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Inspirational Quotes

Posted on February 28, 2011February 28, 2011 by

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. —Henry Ford

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. — Stephen Covey

And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. — Abraham Lincoln

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. — Ghandi

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. —Mother Teresa

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. — Anonymous

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller

Fall seven times, stand up eight. — Japanese proverb

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. —Mark Twain

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. — Joshua J. Marine

It is never too late to be what we might have been. — George Eliot

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. — William M. Thackeray

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. — Oscar Wilde

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. — Frank Lloyd Wright

This, too, shall pass. — Jewish proverb

The only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. —Henry David Thoreau

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. — Anna Quindlen

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief. — Egyptian Proverb

Some men see things the way they are and ask, “Why?” I dream things that never were, and ask “Why not?” — George Bernard Shaw

A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect. — Chinese Proverb

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. — Edgar Allan Poe

My friends are my estate. — Emily Dickinson

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. — Buddha

Stephen Covey Quotes

Posted on January 3, 2011January 4, 2011 by

– “A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.”

– “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

– “Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.”

– “In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.”

– “It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.”

– “Live out of your imagination, not your history.”

– “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”

stephen-covey – “Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.”

– “Public behavior is merely private character writ large.”

– “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

– “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”

– “There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.”

– “We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.”

– “We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”

– “We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.”