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12 Motivational Quotes for a better day

Posted on July 20, 2011 by

1. Happiness is a direction, not a destination. –Unknown

2. Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. –Bill Cosby

3. Love yourself.- Unknown

4. Where there is love, there is life. –Gandhi

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

6. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. –Jimmy Johnson

7. An eye for an eye only makes the world blind. –Gandhi

8. Bring deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. –Lao Tzu

9. Happiness depends upon ourselves. –Aristole

10. If you’re doing your best, you won’t have time to worry about failure. –H. Jackson Brown Jr

11. The purpose of life is a life of purpose. –Robert Byrne

12. We can’t solve problems by using the same thinking we used to create them. –Albert Einstein

Dale Carnegie Short Quotes

Posted on July 7, 2011 by

A great list with some Dale Carnegie Quotes. I’ve prepared some short Dale Carnegie Quotes just for you. It’s cool, because you can send them on Twitter.

Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. –Dale Carnegie Quotes

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still. –Dale Carnegie Quotes

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing. –Dale Carnegie Quotes

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. –Dale Carnegie Quotes

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. –Dale Carnegie Quotes

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do. –Dale Carnegie Quotes

The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. –Dale Carnegie Quotes

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive. –Dale Carnegie Quotes

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. –Dale Carnegie Quotes

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do. –Dale Carnegie Quotes

12 Wisdom Quotes

Posted on July 5, 2011 by

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wisdom outweighs any wealth.” ~ Sophocles

“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.” ~ Chinese Proverb

“No man was ever wise by chance.” ~ Seneca

“Wisdom is never on the menu, you have to own the restaurant.” ~ Carrie Latet

“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.” ~ Martin H. Fischer

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” ~ Sandra Carey

“A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.” ~ Gian Carlo Menotti

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn’t. Success often lies just the other side of failure.” ~ Leo F. Buscaglia

“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion.” ~ Chinese Proverb

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.” ~ Confucius

Lucille Ball Quotes

Posted on July 2, 2011 by

Ability is of little account without opportunity. – Lucille Ball Quotes

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them. – Lucille Ball Quotes

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one. – Lucille Ball Quotes

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally. – Lucille Ball Quotes

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. – Lucille Ball Quotes

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. – Lucille Ball Quotes

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. – Lucille Ball Quotes

I will never do another TV series. It couldn’t top I Love Lucy, and I’d be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off. – Lucille Ball Quotes

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done. – Lucille Ball Quotes

I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways. – Lucille Ball Quotes

I’m not funny. What I am is brave. – Lucille Ball Quotes

I’m sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn’t think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children. – Lucille Ball Quotes

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. – Lucille Ball Quotes

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. – Lucille Ball Quotes

It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. – Lucille Ball Quotes

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. – Lucille Ball Quotes

Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t. – Lucille Ball Quotes

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. – Lucille Ball Quotes

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’ t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. – Lucille Ball Quotes

The more things you do, the more you can do. – Lucille Ball Quotes

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. – Lucille Ball Quotes

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt. – Lucille Ball Quotes

Women’s Lib? Oh, I’m afraid it doesn’t interest me one bit. I’ve been so liberated it hurts. – Lucille Ball Quotes

You see much more of your children once they leave home. – Lucille Ball Quotes

Confucius Quotes

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

Study the past, if you would divine the future. – Confucius Quotes

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

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most. – Confucius Quotes

The cautious seldom err. – Confucius Quotes

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. – Confucius Quotes

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them. – Confucius Quotes

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. – Confucius Quotes

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. – Confucius Quotes

The object of the superior man is truth. – Confucius Quotes

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. – Confucius Quotes

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. – Confucius Quotes

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. – Confucius Quotes

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. – Confucius Quotes

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later. – Confucius Quotes

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. – Confucius Quotes

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. – Confucius Quotes

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. – Confucius Quotes

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. – Confucius Quotes

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. – Confucius Quotes

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. – Confucius Quotes

Failure Quotes and Sayings

Posted on May 20, 2011May 20, 2011 by

If we will learn what failure is, we will know what courage and success are. Now let’s read some wonderful failure quotes.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you’re accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank. ~Robert Brault

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? ~G.K. Chesterton

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. ~Thomas Edison

There are defeats more triumphant than victories. ~Michel de Montaigne

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. ~Charles Horton Cooley

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.” ~S.I. Hayakawa

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. ~Elbert Hubbard

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. ~William Feather

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~Henry Ford

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don’t want to set him down as a failure till he’s dead or loses his courage. ~George Horace Lorimer

You can’t have any successes unless you can accept failure. ~George Cukor

There is no failure. Only feedback. ~Robert Allen

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. ~Max Beerbohm, Mainly on the Air, 1946

You always pass failure on your way to success. ~Mickey Rooney

Nothing fails like success because we don’t learn from it. We learn only from failure. ~Kenneth Boudling

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures. ~Author Unknown

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. ~Lloyd Jones

What’s your favorite? :D

Top 20 Henry Ford Quotes

Posted on May 17, 2011May 17, 2011 by

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” – Henry Ford

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” – Henry Ford

“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.” – Henry Ford

“I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.” – Henry Ford

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

“Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain” – Henry Ford

“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” – Henry Ford

“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.” – Henry Ford

“There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can” – Henry Ford

“I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.” – Henry Ford

“Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.” – Henry Ford

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” – Henry Ford

“When I can’t handle events, I let them handle themselves”- Henry Ford

“Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.” – Henry Ford

“There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” – Henry Ford

“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.” – Henry Ford

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.” – Henry Ford

“There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.” – Henry Ford

Failure Quote of the Day

Posted on April 15, 2011 by

“As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.” – Henry Kravis

Risk Rules

Posted on April 10, 2011 by

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out is to risk involvement,
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return,
To live is to risk dying,
To hope is to risk despair,
To try is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing,has nothing, is nothing.

William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)

Motivational Career Change Quotes

Posted on March 25, 2011 by

Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night. – Marian Wright Edelman

The best work never was and never will be done for money. – John Ruskin

My father always told me, ‘Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life. – Jim Fox

For many people a job is more than an income – it’s an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life. – Paul Clitheroe

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. – Kahlil Gibran

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. – Orison Swett Marden

A sobering thought: What if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? – Jane Wagner

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. – James Matthew Barrie

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. – Napoleon Hill

It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. – Annie Gottlier

Choose your love, love your choice. – Thomas S. Monson

What is it that you like doing? If you don’t like it, get out of it, because you’ll be lousy at it. – Lee Iacocca

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all – Mahatma Ghandi

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. – George Burns

I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. – Robert H. Schuller