wishing for things long enough to enjoy the fragrance of those now flowering.
~Patrice Gifford

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
~Meister Eckhart

Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.
~Edward Sandford Martin

He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart.
~J.A. Shedd

Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.
~Robert Caspar Lintner



Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Motivational Quotes (Spiritual Growth)


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

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
~Saint Augustine

The Way to Heaven has no favorites. It is always with the good man.
~Lao-Tze

As much of heaven is visible as we have eyes to see.
~William Winter

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Motivational quotes for the day (Overcoming Fear)


You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
~Dale Carnegie

When has what you feared ever become your reality?
~Rick Beneteau

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.
~Rudyard Kipling

Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.
~Norman Vincent Peale

Do not take counsel of your fears.
~George Patton

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.
~Japanese Proverb

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Motivational quotes for the day (Enthusiasm)


Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
~Norman Vincent Peale

Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
~John Wesley

If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.
~Norman Vincent Peale

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
~Dale Carnegie

Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.
~Paul J. Meyer

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
~Douglas MacArthur

Nothing ever great was achieved without enthusiasm.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
~Norman Vincent Peale

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Motivational Quotes for the day (Purpose)


We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
~Earl Nightingale

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.
~Kenneth Hildebrand

Chase your passion, not your pension.
~Denis Waitley

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.
~Carl Jung

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
~Henry David Thoreau

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
~Og Mandino

Friday, November 9, 2007

Motivational quotes for the day (Overcoming failure)


"I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot...and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

~Michael Jordan

"It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up."
~Vince Lombardi

"Many a one has succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat, he would never have known any great victory."
~Orison Sweet Marden

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."
~William Durant

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Motivational quotes for the day (Opportunity)


Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
~Muriel Spark

Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.
~Denis Waitley

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
~Orison Swett Marden

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
~Napoleon Hill

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Motivational quotes for the day (Goals/Goal setting)


Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
~Anthony Robbins

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.
~Robert Collier

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
~Herodotus

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
~Orison Swett Marden

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Motivational quotes for the day (Reality)


Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.
~Brain Tracy

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
~Otto Rank

Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
~Mark Victor Hansen

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

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
~Ralph Marston

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
~Douglas Everett

Monday, November 5, 2007

Motivational quotes for the day (Affrimation)


Constant repetition carries conviction.
~Robert Collier

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

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.
~Robert Collier

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.
~Sidney Madwed

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

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


Sunday, November 4, 2007

Motivational Quotes for the day (Inner Peace/Inner Beauty)


Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.
~George W. Russell

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
~Kahlil Gibran

Inner peace is beyond victory or defeat.
~Bhagavad Gita

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
~Goethe

Friday, November 2, 2007

Motivational quotes for the day (Obstacles)


Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
~African proverb

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul impossibilities vanish.
~Jean De La Fontaine

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
~Mark Caine

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated- it is finished when it surrenders.
~Ben Stein

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
~Jewish proverb

When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
~John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959