MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the

motives which produced them.-- Franois de la Rochefoucauld It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.-- Babe Ruth Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. -Harriet Braiker Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.-- Herman Cain Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose! -- Max Schmelling Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.--Jim Ryun Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up's.-- Peter Davies Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. -- Goethe A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in. -- Unknown Source

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. You fall in love with personality but you live with character. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out pretty well.

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Maybe this world is another planet's hell ! Being beaten is often a temporary condition, giving up is what makes it permanent Birds sing after a storm, why shouldn't we? The philosophy of the rich versus the poor is this: The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what's left. It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals? There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is. Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering. Failure is delay, not defeat.

Some people are always grumbling because Roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.-- Alphonse Karr

If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. -- Walt Disney The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. -- Albert Ellis Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. -- Buddha Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.-- Leo Buscaglia Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. -- James Dean People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. -- Elizabeth Kbler-Ross The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. -- Helen Keller Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. -- John Updike Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. -- George Bernard Shaw When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -that is inspiration. -- Robert Bresson He who knows others is wise, He who knows himself is enlightened. Tao Te Ching

CHALLENGE QUOTES, QUOTES ABOUT CHALLENGES, QUOTATION ON CHALLENGES, CHALLENGE QUOTATIONS Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what we live for. -- Travis White When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge. --

Terry Bradshaw Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned. -- Charles W. Chesnutt Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. -- Mark Twain When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, "I'm going to prove you wrong!" -- Picabo Street If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us. -- Nena O'Neil To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. -- Gail Sheehy There is no Challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself. -Michael F. Staley You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind. -- Darwin P. Kingsley I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged. -- Connie Chung When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it. -Margaret Chase Smith Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. -- George S. Patton If someone says can't, that shows you what to do. -- John Cage LIFE QUOTES, QUOTES ON LIFE, QUOTES ABOUT LIFE, QUOTATIONS ON LIFE, SAYINGS , MESSAGES FOR LIFE.

MOTIVATIONAL MESSAGES LIFE QUOTES Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still. -- Lou Erickso Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. -Thomas L. Holdcroft We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -- Gandhi Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. -- Ann Landers Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.-Buddha Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you plan to stop peddling.-Claude Pepper For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.-- Alfred D. Souza In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal. -- Nisami Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. -- Buddha It is not length of life, but depth of life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. -- Bill Baughan The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -Anonymous Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an

angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.-- Shari R. Barr All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.-- Samuel Butler Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. -Albert Schweitzer Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. -- Anonymous Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.-Abraham Lincoln Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever...-- Isak Dinesen There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway. -- Steven Coallier Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.-- Eliot Wiggington Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him. -- Buddha In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed. -- Sid Caesar Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyways. -- Anonymous HOPE QUOTES, QUOTES ON HOPE, QUOTATIONS ON HOPE. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. -- Martin Luther

King, Jr.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. -- Norman Vincent Peale Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. -- Norman Vincent Peale Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear. -- Monroe Forester We live by admiration, hope and love. -- William Wordsworth We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.-- Tom Clancy 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 Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end. -- Franois de la Rochefoucauld He who does not hope to win has already lost. -- Jose Joaquin Olmedo When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.--Pauline R. Kezer
"Hope" is the thing with feathers-- That perches in the soul-- And sings the tune without the words-- And never stops--at all-- Emily Dickenson

FAILURE QUOTES, QUOTES ABOUT FAILURE, QUOTATIONS ON FAILURE. No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. -- Amar Gopal Bose Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -Confucius

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. -- Edwin Louis Cole If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. -- Robert H. Schuller I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying. -- Tom Hopkins Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.-- Ross Perot If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. -- Marva Collins Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage--and that's the same thing.-George Lorimer Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.-- Denis Waitley Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. -- Denis Waitley When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. -- Napoleon Hill Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.-- Marilyn vos Savant Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.-- Richard R. Grant History has demonstrated that the most notable winners encountered heart breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They finally won by their defeats. -- B. C. Forbes Defeat doesn't finish a man--quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated.

He's finished when he quits.--Richard M. Nixon People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.-Lao-Tzu There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.-- Colin Powell If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win. -- Walter Reuther FAITH QUOTES, QUOTES ON FAITH, ABOUT FAITH QUOTE, QUOTATIONS ON FAITH. Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.--Rabindranath Tagore
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. -- George Elliot

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.--St. Augustine
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. -- Mahatama Gandhi

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.-- Martin Luther King Jr. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.--Bible Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach--waiting for a gift from the sea. -- Anne Morrow Lindberg Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you

know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. -- Matthew Arnold

That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary. -- Major Kira Nerys Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible. -- Thomas Robert Gaines

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. -- Elton Trueblood Faith... Must be enforced by reason...When faith becomes blind it dies.-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Wise man said just walk this way To the dawn of the light The wind will blow into your face As the years pass you by Hear this voice from deep inside It's the call of your heart Close your eyes and you will find Passage out of the dark." -- Scorpions