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DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to my three daughters,

Kenzie, Vivian, and Izzy.

They continually inspire me every day!

INTRODUCTION

The key to living is to start each day in the best possible vibration and “feel-good"

place. My wish for you is that you find these quotes inspiring and meaningful so

you can find encouragement and inspiration each day.

This book works in several ways. One way is to pick a number from 1 - 100, see

which quote you have selected, and use that quote to inspire you through your

day. You could write the quote down and read it often during your day or use it as

a focus in your meditation.

Quotes from some of the greatest minds and most empowering teachers through

history have helped when I needed a dose of encouragement or inspiration. I hope

you find this book does the same for you and helps make your day a little brighter!

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SELF CONFIDENCE

1. “See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it. It works every time

with every person.” – Bob Proctor

2. “You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.” – Zig Ziglar

3. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping

stone to greatness.” – Oprah Winfrey

4. “Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in

the doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt

5. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something

else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor

Roosevelt

7. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized

how seldom they do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

8. “It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep

looking for new adventures.” – Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey Zig Ziglar Theodore Roosevelt Ralph W. Emerson Malcolm S. Forbes

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9. “From a place of self-appreciation, you will attract all sorts of wonderful

things. From a centered place of liking yourself, you will allow all wonderful

things to come to you.” – Abraham Hicks

10. “Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and

successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop

them.” – T. Harv Eker

11. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done

without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

12. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of

an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill

13. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you

didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away

from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream.

Discover.” – Mark Twain

Eleanor Roosevelt Abraham Hicks Bob Proctor Helen Keller Neville Goddard

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14. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.” – Harvey

Fierstein

15. “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual,

you have an obligation to be one.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

16. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to

what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

17. “To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and

forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.” – Denis Waitley

18. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

19. “Truth depends upon the intensity of the imagination, not upon external

facts.” – Neville Goddard

20. “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they

are.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

Mark Twain Benjamin Franklin Harvey Fierstein Denis Waitley George Eliot

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FACE THE FEAR

1. “Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You

decide.” – Bob Proctor

2. “Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a

fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do

anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes

you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.”

– Leah LaBelle

3. “When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what

he can do.” – Charles M. Schwab

4. “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around

and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” –

Michael Jordan

5. “Do all you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste,

worry or fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry.” – Wallace D. Wattles

Leah LaBelle Charles M. Schwab Michael Jordan Wallace D. Wattles

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6. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little

way past them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke

7. “You only know yourself when you go beyond your limits.” – Paulo Coelho

8. “Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning

blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage

you.” – Ralph Marston

9. “Don’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the further you get.” –

Michael Phelps

10. “There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don’t allow yourself to

become one of them.” – Ralph Marston

11. “A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of

obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human

morality.” – John F. Kennedy

12. “The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles,

and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.”

– Gustav Stresemann

Arthur C. Clarke Paulo Coelho Ralph Marston Michael Phelps John F. Kennedy

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13. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which

you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

14. “The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.” –

Tony Robbins

15. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”

– Napoleon Hill

16. “There is no illusion greater than fear.” – Lao Tzu

17. “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” – Joseph

Campbell

18. “Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” – Oprah Winfrey

19. “What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all

those years of training and competing. What I learned is that we are always

stronger than we know.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

20. “The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from

the support of a cause we believe to be just.” – Abraham Lincoln

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Eleanor Roosevelt Napoleon Hill Martin Luther King, Jr Joseph Campbell Abraham Lincoln

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PERSISTENCE

1. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin

2. “Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination

for success.” – Napoleon Hill

3. “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” –

Bill Bradley

4. “When I thought I couldn't go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success

is based on persistence, not luck.” – Estee Lauder

5. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then

crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin

Luther King, Jr.

6. “Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press

On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” –

Calvin Coolidge

7. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” –

Albert Einstein

Gustav Stresemann Estee lauder Calvin Coolidge Albert Einstein Thomas Fuller

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8. “An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this

lies the great distinction between great men and little men.” – Thomas

Fuller

9. “Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.” – Napoleon

Hill

10. “Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which

difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” – John Quincy Adams

11. “Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely

in my tenacity.” – Louis Pasteur

12. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert

Collier

13. “The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back.

That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.” – Vince Lombardi

14. “Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or

bribed; pay the price and it is yours.” – Orison Swett Marden

15. “You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without

making a sacrifice and without perseverance.” – Lou Holtz

John Quincy Adams Louis Pasteur Robert Collier Vince Lombardi Orison Swett Marden

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16. “A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its

persistence.” – Jim Watkins

17. “I do not think that there is any other quality as essential to success of any

kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even

nature.” – John D. Rockefeller

18. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your

strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender,

that is strength.” – Mahatma Gandhi

19. “Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles,

discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things

distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.” – Thomas Carlyle

20. “The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence

in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.” – Napoleon Hill

Lou Holtz Mahatma Gandhi John D. Rockefeller Thomas Carlyle

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YOUR POWERFUL MIND

1. “The power within you which enables you to form a thought-picture is the

starting point of all there is.” – Genevieve Behrend

2. “Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not,

however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.” –

Albert Einstein

3. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

– Mark Twain

4. “The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” – Winston

Churchill

5. “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original

dimension.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

6. “What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change

our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” – Wayne Dyer

Genevieve Behrend Oliver Wendell Holmes Wayne Dyer Franklin D. Roosevelt

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7. “If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you

most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the

launching pad.” – Denis Waitley

8. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds

discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

9. “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham

Lincoln

10. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre

minds.” – Albert Einstein

11. “To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.” – Henry

Ford

12. “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” –

Franklin D. Roosevelt

13. “You determine your future by the thoughts and pictures you hold in your

mind today.” – Brian Tracy

14. “In visualizing, or making a mental picture, you are not endeavoring to

change the laws of nature. You are fulfilling them.” – Genevieve Behrend

15. “You have to feed your mind daily with the good, clean, pure, powerful,

and positive.” – Zig Ziglar

16. “Expressing gratitude instantly shifts your vibration so that the good in

everything moves toward you.” – Sandy Gallagher

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17. “The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into

the realm of things that are.” – Henry Ford

18. “As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological

freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against

the long night of physical slavery.” – Martin Luther King

19. “Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with

their minds.” – Albert Einstein

20. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear that you

will make one.” – Albert Hubbard

Earl Nightingale Henry Ford Elbert Hubbard Sandy Gallagher

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LAW OF ATTRACTION

1. “A person is what he or she thinks about all day long.” – Ralph Waldo

Emerson

2. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert

Einstein

3. “Every single second is an opportunity to change your life, because in any

moment you can change the way you feel.” – Rhonda Byrne

4. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right.” –

Henry Ford

5. “Nothing external to me has any power over me.” – Walt Whitman

6. “Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.” – Burton Hills

7. “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were

walls.” – Joseph Campbell

8. “Let a person radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the

rapid transformation it will affect in the material conditions of his life.” –

Napoleon Hill

Rhonda Byrne Walt Whitman Joseph Campbell Neville Goddard

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9. “Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition

and emotion will one day become a reality.” – Earl Nightingale

10. “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you

concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never ever have enough.” –

Oprah Winfrey

11. “When you offer a vibration, the universal forces are working in concert

with each other in order to satisfy you. You really are the center of the

universe.” – Abraham Hicks

12. “Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” –

Napoleon Hill

13. “See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it. It works every time

with every person.” – Bob Proctor

14. “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just

take the first step.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

15. “Whatever the mind can conceive it can achieve.” – W. Clement Stone

16. “Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s

a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is

nothing.” – Muhammad Ali

17. “To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only

plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France

18. “Imagination is everything.” – Neville Goddard

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19. “We are always getting ready to live but never living.” – Ralph Waldo

Emerson

20. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

W. Clement Stone Muhammad Ali Bob Proctor Walt Disney

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mary Vivian Braunschneider is a Personal Development Coach and 'Thinking Into

Results' Certified Consultant with the Proctor Gallagher Institute. Mary helps her

clients create the life they want and fulfill their dreams.

She works enthusiastically with individuals, groups, and companies to guide them

in discovering their deepest goals and desires, reaching their potential, and

achieving their personal and professional goals.

Mary has excelled in business for the past 30 years in the media industry and was

formerly VP of Sales at the Los Angeles Times.

She has been studying personal growth and development for over 25 years and is

thrilled that she has been able to turn her passion into a business that helps

people live happier, healthier, and more abundant lives.