Motivational/Inspirational
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God Gave YOU 86,400 Seconds today have you used one of those to say "Thank you?"

A. Lou Vickery - Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more."    

Arthur Ashe  “Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit.  You never really cancel the fear of losing;  you keep challenging it.”

Author Unknown: Dare to soar - how successful you are is determined by your attitude.

Author Unknown: Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying "I will try again tomorrow".

Author Unknown: Have the courage to act on your dreams - leave behind you the internal forces that hold you back.

Author Unknown: The power of one - one thought, one action, one solution.

Author Unknown: Failure is only a fact when you give up. Everyone gets knocked down, the question is: Will you get back up?

Author Unknown: Accept the risk and then reap the rewards.

Author Unknown: Your only limits are self-imposed.

Author Unknown: Like the eagles we have to move our wings to soar like an eagle.

Author Unknown: Successful people do what unsuccessful people don't dare.

Author Unknown: Risk a change, overcome fear and win.

Author Unknown: Identify what you want and go for it.

Author Unknown: Confidence is feeling satisfied with who and what we are.

Author Unknown: Feeling healthy and feeling good about yourself is not a luxury - it's an absolute necessity.

Author Unknown: When you stop trying to change others and work on changing yourself, your world changes for the better.

Author Unknown: Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.

Author Unknown: When you expect success, your mind focuses on success.

Author Unknown: Do you think I can't. I don't want to. I'm feeling stressed, or I can. I want to. I'm feeling exhilarated.

Author Unknown: Life is a succession of moments, seconds and minutes. To live each one is to succeed.

Author Unknown: When you discover it's your choice and your attitude, things start to happen!

Author Unknown: Nothing tastes as good as being healthy and full of energy feels.

Author Unknown: Everyone makes mistakes - the only people who never fail are those who never even try.

Author Unknown: The secret of success is having the courage to begin in the first place.

Author Unknown: Keep learning! You are as young as your last bright idea.

Author Unknown: Opportunity is available for everyone - all you have to do is grab it!

Author Unknown: Successful people do what unsuccessful people won't even attempt.

Author Unknown: The know how to successfully achieving good health is available to everyone.

Author Unknown: If you keep on going the way you're going you'll end up where you're heading - which direction are you aiming for?

Author Unknown: There is freedom in becoming very good at what we do.

Author Unknown: Have you hit a brick wall? Aim higher and jump over it.

Author Unknown: A nest is supposed to be a temporary environment - are you still snuggled safely into yours?

Author Unknown: Think of yourself as a toy train. All toy trains de-rail now and then. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and get back on track.

Author Unknown: Do something nice for someone you don't know yet. The results could surprise you.

Author Unknown: Never, never, never, never give up

Author Unknown: Choice is a gift given to everyone. It is a powerful gift that can change your life.

Author Unknown: Venture forth into new horizons, even to places those around you do not have the courage to go.

Author Unknown: Practice whilst other people are still asleep.

Author Unknown: It's your choice - will you choose to be a victim or the victor?

Author Unknown: To develop an idea you must listen to what is going on in your head.

Author Unknown: Great results will follow if you allow yourself to solve difficult problems.

Author Unknown: Life is a game. Are you going to be a participator in it, or just a spectator?

Author Unknown: Get rid of the negative people in your life - surround yourself with positive people who believe in you and inspire you.

Author Unknown: If you don't know where you are going how will you know when you get there?

Author Unknown: When the sun comes up each day, be up and out with it.

Author Unknown: A change from unhealthy habits to healthy habits will yield extraordinary results.

Author Unknown: Marathon runners don't worry about the conditions, they just run anyway!

Author Unknown:
Winners feel like winners
Losers feel like losers
How do you feel?

Author Unknown: There is no such thing as luck. Success comes from actually doing it.

Author Unknown: If you don't dare to begin, you don't stand a chance of getting there.

Author Unknown: Choose to be up here at the top, not down there at the bottom.

Author Unknown: Your life is not a rehearsal. Don't leave it without giving it your all.

Author Unknown: When you stop giving, when you stop offering something to someone, it's time to turn out the light.

Author Unknown: You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

Author Unknown: You don't realize how strong a person really is until you see them at their weakest moment

Anita Roddick,- Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. Herodotus, historian If I had to name a driving force in my life, I'd name passion every time

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Brian Tracy - "You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards." -- 

Confucius "To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage." 

Dan Millman - "I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything.. at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything." 

David Viscott You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be. 

Derek Jeter, baseball player -  “The longer you wait to decide what  you want to do, the more time you’re wasting.  It’s up to you to want something so  badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words,  will do the shouting for you.”

Earl Nightingale "A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous
opportunities that were somehow absent before we changed."

 

Ellen Degeneres - You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. - 

Eleanor Roosevelt You wouldn't worry so much about what other people thought if you realized how seldom they do.

Ernie Banks - You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace

George Bernard You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

Giovanni Agnelli - "Miracles can be made, but only by sweating."

Harriet Braiker - Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

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

Jack Nicklaus - Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation

Jack Welch - Change before you have to

Jean Jacques Rousseau We are each unique, so comparing ourselves to others serves no purpose. Even comparing myself to how I was a while back is not usually helpful. Typically, comparison just brings the ego a false sense of either superiority or inferiority.

If we let go of comparison and choose instead to completely accept where we are, we can enjoy both peace and growth.

"Do not judge and you will never be mistaken."

Jim Rohn - "If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build, end up building us." 

John Wooden - “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

Judy Garland - Always be a first-rate version of yourself,  instead of a second-rate version  of somebody else.

Julius Erving If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.- 

Lee Iacocca You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Lee Iacocca So what do we do? Anything - something. So long as we don't just sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Mario Andretti "Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.'"    

Mary Pickford "You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Dr. Maxwell Maltz - "Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other."    

Og Mandino -   "Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."

Omar Bradley - This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: We are given one life, and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act and, in acting, to live

Oprah Winfrey - “The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.”

Parks Cousins "How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us."

Pat Riley - "There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or out. There's no such thing as a life in-between. "

Ralph Marston Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.- 

Red Aurbach - "Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of caring - fiercely caring."
   

Rubel Shelly - If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it. Maintain the high ground when you're under fire. No victory is worth winning at the expense of picking up the mud that has been slung at you and throwing it back

 Thomas Fuller - "Nothing is good or bad but by comparison."

Vince Lombardi It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.

Wayne Dyer - "Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life." -- 

William Hazlitt Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.'" 

 Will Rogers. Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Winston Churchill  Success is not final, failure is not fatal;   it is the courage to continue that counts." 

W. Clement Stone - Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

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