Motivation Quotes
February 20, 2010 by Arina
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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
Jane Smiley
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Stephen R. Covey
Motivation comes from within.
Author Unknown
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Kenneth Hildebrand
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew Carnegie
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.
Wayne Dyer
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale
You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Inspirational Goal Quotes
February 20, 2010 by Arina
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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Denis Watley
You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
Edmund Hillary
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Stephen A. Brennan
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
Greg Anderson
Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
Fitzhugh Dodson
I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you’re striving to do your best.
Kurt Thomas
Life’s up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.
Marsha Sinetar
In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
Arnold H. Glasgow
Goals are dreams with deadlines.
Diana Scharf Hunt
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
Dag Hammarskjold
You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
Charles C. Noble
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Sydney Smith
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out
Ronald Reagan
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Aristotle
If you’re bored with life — you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things — you don’t have enough goals.
Lou Holtz
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
You can’t hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can’t catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can’t reach your goals if you don’t try.
Kathy Seligman
Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people’s criticisms, carry out your plan.
Paul Meyer
The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
Bill Copeland
Goals are not only absolutely necesary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Robert H. Schuller
If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings.
Susan Polis Schultz
You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.
Steve Garvey
Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.
Scott Reed
The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
Benjamin Mays
Goals determine what you’re going to be.
Julius Erving
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
David Joseph Schwartz
Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction.
Author Unknown
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
Helmut Schmidt
To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.
Earl Nightingale
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
Ralph Waldo Emereson
When you determine what you want, you have made the most important decision in your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.
Douglas Lurtan
Great minds have purposes, others have dreams.
Washington Irving
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Booker T. Washington
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
Gale Sayers
The most important thing about goals is having one.
Geoffry F. Abert
It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
Clarence Thomas
Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson
Be sure to take the most direct route to your dreams. Never take your eyes off your goal, or you will loose course. Never look back in sorrow, or you will trip.
submitted by Joe Brown
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
Earl Nightingale
Goals help focus you on areas in both your personal and professional life that are important and meaningful, rather than being guided by what other people want you to be, do, or accomplish.
Catherine Pulsifer
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
Les Brown
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Ziglar
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
By losing your goal, You have lost your way.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You have to know what you want to get.
Gertrude Stein
You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra
People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.
Earl Nightingale
It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Brian Tracy
Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you’ll land amongst the stars..
Les Brown
The unfortunate aspect about living life without your own goals is that you may very well reach a point in your life where you will wonder, ‘what would have happened if I had only done…
Catherine Pulsifer
Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.
Unknown
Motivational Quotes Of The Day
May 1, 2009 by Arina
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May 1, 2009 by Arina
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Arina, Has anyone told you, you’re the BEST?! you have no idea how much I look forward to reading your motivational emails,they not only give out great tips that I NEVER knew before nor did anyone ever tell me, but they pump up my motivation to an level that I never imagined it would go! Thank you SO much for everything!! Respectfully, Mona I just wanted to e-mail you and thank you for sending me you daily inspirational quote. It not only helps me, it is also an inspiration to the people I work with.
Debra Sisco Thank you so much for your inspirations…they have helped keep me on track with my weight loss goals after having my second baby 2 months ago. I look forward to reading the quote of the day each morning, I have lost 11 pounds so far! Keep them coming! Thanks again, I usually don’t write emails like this but this morning I felt the need of saying thank you for the great quotes you’ve been sending us. As for me, it really makes my day and keeps me focused when reading such quotes. Thank you and have a wonderful day! Raul Hi, I have been registered with your site for almost a week now and I just wanted to thank you. There is not been any major change in my life or doings however, there have been little steps towards a better life. Getting your daily motivational quotes and other emails boosts the energy and confidence level in me. Glad that I am associated with you. Many thanks again. Regards, PratikHi Arina, Thanks for the motivations in the emails. When I seem to be down these inspirational motivations ignite me to see the next day. Thank you very mush and may the Good Lord Bless You Carl Kunjil You know What…your quotes are the one which make me feel so good..and I definitley have made it a habbit to read them every day. Thanks a lot for such an inspirational quotation day per day. |
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August 14, 2008 by Arina
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Arina, Has anyone told you, you’re the BEST?! you have no idea how much I look forward to reading your motivational emails,they not only give out great tips that I NEVER knew before nor did anyone ever tell me, but they pump up my motivation to an level that I never imagined it would go! Thank you SO much for everything!! Respectfully, Mona I just wanted to e-mail you and thank you for sending me you daily inspirational quote. It not only helps me, it is also an inspiration to the people I work with.
Debra Sisco Thank you so much for your inspirations…they have helped keep me on track with my weight loss goals after having my second baby 2 months ago. I look forward to reading the quote of the day each morning, I have lost 11 pounds so far! Keep them coming! Thanks again, I usually don’t write emails like this but this morning I felt the need of saying thank you for the great quotes you’ve been sending us. As for me, it really makes my day and keeps me focused when reading such quotes. Thank you and have a wonderful day! Raul Hi, I have been registered with your site for almost a week now and I just wanted to thank you. There is not been any major change in my life or doings however, there have been little steps towards a better life. Getting your daily motivational quotes and other emails boosts the energy and confidence level in me. Glad that I am associated with you. Many thanks again. Regards, PratikHi Arina, Thanks for the motivations in the emails. When I seem to be down these inspirational motivations ignite me to see the next day. Thank you very mush and may the Good Lord Bless You Carl Kunjil You know What…your quotes are the one which make me feel so good..and I definitley have made it a habbit to read them every day. Thanks a lot for such an inspirational quotation day per day. |
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Words of Inspiration – Time
July 6, 2008 by Arina
Filed under Time Quotes
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo Da Vinci
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little left of it. Every man’s greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.
P.W. Litchfield
Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing.
Alexander Woollcott
Time heals what reason cannot.
Seneca
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Berlioz
Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
It takes time to build a castle.
Irish Proverb
A minute now is better than a minute later.
Anonymous
Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
Anonymous
One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time.
Anonymous
You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers
Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
Lisa Alther
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Diogenes Laetius
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them …
Michel de Montaigne
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.
Thomas Edison
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
John F. Kennedy
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Goethe
If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.
Lee Iacocca
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Franklin
Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn’t buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure?
Author Unknown
Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.
Charles Richards
Inspirational Sayings – Success
July 6, 2008 by Arina
Filed under Success Quotes
Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing happens until I make it happen.
contributed by: Scott Wilson
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
Mark Twain
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
It’s simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.
John R. Amos
Thre is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
Robert Schuller
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn’t been asleep.
Wilson Mizner
Success usuallly comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald
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
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
Lowell Thomas
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie
Success is never wondering what if.
Karrie Huffman
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor
Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get.
Dave Gardner
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
Nelson Boswell
Inspirational Quotations – Perseverance
July 6, 2008 by Arina
Filed under Perseverance Quotes
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
Henry Ward Beecher
The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two – common sense and perseverance.
Owen Feltham
Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
Plutarch
God helps those who persevere.
The Koran
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
David Sarnoff
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill
Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.
George Allen
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Dale Carnegie
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
Plutarch
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.
H. Ross Perot
A jug fills drop by drop.
Buddha
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Norman Vincent Peale
I’m proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.
Orel Herhiser
How long should you try? Until.
Jim Rohn
Perseverance is a great element of success; if you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Perseverance allows you to get back on track when you hit a detour.
Catherine Pulsifer
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
Julie Andrews
Inspirational Thoughts – Opportunity
July 6, 2008 by Arina
Filed under Opportunity Quotes
Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Opportunities? They are all around us… There is power living latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
Marden, Orison Swett
Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability.
Contributed by Joe Brown
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
Milton Berle
Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Don’t wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
Charles Richter
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
Too many people are thinking of securty instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
Maxwell Maltz
If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.
Les Brown
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Whitney Young, Jr.
Look for opportunity. You can’t wait for it to knock on the door. . . . you might not be home.
Jinger Heath
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demmosthenes
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
Nowadays some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with a remote control.
M. Charles Wheeler
Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
English Proverb
It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.
George Matthew Adams
When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters—one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don’t give a second thought to the chances we take.
Gloria Estefan
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
Ann Landers
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
Anonymous
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