Sunday 5 June 2011

What are some great quotes for changing your life?

I need some good quotes on success, perspective, adversity, overcoming procrastination anything that would improve my life. Thanks so much.|||these feelings are internal, never forget...|||%26#039;hold on, its gonna be a bumpy ride%26quot;|||“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.”





Here%26#039;s a great quote about adversity:





“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.”





-Arthur Golden|||Teddy Roosevelt: %26quot;When the going gets tough, the tough get going.%26quot;|||%26quot;A wise man seeks the counsel of many, but a fool is content in the thoughts of his own mind.%26quot; - proverbs|||existence precedes essence---satre, we make our own decisions and we choose to become who we are and we cannot blame any one for whatever would happen or not happen to us, for it is we who is responsible for every thing.|||%26quot;The definition of insanity is going the same things multiple times and expecting different results%26quot; Einstein ||| Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.





-Emerson|||Get some fortune cookies. What? They have pretty good (and confusing) %26quot;quotes%26quot;.|||The future depends on what we do in the present. - Mahatma Gandhi





You cannot plough a field by


turning it over in your mind.


Author Unknown





Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.


Ralph Waldo Emerson











|||%26quot;Just Do it.%26quot;





Can apply to working out, or doing something you thought of doing, but never applied yourself to it.





%26quot;What you put into something is what you will get out%26quot;





Applies to basically everything. The energy and thought and effort you put into something is what will be returned to you. I am a musician, and apply this to practicing on my instrument. What I put into practicing, comes out in real results and improved ability later on. If I don%26#039;t practice, it shows. When I do practice, it shows.|||I got a few.





%26quot;If you get hit, show the other cheek.%26quot; -Jesus





%26quot;Never great in grace the one fighting for his own.%26quot; -Me (I made it)


It is meant to make people help others, instead of being selfsih.





%26quot;I don%26#039;t agree with oyu, but I%26#039;ll fight until the end to obtain you the right to say it.%26quot; -Voltair





%26quot;Falls are meant to get up again.%26quot; -Alfred in Batman, the biginning (lol I%26#039;m not kidding, but I heard it in french so it may not translated perfectly)





%26quot;Who would be the man not trying to make his world better?%26quot;


-writen on wood, Kingdom of Heaven





%26quot;The limit is always settled by yourself.%26quot; -Me





%26quot;What%26#039;s the power and knowledge if not to be used to help weaks.%26quot; -Me





%26quot;Never say to a well oyu%26#039;l never needs his water.%26quot; -unkown


(it means you never know who you will be needing)





%26quot;Fools affirm, savants know and wise men think.%26quot; -unknown





and there are more, but I basically live thinking: have fun, be right, help others.|||My absolute favorite:





%26quot;Never make anyone your priority who only makes you their option%26quot;.





Live by it!!!!!:)





“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”





“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.








%26quot;Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.%26quot; ~Mark Twain|||Just when life seemed surely over, the caterpillar turned into a beautiful butterfly|||%26quot;be the change you wish to see in the world%26quot; - ghandi


%26quot;Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you%26#039;ve never been hurt and live like it%26#039;s heaven on Earth.%26quot; Mark Twain


%26quot;Don%26#039;t cry because it%26#039;s over, smile because it happened.%26quot;— Dr. Seuss


%26quot;Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.%26quot;— Maya Angelou


%26quot;Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.%26quot;— Albert Einstein


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%26quot;You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough%26quot;— Mae West


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%26quot;How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.%26quot;— Anne Frank


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%26quot;Everything you can imagine is real. %26quot;— Pablo Picasso


%26quot;Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.%26quot;— Mother Teresa


No day but today|||If I were to wish for anything,


I should not wish for wealth and power,


but for the passionate sense of the potential,


for the eye which, ever young and ardent,


sees the possible …


what wine is so sparkling,


so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!


-Soren Kierkegaard-





Sometimes we live our lives like puzzle pieces turned upside.


Then along comes life, and it starts flipping them over,


showing us and the world who we are.





Success Quotes:





You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don%26#039;t do too many things wrong.


-Warren Buffett-





Success is somebody else%26#039;s failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.


-Ursula K. Le Guin-





A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.


-Bob Dylan-





You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don%26#039;t do too many things wrong.


-Warren Buffett-





Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.


-Sir Winston Churchill-





You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.


-Benjamin Franklin-





It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.


-Roger Babson-





Perspective Quotes:





You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.


-Abraham Lincoln-





In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.


-Albert Einstein-





When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.


-Albert Einstein-





Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.


-Albert Schweitzer-





There%26#039;s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that%26#039;s your own self.


-Aldous Huxley-





When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.


-Alexander Graham Bell-





Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.


-Arthur Schopenhauer-





Normal is in the eyes of the beholder.


-Whoopi Goldberg-





Adversity Quotes:





Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.


-Henry Fielding-





Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.


-Tacitus-





Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.


-Martha Graham-





Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.


-Anais Nin-





Love is maintain%26#039;d by wealth: when all is spent,


Adversity then breeds the discontent


-Robert Herrick-





Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.


- Maxims Publilius Syrus-





A true friend is tested in adversity


-Quintus Ennius-





Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.


-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe-





For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.


-Boethius-





We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.


-Tacitus-





The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.


-Ulysses S Grant-





Any man can win when things go his way, it%26#039;s the man who overcomes adversity that is the true champion.


-Jock Ewing-





In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.


-James Burgh-





Overcoming Procrastinatio Quotes:





“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”


-William James-





“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”


-Don Marquis -





“Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait…The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don’t count.”


- Robert Anthony-





“In delay there lies no plenty.”


- William Shakespeare -





“Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.”


- Victor Kiam -





“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”


- Eva Young -





“Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.”


- George Claude Lorimer -





“Don’t fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.”


- Mignon McLaughlin -





“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep |||honesty, faithful, dedicated to work|||“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill





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





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





“You see things; and you say, %26#039;Why?%26#039; But I dream things that never were; and I say, %26#039;Why not?%26#039;” - George Bernard Shaw





“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” - Thomas Alva Edison





“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” - Albert Einstein





“He is able who thinks he is able.” - Buddha





“Recognition is the greatest motivator.” - Gerard C. Eakedale





“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” - Albert Einstein





“People often say that motivation doesn%26#039;t last. Well, neither does bathing - that%26#039;s why we recommend it daily.” - Zig Ziglar