closeouts,liquidation world,liquidation.com,genco,TJ maxx

Excellent motivational quotes to boost your energy and daily performance. Visit this page and read these quotes daily for ten days to achieve the best results.

"You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."

"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."

"If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost."

"Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome."

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."

"If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner."

"Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful."

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people."

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

"A goal properly set is halfway reached."

"For every sale you miss you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough."

"Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can't do. They dont know what they want because they don't know what is available to them."

"Every choice you make has an end result."

"It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference."

"All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do."

"You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself."

"When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you."

"Success is a personal standard - reaching for the highest that is in us - becoming all that we can be."

"Why we are here is important, but to know where we are going is imperative. It's not what you've got, it's what you use, that makes a difference in how your life turns out."

"The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty."

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes."

"You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations."

"You've got to be before you can do, and do before you can have."

"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."

"Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future."

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." The above quotes were from Zig Ziglar.

Excellent Quotes by master motivational speaker Denis Waitley ...

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." --

"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy." --

"Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing." --

"Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep." --

"Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning." --

"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them." --

Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

The Serenity Prayer
GOD, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference. ...............................

Elie Weisel, Nobel Peace Prize Winner:
The opposite of love is not hatred but indifference. Thus, the opposite of beauty is not ugliness but indifference. The opposite of education is not ignorance but indifference. The opposite of life is not death but indifference to life and death.

Dr. Wayne Dyer is a popular motivational speaker and author. His recent books include The Power of Intention, Ten Secrets For Success & Inner Peace, Getting in the Gap and Everyday Wisdom. I've been studying Dyer's principles and here are the top 21 lessons I've learned from him:

1. You get whatever you think about most. Whatever you think about expands and therefore, we must be careful to not think about what we do not want.

2. You can never get enough of what you don't want. Why? Because we're thinking about what we don't want and we keep getting more of it. From an abundance and prosperity perspective, it can be costly (meaning you can lose great opportunities) to contemplate the conditions you do not want to produce for your life for fear of getting more of what you don't want.

3. Think from the end. I'm a big believer in starting with the end outcome and working backwards to reach it. Dyer takes a more mental approach to it as he encourages you to contemplate yourself surrounded by the people, events, and things that represent your version of a "perfect life."

4. An attitude of gratitude will take you a long way. Rumi said, "Trade your knowledge for bewilderment." It is good to be in awe of all that you have attracted into your life and the more you are grateful for that - the more that will flow freely into your life.

5. Paraphrasing Dyer: There are no branches of any trees that think it is wise to fight with each other. In other words, there is no value in fighting with others as we are all from the same metaphorical human tree of life. There is an old zen saying that goes something like this: Whatever you are for, strengthens you and whatever you are against, weakens you.

6. It is only natural to have abundance and prosperity in your life. It is unnatural to resist the gifts you have been given in life to share with others. Therefore act confidently with a "knowing" that you already have all of the resources you need to succeed.

7. You must be independent of the opinion of others. No one can make you into what you are not. You are responsible to no one for your actions and thoughts except yourself. In addition, you are not in control of your reputation. All you can control is yourself and how you act on a day to day basis.

8. You alone choose your emotional state each day. No one can make you feel any different than you choose to feel on any day. Therefore take full responsibility for the emotional states that you choose to embrace each day.

9. You are not your body nor are you the possessions that you believe you have. You are timeless; perfect; just the way you have forever been and will forever be. You are a spiritual being having a human experience. Live your truth.

10. Meditation can help you solve problems and achieve inner peace. While mental visualization of your intentions or goals are a good thing to do, think of "meditation" as quieting your mind to achieve a place of "no where" -- It's one of the best ways to center yourself.

11. Your EGO is often at odds with universal laws and principles. Best to identify when you are acting from ego vs. acting from your true authentic self. Your ego wants you to feel special and different than others but the reality is that we share more in common than we have differences. Focus on radical humility and respect for yourself and others in order to keep your ego at bay. You can only extend to another that which you are in truth.

12. You can only give others what you have inside of yourself. Therefore to give love away to others, you must cultivate love for yourself FIRST. Dyer uses the metaphor of squeezing an orange - asking you what comes out when you squeeze it. Most people answer, "orange juice" comes out. Why? Because that is what is inside. When humans are squeezed, what comes out of them is what they harbor inside of themselves. Harbor love, acceptance, joy, confidence, peace and harmony towards yourself so that you can radiate it towards others.

13. Your relationship with others does not really exist. You only have your perception of your relationship with others to act on. Therefore you must focus on making sure you perceive your relationship with others on the terms that you hope for the future of the relationship to exist. In other words, you must see harmony within yourself and then with the other person. You must always have within you what you wish to see or give another.

14. Our intentions create our reality. We each create our own personal realities by what we focus on and intend to happen for our experiences. Therefore we have an enormous responsibility to choose our intentions carefully.

15. Be attached to nothing but rather connected with what you want for your life. Attachment can cloud your ability to attract what you want. When you let go and surrender to your perfect self, you will attract what you desire.

16. There is never any scarcity of opportunity, but rather there is only scarcity of resolve to seize the opportunities that knock on our door every day. Scarcity does not exist unless we choose to embrace it...therefore, it is better to never embrace scarcity only embrace the possibility for abundance.

17. When the teacher is ready, the students will appear. When the student is ready, the teachers will appear. We can not learn the lessons we are here to learn if we are not open and receptive to learn. Do not resist the possibility to change, but rather expand and become more open.

18. No one was ever hurt by practicing random acts of kindness. The law of reciprocity always rewards kindness and even more-so when you are kind without any expectation of needing a return. There is no difference in the words "giving" and "receiving."

19. Judgment: One of our purposes in life is to find a way to free ourselves of our need to judge others in a negative light. This is the work of our ego and judging others prevents us from seeing the good in them. There is no value in judging others poorly. As we see others, we also see ourselves.

20. Dyer says, "It's Never Crowded Along the Extra Mile." That means that we must always give more than we expect to receive. In doing so, we join the small percentage of achievers that consistently go above and beyond the call of duty to serve others. The rewards are often disproportionate for those who go the extra mile vs. those who only do the minimum they need to get by. We give without expectations.

21. Trust in yourself and in doing so, you trust in the very wisdom that created you. It is impossible to become a no-limit person if you focus on limitations;therefore only focus on what you want to attract for your life. You already are complete, whole and perfect. Trust in the perfection of your life.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Excellent quotes from Motivational speaker: Les Brown:

All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.

Les Brown

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Les Brown

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Les Brown

Honor your commitments with integrity.

Les Brown

If you don't program yourself, life will program you!

Les Brown

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Les Brown

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

Les Brown

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Les Brown

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Les Brown

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Les Brown

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

Les Brown

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Les Brown

When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed.

Les Brown

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.

Les Brown

Terrific motivational ideas in how to develop a Prosperity Consciousness - by Brian Tracy

The starting point of all riches is the development of a prosperity consciousness. You must become a financial success in your thinking long before you achieve it in your reality. Both poverty and riches are the result of a state of mind, and the most important single step you ever take on the road to wealth and financial independence is the decision to change your thinking, to impress into your mind an unshakable belief that you can and will achieve your financial goals. This must happen before anything else happens.

When I was growing up, I was fascinated by stories of successful men and women and how they made and lost their fortunes, and then made them over again. I read about the importance of a prosperity consciousness in the book, Think And Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill, several times. But I never fully understood what it meant until about five years ago. Then it hit me and I've never been quite the same since. Every aspect of my life has improved dramatically, especially in the area of accumulating wealth, since I finally understood what it meant by a prosperity consciousness.

Here are two of the most exciting principles ever discovered in the long search by mankind for the secrets of health, happiness and great personal wealth.

The first principle is this. All causation is mental. All causation is mental. That means that everything that you are or ever will be will be as a result of how you use your mind. You are merely a mind with a body to carry it around with. The entire man made world that you see is simply an expression of thought. Your entire life is an expression of your own thinking. And since the quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life, if you improve the quality of your thinking, you must, you will, inevitably improve the quality of your life.

The second principle is what we call the law of expectations. This law says that whatever you expect with confidence, positive or negative, becomes your reality. If you confidently expect to succeed, if you confidently expect to learn something from every experience, if you confidently expect to become wealthy as a result of applying your talents and abilities to your opportunities and you maintain that attitude of confident expectations long enough, it will become your reality. It will give you a positive optimistic cheerful attitude that will cause people to want to help you, and will cause things to happen the way you want them to happen.

Here are two things you can do immediately to practice these principles in your day to day life:

First Step

Start thinking today in a positive, optimistic, confident way about personal and financial success. Continually imagine what differences it would make in your life if you were financially independent. This is the starting point of developing a prosperity consciousness.

Second Step

Develop your own attitude of positive expectations. Look for the good in every situation. Look for the valuable lesson in every setback or difficulty. Be positive and cheerful about everything that happens and you will be amazed at the difference it makes in your life.

Increasing Your Earning Potential - by Brian Tracy

Throughout most of human history, we have been accustomed to the gradual changing and progressing of events in a straight line. Sometimes the process of change was faster and sometimes it was slower, but it almost always seemed to be progressive, from one step to the other, allowing you some opportunities for planning, predicting and changing.

Today, however, the rate of change is not only faster than ever before, but it is discontinuous. It is taking place in a variety of unconnected areas and affecting each of us in a variety of unexpected ways. Changes in information processing technologies are happening separately from changes in medicine, changes in transportation, changes in education, changes in politics and changes in global competition. Changes in family formation and relationships are happening separately from the rise and fall of new businesses and industries in different parts of the country. And if anything, this rate of accelerated, discontinuous change is increasing. As a result, most of us are already suffering from what Alvin Toffler once called, future shock.

You can't do very much about the enormity of these changes, but the one thing that you can do is to think seriously about yourself and your basic need for security and stability. In no area is this more important than in the areas of job security and financial security. You must give special attention to your ability to make a good living and provide for yourself in the months and years ahead.

Above all, to position yourself for tomorrow, you must think continuously and seriously about your work today, your earning ability , and the work that you will be doing one, three, and five years from today. You must plan to achieve your own financial security, no matter what happens.

Charles Kettering said that you should give a lot of thought to the future because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life. One of the greatest mistakes that people can make, and the one with the worst long-term consequences, is to think only about the present and give very little thought to what might happen in the months and years ahead.

When our grandfathers started work, it was quite common for them to get a basic education and then go to work for a company and stay with that same company for the rest of their working lives. When our parents went to work, it was more common for them to change jobs three or four times during their lifetime, although it was difficult and disruptive.

Today, with increased turbulence and change in the national and global economy, a person starting work can expect to have five full-time careers between the ages of 21 and 65, and 14 full-time jobs lasting two years or more. According to Fortune Magazine, fully 40 percent of American employees in the 21st Century will be contingency workers. This means that they will never work permanently for another company. They will continue to move as needed, from company to company, from job to job, earning less money than full-time employees and accruing very few, if any, benefits in terms of health care and pension plans.

Imagine what your job will look like five years from today. Since knowledge in your field is probably doubling every five years, this means that fully twenty percent of your knowledge and your ability in your field is becoming obsolete each year. In five years, you will be doing a brand new job with brand new skills and abilities. Ask yourself, What parts of my knowledge, skills and work are becoming obsolete? What am I doing today that is different than what I was doing one year ago and two years ago? What are you likely to be doing one year, two years, three years, four years and five years from today? What knowledge and skills will you need and how will you acquire them? What is your plan for your economic and financial future?

We are now in the knowledge age. Today, the chief factors of production are knowledge and the ability to apply that knowledge to achieving results for other people. Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that you contribute value for which customers are going to pay.

The Law of Three says that you must contribute three dollars of profit for every dollar that you wish to earn in salary. It costs a company approximately double your salary to employ you in terms of space, benefits, supervision, and investment in furniture, fixtures, and other resources. For a company to hire you, they have to make a profit on what they pay you. Therefore, you must contribute value greatly in excess of the amount you earn in order to stay employed. To put it another way, your earning ability must be considerably greater than the amount you are receiving, or you will find yourself looking for another job.

To position yourself for tomorrow, here is one of the most important rules you will ever learn: ;The future belongs to the competent.The future belongs to those men and women who are very good at what they do. Pat Riley, in his book The Winner Within, wrote that, If you are not committed to getting better at what you are doing, you are bound to get worse.To phrase it another way, anything less than a commitment to excellent performance on your part is an unconscious acceptance of mediocrity. It used to be that you needed to be excellent to rise above the competition in your industry.Today, you must be excellent even to keep your job in your industry.

The marketplace is a stern task master. Today, excellence, quality, and value are absolutely essential elements of any product or service, and of the work of any person. Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance. Customers today want the very most and the very best for the very least amount of money, and on the best terms. Only the individuals and companies that provide absolutely excellent products and services at absolutely excellent prices will survive. It is not personal it is just the way our economy works.

To earn more, you must learn more. You are maxed out today at your current level of knowledge and skill. However much you are earning at this moment is the maximum you can earn without learning and practicing something new and different.

And here is the rub. Your accumulated knowledge and experience is becoming obsolete bit by bit, day by day. The knowledge in your field is doubling every three to five years. That means that your knowledge must double every three to five years just for you to stay even.

The solution to the dilemma of unavoidable change and restructuring is continuous self-development. Your personal knowledge and your ability to apply that knowledge are your most valuable assets. To stay on top of your world, you must continually add to your knowledge and your ability. You must continually build up your mental assets if you want to enjoy a continuous return on your investment. And only by building on your current assets do you stop them from deteriorating.

By engaging in continuous self-improvement, you can put yourself behind the wheel of your own life. By dedicating yourself to enhancing your earning ability, you will automatically be engaging in the continuous process of personal development. By learning more, you prepare yourself to earn more. You position yourself for tomorrow by developing the knowledge and skills that you need to be a valuable and productive part of our economy, no matter which direction it goes.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,

is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Benjamin Disraeli

You cannot plough a field by

turning it over in your mind.

Author Unknown

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Johnson

Fortune favors the brave.

Publius Terence

He who hesitates is lost.

Proverb

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

Willing is not enough; we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are still masters of our fate.

We are still captains of our souls.

Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For hope is but the dream

of those that wake.

Matthew Prior

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Lucretius

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--

a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.

Cicero

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Euripides

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

Do not follow where the path may lead.

Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Harold R. McAlindon

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There go the people.

I must follow them for I am their leader.

Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.

Henry Ward Beecher

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

Lee Iacocca

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

Plutarch

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

William James

The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Socrates

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Robert Cushing

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

Cicero

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small,

Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

Juvenal

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

Abd-el-Kadar

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Lord Chesterfield

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

Lord Chesterfield

God ever works with those who work with will.

Aeschylus

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heaven never helps the man who will not act.

Sophocles

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

Edward Bulwer Lytton

Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.

Marquise du Deffand

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Benjamin Franklin

If we all did the things we are capable of,

we would astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld

The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

Sir William Temple

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

Samuel Johnson

A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Basil

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Theodore Roosevelt

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

Thomas Hood

Go back a little to leap further.

John Clarke

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No longer forward nor behind

I look in hope and fear;

But grateful take the good I find,

The best of now and here.

John G. Whittier

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Aristotle

Dost thou love life?

Then do not squander time,

for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason,

-- over every idea.

Latin Proverb

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

James Russel Lowell

Far away 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.

Louisa May Alcott

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet.

Joseph Joubert

Hope is the dream of a man awake.

French Proverb

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

Michel de Montaigne

Where beams of imagination play,

The memory's soft figures melt away.

Alexander Pope

Believe that you have it, and you have it.

Latin Proverb

Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful.

Horace

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Dost thou love life, then do not squander time,

for that's the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Time in its aging course teaches all things.

Aeschylus

Make use of time, let not advantage slip.

William Shakespeare

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.

Chinese Proverb

You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Charles Bruxton

I recommend you take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.

Earl of Chesterfield

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Publius Syrus

The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.

Steven W. Hawking

Time and tide wait for no man.

Geoffrey Chaucer

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Gloria Steinem from

Work at Home Moms - Time Management Tips

Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.

English Proverb

He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost.

Thomas Fuller

Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Horace Mann

Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare.

Thomas Fuller

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.

Marcel Proust

Time is a physician which heals every grief.

Diphilus

Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.

John Shebbeare

Time is money.

Benjamin Franklin

The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.

Sir Matthew Hale

Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in.

Henry David Thoreau

He who know most grieves most for wasted time.

Dante

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Socrates

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Oliver Goldsmith

Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.

Mme. Du Deffand

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self; to render our consciousness its own light and its own mirror.

Frederich Leopold von Hardenberg

In this world man must either be anvil or hammer.

Henry W. Longfellow

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

Immanuel Kant

Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.

Sir J. Stephen

Discontent is the source of all trouble,

but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

Berthold Auerbach

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers! The world is advancing. Advance with it!

Mazzini

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Thomas Carlyle

Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater.

Epictetus

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; If moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor: nothing is ever to be attained without it.

Sir Joshua Reynolds

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

Saint Augustine

Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.

Henry W. Longfellow

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

Joe Namath

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

You are the handicap you must face.

You are the one who must choose your place.

James Lane Allen

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

George F. Will

There are no gains without pains.

Adlai Stevenson

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

William Edward Hickson

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Corneille

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

They wil rise highest who strive for the highest place.

(Altius ibunt qui as summa nituntur.)

Latin Proverb

Never say die.

Proverb

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports.

What's tough is being good every day.

Willie Mays

You are never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka

If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

Vince Lombardi

Nothing succeeds like success.

Proverb

It is good to rub and polish our brains against that of others.

Michel de Montaigne

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Mao Tse-Tung

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

Walter Lipman

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Shakespearer

The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think.

James Beattie

What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and the thinking.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.

William Shakespeare

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take firm root in our personal experience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The less men think, the more they talk.

Baron Montesquieu

But words are things, and a small drop of ink

Falling like dew upon a thought, produces

That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Sir Aubrey De Vere

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself, and is capable of thinking hard and long.

Charles W. Eliot

Obvious thinking commonly leads to wrong judgments and wrong conclusions.

Humphrey B. Neil

Language is the close-fitting dress of Thought.

R. C. Trench

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.

Vince Lombardi

One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Calvin Coolidge

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

General Douglas MacAuthur

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

John Churton Collins

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Greek Proverb

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

Thomas Fuller

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Confucius

Be silent, or say something better than silence.

Pythagoras

Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style.

Jonathan Swift

It is as easy to draw back a stone, thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

Menander

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

Roger L'Estrange

If the truth were self evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

Cicero

It is good to rub and polish our brain

against that of others.

Montaigne

Kind words are the music of the world.

F. W. Faber

People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.

Josh Bilings

The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

Seneca the Younger

Many can argue - not many converse.

A. Bronson Alcott

The less people speak of their greatness,

the more we think of it.

Sir Francis Bacon

Language is the close-fitting dress of Thought.

R. C. Trench

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

John Milton

The first ingredient in conversation is truth:

the next good sense; the third, good humor;

and the fourth wit.

Sir William Temple

True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.

Daniel Webster

There is no education like adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

Ralph Blum

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

Henry David Thoreau

Fractures well cured make us more strong.

Ralph Waldo Emmerson

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Horace

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

Henry W. Longfellow

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Horace

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

Confucius

Difficulties strengthen the mind,

as well as labor does the body.

Seneca

Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Caleb Colton

In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.

Albert Careb

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; and lend a hand.

E. E. Hale

Sweet are the uses of adversity,

Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,

Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

William Shakespeare

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.

Ray Goforth

Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth

Most people achieved their greatest success one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure.

Brian Tracy

Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable pre-requisite for success

Brian Tracy

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Helen Keller

There is no failure. Only feedback.

Unknown

Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.

John Maxwell

If people are coming to work excited . . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly . . .

if they're having fun . . . if they're concentrating doing things,

rather than preparing reports and going to meetings - then somewhere you have leaders.

- Robert Townsend

When he reached the New World, Cortez burned his ships. As a result his crew was well motivated.

- The Hunt For Red October

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

- Peter F. Drucker

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race

- Calvin Coolidge

Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back.

There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do

is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.

- Elie Wiesel

They build too low who build beneath the skies

- an inscription on a building in Washington, D.C

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be.

Now put the foundation under them.

- Henry David Thoreau

If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood

and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for

the endless immensity of the sea.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes.

In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear.

Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back

from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?

- Mary Manin Morrissey author

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.

- Albert Schweitzer

People prefer to follow those who help them, not those who intimidate them.

- C. Gene Wilkes

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

- Harriet Braiker

You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!

- Bob Richards

I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best.

- Akeem Olajuwon

Watch your thoughts; they become words.

Watch your words; they become actions.

Watch your actions; they become habits.

Watch your habits; they become character.

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

- Frank Outlaw

This is actually a paraphrase of a Buddhist teaching

called the "Dhammapada" which is attributed to the Buddha.

It reads:

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not.

Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.

Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.

- Unknown

If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.

- Nido Qubein

Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it.

- Sir Winston Churchill

The thought manifests as the word;

The word manifests as the deed;

The deed develops into habit;

And habit hardens into character;

So watch the thought and its ways with care,

And let it spring from love

Born out of concern for all beings....

As the shadow follows the body,

As we think, so we become.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

- Donald Laird

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

- William Boetcker

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

- Unknown

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned.

When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting.

It needs continual and regular top ups.

- Peter Davies

The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.

- Roy Moody

No one does anything from a single motive.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

- Sir John Lubbock

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!

- Max Schmelling

The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.

- Francie Larrieu Smith

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail.

But I like that. I need to be hated.

- Howard Stern

This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

- Frank A. Clark

It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.

Louis Kossuth

I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

Robert Southey

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

Nelson A. Rockefeller

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Pietro Aretino

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Christian Nestell Bovee

A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity,

We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry;

But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain,

As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.

William Shakespeare

Please review this page daily as well as our inspiration page to help you in the journey to success.We specialize in liquidators national wholesale, liquidator wholesale, liquidator national, liquidators national warehouses, hotel liquidators,closeout liquidation, government liquidation, center liquidation sears, Liquidation and closeout, wholesale warehouse, liquidation store, Distressed merchandise, store return, discontinued items, liquidation merchandise, discount merchandise, national wholesale liquidators, national liquidators, merchandise wholesaler, customer return wholesale, customer return, general merchandise store, wholesale general merchandise, general merchandise, shopping general merchandise,logistics reverse.Thank you for your business.

41 Great songs that will motivate you :