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Introduction

Salam Mesra! ahahahah Malaysian style to greet you from the sincerity of our heart...

How are you doing today?

Recently I had a job changed, and I make many friends in my current company. Inthis company, I notice that many of us needs to be motivate one way or another, tokeep our spirit up and cheer ourselves up.

When you are happy and cheerful, you will feel that time passed very fast, and youjust don’t have enough time to do what ever you wanted to… . Versus when you arenot happy, you will feel times passed slowly… . Gosh…

I was browsing through the internet and found this 101 Motivation E-Book (inside itcomes with all sorts of motivational quotes, and a few that I had read I found it veryuseful… ) at least when I am down or not happy, I am able to find the answer insidehere… .

Cut the crap short, as I am not a good writer… . Oh ya I had combined more mine is282 Motivation Quotes, you know lah, Chinese like number 8, and kiasu mah…ahahahhaha

I do hope that this book will benefits everybody out there ;)Do feel free to distribute it around, and DON’T RESELL IT…It was meant for FREE Distribution. All quotes rights reserved ® for their existingowner..

Cheers,Ronald Soo

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A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.Anonymous

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.Abigail Van Buren

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into theimpossible.Arthur C. Clarke

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

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happento you on a piece of marble.Arabic Parable

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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to theeye.Antoine De Saint-Exupery

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely afunction of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who weare.Anthony Robbins

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying thefoundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I nowenjoy.Anthony Robbins

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks ofthose people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.Anthony Robbins

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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.Anonymous

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.Anon

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.Andrew Carnegie

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.Andre Gide

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.Andre Gide

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, butalso believe.Anatole France

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You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be anythingyou want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire withsingleness of purpose.Abraham Lincoln

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn youthat you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.Abraham H. Maslow

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.Anonymous

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than anyone thing.Abraham Lincoln

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.American Indian Proverb

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Great spirits have always encountered violentopposition from mediocre minds.Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imaginationencircles the world.Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning.Albert Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to notstop questioning.Albert Einstein

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. Theother is as if everything is.Albert Einstein

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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.Alexander Hamilton

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.Alexander Woollcott

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else ismore important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.Albert Einstein

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln

What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.Buddha

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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on thepresent moment.Buddha

He is able who thinks he is able.Buddha

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.Buddha

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst ofabundance.Buddha

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love andaffection.Buddha

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought.Buddha

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.Buddha

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, wemake the world.Buddha

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Thenyour time on earth will be filled with glory.Betty Smith

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast maywound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.Buddha

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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worryabout the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wiselyand earnestly.Buddha

Nurture your mind with great thoughts.Benjamin Disraeli

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.Bruce Lee

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him wholoveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.Baha'u'llah

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had theconfidence you desire to have.Brian Tracy

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.Basho

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what theirfuture could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward theirdistant vision, that goal or purpose.Brian Tracy

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.B. C. Forbes

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way.Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.Brian Tracy

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.Bruce Lee

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If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spreadinto your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and youmust not stay there, you must go beyond them.Bruce Lee

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.Baltasar Gracian

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They makemistakes, but they don't quit.Conrad Hilton

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.Confucius

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Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is thebeginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.Clark Moustakas

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than isrequired of him, he is a free man.Chinese Proverb

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.Chinese Proverb

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

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.Carl Sagan

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.Carl Frederick

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It takes a great man to be a good listener.Calvin Coolidge

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.Chinese Proverb

Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.David Lloyd George

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, weare in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.Deepak Chopra

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learnfrom.Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality;and then there are those who turn one into the other.Douglas Everett

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.Doug Floyd

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive --the risk to be alive and express what we really are.Don Miguel Ruiz

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.Don Herold

If you want rainbows, you have to put up with the rain.Dolly Parton

The better part of happiness is to wish to be what you are.Desiderius Erasmus

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Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with allyour heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought couldnever be yours.Dale Carnegie

The less you open your heart to others, the more yourheart suffers.Deepak Chopra

Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made inthe past.Deepak Chopra

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too oftenwhen I loved, I did not say so.David Grayson

Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than tis to gain honor by taking them.David Borenstein

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it dependssolely upon what you think.Dale Carnegie

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Muchof the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.Dale Carnegie

There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.Deepak Chopra

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness,no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.Earl of Chesterfield

If you don't risk anything, then you risk even more.Erica Jong

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We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry.English Proverb

He who angers you conquers you.Elizabeth Kenny

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you reallystop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the things you think you cannot do.Eleanor Roosevelt

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.Eleanor Roosevelt

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.Edmund Burke

There is just one life for each of us: our own.Euripides

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for somethingoutside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is thetime you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute shouldbe enjoyed and savoured.Earl Nightingale

A thief believes everybody steals.E.W. Howe

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.E. M. Forster

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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.Elbert Hubbard

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.Franklin D. Roosevelt

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.Frederick Douglass

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.Federico Fellini

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper mustawaken.Frank Herbert

Knowledge is power.Francis Bacon

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

We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.Gary Collins

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most mendread it.George Bernard Shaw

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.George Macdonald

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.George Santayana

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.Goethe

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turnedinto light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused,dedicated, disciplined.Harry Emerson Fosdick

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!Henry Ford

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.Henry Ford

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and thendo it.Henry Ford

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.Henry Kaiser

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If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.Henry Kissinger

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang exceptthose that sang best.Henry Van Dyke

You live through the darkness from what you learned in the light.Hope MacDonald

Friends are treasures.Horace Bruns

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have trulylived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.Henry Drummond

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good dealabout their acts.Horace Mann

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept noone's definition of your life; define yourself.Harvey Fierstein

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.Harry Firestone

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.Henry David Thoreau

Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself asa bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world --making the most of one's best.Harry Emerson Fosdick

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The expert at anything was once a beginner.Hayes

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at theclosed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.Helen Keller

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.Henry David Thoreau

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevatehis life by conscious endeavor.Henry David Thoreau

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.Henry David Thoreau

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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without whichwe should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.Ida R. Wylie

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.Jack Kinder

Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watchthem and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting tobe made.Jeffery Borenstein

There are those who dream and wish and there are those who dream and work.Jeune.E. McIntyre.

Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.Jesse Jackson

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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question withoutdebating it.Jeseph Joubert

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but notyou. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future insomeone else's hands, but not you.Jim Rohn

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and whendecide how to respond.Jeffery Borenstein

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.Jean-Paul Sartre

Fall seven times, stand up eight.Japanese Proverb

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Whynot now?James Allen

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.James Allen

The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, “I wish someone would come byand turn me on.”What if they don’t show up? You’ve got to have a better plan foryour life.Jim Rohn

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is thepromise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall atlast unveil.James Allen

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.Joan Borysenko

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Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose.John Kehoe

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in thatrespect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.John Lennon

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.John Powell

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.John Ruskin

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.John Sales

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.John Wanamaker

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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.John Wooden

May you live every day of your life.Jonathan Swift

A day will never be anymore than what you make of it.Josh S. Hinds

One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reservedfor the guardian angel.Jewish Folk Saying

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybodywill respect you.Lao-Tzu

Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.Lord Thomas Dewar

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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.Les Brown

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected onlyfrom the strong.Leo Rosten

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightierstill.Lao-Tzu

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bid that cannot fly.Langston Hughes

At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is reallyimportant. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.Lee Jampolsky

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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.Don't complain.Maya Angelou

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

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all dependsupon how one adjusts oneself to life.Morarji Desai

You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue.Mike Murdock

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, butthat it is too low and we reach it.Michelangelo

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.Michael Pritchard

The harder you work, the luckier you get.McAlexander

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.Maya Angelou

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can dothat. Hate cannot drive out hate;only love can do that.Martin Luther King, Jr.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't dothan by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safeharbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.Mark Twain

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.Mark Twain

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to dieat any time.Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always dothat, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.Mark Twain

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.Malcolm Forbes

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when youlounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do and you've doneit.Margaret Thatcher

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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.Nelson Mandela

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is theworkshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment andwealth.Napoleon Hill

It's always too early to quit.Norman Vincent Pearle

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can dothings. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.Norman Vincent Peale

Live free or die.New Hampshire

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We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.Nelson Mendela

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions showthat he knows where he is going.Napoleon Hill

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.Napoleon Bonaparte

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, theblueprints of your ultimate achievements.Napoleon Hill

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keenpulsating desire, which transcends everything.Napoleon Hill

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Victory belongs to the most persevering.Napoleon Bonaparte

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve.Napoleon Hill

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regain sits original dimensions.Oliver Wendel Holmes

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.Oscar Wilde

Consistency is the last resort of theunimaginative.Oscar Wilde

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.Ornette Coleman

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lieswithin us.Oliver Wendell Holmes

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today.Og Mandino

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.Plutarch

Fortune favours the brave.Publius Terence

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Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about yourfrustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what youtried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.Pope John XXIII

Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.Plato

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determinationto make the right things happen.Peter Marshall

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.Plutarch

The Lord is my light, and my salvation; whom shall I fear?Psalm 27

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.Robert Frost

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is thegreatest accomplishment.Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.Rene Descartes

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.Richard Bach

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, itisn't.Richard Bach

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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.You may have to work for it, however.Richard Bach

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?Robert Browning

It's not the situation ... It's your reaction to the situationRobert Conklin

There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to wantwhat they can't have and not want what is readily available to them.Robert J. Ringer

There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know…Roger H. Lincoln

When an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it...Rosalind Russell

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You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You wereborn with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born withwings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to usethem and fly.Rumi

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blundersand absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day;you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your oldnonsense.Ralph Waldo Emerson

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.Robert Byrne

People only see what they are prepared to see.Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.Ralph W. Sockman

All life is an experiment.Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not length of life, but depth of life.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to beencumbered with your old nonsense.Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our strength grows out of our weakness.Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what youare afraid to do.Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try tohelp another without helping himself.Ralph Waldo Emerson

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.Socrates

Live out of your imagination, not your history.Stephen Covey

Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, lovemore; And all good things are yours.Swedish Proverb

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.Stephen Hawking

Wisdom begins in wonder.Socrates

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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not darethat they are difficult.Seneca

The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed.Sebastian R. N. Chamfort

Every human has four endowments-self-awareness, conscience, independent will andcreative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power tochoose, to respond, to change.Stephen Covey

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequeredby failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffermuch, because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt

Every exit is an entry somewhere.Tom Stoppard

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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.Theodore Roosevelt

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.Theodore Roosevelt

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.Thaddeus Golas

The journey is the reward.Tao Saying

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.T. S. Elliot

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.Theodore Roosevelt

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If you love something, let it go. If it comes back it's yours. If it doesn't, it never reallywas in the first place.Unknown

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.Unknown

When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.Unknown

We need more people who specialize in the impossible.Unknown

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.Unknown

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in theend.Ursula K. LeGuin

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He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.Unknown

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.Unknown

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.Unknown

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing yoursocks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color isunthinkable.Unknown

The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done isinterrupted by the person who is doing it.Unknown

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Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread.Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.Unknown

They can because they think they can.Virgil

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.Voltaire

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.Victor Hugo

The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.Victor Frank

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.Victor Borge

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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money becomesuccessful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what theydo.Wayne Dyer

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.William James

This above all; to thine own self be true.William Shakespeare

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and somehave greatness thrust upon them.William Shakespeare

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waitedfor, it is a thing to be achieved.William Jennings Bryan

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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life byaltering his attitudes of mind.William James

Eighty percent of success is showing up.Woody Allen

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.William James

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if youlet it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.William Wirt

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.William Feather

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.William Blake

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If you can imagine it, You can achieve it. If you can dream it, You can become it.William Arthur Ward

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.Will Rogers

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.Wayne Dyer

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.Washington Irving

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we aresuccessful.Wallace D. Wattles

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!W. Clement Stone

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Where there is great love, there are always wishes.Willa Cather

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.Xenophon

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.Yiddish Proverb

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's whywe recommend it daily.Zig Ziglar

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, anddiscipline that enabled us to follow through.Zig Ziglar

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