Inspirational Quotes

You see in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action. – Anthony Robbins
Action is the foundation key to all success. – Anthony Robbins
I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. – Anthony Robbins
It’s not what’s happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it’s your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you’re going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny. – Anthony Robbins
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, ‘Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, and my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.’ – Anthony Robbins
Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is the result of bad judgment. – Anthony Robbins
What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of true capability. It is most likely a function of our beliefs about who we are. – Anthony Robbins
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. - Anthony Robbins
I’ve continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I’ve learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright. – Anthony Robbins
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich interval lives that it’s not the events that matter most to us, but rather, its how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future. – Anthony Robbins
You see, it’s never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events – how we interpret them – that shapes who we are today and who we’ll become tomorrow. – Anthony Robbins
It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. – Anthony Robbins
I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life’s greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret. – Anthony Robbins
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. – Anthony Robbins
If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. – Anthony Robbins
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life. – Anthony Robbins
You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don’t think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. – Anthony Robbins
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. – Anthony Robbins
It’s not what’s happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it’s your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you’re going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny. – Anthony Robbins
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 first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment. – Anthony Robbins
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know, Knowing is not enough! You must take action. – Anthony Robbins
Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. – Anthony Robbins
Goals are means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it’s who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting scene of fulfillment. – Anthony Robbins
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not. – Anthony Robbins
If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can. – Anthony Robbins
Anytime you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming. – Anthony Robbins
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose. – Stephen Covey
Don’t argue for other people’s weaknesses. Don’t argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it – immediately. – Stephen Covey
Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom .. The power to choose, to respond, to change. – Stephen Covey
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually. – Stephen Covey
If you’re proactive, you don’t have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own. - Stephen Covey
Live out your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really? .. True effectiveness requires balance. - Stephen Covey
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent,often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. - Stephen Covey
Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, and underline it. No involvement, no commitment. - Stephen Covey
Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system. - Stephen Covey
Effective people are not problem-minded; they’re opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. – Stephen Covey
One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves. - Stephen CoveyBegin with the end in mind. - Stephen Covey
Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world. - Stephen Covey
Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or as we are conditioned to see it. - Stephen Covey
Disciplining yourself to do what is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self- esteem, and personal satisfaction. – Brian Tracy
I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. – Brian Tracy
All successful people men and women 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
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. – Brian Tracy
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. – Brian Tracy
Look for the good in every person and every situation. You’ll almost always find it. – Brian Tracy
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. – Brian Tracy
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. – Brian TracyEvery minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return of Energy! – Brian Tracy
Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results. – Brian Tracy
is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends. – Brian Tracy
Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire of fear. – Brian Tracy
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’ – Brian Tracy
The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. – Brian Tracy
If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like. – Brian Tracy
Imagine no limitations; decide what’s right and desirable before you decide what’s possible. – Brian Tracy
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. – Brian Tracy
Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interest. – Brian Tracy
The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits in what you can achieve. – Brian Tracy
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. – Brian Tracy
A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling, confidence, and personal power. – Brian Tracy
Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now? – Brian Tracy
Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. – Brian Tracy
Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. – Brian Tracy
The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself. – Brian Tracy
The ability to discipline you to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisites for success. – Brian Tracy
It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. – Brian Tracy
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. – Brian Tracy
Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality. – Brian Tracy
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. – Brian Tracy
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you. – Brian Tracy
Success equals goals; all else is commentary. – Brian Tracy
Your decision to be, had and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. – Brian Tracy
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life. – Brian Tracy
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated everyday. – Jim Rohn
Learn to help people with more than just their jobs: help them with their lives. – Jim Rohn
Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot. – Jim Rohn
Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what’s your plan to read? – Jim Rohn
Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are. – Jim Rohn
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become. – Jim Rohn
The best motivation is self- motivation. The guy says, “ I wish someone would come by and turn me on.” What if they don’t show up? You’ve got to have a better plan for your life. – Jim Rohn
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you. – Jim Rohn
Either you run the day or the day runs you. – Jim Rohn
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn
You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me to becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. – Jim Rohn
Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws. – Jim Rohn
If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree. – Jim RohnSuccess is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. – Jim Rohn
The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path. – Jim Rohn
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. – Jim Rohn
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I Read? And third, who could I ask? – Jim Rohn
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. – Jim Rohn
Enjoy your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, ‘I love you!’ Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform. – Mark Victor Hansen
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe. - Mark Victor Hansen
The more goals you set – the more goals you get. - Mark Victor Hansen
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results. - Mark Victor Hansen
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The bible says, ‘without vision we perish’. - Mark Victor HansenBig goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else’s results. Every liability is just an asset in hiding. - Mark Victor Hansen
Focused mind power is one of the strongest forces on earth. - Mark Victor Hansen
Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once. - Mark Victor Hansen
The majority of people meet with failure because they lack the persistence to create new plans to take the place of failed plans. - Mark Victor Hansen
Thoughts and ideas are the sources of all wealth, success, material gain, all great discoveries, inventions and achievements. - Mark Victor Hansen
You don’t become enormously successful without encountering some really interesting problems. - Mark Victor Hansen
Goals are new, forward-moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them. It’s time to stop tiptoeing around the pool and jump into the deep end, head first. It’s time to think big, want more and achieve it all! - Mark Victor Hansen
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. – Dale Carnegie
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. – Dale Carnegie
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. – Dale Carnegie
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. – Dale Carnegie
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Share yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. – Dale Carnegie
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. – Dale Carnegie
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it … that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. – Dale Carnegie
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. – Dale Carnegie
It isn’t you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. – Dale Carnegie
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. – Dale Carnegie
Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. – Dale Carnegie
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. - Dale Carnegie
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. – Dale Carnegie
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. – Dale Carnegie
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. – Napoleon Hill

Carlos Casteneda

Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it. -- Carlos Casteneda

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. --Peter Drucker

Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, the it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public. --Churchill

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. --Mother Teresa

No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away. --David Matthew

What is bought is cheaper than a gift. --Portuguese Proverb

Love is not a thing to understand. Love is not a thing to feel. Love is not a thing to give and receive. Love is a thing only to become and eternally be. --Sri Chinmoy

Happy people roll with the punches. They know from experience that everything changes. Today's good fortune may vanish tomorrow, today's crises may turn out to be tomorrow's good fortune. --Author Unknown

A painter paints pictures on canvas but musicians paint their pictures on silence. --Leopold Stokowski

That which is not good for the beehive cannot be good for the bees. --Marcus Aurelius

The best journalism has always come from dissidents. There's no such thing as a good establishment journalist, only good stenographers. --P. Sainath

In the future, people will live by the motto, "If it can live, let it live". Everything we have and everything we do and everything we would consider buying will in some way embrace life. --Richard Reames

Never has the world been so small where you can just reach out and help. We’re at such an inflection point. There’s never been more opportunity to just make things great. --Ben Goldhirsh

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow. --Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Wings of Hope

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope
for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it
from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. -- Barbara
Kingsolver

Recent quotes

Every life has a story. What's yours? --Autobiography Project Tagline

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. --Leo Buscaglia

I am a part of all that I have met. --Alfred Tennyson

When we were hungry, the masters were eating, but they had not the eyes to see that we were hungry. --Sahiful Mondal

Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage. --Anais Nin

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. --Oscar Wilde

Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation. When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are rarely the center of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous curve. --Rainer Maria Rilke

We go to movies, we watch television, we see photographs, and as the images pour into us, we believe we can choose between those we wish to absorb and those we don't. We assume that our rational processes protect us from implantation, or brainwashing. What we fail to realise is the difference between fact and image. Our objective processes can help us resist only one kind of implantation. There is no rejection of images. --Jerry Mander

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. --Charlotte Bronte

Reduce Stress

An Angel says, "Never borrow from the future. If you worry about what mayhappen tomorrow and it doesn't happen, you have worried in vain. Even if itdoes happen, you have to worry twice."

1. Pray
2. Go to bed on time.
3. Get up on time so you can start the day unrushed.
4. Say No to projects that won't fit into your time schedule, or that willcompromise your mental health.
5. Delegate tasks to capable others.
6. Simplify and unclutter your life.
7. Less is more. (Although one is often not enough, two are often too many.)
8. Allow extra time to do things and to get to places.
9. Pace yourself. Spread out big changes and difficult projects over time;don't lump the hard things all together.
10. Take one day at a time.
11. Separate worries from concerns. If a situation is a concern, find outwhat God would have you do and let go of the anxiety. If you can't doanything about a situation, forget it.
12. Live within your budget; don't use credit cards for ordinary purchases.
13. Have backups; an extra car key in your wallet, an extra house key buriedin the garden, extra stamps, etc.
14. K.M.S. (Keep Mouth Shut). This single piece of advice can prevent anenormous amount of trouble.
15. Do something for the Kid in You everyday.
16. Carry a Bible with you to read while waiting in line.
17. Get enough rest.
18. Eat right.
19. Get organized so everything has its place.
20. Listen to a tape while driving that can help improve your quality oflife.
21. Write down thoughts and inspirations.
22. Every day, find time to be alone.
23. Having problems? Talk to God on the spot. Try to nip small problems inthe bud. Don't wait until it's time to go to bed to try and pray.
24. Make friends with Godly people.
25. Keep a folder of favorite scriptures on hand.
26. Remember that the shortest bridge between despair and hope is often agood "Thank you Jesus."
27. Laugh.
28. Laugh some more!
29. Take your work seriously, but not yourself at all.
30. Develop a forgiving attitude (most people are doing the best they can).
31. Be kind to unkind people (they probably need it the most).
32. Sit on your ego.
33. Talk less; listen more.
34. Slow down.
35. Remind yourself that you are not the general manager of the universe.
36 . Every night before bed, think of one thing you're grateful for that you've never been grateful for before.

GOD HAS A WAY OF TURNING THINGSAROUND FOR YOU. "If God is for us, who can be against us?"(Romans 8:31)

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes. --Marcel Proust

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are. --Richard Le Gallienne

Be The Change:The next time you take a trip, whether it is to another country, a neighboring town, or even just the grocery store -- see if you can look at the whole experience through "new eyes".

In walking, just walk. In sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble. --Yun-Men

We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places. --Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. --St Augustine

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star. --e.e. cummings

Once having said yes to the instant, the affirmation is contagious. It bursts into a chain of affirmations that knows no limit. To say yes to one instant is to say yes to all of existence. --Waking Life (Movie, 2001)