Quoter Index

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Muhammad Ali
"A man who has no imagination has no wings."
Maya Angelou
"If you don't like something, change it.  If you can't change it, change your attitude.  Don't complain."
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"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

Aristotle
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."

John Assaraf
"You become what you think about most but you also attract what you think about most."

B
Stanley Baldwin
"War would end if the dead could return"


Peter Bowerman
"Success as a self-publisher is far more of a function of a process than an aptitude."

William Barclay
"There are two great days in a person's life -- the day we are born and the day we discover why."

J.M. Barrie
"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."


Michael Beckwith
"The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted...As you begin to be grateful for what most people take for granted, that vibration of gratitude makes you more receptive to good in your life."

Buddha
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.  Happiness never decreases by being shared."
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"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

Ken Blanchard
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."
C
Jack Canfield
"Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try."

Chinese Proverb
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."

Winston Churchill 
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

Paulo Coehlo
"When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises."

***
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do."

Stephen R. Covey
"Begin with the end in mind."


Confucious
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do."
D
Anthony de Mello
"There is only one cause of unhappiness; the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them."

Benjamin Disraeli
"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge"

John Dryden
"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."


E
Albert Einstein
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its
ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life
believing that it is stupid." 

***
"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world."
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"Adopt the pace of nature.  Her secret is patience."
Epictetus
"There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
F
 
Charles Fillmore 
"Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind."

Henry Ford
"Whenever you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right."
G
Mohandas Gandhi
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Jeffrey Gitomer
"The glue of self-belief and thinking you can is based in your attitude - the way you dedicate yourself to the way you think."

H
Charles Haanel
"Mind is creative, and conditions, environment and all experiences in life are the result of our habitual or predominant mental attitude."

***
"Thinking is the only activity which the spirit possesses, and thought is the only product of thinking."
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"Mental Power is creative power, it gives you the ability to create for yourself; it does not mean the ability to take something away from someone else."

Stephen Hawking
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."


Louise Hay
"You are the power in your world! You get to have whatever you choose to think!"

Robert Heinlein
"Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

Napoleon Hill
"Knowing that one's plans are sound, based upon experience or observation, encourages persistence; "guessing" instead of "knowing" destroys persistence."
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"The imagination is the workshop of the soul wherein are shaped all plans for individual achievement."

Aldous Huxley
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Zora Neale Hurston
"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." 
Thomas Huxley
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."
I
J

Samuel Johnson
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."


James Earl Jones
"When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language."
K
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better."

Stephen King
"When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not?  Of course you do.  When you are writing, you're creating your own worlds."

Robert Kiyosaki
"Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you."


L
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."
Gottfried Liebniz 
"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that is is counting."

M
Nelson Mandela
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

Bob Marley 
"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"

H. L. Mencken
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."

N
Lisa Nichols
"You are the designer of your destiny; you are the author of your story."

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P
Tyler Perry
"I wanted to make a statement, not in any grand or boastful way, but to let people know what God can do when you believe..."

Michael Pritchard
"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives develop." 

Marcel Proust
"Let us be grateful to people who makes us happy, they are charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."


Proverbs 3:5-6
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and rely not on your own wisdom. In all your ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths."


Q
R
Sri Ramakrishna
"The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail."


Agnes Repplier
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."

Jim Rohn
"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.""Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world."

Eleanor Roosevelt
"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

S
Dr. Robert Schuller
Sow a thought, and you reap an act.
Sow an act, and you reap a habit.
Sow a habit, and you reap character.
Sow character, and you reap destiny!


Albert Schweitzer
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”


Florence Scovel Shin
"Intuition is a spiritual faculty that does not explain, but simply points the way."


Benjamin Spock
"Trust yourself.  You know more than you think you do."
T
Henry David Thoreau
"If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."


Mark Twain
"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too."

Lao Tzu
"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy."

U
V
Iyanla Vanzant
"RIGHT where you are is where you need to be.  Don't fight it!  Don't run away from it!  Stand firm!  Take a deep breath.  And another,  And another.  Stop beating up on yourself.  Don't blame anyone else.  Breathe.  Now ask yourself:  Why is this in my world?  What do I need to see?  To know myself through this situation.  Breathe again. Now ask God..."
W

Marianne Williamson
“Until you accept the magnitude of your function, your unconscious mind will sabotage any attempt to show your full magnificence.  Your self-concept has to match your manifestation or else the manifestation is doomed…”
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Z
Zig Ziglar
“This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.”
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"Every choice you make has an end result."

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