Get Inspired!

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INSPIRED!
525 nuggets of inspiration, wisdom
and truth.


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Table Contents

Introduction ....................................................... 7
Dreams ............................................................... 8
Ability ............................................................... 19
Ambition .......................................................... 26
Passion ............................................................. 30
Planning ........................................................... 33
Action ............................................................... 41
Perseverance .................................................... 50
Determination .................................................. 56
Hope ................................................................. 60
Vision ................................................................ 66
Leadership ........................................................ 75
Goals ................................................................ 85
Success ............................................................. 95
Love ................................................................ 104
ARISTOTLE ...................................................... 115
SOCRATES ....................................................... 119
PLATO ............................................................. 123

GHANDHI ........................................................ 127
EINSTEIN ......................................................... 131
CONFUCIOUS .................................................. 135
CICERO ........................................................... 141
Winston Churchill ........................................... 145


Introduction
Inspiration is a catalyst. It facilitates the
transformation of thoughts, dreams and ideas
into reality and makes it easier to develop the
ability to sustain productivity. People who
inspire others are able to communicate and
capture, direct and sustain the attention of
anyone they come into contact with. Words of
advice, snippets of wisdom, timeless principles
and wise sayings from people of repute, movers
and shakers of history, living or dead serves as
the perfect and timely doses of inspiration for
extraordinary success. These thought
provoking quotes and comments also provide
color, variety and depth for any speech, article,
book, sermon or any other form of literary
work. This e book provides over 500 quotes on
very relevant subjects like Dreams, Ability, Love,
Success, Passion, Determination etc. from world
famous industrialists, politicians, priests, actors,
authors and thought leaders and it is intended
to serve as a pocket guide, reference document
or quotation treasury. Read them, get inspired
and inspire others.

Dreams
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall
you become. Your vision is the promise of what
you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy
of what you shall at last unveil.
James Allen (1864-1912, British-born American
Essayist, Author of ''As a Man Thinketh'')

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of
success --the earliest spark in the dreaming
youth -is this; dream a great dream.
John A. Appleman

You are never given a dream without also being
given the power to make it true. You may have
to work for it, however.
Richard Bach (1936-, American Author)


A man is not old until regrets take the place of
dreams.
John Barrymore (1882-1942, American Actor)

The moment of enlightenment is when a
person's dreams of possibilities become images
of probabilities.
Vic Braden (American Tennis Coach)

Before your dreams can come true, you have to
have those dreams.
Dr. Joyce Brothers (1927-, American
Psychologist, Television and Radio Personality)

You have the courage and power to live your
dreams.
Les Brown (1945-, American Speaker, Author,
Trainer, Motivator Lecturer)


There couldn't be a society of people who didn't
dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997, American
Writer)

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can
change around you, but your dream will not.
Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need
not obscure it. Because the dream is within you,
no one can take it away.
Tom Clancy (1947-, American Author, ''The
Hunt for Red October'')

When your heart is in your dream, no request is
too extreme.
Jiminy Cricket (Cartoon Character)

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll
die tomorrow.
James Dean (1931-1955, American Actor)

Don't be afraid of the space between your
dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can
make it so.
Belva Davis

Before your dreams can come true, you have to
have those dreams.

You have the courage and power to live your
dreams.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't
dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997, American
Writer)

Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need
not obscure it. Because the dream is within you,
no one can take it away.
Tom Clancy (1947-, American Author, ''The
Hunt for Red October'')

When your heart is in your dream, no request is
too extreme.
Jiminy Cricket (Cartoon Character)

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll
die tomorrow.
James Dean (1931-1955, American Actor)

Don't be afraid of the space between your
dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can
make it so.
Belva Davis


To dream anything that you want to dream,
that is the beauty of the human mind. To do
anything that you want to do, that is the
strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to
test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.
Bernard Edmonds (American Writer)

It is never too late to be what you might have
been.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British Novelist)

When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, American
Publisher, Businessman)

Dream no small dreams for they have no power
to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832,
German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist)


You control your future, your destiny. What you
think about comes about. By recording your
dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion
the process of becoming the person you most
want to be. Put your future in good hands --
your own.
Mark Victor Hansen (American Motivational
Speaker, Author)

Man, alone, has the power to transform his
thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can
dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970, American Speaker,
Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich'')

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a
broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes (1902-1967, American Poet,
Short-story Writer, Playwright)


We've removed the ceiling above our dreams.
There are no more impossible dreams.
Jesse Jackson (1941-, American Clergyman,
Civil Rights Leader)

You're the only one who can make the
difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.
Earvin ''Magic'' Johnson (1959-, American
Basketball Player)

There are those that look at things the way they
are, and ask why? I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not.
Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968, American
Attorney General, Senator)

I have a dream that my four little children will
one day live in a nation when they will not be
judged by the color of their skin, but by the
content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Now, I say to you today my friends, even
though we face the difficulties of today and
tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream
deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a
dream that one day this nation will rise up and
live out the true meaning of its creed: --we hold
these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968, American
Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964)

The more you can dream, the more you can do.
Michael Korda (1919-, American publisher)

All men dream, but unequally. Those that
dream at night in the dusty recesses of their
minds awake the next day to find that their
dreams were just vanity. But those who dream
during the day with their eyes wide open are
dangerous men; they act out their dreams to
make them reality.
Thomas E. Lawrence (1888-1935, British
Soldier, Arabist, Writer)

It may be those who do most, dream most.
Stephen B. Leacock 91869-1944, Canadian
Humorist, Economist)

You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time,
so set goals for each day --not long and difficult
projects, but chores that will take you, step by
step, toward your rainbow. Write them down, if
you must, but limit your list so that you won't
have to drag today's undone matters into
tomorrow. Remember that you cannot build
your pyramid in twenty-four hours. Be patient.
Never allow your day to become so cluttered
that you neglect your most important goal --to
do the best you can, enjoy this day, and rest
satisfied with what you have accomplished.
Og Mandino (1923-1996, American
Motivational Author, Speaker)

To accomplish great things we must first dream,
then visualize, then plan... believe... act!
Alfred A. Montapert (American Author)

Everything starts as somebody's day dream.
Larry Niven

You're in the midst of a war: a battle between
the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of
your dreams, and the power of your true vision
to create and contribute. It is a fight between
those who will tell you what you cannot do, and
that part of you that knows --and has always
known --that we are more than our
environment; and that a dream, backed by an
unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with
an imminent arrival.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American Author,
Speaker, Peak Performance Expert /
Consultant)

The future belongs to those who believe in the
beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First
Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian)


Ability
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they
need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British Philosopher,
Essayist, Statesman)

The extent of your consciousness is limited only
by your ability to love and to embrace with your
love the space around you, and all it contains
Ken Carey

Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821, French
General, Emperor)

The king is the man who can.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author)


No amount of ability is of the slightest avail
without honor.
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919, American
Industrialist, Philanthropist)

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit,
never say, ''I can't.''
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917 Scottish
Preacher, Author)

Natural ability without education has more
often raised a man to glory and virtue than
education without natural ability.
Marcus T. Cicero (106-43 BC, Great Roman
Orator, Politician)

Ability without honor is useless.
Orator, Politician)


To sentence a man of true genius, to the
drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a
treadmill.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British
Sportsman Writer)

The first requisite for success is the ability to
apply your physical and mental energies to one
problem incessantly without growing weary.
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931, American
Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE)

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their
ability to outgrow small ones.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American
Poet, Essayist)

Others have done it before me. I can, too.
Corporal John Faunce (American soldier)

Ability will never catch up with the demand for
it.
Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, American
Publisher, Businessman)

Whether you think you can or whether you
think you can't, you're right!
Henry Ford (1863-1947, American Industrialist,
Founder of Ford Motor Company)

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing
Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his
history.
Henry Ford (1863-1947, American Industrialist,
Founder of Ford Motor Company)

The really unhappy person is the one who
leaves undone what they can do, and starts
doing what they don't understand; no wonder
they come to grief.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The person born with a talent they are meant to
use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

There is something that is much more scarce,
something rarer than ability. It is the ability to
recognize ability.
Robert Half (American Businessman, Founder
of Robert Half & Associates)

Never tell a young person that anything cannot
be done. God may have been waiting centuries
for someone ignorant enough of the impossible
to do that very thing.
John Andrew Holmes

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680,
French Classical Writer)

The height of ability consists in a thorough
knowledge of the real value of things, and of
the genius of the age in which we live.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680,
French Classical Writer)

When love and skill work together, expect a
masterpiece.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British Critic, Social
Theorist)

I know of no more encouraging fact than the
unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life
by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American
Essayist, Poet, Naturalist)
God does not ask about our ability, but our
availability.
Source Unknown

We all have ability. The difference is how we
use it.
Stevie Wonder (1950-, American Musician,
Singer, Songwriter, Producer)

You are the only person on earth who can use
your ability.
Zig Ziglar (American Sales Trainer, Author,
Motivational Speaker)

Ability is a poor man's wealth.
M. Wren


Ambition
Every child has great ambitions. As he grows, he
is bombarded by negative suggestions --you
can't do this; you can't do that; be careful; look
for security, and so on. Year by year, he
experiences the ''realities'' of life, and his
ambitions fade away. Figuratively speaking,
most children die by the time they reach their
adulthood.
Shall Sinha

Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the
ambition of others.
Susan Sontag (1933-, American Essayist)

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the
lowest.
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC, Roman Writer)

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart
soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to

surrender to the chill of your spiritual
environment. [The Root Of The Righteous]
A. W. Tozer (?-1963, American Preacher)

Keep away from small people who try to belittle
your ambitions. Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you, too,
can become great.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American Humorist,
Writer)

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere
money-making has never been my goal, I had an
ambition to build.
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937, American
Industrialist, Philanthropist, Founder Exxon)

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
Italian Proverb (Sayings of Italian Origin)

The tallest trees are most in the power of the
winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of
fortune.
William Penn (1644-1718, British Religious
Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania)

If you have a great ambition, take as big a step
as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The
step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it
may be the largest one possible for now.
Mildred Mcafee

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without
work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be
sent to you. You have to win it. The man who
knows how will always have a job. The man who
also knows why will always be his boss. As to
methods there may be a million and then some,
but principles are few. The man who grasps
principles can successfully select his own
methods. The man, who tries methods, ignoring
principles, is sure to have trouble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without
wings.
C. Archie Danielson

Great ambition is the passion of a great
character. Those endowed with it may perform
very good or very bad acts. All depends on the
principals which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821, French
General, Emperor)


Passion
Without passion man is a mere latent force and
possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock
of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881, Swiss
Philosopher, Poet, Critic)

Passion is universal humanity. Without it
religion, history, romance and art would be
useless.
Honore De Balzac (1799-1850, French Novelist)

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand
ways and dangerous only in one, through their
excess.
Christian Nevell Bovee (1820-1904, American
Author, Lawyer)

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a
success at something I hate.

George Burns (1896-1996, American Comedy
Actor)

It is the passions that do and undo everything.
Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle (1657-1757,
Scientist, Man of Letter)

Every man without passion has within him no
principle of action, nor motive of act.
Claude A. Helvtius (1715-1771, French
Philosopher)

Passion is the genesis of genius.
Consultant)

Our passions are the winds that propel our
vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her.

Without winds the vessel would not move and
without a pilot she would be lost.
Saying

Chase your passion, not your pension.
Denis Waitley (1933-, American Author,
Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert)

Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the
basics. I ask myself, ''Why am I doing this?'' It
comes down to passion.
Lyn St. James (American Race Car Driver)


Planning
The method of the enterprising is to plan with
audacity and execute with vigor.
Author, Lawyer)

Meticulous planning will enable everything a
man does to appear spontaneous.
Mark Caine

To be prepared is half the victory.
Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616, Spanish
Novelist, Dramatist, Poet)

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965, British
Statesman, Prime Minister)

There is in the act of preparing, the moment
you start caring.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965, British

Before beginning, plan carefully.
Orator, Politician)

A man who does not think and plan long ahead
will find trouble right at his door.
Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical
Teacher, Philosopher)

In order to plan your future wisely, it is
necessary that you understand and appreciate
your past.
Jo Coudert (American Author)

The structure will automatically provide the
pattern for the action which follows.
Donald Curtis

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the
best.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British

Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah
built the ark.
Richard C. Cushing (1895-1970, American
Roman Catholic Cardinal)

Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah
built the ark.
Richard C. Cushing (1895-1970, American
Roman Catholic Cardinal)

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
John Wooden (1910-, American Basketball
Coach)


Before you speak, listen. Before you write,
think. Before you spend, earn. Before you
invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.
Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
William A. Ward (1921-,)

The person who doesn't know where his next
dollar is coming from usually doesn't know
where his last dollar went.
Source Unknown

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is
earned.
Source Unknown
For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is
earned.
Source Unknown


Plan well before you take the journey.
Remember the carpenter's rule: Measure twice,
cut once.
Source Unknown

If you employed study, thinking, and planning
time daily, you could develop and use the
power that can change the course of your
destiny.
W. Clement Stone (1902-, American
Businessman, Author)

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.
Jim Rohn (American Businessman, Author,
Speaker, Philosopher)


If you don't design your own life plan, chances
are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And
guess what they have planned for you? Not
much.

With a definite, step-by-step plan --ah, what a
difference it makes! You cannot fail, because
each step carries you along to the next, like a
track
Scott Reed

Plan your work for today and every day, then
work your plan.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993, American
Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author)

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan
tomorrow.
George S. Patton

Developing the plan is actually laying out the
sequence of events that have to occur for you
to achieve your goal.
George L. Morrisey

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the
path by means of which he can get from where
he is to where he wants to go.
John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913, American
Banker, Financier, Art Collector)

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-
by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity
and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings
of your power.
Paul J. Meyer (American Businessman, Author,
Motivator)

Strategic planning will help you fully uncover
your available options, set priorities for them,
and define the methods to achieve them.
Robert J. Mckain

Planning is bringing the future into the present
so that you can do something about it now.
Alan Lakein (American Time Management
Expert, Author, Trainer)

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing
happens by accident.
Chuck Knox (American Football Coach)


Action
You can tell more about a person by what he
says about others than you can by what others
say about him.
Leo Aikman

The greatest potential for control tends to exist
at the point where action takes place.
Louis A. Allen

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute!
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated.
Begin, and then the work will be completed.
John Anster

For the things we have to learn before we can
do them, we learn by doing them.
Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher)


Men acquire a particular quality by constantly
acting a particular way. We become just by
performing just actions, temperate by
performing temperate actions, brave by
performing brave actions.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Marcus Aurelius (121-80 AD, Roman Emperor,
Philosopher)

Begin --to begin is half the work, let half still
remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have
finished.
Decimus Magnus Ausonius (310-10395, Latin
Poet, Man of Letters)

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is
difficult is getting up and taking action.
Al Batt

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Sally Berger

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of
thought.
Henri L. Bergson (1859-1941, French
Philosopher)

All things whatsoever ye would that men should
do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew
7:12]
Bible (Sacred Scriptures of Christians and
Judaism)

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only,
deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]
Judaism)


You can't aim a duck to death.
Gael Boardman (American Politician)

It is vain to say human beings ought to be
satisfied with tranquillity: they must have
action; and they will make it if they cannot find
it.
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855, British Novelist)

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

You must take action now that will move you
towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency
in your life.


Someone's sitting in the shade today because
someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett (1930-, American Investment
Entrepreneur)

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt
and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot
of people have ideas, but there are few who
decide to do something about them now. Not
tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true
entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
Nolan Bushnell (American Businessman,
Founder of Atari Computer)

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a
point, then leave it behind. Nothing really
matters except what you do now in this instant
of time. From this moment onwards you can be
an entirely different person, filled with love and
understanding, ready with an outstretched
hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and
deed.
Eileen Caddy (American Spiritual Writer)

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It
can help you do the things you should do but
don't feel like doing. It can keep you from
procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces
you. But it can also help you do those things
that you want to do. It helps you seize those
precious moments that, if lost, may never be
retrieved.

Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.''
Start where you stand, and work with whatever
tools you may have at your command, and
better tools will be found as you go along.

You must get involved to have an impact. No
one is impressed with the won-lost record of
the referee.
John H. Holcomb

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with
the wind, and sometimes against it. But we
must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894, American
Author, Wit, Poet)

An acre of performance is worth a whole world
of promise.
William Dean Howells (1837-1920, American
Novelist, Critic)

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So
long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up,
start over. Try something else. If we wait until
we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be
too late.
Lee Iacocca (1924-, American Businessman,
Former CEO of Chrysler)


Apply yourself. Get all the education you can,
but then, by God, do something. Don't just
stand there, make it happen.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do
everything, but still I can do something; And
because I cannot do everything I will not refuse
to do the something that I can do.
Helen Keller (1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf
Author, Lecturer, Amorist)

There should be less talk; a preaching point is
not a meeting point. What do you do then?
Take a broom and clean someone's house. That
says enough.
Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Albanian-born
Roman Catholic Missionary)


A real decision is measured by the fact that
you've taken a new action. If there's no action,
you haven't truly decided.
Consultant)

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a
reputation on what you intend to do.
Liz Smith (1923-, American Journalist, Gossip
Columnist)

You have to ''be'' before you can ''do,'' and do
before you can ''have.''

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If
you are not willing to move your feet.
Source Unknown

Perseverance
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding
the 20th.
Julie Andrews (1935-, British Singer, Actress)

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 (1813-1887, American
Preacher, Orator, Writer)

Perseverance must finish its work so that you
may be mature and complete, not lacking
anything.
[James 1:4] Bible (Sacred Scriptures of
Christians and Judaism)

With ordinary talents and extraordinary
perseverance, all things are attainable.
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in
spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and
impossibilities: It is this that in all things
distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author)

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short
races one after another.
Walter Elliott

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you
get tired of doing the hard work you already
did.
Newt Gingrich (American Statesman)

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous...
rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power
grows irresistible greater with time.

Perseverance gives power to weakness, and
opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads
fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the
choicest flowers and fruits spring up and
flourish in the desert abode of thorns and
briars.
Samuel G. Goodrich (1793-1860, American
Publisher, Writer)

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it
is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head
against a wall is more likely to produce a
concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
Sidney J. Harris (1917-, American Journalist)

Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country.
And don't go spending your whole life
commiserating that you got the raw deals.
You've got to say, ''I think that if I keep working
at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'' It's
called perseverance.

You've got to say, ''I think that if I keep working
at this and want it badly enough I can have it.''
It's called perseverance.

Great works are performed not by strength, but
by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British Author)

Perseverance is a great element of success. If
you only knock long enough and loud enough at
the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1819-1892,
American Poet)

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence;
and many things which cannot be overcome
when they are together yield themselves up
when taken little by little.
Plutarch

I do not think that there is any other quality so
essential to success of any kind as the quality of
perseverance. It overcomes almost everything,
even nature.
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937, American
Industrialist, Philanthropist, Founder Exxon)

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892, British
Baptist Preacher)

Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about
being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance
and determination. And the best motto for a
long march is: ''Don't grumble. Plug on!''
Sir Thomas Treves

Perseverance and audacity generally win!
Madame Doroth Deluzy (1747-1830, French
Actress)

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few
is to be found in their industry, application, and
perseverance under the prompting of a brave,
determined spirit.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American Humorist,
Writer)

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are
doubly strengthened when your rise to battle
again.
Source Unknown

Perseverance and tact are the two great
qualities most valuable for all those who would
climb, but especially for those who have to step
out of the crowd.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British


Determination
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the
great difference between the great and the
insignificant, is energy --invincible
determination --a purpose once fixed, and then
death or victory.
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at
the top without exercising the fullest measure
of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
Every man who gets anywhere does so because
he has first firmly resolved to progress in the
world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness
to transform his resolution into reality. Without
resolution, no man can win any worthwhile
place among his fellow men.
B. C. Forbes (1880-1954, American Publisher)

Determination that just won't quit --that's what
it takes.
A. J. Foyt (American Race Car Driver)

An invincible determination can accomplish
almost anything and in this lies the great
distinction between great men and little men.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British Clergyman,
Author)

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel
you to despair. Few things are impossible to
diligence and skill. Great works are performed
not by strength, but perseverance.

The difference between the impossible and the
possible lies in a person's determination.
Tommy Lasorda (1927-, American Baseball
Manager)

Determination is the wake-up call to the human
will.
Speaker, Peak Performance Expert)

The price of success is hard work, dedication to
the job at hand, and the determination that
whether we win or lose, we have applied the
best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970, American Football
Coach)

Construct your Determination with Sustained
Effort, Controlled Attention, and Concentrated
Energy. Opportunities never come to those who
wait... they are captured by those who dare to
attack.
Paul J. Meyer (American Businessman, Author,
Motivator)

We all have dreams. But in order to make
dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot
of determination, dedication, self-discipline,
and effort.
Jesse Owens (1913-1980, American Olympic
Track Athlete)


Real leaders are ordinary people with
extraordinary determination.
Source Unknown

Determination gives you the resolve to keep
going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before
you.

Failure will never overtake me if my
determination to succeed is strong enough.


Hope
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to
get my work done and try to love somebody
and have the courage to accept the love in
return.
Maya Angelou (1928-, African-American poet,
Writer, Performer)

Hope is a waking dream.

Hope is the parent of faith.
Cyrus A. Bartol

Before you give up hope, turn back and read
the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
Bruce Barton (1886-1967, American Author,
Advertising Executive)


Hope is the best part of our riches.
Author, Lawyer)

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
Robert Browning (1812-1889, British Poet)

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
George Washington Carver (1864-1943,
American Scientist)

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive
means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith
means believing the unbelievable. Hope means
hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936, British
Author)


Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in
the soul --and sings the tunes without the
words --and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886, American Poet)

To live without Hope is to cease to live.
Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881, Russian
Novelist)

Hope is both the earliest and the most
indispensable virtue inherent in the state of
being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must
remain, even where confidence is wounded,
trust impaired.
Erik H. Erikson (Austrian Developmental
Psychologist)

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British Clergyman,
Author)

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Hope is the best possession. None are
completely wretched but those who are
without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830, British Essayist)

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You
can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but
morning comes. Keep hope alive.
Jesse Jackson (1941-, American Clergyman,
Civil Rights Leader)

Men and women are limited not by the place of
their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by
the size of their hope.
John Johnson (American Businessman,
Founder of Johnson Publishing)

The natural flights of the human mind are not
from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to
hope.

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling
you have isn't permanent.
Jean Kerr (1923-, American Author, Playwright)

We must accept finite disappointment, but
never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968, American
Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964)

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so
great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation
of something tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American
Author, Founder of Success Magazine)


He who does not hope to win has already lost.
Jose Joaquin Olmedo

He who has health, has hope. And he who has
hope, has everything.
Arabian Proverb (Sayings of Arabian Origin)

Were it not for hope the heart would break.
Scottish Proverb (Sayings of Scottish Origin)

Hope is the golden thread that should be woven
into every experience of life.
Source Unknown


Vision
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action
without vision just passes the time. Vision with
action can change the world.
Joel A. Barker (American Businessman,
Consultant, Author)

Where there is no vision, the people perish.
[Proverbs 29:18]
Judaism)

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
James Broughton

It takes someone with a vision of the
possibilities to attain new levels of experience.
Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

Vision --It reaches beyond the thing that is, into
the conception of what can be. Imagination
gives you the picture. Vision gives you the
impulse to make the picture your own.
Robert Collier (American Writer, Publisher)

What every man needs, regardless of his job or
the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what
his place is and may be. He needs an objective
and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief
that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What
this is no one can tell him. It must be his own
creation. Its success will be measured by the
nature of his vision, what he has done to equip
himself, and how well he has performed along
the line of its development.
Joseph M. Dodge

We need to give ourselves permission to act out
our dreams and visions, not look for more
sensations, more phenomena, but live our
strongest dreams --even if it takes a lifetime.
Vijali Hamilton

Cherish you visions and your dreams as they are
the children of your soul; the blue prints of your
ultimate achievements.

Your vision will become clear only when you can
look into your own heart. Who looks outside,
dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung (1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist)

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb
upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to
enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your
thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of
yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.
Orison Swett Marden

We go where our vision is.
Joseph Edward Murphy (1919-, American
Surgeon)

Vision without action is a daydream. Action
with without vision is a nightmare.
Japanese Proverb (Sayings of Japanese Origin)

Throughout the centuries there were men who
took first steps, down new roads, armed with
nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand (1905-1982, Russian Writer,
Philosopher)

Create a vision and never let the environment,
other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has
been done in the past shape your decisions.
Ignore conventional wisdom.
Consultant)

A man to carry on a successful business must
have imagination. He must see things as in a
vision, a dream of the whole thing.
Charles M. Schwab (1862-1939, American
Industrialist, Businessman)

Every age needs men who will redeem the time
by living with a vision of the things that are to
be.
Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965, American
Lawyer, Politician)

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist)

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability
to see above and beyond the majority.
Charles Swindoll (American Pastor, Author)


I would give all the wealth of the world, and all
the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American
Essayist, Poet, Naturalist)

All successful people are big dreamers. They
imagine what their future could be, ideal in
every respect, and then they work every day
toward their distant vision, that goal or
purpose.
Brian Tracy (American Trainer, Speaker,
Author, Businessman)

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision
looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision
looks upwards and becomes faith.
Stephen S. Wise

The man with vision always goes ahead of the
man with visions.
Source Unknown

To come to be you must have a vision of Being,
a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will
become what your vision is.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga (American Businessman,
Founder of Blockbuster Videos)

The secret of making something work in your
lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it
work: then the faith and belief that it can work:
then to hold that clear definite vision in your
consciousness and see it working out step by
step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.
Eileen Caddy (American Spiritual Writer)
The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's
far reaching. With the man the world is his
heart, with the woman the heart is her world.
Betty Grable

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
Sam Walton (1918-1992, American
Businessman, Founder of Wal-Mart Stores)

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest,
with visions to be realized, than lord among
those without dreams and desires.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese Poet,
Novelist)

No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're
lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at
any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to,
Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing
to, Some service that is high.
Harriet Du Autermont

We need to give ourselves permission to act out
our dreams and visions, not look for more
sensations, more phenomena, but live our
strongest dreams --even if it takes a lifetime.
Vijali Hamilton


Character matters; leadership descends from
character.
Rush Limbaugh (1951-, American TV
Personality)

The art of communication is the language of
leadership.
James Humes (American Lawyer, Speaker,
Author)


Leadership

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is
the capacity to translate intention into reality
and sustain it.
Warren Bennis (1925-, American Psychologist,
Management Educator, and Consultant)

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If
you tell a teammate you're ready to play as
tough as you're able to, you'd better go out
there and do it. Players will see right through a
phony. And they can tell when you're not giving
it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose
ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other
players involved. It's being able to take it as well
as dish it out. That's the only way you're going
to get respect from the players.
Larry Bird (1956-, American Basketball Player,
Coach)


Management is doing things right; leadership is
doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American
Management Consultant, Author)

There are many elements to a campaign.
Leadership is number one. Everything else is
number two.
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956, German Dramatist,
Poet)

Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can
just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making
friends and influencing people --that is flattery.
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher
sights, the raising of a person's performance to
a higher standard, the building of a personality
beyond its normal limitations.
Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American
Management Consultant, Author)


Leadership is the art of getting someone else to
do something you want done because he wants
to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969, Thirty-
fourth President of the USA)

You do not lead by hitting people over the head
--that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969, Thirty-
fourth President of the USA)

All of the great leaders have had one
characteristic in common: it was the willingness
to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of
their people in their time. This, and not much
else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-, American
Economist)

Popularity is not leadership.
Richard Marcinko (American Business Author)

I suppose leadership at one time meant
muscles; but today it means getting along with
people.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian Political,
Spiritual Leader)

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization.
It is a leadership issue and the chief executive
must set the example.
Edward Hennessy (American Business
Executive, CEO of Allied Signal)

The very essence of leadership is that you have
to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain
trumpet.
Theodore M. Hesburgh (1917-, American
Clergyman, University President)
Leadership involves finding a parade and
getting in front of it.
John Naisbitt (American Trend Analyst,
Futurist, Author)

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a
leader never turns off. Leaders even when they
are sightseers or spectators, are active; not
passive observers.
Author)
It is time for a new generation of leadership, to
cope with new problems and new
opportunities. For there is a new world to be
won.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963, Thirty-fifth
President of the USA)

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 (1924-, American Football Player,
Coach)Leadership is action, not position.
Donald H. Mcgannon


Leadership appears to be the art of getting
others to want to do something you are
convinced should be done.
Vance Packard (1914-, American Journalist,
Writer)

Management is about arranging and telling.
Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
Thomas J. Peters (1942-, American
Management Consultant, Author, Trainer)

A good objective of leadership is to help those
who are doing poorly to do well and to help
those who are doing well to do even better.

Leadership is the challenge to be something
more than average.

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but
not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but
not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be
humble, but not timid; be proud, but not
arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy
and character. But if you must be without one,
be without the strategy.
Norman Schwarzkopf (1934-, American
General of the Gulf War)

When the leadership is right and the time is
right, the people can always be counted upon
to follow -to the end at all costs.
Harold J. Seymour

Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the
organization and where it is going, but a vision
is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as

to generate enthusiasm and commitment.
Leadership and communication are inseparable.
Claude Taylor

Leadership is the activity of influencing people
to cooperate towards some goal which they
come to find desirable and which motivates
them over the long haul.
Orway Tead

Leadership is not a position. You are not a
leader because you have the title of manager.
Leadership is something that we earn from
followers on a day to day basis.
The EMS Manager Newsletter

True leadership must be for the benefit of the
followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.
Robert Townsend (American Businessman,
President of Avis)

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder
of success; leadership determines whether the
ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen R. Covey (American Speaker, Trainer,
Author of ''The 7 Habits of Highly Effective
People'')

The history of the world is full of men who rose
to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence,
bravery and tenacity.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian Political,
Spiritual Leader)

Management works in the system; Leadership
works on the system.
Stephen R. Covey (American Speaker, Trainer,
Author of ''The 7 Habits of Highly Effective
People'')


Every time you have to speak, you are
auditioning for leadership.
Author)


Goals

The most important thing about goals is having
one.
Geoffrey F. Abert

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 (American Author of ''The 22
Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness'')

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has
meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his
goals.

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 (American Basketball
Coach)

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is
how you grow and become a more powerful
person.

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals.
They have every day practical applications and
they should be practical.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

If you set goals and go after them with all the
determination you can muster, your gifts will
take you places that will amaze you.

You may not accomplish every goal you set --no
one does --but what really matters is having
goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach
it, no man can live.
John Dewey (1859-1952, American
Philosopher, Educator)

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are
like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
Fitzhugh Dodson

If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing
them the best way I know how, everything else
falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm
going to succeed.
Dan Dierdorf (American Football Player)

The goals you set for yourself and the strategies
you choose become your blueprint or plan.
Strategies are like recipes: choose the right
ingredients, mix them in the correct
proportions, and you will always produce the
same predictable results: in this case financial
success. The success strategies for managing
money and building wealth are called Money
Strategies. By learning to use money strategies
as a part of your day-to-day life, financial
frustration and failure will become a thing of
the past.
Charles J. Givens (American Businessman,
Author, Trainer)


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.
Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-, New Zealand
Mountaineer)

Goals are dreams with deadlines.
Diana Scharf Hunt

People who say that life is not worthwhile are
really saying that they themselves have no
personal goals which are worthwhile. Get
yourself a goal worth working for. Better still,
get yourself a project. Always have something
ahead of you to ''look forward to'' --to work for
and hope for.
Maxwell Maltz (American Plastic Surgeon,
Author of ''Psycho-Cybernetics'')


There is no achievement without goals.
Robert J. Mckain

Whether or not you reach your goals in life
depends entirely on how well you prepare for
them and how badly you want them. You're
eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.
Ronald McNair

Every single life only becomes great when the
individual sets upon a goal or goals which they
really believe in, which they can really commit
themselves to, which they can put their whole
heart and soul into.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as
important as what you become by achieving
your goals.
Zig Ziglar (Author, Motivational Speaker)

Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267
archery contests he entered. He could hit a
bulls-eye at 50 feet, and then split the first
arrow with the second. Would it be possible for
you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were
blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't
see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you
don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in
your life!

Goals provide the energy source that powers
our lives. One of the best ways we can get the
most from the energy we have is to focus it.
That is what goals can do for us; concentrate
our energy.

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. The most important rules that I

ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals
were those I learned from a very successful man
who taught me to first write down the goal, and
then to never leave the site of setting a goal
without firs taking some form of positive action
toward its attainment.
Consultant)

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give
you a man who will make history. Give me a
man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.
J. C. (James Cash) Penney (1875-1971,
American Retailer, Philanthropist, Founder JC
Penny's)

To be come fully alive a person must have goals
and aims that transcend himself.
Herbert A. Otto


People with goals succeed because they know
where they're going.
Earl Nightingale (1921-1989, American Radio
Announcer, Author, Motivator, Speaker)

We are built to conquer environment, solve
problems, achieve goals, and we find no real
satisfaction or happiness in life without
obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
Maxwell Maltz (American Plastic Surgeon,
Author of ''Psycho-Cybernetics'')

The victory of success is half won when one
gains the habit of setting goals and achieving
them. Even the most tedious chore will become
endurable as you parade through each day
convinced that every task, no matter how
menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling
your dreams.


You must see your goals clearly and specifically
before you can set out for them. Hold them in
your mind until they become second nature.

Write it down. Written goals have a way of
transforming wishes into wants; cant's into
cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality.
Don't just think it --ink it!
Source Unknown


Success
For true success ask yourself these four
questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why
not now?
James Allen (1864-1912, British-born American
Essayist, Author of ''As a Man Thinketh'')

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen (1935-, American Director,
Screenwriter, Actor, Comedian)

Success is the person who year after year
reaches the highest limits in his field.
Sparky Anderson (American Baseball Manager)

You are wholly complete and your success in life
will be in direct proportion to your ability to
accept this truth about you.
Dr. Robert Anthony (American educator)

Success is a journey not a destination. The
doing is usually more important than the
outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.
Arthur Ashe (1943-1993, African-American
Tennis Player)

Most of the successful people I've known are
the ones who do more listening than talking.
Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965, American
Financier)

To become an able and successful man in any
profession, three things are necessary, nature,
study and practice.

Ones best success comes after their greatest
disappointments.

The most successful men in the end are those
whose success is the result of steady accretion.
It is the man who carefully advances step by
step, with his mind becoming wider and wider --
and progressively better able to grasp any
theme or situation --persevering in what he
knows to be practical, and concentrating his
thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the
greatest degree.
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922, British-
born American Inventor of Telephone)

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in
the right direction.
Al Bernstein

The measure of a man's success must be
according to his ability. The advancement he
makes from the station in which he was born
gives the degree of his success.
Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901, British Historian
and Novelist)

When all is said and done, success without
happiness is the worst kind of failure.
Louis Binstock (American Minister)

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we
foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that
leads to success and happiness.
Louis Binstock (American Minister)

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it
means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It
means winning the war, not every battle.
Edwin C. Bliss (American Author)

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of
his mind any notion either of the ease or
rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in
this world.
Edward William Bok (1863-1930, Dutch-born
American Editor)

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is
one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck (1927-, American Author,
Humorist)

The first and most important step toward
success is the feeling that we can succeed.
Nelson Boswell

To guarantee success, act as if it were
impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande (American Success Writer)

Success is a state of mind. If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.


Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve
to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form
an invincible host against difficulties.

The talent of success is nothing more than
doing what you can do well, and doing well
whatever you do.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1819-1892,
American Poet)

The victory of success is half won when one
gains the habit of setting goals and achieving
them. Even the most tedious chore will become
endurable as you parade through each day
convinced that every task, no matter how
menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling
your dreams.


Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into
bloom and fruitage... true success follows every
right step.

When a man feels throbbing within him the
power to do what he undertakes as well as it
can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say
''amen'' to what he is doing, and give their
unqualified approval to his efforts, --this is
happiness, this is success.

Successful people are not gifted; they just work
hard, then succeed on purpose.
G. K. Nielson


Success is the progressive realization of a
worthy goal or ideal.
Earl Nightingale (1921-1989, American Radio
Announcer, Author, Motivator, Speaker)

The successful man is prosperous, because he
has developed ninety-five percent of his ability.
The failure is poor, because only five percent of
his natural talents have been utilized.
Charles E. Popplestone

The path to success is to take massive,
determined action.
Consultant)


The most important single ingredient in the
formula of success is knowing how to get along
with people.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, Twenty-sixth
President of the USA)

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?
Consultant)


Love

Teach only love for that is what you are.
A Course In Miracles (Course on Forgiveness
Based on Christianity, Eastern Philosophy)

Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888, American
Author)

Women wish to be loved not because they are
pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or
intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881, Swiss
Philosopher, Poet, Critic)

Love is a force more formidable than any other.
It is invisible --it cannot be seen or measured,
yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a
moment, and offer you more joy than any
material possession could.

Barbara De Angelis (American Expert on
Relationship & Love, Author)

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make
everything it touches sacred.
Barbara De Angelis (American Expert on
Relationship & Love, Author)

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh Ardele

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two
bodies.

Love is the beauty of the soul.
St. Augustine


Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from
love.

We must love one another or die.
W. H. Auden (1907-1973, Anglo-American
Poet)

God loves each of us as if there were only one
of us.
St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born Bishop
of Hippo, Theologian)

(354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo,
Theologian)

What does love look like? It has the hands to
help others. It has the feet to hasten to the
poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and

want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and
sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born Bishop
of Hippo, Theologian)

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking
talent. Just common sense and love will do.
Myrtle Auvil

What the world really needs is more love and
less paper work.
Pearl Bailey (1918-1990, American Vocalist,
Movie and Stage Actress)

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have
anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't
matter much what else you have.
Sir James M. Barrie (1860-1937, British
Playwright)


If it is your time, love will track you down like a
cruise missile.
Lynda Barry (American Cartoonist, Painter,
Essayist)

The greatest weakness of most humans is their
hesitancy to tell others how much they love
them while they're still alive.
Orlando A. Battista

Where love is concerned, too much is not even
enough.
Pierre De Beaumarchais (1732-1799, French
Dramatist)

I never knew how to worship until I knew how
to love.


Love is the river of life in the world.

By this all men will know that you are my
disciples, if you have love for one another. [John
13:35]
Judaism)

We know that we have passed from death into
life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]
Judaism)

And this I pray, that your love may abound still
more and more in real knowledge and all
discernment. [Philippians 1:9]
Judaism)

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts
out fear.
Judaism)

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or
boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I
Corinthians]
Judaism)

Love is the immortal flow of energy that
nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal
goal is life.
Smiley Blanton (1882-?, American Author)

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning (1812-1889, British Poet)


In this life we cannot do great things. We can
only do small things with great love

Do not think that love in order to be genuine
has to be extraordinary. What we need is to
love without getting tired. Be faithful in small
things because it is in them that your strength
lies.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we
do... but how much love we put in that action.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato (BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher)

I try to give to the poor people for love what
the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't
touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I
willingly cure him for the love of God.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor
imagination nor both together go to the making
of genius.
Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791,
Austrian Composer)

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever
stands with open hands. And while it lives, it
gives. For this is love's prerogatives --to give,
and give, and give.
John Oxenham


Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will
follow.
Proverb
Love can neither be bought nor sold, its only
price is love.
Proverb

A heart that loves is always young.
Greek Proverb (Sayings of Greek Origin)

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not
longer than one.
Japanese Proverb (Sayings of Japanese Origin)

If we love our country, we should also love our
countrymen.
Ronald Reagan (1911-, Fortieth President of
the USA, Actor)

The greatest gift that you can give to others is
the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Finally,
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
He should sweep streets even as Michelangelo
painted, or Beethoven composed music or
Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep
streets so well that all the host of heaven and
earth will pause to say; Here lived a great
sweeper who did his job well. Whatever your
lifes work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Martin Luther King.


ARISTOTLE
The aim of art is to represent not the outward
appearance of things, but their inward
significance.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two
bodies.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is
sweet.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to
be angry with the right person and to the right
degree and at the right time and for the right
purpose, and in the right way - that is not within
everybody's power and is not easy.

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

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Hope is a waking dream.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to
entertain a thought without accepting it.

Excellence is an art won by training and
habituation. We do not act rightly because we
have virtue or excellence, but we rather have
those because we have acted rightly. We are
what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not
an act but a habit.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals;
separated from law and justice he is the worst.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me
well wishes it for my sake.

In all things of nature there is something of the
marvelous.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

There is no great genius without a mixture of
madness.

You will never do anything in this world without
courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind
next to honor.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires
than him who conquers his enemies; for the
hardest victory is over self.


The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is
the power of teaching.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.


SOCRATES
Wisdom begins in wonder.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know
nothing.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife,
you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll
become a philosopher.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that
I know nothing.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

To know, is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we
realize how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you
know nothing.

From the deepest desires often come the
deadliest hate.

He is richest who is content with the least, for
content is the wealth of nature.

The greatest way to live with honor in this
world is to be what we pretend to be.

Let him that would move the world first move
himself.


Employ your time in improving yourself by
other men's writings, so that you shall gain
easily what others have labored hard for.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The way to gain a good reputation is to
endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of
the righteous are immortal and divine.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.


If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be
praised until it is known how he employs it.
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.


PLATO
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the
dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are
afraid of the light.

Wise men speak because they have something
to say; Fools because they have to say
something.

The direction in which education starts a man
will determine his future in life.

Human behavior flows from three main
sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and
inspire good actions in others

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and
beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not
on numbers.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate
in politics is that you end up being governed by
your inferiors.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to
act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.


People are like dirt. They can either nourish you
and help you grow as a person or they can stunt
your growth and make you wilt and die.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and
ignorance.

Love is a serious mental disease.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is
not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

The measure of a man is what he does with
power.

You can discover more about a person in an
hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion
obtains no hold on the mind.

There are two things a person should never be
angry at, what they can help, and what they
cannot.


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

Where there is love there is life.

Happiness is when what you think, what you
say, and what you do are in harmony.

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

You must be the change you wish to see in the
world.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of
gold and silver.

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

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.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the
whole world blind.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the
prerogative of the brave.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It
is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better
in prayer to have a heart without words than
words without a heart.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an
unquenchable faith in their mission can alter
the course of history.

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

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

I suppose leadership at one time meant
muscles; but today it means getting along with
people.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

There is a higher court than courts of justice
and that is the court of conscience. It
supercedes all other courts.

Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will.


Constant development is the law of life, and a
man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in
order to appear consistent drives himself into a
false position.


EINSTEIN
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for
tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems
like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And
then you have to play better than anyone else.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather
try to become a man of value.

Look deep into nature, and then you will
understand everything better.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge
but imagination.

The difference between stupidity and genius is
that genius has its limits.

We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Education is what remains after one has
forgotten what one has learned in school.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not
because of the people who are evil, but because
of the people who don't do anything about it.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over
again and expecting different results.

A person who never made a mistake never tried
anything new.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in
small matters cannot be trusted in large ones
either.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't
understand it well enough.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of
character.

When the solution is simple, God is answering

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will
take you everywhere.

Great spirits have always encountered violent
opposition from mediocre minds.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with
his whole strength and soul can be a true

master. For this reason mastery demands all of
a person.


CONFUCIOUS
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it
complicated.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge
to reach your full potential... these are the keys
that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be
reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the
action steps.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have
to work a day in your life.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First,
by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by
imitation, which is easiest; and third by
experience, which is the bitterest.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

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

Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to
be failure.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is
how the whole scheme of things works. All
good things are difficult to achieve; and bad
things are very easy to get.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He
who thinks but does not learn is in great
danger.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's
ignorance.

If I am walking with two other men, each of
them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the
good points of the one and imitate them, and
the bad points of the other and correct them in
myself.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the
three universally recognized moral qualities of
men.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble
without.

To know what you know and what you do not
know, that is true knowledge.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in
terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of
100 years, teach the people.


The expectations of life depend upon diligence;
the mechanic that would perfect his work must
first sharpen his tools.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than
to be deceived by them.

The superior man is distressed by the
limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by
the fact that men do not recognize the ability
that he has.

Instead of being concerned that you have no
office, be concerned to think how you may fit
yourself for office. Instead of being concerned
that you are not known, seek to be worthy of
being known.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.


To see and listen to the wicked is already the
beginning of wickedness.

They must often change, who would be
constant in happiness or wisdom.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the
common man thinks of comfort.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and
afterwards speaks according to his action.

When we see persons of worth, we should think
of equaling them; when we see persons of a
contrary character, we should turn inwards and
examine ourselves.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of
courage, or of principle.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the
modest are near to virtue.


CICERO
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot
persists in his error.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but
the parent of all the others.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down
and put out, so also a false accusation when
brought against a man of the purest and holiest
character, boils over and is at once dissipated,
and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea,
himself standing unmoved.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable
than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the
most sacred excellences and endowments of
the human mind.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.


If you have a garden and a library, you have
everything you need

The wise are instructed by reason, average
minds by experience, the stupid by necessity
and the brute by instinct.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be
calm and tranquil.

While there's life, there's hope.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away
friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like
robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is
more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.


It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity
that great things are achieved, but by reflection,
force of character, and judgment.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down
and put out, so also a false accusation when
brought against a man of the purest and holiest
character, boils over and is at once dissipated,
and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea,
himself standing unmoved.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the
world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God
endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is
not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as
the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to
the world.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.


The higher we are placed, the more humbly we
should walk.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship
inspired by beauty.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to
be angry with our enemies, and who believe
this to be great and manly. Nothing is so
praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great
and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to
forgive.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our
own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality
that we have to contend.


Winston Churchill
You have enemies? Good. That means you've
stood up for something, sometime in your life.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every
opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in
every difficulty.

We make a living by what we get, but we make
a life by what we give.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big
difference.
and finally,
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to
change often.

525 QUOTES.

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About the Author
Dr. Samuel Tinagyei is a personal finance
management consultant and trainer, life coach,
author, entrepreneur, speaker and a
professional master of ceremonies. He is the
author of three best-selling books, SMART
MONEY, GET INSPIRED and SUCCESS TOOL KIT
and has been featured on several radio and
television shows all over the world. He also
consults with several businesses, churches and
organizations on peak performance, branding
and social media optimization. He is the
president of the Gilead Medical Missions, a not
for profit medical outreach organization and
team lead at Braniac, a human capacity building
consultancy. He speaks and teaches on using
simple practical and fundamental methods and
steps to develop financial intelligence and
discipline, how to get out and stay out of debt
and how to grow and improve in all areas of life.
His passion is to see people liberated from self-
imposed limitations as a result of ignorance,
lack of opportunities and poverty. His classes
and workshops have transformed many lives,
families and businesses all over the world. He
lives in Ghana, West Africa.

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