Quotations
For Thoughts


"Words that enlighten
are more precious than jewels."







Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Black, Claudia

Do not fear mistakes- there are none.
Davis, Miles

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Cicero

One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it,
you have no certainty until you try.
Sophocles

Do the thing you are afraid to do and the death of fear is certain.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The best thing about the future is that
it only comes one day at a time.
Lincoln, Abraham

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain.
But you have already borne the pain.
What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.
Kahlil Gibran



Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Stoppard, Tom

One sees great things from the valley,
only small things from the peak.
Chesterton, G. K.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
Jung, Carl

Stop thinking and talking about it and there is nothing you will not be able to know.
Zen Paradigm

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Seneca

There is the risk you cannot afford to take,
and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.
Drucker, Peter

With courage you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble.Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Nair, Keshavan



Trust that still, small voice that says,
"This might work and I'll try it."
Mariechild, Diane

Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage.
Nin, Anais

Saying no can be the ultimate self-care.
Black, Claudia

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
Curie, Marie

You've got to find the force inside you.
Campbell, Joseph

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

Once we make our decision, all things will come to us.
Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation.
They are a response.
Deng Ming-Dao



The only way to pass any test is to take the test.
Anonymous

We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.
Keller, Helen

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Shakespeare, William

Keep sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow-perhaps it all will.
Ecclesiasties

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
St. Augustine

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
Syrus, Publilius

Experience is what you get when you do not get what you want.
Anonymous



Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.
Agor, Weston H.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Kaiser, Henry

No man can reveal to you ought, but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Gibran, Kahlil

If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow comes.
Senegalese Proverb

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
James, William

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Thoreau, Henry David

When the student is ready, the master appears.
Buddhist Proverb

3 rules of work
1. out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord find harmony.
3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Einstein ,Albert



No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
De Mille, Agnes

In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.
Einstein, Albert

A knowledge of the path cannot be substituted for putting one foot in front of the other.
Richards, M. C.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has to get down to work.
Buck, Pearl

There is no failure. Only feedback.
Anonymous

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Thoreau, Henry David



Purpose serves as a principle around which to organize our lives.
Anonymous

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Schweitzer, Albert

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
Borysenko, Joan

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Elliot, George

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.
Ruskin, John

Life is a promise; fulfill it.
Mother Theresa

Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.
Irving, Washington



The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.
Leider, Richard

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
Shakespeare, William

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.
King, Martin Luther

Each small task of everyday is part of the total harmony of the universe.
St. Theresa of Lisieux

Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Anonymous

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Wilson, Woodrow











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