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Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

Albert Einstein

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.

Now put foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

 


Inspiration and genius--one and the same.

Victor Hugo

To find what you seek in the road of life,

the best proverb of all is that which says:

"Leave no stone unturned."

Edward Bulwer Lytton

If you would create something,

you must be something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men do less than they ought,

unless they do all they can.

Thomas Carlyle

Let thy words be few.

Ecclesiastes 5:2 from Words of Wisdom

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Leon J. Suenes

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

First say to yourself what you would be;

and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus









 


The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.

Henry Ward Beecher

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

Lee Iacocca



 


A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Victor Cousins

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi

Failures do what is tension relieving,

while winners do what is goal achieving.

Dennis Waitley

(as quoted in Brian Tracy's book, Eat That Frog)

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.

Samuel Butler

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog

The great and glorious masterpiece of

man is to know how to live to purpose.

Michel de Montaigne

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,

or what's a heaven for?

Robert Browning

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.

Kahil Gibran

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

Aldous Huxley

If you don't know where you are going,

you'll end up someplace else.

Yogi Berra

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Viktor Frankl

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford

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

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Author Unknown

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

David Ogilvy

There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.Logan Pearsall Smith

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"I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. "

 


Benjamin Franklin

 


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“far Better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much, because they live in the grey of twilight that knows not victory nor defeat” 


Theodore Roosevelt

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The quote that inspires me is by Albert Camus. I quote it often to myself on "down" days, and it is my all-time fave because it reflects me as an individual.



In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.



And if you live in Canada's winter wonderland, you will understand the need for that summer!!


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Excellence can be attained if you ....


Care more than others think is wise.


Risk more than others think is safe.


Dream more than others think is practical.


Expect more than others think is possible.


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Excellence can be attained if you ...
- Care more than others think is wise,
- Risk more than others think is safe,
- Dream more than others think is practical,
- Expect more than others think is possible.

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DON'T QUIT


When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,


When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,


When friends are few, and the debts are high,


And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,


When care is is pressing you down a bit,


Rest if you must, but don't you quit.


 


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Excellence can be attained if you ...
- Care more than others think is wise,
- Risk more than others think is safe,
- Dream more than others think is practical,
- Expect more than others think is possible.

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EAT THAT FROG - from the book by Brian Tracy


The first rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.


The second rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long.


 


 


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Excellence can be attained if you ...
- Care more than others think is wise,
- Risk more than others think is safe,
- Dream more than others think is practical,
- Expect more than others think is possible.

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Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

 


Helen Keller

 


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"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. "

 


Helen Keller


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looi says ...



The quote that inspires me is by Albert Camus. I quote it often to myself on "down" days, and it is my all-time fave because it reflects me as an individual.



In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.



And if you live in Canada's winter wonderland, you will understand the need for that summer!!



What a positive outlook!

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All of these quotes truly are inspirational! 

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Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.


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Excellence can be attained if you ...
- Care more than others think is wise,
- Risk more than others think is safe,
- Dream more than others think is practical,
- Expect more than others think is possible.

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If better is possible, Good is not enough.


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Excellence can be attained if you ...
- Care more than others think is wise,
- Risk more than others think is safe,
- Dream more than others think is practical,
- Expect more than others think is possible.

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We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.


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Excellence can be attained if you ...
- Care more than others think is wise,
- Risk more than others think is safe,
- Dream more than others think is practical,
- Expect more than others think is possible.

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We cannot direct the wind---But we can adjust the sails.


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Excellence can be attained if you ...
- Care more than others think is wise,
- Risk more than others think is safe,
- Dream more than others think is practical,
- Expect more than others think is possible.

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Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.


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Excellence can be attained if you ...
- Care more than others think is wise,
- Risk more than others think is safe,
- Dream more than others think is practical,
- Expect more than others think is possible.

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DBeatty,


Are those anonymous quotes or are they attributed to some person, dead or living? I like the one about eating the frog. I do not eat them but I remember when I was growing up in Asia, my grandma have them frozen in our fridge.


Everyone,


Thanks for the quotes!


 


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LiChing,


They were anonymous quotes unless I put a name by them.  I collect books with quotes and I pulled some of them from one of the books I have.


I have been sending out a daily exert from the book "Eat that Frog." Those who I have been sending to have really liked it.


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- Care more than others think is wise,
- Risk more than others think is safe,
- Dream more than others think is practical,
- Expect more than others think is possible.

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Zig Ziglar




If you're sincere, praise is effective.  If you're insincere, it's manipulative.

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"The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth."

˜ Chinese Proverb

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


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- Risk more than others think is safe,
- Dream more than others think is practical,
- Expect more than others think is possible.

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"The harder you work the luckier you get."  Gary Player, Golfer


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- Dream more than others think is practical,
- Expect more than others think is possible.

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"Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible."


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- Risk more than others think is safe,
- Dream more than others think is practical,
- Expect more than others think is possible.

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.




Confucius

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Its very INspirational... Really i feel good


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Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

Albert Einstein

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.

Now put foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

 


Inspiration and genius--one and the same.

Victor Hugo

To find what you seek in the road of life,

the best proverb of all is that which says:

"Leave no stone unturned."

Edward Bulwer Lytton

If you would create something,

you must be something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men do less than they ought,

unless they do all they can.

Thomas Carlyle

Let thy words be few.

Ecclesiastes 5:2 from Words of Wisdom

Happy are those who dream quotes.info/dreams.html">dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Leon J. Suenes

The quotes.info/imagination.html">power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

First say to yourself what you would be;

and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus









 


The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.

Henry Ward Beecher

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

Lee Iacocca



 


A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Victor Cousins

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi

Failures do what is tension relieving,

while winners do what is goal achieving.

Dennis Waitley

(as quoted in Brian Tracy's book, Eat That Frog)

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.

Samuel Butler

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog

The great and glorious masterpiece of

man is to know how to live to purpose.

Michel de Montaigne

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,

or what's a heaven for?

Robert Browning

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.

Kahil Gibran

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

Aldous Huxley

If you don't know where you are going,

you'll end up someplace else.

Yogi Berra

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Viktor Frankl

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford

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

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Author Unknown

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

David Ogilvy

There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.Logan Pearsall Smith

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Our Greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising everytime we fall 


 


Confucius


I am so glued with the words ,instantly  it has revitalized my soul .        Rosieskittles ,thanks for sharing .

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Our Greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising everytime we fall 


 


Confucius


I am so glued with the words ,instantly  it has revitalized my soul .        Rosieskittles ,thanks for sharing .



good one, tapan!

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Inches made the champion. 


Vince Lombardi


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- Dream more than others think is practical,
- Expect more than others think is possible.

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Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.


Thomas Edison


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- Dream more than others think is practical,
- Expect more than others think is possible.

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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.


George Patton


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Excellence can be attained if you ...
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- Risk more than others think is safe,
- Dream more than others think is practical,
- Expect more than others think is possible.

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