Some of the World’s Great Quotations

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Gabriel Heatter
Longevity is a good thing for those who watch life from the sidelines. For those who play the game an hour may be a year, a single days work an achievement for eternity.

Maureen Dowd
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Ray Bradbury
If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Tobias Wolff
We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.

Bob Pritchard
When you’re not learning, someone somewhere else is, and when the two of you meet, if they know more than you do, they will win.

Stephen C Paul
You don’t get to control any outcome, only every choice you make along the way.

J Paul Getty
If you can actually count your money, then you’re not a rich man.

Charles Darwin
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Nelson DeMille
We’re all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Julia Soul
If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Wayne Gretzky
You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
I skate where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

Daniel O’Connell
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Dr. Jerome Brunner
We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

Dr. Frederick Tilney, French brain specialist
We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Jack Schwartz, expert in human potential
We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about unimaginable.

Charles Schultz, creator of “Peanuts”
In the book of life’s questions, the answers are not in the back.

Arnold Glasgow
Make your life a mission-not an intermission.

Stanley Marcus
Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.

James A. Michener, historical novelist, born 1907
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

Zen Buddhist Text
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he’s always doing both.

Margaret Young, quoted in The Artist’s Way
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Joel Arthur Barker, author of Paradigms
A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn’t go by yourself.

Pamela Vaull Starr
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Diogenes
No man is hurt but by himself.

Warren Bennis
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

John C. Maxwell
Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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.

General Colin Powell
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
General Colin Powell’s Rules:
1. It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
2. Get mad, then get over it.
3. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
4. It can be done!
5. Be careful what you choose. You may get it.
6. Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
7. You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
8. Check small things.
9. Share credit.
10. Remain calm. Be kind.
11. Have a vision. Be demanding.
12. Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
13. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Scout Cloud Lee, The Circle is Sacred
When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world.

Bill Gates
$640K ought to be enough for anybody. (1981)

Marianne Williamson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Who are we NOT to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in us all.

Fanny Brice
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be-because sooner or later, if you’re posing, you will forget the pose and then where are you?

Gita Bellin
If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Sam Levenson
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

Thomas Watson, founder of IBM
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Yogi Berra
Nobody goes there anymore . . . it’s too crowded!
Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.
Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.
What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
You can see a lot just by looking.

Rumi
Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.

Paul Twitchell
The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another’s state of consciousness.

Chin-Ning Chu
It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Guy Kawasaki
Evangelism is selling a dream.

Rebecca Falls
One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other’s stories

Rush Limbaugh
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
You could afford your house without the government-if it weren’t for the government.
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
If you commit a crime, you’re guilty.
Compassion is no substitute for justice.
Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.

William M Bulger
There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he’s absolutely free to choose.

Vince Gill
Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you’ll have left is your character.

Dr. Loretta Scott
We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Gary Zukav
Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. what we take to be true is our reality.

Michael Sky
The real challenge (in life) is to choose, hold, and operate through intelligent, uplifting, and fully empowering beliefs.

Kirsten Zambucka
Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Walter Russell
Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.

Bo Lozoff
We’re all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

Mark Victor Hansen
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life changing difference.
True or true? Yes or yes?
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
In imagination, there’s no limitation.
Don’t think it, ink it.

Michael Gerber
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Tony Allasandra, Money Talk
Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.
In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.

John Nasibitt, author of Megatrends
Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

Gael Boardman
You can’t aim a duck to death.
You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listen to you if you can make a statement whereby their response is, “No Shit!” or at least, “No kidding!”

Coach Bear Bryant
It’s not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

William George Jordan
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Lou Holtz
It’s not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It’s my job not to de-motivate them.
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Denny McDonough
There’s not a whole lot of new atoms out there.

William Wallace in the movie Braveheart
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

Emily Dickinson
We never know how high we are/Till we are called to rise/And then, if we are true to plan,/Our statures touch the skies.

Aesop
Union gives strength. (The Bundle of Sticks 550 BC)

Thomas Adams
Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. (1640)

Kenneth Blanchard
The first principle of ethical power is Purpose . . . By purpose, I don’t mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
H – umor
E – go, edging God out
L – istening
P – urpose

Disney’s Pochahantas
You’ll see things “you never knew you never knew.”

Charles Schwab
A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Lord Acton
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Martial
To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Guy Finley
You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need isunderstanding.
A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.

From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly
Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.

Paul Zane Pilzer
Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

Brian Tracy
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
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.

Rev. John Wellesly
EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can.

Yogi Desai
Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Robert Stuberg
The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what’s important and what’s not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what’s going on outside.

Alice Potter
I am optimistic and confident in all that I do.
I affirm only the best for myself and others.
I am the creator of my life and my world.
I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence.
I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.

Joseph Murphy
The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Dr. David Schwartz, author of The Magic of Thinking Big
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

D A Benton, author of Lions Don’t Need to Roar
Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top.

Sydney J Harris
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Eugene S Wilson
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning.
The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

William Ellery Channing, author of Spiritual Freedom
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.

Marcus Bach
We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Flora Edwards
In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Earl Nightingale -1989
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future-Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed, savored.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Bob Richards, Olympic Pole Vaulting Champion
One of the great lessons I’ve learned in athletics is that you’ve got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you’ve got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will really accomplish great things in life are those who are willing to discipline their lives, who maintain their health, their vitality, their efficiency through this process of rigorous disciplining of what they take into their bodies and what they do in life. It’s a very important thing in terms of championship living.

Jon Kabat-Zinn
Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Wilhelm von Humboldt
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Charles Givens, author of Wealth Without Risk
Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. 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.

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results.
Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Claude Bristol, author of The Magic of Believing
The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.
Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing.
As individuals think and believe, so they are.

John Wesley
Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn

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