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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. Helvétius (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 Dorothé 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

bull’s-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

life’s 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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