Monday, February 27, 2012

Inspirational quotes (Part 6)

“Two halves don’t make a whole. Two wholes make a whole.” –Jason Mraz

“Success creates opportunities for other people.” –Liz Murray

“I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.” -Lincoln

"Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it." – Colette

“The same fire that melts the butter makes the iron hard.”- Dear Abby

“One smile relieves a heart that grieves.” - Robert Graves (poet)

"You have a fingerprint that nobody else has, to leave an imprint that nobody else can." Keith Craft, Leadershipology

“The ending should be inevitable, but not predictable.”- Stuart Matthew Davis

“You never stop loving somebody; you just start loving somebody else.” Simple Prestige on Youtube comment about Donnie Klang’s song “So Over You.”

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

"You do what you can, and that's all you can do. No shame in it." Michael Rousseau

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world." -Jack Layton

“Action precedes motivation. People often are shocked by that idea, but you can't just wait for the muse to show up. \You have to invite her in by doing something that shows her you're interested.” Gretchen Hirsch, Two Bits writing group

Success videos:

"Tim Ferriss: Smash Fear, Learn Anything." He wrote the book: The 4- Hour Work Week. The gist of it is: "What you do, not how you do it is the determining factor. Being effective, and doing the right things. What's the worse that can happen?"

Alian de Botton talks about "A kinder, gentler philosophy of success." He says: "We should not give up on the idea of success. We should make sure that they are our own. That we own them, that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions. It's bad that you don't get what you want. What's worse is that you get what you want and to find out at the end of the journey, it's not what you wanted at all."

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” - Einstein

“A man is a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.” -Mohamed Ghandi

“Where your talent and the needs of the world intersect, there lies your calling.”-Aristotle

“Silence does not always mark wisdom.”- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.” –Dorothy Dix

“When I let go of who I am, I am open of what I might be.” –Lao Tzu

"The secret to getting away with lying is believing with all your heart, that goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another." Elizabeth Bear

“All trials are not a reason to give up...but a challenge to improve ourselves. Our pain is not an excuse to back out... but an inspiration to move on. KEEP ON GOING! LIFE IS GOOD!!!”- Glenda Rigon

“Note to self: Actually read notes.” –T- shirt saying, and it’s on post- it notes

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."- Philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein

"When you judge somebody it's like throwing a boomerang- goes in a circle and comes back to the one throws it. Love is like that, too. Always comes back." -Elmo

“The unexpected always happens; the inevitable never." -John Maynard Keynes

"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want." -Ben Stein

"Losing potential profits hurts only the ego; losing money really hurts." -Gerald Appel

"There are two classes of people who tell what is going to happen in the future: Those who don't know, and those who don't know they don't know." -John Kenneth Galbraith

"Committee: A group who individually can do nothing but as a group decide nothing can be done." -Fred Allen

"Experience is the teacher of all things." -Julius Caesar

"Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving." -Senator Alan Cranston

“If buying equities seem the most hazardous and foolish thing you could possibly do, then you are near the bottom that will end the bear market." -Joseph E. Granville

"Knowledge born from actual experience is the answer to why one profits; lack of it is the reason one loses." -Gerald M. Loeb

"Your emotions are often a reverse indicator of what you ought to be doing." -John F. Hindelong

“Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket." -Unknown

"In investing, the return you want should depend on whether you want to eat well or sleep well." -J. Kenfield Morley

"Risk is actually lowest when people see it as the greatest, and when most people think of it as absent, it is actually the highest." -Dick A. Stoken

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”
—Diane Arbus

"Sometimes the best way to get out of a rut is to make your own path." -Greg Illson

“Take care how you give advice because wise men don’t need it and fools won’t heed it.” –Two Bits Writing Group on LinkedIn

“Surround yourself with people who know your worth. You don’t need too many people to be happy, just a few real ones who appreciate you for exactly who you are.”

“Peace can not be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” -Aristotle

“To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’" -Ayn Rand

“Who, being loved, is poor?” -Oscar Wilde

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” –Albert Einstein

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

“Love is ruthless; it doesn’t feel sorry for anyone, but it does have compassion. Fear is full of pity; it feels sorry for everyone." - Don Miguel Ruiz

"(Hypothetical answers mean) you're not living in the moment and you're looking negatively at what you're doing now."–Michelle Trachtenberg

“Past performance does not guarantee future results.”

“What gets measured, gets done.” –William Droms. Professor of Finance at Georgetown University

“There are a lot of people who take more time to tell a story than it took for it to happen.” –Anonymous

“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” –C. Ozick

“Success comes from taking risks.” –Robert Frank, wealth expert

“Don’t do it for the money. Follow the path to do what makes your heartbeat faster. Follow your passion.” –Lynn Tilton

“Stay enthusiastic after getting rejected.”- Jean Paul Dejoria

“Planning is easy, reality is hard.” – TV show The Mentalist

"Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life." - Coretta Scott King

“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” -George Eliot

“Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utterly ignoring all that you reject.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Who begins too much accomplishes little.” –German saying

“The purpose of storytellers is to give voice to the possible in the midst of impossibilities.”-Dan Yashinsky

“Don’t mistake activity for achievement.”-John Wooden

“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”-African proverb

“Believe in yourself. Now that you know what to do, there’s no reason not to.”- Michael Spiropoulos

“The point is to do something that gets you out of your head and get into real-time life.” –Sarah Rowland

“Write the Future.” –Nike commercial

“Bold choices take you where you’re supposed to be.”-Jim Beam commercial

“If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don’t know you have it, you don’t have it. If you don’t have it, but you think you have it, then you have it.” –Jackie Gleason

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must overrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or gazelle- when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”- Roger Bannister

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”-Orson Welles

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius!” –Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to with them all of the time.” –Julia Child

“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.”-Warren Buffet

“Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn’t be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.”- Richard Dreyfus

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever does.” Margaret Mead

“The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The close you get to the end, the faster it goes.”-Dave Salloum

“Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career.”-Earl Nightingale

“You are the master of what you learn and what you achieve.” –Deanna Burgart

“Your only limit is your soul.” –Chef Gusteau from the movie Ratatouille

“There is excellence all around you. You need only be aware to stop and savor it.” Chef Gusteau from the movie Ratatouille

“I love doing stuff that I haven’t done before. That’s the goal: To keep reinventing myself.” –Shia LaBeouf

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