Quotes for Achievement
"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
–Dale Carnegie
"Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was."
– Robert Louis Stevenson
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."
–– Chinese proverb
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
Zig Ziglar
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"A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change." Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished." Confucius
"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests." Epictetus
"We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best."
David Bailey
"Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
Orison Swett Marden
Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever.
Zig Ziglar
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"The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary."
–– Thomas Edison
"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."
Norman Vincent Peale
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"It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude."
Zig Ziglar
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"Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that." Sir James M. Barrie
"We will either find a way, or make one." Hannibal
"Death comes to all. But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold." George Fabricius If you're sincere, praise is efective.
If you're insincere, it's manipulative.
Zig Ziglar
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"Mere longevity is a good things for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity." Gabriel Heatter
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt 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
"The only way around is through." Robert Frost
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
Vincent Van Gogh
"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more." Jonas Salk
You've got to be before you can do, and do before you can have.
Zig Ziglar
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"If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy." A. P. Gouthey
"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success." Helen Hayes
"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses." Napoleon Hill
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The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the"love account."
"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a questions he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve." Oliver Wendell Holmes The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the"love account."
"High achievement always takes place in a framework of high expectation." Jack Kinder
"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him." Golo Mann
"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." Foster C. Mcclellan
"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them." Pablo Picasso
"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune." Plutarch
"The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way." Anthony Robbins
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All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.
Zig Ziglar
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"Nothing is as difficulty as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas." Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." Eddie Robinson
"The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are." Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. "
Brian Tracy
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"Never mistake activity for achievement. " John Wooden
Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it's free-but it can't go anywhere.
Zig Ziglar
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"I love America. We've got the only system that works - it keeps everyone hustling." J.R. Simplot
"Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools
what they wish to do." French
"The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful." Alfred Adler
"Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least."
Anonymous
"God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die! " Anonymous
"If you don’t climb the mountain, you can’t view the plain." Anonymous
"Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk." Anonymous
Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.
Zig Ziglar
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"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce." Anonymous
"The man who wakes up and finds himself famous hasn't been asleep." Anonymous
"To go beyond is as bad as to fall short." Anonymous Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
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"To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth." Anonymous
"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances." Bruce Barton
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." William Blake
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." William Jennings Bryan
"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things." Frank Clark
"This became a credo of mine . . . attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
Bette Davis
"We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself. . . . It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting." Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
"Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can."
Henry Drummond
"Hell, there are no rules here — we're trying to accomplish something." Thomas Alva Edison
"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective." General Dwight David Eisenhower
"What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities And be a member of the team. In no country but America, I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements." Benjamin F. Fairless
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to." Kahlil Gibran
You can finish school, and even make it easy -but you never finish your education,and it's seldom easy.
Zig Ziglar
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"If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty." Heber J. Grant
"Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." Dag Hammarskjöld
"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success." Helen Hayes
"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses." Napolean Hill
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Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people.
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"We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys." Eric Hoffer
"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work." H. L. Hunt
"Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon — deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits." William James
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." Robert Francis Kennedy
"It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever — the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. " Vince Lombardi
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side.
Zig Ziglar
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There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy.
"The heights by great men reached and kept,
Were not obtained by sudden flight
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.
Zig Ziglar
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Standing on what too long we bore
With shoulders bent and downcast eyes,
We may discern — unseen before,
A path to higher destinies."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great." Niccoló Machiavelli
The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
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"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we might have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do." Gian-Carlo Menotti
"Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. . . . Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement." Leo J. Muir
"Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit." Hugh Nibley
"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration . . and expectation." Jack Niklaus
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."General George Smith Patton, Jr.
"Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage." Frederick Pierce
"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." Ayn Rand
"She looked at the crowd and she felt, simultaneously, astonishment that they should stare at her, when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible, and a sense of fitness that they should be here, that they should want to see it, because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others." Ayn Rand
"There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting." Dr. Theodor Reik
"A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high." William Sharp
Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.
Zig Ziglar
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"The things we accept as normal and enjoy today were considered impossible twenty-five years ago and beyond the power of man to achieve. The early "Buck Rogers" and "Flash Gordon" comic strips were fantastic and considered outside the realm of man's attainment. They were considered figments of man's imagination, but now many of these miraculous, imaginative things have become realities and man is pushing onward toward new and higher goals of achievement. We are now mentally prepared for every new invention and advancement in technology and the sciences , but, nevertheless, stand amazed at man's powers to create and achieve. These outstanding accomplishments, which approach the miraculous, to me are unquestioned evidence of man's divine nature. Man has sent up satellites which circle the globe. He has taken the breathtaking, miraculous ride about the earth. He expects to circle the moon and even land man on the outer planets; also he considers feasible floating platforms in outer space as intermediate stations for interplanetary travel."
Delbert L. Stapley
When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.
Zig Ziglar
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The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
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Winner's Blueprint for Achievement BELIEVE while others are doubting.
PLAN while others are playing.
STUDY while others are sleeping.
DECIDE while others are delaying.
PREPARE while others are daydreaming.
BEGIN while others are procrastinating.
WORK while others are wishing.
SAVE while others are wasting.
LISTEN while others are talking.
SMILE while others are frowning.
Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.
COMMEND while others are criticizing.
PERSIST while others are quitting."
William Arthur Ward
"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up." Alfred North Whitehead
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." John Wooden
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"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." Woodrow Wilson
"You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be." Robert Collier
"Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have." Jean-Paul Sartre
"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." Conrad Hilton
"Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish."
Brian Tracy
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"The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come." C.S. Lewis
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."Anonymous
It's not the situation, but wheather we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that's important.
Zig Ziglar
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Quotes for Attitude
"“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect it’s successful outcome.”
–William James
"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
- Martha Washington
“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”
––Muhammad Ali
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt 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 cumbered with your old nonsense."
–– Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'ts not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life ;it is how you handle what happens to you.
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"Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars." Frederick Langbridge
"Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it."
––Merle Miller
"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you thing about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are." Norman Vincent Peale
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"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Always look at what you have left.Never look at what you have lost." Robert H. Schuller
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"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad." Denis Waitley
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"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
Lou Holtz
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"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Buddha
"The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity." Winston Churchill
"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force." Tom Blandi
Positive thinking won't let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar
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"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." Thomas Dewar
"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 the change."
Earl Nightingale
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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
William James
"I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude-your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people-determines you priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself." Carolyn Warner
"Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. "
Charles Prestwich Scott
Make a game of finding something positive in every situation.Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.
Brian Tracy
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"Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. " Charles Swindoll
"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing...and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!" Lou Holtz
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To respond is positive, to react is negative.
Zig Ziglar
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"I am a lucky man." Christopher Reeve
"I believe life is to be lived, not worked, enjoyed, not agonized, loved, not hated." Leland Bartlett
"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."
Jim Rohn
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"Live with passion." Anthony Robbins
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"A man without a smiling face must not open a shop."Chinese Proverb
"Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other."
Joseph Addison
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
Herm Albright
"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."Anonymous
"Although at the moment they may be equal in their lack of a real answer, the man who replies "I'll find out," is much more valuable to his employer, his neighbor, and to himself than the man who replies "l don't know." Anonymous
"Although fate presents the circumstances, how you react depends on your character. "Anonymous
"Attitude determines altitude." Anonymous
"Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?"Anonymous
"I can alter my life by altering the attitude of my mind."Anonymous
You cannot tailor make the situations in life, but you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those situations before they arise.
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"On a gloomy, rainy morning, it came little eight-year-old Tommy's turn to say the blessing at breakfast. "We thank Thee for this beautiful day," he prayed.
His mother asked him why he said that when the day was anything but beautiful.
"Mother," said he, with rare wisdom, "never judge a day by its weather. " Anonymous
"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."Anonymous
"Persistence gives confidence and continued right mental attitude followed by consistent action will bring success. When you have that knowing inside of you, fear has vanished and the obstruction to a life of all good removed."Anonymous
"Sometimes we are limited more by attitude than by opportunities."Anonymous
"Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you."Anonymous
"The control center of your life is your attitude." Anonymous
"If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it." Roger Ward Babson
"Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.
M. Russell Ballard
"There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes." William John Bennett
Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
Brian Tracy
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"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."Timothy Bentley
"I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech."
H. Jackson Browne
"If you could change anything about the way you approach selling, the thing that will make the biggest difference would be your attitude — your attitude toward your customers, your service, the benefits of your products, your employer, and your self." Dan Brent Burt
"There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control."
Leo F. Buscalgia
"You can’t build a great company without great people. But how do you know them when you see them?
Over the past few years, a number of companies in a wide range of industries — from airlines to steel, computers to hotels — have asked themselves what separates their winners from their losers, good hires from bad, and they all arrived at the same answer: what people know is less important than who they are. Hiring, they believe, is not about finding people with the right experience; it’s about finding people with the right mind-set. These companies hire for attitude and train for skill."
Peter Carbonara
Of all the "attitudes" we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.
Zig Ziglar
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"To Achieve Your Dreams Remember Your ABC's
Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Believe in yourself. Consider things from every angle. Don't give up and don't give in. Enjoy life today, yesterday is gone, tomorrow may never come. Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches. Give more than you planned to.
Hang on to your dreams. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Just do it. Keep trying no matter how hard it seems, it will get easier. Love yourself first and most. Make it happen. Never lie, cheat or steal, always strike a fair deal. Open your eyes and see things as they really are. Practice makes perfect. Quitters never win and winners never quit. Read, study and learn about everything important in your life.
Stop procrastinating. Take control of your own destiny. Understand yourself in order to better understand others. Visualize it. Want it more than anything. ‘Excellerate’ your efforts. You are unique of all God's creations, nothing can replace YOU. Zero in on your target and go for it!"
Wanda Hope Carter
"In War: Resolution.
In Defeat: Defiance.
In Victory: Magnanimity.
In Peace: Goodwill."
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
"It's not the situation. . . . It's your reaction to the situation." Robert Conklin
"Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life."Morarji Desai
"It is not the position, but the disposition."J. E. Dinger
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
Hugh Downs
"You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair."Paul H. Duhn
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." Albert Einstein
"I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle." General Dwight David Eisenhower
"The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. What you do in life depends upon what you are and what you want. What you get from life depends upon how much you want it—how much you are willing to work and plan and cooperate and use your resources. The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day. Make the cables strong!"
L.G. Elliott
"Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account." Euripides
"Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone. Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him — mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp. Attitude and personality are as important as experienced and ability.Choose wisely.
Brian Tracy
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I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost."Viktor E. Frankl
". . . Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way." Victor E. Frankl
"Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners."Viktor E. Frankl
When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases,how you are going to be treated others.
Zig Ziglar
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"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."
Victor E. Frankl
"We who lived in concentration camps can remember those who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a person but the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances — to choose one's own way. "
Viktor Frankl
"What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us."
Viktor E. Frankl
"People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." Thaddeus Golas
"If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life."
Billy Graham
"What one approves , another scorns,
And thus his nature each discloses:
You find the rosebush full of thorns,
I find the thornbush full of roses."
Arthur Guiterman
"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."Scott Hamilton
"Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light." Raymond Holliwell
"Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
Lou Holtz
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"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time."
Elbert Green Hubbard
"Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." William James
"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."
William James
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
William James
You can disagree without being disagreeable.
Zig Ziglar
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"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." Thomas Jefferson
"Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real and I myself am not a dream."
Helen Adams Keller
"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."Helen Adams Keller
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." Helen Adams Keller
"An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the thirteenth looked down on the black ash heaps of the city. Ignoring the twelve windows, the prince always looked out through the thirteenth.
It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook. James Keller
"Often attitudes are kindled in the flame of others’ convictions." Louis E. Le Bar
"The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results."Michael LeBeuf
"People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abraham Lincoln
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."Art Linkletter
"Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair."General Douglas McArthur
Your attitude is an expression of your values,beliefs and expectations.
Brian Tracy
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"At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!"
Neal A. Maxwell
"If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be."James Russell Miller
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."
John Homer Miller
"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us."
Earl Nightingale
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"THE MAN WHO THINKS HE CAN:
If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think that you dare not, you don't,
If you'd like to win, but you think you can't,
It's almost certain you won't.
I've go to say "no" to the good say "yes" to the best.
Zig Ziglar
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If you think you'll lose, you've lost,
For out in the world you'll find,
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 or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can."
Arnold Palmer
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees only the red light. But the truly wise person is color blind."
Dr. Albert Schweitzer
"Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes."
Charles Prestwich Scott
"Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities."
Sir Walter Scott
"Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity." Walter Dill Scott
"Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacities."
Walter Dill Scott
"Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one."Hans Selye
"If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by credit sheets, balance of trade and reparations than by our attitude towards God."
Bishop Fulton John Sheen
"There is little difference in people but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative." W. Clement Stone
"The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company . . . a church . . . a home."
Charles Swindoll
"The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude."Charles Swindoll
"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation." Mike Todd
"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."
Brian Tracy
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"Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it’s looks, most women know otherwise."
Kathleen Turner
"Funny is an attitude."Flip Wilson
If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?
Brian Tracy
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"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."John Wooden
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"Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders...Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest." Dale Carnegie
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"Optimism means expecting the best, but confidence means knowing how to handle the worst. Never make a move if you are merely optimistic." The Zurich Axioms
"Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words."
Brian Tracy
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"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." William James
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust
"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When you believe you can-you can!" Maxwell Maltz
Quotes for Character
"One's best success comes after their greatest disappointments."
— Henry Ward Beecher
"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."
–– Franklin D. Roosevelt
If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.
Zig Ziglar
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"Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest." Mark Twain
"Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what a reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character."Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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"Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe something inside them was superior to circumstances."
––Bruce Barton
"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character." Henry Clay
"Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him." Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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"Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow." Abraham Lincoln
"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at." Goethe
"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart." Anne Frank
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved." Helen Keller
"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"That which does not kill me, makes me stronger." A SEAL Team saying,
by Frederick Nietzsche.
When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner .
Zig Ziglar
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"Kindness in words creates confidence Kindness in thinking creates profoundness Kindness in giving creates love." Lao-Tzu
If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.
Zig Ziglar
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"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." Plato
"Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated." Lou Holtz
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"A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child."The Knights of Pythagoras
"If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow." Chinese Proverb
"Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended."Old Folk Saying
"Where there is no shame, there is no honor." African Proverb "Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted."Alfred Adler
What you do off the job is determining factor In how far you will go on the job.
Zig Ziglar
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"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."Aesop
"If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them a knowledge of the line which should be drawn between voluntary action and governmental compulsion in a democracy, and of what can be accomplished within the stern laws of economics, we will enable them to retain their freedom, and at the same time, make them worthy to be free."Winthrop Williams Aldrich
"Don't accept that others know you better than yourself. Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."James Allen
"Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."James Allen
"The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment is your choice made. Thus you learn to take the path to the right. Thus you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character."H. Van Anderson
"The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment is your choice made. Thus you learn to take the path to the right. Thus you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character." H. Van Anderson
"A person shows what he is by what he does with what he has."Anonymous
Keep your thinking right And your business will be right.
Zig Ziglar
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"At a distance from home a man is judged by what he means." Anonymous
"Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone."Anonymous
"Character is a victory, not a gift."Anonymous
"Character, like a kettle, once mended, always requires repairs."Anonymous
"I am building a character that shall never know completion.
May I, as the days come and go, ever draw nearer to God through service to His children."Anonymous
"I watched them tearing a building down
A gang of men in a busy town.
With a Ho-Heave-Ho, a lusty yell
They swung a beam—and a side wall fell.
I asked the foreman, "Are these men skilled
And the men you'd hire if you had to build?"
"For the most part," he said, "No indeed.
Just common labor is all I need.
"I can easily wreck in a day or two
What builders have taken a year to do.
And I thought to myself, as I went away,
Which of these roles have I tried to play?
Am I a builder, who works with care,
Measuring life by the rule and square?
Ability can take you the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Zig Ziglar
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Am I shaping my deeds to a well made plan? Patiently doing the things I can?
Or, am I a wrecker, who walks the town
Content with the labor of tearing down?"
Anonymous
"Reputation is the shell a man discards when he leaves life for immortality. His character he takes with him."Anonymous
"Reputation is what the world thinks a man is; character is what he really is."Anonymous
"Though a man without money is poor, a man with nothing but money is still poorer. Worldly gifts cannot bear up the spirits from fainting and sinking when trials and troubles come, any more than headache can be cured by a golden crown or toothache by a chain of pearls."Anonymous
"When I do right, no one remembers. When I do wrong, no one ever forgets."Anonymous
"When small men begin to cast long shadows, it is a sure sign that the sun is setting."Anonymous
"You can tell what a man is by what he does when he hasn’t anything to do."Anonymous
"You can't measure the heart of a champion."Anonymous
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to his or her commitment to excellence, regardless of his or chosen field of endeavor.
Zig Ziglar
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"You don’t have to tell how you live each day,
You don’t have to say if you work or you play,
Attired, true barometer serves in the place,
However you life, it will show in your face.
The false, the deceit that you bear in your heart
Will not stay inside where it first got a start;
For sinew and blood are a thin veil of lace—
What you wear in your heart, you wear in your face.
If your life is unselfish, if for others you live,
For not what you get, but how much you can give;
If you live close to God in his infinite grace—
You don’t have to tell it, it shows in your face." Anonymous
"If you are not leaning, no one will let you down."Dr. Robert Anthony
"Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy soul—for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these—that where a man can live, there if he will, he can also live well."Marcus Antonius
"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."Aristotle
"To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character."Aristotle
"Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won."Maltbie Davenport Babcock,
"A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders and righteous people. In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded."Roger Ward Babson
"Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness."Faith Baldwin
"As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smoothes a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character, too."H. W. Bartol
"No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."Henry Ward Beecher
"Thought creates character."Annie Bessant
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. "
Phillips Brooks
"Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty. "Phillips Brooks
"Sad is the day for any man when he becomes absolutely satisfied with the life he is living, the thoughts that he is thinking and the deeds that he is doing; when there ceases to be forever beating at the doors of his soul a desire to do something larger which he seeks and knows he was meant and intended to do."
Phillips Brooks
"Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process."
Phillips Brooks
You build a successful carreer, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.
Zig Ziglar
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"Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character .
Hugh B. Brown
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."Jackson Browne
"It is an old saying, and one of fearful and fathomless import, that we are forming characters for eternity. Form- ing characters? Whose? Our own or others? Both—and in that momentous act lies the peril and responsibility of our existence."Elihu Burritt
"A man’s got to know his limitations."Harry Callahan
"All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted."Andrew Carnegie
"The higher up you go, the more gentle you have to reach down to help other people succeed."
Rick Castro
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. "
Cato the Elder
"Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do."William Ellery Channing
"Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do."Edward Hubbel Chapin
"Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word."
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
"He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence."Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Cheserfield
When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.
Zig Ziglar
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"The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom."
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
"The real long term objective of the Welfare Plan is the fulfilling of character in the members of the Church, givers and receivers, rescuing all that is finest down deep inside of them, and bringing to flower and fruitage the latent richness of the Spirit, which, after all, is the mission and purpose and reason for being of this Church.
J. Reuben Clark Jr.
"A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people."
Henry Clay
"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."Henry Clary
"Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"There are two types of people — those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are."Frederick L. Collins
Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for.Refuse to compromise.
Brian Tracy
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"It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall b e rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account."Confucius
"We do not need more national development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen."
John Calvin Coolidge
"Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us man hood or womanhood fibre."Dr. Frank Crane
"The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better."John Dewey
"Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains."Helen Douglas
"To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic — like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the "cat without a grin" and the "grin without a cat" are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies."
Sir Arthur Anthony Eddington
"The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us."Jonathan Edwards "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."Albert Einstein
With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.With integrity you will do the right thing,so you will have no guilt.With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best.
Zig Ziglar
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'Character, says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms—’character is destiny’.George Elliot
"Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well — he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you would not be known to do anything, never do it."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Self-trust is the essence of heroism."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can't hear what you're saying."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine. From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior, the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned, happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory and peace. While it stands, the latest generations of the grateful children of America will make this pilgrimage to it as to a shrine; and when it shall fall, if fall it must, the memory and the name of Washington shall shed an eternal glory on the spot."Edward Everett
"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward."Henry Ford
"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."Benjamin Franklin
"Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited."Robert Freeman
"Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; the power to do what seems to him to be right, without considering what others may say or think."John Galsworthy
"A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a “Yes” merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.
Brian Tracy
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"One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole."Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own."General Charles DeGaulle
"Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character."Vince Gill
"We are where we are, as we are, because of what we are."Earle J. Glade
"Character develops itself in the stream of life."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Genius develops in quiet places,
Character out in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.
"Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"We have all been inoculated with Christianity, and are never likely to take it seriously now! You put some of the virus of some dreadful illness into a man's arm, and there is a little itchiness, some scratchiness, a slight discomfort—disagreeable, no doubt, but not the fever of the real disease, the turning and the tossing, and the ebbing strength. And we have all been inoculated with Christianity, more or less. We are on Christ's side, we wish him well, we hope that He will win, and we are even prepared to do something for Him, provided, of course, that He is reasonable, and does not make too much of an upset among our cozy comforts and our customary ways. But there is not the passion of zeal, and the burning enthusiasm, and the eagerness of self-sacrifice, of the real faith that changes character and wins the world."A.J. Gossip
"A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was."Joseph Hall
"A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created by external advantages; it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station; but it is the result of one's own endeavors—the fruit and reward of good principles manifested in a course of virtuous and honorable action."J. Hawes
"A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever."J. Hawes
"There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity."Helvetius
"To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time."Katherine Hepburn
"A man’s character is his fate.Heraclitus
"Character is destiny.Heraclitus
When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it.
Zig Ziglar
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters,
compared to what lies within us."Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."Jon Holt
"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community."Ed Howe
"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time."
Elbert Green Hubbard
"The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born."Dean Inge
"The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born."Washington Irvine
"One man with courage makes a majority.Andrew Jackson
"What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?"Henry James Jr.
Truthfulness is the main element of character.
Brian Tracy
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"In matters of style swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock."
Thomas Jefferson
"Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect."Thomas Jefferson
"A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.Lord Jeffrey
"Every man has three characters: That which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has."Alphonse Karr
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
Helen Adams Keller
"Courage is doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone."François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended."
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
Ann Landers "Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.
Zig Ziglar
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"I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. Noone who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness."Johann Kaspar Lavater
"What you see and hear depends a great deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.C.S. Lewis
"Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is; the tree is the real thing."Abraham Lincoln
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power."Abraham Lincoln
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."Art Linkletter
"Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself."John Locke
"The discipline of desire is the background of character."John Locke
"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out."Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
"A man without character is like a ship without a rudder.Karl G. Maeser
"New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic, San Francisco is a lady, Boston has become Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington wink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter. Detroit is a one-trade town, Pittsburgh has lost its golden triangle, St. Louis has become the golden arch of the corporation, and nights in Kansas City close early. The oil depletion allowance makes Houston and Dallas naught but checkerboards for this sort of game. But Chicago is a great American city. Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities."Norman Mailer
" . . . success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely—they will make or break you."Marriott Hotels
"Tolerance is another word for indifference."William Somerset Maugham
"If you create an act, you create a habit.
If you create a habit, you create a character.
What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.
Zig Ziglar
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If you create a character, you create a destiny."André Maurois
"A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him."John C. Maxwell
"A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield."David Oman McKay
"There is [a] spiritual strength derived from the subjecting of the physical appetite to the will of the individual. "He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than king." If there were no other virtues in fasting but gaining strength of character, that alone would be sufficient justification for its universal acceptance."David Oman McKay
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."John Albert Michener
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."James D. Miles
"You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say."John D. Mitchell
"A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it."James Moffatt
"The most vital test of a man’s character is not how he behaves after success, but how he sustains defeat."Raymond Moley
"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do."John Baptiste Moliére
"Character is what you are in the dark."Dwight L. Moody
"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character."John Lord Morley
Deal honestly and objectively with yourself;intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
Brian Tracy
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"Character is a subtle thing. Its sources are obscure, its roots delicate and invisible. We know it when we see it and it always commands our admiration, and the absence of it our pity; but it is largely a matter of will." Leo J. Muir
"The real character of a man is found out by his amusements."Jean Iris Murdoch
"Tell me what ticks you off, and I will tell you what makes you tick."Lloyd John Ogilvie
"Character is much easier kept than recovered."Thomas Paine
"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us."Thomas Paine
"Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world."Theodore Parker
"Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies."
Alexander Pope
"Most women have no characters at all."Alexander Pope
"Passing the veil does not alter a man; it certainly takes him from the eyes of flesh, but the capacity, the intelligence, the thinking powers, are all alive and quick; and if they hear the Gospel they will be glad, and the promises are made to them, and they will rejoice in them."Parley P. Pratt
"Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for."Robert Quillen
"Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows."Charles Reade You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but
you can't get any of the things money won't buy- happiness ,joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.
Zig Ziglar
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"Sow a Thought, and you reap an Act;
Sow an Act, and you reap a Habit;
Sow a Habit, and you reap a Character;
Sow a Character, and you reap a Destiny."
Charles Reade
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans."Ronald Wilson Reagan
"Calamity is the test of integrity."Samuel Richardson
"A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another’s."
Jean Paul Richter
"In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual."Jean Paul Richter
"Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another."Jean Paul Richter
"The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence."Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
"The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them."Walter S. Robertson
"I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond; that character - not wealth or power or position - is of supreme worth."
John (Jay) Davison Rockefeller, IV
"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."
Will Rogers "The recent action of an eastern state's education department in eliminating from its curriculum all courses dealing in any way with moral ethics, on the pretext of complying with the Constitutional provision for the separation of church and state, is most disturbing. This is a repudiation of all responsibility for the building of character—the true purpose of education."Marion G. Romney
"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself."Anna Eleanor Roosevelot Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.
Brian Tracy
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"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike."Theodore Roosevelt
"Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character."R.C. Samsel
"It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own."
Herbert Samuel
"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost."Arthur Schopenhauerv
"You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise."
Lucius Annæus Seneca
"In thy face I see
The map of honour, truth, and loyalty
William Shakespeare
"Men should be what they seem."William Shakespeare
"A persons character is but half formed until after wedlock."C. Simmons
"A certain bygone philosophy - which certainly must have quite forgotten all about the real child - used to speak of the child's nature as a tabula rasa, or 'blank page,' upon which experience and training might write what they pleased. As a matter of fact, the child’s nature at birth, like that of a calf or a chick, is pretty well scribbled over by the experience of its ancestors. It is far from being blank, for as soon as the little organism comes into the world, it begins to do certain things and do them with much zeal and determination, as every one knows who knows real children."
Edward O. Sisson
"Abraham Lincoln tells somewhere that as a boy when he met an obscure or ambiguous sentence in his reading it threw him into a sort of rage. The fact is that this was simply a form of instinct for clear thinking which is found in every child and manifests itself abundantly to the perception of the good teacher. Far more important than any particular piece of knowledge, than geography or arithmetic or spelling, is this love of clearness in our mental life and instinctive hatred of confusion and obscurity. Let us learn to know what we know clearly and definitely, and also how we know it.
The great intellectual need of men and women in the outer world is not so much more knowledge as it is better knowledge and better thinking. There is much philosophy in the humorist's remark, "It was never my ignorance that done me up, but the things I know'd that wasn't so." The great enemies of intellectual life are superstition, gullibility, and fallacious reasoning. A mere knowledge of facts, important as that is, is no safeguard against these. A conscious desire and resolve to think clearly is the true remedy.
Our national success will depend largely upon the development of a generation of men and women who have formed a love and habit of clear thinking and who can do their part in solving the problems that confront civilized man today.
Edward O. Sisson
"GOOD is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character makes destiny in the individual and in the race."Edward O. Sisson
"In one sense the whole process of development consists of the formation of habits; for knowledge itself, and the powers of thought, as well as the higher elements in the will, all depend upon the establishment of fixed ways of reacting to given stimuli. Consequently, the general laws of habituation underlie the whole of education. But the term habit is more commonly restricted to those established reactions that act with little or no participation of consciousness, or, in other words, mechanically or automatically. Such habits as these begin to form very early, and constitute a kind of supporting framework for the higher elements of character.
Edward O. Sisson
"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."John Wooden
"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things." Lawrence Bell
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." Winston Churchill
"The time is always right to do what is right." Martin Luther King Jr.
"Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders...Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest." Dale Carnegie
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"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." Oprah Winfrey
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others." Sir Winston Churchill
"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty." John D. Rockefeller
"He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year." Leonardo da Vinci
"Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have." Jean-Paul Sartre
"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand." Baruch Spinoza
"If it ever came to a choice between compromising my moral principles and the performance of my duties, I know I'd go with my moral principles."Anonymous
Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.
Brian Tracy
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"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill
"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy." George Horace Lorimer
"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe." Winston Churchill
"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm." Robert Louis Stevenson
"I kept six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who." Rudyard Kipling
"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter." Henry Fielding
"What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do."
John Ruskin
"No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king." John Milton
"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh--at yourself." Ethel Barrymore
"When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first." Josiah Quincy
Quotes for Control
"Everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing himself."
– Leo Tolstoy
"Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs."
–– Andrew Carnegie
"Warriors take chances. Like everyone else, they fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them."
Ancient Samurai saying
"If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you.
"Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."
Chuang Tzu
"No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself."
William Penn
"No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy - unless you let him."
Napoleon Hill
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"Your brain shall be your servant instead of your master, Your will rule it instead of allowing it to rule you."
Charles E. Popplestone
"Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces."
Og Mandino
"Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure… they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it." John Bentham
"Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." Thomas Jefferson
"You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair." Chinese Proverb
"It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own."
Samurai maxim & Chinese adage
"The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado."Louisa May Alcott
"The control center of your life is your attitude."Anonymous
"The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust."
Josh Billings
"I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food."Erma Bobeck
"As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control."
Ashleigh Brilliant
"Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root."Robert Burns
"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."Charles Robert Darwin
"Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock."Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self."Napoleon Hill
"No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy — unless you let him."Napolean Hill
"Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward."Napolean Hill
"When any fit of anxiety or gloominess or perversion of the mind lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints but exert your whole care to hide it. By endeavoring to hide it, you will drive it away."Dr. Samuel Johnson
"When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality."
Dr. Samuel Johnson
"Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint."James Russell Lowell
"He that would govern others, first should be The Master of himself." Philip Massinger
"It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful."Neal A. Maxwell
"The Savior's constant desire and effort were to implant in the mind right thoughts, pure motives, noble ideals, knowing full well that right words and actions would inevitably follow.
He taught, and modern physiology and psychology confirm, that hate and jealousy and other evil passions destroy a man's physical vigor and efficiency. What a man continually thinks about determines his actions in times of opportunity and stress. A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield."
David Oman McKay
"He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king."
John Milton
"The last and favorite resort of the clergy when they are questioned too closely is: their questioners simply don't understand; they are "uninstructed and amateurish." "Unless you accept our interpretation of the texts," the layman is told, "you obviously do not understand them. And if you don't understand them, you have no right to question our interpretation of them!"
And so the layman is put in his place. The guarded degree, the closed corporation, the technical vocabulary, these are the inner redoubt, the inviolable stronghold of usurped authority. Locked safe within the massive and forbidding walls of institution and formality lies what the Egyptians called "the king's secret," the secret of controlling the past."
Hugh Nibley
"Wherever we look in the ancient world the past has been controlled, but nowhere more rigorously than in the history of the Christian church. The methods of control, wherever we find them, fall under three general heads which might be described as (a) the invention, (b) the destruction, and (c) the alteration of documents."
Hugh Nibley
"He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche
"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you."
Anthony (Tony) Robbins
"O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant."
William Shakespeare
"They that have power to hurt and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow;
They rightly do inherit Heaven’s graces,
And husband nature’s riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others but stewards of their excellence.
The summer’s flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die;
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
For Sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds:
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
William Shakespeare
"When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions..."
W. Clement Stone
"When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habits and don't know how to eliminate them effectively."
William Clement Stone
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
Tao Te Ching
"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, -
These three alone lead life to sovereign power."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."
Mark Twain
"Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty."
James Q. Wilson
"If you can control a man's thinking, you do not have to worry about his actions. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself . If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one."
George G. Woodson
"Control your destiny or somebody else will."
Jack Welsh
"You must be on top of change or change will be on top of you."
Mark Victor Hansen
