You have had enough
There is a difference between giving up and knowing when you have had enough.
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Positive Attitude Quotes
“A strong positive attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.” – Patricia Neal
“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” – John N. Mitchell
“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.” – Bo Bennett
“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” – Scott Hamilton
“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” – William James
“Your attitude can take you forward or your attitude can take you down. The choice is always yours!” – Catherine Pulsifer
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” – Winston Churchill
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
Quotes For Someone Special
“When I count my blessings, I count you twice.” – Author Unknown
“Live through feeling and you will live through love. For feeling is the language of the soul, and feeling is truth.” – Matt Zotti
“Someone is special only if you tell them.” – Byron Pulsifer
“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.” – Barbara De Angelis
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” – Aristotle
“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.” – Somerset Maugham
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.” – Barbara de Angelis
“A friend is someone special sharing moments that are precious always true, yet like a perfect diamond are rare and few.” – Author Unknown
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” – Euripides
“Blessed is she who forgives without remembering and who receives forgiveness without forgetting.” – Author Unknown
“Special you are to me, thank you for all you do.” – C. Pulsifer
“The love we share is special and precious.” – A. Lynch
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. – David Grayson
A Friend is a treasure. more precious than Gold, for love shared is priceless and never grows old. – Author Unkown
You make a difference in my life, your influence, your caring and your love makes you special in every way. – Catherine Pulsifer
Courage Quotes
1. Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. – Tom Krause
2. The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. – Sven Goran Eriksson
3. The key to change… is to let go of fear. – Rosanne Cash
4. If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything. – Win Borden
5. A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. – William Shedd
6. Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. – Mark Victor Hansen
7. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. – Mark Twain
8. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston Churchill
9. Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
10. Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. – Paulo Coelho
11. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. – Aristotle
12. One determined person can make a significant difference; a small group of determined people can change the course of history. – Sonia Johnson
13. Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. – Bernadette Devlin
I Love Quotes
“The question is not ‘Is there life after death?’ The question is, ‘Is there life before death?’” — Alan Cohen
“Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.” –Unknown
“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.” — James Russell Lowel
“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.” –Unknown
“Tell your boss what you think of him, and the truth shall set you free.” – Unknown
“This above all; to thine own self be true.” — William Shakespeare
“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself.” — Mark Twain
“We are always getting ready to live, but never living” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only time a woman succeeds in changing a man is when he’s a baby.” — Natalie Wood
“I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin
“When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day.” – Alan Cohen
“The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.” –Paul Fix
“Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.” –Henry James
“Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” –Susan Erz
“Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead.” –Scottish Proverb
“If you’re going through Hell, keep going.” –Winston Churchill
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” –Anne Frank
“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.” –Mark Twain
“To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip.” –Alan Cohen
“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.” –Noel Coward
“If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.” — Regina Brett
“If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask?” — Scott Adams
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” –Wayne Gretzky
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” –Will Rogers
“Doing your best in this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” –Oprah Winfrey
Philosophical Quotes
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. ~Lee Segall
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. ~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ~Andre Gide
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ~Aesop
Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying. ~Baba Ram Dass
I am a part of all that I have met. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
There’s more to the truth than just the facts. ~Author Unknown
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ~Ludwig Börne
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~Stanislaw J. Lec
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. ~Albert Szent-Györgyi
Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. ~Edward Albee
When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb
A gun gives you the body, not the bird. ~Henry David Thoreau
Before enlightenment – chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment – chop wood, carry water. ~Zen Buddhist Proverb
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. ~Charles C. Finn
Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! ~Thomas Carlyle
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. ~Zen Saying
The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? ~Chuang Tzu
Back to School Quotes
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. ~Edgar W. Howe
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. ~Erma Bombeck
Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. ~Bill Dodds
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris
You send your child to the schoolmaster, but ’tis the schoolboys who educate him. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. ~Margaret Laurence
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life. ~Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d’enfance et de jeunesse, 1883
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. ~Author Unknown
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ~Lily Tomlin as “Edith Ann”
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. ~Author Unknown
Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number. ~Author Unknown
There are three good reasons to be a teacher – June, July, and August. ~Author Unknown
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ~Ralph W. Sockman
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ~George Bernard Shaw
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ~Aristotle
A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep. ~W.H. Auden
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ~Author Unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin
A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she’s looking at. ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902
Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. ~Robert Gallagher
It doesn’t make much difference what you study, as long as you don’t like it. ~Finley Peter Dunne
You can get all A’s and still flunk life. ~Walker Percy
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward Everett
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo
Leadership Quotes and Sayings
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob” – Oscar Wilde
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” – Jim Rohn
“The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” – Colin Powell
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.” – Lao Tzu
“I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.” – George W. Bush
“If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The true leader is always led” – Carl Gustav Jung
“The best example of leadership, is leadership by example.” – Jerry McClain
“The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.” – Henry Miller
“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.” – Lawrence M. Miller
To lead people, walk beside them …
As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear;
and the next, the people hate …
When the best leader’s work is done the people say,
“We did it ourselves!” – Lao-tsu
“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” – Sandra Carey
Fitness Motivational Quotes
1. Strive for progress, not perfection. –Unknown
2. You want me to do something… tell me I can’t do it. –Maya Angelou
3. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky
4. If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying. –Unknown
5. You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. –Ruth E. Renkl
6. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. –Mahatma Gandhi
7. Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. –Norman R. Augustine
8. I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. –George Burns
9. Energy and persistence conquer all things. –Benjamin Franklin
10. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. –Aesop
12. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. –Albert Einstein
13. Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. –Lou Holtz
14. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. –Jim Ryan
15. I’ve missed more than 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
16. Fear is what stops you… courages is what keeps you going. –Unknown
17. The finish line is just the beginning of a whole new race. –Unknown
18. The difference between a goal and a dream is a deadline. –Steve Smith
19. Just do it.™ –Nike
20. In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself. –Anonymous
21. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. –Mark Twain
22. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. –Anonymous
23. Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. –Oprah Winfrey
24. It’s never too late to become what you might have been. –George Elliot
25. Clear your mind of can’t. –Samuel Johnso
15 Change Quotes
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. – Alan Watts
You have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret Thatcher
When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and must take a step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of two things will happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on or you will be taught how to fly. – Patrick Overton
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. – Maya Angelou
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. – Albert Einstein
So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about. – Marilyn Monroe
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. –Maya Angelou
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. – Gail Sheehy
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. – Harrison Ford
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. – Frank Herbert
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. – Maya Angelou
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – Arnold Bennett