From the Heart Of Mother Teresa

“Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile”

“God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try”

“We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.”

“Intense love does not measure; it just gives”

“If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”

“Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.”

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

"If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive"

"Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy – let us pray."

"When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed"

"Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart"

(CNN) -- "The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven....And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here.'" These words, once spoken by Mother Teresa, vividly recall the life of the late Roman Catholic nun and missionary known as "the Saint of the Gutters." For Mother Teresa, who devoted her life to the succor of the sick and the outcast, earthly sufferers were nothing less than Christ in "distressing disguise." From an early age, the girl who would become Mother Teresa felt the call to help others. Born August 26, 1910, in Skopje (now in Macedonia), Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was the daughter of Albanian parents -- a grocer and his wife. As a public school student she developed a special interest in overseas missions and, by age 12, realized her vocation was aiding the poor. She was inspired to work in India by reports sent home from Jesuit missionaries in Bengal. And at 18, she left home to join a community of Irish nuns with a mission in Calcutta. Here, she took the name "Sister Teresa," after Saint Teresa of Lisieux, the patroness of missionaries. She spent 17 years teaching and being principal of St. Mary's high school in Calcutta. However, in 1946, her life changed forever. After taking a medical training course to prepare for her new mission, she went into the slums of Calcutta to start a school for children. They called her "Mother Teresa." Through the years, Mother Teresa's fame grew, as did the magnitude of her deeds ...

Highlights of Mother Teresa's life
1910: Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu born August 27 in Skopje, in what is now Macedonia, the youngest of three children of an Albanian builder.
1928: Becomes novitiate in Loretto order, which ran mission schools in India, and takes name Sister Teresa.
1929: Arrives in Calcutta to teach at St. Mary's High School.
1937: Takes final vows as a nun.
1946: While riding a train to the mountain town of Darjeeling to recover from suspected tuberculosis, she said she received a calling from God "to serve him among the poorest of the poor."
1947: Permitted to leave her order and moves to Calcutta's slums to set up her first school.
1950: Founds the order of Missionaries of Charity.
1952: Opens Nirmal Hriday, or "Pure Heart," a home for the dying, followed next year by her first orphanage.
1962: Wins her first prize for her humanitarian work: the Padma Shri award for distinguished service. Over the years, she uses the money from such prizes to found dozens of new homes.
1979: Wins Nobel Peace Prize.
1982: Persuades Israelis and Palestinians to stop shooting long enough to rescue 37 retarded children from a hospital in besieged Beirut.
1983: Has a heart attack while in Rome visiting Pope John Paul II.
1985: Awarded Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian award.
1989: Has a second and nearly fatal attack. Doctors implant a pacemaker.
1990: Announces her intention to resign, and a conclave of sisters is called to choose successor. In a secret ballot, Mother Teresa is re-elected with only one dissenting vote -- her own -- and withdraws request to step down.
1991: Suffers pneumonia in Tijuana, Mexico, leading to congestive heart failure, and is hospitalized in La Jolla, California.
1993: Breaks three ribs in fall in May in Rome; hospitalized for malaria in August in New Delhi; undergoes surgery to clear blocked blood vessel in Calcutta in September.
1996: November 16, receives honorary U.S. citizenship.
1996: Falls and breaks collarbone in April; suffers malarial fever and failure of the left heart ventricle in August; treated for a chest infection and recurring heart problems in September. Readmitted to hospital with chest pains and breathing problems
November 22.
1997: March 13, steps down as head of her order.

Among the 124 Awards Received some were:
Padmashree Award (from the President of India) August 1962
Pope John XXIII Peace Prize January 1971
John F. Kennedy International Award September 1971
Jawahalal Nehru Award for International Understanding November 1972 Templeton Prize for "Progress in Religion" April 1973
Nobel Peace Prize December 1979
Bharat Ratna (Jewel of India) March 1980
Order of Merit (from Queen Elizabeth) November 1983
Gold Medal of the Soviet Peace Committee August 1987
United States Congressional Gold Medal June 1997
At the time of Mother Teresa's death, The Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity numbered 3,914 members, and were established in 594 communities in 123 countries of the world. Her work continues under the guidance of Sister Nirmala, Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity Sisters. The order has grown over 4,000 members in 697 foundations in 131 countries of the world.Died: Mother Teresa on September 5, 1997 in Kolkata, India


Love: I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life?, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did?

Love: Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

Rushing: Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Poverty: We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, na ked and homeless.The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.


Love: Good works are links that form a chain of love

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

We are all pencils in the hand of God. I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.


There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

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

Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

We can do no great things; only small things with great love

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

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

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.




Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa

Inspiring Life Quotes To Make Stepping Stone

"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

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail." -Napoleon Hill

"It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt." -SueEllen Fried

"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure." -George Canning

"If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk." -Rosalynn Carter


"There is only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit" - Craig Breedlove

"Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability" - Flower A Newhouse

"I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process" -Oprah Winfrey

"Pressure is the word that is misused in our vocabulory. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you 've started to think of failure" -Tommy Lasorda

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hardwork,and learning from failure" -Colin Powell

"A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life" -Chrsitopher Morley

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson







"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate." -Thomas Watson, Sr

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." -Henry Ford

“There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.” -T.H. Huxley

"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
-Mary Kay Ash

"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive." - Scott Adams

“Fall seven times, Stand up eight.” -Japanese Proverb






"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing" - Denis Waitley

"Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success" - Denis Waitley

"Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal" - Napoleon Hill

"Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms" -William Shakespeare

"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--and that's the same thing" - George Lorimer

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent" - Marilyn vos Savant

"Defeat doesn't finish a man--quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits" -Richard M. Nixon

"The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account" - Richard R. Grant

"If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win" - Walter Reuther

Vision

"The future does not belong to those who are content with today. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment"
-Robert Kennedy

Soon after the completion of Disney World someone said, "Isn't it too bad that Walt Disney didn't live to see this!" Mike Vance, creative director of Disney Studios replied. "He did see it - that's why it's here."

"Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams"
-Robert Greenleaf

"The future belongs to those who believe in their dream"
-Elanor Roosevelt

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision"
-Theodore Hesburgh

In Life, Answer to Only one Question matters! Have You Chosen a course that leads to a destination which matters most to you.

"When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority"
-Charles R Swindoll

"When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic"
-Charles R Swindoll

"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done"
-Ralph Nader

"Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present"
-Rudolph W Giuliani


“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
-Jack Welch

“Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference.” -Joel Barker

“Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith.”
-Stephen S. Wise

“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”
-Gail Devers

"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision" -Helen Keller

"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible"-Jonathan Swift


Dream Lofty Dreams, And As You Dream, So Shall You Become - James Allen

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world"-Arthur Schopenhauer

Vision Without Action is A Day Dream. Action Without Vision is a Nightmare- Japanese Proverb


Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.- Carl Jung:

M K Gandhi Quotes

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty"

"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind"

"Where there is love there is life". "Where love is, there God is also"


"Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it"

"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer"

"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever"


"I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice"

"Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her"

"Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances"

"God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained"

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent"

"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide"


"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity"

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever"

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win"

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not the attainment. Full effort is full victory"

"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them"

"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.
Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment"

"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes"

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well"

"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding"

"Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says 'Do this.' "

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others"

"We must be the change we wish to see"

"The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted"

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong"

"Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity"

WISDOM

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it" -David Starr Jordan

"Six essential qualities are the key to success: sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity" -William Menninger

"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd rather have been talking" -Aristotle

"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know" -John Kenneth Gilbraith


"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

"He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions" - Unknown

"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life" - Brigham Young

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet" -James Oppenheim

He is Happy In his Wisdom Who has learned at Another's Expense - Plautus

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
- Buddha

Wisdom will lead you to win the game. Think carefully about your next step
-Temple of Heaven Park, Beijing, China

Wisdom is supreme; therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you; embrace her and she will honor you -Proverbs


Never live in the past but always learn from it. - Unknown

Where Wisdom is Called For, Force is Of Little Use - Herodotus

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power" -Lao-Tzu

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf" -Walter Lippman

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood" -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Older I get The More Wisdom I Find in the Ancient Rule of Taking First Things First - Dwight D Eisenhower

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom stays" -Alfred Lord Tennyson


"Man is honored for his wisdom, loved for his kindness" -S. Cohen

"Much wisdom often goes with fewer words" -Sophocles

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely" - Auguste Rodin

A Single Conversation Across the table with a Wise Man is Worth a Month's Study of Books
-Chinese Proverb

CONFIDENCE

"Success is waiting for you. Difficulties are blocking the path. Take the weapon of confidence and reach your success every day"

"The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do."

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation" -Arthur Ashe

"Sincerity is an open heart. Few people show it; usually what we see is an imitation put on to snare the confidence of others" -Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence" -Hans Christian Andersen

Whatever We Expect with Cofidence Becomes our Own Self-Fulfiling Propehcy
-Brian Tracy

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." -Norman Vincent Peale

"True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man." -Robert Burton

"There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me." -Andre Gide

"Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger." -Arnold Palmer

"Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in your world" -Brian Tracy

"When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things." -Joe Namath

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." -Henry David Thoreau

They Can Because they think They Can

"There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity." -Dr Samuel Johnson

Winning breeds Confidence and Confidence Breeds Winning - Hubert Green

"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control" -Tom Landry

"Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk" -Jack Gibb

"Self confidence is the key to the universe" -Carrol Wrackley

The beauty of the morning is not the sunshine, but the thought of GOD giving us another beautiful day!Wishing you a Very Good Morning! Have a Nice day!

You Can not be lonely if you like the person you are alone with - Wayne Dyer

"You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do" -Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained" -Marie Curie Polish-French chemist

"Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have" -Brian Tracy

You Can Do what You have to Do, And Sometimes You Can Do It even Better than you Think You Can - Jimmy Carter

"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe" -Norman Vincent Peale

Philosophical Quotes From Robert Frost

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on"

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel"

"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity"

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age"

"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office"


The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could.
To where it bent in the undergrowth,

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.

--Robert Frost


"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with"

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour"

"How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint"

"Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall"


"Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense"

"You know how cunningly mankind is planned:We have one loving and one hating hand.
The loving’s made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike"

"Life is not so sinister-grave. Matter of fact has made them brave.
He is husband, she is wife. She fears not him, they fear not life."
- Robert Frost, "On the Heart's Beginning to Cloud the Mind"

"You've got to love what's loveable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference"

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired"

"Don't be an agnostic--be something"

Frost, Robert, 1874–1963, American poet, b. San Francisco. Perhaps the most popular and beloved of 20th-century American poets, Frost wrote of the character, people, and landscape of New England. He was taken to Lawrence, Mass., his family's home for generations, at the age of 10. After studying briefly at Dartmouth, he worked as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill, as a cobbler, a schoolteacher, and a journalist; he later entered Harvard but left after two years to try farming. In 1912 he went to England, where he received his first acclaim as a poet. After the publication of A Boy's Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914), he returned to the United States, settling on a farm near Franconia, N.H. Frost taught and lectured at several universities, including Amherst, Harvard, and the Univ. of Michigan. In later life he was accorded many honors; he made several goodwill trips for the U.S. State Dept., and in 1961 he recited his poem “The Gift Outright” at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.
Among Frost's volumes of poetry are New Hampshire (1923), West-running Brook (1928), Collected Poems (1930), A Further Range (1936), A Witness Tree (1942), Steeple Bush (1947), and In the Clearing (1962). A Masque of Reason (1945) and A Masque of Mercy (1947) were blank verse plays. Although his work is rooted in the New England landscape, Frost was no mere regional poet. The careful local observations and homely details of his poems often have deep symbolic, even metaphysical, significance. His poems are concerned with human tragedies and fears, his reaction to the complexities of life, and his ultimate acceptance of his burdens. Frost was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943. Frost's critical reputation has recently rebounded after a period when his poetry was often criticized for being old-fashioned.



"The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism"

"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness"

"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them"

"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything"

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper."

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference"

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work "

"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day "

"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep"
Robert Frost, Poet

Born: 26 March 1874
Birthplace: San Francisco, California
Died: 29 January 1963
Best Known As: American poet who wrote "The Road Not Taken"
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HOPE

"Often times we look too long at closed doors to see the new one that has been opened for us."
- Someone

"Life is filled with happiness, sadness, tears, smiles, laughter and other emotions but when life gets you down, just be strong about it and keep your head up high and have faith in all things in life. Always remember: God is at your side, always."
- Someone

"If your love does not work with that person, it just means that someone else loves you more."
- Someone

"Always follow your heart; never give up on the one that your heart loves just because people say it's wrong." - Someone

"Never give up because you'll never know if you would have succeeded." - Someone

"The fact that you tried something and failed does not make you a failure; the only time you become a failure is when you give up trying."- Someone

"If you lose hope in other people, then they will lose hope in you. However, if you continue to love them and be there for them, then they will always be there for you." - Someone

"Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow, we must fail in order to know, Sometimes our vision clears only after our eyes are washed away with tears." - Someone

"The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the darkest hours. - Someone


"Life is not about what I`ve done, what I should`ve done, what I could`ve done... it's about what I can do and what I will do."- Someone

"Love is built on hope. Sure it is filled with risk and with disappointment, but it is still something that gives your life a greater meaning."
-Smoke Jumper

"Hope is what makes us look foward to each and every day; without hope there is no tomorrow."
-Author Unknown

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
-Thomas Edison

"Don't look for the place where the rainbow ends, but instead look for where it started."

-Author Unknown


"Reaching for a star is hard; it's just too far to reach. But, never give up reaching for it, because you never know, that star could just someday fall."
-Author Unknown

"Once you choose hope, anything's possible"
~Christopher Reeve

When the world says, "Give up,"Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown

"The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination"
~Marian Zimmer Bradley

"Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope"
~Author Unknown


"Hope is patience with the lamp lit"
~Tertullian


"Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit"
- Norman Vincent Peale

"Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear"
- Monroe Forester

"Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory"
- Norman Vincent Peale

"We live by admiration, hope and love"
- William Wordsworth

Men can live about Forty Days without food, About Three Days without Water, And Eight Minutes Without Air, But Only for One second Without Hope.

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Kindness:

"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference"
-Barbara DeAngelis

"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure"
-Emma Goldman


"Life's most urgent question is, what are you doing for others?"
-Martin Luther King, Jr

"There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up."
- Bernard Meltzer

"The best portions of a good man's life,His little, nameless, unremembered acts,Of kindness and love."
- William Wordsworth

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless."
- Mother Teresa

"Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love...Kindness is good will. Kindness says, "I want you to be happy."
- Randolph Ray


"You have not lived a perfect day...unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you."
- Ruth Smeltzer.

Agreeableness:

“A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself”
-James Boswell quotes (Scottish Biographer, 1740-1795)

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” -Winston Churchill quotes (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”
-St. Thomas Aquinas quotes (Scholastic philosopher and theologian, 1225-1274)

“Love is a hidden fire, A pleasant sore, A delicious poison, A delectable pain, An agreeable torment, A sweet and throbbing wound, A gentle death” -Fernando de Pujas


“The foods that promote longevity, virtue, strength, health, happiness, and joy; are juicy, smooth, substantial, and agreeable to the stomach.”
-Bhagavad Gita


Pleasantness

“A positive attitude may not solve every problem but it makes solving any problem a more pleasant experience.”
-Grant Fairley

“Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work”
-Indian Proverb

“Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history”
-Chamfort

“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
-Buddha

“Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!”
-Og Mandino (American Essayist and Psychologist, 1923-1996)

“It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.”
-Epicurus (Greek philosopher, BC 341-270)

“Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel”
-Bible

“The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”
-Jane Austen

“Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.” -Bible

Sweetness

“The sweetness and pleasantness of personality should be evident in his actions and thoughts. This will help in establishing peace and happiness all round and lead to the feeling of universal brotherhood.”
-Atharva Veda

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
-Kahlil Gibran

“There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivac”
-Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones”

Inspirational Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

"All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark"

“Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.”

“Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin ? to say that you are weak, or others are weak.”

“YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.”

"If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished"

"Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth"

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far"

"By the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one"

"Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings".

"We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful toward those that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought to be happy; and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful"

"We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life"

"Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself"

"Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle"

"All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you"

"Always discriminate—your body, your house, the people around, and the world are all unreal like a dream. Always think that this body is only an inert instrument. And the Atman within is your real nature"

"If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms"

"Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work"

"Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better"

"Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste"

"This I have seen in life—those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step; those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose"

"This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger."

"First, believe in the world—that there is meaning behind everything"

"Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished"

"This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself"

- Swami Vivekananda, (1863-1902)

MOMENTUM

“If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.”
-William N. Lipscomb, Jr.

“If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.”
-Joan Welsh

"When it starts to move it will make a lot of noise and it will move and have a lot of momentum and take anything in its way out"
-Dick Powell


"Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new MOMENTUM toward success in your life? "
-Anthony Robbins

"Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your MOMENTUM will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort"
-Charles J. Givens

"Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one"
-Ralph Ransom

"If the table moves, move with it" -Sakaue

"To create momentum in your life "Never leave the seen of a decision without taking action" The action has to be 1) in support of your decision no matter how insignificant the action might seem, and 2) the action has to be something your willing to do right now.”
-Unknown

“Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.”
-Ben Nicholas

“To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.”
-Charles Horton Cooley


"Commitment is the ignitor of momentum"
-Peg Wood

"One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals"
-Michael Korda

"The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum"
-Anthony Robbins


"It is not of importance where we stand, but in what direction we are moving"
-Unknown Author

"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum"
-Frances Willard

"Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day"
-Robert J. McKain

A Little Push In the Right Direction Can Make A Big Difference

CHALLENGES

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are"
-Reagon, Bernice Johnson

"The real challenge (in life) is to choose, hold, and operate through intelligent, uplifting, and fully empowering beliefs"
-Sky, Michael

"It's always the challenge of the future, this feeling of excitement, that drives me"
-Tabuchi, Yoshihisa

"Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it"
-Schuller, Robert H.

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

"The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach."
-Clarence Blasier

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me."
-Charles F. Kettering

"I discovered that certain quotes made me stop and think; they made me challenge my beliefs, while others gave me hope."
-Catherine Pulsifer, from My Story

"Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible."
-William Arthur Ward


"Be thankful for each new challenge, because it will build your strength and character."
-Author Unknown, from Be Thankful

"To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like."
-Mike Gafka

If you want to build a ship, don't drup up the men to go to the forest to gather wood, swa it, and nail the planks together. Instead, teach them the desire for the sea
-Dr.Sumantra Goshal, Rober P Bauman Professor of Strategic Leadership , London Business school

"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight."
-Orison Swett Marden

"Life is a challenge, meet it." -Mother Theresa, from Life Is

"Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them"
-Lakshmi Mittal

"I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged"
-Connie Chung

"You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind"
-Darwin P. Kingsley

"Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned" - Charles W. Chesnutt

"When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge"
- Terry Bradshaw

"There is no Challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself"
- Michael F. Staley

"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory"
- George S. Patton

"If someone says can't, that shows you what to do" - John Cage

Anyone Can Hold the Helm When the Sea is Calm

"Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what we live for" - Travis White

Quotes on Friendship

"Friendship is the rainbow between 2 hearts, Sharing of 7 feelings like Love, Sad, Happy, Truth, Faith, Secret, Helping"
-SMS Thoughts

"SILENT and LISTEN are two words made out of same alphabets, but there is another speciality , Your friend can LISTEN even when you are SILENT, That is Friendship"
-SMS Thoughts

"Birth is "START OF LIFE", Beauty is "ART OF LIFE", Love is "PART OF LIFE" , Death is "LAST OF LIFE" , But Friendship is "HEART OF LIFE"
-SMS Thoughts

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
-Donna Roberts quotes

"One day if you need my friendship and there are 100 steps between us. You take the First step to get near me, I will take all the 99 steps to be there"



"Friend is not a spare wheel that you pull out when you are in trouble, It is a steering wheel that directs the right path throughout your life"

"A friend is never measured by the number of times he made you laugh, but by the number of times he made you smile after you cry"

"Making Million friends is not a Miracle, the miracle is to make a friend, who stand by you when a million are against you"

"Friendship is not a degree to start and finish within 3 or 4 years. Its a Life time course, not just 2 study also to FEEL and LIVE"

Have a Good Friday and Wish you a very happy friendship day in this week End.

August 6 is International Friendship Day for 2006, time to recognise your friends and their contribution to your life. Friendship helps to bring peace and positivity to the globe - a great reason to celebrate!
Friendship Day occours on the first Sunday of August - only once a year - so make the most of it! :) Friends come in many shapes, sizes and guises: school friends, work colleagues, siblings, partners, parents, pets and neighbours. Pull out all the stops and let your friends know they are truly appreciated!

"One Stone is enough to break a glass, One Sentence is enough to break a heart , One sec is enough to fall in love and One true friend is enough too live a life"

"A Friend is one who strengthens you his / her prayer blesses you with his/her love, encorauges with his/her hope"



"Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends"
- Cindy Lew

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend"
- Abraham Lincoln

"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
- Apocrypha

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
- Baltasar Gracian (1647)

“True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes.”

"A friend is someone who smile when you smile, laugh when you laugh, but hold your hand when you cry."
-Thomas Pustay

"Good friends come and good friends go, but only the best friends stick around forever."
-Sent in by Jenelle Stricker

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
-Walter Winchell

"Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life."
-Sent by Dior Yamasaki

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost"
- Charles Caleb Colton (1825)

"Most people walk in and out of you life. But only friends leave footprints in your heart"
- Author Unknown

"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
- Samuel Johnson

"If you think that the world means nothing, think again. You might mean the world to someone else"

"Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness"
- Lois L. Kaufman

"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
- James Boswell (1763)

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose."
- Tehyi Hsieh

"Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget"

Quotes on Change

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living"
-Gail Sheehy

"I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change"
-Jim Rohn

"The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."
-Rear Admiral Grace Hopper"

"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be" -Thomas a Kempis

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world"
-MAHATMA GANDHI



"I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then"
-LEWIS CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland

"The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change"
-Bill Clinton

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
-ISAAC ASIMOV, Asimov on Science Fiction

"Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat"
-Caroline Schoeder

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain"
-Maya Angelou

"When you blame others, you give up your power to change"
-Dr. Robert Anthony

"Don't fear change, embrace it" -Anthony J. D'Angelo
"To change one's life: 1. Start immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions" -William James




"Progress is impossible without change, And those who can not change, their minds can not change anything"
-Author Unknown

"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time"
-Kettering

"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results"
-Jack Dixon

"Change yourself and your work will seem different"
-Norman Vincent Peale

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself"
-Leo Tolstoy

"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it You just do it one step at a time"
-Marian Wright Edelman

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world"
-Nelson Mandela

"A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love"
-Pearl S. Buck

A Bend in the Road is not the End of the Road... Unless you fail to make the Turn.

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay" -Simone De Beauvoir

Quotes on RISK TAKING

"The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could."
— Paul Hogan

"Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?"
— Jimmy Johnson , Dallas Cowboys Coach

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."
— T.S. Eliot

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
— Robert F. Kennedy

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness"
-Napoleon Hill

"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps"
-David Lloyd George

"Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk".
-Unknown Author

"Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together"
-Earl Nightingale

"Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet"
-German proverb

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference"
-Robert Frost

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow"
-Ronald. E. Osborn

"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act"
-Maxwell Maltz

"Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.”
-Cher quotes (American Singer and Actress, b.1946)

“You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.”
-Paulo Coelho quotes (Mystical author, one of Brazil's most successful novelist)

“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.”
-General George S. Patton quotes (American General in World War I and II, 1885-1945)

“No noble thing can be done without risks”
-Michel de Montaigne quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. 1533-1592)


"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved but at what he aspires to"
-Kahlil Gibran

"There is as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something"
-Trammell Crow

"The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living"
-Stephen Covey

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything" -Bishop W. C. Magee

You cannot discover New Oceans Unless You have the Courage to Lost Sight of the Shore

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory" -Pierre Corneille

Quotes on ATTITUDE

"The only difference between a Good Day And a Bad Day Is your ATTITUDE!"
-Dennis S. Brown

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
-Hugh Downs

"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."
-Harold S. Geneen

"Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character"
-Albert Einstein



"When you believe you can...you can!"
-Maxwell Maltz


"Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill"
-Charles Swindoll


"Positive anything is better than negative nothing"
-Elbert Hubbard



"Life is like a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it"
~Ernest Holmes~



"Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations"
~Federico Fellini~



"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become"
~Buddha~



"I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience"
~Eddie Rickenbacker~


"If You Want to Change Your Life, Change Your Mind"

" A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds,and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs ; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them"
-Leonard Louis Levinson

"Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small"
-Orison Swett Marden

"Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind"
-William James

"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice" -Jim Rohn

"It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude"
-Zig Ziglar

"Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes"
-Norman Vincent Peale

"Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances"
-J. Donald Walters

"99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses"
-George Washington Carver

Attitudes are Contagious... Is yours Worth Catching?

"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us" -Earl Nightingale

Quotes on OPPORTUNITY

"Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly"
-Alan Alexander Milne

"Three rules of work: (1) Out of clutter, find simplicity; (2) From discord, find harmony; (3) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"
-Albert Einstein

"A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow"
-Buck Rodgers


"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes" - Benjamin Disraeli


"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
-Winston Churchill

"Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards."
-Unknown

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas A Edison

"Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



"What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment"
-Nick Saban

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us"
-Alexander Graham Bell

"The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not the job; you can best get to the top by getting to the bottom of things"
-Zig Ziglar

"Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities". -Sue Atchley Ebaugh

"Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet"
-Roy D. Chapin Jr.



"Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?"
-Jimmy Johnson


"You cannot step twice into the same river; for other waters are continually flowing in"
-Heraclitus

"Expect nothing; be prepared for anything" -Samurai

“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”
-Orison Swett Marden

“Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.”
-Author Unknown

“It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.”
-William Pollard


“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
-Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)

There is an Island of Opportunity in the Middle of Every Difficulty

"One chance is all you need" -Jesse Owens

SUCCESS Quotes

“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”
-Sven Goran Erikssons

“Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.”
-Arnold H. Glasgow

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
-Herman Cain quotes (American business man, author and speaker)

“Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.”
-Malcolm S. Forbes

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut"
-Albert Einstein

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it"
-William Arthur Ward

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up - Thomas A Edison ( 1847-1931 )

"Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now"

~Jonatan Mårtensson



"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
~David Frost



"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome"

~Booker T. Washington

"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time"
~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

"The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication"
-Cecil B. De Mille

"In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do"
-Dorothea Dix

"The measure of success is not whether you have tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year"
-John Foster Dulles

We were born to succeed, not to fail - Henry David Thoreau

"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. Courage is what counts"
-Sir Winston Churchill

The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin Mays

Be an Idea Factory

One big idea could revolutionize your life (and the world around you). I'm reading an amazing book called “Humble Masterpieces: Everyday Marvels of Design” by Paola Antonelli, curator of Architecture and Design at New York's Museum of Modern Art (I was actually there yesterday and have some interesting photos for you in an upcoming blog). My teammate Gordon Ogden - the man behind robinsharma.com - gave it to me for my birthday (yup, in my forty second year on the planet).

In one of the (little) chapters, I learned of designer Daniel Cudzik. He's the Brave Dreamer who invented the stay-on metal tab that you now see on every single one of the billion aluminum cans made every year. Before his invention, tabs were pulled off and thrown away-creating tons of litter, not to mention hurt feet. One idea changed all that.

Cudzik was watching tv one night with his two kids when the vision came to him (your best ideas will come when you least expect it; most revolutionary thoughts don't come when you are keeping a frenetic pace - they come when you're having fun...so have some fun - good for business...and your soul). Rather than letting the idea slip away (like most of us do), he wrote it down, sketching his plan for the stay-on tab which he then quickly gave to a draftsman. They soon created the prototype. Guess what? It worked. Perfectly.

So be an idea factory. Of course without a passionate commitment to breathing life into your big ideas through near-flawless execution nothing will happen. But your good ideas coupled with a fierce devotion to making it all happen just might produce magic. And magic is good.

Some People Dream of Success... While Others WakeUp and Work Hard At it.

Intended Meaning:

- Dont just keep dreaming of success...take the next step ...start acting on the dream ( as given below - "Work hard At it" )...

Just a word of caution:


- Dont take this quote wrongly and think that you should never dream...

- all great things acheived in this world, started of as somebodies dream, then they worked on it with full faith and created wonders...

- Dont just keep dreaming of success...take the next step ...start acting on the dream ( as given below - "Work hard At it" )...

is the message of this quote....

Quotes on Happiness

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful"
-Albert Schweitzer

"If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this"
- Kitaro Nishida

"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."
- William Bennett

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."
- John Stuart Mill

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. - Mildred Barthel

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it." - Bernard Meltzer.

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude"
-Denis Waitley

"Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature"
-Charles Kingsley

"Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity"
-Joseph Addison

"Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy"
-Gretta Brooker Palmer

"Happiness depends upon ourselves" -Aristotle




"Happiness is not something we find, it's something we create…. Its the small things in life that fill us with joy"
-Author Unknown

"The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure"
-Francoise de Motteville

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort"
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion"
-HH the Dalai Lama

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved" -George Sand

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present"
-Jim Rohn

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values"
-Ayn Rand

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence"
-Aristotle

"Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks"
-Charles Dickens

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows"-Helen Keller

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
-Mark Twain

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
-Helen Keller

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."
-Burton Hills

"Happiness always looks small if u hold it in your hands But when u learn to share it, u will realize how big and precious it is Be happy always"
-Unknown

"The only way 2 multiply happiness is by dividing it"

Quotes on Music

"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."
-Billy Joel

"Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs"
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Music is the key to the female heart"
-Johann G. Seume

"Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music."
-Sergei Rachmaninoff

"Music is the vernacular of the human soul" -Geoffrey Latham

“When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely”
-Florent Schmitt (French Composer. 1870-1958)

"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever"
-June Masters Bacher

"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."
-G K Chesterton

“Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love”
-Louis-Hector Berlioz (French Composer and Critic. Conductor of the Romantic period, 1803-1869)


"Music is an ocean and I am a student. For a vocalist, voice practice is important. It has been my habit to learn the meaning of songs I have to sing and the correct pronunciation of each word," - M S Subbulakshmi: 'Nightingale' of Carnatic music



"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."
-Kahlil Gibran

"Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable."
- Martin Luther

"The Magic of Music Lies not Just on Concord of Notes but More Like Ambrosia and Mannadew not Only on Those who Make the Music but on Those who Hear and Lifts Them to Seventh Heaven of Aesthetic Delight".
-Anon

"Music is Bliss" - Sudha Raghunathan, Carnatic Vocalist

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels." -Thomas Carlyle
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life"
~ Red Auerbach

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body"
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman"
~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

"Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below"
~ Joseph Addison

"Music is sounding mathematics" - Lebenitz

"Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul"
-Unknown

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent"
-Victor Hugo

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue"
-Plato

“Music is love in search of a word.” -Thomas Carlyle

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art"
-Charlie Parker

"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music"
-Aldous Huxley

"Music should come from the heart.
It should happen. That should be automatic and if you labour on creating music, it will not have soul.
'Likening music to an ``elegant flight of a fowl, gentle flowing of a stream, the spread of a fragrance, a cool breeze, when you apply your mind, you lose the charm of music.''
-Ilayaraja, Musician

Music's the medicine of the mind. ~John A. Logan

Quotes on Hard Work

Achievement is not always success while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
-Orison Swett Marden

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
-Liane Cordes

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
-Henry Van Dyke

Thank God, I have my work, but instead of earning money by it, I need money to be able to work; that is the difficulty. I think there are no signs in my work that indicate that I shall fail. And I am not a person who works slowly or tamely. Drawing becomes a passion with me, and I throw myself into it more and more. I do not have great plans for the future; if for a moment I feel rising within me the desire for a life without care, for prosperity, each time I go fondly back to the trouble and the cares, to a life full of hardship, and think: It is better so; I learn more from it, and make progress. This is not the road on which one perishes. I only hope the trouble and the cares will not become unbearable, and I have confidence I shall succeed in earning enough to keep myself, not in luxury, but as one who eats his bread in the sweat of his brow.
-Vincent Van Gogh

"One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try"
-Aristotle

"Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do"
-Elbert Hubbard

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
-Russell C. Taylor

"You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour"
-Jim Rohn

"Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines"
-Gary Sinise

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort"
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best"
-Theodore I. Rubin

"Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst is not to try"
-Anonymous

"For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward"
-Jim Rohn

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant"
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow"
-Doug Firebaugh

"Every job is a self portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence"
-Unknown Author

Quotes on Beauty

"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like a perfume of a rose; you can smell it and that is all"
-William Somerset Maugham

"The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder"
-Virginia Woolf

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The first question i ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do i think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason"
-John Cage



"The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it"
-C.S. Lewis

"Perfect, sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops,lakes, and diamonds"
-Henry David Thoreau, Journal


"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
- Buckminster Fuller

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams"
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it"

-Voltaire



“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it”
-Confucius quotes (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)

“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”
-Sophia Loren quotes (Italian film Actress, b.1934)

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
-Ashley Smith quotes

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart"
~ Kahlil Gibran~

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart"
~Hellen Keller ~

"Beauty should be found in one's work and its execution, not through external appearance"
~Unknown ~

Quotes on Perfection

"Perfection cannot be defined or seen; it can only be found in your heart"
-Kelly Millar

"Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace"
-River Phoenix

"Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them"
-Owen Felltham

There are no secrets to success. Don't waste your time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.
-Colin Powell

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.
-Diogenes

A designer knows he has achieved perfection, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence"
~Rosalynn Carter


“Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.”
Lord Chesterfield quotes (British Statesman, Diplomat and Wit, 1694-1773)



“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”

Saint Augustine quotes (Ancient Roman Christian Theologian and Bishop of Hippo from 396 to 430. One of the Latin Fathers of the Church. 354-430)


The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.
-Edward Simmons

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
-William Ellery Channing


I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
-Mikhail Baryshnikov

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
-William A. Foster

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-Aristotle


Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
-Angelique Arnauld

“A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.”
Buddha quotes (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)



“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time”
Voltaire quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of all French authors, 1694-1778)

Quotes on Peace

For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, And a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.

- Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."
-- John F. Kennedy

"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.


“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.”
Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama quotes (Dalai Lama, b.1935)



“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)



"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be"
-Thomas a Kempis ( There is no way to control angry, peace is the only way )


"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love."
-- Peace Pilgrim.
"The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things."
-- Peace Pilgrim

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't worry about anything. Worrying never solved anything. All it does is distort your mind"
-Milton Garland (at 103, the oldest worker in the U.S.)

"Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind"
-Christian Larson

"Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset"
-Saint Francis De Sales

Quotes about Courage

"Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do"
- Unknown.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man"
-- George Bernard Shaw.

"Remember that failure is an event, not a person"
-- Unknown.

"Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage"
-Nin, Anais

"Do the thing you are afraid to do and the death of fear is certain"
-Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take"
-Drucker, Peter
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win"
-Bernadette Devlin

"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live"
-Dorothy Thompson

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm"
-Winston Churchill

"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world"
-Helen Keller

"We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes"
-John F. Kennedy

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
-Vincent Van Gogh

"Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death"
-Unknown Author


"Fear is only as deep as the mind allows"
-Japanese proverb


"Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear"
-Anthony Robbins

"Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you"
-Albert Einstein

"Courage is doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone"
-Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction"
-Albert Einstein