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Doing Your Best Quotes

Posted on December 2, 2010 by

# Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.–William James

# Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.–William Faulkner

# Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.–Benjamin Franklin

# Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your won. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.–Christian D. Larsen (Creed for Optimists)

# Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God’s Paradise.–Phillips Brooks

# Demand the best from yourself, because others will demand the best from you… Successful people don’t simply give a project hard work. They give it their best work.–Win Borden

# Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.–Lowell Thomas

# Do more than you’re supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.–Bill Sands

# Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.–Sandra Day O’Conner

# Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.–Theodore Roosevelt

# Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness.–Horotio W. Dresser

# Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.–Oprah Winfrey

# Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect thet best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.–Ralph Marston (The Daily Motivator)

# Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.–John Wooden

# Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.–Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar’s Little Book of Big Quotes)

# Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else–and usually it’s reading his own handwriting.–G. Norman Collie

# Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!–Anne Frank

# Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.–Viktor Frankl

Famous Money Quotes

Posted on October 12, 2010October 9, 2010 by

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” – Mark Twain

“I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffet

“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.” – Robert Frost

“Money won’t create success. The freedom to make it will.” – Nelson Mandela

“Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.” – Zig Ziglar

“Time is money.” – Benjamin Franklin

“If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.” – Katherine Hepburn

“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.” – Logan Pearsall Smith

“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.” – Edith Wharton

“I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself – in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.” – Henry Ford

Zig Ziglar Quotes

Posted on July 15, 2010 by

– “A goal properly set is halfway reached.”

– “A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.”

– “Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.”

– “Every choice you make has an end result.”

– “Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.”

– “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”

– “Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”

– “I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.”

– “If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.”

– “If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.”

– “If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.”

– “If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”

– “If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.”

– “If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you’ll never end up with a nag.”

– “If you want to reach a goal, you must “see the reaching” in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.”

– “It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.”

– “It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference.”

– “Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.”

– “Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.”

– “Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the “gotta have it” scale.”

Top 10 Motivational Quotes for Today

Posted on June 6, 2010 by

1. “I am who I choose to be” – Lois McMaster Bujold

2. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu

3. “Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves” – Zig Ziglar

4. “One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. «Which road do I take?», she asked. «Where do you want to go?», was his response. «I don’t know», Alice answered. «Then, said the cat, it doesn’t matter»” – Lewis Carrol

5. “It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going” – Brian Tracy

6. “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential” – Winston Churchill

7. “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs” – Henry Ford

8. “The future is always beginning now” – Mark Strand

9. “No man is rich enough to buy back his past” – Oscar Wilde

10. “If experience was so important, we’d never have had anyone walk on the moon” – Doug Rader