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Day: January 2, 2011

Famous Women Quotes

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. – Judy Garland

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. – Helen Keller

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. – Eleanor Roosevelt

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. – Martha Washington

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – Oprah Winfrey

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me. – Helen Keller

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. – Oprah Winfrey

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. – Helen Keller

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. – Mother Teresa

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. – Oprah Winfrey

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. – Helen Keller

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. – Mother Teresa

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. – Helen Keller

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Famous Failure Quotes

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. – Buddha

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. – Winston Churchill

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. – Abraham Lincoln

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam. – Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. – Benjamin Franklin

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts. – John Wooden

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. – John Wooden

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel

I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. – Tony Robbins

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.  – Tony Robbins

Remember that failure is an event, not a person. – Zig Ziglar

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. – Zig Ziglar

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. – Zig Ziglar

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. – Confucius

The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world. – Barack Obama

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world. – Barack Obama

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. – Oscar Wilde

Friendship Quotes

“Sometimes i want to shout to the whole world how lucky i am to have you as my friend but sometimes i want to hush…afraid that somebody might take you away from me.” – Unknown

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”- Bernard Meltzer

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”- Aristotle

“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.” – Lois L. Kaufman

“Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.” – Swedish proverb

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.” – Aristotle

“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.” – Homer

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.” – Czech Proverb

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Motivational Michael Jordan Quotes

– “I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.”
– “I’ve missed more than 9000 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.”
– “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
– “Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.”
– “I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot… when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.”
michael-jordan– “Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
– “I’ve failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
– “I don’t do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.”

– “I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.”

– “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”

– “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. 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.”

Best Motivational Quotes

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. – Robert Frost

Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. – Charles Schulz

Opportunity is always knocking. The problem is that most people have the self-doubt station in their head turned up way too loud to hear it. – Brian Vaszily

Some people develop a wishbone where their back bone should be. – Anonymous

Life begins at 40 – but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. – Helen Rowland

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh – at yourself. – Ethel Barrymore

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. – Jackson Brown

I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early. – Yogi Berra

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying. – Oscar Wilde

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock. – Henny Youngman

Burn your computer. Blow up your TV. Bludgeon your cell phone. Breathe deeply. This, my friends, is the secret to inner-peace. – Brian Vaszily

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar

God is dead – Nietzsche Nietzsche is dead. – God

Five out of four people have trouble with fractions. – Unknown

A clear conscience is a sure sign of a bad memory. – Unknown

Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce. – Unknown

I’ve developed a new philosophy… I only dread one day at a time. – Charles Schulz

None of us is as dumb as all of us. – Unknown

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing. – Alexander Woollcott

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That’ll do them in. – Unknown

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. – William Mauldin

If I had a dollar for every time someone came to me with not only a problem but also a possible solution to that problem, I’d have six dollars. – Brian Vaszily

Always remember that you are unique. Just like everybody else. – Unknown

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. – Dale Carnegie

To do is to be. – Descartes

To be is to do. – Voltaire

Do be do be do. – Frank Sinatra