Inspirational Life Quotes: 2

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” – Steve Jobs

“Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish it.” – Unknown

“When you say “It’s hard”, it actually means “I’m not strong enough to fight for it”. Stop saying its hard. Think positive!” - Unknown

“Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.” - Unknown

“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield

“The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.” - Unknown

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray

“The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.” – Joel Brown

“Self confidence is the most attractive quality a person can have. how can anyone see how awesome you are if you can’t see it yourself?” – Unknown

“We learn something from everyone who passes through our lives.. Some lessons are painful, some are painless.. but, all are priceless.” - Unknown

“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. it means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” - Unknown

“Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” – Larry Winget

“Three things you cannot recover in life: the WORD after it’s said, the MOMENT after it’s missed and the TIME after it’s gone. Be Careful!” – Unknown

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

“When the past calls, let it go to voicemail, believe me, it has nothing new to say.” - Unknown

“Rule #1 of life. Do what makes YOU happy.” - Unknown

“Walk away from anything or anyone who takes away from your joy. Life is too short to put up with fools.” – Unknown

“Love what you have. Need what you want. Accept what you receive. Give what you can. Always remember, what goes around, comes around…” – Unknwon

“Just remember there is someone out there that is more than happy with less than what you have.” – Unknown

“The biggest failure you can have in life is making the mistake of never trying at all.” – Unknown

“Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1.” - Unknown

“No one is going to hand me success. I must go out & get it myself. That’s why I’m here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world, and myself.” - Unknown

Inspirational Life Quotes: 1

“Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.” - Unknown

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown

“I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.” –Unknown

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” - Joshua J. Marine

“Its hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to give up when you know its everything you want.” – Unknown

“One of the most important keys to Success is having the discipline to do what you know you 

should do, even when you dont feel like doing it.” - Unknown

“Good things come to those who wait… greater things come to those who get off their ass and do anything to make it happen.” - Unknown

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.” - Denis Waitley

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby

“Go where you are celebrated – not tolerated. If they can’t see the real value of you, it’s time for a new start.” – Unknown

Dont be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone.. - Unknown

“The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra

“Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason that it will.” - Unknown

“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Albert Einstein

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“As long as you’ve got passion, faith, and are willing to work hard, you can
do anything and have anything you want in this world.” - Unknown

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
Live the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Insist on yourself. Never imitate.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.” – Proverb

“You are unrepeatable. There is a magic about you that is all your own.” – D.M. Dell

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

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown

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

“If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison

“Hide not your talents, they for use were made;
what’s a sundial in the shade?” – Benjamin Franklin

20 Powerful Secrets to Meaningful Relationships

Here are twenty powerful secrets that will help you form meaningful relationships with people:

1. When two people meet, the prize always goes to the one with the most self-insight. He will be calmer, more confident, more at ease with the other.
2. Never permit the behavior of other people to tell you how you feel.
3. Pay little attention to what people say or do. Instead, try to see their innermost motive for speaking and acting.
4. Any friendship requiring the submission of your original nature and dignity to another person is all wrong.
5. Mystically speaking, there is no difference between you and another person. This is why we cannot hurt another without hurting ourselves, nor help another without helping ourselves.
6. When we are free of all unnecessary desires toward other people, we can never be deceived or hurt.
7. You take a giant step toward psychological maturity when you refuse to angrily defend yourself against unjust slander. For one thing, resistance disturbs your own peace of mind.
8. You understand others to the exact degree that you really understand yourself. Work for more self-knowledge.
9. Do not be afraid to fully experience everything that happens to you in your human relations, especially the pains and disappointments. Do this and everything becomes clear at last.
10. The individual who really knows what it means to love has no anxiety when his love is unseen or rejected.
11. If you painfully lose a valuable friend, do not rush out at once for a replacement. Such action prevents you from examining your heartache and breaking free of it.
12. Do not be afraid to be a nobody in a social world. This is a deeper and richer truth than appears on the surface.
13. Every unpleasant experience with another person is an opportunity to see people as they are, not as we mistakenly idealize them. The more unpleasant the other person is, the more he can teach you.
14. You can be so wonderfully free from a sense of injury and injustice that you are surprised when you hear others complain of them.
15. We cannot recognize a virtue in another person that we do not possess in ourselves. It takes a truly loving and patient person to recognize those virtues in another.
16. Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
17. There are parts of you that want the loving life and parts that do not. Place yourself on the side of the positive forces: do all you can to aid and encourage them.
18. You must stop living timidly from fixed fears of what others will think of you and of what you will think of yourself.
19. Do not contrive to be a loving person: work to be a real person. Being real is being loving.
20. The greatest love you could ever offer to another is to so transform you inner life that others are attracted to your genuine example of goodness.

Source: “Twenty Special Secrets,” from Mystic Path to Cosmic Power, by Vernon Howard

Tips to strengthen your Relationship

If you’re in a relationship, intimate or platonic, that could use a little help, the tips below will come in handy…

1.  Let go of old wounds through forgiveness.

Every moment of your life you are either growing or dying – and when you are physically healthy, it’s a choice, not fate.  The art of maintaining happiness in your life and relationships relies on the fine balancing act of holding on and letting go.  Yes, sometimes people you trust (including yourself) will hurt you.  Being hurt is something you can’t avoid, but being continuously miserable is always a choice.  Forgiveness is the remedy.  You have to let go of what’s behind you before you can grasp the goodness in front of you.

2.  Come clean when you make a mistake.

An honest heart is the beginning of everything that is right with this world.  The most honorable people of all are not those who never make mistakes, but those who admit to them when they do, and then go on and do their best to right the wrongs they’ve made.  In the end, being honest might not always win you a lot of friends and lovers, but it will always keep the right ones in your life.

3.  Stop gossiping and start communicating.

A good rule of thumb:  If you can’t say it to their face, you shouldn’t say it behind their back.  As Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and small minds discuss people.”  Life is much too short to waste talking about people, gossiping, and stirring up trouble that has no substance.  If you don’t know, ask. If you don’t agree, say so.  If you don’t like it, speak up.  But never judge people behind their back.

4.  Give others the space to make their own decisions.

Stop judging others by your own past.  Never act, judge, or treat people like you know them better than they know themselves.  They are living a different life than you are.  What might be good for one person may not be good for another.  What might be bad for one person might change another person’s life for the better.  Allow the people in your life to make their own mistakes and their own decisions.

5.  Do things that make YOU happy.

If you want to awaken happiness in a relationship, start by living a life that makes you happy and then radiate your happiness into your relationship.  If you want to eliminate suffering in a relationship, start by eliminating the dark and negative parts of yourself, and then radiate your positivity into your relationship.  Truly, the greatest power you have in this world is the power of your own self-transformation.  All the positive change you seek in any relationship starts with the one in the mirror.

6.  Show your loved ones your kindness in small ways every day.

Aesop once said, “No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.”  Nothing could be closer to the truth.  Always be kinder than necessary.  You never know what someone is going through.  Sometimes you have to be kind to someone, not because they’re being nice, but because you are.  Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

7.  Say less when less means more.

It takes some courage to stand up and speak; it takes even more courage to open your mind and listen.  Pay attention and be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.  The people in your life often need a listening ear more than they need a rambling voice.  And don’t listen with the intent to reply; hear what is being said with the intent to understand.  You are as beautiful as the love you give, and you are as wise as the silence you leave behind.

8.  Let your love and trust overpower your fear.

You never lose by loving; you lose by holding back.  No relationship is impossible until you refuse to give it a chance.  Love means giving someone the chance to hurt you, but trusting them not to.  Without this trust, a relationship cannot survive.  You cannot just believe what you fear from others; you have to believe in the good faith of others.  If you are ever going to have someone trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too.

9.  Accept, don’t expect.

Unconditional acceptance is something we want, but rarely ever give out.  Remember, people never do anything that is out of character.  They may do things that go against your expectations, but what people do reveals exactly who they are.  Never force your expectations on people, other than the expectation that they will be exactly who they are.  Who they are is not what they say or what you have come to expect, it is who they reveal themselves to be.  Either you accept them as they are, or you move on without them.

10.  Let the wrong ones go.

Know your worth!  When you give your time to someone who doesn’t respect you, you surrender pieces of your heart you will never get back.  All failed relationships hurt, but losing someone who doesn’t appreciate and respect you is actually a gain, not a loss.  Some people come into your life temporarily simply to teach you something.  They come and they go and they make a difference.  It’s perfectly okay that they’re not in your life anymore.  You now have more time to focus on the relationships that truly matter.

Afterthoughts

Remember, even the healthiest relationships have small flaws.  Being too black and white about the quality and health of a relationship spells trouble.  Accept the fact that there will always be difficulties present, but you can still focus on the good.  Instead of constantly looking for signs of what’s not working in your relationship, what you need to do is look for signs of what is, and then use this as a solid foundation to build upon.

Inspirational Success Quotes

In 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket and knew two things: I’m broke as hell and one day I won’t be. You Can Achieve Anything! – Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson

People who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it. – George Bernard Shaw

“No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.” – Tony Robbins

Stop saying ‘I Wish’ and start saying ‘I Will’. – Unknown

“The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.” - Joel Brown

“If you even dream of beating me, you’d better wake up and apologize” – Muhammad Ali

The reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have gotten. - Unknown

If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, then your goals aren’t ambitious enough. – Chris Dixon

“My teacher once told me – ” No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.” – Mahesh Bhatt

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn

“I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me.” – Brad Pitt

Don’t be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge. – Marianne Williamson

“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.” – John C Maxwell

“Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.” - Matthew Keith Groves

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby

“Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can! and I will!” – Unknown

“I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.” – Sylvester Stallone

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you’re doing something wrong, but because you’re doing something right. - Joel Osteen

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.” – Steve Jobs

“The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.” – Unknown

“If you always put limit 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

motivational quotes to inspire and motivate you: Part 7

“Willpower is the strength of mind to carry out one’s goals.”
-   Sandy Anderson

“If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength.”
-   François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

“Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.”
-   Antonio Porchia

“It is not the strongest of the species who survive, not the most intelligent, but those who are the
most adaptive to change.”
-   Charles Darwin

“Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.”
-   J. Petit-Senn

“A resolute determination is the truest wisdom.”
-  Napoleon

“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
-   Pietro Aretino

“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.”
-   Thomas Jefferson

“It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.”
-  Mick Jagger

“It is in changing that things find purpose.”
-  Heraclitus

“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation?
I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires
strength, strength and courage to yield to.”
-   Oscar Wilde

“Do not go through life; grow through life.”
-   Eric Butterworth

“What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is
they don’t want to discourage it completely.”
-   Franklin P. Jones

“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.”
-  Eric Fromm

“You must admit you have self-control before you can use it.”
-   Carrie Latet

“Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence.
We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others.  We compete
only with our previous achievements, and we get joy.   Life is nothing but a
perpetual possibility.”
-  Sri Chinmoy

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
-   Oscar Wilde

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always
wins – not through strength but by perseverance.”
-  Jackson Brown

“Being out of control is one of the worst feelings in the world,
sometimes even worse than pain.  It is its own kind of pain.”
-   Danzae Pace

“I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.”
-   Confucius

“It’s a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
-   Buddha

“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
-   Thomas A. Edison

“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them,
if they will not apply themselves to me.
-   Michel de Montaigne

“Strength does not come from physical activity.  It comes from an indomitable will.”
-  Mahatma Gandhi

“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.  Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.”
-  Bill Gates

“If you focus on results, you will never change.  If you focus on change, you will get results.”
-  Jack Dixon

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal.  Not to people or things.”
-   Albert Einstein

“Self-respect is the root of discipline:  The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”
-   Abraham Joshua Heschel

“First say to yourself whatyou would be, and then do what you have to do.”
-   Epictetus

“Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us.  They are essential to really keep us alive.”
-  Robert H. Schuller

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
-  Thomas Jefferson

“In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without a total 100 percent dedication, you won’t be able to do this.”
-  Willie Mays

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
-  Bill Cosby

“The most useless are those who never change through the years.”
-  James Barrie

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”
-   Frank Lloyd Wright

“Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is
simply a course to develop his achievement muscle.  It’s a strengthening
of his powers of accomplishment.”
-   Eric Butterworth

motivational quotes to inspire and motivate you: Part 6

“There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a
well-disciplined mind may not surmount.  The wish to resist more
than half accomplishes the object.”
-   Charlotte Dacre

“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with
great ambitions.”
-  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.”
-   Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

“I am an idealist. I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
-   Carl Sandburg

“The time to begin most things is ten years ago.”
-   Mignon McLaughlin

“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength
lies solely in my tenacity.”
-   Louis Pasteur

“You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.”
-   Jim Rohn

“Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.”
-   F. Scott Fitzgerald

“When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative ”success mechanism” within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or “willpower.”
-   Maxwell Maltz

“You got to be careful if your don’t know where you’re going,
because you might not get there.”
-   Yogi Berra

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.”
-   Mae West

“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.”
-   Franklin Roosevelt

“Yoga is a light which, once lit, will never dim.
The better you practice, the brighter the flame.”
-  B. K. S. Iyengar

“To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring
one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached.
The key is action.”
-   Michael Hanson

“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition.
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”
-   Herbert Kaufman

“Success is a state of mind.  If you want success, start thinking of yourself
as a success.”
-  Dr. Joyce Brothers

“You may delay, but time will not.”
-   Benjamin Franklin

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

“Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting, it’s about being so prepared to face a challenge and believing so strongly in a cause that you are fighting for that you refuse to quit.”
-   Richard J. Machowicz

“Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.”
-   Mike Ditka

“The best way out is always through.”
-   Robert Frost

“The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center.  So does a person.”
-   Norman Vincent Peale

“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing
anything very innovative.”
-   Woody Allen

“It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.”
-   Henry Ward Beecher

“An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.”
-   Vida D. Scudder

“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”
-  Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron
is his thicker layer of inhibition.”
-   Martin H. Fischer

“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people
who have the habit of making excuses.”
-   George Washington

“For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.”
-   Friedrich Nietzsche