Motivational Quotes

The Motivational Quotes In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow -- and that is likely to hurt. -- Wei Wu Wei It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. –- Harry Truman The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment. -- Art Spander Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. - -Albert Einstein The dreamers are the saviors of the world. -- James Allen I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am in. -- The Bible, Phillipians 4:11 (NASB) Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -- Howard Thurman It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot He who cannot forgive others destroys a bridge over which he himself must pass. -- George Herbert It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. -- e.e. cummings Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something. -- H. Jackson Brown Jr. What may be done at any time will be done at no time. – Scottish Proverb The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. -- John E. Southard How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. -– Trina Paulus In times like these it helps to recall there have always been times like these. -- Paul Harvey Say what you want to say when you have the feeling and the chance. My greatest regrets are the things I did not do, the opportunities missed and the things unsaid. -- Jim Keller We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. --Rabindranth Tagore Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. --Carl Jung You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it. --Robert Anthony It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. — Henry Ward Beecher If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. --Annie Dillard The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. -- Ann Landers Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy. -- Tim Hansel The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. -- Henry David Thoreau Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t. -- Richard Bach It’s not about time, it’s about choices. How are you spending your choices? -- Beverly Adamo Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up, but kept going no matter what. -- Spryte Loriano (submitted by Beverly Adamo) My main goal in life is to be the person my dog thinks I am. -- Author Unknown (submitted by Kathy Anderson, Florissant, MO) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
 -- Rabbi Julius Gordon People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle. -- Thich Nhat Hanh (submitted by Tara McClintick) Too may people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. -- Malcolm Forbes(submitted by Steve) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So, what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia Heimel No seed ever sees the flower. -– Zen Saying Happiness? 
It is an illusion to think that more comfort means more happiness.
 Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply,
 to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life,
 to be needed. -- Storm Jameson (submitted by Bobbie ) The best way to predict the future is to create it. 
 --Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee (submitted by Kandy Kremnetz) Hindsight is an exact science. -- Guy Bellamy (submitted by Penny) The elephant strides at its own gait -- but the dogs do trail behind and bark. -- Kabir (submitted by Teresa Molinaro) We are where we should be, doing what we should be doing, otherwise we would be somewhere else doing something else. --Richard Stine (submitted by Kim Gebron) The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven. -- John Milton We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. -– Epictetus A great many people think they are thinking, when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- David Bohm (submitted by Valter Prahad) A light heart lives long. -- William Shakespeare (submitted by Sarah Gaulden) You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life. -- Dennis Waitley (submitted by Jennifer) When you get to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly. -– Edward Teller (submitted by Barb Schenk) I always win. Because I come out of every situation still whole, still new, and still capable of moving forward. Every experience of my life moves me on to my next experience. All my experiences teach me wisdom, give me courage, and set me free to go on living. -- Kenny Shultz (submitted by Sherri Fransen) Some days you’re the dog some day you’re the hydrant. -– Unknown (submitted by Justin Doyle) The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. -- Frank Lloyd Wright (submitted by Sarah) How people treat you is their Karma. How you respond is yours. --Wayne Dyer (submitted by Itala) Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. -– Henry Ford (submitted by Tom Finn, Woodbridge, IA) When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. -- Jimmi Hendrix (submitted by Julie Glenn) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle (submitted by Kate) If you aren't going all the way, why go at all? -- Joe Namath To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. -- William Walton Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. -- Stephen Covey All sin lies in harming others unnecessarily; all other "sin" is invented nonsense. -- Robert Heinlein Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire. -- Goethe Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgi As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves. -- Mahatma Gandhi It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters. -- Mother Teresa You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, comic strip character created by Tom Wilson (submitted by Parm Singh)