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More Quotes about Belief

2007-01-04T20:52:49-05:00

Denis Waitley
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.

Jonathan Swift
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Anthony Robbins
If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Norman Vincent Peale
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times.

John Stuart Mill
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Walter Bagehot
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

Wally Amos
It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Norman Vincent Peale
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

Submitted by Fran Anne Briggs
It's not enough to learn; one must believe - then become.

Henry Christopher Bailey
In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

The Comfort Zone

2007-01-04T20:47:00-05:00

The Comfort Zone.
By: Unknown

I used to have a comfort zone where I knew I wouldn't fail.
The same four walls and busy work were really more like jail.
I longed so much to do the things I'd never done before,
But stayed inside my comfort zone and paced the same old floor.

I said it didn't matter that I wasn't doing much.
I said I didn't care for things like commission checks and such.
I claimed to be so busy with things inside my zone,
But deep inside I longed for something special of my own.

I couldn't let my life go by just watching others win.
I held my breath; I stepped outside and let the change begin.
I took a step and with new strength I'd never felt before,
I kissed my comfort zone goodbye and closed and locked the door.

If you're in a comfort zone, afraid to venture out,
Remember that all winners were at one time filled with doubt.
A step or two and words of praise can make your dreams come true.
Reach for your future with a smile;
Success is there for you!

More Leadership Quotes

2007-01-04T20:44:00-05:00

Marie Curie
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Harold S. Geneen
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Arnold H. Glasgow
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Stephen R. Covey
Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Blaine Lee
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

Arnold Glasgow
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Stephen Covey
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Unknown Author
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

John C. Maxwell
A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.

More Quotes on Ability

2007-01-04T20:39:41-05:00

Unknown Author
God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.

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

Orison Swett Marden
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

Zig Ziglar
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Unknown Author
God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.

Elbert Hubbard
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Robert Half
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Malcolm S. Forbes
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Marcus T. Cicero
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Quotes on Ability

2007-01-04T20:36:00-05:00

Malcolm Forbes
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Geoffrey Gaberino
The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Robert Half
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Andrew Carnegie
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Francis Bacon
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Red Auerbach
Just do what you do best.

Zig Ziglar
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Stevie Wonder
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

Quotes by Franklin D Roosevelt

2007-01-04T20:34:57-05:00

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

It you treat people right they will treat you right-ninety percent of the time.

Quotes from Booker T Washington

2007-01-04T20:33:51-05:00

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Character is power.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

No race can prosper 'till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

You can`t hold a man down without staying down with him.

More from Thomas A Edison

2007-01-04T20:32:57-05:00

The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

If there is a way to do it better ... find it.

Quotes by Thomas Edison

2007-01-04T20:28:29-05:00

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

There's a way to do better... find it.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

More from Albert

2007-01-04T20:26:00-05:00

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Perfections of means and confusion of goals seem-in my opinion-to characterize our age.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts.

Quotes by Albert Einstein

2007-01-04T20:25:29-05:00

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: His eyes are closed.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Quotes from Mark Twain

2007-01-04T00:00:00-05:00

A crank is someone with a new idea - until it catches on

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

The way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Quote from Mark Twain

2007-01-04T00:00:00-05:00

I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Quotes on Success

2007-01-04T00:00:00-05:00

Submitted by Christy Borgeld
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe in and act on it with all of your heart.

Submitted by Kat
If the road to sucess is always under construction, become a construction worker.

Submitted by Nisandeh Neta
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things. Success is doing the right things, right, right now.

Andrew Granatelli
When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

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

Vincent Lombardi
The pride of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Sam Ewing
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Danny Thomas
All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Al Bernstein
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Author Unknown
Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.

Quotes on Belief

2007-01-03T00:00:00-05:00

Orison Swett Marden
The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Warren Bennis
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

Claude M. Bristol
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Unknown Author
Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can.

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

French Proverb
To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Alfred A. Montapert
If you don't have solid beliefs, you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

Frank Lloyd Wright
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Anton Chekhov
Man is what he believes.

Debbi Fields
You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.

Quotes on Negotiation

2007-01-02T00:00:00-05:00

Joseph Joubert
Never cut what you can untie.

Marvin S. Levin
If you are planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in the negotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

J. Paul Getty
My father said: "You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals."

Henry Boyle
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

Quotes on Leadership

2007-01-01T20:41:00-05:00

Dale Carnegie
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Gail Sheehy
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Ray Kroc
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

Rosalynn Carter
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Mother Teresa
Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person.

Mary D. Poole
Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.

Indira Gandhi
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group. There is much less competition.

Rosemary Brown
Until all of us have made it, none of us have made it.

Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Quotes from Will Rogers

2006-12-28T20:27:00-05:00

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Things will get better - despite our efforts to improve them.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

All I know is what I read in the papers.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

I'm Glad I got Sick

2006-12-28T02:03:00-05:00

I'm Glad I Got Sick.
By: Ron Link

Twenty-seven years ago I got sick. The reason I can remember the date so well is because being sick is what caused me to choose my future wife. She was just a good friend, but because she came over to my apartment, brought me medicine, and made me breakfast, I thought for the first time "what a super wife she will make for someone."

I took her out to eat in Nashville, Tennessee for helping me get over the flu. After that we became even better friends, but still no thought of marriage. A few months later I was going to take a new job in the Atlanta area with a Community College, so Cathy helped me pack up boxes to get ready to leave. We had a great time that day and had lunch together. Near the end of that day I noticed a few tears in Cathy's eyes, so I asked what was wrong.

She said, "I don't know if I can live without you, you are my best friend." I said, "I know, I've been thinking the same thing." That day we decided to get married and we have been married ever since. We have had our tough times,as many others have had, but we are still BEST FRIENDS!

When I get to the family unit in my Health class and we talk about marriage ...I always tell this story. My students seem to love it because they learn for the first time that giving, sharing and caring about others is all that really matters in life, and that sex, looks, money and other things are secondary.

By the way, my wife is 12 years younger than me, and she is beautiful. Coaches constantly kid her about marrying me, they say she must be blind. We have 2 beautiful children, but we still have dates on every week-end.

Cathy is the greatest thing (other than becoming a Christian) that has ever happened to me! She is a fantastic mother, and the best wife a coach could ever have. THANK GOD I GOT SICK 27 YEARS AGO!!

In Honor of My Wife,

Coach Ron Link

Quotes from Aristotle

2006-12-28T01:53:54-05:00

What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold.

Happiness is a sort of action.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Well begun is half done.

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

We are what we repeatedly do.

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

More Quotes from Aristotle

2006-12-28T01:52:57-05:00

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than he who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Quotes by Aristotle

2006-12-28T01:51:46-05:00

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

All human beings, by nature, desire to know.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

2006-12-28T01:50:41-05:00

Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who's actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion and spends himself in a worthy cause; who best knows at the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while darring greatly; so that this place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

No man needs sympthy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

2006-12-28T01:48:00-05:00

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

In matters of style swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Some more advice Quotes

2006-12-28T01:44:00-05:00

G. K. Chesterton
Iowe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Erica Jong
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Bill Cosby
A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.

Earl of Chesterfield

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Jack Adams
If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and deeper it sinks into the mind.

Some Quotes under the subject of ADVICE

2006-12-28T00:43:00-05:00

Josh Billings
Advice is like castor oil; easy enough to give, but dreadful uneasy to take.

Jack Herbert
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

Benjamin Franklin
Wise men don't need advice; fools don't take it.

Aesop's Fables
We should make sure that our own house is in order before we give advice to others.

A Touch of Heaven.

2006-12-28T00:39:00-05:00

A Touch of Heaven.
By: Tim Reynolds

It had been a very disheartening day. The doctors had given us the worst of news. Our daughter, who had just completed her first brain surgery to remove a tumor and was going through radiation treatments, was now offically given a two percent chance of survival as this type of cancer had no cure.

My wife and I decided to take our daughter to lunch before continuing our afternoon conversations. We went to a local resteraunt where we sat in silence waiting for the waitress. Our daughter Molly wouldn't hear of such sadness or silence so she played happily with crayons and paper while we sat and stared at the floor.

I noticed a very elderly couple sitting a few booths away, they too in silence never speaking a word. I couldn't help but wonder what challenges they had faced in their life and if they ever faced such terrible news about a child of theirs.

We eventually ordered our lunch and still sitting in silence we ate what we could. At some point I became intrigued by the old couple and I watched them more intently with each passing minute. I thought to myself that they hadn't yet spoken to each other and I wondered if it was the peace they were enjoying or the food or maybe both. However, at some point I lost interest and put my focus back on my lunch.

Molly was still talking away and enjoying her meal and her mom and I both listened and tried to be happy in her presence but it wasn't going very well. All of a sudden I saw this hand come out of nowhere. It was huge and I could tell that it had been afflicted with arthritis. The knuckles were swollen and the fingers were crooked and off center. I couldn't take my eyes of that hand. The hand drifted down and landed on my daughter's tiny six year old hand and as it did I looked up; it was the old woman who had been sitting with the old man in silence eating their lunch.

I looked into her eyes and she spoke, but not to me. She looked at my daughter and simply whispered, "If I could do more for you I would." And then she smiled and moved away to join her husband who had moved towards the door.

I heard a "Hey look, a whole dollar." Molly spoke with excitment as she discovered that the old lady had placed a crumpled one dollar bill on the back of her hand. I looked down and saw the dollar bill and quickly realized that it had been left behind by the old lady. I looked up to thank her, but she was gone. I sat stunned, not sure what had just happended and then I looked over at my wife. In almost unison, we broke out into a smile. The sadness of the day had been wiped out by the crippled hand and generous touch of an old lady.

The dollar, although exciting to Molly, was not what made us smile or begin to feel differently, it was the offer from an old lady who felt our hurt and our suffering. The crippled hand symbolized a healing touch and made us realize that we did not have to fight this battle alone; that others cared and wanted to help. We felt up-lifted and soon our day filled with more happy thoughts as we spent the rest of our lunch planning the next day at home with fun filled activities for eveyone.

I will never forget that crippled arthritic hand that taught us such an important lesson. One does not have to go through life facing hardships all alone; the world is full of compassionate and understanding people. Even those that are suffering from their own afflictions have much to give to each other.

The hand that covered Molly's on that day still covers it. And although Molly is no longer with me, I can see her holding hands with that old lady now, both hands perfect and both faces filled with smiles and laughter. And though Heaven has these two perfect angels now, the lessons that they both taught me will remain forever in my heart.

Climb Every Mountain In Life

2006-12-28T00:37:00-05:00

I found this on a site somewhere a while back...

By: Sean Swarner

I'm actually the first (and only) cancer survivor to summit the world's highest mountain... Mt. Everest. When I was only 13, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease and given three months to live. When I was 15, I was diagnosed with Askin's Sarcoma. The prognosis was much worse as the doctors gave me only two weeks to live. Again, I survived.

Being the only person in the world to have ever had these two cancers, I really felt I should share my story to help motivate others and influence lives. On May 16th, 2002 at 9:32am, I became the first cancer survivor to summit Mt. Everest.

Since then, I have been lucky enough to reach the summits of three more of the world's seven highest peaks and have spoken internationally about my life and adventures to countless people and organizations. On the summit of Everest I brought a flag adorned with names of people who have been affected by cancer and left it on the top of the world forever commemorating the struggle of cancer patients worldwide.

I did the same to the highest point in Africa, Europe and just recently returned from 23,000-foot Aconcagua in South America! My ultimate goal is to climb the highest mountain on each continent AND trek to the North and South poles.

I am covering the globe with inspiration. There are plans for live chat sessions during the expeditions as well as TV spots and live summit bids from a number of the mountains! The reason for these expeditions is to inspire those affected by cancer (as well as anyone with a pulse!) to dream big and never give up.

Sean Swarner
seanswarner.com

The CancerClimber Association
www.cancerclimber.org
1st Cancer Survivor/Patient to Summit Everest
International Inspirational Speaker
Chief Spokesperson, International Spirit of Life Foundation

A thought from Benjamin Franklin

2006-12-28T00:35:13-05:00

Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

2006-12-27T23:47:00-05:00

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.