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Appreciation  quotes  Appreciate what you have, accept the blessings waiting for you to need them, and above all - realize that Source from which it all comes.--Michael Rawls Appreciation can make a day--even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.--Margaret Cousins Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.--Voltaire Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.--Marty Rubin Spend time to remember and appreciate the people in your life who, despite it all, kept you hopeful as you encountered situations of evil, suffering, and sadness.--Joe McHugh (Startled by God: Wisdom from Unexpected Place) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Challenges quotes Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.--Cecile M. Springer Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.--Gen. George S. Patton There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.--William Frederick Halsy, Jr. There's always room for improvement, you know--it's the biggest room in the house.--Louise Heath Leber ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Determination quotes Claude M. Bristol  It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles. Unknown Author Don't get discouraged; it's usually the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Leonardo da Vinci  Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. John Dryden  Fortune befriends the bold. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Experience quotes Experience has convinced me that there is a thousand times more goodness, wisdom, and love in the world than men imagine.--Gehles Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.--Aldous Huxley (Reader's Digest, March 1956) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.--Oscar Wilde Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.--Oscar Wilde ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Faith quotes Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.--Mahalia Jackson Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.--Albert Pike Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.--Voltaire Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened.--Charles Spurgeon Faith is a continuation of reason.--William Adams ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Strength quotes Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.--Phillips Brooks Each day brings new life, new strength, new dreams and new hope. May you find courage, confidence and hope to reach out for your dreams.--Lailah Gifty Akita  Know your strengths and take advantage of them.--Greg Norman Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.--Drew Barrymore

being different quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson  We boil at different degrees. Norman Vincent Peale  Change yourself and your work will seem different. Meredith West If you want to stand out, don't be different; be outstanding. Dave Thomas If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different. Coco Chanel  In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. Charles M. Schwab The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. ============================== Challenges quotes William Frederick Halsey, Jr.  There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. Joshua J. Marine Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. Albert Einstein  I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy. Amelia Earhart Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do. Benjamin Franklin Never leave that 'till tomorrow which you can do today. Grace Hansen  Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. ============================== Effort quotes Pat Riley  Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude. Napoleon Hill Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. Napoleon Hill  The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim. ============================= Patience quotes Patience is the key to paradise. Helen Keller Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therin to be content. Chinese proverb With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin. With time the patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. John Dryden Beware the fury of a patient man. ============================== Dream  quotes You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.“ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream.” – Kahlil Gibran Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean

Goal quotes The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move. Robert Collier See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession. Louisa May Alcott Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. Andrew Carnegie  Aim for the highest. W. Clement Stone  No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. ------------------------- Strength quotes Strength is a matter of a made up mind." John Beecher  "Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong." Calvin Coolidge  "Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength." Ralph Sockman  "What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can." German Proverb  "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks." Phillips Brooks  ------------------ Wisdom quotes Applicants for wisdom, do what I have done: Inquire within.--Heraclitus Before God we are equally wise--and equally foolish.--Albert Einstein The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.--Chinese proverb A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.--Albert Einstein Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.--Samuel Coleridge. -------------------- Patience quotes Patience and time do more than strength or passion.--Jean de LaFontaine Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are.--Henri Nouwen (Bread For the Journey) Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.--Eknath Easwaran Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.--George Jackson Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.--Lida Clarkson ("Brush Studies" Ladies' Home Journal, 1884) Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.--Soren Kierkegaard (Journal) Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.--Joyce Meyer -------------------- Challenges quotes It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.--Muhammad Ali I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.--Kirstie Alley The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.--Bette Davis Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.--Bernice Johnson Reagon The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.--Helen Keller Not every challenge has to be dealt with on Monday. That's what Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are for!-Lawrence Spindel To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.--Gail Sheehy -------------------- Motivational quotes Jonas Salk I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. C. J. Walker I got my start by giving myself a start. Frederick Herzberg I can charge a man's battery and then recharge it again. But it is only when he has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it. Zig Ziglar  You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

Courage quotes Aesop It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. Submitted By Murray Rubin Stand tall, don't fall. Submitted by Ricky J.Basco There is no fear in the hearts of men when they are armed with honor and valor. Winston Churchill Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. Raul Armesto The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship. John Dryden Fortune befriends the bold. Erica Jong Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place it leads. William Congreve There is in true beauty, as in courage, somewhat which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. Robert H. Schuller Every burden is a blessing. Barbara De Angelis You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ****************** Challenge quotes Barbara Hall You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act. William Frederick Halsey, Jr. There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. Joshua J. Marine Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. Albert Einstein I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy. Amelia Earhart Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do. Benjamin Franklin Never leave that 'till tomorrow which you can do today. Grace Hansen Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. William Ellery Channing Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. Mark Twain Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Chinese proverb The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. ************** Achievement quotes Shirley Lord What really matters is what you do with what you have. Thomas Carlyle Let each become all that he was created capable of being. David J. Schwartz All great achievements require time. Harold Taylor The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. Denis Waitley Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. Dr. Jonas Salk I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. Georgia O'Keeffe Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. Jack Kinder High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. Carl Jung The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality Helen Hayes 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. ************** Encouragement quotes Ovid as submitted by Mary Ann Herman-Bogle The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. George Adams Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement. Unknown Author A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success. Jim Stovall You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. Margaret Cousins Appreciation can make a day - even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. Booker T. Washington Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day. Ovid The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged. Elizabeth Harrison Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. ******************** Dream quotes You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream. -Martin Luther King Jr. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. -Walt Disney Build a dream and the dream will build you. -Robert H. Schuller If you can dream it, you can do it. -Walt Disney Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. -Wolfgang Von Goethe Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. -Harriet Tubman We grow by our dreams. -Woodrow T. Wilson ******************* Happiness quotes The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life. Euripides There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Henry Ford Well-being is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself. Zeno of Citium Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. Various Attributions Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool. John M. Good Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret Lee Runbeck A light heart lives long. William Shakespeare We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them. Juvenal