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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Motivation Tips from the Masters

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." ~Confucius
“Every day is a new life to a wise man.” ~Anonymous

“Success begins with a fellow’s will.
It’s all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You’ve got to think high to rise.
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger of faster man.
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.”
~C.W. Longenecker, “The Victor”

“Courage is highly esteemed as the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” ~Winston Churchill

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” ~Benjamin Disraeli

“The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.” ~George Bernard Shaw

“It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.” ~Charles H. Spurgeon

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.” ~James M. Barrie

“To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.” ~Samuel Johnson

“The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent on things, but be a part of personality.” ~William Lyon Phelps

“They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The road to failure is paved with negativity. If you think you can’t do something, chances are you won’t be able to. Conversely, the power of positive thinking can turn an adverse situation into a prime opportunity for heroism.” ~Tiger Woods

“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. That’s why I succeed.” ~Michael Jordan
"The happiness of a man is to do the true work of a man." ~Marcus Aurelius
"The chiefest point of happiness is that a man should be willing to be what he is." ~Erasmus
"It is neither wealth, nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness." ~Thomas Jefferson
“A good life is one that is characterized by complete absorption in what one does.” ~Professor Jeanne Nakamura

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