I must admit that I love a good quote. Some of the greatest wisdom is often encapsulated in so few words. It is an art form that I cannot lay claim to. Anyone who knows me will tell you that i have never been accused as being "a man of few words". I think Verbosity should have been my middle name.
Here are some of the best quotes that I have read/heard over the past several days. I particularly like Norman Vincent Peale's quote for this week. What one strikes you?
"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought."- Peace Pilgrim: Born Mildred Norman
"Action follows conviction, not knowledge." - Pierre Lecomte Du Nouy
"The tragedy of life doesn`t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach." - Benajamin Mays
"The first step of success: silence, the second: listening, the third: memory, the fourth: practice, the fifth: teaching others." - S. Gabriol
"Focus on the task at hand. Think about what you are doing rather than what you're not getting done. Worry and time have an inverse relationship. The more you have of one, the less you have of the other. Both are suspended when you simply focus on what is in front of you right now." - Marcus Buckingham
"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project." - Norman Hill
"The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make." - Brian Koslow
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? " - Abraham Lincoln
"People always believe what they tell themselves, and Leaders give people stories to tell themselves." Seth Godin
"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it." - Mary Engelbreit
"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends." - John Churton Collins, critic
"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
"Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself...Nothing is impossible!" Norman Vincent Peale
"Go not where the path may lead. Go where there is no path and blaze a trail for others to follow." Muriel Strode
"When life knocks you down try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up." Les Brown
'Those who don't read great books are at no advantage over those who cannot read' Mark Twain
"Celebrate what you want to see more of." -Thomas J. Peters
"Don't let your learning lead to knowledge; let your learning lead to action." Jim Rohn.
"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." Albert Schweitzer
"Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him." Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." - John Powell
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn
"Victims allow the mess to be an excuse....CHAMPIONS use the mess to make a MASTERPIECE! Learn to love the mess" --Allison Crow
"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were." - Cherie Carter-Scott
"Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning." - Harold Kushner
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive." - Harold Whitman
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