Thoughts and Ramblings of Life in US and the Philippines(Marinduque) and other miscellaneous topics close to my Heart.
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
My 25 Favorite Quotes for Inspiration
There are several hundreds of quotes for inspiration and motivation published in the Internet. However, the following 25 quotes inspires and motivates me when I feel down, depressed and useless. Do you have a favorite?
1. Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. I intend to live forever, or die trying.
Groucho Marx
4. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller
5. A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee
6. Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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8. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali
9. I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
Donald Trump
10. We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Jean Paul
11. Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais Nin
12. Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
John Dewey
13. Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey
14. Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Herbert Hoover
15. Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
Michael Jordan
16. Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.
Mia Hamm
17. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napolean Hill
18. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
19. The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination
Carl Rogers
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21. Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
William Faulkner
22. A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle
23. The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
24. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
25. Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
Source: famousquotes.123.com
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