We can enable powerful self help motivation by immersing ourselves in the wisdom of some of the greatest minds that ever lived.
As you read through these quotes I hope you experience an ah-ha moment, a little shiver down your spine, a little tingle at the back of the neck. If you do, they will have done their job.
Life is not the way it is supposed to be, it is the way it is. The way you cope with it makes the difference.
Virginia Satir
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life can only be understood backwards. It has to be lived forward.
Kierkegaard
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
A Einstein
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra
All things come out of the one and the one out of all things.
Heraclitus
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.
The Talmud
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is, infinite.
William Blake
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder
If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams and endeavors to live the life they have imagined they will meet with success… You were born to succeed not to fail.
H.D. Thoreau
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
We must be in control of our own destinies. We must be in control of ourselves. We must enable self help motivation.
Anonymous
Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us we can learn to dance on a shifting carpet.
Thomas Crum
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire
The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life’s destruction.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the control of fear.
Rudyard Kipling
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown
Ask it and you will be given. Seek it and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you.
Luke 11:9
Here’s one that I would wish for you to take to heart.
You are here for a purpose. There is no duplicate of you in the whole world. There never has been. There never will be. You were brought here to fill a certain need. Take time to think that over.
L. Austin
Now that you’ve read through these, I would suggest you write your favorite one’s down. Carry them with you where ever you go. Look at them often. I’ve found no better way of cheering myself up if life is getting me down.
Here’s my favorite quote. It never fails to empower my self help motivation.
The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
Ramakrishna
I wish you Health, Wealth and Happiness.
August 12th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
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