Age

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on age: The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille Ball Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. - Henry Ford We dont stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. - George Bernard Shaw Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you dont mind, it doesnt matter. - Mark Twain No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. - Henry David Thoreau Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. - Victor Hugo The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything. - Oscar Wilde Lifes tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. - Benjamin Franklin Middle age is when youre sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isnt for you. - Ogden Nash You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. - Bob Hope

Anger
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on anger: For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson In times of great stress or adversity, its always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

- Lee Iacocca Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. - Maya Angelou He who angers you conquers you. - Elizabeth Kenny Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. - Mohandas Gandhi When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear. - Mark Twain Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. - William Congreve You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger. - Buddha Anyone can become angry that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way that is not within everyones power and that is not easy. - Aristotle Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

Beauty
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on beauty: Beauty, without expression, tires. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. - Margaret Hungerford Im tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. Thats deep enough. What do you want an adorable pancreas? - Jean Kerr Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty they merely move it from

their faces into their hearts. - Martin Buxbaum It is not beauty that endears; its love that makes us see beauty. - Leo Tolstoy Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. - Dorothy Parker You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. - Chuck Palahniuk Beauty is whatever gives joy. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Business
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on business: A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. - Henry Ford By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. - Robert Frost Never burn bridges. Todays junior jerk, tomorrows senior partner. - Sigourney Weaver The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business. - Mahatma Gandhi If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business. - William J. H. Boetcker If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. - Kahlil Gibran A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. - Henry Kravis Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you dont think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it. - David Ogilvy

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you. - Benjamin Franklin

Change
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on change: You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Gandhi The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. - Oprah Winfrey The only thing constant in life is change. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. - Harold Wilson Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw Consider how hard it is to change yourself and youll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. - Jacob M. Braude No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. - Confucius Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. - Denis Waitley

Children
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on children: Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up cause theyre

looking for ideas. - Paula Poundstone Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. - James Baldwin Dont handicap your children by making their lives easy. - Robert A. Heinlein Theres nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. - Frank A. Clark Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children. - Oliver Wendell Holmes We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. - Stacia Tauscher We cannot always build the future of our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Children are our most valuable resource. - Herbert Hoover Never underestimate a childs ability to get into more trouble. - Martin Mull Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. - Phyllis Diller

Courage
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on courage: It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. - E.E. Cummings Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill Courage is grace under pressure. - Ernest Hemingway

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. - Mark Twain Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. - Bruce Lee Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. Its courage that counts. - John Wooden Courage doesnt always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says Ill try again tomorrow. - Mary Anne Radmacher Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. - Confucius

Death
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on death: In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. - Buddha Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. - Albert Einstein The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. - Mark Twain The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesnt get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. - Leonardo da Vinci

The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? - Edgar Allan Poe Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. - Napoleon Bonaparte The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. - Mark Twain No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. - Plato

Education / Wisdom
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on education: It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you dont. - Pete Seeger The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing. - Socrates To repeat what others have said requires education. To challenge it requires brains. - Marry Pettibone Poole It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. - Alec Bourne Life is not divided into semesters. You dont get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. - Bill Gates Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. - Albert Einstein Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled. - Wu Ting-Fang Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. - Plato Educations purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm Forbes

Equality
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on equality: The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. - Aristotle Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions. It only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. - Steven Pinker All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. - George Orwell I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. - Mohandas Gandhi Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish. - Albert Einstein Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If youre a man, you take it. - Malcolm X The sole equality on earth is death. - Philip James Bailey To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. - William Faulkner Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality. - Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Family
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on family: The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family. - Lee Iacocca

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. - George Burns A happy family is but an earlier heaven. - George Bernard Shaw You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those whove never had any. - Bill Cosby Family isnt about whose blood you have. Its about who you care about. - Trey Parker and Matt Stone All happy families resemble one another. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - Leo Tolstoy Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. - Jane Howard You dont choose your family. They are Gods gift to you, as you are to them. - Desmond Tutu As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. - Pope John Paul II If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw

Friendship
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on friends: Dont walk in front of me, I may not follow. Dont walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. - Aristotle Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you. - Elbert Hubbard You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. - Dale Carnegie True friends stab you in the front.

- Oscar Wilde Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. - Helen Keller I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. - Abraham Lincoln Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art It has no survival value. Rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C. S. Lewis There are no strangers here; Only friends you havent yet met. - William Butler Yeats Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. - George Eliot

Happiness
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on happiness: Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. - Nathaniel Hawthorne The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up. - Mark Twain We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. - Thomas Jefferson It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. - Dalai Lama Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. - Robert Frost Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. - Storm Jameson The U.S. Constitution doesnt guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. - Albert Schweitzer

Humor
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on humor (or just humorous quotes we love): Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde Theres so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? - Dick Cavett Never be afraid to laugh at yourself. After all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. - Dame Edna Everage That is the saving grace of humor. If you fail no one is laughing at you. - A. Whitney Brown Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. - Christopher Morely Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it. - Salma Hayek The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful. - Kurt Vonnegut Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. - E.B. White You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance. - W. Somerset Maugham I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. - Frank Howard Clark

Love
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on love: Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. - Robert Heinlein Love is friendship, set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor Love doesnt make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. - Elizabeth Browning It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. - Friedrich Nietzsche Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself. - Jean Anouilh Love at first sight is easy to understand; its when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. - Amy Bloom Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Mark Twain Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. - Lord Byron Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. - Maya Angelou

Men and Women

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on men and women: A diplomat is a man who always remembers a womans birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed. - Albert Einstein Men are what their mothers made them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no

wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. - Margaret Fuller If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. - Plato For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. - Virginia Woolf Women are made to be loved, not understood. - Oscar Wilde There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. - Will Rogers Women dont want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think in a deeper voice. - Bill Cosby Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. - Timothy Leary

Money
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on money: Dont go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful. - Warren Buffet A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. - Robert Frost Money wont create success. The freedom to make it will. - Nelson Mandela Money isnt the most important thing in life, but its reasonably close to oxygen on the gotta have it scale. - Zig Ziglar Time is money.

- Benjamin Franklin If youre given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal. - Katherine Hepburn It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. - Logan Pearsall Smith The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. - Edith Wharton I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself. - Henry Ford

Movies
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on movies (about movies, not quotes from movies): This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country. - Clint Eastwood All of lifes riddles are answered in the movies. - Steve Martin A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue. - David Mamet Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. - Billy Wilder The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it. - Jodie Foster A film has its own life and takes its own time. - Aaron Eckhart Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. - Walt Disney The average Hollywood film stars ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman, and have a French boyfriend.

- Katharine Hepburn In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film. - Gwyneth Paltrow Every great film should seem new every time you see it. - Roger Ebert

Music
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on music: Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. - Ed Gardner Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. - Robert Fripp Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato Life is one grand, sweet song so start the music. - Ronald Reagan Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. - Bill Cosby Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. - Samuel Johnson Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. - Lao Tzu I dont know anything about music. In my line you dont have to. - Elvis Presley Music is a safe kind of high. - Jimi Hendrix Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. - Victor Hugo

Peace
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on peace: If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then thered be peace. - John Lennon Peace begins with a smile. - Mother Teresa Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. - Albert Einstein Peace is its own reward. - Mohandas Gandhi If you want to make peace, you dont talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. - Moshe Dayan The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction. - Jawaharlal Nehru Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. - George Carlin Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. - Dalai Lama Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. - Buddha It isnt enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isnt enough to believe in it. One must work at it. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Politics
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on politics: One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. - Thomas Jefferson I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

- Charles De Gaulle Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think its important. - Eugene McCarthy Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didnt happen. - Winston Churchill The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. - John Adams Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

Science
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on science: Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. - Bertrand Russell Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. - George Bernard Shaw Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. - Charles Darwin

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. - Hippocrates The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. - Isaac Asimov The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. - Sir William Bragg New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure. - Herbert Hoover However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. - Lewis Mumford I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. - Marie Curie Science is simply common sense at its best. That is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. - Thomas Huxley

Sports
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on sports: Sports do not build character. They reveal it. - Heywood Broun Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. - George Orwell We didnt lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi

I went to a fight last night and a hockey game broke out. - Rodney Dangerfield Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. - George F. Will You cant win unless you learn how to lose. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Winners never quit and quitters never win. - Vince Lombardi Sport is imposing order on what was chaos. - Anthony Starr The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back. - Steve Garvey The breakfast of champions is not cereal, its the opposition. - Nick Seitz

Success
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on success: Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. - Henry Ford Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill I dont know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby Eighty percent of success is showing up. - Woody Allen Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. - Benjamin Franklin You can do anything, but not everything. - David Allen We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. - Sven Goran Eriksson Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. - Maya Angelou

War
Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on war: I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I wont. - George Patton You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. - Jeannette Rankin There never was a good war or a bad peace. - Benjamin Franklin What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless whether the mad destruction is brought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Mahatma Gandhi There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs. - Dwight Eisenhower It is well that war is so terrible otherwise we would grow too fond of it. - Robert E. Lee War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. - Thomas Mann Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isnt every war fought between men, between brothers? - Victor Hugo My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. - George Washington

Other Quotes
While reviewing quotes there were some favorites that didnt quite fit within the categories above, but they were still considered worth including as some of the best quotes of all time. Here are those quotes: That which doesnt kill us makes us stronger. - Friedrich Nietzche No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt Whether you think you can or think you cant, youre right. - Henry Ford If you dont make mistakes, youre not working on hard enough problems. - Frank Wilczek Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. - Benjamin Franklin We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. - Martin Luther King, Jr. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. - William Arthur Ward Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison I do not agree with what you have to say, but Ill defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time. But you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln

1 Define your goal

The first step is to define your goal. Perhaps you've always dreamt about running a race or learning a new language? Maybe you're determined to seek a promotion or you simply want to shed a few kilos. Consider everything. What would you do if you had more time? What would you like to accomplish in the future? What do you regret about the past? In the words of motivational speaker Les Brown , "Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life." Whatever you choose, make sure your goal is specific, achievable and tangible.

2 Set your deadline

A goal without a deadline can be forever postponed, so set a deadline and aim to be as realistic as possible. If your goal is to lose a certain amount of weight for example, count on losing 2 pounds (around one kilo) per week. If you have your eye on that promotion, think about when your next appraisal is scheduled or another opportunity when you will have the chance to shine. Diana Scharf Hunt, author of The Tao of Time (Fireside), summed it up perfectly by saying, "Goals are dreams with deadlines."

3 Identify your purpose

True motivation comes from understanding your underlying purpose, so think about what that is. Ensure your goal is something that you really want and not what others want you to do. Ensure also, that the goal you have set is in line with your overall purpose. If your purpose is to get fit, then a weight-loss goal may not be in line with this - it is possible to be slim, but still be unfit. Instead, it should rather be, "To achieve the same fitness levels I had when I was 20".

4 Recognise the benefits

Determine, and better still, write down, the benefits you expect to enjoy from reaching your goal. Ask yourself what you will achieve from conquering your goal? Defining the benefits will help you to overcome moments of weakness. Evaluate these carefully and your goals will become much more attainable and your motivation increased. Lucy Mackintosh, NLP Coach and founder of The Law of Attraction Group in Dubai says, "Write them on post-it notes and stick them on the fridge, in the car, on a mirror; by never losing sight of the benefits of success, your goal will remain at the forefront of your mind which will only strengthen your resolve."

5 Instill self-belief
You must believe your goal is achievable; unless you believe you can 100 per cent reach it, you will have no true motivation. Those who think they can and those who think they can't are both right; the power of positive thinking knows no end. According to Carolyn Mitchell, NLP Life Coach and owner of Blue Sky Life Coaching , "Affirmations are an excellent tool to promote self-belief and assure ourselves of positive outcomes. Begin with fast forwarding to the time when you have achieved your goal. Learn what it feels like [in your mind] to experience what the success of achieving your goal means to you. Feel it or see it for yourself. Once you have learned

what success feels like, you simply can't unlearn' it. By writing, reading and re-experiencing those feelings of success over and over again you are essentially telling yourself what you want by believing that you already have it."

6 Spot the Obstacles

Now identify your potential obstacles. When suddenly faced with obstacles it can be difficult to remain focused and energetic. They can sap your energy, time and enthusiasm. What may hinder your progress? Old habits die hard and current mindsets can be difficult to shift, but identifying the obstacles will prepare you for the road ahead - forewarned is forearmed after all. "Be perfectly honest with yourself," says Carolyn, "this is the only way to identify all the possible problem areas. And only when you identify these can you develop strategies to minimise them."

7 Seek the Solutions

Think about how you can overcome these obstacles. What in your life needs changing? This is your opportunity to plan your strategies for handling the setbacks. If you consider each obstacle, one by one, you can easily identify a suitable solution; this may mean a change to your usual routine, enlisting the support of a friend or family member or a change to your current mindset. "If you can't find the solution yourself then ask someone who has achieved a similar goal how they did it" says Lucy, "or imagine you are sitting with a role model, a top athlete, for example. Ask them what to do and then put yourself in their shoes and give the advice they would give."

8 practise visualisation
Take time to imagine that you have achieved your goal. What is it like? How do you feel? Excited? Exuberant? How has your life changed? How does it look, feel or sound? Capture that moment in your head and never lose sight of it. Try to make your vision so clear that you can perceive it with all five senses. The clearer the image in your mind, the easier it is to manifest into reality or in the words of Napoleon Hill, author of Think & Grow Rich (Ballantine Books), "What the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve."

9 Create your action plan

Create a step-by-step action plan detailing exactly what you need to do to achieve the goal. Remember in step one we identified that goals are the road maps that guide you? Well think of your action plan as the specific directions to get you to your destination, via the quickest and easiest route possible. Depending on the nature of your goal, identify any major milestones necessary to achieve it, then break down each milestone into specific tasks or steps. Sometimes just knowing where to start is hard, in which case enlist the support of others, be it friends, colleagues or a support group. Be prepared to journal the process. Writing things down helps to collate our thoughts, handle potholes and identify and deal with weaknesses. Strive to make progress every day. Every single day. And tell everyone you know about your goal accountability is a great way to ensure that you do what needs to be done.

Stupid Questions with the Smart Answers

BOY : May I hold your hand? GIRL : No thanks, it isn't heavy. GIRL : Say you love me! Say you love me! BOY : You love me... GIRL : If we become engaged will you give me a ring?? BOY : Sure, what's your phone number?? GIRL : I think the poorest people are the happiest. BOY : Then marry me and we'll be the happiest couple GIRL : Darling, I want to dance like this forever. BOY : Don't you ever want to improve?? BOY : I love you and I could die for you! GIRL : How soon?? BOY : I would go to the end of the world for you! GIRL : Yes, but would you stay there?? SHARON : Have you ever had a hot passionate, burning kiss?? TRACY : I did once. He'd forgotten to take the cigarette out of his mouth. MAN : You remind me of the sea. WOMAN : Because I'm wild, romantic and exciting? MAN : NO, because you make me sick. WIFE : You tell a man something, it goes in one ear and comes out of the other. HUSBAND : You tell a woman something: It goes in both ears and comes out of the mouth. MARY : John says I'm pretty. Andy says I'm ugly.What do u think, Peter? PETER : A bit of both. I think you're pretty ugly.

-----------------------

1) Girlfriend : "...And are you sure you love me and no one else ?" Boyfriend : "Dead Sure! I checked the whole list again yesterday". 2) Teacher : "Which is more important to us, the sun or the moon?" Pupil : "The moon". Teacher : "Why?" Pupil : "The moon gives us light at night when we need it but the sun gives us light only in the day time when we don't need it".

3) Teacher : "What do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?" Pupil : "A teacher". 4) Waiter : "Would you like your coffee black?" Customer : "What other colors do you have?" 5) My father is so old that when he was in school, history was called current affairs. 6) Teacher : "Sam, you talk a lot !" Sam : "It's a family tradition". Teacher : "What do you mean?" Sam : "Sir, my grandpa was a street hawker, my father is a teacher". Teacher : "What about your mother?" Sam : "She's a woman". 7) Tom : "How should I convey the news to my father that I've failed?" David: "You just send a telegram: Result declared, past year's performance repeated". 8) Teacher : "Now, children, if I saw a man beating a donkey and stopped him, what virtue would I be showing?" Student : "Brotherly love". 9) Teacher : "Now, Sam, tell me frankly do you say prayers before eating?" Sam : "No sir, I don't have to, my mom is a good cook". 10) Patient : "What are the chances of my recovering doctor?" Doctor : "One hundred percent. Medical records show that nine out of ten people die of the disease you have. Yours is the tenth case I've treated. The others all died". 11) Teacher : " Can anybody give an example of COINCIDENCE?" One Student : "Sir, my Mother and Father got married on the same day and at the same time." 12) Teacher : " George Washington not only chopped down his father's Cherry tree, but also admitted doing it. Now do you know why his father didn't punish him ?" One Student: " Because George still had the axe in is hand."

An old proverb says, He that cannot ask cannot live. If you want answers you have to ask questions. These are 75 questions you should ask yourself and try to answer. You can ask yourself these questions right now and over the course of your life. 1. Why not me? 2. Am I nice? 3. Am I doing what I really want to do? 4. What am I grateful for? 5. Whats missing in my life? 6. Am I honest? 7. Do I listen to others? 8. Do I work hard? 9. Do I help others? 10. What do I need to change about myself? 11. Have I hurt others? 12. Do I complain? 13. Whats next for me? 14. Do I have fun? 15. Have I seized opportunities? 16. Do I care about others? 17. Do I spend enough time with my family? 18. Am I open-minded? 19. Have I seen enough of the world? 20. Do I judge others? 21. Do I take risks? 22. What is my purpose? 23. What is my biggest fear? 24. How can I conquer that fear? 25. Do I thank people enough? 26. Am I successful? 27. What am I ashamed of? 28. Do I annoy others? 29. What are my dreams? 30. Am I positive? 31. Am I negative? 32. Is there an afterlife? 33. Does everything happen for a reason? 34. What can I do to change the world? 35. What is the most foolish thing Ive ever done?

36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75.

Am I cheap? Am I greedy? Who do I love? Who do I want to meet? Where do I want to go? What am I most proud of? Do I care what others think about me? What are my talents? Do I utilize those talents? What makes me happy? What makes me sad? What makes me angry? Am I satisfied with my appearance? Am I healthy? What was the toughest time in my life? What was the easiest time in my life? Am I selfish? What was the craziest thing I did? What is the craziest thing I want to do? Do I procrastinate? What is my greatest regret? What has had the greatest impact on my life? Who has had the greatest impact on my life? Do I stand up for myself? Have I settled for mediocrity? Do I hold grudges? Do I read enough? Do I listen to my heart? Do I donate enough to the less fortunate? Do I pray only when I want something? Do I constantly dwell on the past? Do I let other peoples negativity affect me? Do I forgive myself? When I help someone do I think Whats in it for me? Am I aware that someone always has it worse than me? Do I smile more than I frown? Do I surround myself with good people? Do I take time out for myself? Do I ask enough questions? What other questions do I have?

1. On the male body is less places to hide anything. 2. According to statistics, women live longer than men, although no physiological justification for Modern science has not discovered. 3. Women do not suffer from prostatitis and impotence they are not threatened. 4. Women are not threatened with early baldness. Later, however, too. 5. According to statistics, women suffer from alcoholism no fewer men, but the limit in drinking for some reason us. 6. Mens nipples are useless and in terms of laughter, and in terms of biological expediency. And sometimes so eager to feed someone breasts! 7. They can not solve the problem, just burst into tears. 8. They are more often dirty fingernails. 9. And they can not paint them with red lacquer. 10. They never give flowers. Unless its their own funeral. 11. They can not be scratched during orgasm. Biting is also not recommended. And women can be! 12. After orgasm, they were sure to have something to wash, clean or throw away. 13. Unlike women, men do not reusable contraceptives. 14. They are never sure they do not know if swallowed partner to laugh contraceptive the pill or not. It is known only to women. 15. After an orgasm (and after had something to wash, clean or throw away) they can not immediately be yet another orgasm. Even if you really want. 16. They have good reason to four days out of every twenty-eight to be in bad mood, cranky and behave irrationally. 17. They have good reason to strongly put on weight after the birth of their first child. 18. When they gain weight, no part of the body, making them smehualnee is not increased in volume. 19. Even if a man grow fat, so that would be like a woman on the ninth month of pregnancy, Metro him still no one will give way. 20. They never paid child support. 21. They have no choice is what to wear a skirt or pants. 22. In fact, you can choose a skirt. But it must necessarily be in a cage, as the Scots otherwise will be a representative smehualnogo minority (which the majority of the world of fashion, film critics and show business). And in a plaid skirt, go for the Scottish hard. So you have to buy bagpipes. 23. They need to shave only one part of the body, but every day. Otherwise, quickly become like Rasputin or the author of Capital. 24. If a man did dare to follow in the footsteps of the founder of Marxism, his girlfriend certainly found allergic to bristle. Who, I ask, so admired unshaven George Clooney? 25. Any man can hit between the legs. 26. When a woman hits a man, he could not give her change. This law, which can not be violated, even if it hits below the belt, that is, between the legs. And where is the law allowing them in such a case, at least pinch her breasts? There is no law! 27. Vaunted mens erections are often not associated with arousal and smehualnym sometimes overtakes them in most inappropriate places. For example, in the pool, gym, or at the cemetery. 28. They have more chances to get rich and therefore more likely to become victims of racketeering or robbery. But they are not threatened rape! 29. Women earn more than men in the easiest and most pleasant areas of the economy. For example, in the fashion industry. Or p * p * obiznese. But the women working there are much easier! 30. Only the male has the capacity for rational thought. Therefore, all the most important and important decisions have to be made for them.

31. If a man this morning does not look it, unlike women, can not quickly change situation for the better through a set of paints, pre-packaged for different (but equally expensive) bottles, bubbles and tubes. The only exception the morgue. 32. If a man is neither developed intellect, nor the speed of mind and generally devoid of any sort any natural cleverness, he can not wrap it all in his favor, simply putting tight shirt. Exception Mr. Olympia (bodybuilding champion). 33. They can not wear a gold and diamonds. Exception Simon Semyonitch Horse. 34. They do not give rings and earrings, pendants and bracelets, gold and brillianty.Semen Semyonitch Gorbunkov no exception. 35. To their feet do not throw the sable, and one hundred dollar bills. 36. They do not offer a waltz. The exception a gay club. 37. Behind them are not being chased down the street shouting: Do not give your telefonchik? 38. They did not ask: What are you doing tonight? 39. they are not treated to drinking just because we have long legs and firm buttocks. Exception gay bar. 40. The man can pierce his navel, nipple or tongue. But it will not talk about the free disposition and love of adventure, as in women, and that this man an idiot. Exception Representatives smehualnogo minorities and show business stars. 41. Each of them rode a bicycle. And everyone on the road turned out to be a foreign object, which it was impossible to avoid. Obeying the inexorable laws of physics, the body continued to move, and after the collision, hit with a soft seat on the iron pipe, called a frame. The result see paragraph 25. A ladies bikes do without a frame! 42. Women do not get any injuries received during oral laughter with an inexperienced partner, inaccurate Treatment with a zipper on the trousers and improperly fastened tether with bungee jumping. After that, they still dare to say that the hardest in the world have a child! 43. In the toilet, they are constantly at risk to splash his boots. 44. Sooner or later in life of every man there comes a point when it comes together with a woman to hang around the shops. 45. And also watch with her skating. 46. And also go to the theater. 47. And come on holidays to the mother-in for lunch. 48. In women, there is no mother in law! 49. They are hard to find good shoes. 50. They have to buy socks. 51. And wash them! 52. They do not smehualnogo underwear. All that they have these are the pants, which are currently time recognized as the most recent. 53. Moreover, if a man dressed stylishly and smehualno, it will necessarily be a representative smehualnogo minority. The women are all in exactly the opposite. 54. Women do not have to learn to tie a tie. 55. A woman can not be morally destroy obscene remark about her lack of penis. 56. They can not increase his silicone breast implants. 57. Women do not have to pull the hairs out of his nostrils! 58. Women may appear for a moment before his wedding. He also has to time to hang around in front of civil registry offices in stupid costume for a whole hour! 59. Furthermore, womens preparations for the wedding include the merry party with her friends, in which all sincerely congratulate the bride. Male pre-wedding ritual is reduced to the systematic

humiliation of the bridegroom of his loyal friends who are trying all means to prevent inevitably impending fatal event. 60. Women tend to concentrate all his love on one subject. And they have to break between the girlfriend / wife and his beloved football team. Sometimes here still wedged in a brand newVolkswagen Passat. 61. In addition to higher education for a real man should know everything about cars, be skilled in electrician, carpenter and plumber, as well as professionally understand music and movies. Woman enough knowledge about what style of blouses worn in this season and a cream of a new line L Oreal supposed to rub in a given time of day. You do not even need a parish school is enough of glossy womens magazines. 62. Plus the more recently they still have to cook, wash and scrub the floor! Give up be accused of male chauvinism. 63. Women have never been accused of male chauvinism! 64. Men have to accept the fact that women reach a peak in the age when its time to think about life insurance children. 65. Men invented all the words. A woman simply transfer them to the female gender! 66. Although the models have long defile on the podium with an open chest, stare at cleavage companion for some reason is still considered indecent. Well, who put on the table, cake, while requiring is not sweet? 67. Since the artistic taste in men by nature is more developed than in women, it is difficult to find in decent video rental movie. But she did not hesitate, for the tenth time removes from the shelf to escape the bride. 68. The fact that they are in size, on average, larger than women, making them more convenient target for dove flying above us, who have long suffered specially for the occasion. 69. Men the authors of most inventions, great discoveries and works of art. Accordingly, they have high expectations! 70. When it comes to contact the technician or computer expert, have to endure in his contempt for womens views: it is considered that a real man should in all of this iron to understand himself. 71. A woman is much easier to master the subtleties of the oldest profession. 72. And they still get paid! 73. Their childrens dreams to fly into space or to win the presidential election almost unattainable. Then, as a woman to achieve its goal to become a nurse, a stewardess, or just a mother A hundred times easier. 74. They may under no circumstances will immediately organize a voluntary society wishing to join us in sex, just go to a nightclub after 22:30 and dazzling smile. 75. In the ski marathon they were running at more than twenty kilometers. 76. And all-around? them ten sports? And we have seven! 77. In men during a brawl is preferred bash each other over the head with a beer bottles, but it is fraught with more serious injuries than women squeal taken and grabbing the opponent by the hair. 78. Male sex hormone testosterone, if it isolate in pure form, is a direct analog explosive mixture of heroin and cocaine at a ratio of 50 to 50. As if to his genitals tied string and drag all day for it in different directions thats how it works. And they still manage to such circumstances, be rational! 79. In women, a much richer palette of alcoholic beverages: liquor, cocktails and martinis with others carrot juice. All this is to taste, of course, plays the good old ershu, but a matter of principle! 80. The lower susceptibility of women to alcohol means that they need to spend much more money to properly relax.

81. Men often suffer from dependence on heavy metal. And, worse, from heavy metal ballads. In the most severe cases from the ballads Aria. 82. At school they are forced to engage in serious, requiring hard physical types Sports. For example, football. And the girls get something lightweight, like badminton. Although badminton and sports is not call! 83. Plus, if they fail to shape, to physical education still has to run on field in shorts. Of girls in such cases, for some reason, no one needs to strip to his underwear, and they all lesson calmly smoking in the toilet. 84. They are often punished in school. 85. They are generally more often punished. 86. Men accused of all wars. Markov pistol, rifle, M-16, Kalashnikov and intercontinental ballistic missile, Satan are phallic symbols, invented men only in order to compensate for their smehualnye complexes. And no one wants to recognize that women really just do not understand anything any trait in the military and military equipment! 87. But in the case of exactly what they were being sent to the companies of the front mid-flight, while the women waved their handkerchiefs after us, brushing cheeks with bitter tears. 88. And if anything anywhere in the world is not so necessary to answer all the same to them, men. 89. They are gradually becoming less necessary. Occupations that have traditionally been ours turn into women. And vice versa. Women are already in play hockey! 90. How much would they not smiling gloomy traffic police officers and how many buttons would not unbuttoned shirt collar, they still have to pay a fine for speeding. But more often it is women who are perpetrators of accident! 91. They are doomed to go along with the women in romance with Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, after the session and listen for hours about what they Dearie. At the same time, when a man sees Jennifer Lopez on the screen and let go a few well-aimed remarks about her manner to correct the rear pants, in 5 out of 10 cases he was accused of bad taste, in three will be called smehualnym maniac , and two with him just stop talking. 92. After the words Honey, lets spend the evening at home today, there is no doubt that they will some harrowing television talk show for idiots, like My Family or I myself. At best skating. At worst Slutskaya loses. 93. They do not like champagne. But it has to open them. And getting a cork in the eye too! 94. They listen in the car of Whitney Houston, Celine Dion and even the Queen Natasha, because in an age of feminism it is believed that a woman has a right to choose FM-radio. 95. They tell jokes about how they hide in the closet and go down to his underpants on drainpipe. The funny thing is that sometimes it does not anecdote! 96. Women are not threatened with an intimate encounter with a transvestite. 97. And with a minor. 98. They can not marry a millionaire. 99. They are not allowed in the womens bath! 100. None of them have never given the title Heroine Mother.

http://www.myfunmails.com/2011/05/blog-post.html
Alexander, after conquering many kingdoms, was returning home. On the way, he fell ill and it took him to his death bed. With death staring him in his face, Alexander realized how his conquests,his great army, his sharp sword and all his wealth were of no consequence. He now longed to reach home to see his mother's face and bid her his last adieu. But, he had to accept the fact that his sinking health would not permit him to reach his distant homeland. So, the mighty conqueror lay prostrate and pale, helplessly waiting to breathe his last. He called his generals and said, "I will depart from this world soon, I have three wishes, please carry them out without fail." With tears flowing down their cheeks, the generals agreed to abide by their king's last wishes. 1) "My first desire is that", said Alexander, "My physicians alone must" carry my coffin." 2) After a pause, he continued, "Secondly, I desire that when my coffin is being carried to the grave, the path leading to the graveyard be strewn with gold, silver and precious stones which I have collected in my treasury".

3) The king felt exhausted after saying this. He took a minute's rest and continued. "My third and last wish is that both my hands be kept dangling out of my coffin". The people who had gathered there wondered at the king's strange wishes. But no one dared bring the question to their lips.. Alexander's favorite general kissed his hand and pressed them to his heart. "O king, we assure you that all your wishes will be fulfilled. But tell us why do you make such strange wishes?" At this Alexander took a deep breath and said: "I would like the world to know of the three lessons I have just learnt. Lessons to be learnt from last 3 wishes of King Alexander... I want my physicians to carry my coffin because people should realize that no doctor on this earth can really cure any body. They are powerless and cannot save a person from the clutches of death. So let not people take life for granted. The second wish of strewing gold, silver and other riches on the path to the graveyard is to tell People that not even a fraction of gold will come with me. I spent all my life Greed of Power, earning riches but cannot take anything with me. Let people realize that it is a sheer waste of time to chase wealth. And about my third wish of having my hands dangling out of the coffin, I wish people to know that I came empty handed into this world and empty handed I go out of this world". With these words, the king closed his eyes. Soon he let death conquer him and breathed his last. . . . LESSON TO LEARN: Remember, your Health is in your own hands, look after it. Wealth is only meaningful if you can share and also enjoy while you are still alive, kicking & healthy. What you do for yourself, dies with you. But what you do for others will live for ever. Leave the Legacy behind.

http://www.myfunmails.com/2011/02/creative-yet-funny-bag-designs.html http://www.myfunmails.com/2011/02/amazing-3d-desktop-wallpapers.html http://www.myfunmails.com/2011/02/cool-profile-pics-for-your-facebook.html