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The Smartest Words

Ever Spoken:
1001 Timeless Quotes










Compiled by Lee M. Jenkins
Bob Proctor Certified
LifeSuccess Consultant
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken:
1001 Timeless Quotes
Copyright 2010 Lee Jenkins

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Ive always been inspired by the tmeless thoughts of others
who seem to have been able to shed the shackles of worldliness
and bring their minds to a higher plane. They raise my mental
state, help me aspire higher, think bigger and become the
person I know I can be.
I know this collecton of some of my favorites will do the same
for you.
Contents
ACCEPTANCE ..................................................................... 7
ACHIEVEMENT .................................................................. 10
ACTION ............................................................................. 15
ATTITUDE .......................................................................... 20
CHANGE ............................................................................ 24
CHOICE ............................................................................. 28
CONFIDENCE .................................................................... 31
DECISION .......................................................................... 35
DESIRE .............................................................................. 41
DREAMS ............................................................................ 46
FAITH ................................................................................ 49
FEAR ................................................................................. 55
FOCUS ............................................................................... 60
FORGIVENESS ................................................................... 64
FRIENDSHIP ...................................................................... 68
GOALS ............................................................................... 71
GRATITUDE ....................................................................... 77
HAPPINESS ........................................................................ 82
HOPE ................................................................................ 87
IMAGINATION ................................................................... 89
PASSION ............................................................................ 94
PATIENCE .......................................................................... 97
PERCEPTION ..................................................................... 99
PERSISTENCE & PERSEVERENCE ....................................... 104
PROSPERITY ...................................................................... 109
RELATIONSHIPS ................................................................. 111
RESPONSIBILITY ................................................................ 113
THE LAW OF ATTRACTION ................................................ 116
THOUGHTS ....................................................................... 122
WEALTH ............................................................................ 126
WISDOM ........................................................................... 130
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 7
ACCePtAnCe
When you fnd peace within yourself, you become the 1.
kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret 2.
for the past and fear of the future.
- Fulton Oursler
Being happy doesnt mean that everything is perfect. 3.
It means that youve decided to look beyond the
imperfectons.
- Unknown
As you become more clear about who you really are, youll 4.
be beter able to decide what is best for you - the frst tme
around.
- Oprah Winfrey
Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving 5.
for the same thing that motvates the innocent baby: Love
and acceptance
- Lily Fairchilde
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but 6.
just slides into it by the gravitaton of his nature, and
swings there as easily as a star.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but theres 7.
all the diference in the world. Apathy fails to distnguish
between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance
makes that distncton. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-acton;
acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
- Arthur Gordon
ACCEPTANCE
7
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ACCEPTANCE
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who 8.
has just done you a small favor wish that he might have
done you a greater one.
- Martn Luther King, Jr.
That is the defniton of faith -- acceptance of that which 9.
we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
- Dan Brown
California sunlight - sweet Calcuta rain - Honolulu 10.
starbright - the song remains the same.
- Led Zeppelin
But there isnt any second half of myself waitng to plug in 11.
and make me whole. Its there. Im already whole.
- Sally Field
Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of 12.
the facts of a situaton. Then deciding what youre going to
do about it.
- Kathleen Casey Theisen
If a ship has been sunk, I cant bring it up. If it is going 13.
to be sunk, I cant stop it. I can use my tme much beter
working on tomorrows problem than by fretng about
yesterdays. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldnt
last long.
- Admiral Ernest J. King
The only thing that will make you happy is being happy 14.
with who you are, and not who people think you are.
- Goldie Hawn
Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life- 15.
altering lessons.
- Jessica Lange
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ACCEPTANCE
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he 16.
or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just
because theyre alive and human.
- Albert Ellis
Acceptance of ones life has nothing to do with 17.
resignaton; it does not mean running away from the
struggle. On the contrary, it means acceptng it as it
comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of sufering, of
psychological complexes and injustces.
- Paul Tournier
Acceptance of what has happened is the frst step to 18.
overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
- William James
At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense 19.
of being lovable without having to qualify for that
acceptance.
- Paul Tournier
Happiness can exist only in acceptance. 20.
- George Orwell
The frst step toward change is awareness. The second 21.
step is acceptance.
- Nathaniel Branden
The greatest gif that you can give to others is the gif of 22.
unconditonal love and acceptance.
- Brian Tracy
The keys to patence are acceptance and faith. Accept 23.
things as they are, and look realistcally at the world
around you. Have faith in yourself and in the directon you
have chosen.
- Ralph Marston

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ACCEPTANCE - ACHIEVEMENT
ACHIeVeMent
When we think of failure; Failure will be ours. If we remain 24.
undecided; nothing will ever change. All we need to do is
want to achieve something great and then simply to do it.
Never think of failure for what we think, will come about.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The results you achieve will be in direct proporton to the 25.
efort you apply.
- Denis Waitley
The truth of the mater is that theres nothing you cant 26.
accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that youre
absolutely commited to achieving, (2) Youre willing to
take massive acton, (3) You notce whats working or not,
and (4) You contnue to change your approach untl you
achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along
the way.
- Anthony Robbins
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that 27.
others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
Build this day on a foundaton of pleasant thoughts. Never 28.
fret at any imperfectons that you fear may impede your
progress. Remind yourself, as ofen as necessary, that you
are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any
dream by lifing up your thoughts. You can fy when you
decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated
again. Let the vision in your heart be in your lifes blueprint.
Smile!
- Og Mandino
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ACHIEVEMENT
Goals are a means to an end, not the ultmate purpose of 29.
our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus
and move us in a directon. The only reason we really
pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.
Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in
the long term; its who you become, as you overcome the
obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give
you the deepest and most long-lastng sense of fulfllment.
- Anthony Robbins
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But 30.
the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that
you will achieve the security that you desire.
- Brian Tracy
When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to 31.
possess superhuman powers to achieve
- Napoleon Hill
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is 32.
the direct result of his own thoughts
- James Allen
You never achieve success unless you like what you are 33.
doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. 34.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. 35.
- Plutarch
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to 36.
learn startng from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely,
positvely have to fnd people who have already paid the
price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve
our goals.
- Brian Tracy
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ACHIEVEMENT
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your 37.
grandest dreams. Imaginaton plus innovaton equals
realizaton.
- Denis Waitley
With our eyes fxed on the future, but recognizing the 38.
realites of today, we will achieve our destny to be as a
shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.
- Ronald Reagan
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled 39.
success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you.
Achieve! Achieve!
- Andrew Carnegie
One must marry ones feelings to ones beliefs and ideas. 40.
That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of
harmony in ones life.
- Napoleon Hill
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond 41.
your present circumstances unless you change.
- Les Brown
The person determined to achieve maximum success 42.
learns the principle that progress is made one step at a
tme. A house is built one brick at a tme. Football games
are won a play at a tme. A department store grows bigger
one customer at a tme. Every big accomplishment is a
series of litle accomplishments.
- David Joseph Schwartz
The three great essentals to achieve anything worthwhile 43.
are, frst, hard work; second, stck-to-itveness; third,
common sense.
- Thomas Alva Edison
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ACHIEVEMENT
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. 44.
When progress is looking for a partner it doesnt turn to
those who believe they are only average. It turns instead
to those who are forever searching and striving to become
the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level we
cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only
hope is to avoid being a failure.
- A. Lou Vickery
Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some 45.
achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon
them.
- William Shakespeare
Determine what specifc goal you want to achieve. Then 46.
dedicate yourself to its atainment with unswerving
singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.
- Paul J. Meyer
You will achieve grand dream, a day at a tme, so set goals 47.
for each day - not long and difcult projects, but chores
that will take you, step by step, toward your rainbow. Write
them down, if you must, but limit your list so that you
wont have to drag todays undone maters into tomorrow.
Remember that you cannot build your pyramid in twenty-
four hours. Be patent. Never allow your day to become so
clutered that you neglect your most important goal / to
do the best you can, enjoy this day, and rest satsfed with
what you have accomplished.
- Og Mandino
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, 48.
achieve goals, and we fnd no real satsfacton or happiness
in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
- Maxwell Maltz
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ACHIEVEMENT
A person should set his goals as early as he can and 49.
devote all his energy and talent to getng there. With
enough efort, he may achieve it. Or he may fnd something
that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no mater
what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.
- Walt Disney
The person with a fxed goal, a clear picture of his desire, 50.
or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetton,
to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus
enabled, thanks to its generatve and sustaining power, to
realize his goal in a minimum of tme and with a minimum
of physical efort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step
by step you will achieve realizaton, for all your facultes
and powers become directed to that end.
- Claude M. Bristol
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal 51.
and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in
your own self-development.
- Brian Tracy
To focus on technique is like cramming your way through 52.
school. You sometmes get by, perhaps even get good
grades, but if you dont pay the price day in and day out,
youll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study
or develop an educated mind.
- Stephen R. Covey
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream 53.
it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward
What a great discrepancy there is between men and the 54.
results they achieve! It is due to the diference in their
power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and
concentratng them upon one point
- Orison Swet Marden
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ACHIEVEMENT
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. 55.
Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his
achievement muscle. Its a strengthening of his powers of
accomplishment.
- Eric Buterworth
Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the 56.
one who ofers faithful service in small maters. This is
the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and
lastng.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. 57.
- James Allen
ACtIon
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always 58.
someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always
difcultes arising which tempt you to believe that your
critcs are right. To map out a course of acton and follow it
to an end requires courage.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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ACTION
It is not the critc who counts; not the man who points 59.
out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of
deeds could have done them beter. The credit belongs
to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is
marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes short again and again; because there
is not efort without error and shortcomings; but who
does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great
enthusiasm, the great devoton, who spends himself in
a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the
triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he
fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place
shall never be with those cold and tmid souls who know
neither victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not 60.
enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thinking is easy, actng is difcult, and to put ones 61.
thoughts into acton is the most difcult thing in the
world.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing 62.
is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough;
we must do.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Dont wait. The tme will never be just right. 63.
- Napoleon Hill
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would 64.
hope that I would not have a single bit of talent lef, and
could say, I used everything you gave me.
- Erma Bombeck
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ACTION
The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your 65.
actons, the more credibility you will have
- Brian Koslow
I never worry about acton, but only about inacton 66.
- Winston Churchill
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. 67.
- Charles F. Ketering
Everything you want is out there waitng for you to ask. 68.
Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take
acton to get it.
- Jules Renard
Acton is the real measure of intelligence. 69.
- Napoleon Hill
The possibilites are numerous once we decide to act and 70.
not react.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for 71.
which we are accountable.
- Moliere
The ancestor of every acton is a thought. 72.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To map out a course of acton and follow it to an end 73.
requires courage
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great acts are made up of small deeds. 74.
- Lao Tzu
The path to success is to take massive, determined 75.
acton.
- Anthony Robbins
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ACTION
Beings are owners of their acton, heirs of their acton. 76.
- Buddha
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but 77.
few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not
enough! You must take acton.
- Anthony Robbins
Motvaton is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps 78.
you going.
- Jim Rohn
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of 79.
others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for
you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
- Katherine Mansfeld
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, 80.
dont adjust the goals, adjust the acton steps.
- Confucius
Whatever you do may seem insignifcant, but it is most 81.
important that you do it
- Mahatma Gandhi
You may never know what results come of your acton, 82.
but if you do nothing there will be no result
- Mahatma Gandhi
Ofen the diference between a successful person and 83.
a failure is not one has beter abilites or ideas, but the
courage that one has to bet on ones ideas, to take a
calculated risk - and to act.
- Andre Malraux
The only cure for grief is acton. 84.
- G. H. Lewes
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ACTION
Success seems to be connected with acton. Successful 85.
people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they dont
quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Behave so the aroma of your actons may enhance the 86.
general sweetness of the atmosphere.
- Henry David Thoreau
We become just by performing just actons, temperate by 87.
performing temperate actons, brave by performing brave
actons.
- Aristotle
Dreams pass into the reality of acton. From the actons 88.
stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces
the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin
Words may show a mans wit, but actons his meaning 89.
- Benjamin Franklin
Inacton breeds doubt and fear. Acton breeds confdence 90.
and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home
and think about it. Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to 91.
change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person
you would like to become. Take acton on your behaviour.
Too many people want to feel, then take acton. This never
works.
- John Maxwell
Acton may not bring happiness but there is no happiness 92.
without acton.
- William James
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ACTION
Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actons, 93.
actons form habits, habits decide character, and character
fxes our destny
- Tryon Edwards
Its the litle things you do that can make a big diference. 94.
What are you atemptng to accomplish? What litle thing
can you do today that will make you more efectve? You
are probably only one step away from greatness.
- Bob Proctor
High achievers spot rich opportunites swifly, make big 95.
decisions quickly and move into acton immediately. Follow
these principles and you can make your dreams come
true.
- Robert H. Schuller

AttItUDe
Seek out that partcular mental atribute which makes you 96.
feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes
the inner voice which says, This is the real me, and when
you have found that attude, follow it.
- William James
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attude 97.
toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The
way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever
do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because
you think you are.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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ATTITUDE
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings 98.
to you as by the attude you bring to life; not so much by
what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at
what happens.
- Kahlil Gibran
Ability is what youre capable of doing. Motvaton 99.
determines what you do. Attude determines how well
you do it.
- Lou Holtz
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can 100.
control your attude toward what happens to you, and in
that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it
to master you.
- Brian Tracy
Attude is a litle thing that makes a big diference. 101.
- Winston Churchill
Your attude, not your apttude, will determine your 102.
alttude
- Zig Ziglar
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, 103.
but in our attude towards them.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Our attude toward life determines lifes attude towards 104.
us.
- John N. Mitchell
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attude 105.
toward it, for that determines our success or failure
- Norman Vincent Peale
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ATTITUDE
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact 106.
that people act in a certain way. We can not change the
inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one
string we have, and that is our attude.
- Charles R. Swindoll
The greatest discovery of any generaton is that a human 107.
being can alter his life by altering his attude.
- William James
Happiness doesnt depend on any external conditons, it is 108.
governed by our mental attude
- Dale Carnegie
The one thing you cant take away from me is the way 109.
I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of
ones freedoms is to choose ones attude in any given
circumstance.
- Viktor Frankl
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings 110.
to you as by the attude you bring to life; not so much by
what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at
what happens.
- Kahlil Gibran
Whenever youre in confict with someone, there is one 111.
factor that can make the diference between damaging
your relatonship and deepening it. That factor is attude.
- William James
There is litle diference in people, but that litle diference 112.
makes a big diference. The litle diference is attude. The
big diference is whether it is positve or negatve.
- W. Clement Stone
Attudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts, and 113.
habits can be acquired. An acton repeated becomes an
attude realized.
- Paul Myer
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ATTITUDE
Attude is more important than the past, than educaton, 114.
than money, than circumstances, than what people do or
say. It is more important than appearance, gifedness, or
skill.
- W. C. Fields
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attude 115.
from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attude.
- Thomas Jeferson
I believe the single most signifcant decision I can make 116.
on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attude. It is more
important than my past, my educaton, my bankroll, my
successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people
think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my
positon. Attude keeps me going or cripples my progress.
It alone fuels my fre or assaults my hope. When my
attudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley
too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great
for me.
- Charles R. Swindoll
If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change 117.
it, change your attude.
- Maya Angelou
A positve attude may not solve every problem but it 118.
makes solving any problem a more pleasant experience.
- Grant Fairley
It is our attude at the beginning of a difcult undertaking 119.
which, more than anything else, will determine its
successful outcome.
- William James
For success, attude is equally as important as ability. 120.
- Harry F. Banks
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ATTITUDE
A convicton of self-worth and passion for ideals fuse in 121.
a life attude that is positve, free, noble and spiritually
enhancing.
- Bill Jay
It is very important to generate a good attude, a good 122.
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
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attude. 123.
- Ralph Marston

CHAnGe
Acton and reacton, ebb and fow, trial and error, change 124.
- this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confdence,
fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of
hope, progress.
- Bruce Barton
All changes, even the most longed for, have their 125.
melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of
ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter
another.
- Anatole France
Always remember that the future comes one day at a 126.
tme.
- Dean Acheson
Any change, even a change for the beter, is always 127.
accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
- Arnold Bennet
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ATTITUDE - CHANGE
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new 128.
evils; for tme is the greatest innovator.
- Francis Bacon
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only 129.
human insttuton which rejects progress is the cemetery.
- Harold Wilson
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we 130.
should frst examine it and see whether it is not something
that could beter be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. 131.
- Frederick Douglass
If we dont change, we dont grow. If we dont grow, we 132.
arent really living.
- Gail Sheehy
If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change 133.
it, change your attude.
- Maya Angelou
Its the most unhappy people who most fear change. 134.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be 135.
prepared for changes.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has 136.
brought progress.
- Charles Ketering
They must ofen change, who would be constant in 137.
happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
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CHANGE
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not 138.
altered for the beter designedly.
- Francis Bacon
Things do not change; we change. 139.
- Henry David Thoreau
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom 140.
awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
- Frank Herbert
If you dont like something change it; if you cant change 141.
it, change the way you think about it.
- Mary Engelbreit
When we are no longer able to change a situaton, we are 142.
challenged to change ourselves.
- Victor Frankl
Change always comes bearing gifs. 143.
- Price Pritchet
The only diference between a rut and a grave is their 144.
dimensions.
- Ellen Glasgow
Growth is the only evidence of life. 145.
- John Henry Newman
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alteratons. 146.
- Faith Baldwin
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an 147.
irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with
a foolish one.
- William H. Seward
The birds are moltng. If only man could molt also - his 148.
mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless
passions.
- James Allen
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CHANGE
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing 149.
water, and breeds reptles of the mind.
- William Blake
What you have become is the price you paid to get what 150.
you used to want.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable 151.
and free of confict have not learned their history.
- Joan Wallach Scot
Afer youve done a thing the same way for two years, 152.
look it over carefully. Afer fve years, look at it with
suspicion. And afer ten years, throw it away and start all
over.
- Alfred Edward Perlman
Contnuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, 153.
letng us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer
If you would atain to what you are not yet, you must 154.
always be displeased by what you are. For where you are
pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep
adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
- Saint Augustne
A good queston is never answered. It is not a bolt to be 155.
tghtened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear
more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of
idea.
- John Ciardi
Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends 156.
some thing.
- Paul Valery
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CHANGE
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot 157.
change, the courage to change the one I can, and the
wisdom to know its me.
- Unknown
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the 158.
tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run
over him.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he 159.
takes my measurements anew each tme he sees me. The
rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to
ft them.
- George Bernard Shaw

CHoICe
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, 160.
conscience, independent will and creatve imaginaton.
These give us the ultmate human freedom... The power to
choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen R. Covey
By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we 161.
are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to
keep them beneath the surface.
- Debbie Ford
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, 162.
both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the
process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of
your life. You can fnd the freedom that comes from being
in charge of yourself.
- Robert F. Bennet
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CHANGE - CHOICE
Its choice--not chance--that determines your destny. 163.
- Jean Nidetch
There is a point at which everything becomes simple and 164.
there is no longer any queston of choice, because all you
have staked will be lost if you look back. Lifes point of no
return.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Be miserable. Or motvate yourself. Whatever has to be 165.
done, its always your choice.
- Wayne Dyer
Choose your love, Love your choice. 166.
- Thomas S. Monson
Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from 167.
something. Where are your choices taking your life? What
do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or
no to in life?
- Eric Allenbaugh
There are three constants in life... change, choice and 168.
principles.
- Stephen R. Covey
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the 169.
power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of
choice.
- Ayn Rand
When you have to make a choice and dont make it, that 170.
is in itself a choice.
- William James
Every choice you make has an end result. 171.
- Zig Ziglar
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CHOICE
The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday 172.
regarding the attude we will embrace for that day.
- Charles R. Swindoll
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. 173.
- George Eliot
Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals 174.
which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for
ethical value is within man whose future may largely be
determined by the choice he make
- George Bernard Shaw
The self is not something ready-made, but something in 175.
contnuous formaton through choice of acton.
- John Dewey
Destny is no mater of chance. It is a mater of choice: It is 176.
not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryan
We choose what attudes we have right now. And its a 177.
contnuing choice.
- John Maxwell
You and I are essentally infnite choice-makers. In 178.
every moment of our existence, we are in that feld of
all possibilites where we have access to an infnity of
choices.
- Deepak Chopra
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human 179.
choice.
- George Eliot
It is your own convictons which compels you; that is, 180.
choice compels choice. Epictetus

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CHOICE
ConFIDenCe
People who ask confdently get more than those who 181.
are hesitant and uncertain. When youve fgured out what
you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and
confdence.
- Jack Canfeld
The greatest waste in the world is the diference between 182.
what we are and what we could become.
-Ben Herbster
Your past is not your potental. In any hour you can 183.
choose to liberate the future.
-Marilyn Ferguson
Questons provide the key to unlocking our unlimited 184.
potental.
- Anthony Robbins
We all have possibilites we dont know about. We can do 185.
things we dont even dream we can do.
- Dale Carnegie
Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to 186.
the people who are perfect. But many of us are fnding out
that trying to be perfect is costly.
- Debbie Ford
Everything you need you already have. You are complete 187.
right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentce
person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness
must be understood by you and experienced in your
thoughts as your own personal reality.
- Wayne Dyer
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CHOICE - CONFIDENCE
Confdence comes not from always being right but from 188.
not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless 189.
confdence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was always looking outside myself for strength and 190.
confdence but it comes from within. It is there all the
tme.
- Anna Freud
Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable 191.
you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles
will return, the sun will break out, the music will play,
and you will fnally be able to move forward the life that
God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and
confdence.
- Og Mandino
Dont back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for 192.
your beliefs builds self-confdence and self-esteem.
- Oprah Winfrey
All you need in this life is ignorance and confdence, and 193.
then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
When youre a beautful person on the inside, there is 194.
nothing in the world that can change that about you.
Jealousy is the result of ones lack of self-confdence, self-
worth, and self-acceptance. The Lesson: If you cant accept
yourself, then certainly no one else will.
- Sasha Azevedo
Confdence is going afer Moby Dick in a rowboat and 195.
taking the tartar sauce with you.
- Zig Ziglar
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CONFIDENCE
Experience tells you what to do; confdence allows you to 196.
do it.
- Stan Smith
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and 197.
confdence.
- Mark Twain
Who has confdence in himself will gain the confdence of 198.
others.
- Leib Lazarow
Whatever we expect with confdence becomes our own 199.
self-fulflling prophecy.
- Brian Tracy
With realizaton of ones own potental and self- 200.
confdence in ones ability, one can build a beter world.
- Dalai Lama
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilites! Without a 201.
humble but reasonable confdence in your own powers you
cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must 202.
have perseverance and above all confdence in ourselves.
We must believe that we are gifed for something, and that
this thing, at whatever cost, must be atained.
- Marie Curie
If you have no confdence in self, you are twice defeated 203.
in the race of life. With confdence, you have won even
before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Confdence is contagious; so is lack of confdence 204.
- Vince Lombardi
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CONFIDENCE
Guts are a combinaton of confdence, courage, 205.
convicton, strength of character, stck-to-itveness,
pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestnal forttude. They
are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at
the top.
- D. A. Benton
One important key to success is self-confdence. An 206.
important key to self-confdence is preparaton.
- Arthur Ashe
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confdence like 207.
accomplishment.
- Thomas Carlyle
The history of the world is full of men who rose to 208.
leadership, by sheer force of self-confdence, bravery and
tenacity.
- Mahatma Gandhi
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost 209.
his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-
confdence. He is stll a King.
- Orison Swet Marden
Confdence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in 210.
great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in
itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Self-confdence is the frst requisite to great 211.
undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
As is our confdence, so is our capacity. 212.
- William Hazlit
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CONFIDENCE
Confdence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the 213.
sacredness of obligatons, on faithful protecton and on
unselfsh performance. Without them it cannot live.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
If I have lost confdence in myself, I have the universe 214.
against me.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the 215.
greatest treasure. Confdence is the greatest friend. Non-
being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu

DeCIsIon
Its in your moments of decision that your destny is 216.
shaped.
- Anthony Robbins
Everything is something you decide to do, and there is 217.
nothing you have to do.
- Denis Waitley
The best years of your life are the ones in which you 218.
decide your problems are your own. You do not blame
them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You
realize that you control your own destny.
- Albert Ellis
The possibilites are numerous once we decide to act and 219.
not react.
- George Bernard Shaw
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CONFIDENCE - DECISION
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: 220.
but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide
how to play the cards in order to win the game.
- Voltaire
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. 221.
- Bill Cosby
Build this day on a foundaton of pleasant thoughts. Never 222.
fret at any imperfectons that you fear may impede your
progress. Remind yourself, as ofen as necessary, that you
are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any
dream by lifing up your thoughts. You can fy when you
decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated
again. Let the vision in your heart be in your lifes blueprint.
Smile!
- Og Mandino
You are the person who has to decide. Whether youll do 223.
it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your
mind. Whether youll lead or will linger behind. Whether
youll try for the goal thats afar. Or just be contented to
stay where you are.
- Edgar A. Guest
The only person you are destned to become is the person 224.
you decide to be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always 225.
someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always
difcultes arising which tempt you to believe that your
critcs are right. To map out a course of acton and follow it
to an end requires courage.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more difcult, and therefore more precious, 226.
than to be able to decide.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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DECISION
The happiest people are those who think the most 227.
interestng thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a
means of mental development, who love good music, good
books, good pictures, good company, good conversaton,
are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only
happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in
others.
- William Lyon Phelps
Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own 228.
responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty
responsibility, and not lightly to be fung aside at the
bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty
catchphrases of politcians. Each must for himself alone
decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course
is patriotc and which isnt. You cannot shirk this and be
a man. To decide against your convictons is to be an
unqualifed and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to
your country, let man label you as they may. If you alone
of all the naton shall decide one way, and that way be the
right way according to your convictons of the right, you
have done your duty by yourself and by your country- hold
up your head! You have nothing to be ashamed of.
- Mark Twain
There are two ways of being happy: We must either 229.
diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do
- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for
himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
- Benjamin Franklin
You cant ask for what you want unless you know what it 230.
is. A lot of people dont know what they want or they want
much less than they deserve. First you have fgure out what
you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it.
Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you
have to have the guts to ask for it.
- Barbara De Angelis
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DECISION
The best day of your life is the one on which you decide 231.
your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one
to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gif is yours - it is an
amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the
quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
- Bob Moawad
There Is A Voice Inside Of You, That Whispers All Day 232.
Long, I Feel That This Is Right For Me, I Know That This Is
Wrong. No Teacher, Preacher, Parent, Friend Or Wise Man
Can Decide Whats Right For You- Just Listen To The Voice
That Speaks Inside.
- Shel Silverstein
Our ultmate freedom is the right and power to decide 233.
how anybody or anything outside ourselves will afect us.
- Stephen R. Covey
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to 234.
exchange for it. Establish your priorites and go to work.
- H. L. Hunt
You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not 235.
because anybody says so, not because youre successful,
not because you make a lot of money -- but because you
decide to believe it and for no other reason.
- Wayne Dyer
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test 236.
our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment,
there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened
or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not
wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough
tme for us to decide whether or not to accept our destny.
- Paulo Coelho
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DECISION
Every noble work is bound to face problems and 237.
obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motvaton
thoroughly. One should be very truthful, honest, and
reasonable. Ones actons should be good for others, and
for oneself as well. Once a positve goal is chosen, you
should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it
is not realized, at least there will be no regret.
- Dalai Lama
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light 238.
of creatve altruism or in the darkness of destructve
selfshness.
- Martn Luther King, Jr.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. 239.
You can steer yourself in any directon you choose. Youre
on your own. And you know what you know. You are the
guy wholl decide where to go.
- Dr. Seuss
Our power is in our ability to decide. 240.
- Richard Buckminster Fuller
Ive contnued to recognize the power individuals have to 241.
change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an
instant. Ive learned that the resources we need to turn our
dreams into reality are within us, merely waitng for the
day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.
- Anthony Robbins
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires 242.
great strength to decide on what to do.
- Elbert Hubbard
If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you 243.
another, before you do anything, you should frst decide
whether you have a beter head or a beter heart
- Marilyn vos Savant
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DECISION
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on 244.
what you think is right and stck to it.
- T.S. Eliot
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish 245.
any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded
as a parent and you will have given your children the
greatest of all blessings.
- Brian Tracy
Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is 246.
potentally good or evil, and its up to him and only him
(through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to
be.
- Ayn Rand
The day you decide to do it is your lucky day 247.
- Japanese Proverb
Everything starts with yourself / with you making up your 248.
mind about what youre going to do with your life. I tell
kids that its a cruel world, and that the world will bend
them either lef or right, and its up to them to decide
which way to bend.
- Tony Dorset
Every man gota right to decide his own destny. 249.
- Bob Marley
The most difcult thing is the decision to act, the rest 250.
is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tgers. You can do
anything you decide to do. You can act to change and
control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own
reward.
- Amelia Earhart
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DECISION
DesIRe
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is 251.
in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move 252.
the hearts of men.
- Goethe
Your hopes, dreams and aspiratons are legitmate. They 253.
are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above
the storms, if you only let them.
- William James
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of 254.
freedom and beneft.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. 255.
- Jim Rohn
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the 256.
energy and the will to win.
- Denis Waitley
The frst principle of success is desire - knowing what you 257.
want. Desire is the plantng of your seed.
- Robert Collier
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and 258.
that is defniteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one
wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
- Napoleon Hill
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DECISION - DESIRE
You can have anything you want - if you want it badly 259.
enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything
you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with
singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln
The startng point of all achievement is desire 260.
- Napoleon Hill
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely 261.
believe, and enthusiastcally act upon must inevitably come
to pass.
- Paul J. Meyer
Human behavior fows from three main sources: desire, 262.
emoton, and knowledge
- Plato
Reduce your plan to writng. The moment you complete 263.
this, you will have defnitely given concrete form to the
intangible desire.
- Napoleon Hill
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a 264.
nucleus with power to atract to itself everything needed
for its fulfllment.
- Robert Collier
Create a defnite plan for carrying out your desire and 265.
begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan
into acton.
- Napoleon Hill
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on 266.
things we desire not things we fear.
- Brian Tracy
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DESIRE
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But 267.
the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that
you will achieve the security that you desire.
- Brian Tracy
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of 268.
freedom and beneft.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thoughts mixed with defniteness of purpose, persistence, 269.
and a burning desire are powerful things.
- Napoleon Hill
There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man 270.
from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the
divine
- Kahlil Gibran
A creatve man is motvated by the desire to achieve, not 271.
by the desire to beat others
- Ayn Rand
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the 272.
dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how
easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as
your desires, unless you make them so.
- Marcia Wieder
Boredom: the desire for desires 273.
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, 274.
to aim at doing something which shall really increase the
happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a
choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good
haven to sail for.
- Henry Van Dyke
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DESIRE
Imaginaton is the beginning of creaton. You imagine 275.
what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you
create what you will.
- George Bernard Shaw
Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying 276.
power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick
ourselves up and start in again afer a disappointment
- Marsha Sinetar
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. 277.
It will fll you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get
to work on it.
- W. Clement Stone
One great queston underlies our experience, whether we 278.
think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the
moment of birth every human being wants happiness and
does not want sufering. Neither social conditoning nor
educaton nor ideology afects this. From the very core of
our being, we simply desire contentment. Therefore, it is
important to discover what will bring about the greatest
degree of happiness
- Dalai Lama
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake 279.
everything on obtaining it.
- Brendan Francis
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as 280.
great as your dominant aspiraton
- James Allen
Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain 281.
security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
- Benjamin Franklin
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DESIRE
When you love people and have the desire to make a 282.
profound, positve impact upon the world, then will you
have accomplished the meaning to live.
- Sasha Azevedo
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without 283.
ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The
contnuance of your longing is the contnuance of your
prayer.
- Saint Augustne
Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to 284.
improve it.
- Wayne Dyer
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but 285.
for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great
desire forever beatng at the door of our hearts as we
travel toward our distant goal.
- Helen Keller
Image creates desire. You will what you imagine. 286.
- J. G. Gallimore
Happiness can be defned, in part at least, as the fruit of 287.
the desire and ability to sacrifce what we want now for
what we want eventually
- Stephen R. Covey
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach 288.
your full potental... these are the keys that will unlock the
door to personal excellence.
- Confucius
One of the most difcult things everyone has to learn 289.
is that for your entre life you must keep fghtng and
adjustng if you hope to survive. No mater who you are or
what your positon is you must keep fghtng for whatever
it is you desire to achieve.
- George Allen
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DESIRE
DReAMs
Believe in your dreams and they may come true; believe 290.
in yourself and they will come true
- Unknown
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. 291.
Think not about your frustratons, but about your
unfulflled potental. Concern yourself not with what you
tried and failed in, but with what it is stll possible for you
to do.
- Pope John XXIII
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay 292.
the price to make them come true.
- Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens
We grow by our dreams. 293.
- Woodrow T. Wilson
There is hope in dreams, imaginaton, and in the courage 294.
of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
- Jonas Salk
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the 295.
children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultmate
achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
Dreams are illustratons... from the book your soul is 296.
writng about you.
- Marsha Norman
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DESIRE - DREAMS
We all have our tme machines. Some take us back, 297.
theyre called memories. Some take us forward, theyre
called dreams.
- Jeremy Irons
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.You 298.
can have anything in life if you will sacrifce everything else
for it.
- James Mathew Barrie
The only thing that will stop you from fulflling your 299.
dreams is you.
- Tom Bradley
Dreams are todays answers to tomorrows questons. 300.
- Edgar Cayce
If one advances confdently in the directon of ones 301.
dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has
imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in
common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the 302.
dreams that you dare to dream really do come true
- Lyman Frank Baum
The victory of success is half won when one gains the 303.
habit of setng goals and achieving them. Even the most
tedious chore will become endurable as you parade
through each day convinced that every task, no mater
how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulflling your
dreams.
- Og Mandino
Your vision will become clear only when you look into 304.
your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside,
awakens.
- Carl Gustav Jung
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DREAMS
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them 305.
with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke
the life from your dream. Water them with optmism and
solutons and you will cultvate success. Always be on the
lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for
success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your
dream.
- Lao Tzu
Youre in the midst of a war: a batle between the limits 306.
of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the
power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a
fght between those who will tell you what you cannot do,
and that part of you that knows / and has always known /
that we are more than our environment; and that a dream,
backed by an unrelentng will to atain it, is truly a reality
with an imminent arrival.
- Anthony Robbins
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to 307.
eternity.
- Kahlil Gibran
Dreams and dedicaton are a powerful combinaton. 308.
- William Longgood
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions 309.
to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and
desires.
- Kahlil Gibran
We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance 310.
for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes,
we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the
dreams.
- Unknown
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DREAMS
You have to dream before your dreams can come true. 311.
- Abdul Kalam
Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow 312.
yourself the tme and space to let your mind wander and
your imaginaton fy.
- Oprah Winfrey
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no 313.
reasons are necessary.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
I believe that imaginaton is stronger than knowledge 314.
- myth is more potent than history - dreams are more
powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over
experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger
than death
- Robert Fulghum
Dreams pass into the reality of acton. From the actons 315.
stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces
the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin
A fool dreams of wealth; a wise man, of happiness. 316.
- Turkish Proverb

FAItH
If you can conceive it in your mind, then it can be brought 317.
to the physical world.
- Bob Proctor
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without 318.
reservaton.
- Unknown
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DREAMS
Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once 319.
accepted, despite your changing moods.
- C.S. Lewis
When you have come to the edge of all light that you 320.
know and are about to drop of into the darkness Of the
unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen:
There will be something solid to stand on or You will be
taught to fy
- Patrick Overton
The only thing that stands between a man and what he 321.
wants from life is ofen merely the will to try it and the
faith to believe that it is possible.
- David Viscot
Everything you are seeking are seeking you in return. 322.
Therefore, everything you want is already yours. So,
you dont have to get anything. It is simply a mater of
becoming more aware of what you already possess.
- Bob Proctor
The reason birds can fy and we cant is simply that they 323.
have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings
- James Mathew Barrie
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow 324.
bigger than your faith.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
To one who has faith, no explanaton is necessary. To one 325.
without faith, no explanaton is possible.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you 326.
will hold it in your hand.
- Bob Proctor
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FAITH
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of 327.
reason to believe.
- Voltaire
Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul 328.
needs the matchless and pure strength of faith
- Mahatma Gandhi
The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe 329.
in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is
whatever faith we have in our own integrity.
- Roy L. Smith
The only limits in our life are those we impose on 330.
ourselves.
- Bob Proctor
The smallest seed of faith is beter than the largest fruit of 331.
happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau
Sceptcism is the beginning of Faith. 332.
- Oscar Wilde
If you can envision it, you can have it! 333.
- Bob Proctor
I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are 334.
far beyond our own power, its an opportunity to build on
our faith, inner strength, and courage. Ive learned that
how we face challenges plays a big role in the outcome of
them.
- Sasha Azevedo
Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we 335.
will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith
to trust our own admission. The admitng is ofen very
difcult.
- Julia Cameron
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FAITH
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this 336.
faith is to see what you believe.
- Saint Augustne
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of 337.
proof.
- Kahlil Gibran
As your faith is strengthened you will fnd that there is no 338.
longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will
fow as they will, and that you will fow with them, to your
great delight and beneft.
- Emmanuel Teney
Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis 339.
of any certainty about ~where~ we shall land, but rather
on the belief that we ~shall~ land.
- Carter Heyward
Faith sees a beautful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in 340.
a seed, and a giant oak in an acorn.
- William Arthur Ward
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. 341.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Paintng is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard 342.
public opinion.
- Vincent van Gogh
A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live 343.
for.
- Bob Harrington
Faith is taking the frst step even when you dont see the 344.
whole staircase.
- Martn Luther King, Jr.
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is actve. 345.
- Edith Hamilton
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FAITH
Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see 346.
- William Newton Clarke
The foundaton stones for a balanced success are honesty, 347.
character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
- Zig Ziglar
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in 348.
nothing.
- Victor Hugo
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is mans 349.
lack of faith in his true Self.
- William James
In faith there is enough light for those who want to 350.
believe and enough shadows to blind those who dont.
- Blaise Pascal
There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH 351.
enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to
support your needs; STRENGTH enough to batle with
difcultes and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess
your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil
untl some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see
some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you
to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make
real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious
fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faith is the confdence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, 352.
the knowing...
- Robert Collier
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of 353.
companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and
it is the greatest property.
- Buddha
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FAITH
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of 354.
the future.
- Robert Collyer
All of the great achievers of the past have been visionary 355.
fgures; they were men and women who projected into the
future. They thought of what could be, rather than what
already was, and then they moved themselves into acton,
to bring these things into fruiton.
- Bob Proctor
When you really want something, and you couple that 356.
with an understanding of your nature, of your spiritual
being, and the laws that govern you, you will keep going,
regardless of whats happened. Nothing will stop you.
- Bob Proctor
To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief 357.
at all. But to believe in the unseen is both a triumph and a
blessing.
- Bob Proctor
You have to believe its possible and believe in yourself. 358.
Because afer youve decided what you want, you have to
believe its possible, and possible for you, not just for other
people. Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and
coaches.
- Jack Canfeld
Theres enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can 359.
see it, if you act from it, it will show up for you. Thats the
truth
- Michael Beckwith
There are laws of the universe and if you practce them 360.
they will respond to you
- Michael Beckwith
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FAITH
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilites! Without a 361.
humble but reasonable confdence in your own powers you
cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not 362.
material things.. it is the human mind, the human spirit,
the human imaginaton, and our faith in the future.
- Steve Forbes
Every achiever that I have ever met says, My life turned 363.
around when I began to believe in me.
- Dr. Robert H. Schuller
The most valuable things in life are not measured in 364.
monetary terms. The really important things are not
houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real
estate, but friendships, trust, confdence, empathy, mercy,
love and faith.
- Bertrand Russell

FeAR
Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutny 365.
and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of
thoughtul examinaton they usually just evaporate. - Jack
Canfeld
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not 366.
learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer 367.
- Anthony Robbins
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FAITH
Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, 368.
breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good
things will be yours
- Swedish Proverb
Ultmately we know deeply that the other side of every 369.
fear is freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never 370.
fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the
moment you reject all help are you freed.
- Buddha
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety 371.
from danger, but deliverance from fear
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence 372.
of fear
- Mark Twain
To overcome a fear, heres all you have to do: realize the 373.
fear is there, and do the acton you fear anyway.
- Peter McWilliams
Procrastnaton is the fear of success. People 374.
procrastnate because they are afraid of the success that
they know will result if they move ahead now. Because
success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much
easier to procrastnate and live on the someday Ill
philosophy.
- Denis Waitley
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make 375.
up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesnt exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
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FAITH - FEAR
Fear is the main source of superstton, and one of the 376.
main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of
wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain 377.
- Anthony Robbins
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is 378.
the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer
fear.
- Dale Carnegie
Inacton breeds doubt and fear. Acton breeds confdence 379.
and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home
and think about it. Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not 380.
learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you look into your own heart, and you fnd nothing 381.
wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there
to fear?
- Confucius
Fear is something to be moved through, not something to 382.
be turned from.
- Peter McWilliams
FEAR is an acronym in the English language for False 383.
Evidence Appearing Real
- Neale Donald Walsch
Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, 384.
hopelessness and resignaton. You can eliminate all of
these negatve habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and
I will!!
- Unknown
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FEAR
You gain strength, courage, and confdence by every 385.
experience in which you really stop to look fear in the
face do the thing you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
He who fears to sufer, sufers from fear 386.
- French Proverb
Do what you fear most and you control fear. 387.
- Tom Hopkins
Courage leads to heaven; fear to death 388.
- Seneca
There are four ways you can handle fear. You can go over 389.
it, under it, or around it. But if you are ever to put fear
behind you, you must walk straight through it. Once you
put fear behind you, leave it there.
- Donna A. Favors
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the 390.
judgement that something else is more important than
fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our 391.
deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It
is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We
ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented,
and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a
child of God. Your playing small doesnt serve the world.
Theres nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people wont feel insecure around you. We are all meant
to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest
the glory of God that is within us. Its not just in some of
us, its in everyone. And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the
same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
automatcally liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
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FEAR
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the litle- 392.
death that brings total obliteraton. I will face my fear...
And when it is gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its
path. Where the fear is gone there will be nothing. Only I
will remain.
- Frank Herbert
Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that 393.
its as temporary as you choose.
- Christne Comaford
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a 394.
belief system that is not working. To perceive the world
diferently, we must be willing to change our belief system,
let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and
dissolve the fear in our minds.
- William James
I have ofen been afraid, but I wouldnt give in to it. I 395.
made myself act as though I was not afraid, and gradually
my fear disappeared.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. 396.
- Richard Bach
Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the 397.
mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other
thoughts are drained.
- Arthur Somers Roche
Fear an ignorant man more than a lion 398.
- Turkish Proverb
They who have conquered doubt and fear have 399.
conquered failure
- James Allen
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FEAR
Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. 400.
Normal fear motvates us to improve our individual and
collectve welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and
distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear
but, rather to harness and master it.
- Martn Luther King, Jr.
Indecision is the seedling of fear 401.
- Napoleon Hill

FoCUs
Its not whats happening to you now or what has 402.
happened in your past that determines who you become.
Rather, its your decisions about what to focus on, what
things mean to you, and what youre going to do about
them that will determine your ultmate destny.
- Anthony Robbins
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not 403.
people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
- William Arthur Ward
When you write down your ideas you automatcally focus 404.
your full atenton on them. Few if any of us can write one
thought and think another at the same tme. Thus a pencil
and paper make excellent concentraton tools.
- Michael Leboeuf
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is 405.
that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our
power. Most people dabble their way through life, never
deciding to master anything in partcular.
- Anthony Robbins
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FEAR
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. 406.
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.
- Denis Waitley
Dont dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what 407.
to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward
fnding the answer.
- Denis Waitley
Goals are a means to an end, not the ultmate purpose of 408.
our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus
and move us in a directon. The only reason we really
pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.
Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in
the long term; its who you become, as you overcome the
obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give
you the deepest and most long-lastng sense of fulfllment.
- Anthony Robbins
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on 409.
things we desire not things we fear.
- Brian Tracy
Focus on your potental instead of your limitatons 410.
- Alan Loy McGinnis
You cant depend on your judgment when your 411.
imaginaton is out of focus
- Mark Twain
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can 412.
immediately command when we focus all of our resources
on mastering a single area of our lives.
- Anthony Robbins
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FOCUS
Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we 413.
pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses,
which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us
only what lies in its own focus.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the 414.
dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how
easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as
your desires, unless you make them so.
- Marcia Wieder
I fnd hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the 415.
brightest. I do not judge the universe.
- Dalai Lama
All blame is a waste of tme. No mater how much fault 416.
you fnd with another, and regardless of how much you
blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame
does is to keep the focus of you when you are looking
for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or
frustraton. You may succeed in making another feel guilty
about something by blaming him, but you wont succeed
in changing whatever it is about you that is making you
unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to 417.
see the light.
- Aristotle Onassis
You cant depend on your eyes when your imaginaton is 418.
out of focus.
- Mark Twain
Focus 90% of your tme on solutons and only 10% of your 419.
tme on problems.
- Anthony J. DAngelo
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FOCUS
Rather than denying problems, focus inventvely, 420.
intentonally on what solutons might look or feel like...
Our mind is meant to generate ideas that help us escape
circumstantal traps / if we trust it to do so. Naturally, not
all hunches are useful. But then you only need a single
good idea to solve a problem.
- Marsha Sinetar
Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on 421.
your future, rather than on the past.
- Gary Ryan Blair
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get 422.
the knowledge you need to fnd your unique factor. When
you fnd it and focus on it and persevere your success will
blossom.
- Sidney Madwed
We can always choose to perceive things diferently. You 423.
can focus on whats wrong in your life, or you can focus on
whats right.
- Marianne Williamson
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, 424.
as parallel realites. It is always our conscious choice which
secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus
on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the
abundance thats present / love, health, family, friends,
work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring
us pleasure / the wasteland of illusion falls away and we
experience Heaven on earth.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Focus on the journey, not the destnaton. Joy is found not 425.
in fnishing an actvity but in doing it.
- Greg Anderson
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The 426.
suns rays do not burn untl brought to a focus.
- Alexander Graham Bell
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FOCUS
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on 427.
harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the
universe.
- Wayne Dyer
When I chased afer money, I never had enough. When I 428.
got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and
everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
- Wayne Dyer
When every physical and mental resources is focused, 429.
ones power to solve a problem multplies tremendously.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Productvity is never an accident. It is always the result 430.
of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and
focused efort.
- Paul J. Meyer
You must remain focused on your journey to greatness. 431.
- Les Brown
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the 432.
moment you are in can you receive whatever gif, lesson,
or delight that moment has to ofer.
- Barbara De Angelis

FoRGIVeness
Resentment is like taking poison and waitng for the other 433.
person to die.
- Malachy McCourt
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FOCUS
Forgiveness is not always easy. At tmes, it feels more 434.
painful than the wound we sufered, to forgive the one that
inficted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
- Marianne Williamson
The past is over and done and cannot be changed. This is 435.
the only moment we can experience.
- Louise Hay
Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a 436.
way of rearing its head and making itself known when we
least expect it.
- Debbie Ford
To understand everything is to forgive everything 437.
- Buddha
I really dont think life is about the I-could-have-beens. 438.
Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I dont mind the failure
but I cant imagine that Id forgive myself if I didnt try.
- Nikki Giovanni
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means 439.
pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the
unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems
hopeless.
- G. K. Chesterton
Love yourselfaccept yourselfforgive yourselfand be 440.
good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are
without a source of many wonderful things.
- Leo F. Buscaglia
Flater me, and I may not believe you. Critcize me, and 441.
I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may
be forced to love you.
- William Arthur Ward
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FOCUS - FORGIVENESS
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the 442.
prisoner was you.
- Lewis B. Smedes
Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before 443.
you spend, earn. Before you invest, investgate. Before you
critcize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.
Before you retre, save. Before you die, give.
- William Arthur Ward
Do more than belong: partcipate. Do more than care: 444.
help. Do more than believe: practce. Do more than be
fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than
dream: work.
- William Arthur Ward
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the atribute of 445.
the strong.
- Mahatma Gandhi
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover untl we 446.
forgive
- Alan Paton
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and 447.
move on.
- Les Brown
Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace 448.
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge 449.
the future.
- Paul Boese
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FORGIVENESS
Sincere forgiveness isnt colored with expectatons 450.
that the other person apologize or change. Dont worry
whether or not they fnally understand you. Love them and
release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own
way and tme.
- Sara Paddison
Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of 451.
resentment and retaliaton
- Roberto Assagioli
True forgiveness is not an acton afer the fact, it is an 452.
attude with which you enter each moment.
- David Ridge
Friendship fourishes at the fountain of forgiveness. 453.
- William Arthur Ward
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of 454.
resentment and the handcufs of hate. It is a power
that breaks the chains of biterness and the shackles of
selfshness.
- William Arthur Ward
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an 455.
opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child,
a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother,
conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself,
respect; to all men, charity.
- Benjamin Franklin
We achieve inner health only through forgiveness - the 456.
forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves
- Joshua Loth Liebman
Inner peace can be reached only when we practce 457.
forgiveness. Forgiveness is letng go of the past, and is
therefore the means for correctng our misperceptons.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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FORGIVENESS
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness 458.
saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of
spirits.
- Hannah Moore
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. 459.
- George MacDonald
FRIenDsHIP
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one 460.
of the best things you can be.
- Douglas Pagels
Friendship isnt a big thing - its a million litle things. 461.
- Unknown
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my 462.
world.
- Leo Buscaglia
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. 463.
- Sicilian Proverb
The antdote for ffy enemies is one friend. 464.
- Aristotle
In everyones life, at some tme, our inner fre goes out. 465.
It is then burst into fame by an encounter with another
human being. We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when theyre not so 466.
good, and sympathizes with your problems when theyre
not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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FORGIVENESS
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and stll 467.
likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
If a friend is in trouble, dont annoy him by asking if there 468.
is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate
and do it.
- Edgar Watson Howe
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. 469.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to 470.
be going down.
- Arnold Glasow
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are 471.
restored and sorrows end.
- William Shakespeare
The most beautful discovery true friends make is that 472.
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me 473.
when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
You can always tell a real friend: when youve made a fool 474.
of yourself he doesnt feel youve done a permanent job.
- Laurence J. Peter
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and 475.
then wait for the answer.
- Unknown
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world 476.
has gone out.
- Grace Pulpit
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FRIENDSHIP
Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of 477.
friendship.
- Dorothy Parker
The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch 478.
with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that
was the best conversaton youve had.
- Unknown
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. 479.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if 480.
you are half-cracked.
- Unknown
If instead of a gem, or even a fower, we should cast the 481.
gif of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that
would be giving as the angels give.
- George MacDonald
It takes a long tme to grow an old friend. 482.
- John Leonard
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, 483.
and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if 484.
they like us enough it doesnt mater.
- Mignon McLaughlin
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists 485.
readily, adventures boldly, takes all patently, defends
courageously, and contnues a friend unchangeably.
- William Penn
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FRIENDSHIP
A good friend is a connecton to life - a te to the past, 486.
a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane
world.
- Lois Wyse
If youre alone, Ill be your shadow. If you want to cry, Ill 487.
be your shoulder. If you want a hug, Ill be your pillow. If
you need to be happy, Ill be your smile. But anytme you
need a friend, Ill just be me.
- Unknown
A mans growth is seen in the successive choirs of his 488.
friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

GoALs
Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so 489.
exhilaratng that it excites you and scares you at the same
tme. It must be a goal that is so appealing, so much in line
with your spiritual core, that you cant get it out of your
mind. If you do not get chills when you set a goal, your not
setng big enough goals.
- Bob Proctor
Not in his goals but in his transitons is man great 490.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discipline is the bridge between goals and 491.
accomplishment.
- Jim Rohn
If you know what to do to reach your goal, its not a big 492.
enough goal.
- Bob Proctor
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FRIENDSHIP
Setng goals is the frst step in turning the invisible into 493.
the visible.
- Anthony Robbins
The victory of success is half won when one gains the 494.
habit of setng goals and achieving them. Even the most
tedious chore will become endurable as you parade
through each day convinced that every task, no mater
how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulflling your
dreams.
- Og Mandino
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals / 495.
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Anthony Robbins
We come this way but once. We can either tptoe through 496.
life and hope we get to death without being badly bruised
or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and
realizing our wildest dreams.
- Bob Proctor
Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a 497.
ship that has set sail with no destnaton.
- Fitzhugh Dodson
Goals are dreams with deadlines. 498.
- Diana Scharf Hunt
Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. 499.
Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your
goals enable you to realize your vision.
- Bob Proctor
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, 500.
dont adjust the goals, adjust the acton steps.
- Confucius
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 73
FRIENDSHIP - GOALS
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the 501.
future, and live in the only moment of tme over which you
have any control: now.
- Denis Waitley
In the absence of clearly-defned goals, we become 502.
strangely loyal to performing daily trivia untl ultmately we
become enslaved by it.
- Robert Heinlein
The reason most people never reach their goals is 503.
that they dont defne 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.
- Denis Waitley
All who have accomplished great things have had a great 504.
aim; have fxed their gaze on a goal which was high, one
which sometmes seemed impossible.
- Orison Swet Marden
Learn to become stll. And to take your atenton away 505.
from what you dont want, and all the emotonal charge
around it, and place your atenton on what you wish to
experience
- Michael Beckwith
When you are clear, what you want will show up in your 506.
life, and only to the extent you are clear.
- Janet Atwood
The reason most people never reach their goals is 507.
that they dont defne 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
- Denis Waitley
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 74
GOALS
To have Goals is to have a future, because without goals 508.
we will strive for nothing.
- Andrew Ridings
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. 509.
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.
- Denis Waitley
Goals are a means to an end, not the ultmate purpose of 510.
our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus
and move us in a directon. The only reason we really
pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.
Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy
in the long term; its who you become, as you overcome
the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give
you the deepest and most long-lastng sense of fulfllment.
- Anthony Robbins
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if 511.
he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
- Aristotle
Goals allow you to control the directon of change in your 512.
favor.
- Brian Tracy
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, 513.
in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we
must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
- Stephen A. Brennan
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 75
GOALS
The most important thing you can do to achieve your 514.
goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them,
you immediately begin to create momentum. The most
important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving
my goals were those I learned from a very successful man
who taught me to frst write down the goal, and then to
never leave the site of setng a goal without frs taking
some form of positve acton toward its atainment.
- Anthony Robbins
People with goals succeed because they know where 515.
theyre going.
- Earl Nightngale
Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by 516.
life, dont look back at it too long. Mistakes are lifes way
of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is
inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one
wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are
just part of your growth. Shake of your blunders. How will
you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never
quit. Your turn will come.
- Og Mandino
You must take acton now that will move you towards 517.
your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, 518.
keeps me from my goals, is all mine.
- Wayne Dyer
Every single life only becomes great when the individual 519.
sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in,
which they can really commit themselves to, which they
can put their whole heart and soul into.
- Brian Tracy
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 76
GOALS
What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as 520.
what you become by achieving your goals.
- Zig Ziglar
If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If 521.
I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge
ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel
uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think
of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past
success. If I feel insignifcant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotons.
- Og Mandino
When your goals seem too difcult to reach..... move the 522.
posts closer
- Phil Long
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show 523.
you what is possible for your life.
- Les Brown
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motvate us. 524.
They are essental to really keep us alive.
- Robert H. Schuller
The most important thing about having goals is having 525.
one.
- Abert F. Geofrey
You must see your goals clearly and specifcally before you 526.
can set out for them. Hold them in your mind untl they
become second nature.
- Les Brown
Dont be a tme manager, be a priority manager. Cut your 527.
major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or
requirement on the way to ultmate goal become a mini
goal in itself.
- Denis Waitley
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 77
GOALS
You control your future, your destny. What you think 528.
about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals
on paper, you set in moton the process of becoming the
person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands
- your own.
- Mark Victor Hansen
If youre bored with life - you dont get up every morning 529.
with a burning desire to do things - you dont have enough
goals.
- Lou Holtz
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, 530.
achieve goals, and we fnd no real satsfacton or happiness
in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
- Maxwell Maltz
A person should set his goals as early as he can and 531.
devote all his energy and talent to getng there. With
enough efort, he may achieve it. Or he may fnd something
that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no mater
what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.
- Walt Disney

GRAtItUDe
Lets start with what we can be thankful for, and get our 532.
mind into that vibraton, and then watch the good that
starts to come, because one thought leads to another
thought.
- by Bob Proctor
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 78
GOALS
Grattude is an attude that hooks us up to our source 533.
of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you
become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to
the spiritual core of your being. Its a phenomenal lesson.
- Bob Proctor
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are 534.
the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are 535.
the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust
The enlightened give thanks for what most people take 536.
for granted ...... As you begin to be grateful for what most
people take for granted, that vibraton of grattude makes
you more receptve to good in your life
- Michael Beckwith
Grattude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, 537.
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Unknown
Grattude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what 538.
we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into
acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn
a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a
friend. Grattude makes sense of our past, brings peace for
today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beate
At tmes our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark 539.
from another person. Each of us has cause to think with
deep grattude of those who have lighted the fame within
us.
- Albert Schweitzer
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 79
GOALS - GRATITUDE
When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance 540.
appears.
- Anthony Robbins
When it comes to life the critcal thing is whether you take 541.
things for granted or take them with grattude.
- G. K. Chesterton
Feeling grattude and not expressing it is like wrapping a 542.
present and not giving it.
- William Arthur Ward
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of 543.
thought, and that grattude is happiness doubled by
wonder.
- G. K. Chesterton
As we express our grattude, we must never forget that 544.
the highest appreciaton is not to uter words, but to live
by them.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Develop an attude of grattude, and give thanks for 545.
everything that happens to you, knowing that every step
forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and
beter than your current situaton.
- Brian Tracy
Grattude is when memory is stored in the heart and not 546.
in the mind.
- Lionel Hampton
No one who achieves success does so without 547.
acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confdent
acknowledge this help with grattude.
- Alfred North Whitehead
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 80
GRATITUDE
I have learned that some of the nicest people youll ever 548.
meet are those who have sufered a traumatc event or
loss. I admire them for their strength, but most especially
for their life grattude - a gif ofen taken for granted by the
average person in society.
- Sasha Azevedo
Good men and bad men difer radically. Bad men 549.
never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men
appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their
appreciaton and grattude by some return of kindness, not
only to their benefactor, but to e
- Buddha
Grattude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter 550.
everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe
that change forever how we experience life and the world.
- John Milton
Grattude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which 551.
none have a right to expect
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
God gave you a gif of 86,400 seconds today. Have you 552.
used one to say thank you?
- William Arthur Ward
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, thank 553.
you, that would sufce
- Meister Eckhart
The only people with whom you should try to get even 554.
are those who have helped you.
- John E. Southard
As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my 555.
grattude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over
the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed
world.
- Terri Guillemets
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 81
GRATITUDE
For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter 556.
of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For
everything Thy goodness sends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the 557.
thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet
fnds the iron, so it will fnd, in every hour, some heavenly
blessings!
- Henry Ward Beecher
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which 558.
he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use 559.
them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
- W.T. Purkiser
Grattude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be 560.
produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at
all.
- William Faulkner
If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It 561.
will change your life mightly.
- Gerald Good
The hardest arithmetc to master is that which enables us 562.
to count our blessings.
- Eric Hofer
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 82
GRATITUDE
HAPPIness
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the 563.
absence but in the mastery of his passions.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
A man is not rightly conditoned untl he is a happy, 564.
healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and
prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of
the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
- James Allen
Finally, what I really want is to be happy in this moment, 565.
where the magic and miracles happen. Stay in the moment
and all gifs are added as you breathe and take inspired
acton.
- Joe Vitale
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your 566.
thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
- Andrew Carnegie
If you want to be happy, be. 567.
- Leo Tolstoy
Most people would rather be certain theyre miserable, 568.
than risk being happy.
- Robert Anthony
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer 569.
somebody else up.
- Mark Twain
Nobody really cares if youre miserable, so you might as 570.
well be happy.
- Cynthia Nelms
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 83
GRATITUDE - HAPPINESS
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the 571.
true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
- Norm Papernick
Man is fond of countng his troubles, but he does not 572.
count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he
would see that every lot has enough happiness provided
for it.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
What a wonderful life Ive had! I only wish Id realized it 573.
sooner.
- Colete
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise 574.
grows it under his feet.
- James Openheim
People take diferent roads seeking fulfllment and 575.
happiness. Just because theyre not on your road doesnt
mean theyve goten lost.
- H. Jackson Browne
Ofen people atempt to live their lives backwards; they 576.
try to have more things, or more money, in order to do
more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way
it actually works is the reverse. You must frst be who you
really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have
what you want.
- Margaret Young
Happiness is like a buterfy which, when pursued, is 577.
always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Its never too late to have a happy childhood. 578.
- Berke Breathed
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 84
HAPPINESS
Happiness? Thats nothing more than health and a poor 579.
memory.
- Albert Schweitzer
If you want others to be happy, practce compassion. If 580.
you want to be happy, practce compassion.
- Dalai Lama
Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the 581.
fower.
- Unknown
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to 582.
what he has.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If you search the world for happiness, you may fnd it in 583.
the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to
your door.
- Robert Brault
Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Dont 584.
go through life creaking.
- H.W. Byles
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of 585.
happiness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not easy to fnd happiness in ourselves, and it is not 586.
possible to fnd it elsewhere.
- Agnes Repplier
Happiness equals reality minus expectatons 587.
- Tom Magliozzi
The greatest happiness of life is the convicton that we 588.
are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of
ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 85
HAPPINESS
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease 589.
worrying about things which are beyond the power of our
will.
- Epictetus
This very moment is a seed from which the fowers of 590.
tomorrows happiness grow.
- Margaret Lindsey
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know 591.
what happiness is.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do 592.
that is the secret of happiness
- James Mathew Barrie
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy 593.
simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
- Storm Jameson
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from 594.
your own actons.
- Dalai Lama
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and 595.
what you do are in harmony.
- Mohandas Gandhi
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of 596.
mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to
the man who has found the work that he likes best.
- Napoleon Hill
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. 597.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
True happiness... is not atained through self-gratfcaton, 598.
but through fdelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 86
HAPPINESS
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some 599.
work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for
it, and you will fnd happiness that you had thought could
never be yours.
- Dale Carnegie
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. 600.
- Robert Frost
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; 601.
it is something you design for the present.
- Jim Rohn
But what is happiness except the simple harmony 602.
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
There is no value in life except what you choose to place 603.
upon it and no happiness in any place except what you
bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of 604.
your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care
that you entertain no notons unsuitable to virtue and
reasonable nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Happiness is a contnuaton of happenings which are not 605.
resisted.
- Deepak Chopra
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will 606.
fnd their greatest happiness in using it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 87
HAPPINESS
There is a diference between happiness and wisdom: 607.
he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but
he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest
fool.
- Francis Bacon
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the 608.
absence but in the mastery of his passions.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or 609.
consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living
every minute with love, grace, and grattude.
- Denis Waitley
A man is not rightly conditoned untl he is a happy, 610.
healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and
prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of
the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
- James Allen
HoPe
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; 611.
for who so hopes strongly has within him the gif of
miracles.
- Samuel Smiles
Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people 612.
instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be
done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards
problems, large or small, as opportunites; it pushes ahead
when it would be easy to quit; it lights the candle instead
of cursing the darkness.
- Anonymous
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 88
HAPPINESS
What seems to us as biter trials are ofen blessings in 613.
disguise
- Oscar Wilde
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. 614.
- Albert Einstein
In all things it is beter to hope than to despair 615.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hope never abandons you; you abandon it 616.
- George Weinberg
Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. 617.
- George Iles
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning 618.
of life
- Emil Brunner
Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, 619.
and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.
- Emily Dickinson
Most of the important things in the world have been 620.
accomplished by people who have kept on trying when
there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
What would life be if we had no courage to atempt 621.
anything?
- Vincent van Gogh
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for 622.
the possible.
- William Sloan Cofn
The very least you can do in your life is to fgure out what 623.
you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that
hope.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 89
HOPE
Once you choose hope, anythings possible. 624.
- Christopher Reeve
When the world says, Give up, Hope whispers, Try it one 625.
more tme.
- Unknown
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the 626.
traveler than the road built in despair, even though they
both lead to the same destnaton.
- Marian Zimmer Bradley
Hope is the word which God has writen on the brow of 627.
every man.
- Victor Hugo

IMAGInAtIon
Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek 628.
can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I
dream can I be.
- Karen Ravn
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own soluton. If 629.
you dont have any problems, you dont get any seeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads 630.
and empty hearts can do that.
- Norman Vincent Peale
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are 631.
spiritual beings on a human journey. Dr. Stephen Covey
Our aspiratons are our possibilites. 632.
-Robert Browning
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 90
HOPE
Who are we? We are children of God. Our potental is 633.
unlimited. Our inheritance is sacred. May we always honor
that heritage in every thought and deed.
-Russell M. Nelson
The potental of the average person is like a huge 634.
ocean unsailed, a new contnent unexplored, a world of
possibilites waitng to be released and channeled toward
some great good.
-Brian Tracy
Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real 635.
potental.
- Peace Pilgrim
The most common commodity in this country is 636.
unrealized potental.
- Calvin Coolidge
It is a denial of the divinity within us to deny our potental 637.
and possibilites.
-James E. Faust
No mater what the level of your ability, you have more 638.
potental than you can ever develop in a lifetme.
-James T Mccay
The only limits to the possibilites in your life tomorrow 639.
are the buts you use today.
-Les Brown
You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never 640.
fnished, no mater what your age or positon in life.
Denis Waitley
Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves 641.
listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it
involves being in the moment. Sidney Poiter
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 91
IMAGINATION
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the 642.
paint on it you can. Danny Kaye
Imaginaton is everything. It is the preview of lifes coming 643.
atractons.
- Albert Einstein
If you have zest and enthusiasm you atract zest and 644.
enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but 645.
imaginaton.
- Albert Einstein
Imaginaton is more important than knowledge. For 646.
knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand,
while imaginaton embraces the entre world, and all there
ever will be to know and understand.
- Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to B. Imaginaton will take you 647.
everywhere.
- Albert Einstein
Reason can answer questons, but imaginaton has to ask 648.
them.
- Dr. Ralph Gerard
Things are prety, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but 649.
untl they speak to the imaginaton, not yet beautful
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing 650.
expands possibilites like unleashed imaginaton.
- William Arthur Ward
This world is but a canvas to our imaginatons. 651.
- Henry David Thoreau
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 92
IMAGINATION
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imaginaton 652.
is boundless.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow 653.
yourself the tme and space to let your mind wander and
your imaginaton fy.
- Oprah Winfrey
The level of our success is limited only by our imaginaton 654.
and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted
- Aesop
There is a space between mans imaginaton and mans 655.
atainment that may only be traversed by his longing
- Kahlil Gibran
I believe in the imaginaton. What I cannot see is infnitely 656.
more important than what I can see.
- Duane Michals
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single 657.
man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a
cathedral.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupry
I saw the angel in the marble and carved untl I set him 658.
free.
- Michelangelo
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a 659.
necessary ingredient in living, its a way of looking at life
through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do,
and that enables you to laugh at lifes realites.
- Theodore Geisel
Nothing encourages creatvity like the chance to fall fat 660.
on ones face.
- James D. Finley
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 93
IMAGINATION
My alphabet starts with this leter called yuzz. Its the 661.
leter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. Youll be sort of
surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z
and start poking around!
- Dr. Seuss
Think lef and think right and think low and think high. 662.
Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
- Dr. Seuss
A fool-proof method for sculptng an elephant: frst, get a 663.
huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that
doesnt look like an elephant.
- Unknown
The Possibles slow fuse is lit by the Imaginaton. 664.
- Emily Dickinson
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. 665.
- Pablo Picasso
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the 666.
clouds.
- G.K. Chesterton
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things 667.
which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Sometmes Ive believed as many as six impossible things 668.
before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Things are only impossible untl theyre not. 669.
- Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generaton
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - 670.
religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
- Vincent Van Gogh
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 94
IMAGINATION
In the realist you have the sorry sight of the fve senses 671.
deprived of their imaginaton.
- Robert Brault
When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tnt; Dont 672.
state the mater plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to
look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.
- Lewis Carroll
Trust that litle voice in your head that says Wouldnt it 673.
be interestng if... And then do it.
- Duane Michals
Its not what you look at that maters, its what you see. 674.
- Henry David Thoreau
Live out of your imaginaton, not your history. 675.
- Stephen Covey

PAssIon
If youre passionate about what it is you do, then youre 676.
going to be looking for everything you can to get beter at
it.
- Jack Canfeld
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself 677.
and carry you away. It is the means by which the artst
conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth,
which sweeps you along in his passion
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, 678.
whether its the aspiraton of an athlete or an artst, a
scientst, a parent or a business person.
- Anthony Robbins
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 95
IMAGINATION
A passion for life is one of the most atractve qualites in 679.
a human being. If you want a teammate or a life mate who
loves to be around you, all you need to do is love to be
around.
- Denis Waitley
You have to fnd something that you love enough to be 680.
able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through
the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front
of you. If you dont have that kind of feeling for what it
is youre doing, youll stop at the frst giant hurdle.
George Lucas
Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. 681.
Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with
such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in
calling. Vincent Van Gogh
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget 682.
how you made them feel.
- Carl W. Buechner
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished 683.
without passion.
- Hebbel
A great leaders courage to fulfll his vision comes from 684.
passion, not positon.
- John Maxwell
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are 685.
someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their
passions a quotaton.
- Oscar Wilde
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by 686.
those who could not hear the music.
- Angela Monet
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 96
IMAGINATION - PASSION
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote 687.
yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your
community around you, and devote yourself to creatng
something that gives you purpose and meaning.
- Mitch Albom
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the 688.
more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious,
will direct us along the path to its fulfllment.
- Earl Nightngale
Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waitng... and though 689.
unwanted... unbidden... it will str... open its jaws and howl.
It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we
obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source
of our fnest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of
hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometmes more
than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe
wed know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow...
Empty rooms shutered and dank. Without passion wed be
truly dead.
- Joss Whedon
If there is no passion in your life, then have you really 690.
lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it,
and let it become you and you will fnd great things happen
FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.
- T. Alan Armstrong
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the 691.
desire of the end will point out the means
- William Hazlit
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the 692.
passion of life.
- Federico Fellini
Rest in reason; move in passion 693.
- Khalil Gibran
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 97
PASSION
Passion is the genesis of genius. 694.
- Anthony Robbins
Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our 695.
reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel
would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.
- Proverb
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. 696.
- Benjamin Franklin
Chase down your passion like its the last bus of the 697.
night.
- Terri Guillemets
Without passion man is a mere latent force and 698.
possibility, like the fint which awaits the shock of the iron
before it can give forth its spark. - Amie

PAtIenCe
Genius is nothing but a great apttude for patence. 699.
- George-Louis de Bufon
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patence. 700.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patence and perseverance have a magical efect before 701.
which difcultes disappear and obstacles vanish.
- John Quincy Adams
Patence is the companion of wisdom. 702.
- St. Augustne
Patence is also a form of acton. 703.
- Auguste Rodin
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 98
PASSION
One moment of patence may ward of great disaster. 704.
One moment of impatence may ruin a whole life.
- Chinese Proverb
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves 705.
by impatence. Misfortunes have their life and their limits,
their sickness and their health.
- Michel de Montaigne
Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while frst. Ask 706.
questons, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.
- Unknown
Be patent toward all that is unsolved in your heart and 707.
try to love the questons themselves. Do not now seek the
answers, which cannot be given you because you would
not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything.
Live the questons
- Rainer Maria Rilke
All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and 708.
hope - Alexandre Dumas Pre
The two most powerful warriors are patence and tme. 709.
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
He that can have Patence, can have what he will 710.
- Benjamin Franklin
The key to everything is patence. You get the chicken by 711.
hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Patence is passion tamed. 712.
- Lyman Abbot
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 99
PASSION - PATIENCE
Patence serves as a protecton against wrongs as clothes 713.
do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold
increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like
manner you must grow in patence when you meet with
great wrongs, and they
- Leonardo da Vinci
Have patence with all things, but chiefy have patence 714.
with yourself.
- St. Francis de Sales
Patence is not passive; on the contrary, it is actve; it is 715.
concentrated strength
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lyton

PeRCePtIon
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing 716.
necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
- Henry Ford
We can always choose to perceive things diferently. You 717.
can focus on whats wrong in your life, or you can focus on
whats right.
- Marianne Williamson
If the doors of percepton were cleansed, everything 718.
would appear as it is - infnite
- William Blake
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that 719.
the limit of our power of percepton is also the limit of all
there is to perceive.
- C. W. Leadbeater
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 100
PATIENCE
Blessed are they who see beautful things in humble 720.
places where other people see nothing.
- Camille Pissarro
People only see what they are prepared to see. 721.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it 722.
so.
- William Shakespeare
If you look at your life one way, there is always cause for 723.
alarm.
- Elizabeth Bowen
What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world 724.
calls a buterfy.
- Lao-tzu
Pain is a relatvely objectve, physical phenomenon; 725.
sufering is our psychological resistance to what happens.
Events may create physical pain, but they do not in
themselves create sufering. Resistance creates sufering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only
problem in your life is your minds resistance to life as it
unfolds.
- Dan Millman
Every exit is an entry somewhere. 726.
- Tom Stoppard
The basic diference between an ordinary man and a 727.
warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge,
while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a
curse.
- Carlos Castaneda
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 101
PATIENCE - PERCEPTION
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make 728.
ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The
amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can 729.
always choose how we respond to them.
- Epictetus
Mans mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains 730.
its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me 731.
on the screen of my own percepton. All of it.
- Byron Kate
As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you 732.
come to see that every perceived problem appearing out
there is really nothing more than a mispercepton within
your own thinking.
- Byron Kate
Could we change our attude, we should not only see 733.
life diferently, but life itself would come to be diferent.
Life would undergo a change of appearance because we
ourselves had undergone a change of attude.
- Katherine Mansfeld
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not 734.
due to the thing itself but to your own estmate of it; and
this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius
When the only tool you have is a hammer, all problems 735.
begin to resemble nails.
- Abraham Maslow
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 102
PERCEPTION
Become a possibilitarian. No mater how dark things seem 736.
to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilites -
always see them, for theyre always there.
- Norman Vincent Peale
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to 737.
the optmist.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Its not what you look at that maters, its what you see. 738.
- Henry David Thoreau
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we 739.
experience them.
- Kahlil Gibran
A problem can not be solved with the same consciousness 740.
that created it.
- Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. 741.
- Albert Einstein
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though 742.
nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a
miracle.
- Albert Einstein
We dont see things as they are. We see them as we are. 743.
- Anais Nin
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is. 744.
- Seneca
The place ones in, though, doesnt make any contributon 745.
to peace of mind: its the spirit that makes everything
agreeable to oneself.
- Seneca
Pain is inevitable. Sufering is optonal. 746.
- Dalai Lama
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 103
PERCEPTION
Nothing is a waste of tme if you use the experience 747.
wisely.
- Auguste Rodin
A verse from the Veda says, What you see, you become. 748.
In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world
makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.
- Deepak Chopra
Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see 749.
the negatve, we call forth more negatve. And where we
see the positve, we call forth more positve. Having loved
and lost, I now love more passionately. Having won and
lost, I now win more soberly. Having tasted the biter, I now
savor the sweet.
- Marianne Williamson
You must have absolute faith in your own perceptons 750.
of truth. Never act in haste or hurry; be deliberated in
everything; wait untl you know the true way.
- Wallace D. Watles
Hurry is a manifestaton of fear; he who fears not has 751.
plenty of tme. If you at with perfect faith in your own
perceptons of truth, you will never be too late or too early;
and nothing will go wrong.
- Wallace D. Watles
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 104
PERCEPTION
PeRsIstenCe &
PeRseVeRenCe
Persistence is a unique mental strength; a strength that 752.
is essental to combat the ferce power of the repeated
rejectons and numerous other obstacles that sit in waitng
and are all part of winning in a fast-moving, ever-changing
world.
- Bob Proctor
Youve got to develop mental strength. And you develop 753.
mental strength with the will. The will is the mental faculty
that gives you the ability to hold one idea under the screen
of your mind to the exclusion of all outside distractons.
- Bob Proctor
Fall seven tmes, stand up eight. 754.
- Japanese proverb
Most people never run far enough on their frst wind 755.
to fnd out if theyve got a second. Give your dreams all
youve got and youll be amazed at the energy that comes
out of you.
- William James
By perseverance the snail reached the ark. 756.
- Charles H. Spurgeon
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only 757.
knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are
sure to wake up somebody.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 105
PERCEPTION
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to 758.
everything, and if we had sufcient will we should always
have sufcient means. It is ofen merely for an excuse that
we say things are impossible.
- Franois de la Rochefoucauld
Never, never, never give up! 759.
- Winston Churchill
Great works are performed not by strength but by 760.
perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
A champion is someone who gets up, even when he 761.
cant.
- Jack Dempsey
Never Quit. Dont ever, ever quit. Recognize that stopping 762.
now, regrouping to try a new approach isnt quitng. If you
quit youll regret it forever.
- Rudy Ruetger
Its not whether you get knocked down; its whether you 763.
get up.
- Vince Lombardi
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My 764.
strength lies solely in my tenacity.
- Louis Pasteur
If you are going through hell, keep going. 765.
- Winston Churchill
When you reach the end of your rope, te a knot in it and 766.
hang on.
- Thomas Jeferson
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine tmes, 767.
the conclusion is false. The hundredth tme I am right.
- Albert Einstein
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 106
PERSISTENCE & PERSEVERENCE
Success seems to be largely a mater of hanging on afer 768.
others have let go.
- William Feather
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. 769.
Talent will not; nothing in the world is more common than
unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded
genius is a proverb. Educaton will not; the world is full of
educated derelicts. Persistence and determinaton alone
are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth 770.
tries.
- James A. Michener
Most of the important things in the world have been 771.
accomplished by people who have kept on trying when
there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
The diference between perseverance and obstnacy is 772.
that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a
strong wont.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The road to success is doted with many temptng parking 773.
places.
- Unknown
Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, 774.
there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the
bigger the obstacles. Your decision to be, have and do
something out of the ordinary entails facing difcultes and
challenges that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometmes
your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it
longer than anyone else.
- Brian Tracy
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 107
PERSISTENCE & PERSEVERENCE
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the 775.
ability to stck to one thing tll it gets there.
- Josh Billings
The greatest oak was once a litle nut who held its 776.
ground.
- Unknown
Fall seven tmes, stand up eight. 777.
- Japanese Proverb
Perseverance is the hard work you do afer you get tred 778.
of doing the hard work you already did.
- Newt Gingrich
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, 779.
never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin
again.
- Flavia Weedn
He conquers who endures. 780.
- Persius
Stubbornly persist, and you will fnd that the limits of your 781.
stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your
limits.
- Robert Brault
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to 782.
the swif, nor the batle to the strong, neither yet bread to
the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet
favour to men of skill; but tme and chance happeneth to
them all.
- Ecclesiastes 9:11
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. 783.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 108
PERSISTENCE & PERSEVERENCE
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble 784.
on something, perhaps when you are least expectng it. I
never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitng
down.
- Charles F. Ketering
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up 785.
every tme we fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. 786.
- Robert Schuller
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the 787.
ability to start over.
- F. Scot Fitzgerald
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all 788.
things are atainable.
- Thomas Foxwell Buxton
Most people never run far enough on their frst wind to 789.
fnd out theyve got a second.
- William James
Difcult things take a long tme, impossible things a litle 790.
longer. - Andr A. Jackson
Dont let the fear of the tme it will take to accomplish 791.
something stand in the way of your doing it. The tme will
pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing tme to
the best possible use.
- Earl Nightngale
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 109
PERSISTENCE & PERSEVERENCE
PRosPeRItY
The problem is that most people focus on their failures 792.
rather than their successes. But the truth is that most
people have many more successes than failures.
- Jack Canfeld
There are only two words that will always lead you to 793.
success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, youve
mastered saying yes. So start practcing saying no. Your
goals depend on it!
- Jack Canfeld
I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one 794.
advances confdently in the directon of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet
with success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental 795.
picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture
tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek
to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your
imaginaton.
- Norman Vincent Peale
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at 796.
what you love; theres only a scarcity of resolve to make it
happen.
- Wayne Dyer
Successful people form the habit of doing what failures 797.
dont like to do. They like the results they get by doing
what they dont necessarily enjoy.
- Earl Nightngale
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 110
PERSISTENCE & PERSEVERENCE
This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity 798.
comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and
always look forward for beter things, for conditons more
prosperous.
- Ralph Waldo Trine
Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in 799.
turn.
- Earl Nightngale
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his 800.
success, his infuence, his power for good. Calmness of
mind is one of the beautful jewels of wisdom.
- James Allen
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is 801.
too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach
it.
- Michelangelo
If you wait for opportunites to occur, you will be one of 802.
the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Dont wait for extraordinary opportunites. Seize common 803.
occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for
opportunites; strong men make them.
- Orison Swet Marden
True prosperity is the result of well-placed confdence in 804.
ourselves and our fellow man.
- Benjamin Burt
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on 805.
the full use of our creatve imaginaton.
- Ruth Ross
Prosperity depends more on wantng what you have than 806.
having what you want.
- Albert F. Geofrey
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 111
PROSPERITY
ReLAtIonsHIPs
Litle kindness and courtesies are so important. In 807.
relatonships, the litle things are the big things.
- Stephen R. Covey
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor 808.
the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; its the
spiritual inspiraton that comes to one when he discovers
that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust
him with his friend.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True friendship comes when the silence between two 809.
people is comfortable.
- David Tyson Gentry
I just do not hang around anybody that I dont want to 810.
be with. Period. For me, thats a blessing, and I can stay
positve. I hang around people who are happy, who are
growing, who want to learn, who dont mind saying sorry
or thank you ... and [ are ] having a fun tme.
- John Assaraf
A loving relatonship is one in which the loved one is free 811.
to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry
with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love
himself, to love being loved. Such a relatonship is based
upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
- Leo F. Buscaglia
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. 812.
- Swedish Proverb
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 112
PROSPERITY
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. Thats why 813.
its a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
Theres one sad truth in life Ive found While journeying 814.
east and west - The only folks we really wound are those
we love the best. We fater those we scarcely know, We
please the feetng guest, And deal full many a thoughtless
blow to those who love us best.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call 815.
you could make, who would you call and what would you
say? And why are you waitng?
- Stephen Levine
Dont smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. 816.
- Leo Buscaglia
Sometmes it is the person closest to us who must travel 817.
the furthest distance to be our friend.
- Robert Brault
Stcks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art, 818.
words can stng like anything but silence breaks the heart.
- Phyllis McGinley
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put 819.
miles between you, but at the same tme you carry them
with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because
you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
- Frederick Buechner
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. Pooh! he 820.
whispered. Yes, Piglet? Nothing, said Piglet, taking
Poohs paw. I just wanted to be sure of you.
- A.A. Milne
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 113
PROSPERITY - RELATIONSHIPS
If fame were based on kindness instead of popularity, on 821.
understanding and not on worldwide atenton, you would
be the biggest celebrity on earth. And to my heart, you
already are.
- Anonymous
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what 822.
you want is someone who will take the bus with you when
the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
You cannot be lonely if you like the person youre alone 823.
with.
- Wayne W. Dyer

ResPonsIBILItY
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who 824.
will get you where you want to go, no one else.
- Les Brown
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should 825.
be carried out at once.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Everything you see happening is the consequence of that 826.
which you are. Dr. David Hawkins
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the 827.
whole world will be clean.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of 828.
his choices.
- Alfred A. Montapert
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 114
RELATIONSHIPS
Simply put, you believe that things or people make you 829.
unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself
unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change 830.
the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can
change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
- Jim Rohn
Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves 831.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Responsibility is the price of greatness. 832.
- Winston Churchill
Life is a gif, and it ofers us the privilege, opportunity, and 833.
responsibility to give something back by becoming more
- Anthony Robbins
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put 834.
some responsibility on their shoulders.
- Abigail Van Buren
The willingness to accept responsibility for ones own life 835.
is the source from which self-respect springs.
- Joan Didion
I try to live what I consider a poetc existence. That 836.
means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the
space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present
for all my work.
- Maya Angelou
We are alone, with no excuses. That is the idea I shall 837.
try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be
free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet,
in other respects is free; because, once thrown into the
world, he is responsible for everything he does.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 115
RELATIONSHIPS - RESPONSIBILITY
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of 838.
choice, and we cannot shufe of our responsibility upon
the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it
ourselves. It is our responsibility.
- Arnold Toynbee
Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for 839.
itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the
future
- John Ruskin
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the 840.
conscience like individual responsibility.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If you mess up, fess up. 841.
- Unknown
Most of us can read the writng on the wall; we just 842.
assume its addressed to someone else.
- Ivern Ball
When you blame others, you give up your power to 843.
change.
- Unknown
Even when we know what is right, too ofen we fail to 844.
act. More ofen we grab greedily for the day, letng
tomorrow bring what it will, putng of the unpleasant and
unpopular.
- Bernard M. Baruch
The best years of your life are the ones in which you 845.
decide your problems are your own. You do not blame
them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You
realize that you control your own destny.
- Albert Ellis
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 116
RESPONSIBILITY
A new positon of responsibility will usually show a man to 846.
be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
- William James
You are not responsible for the programming you picked 847.
up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one
hundred percent responsible for fxing it.
- Ken Keyes, Jr.
Few things help an individual more than to place 848.
responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust
him.
- Booker T. Washington
Acton springs not from thought, but from a readiness for 849.
responsibility.
- Dietrich Bonhoefer
We are made wise not by the recollecton of our past, but 850.
by the responsibility for our future.
- George Bernard Shaw

tHe LAW oF AttRACtIon
As above, so below. As within, so without. 851.
- The Emerald Tablet
Take the frst step in faith. You dont have to see the 852.
whole staircase. Just take the frst step.
- Dr Martn Luther King Jr.
You can have, do or be anything you want. 853.
- Joe Vitale
The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 117
RESPONSIBILITY
I believe that youre great, that theres something 854.
magnifcent about you. Regardless of what has happened
to you in your life, regardless of how young or how old
you think you might be, the moment you begin to think
properly, this something that is within you, this power
within you thats greater than the world, it will begin
to emerge. It will take over your life. It will feed you, it
will clothe you, it will guide you, protect you, direct you,
sustain your very existence. If you let it! Now that is what I
know, for sure
- Michael Beckwith
Whatever we think about and thank about we bring 855.
about.
- Dr John F Demartni
Whether you think you can or think you cant, either way 856.
you are right
- Henry Ford
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you 857.
where there were only walls
- Joseph Campbell
Man becomes what he thinks about 858.
- Morris Goodman
You know, when everybody starts to live from their heart, 859.
and go for what they want, they dont go for the same
things. Thats the beauty of this. We dont all want BMWs.
We dont all want the same person. We dont all want the
same experiences. We dont all want the same clothing.
We dont all want ..... fll in the blank
- Joe Vitale
Imaginaton is everything. It is the preview of lifes coming 860.
atractons
- Albert Einstein
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RESPONSIBILITY
You want to become aware of your thoughts, you want 861.
to choose your thoughts carefully and you want to have
fun with this, because you are the masterpiece of your
own life. You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The
David that you are sculptng is you. And you do it with your
thoughts
- Joe Vitale
You can start with nothing. And out of nothing, and out of 862.
no way, a way will be made
- Michael Beckwith
When you visualize, then you materialize. If youve been 863.
there in the mind youll go there in the body
- Denis Waitley
Theres enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can 864.
see it, if you act from it, it will show up for you. Thats the
truth
- Michael Beckwith
We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. The 865.
capabilites and the talents and the gifs and the power
that is within every single individual that is on this planet,
is unlimited
- Michael Beckwith
Our feelings are a feedback mechanism to us about 866.
whether were on track or not, whether were on course
or of course. See its the feeling that really creates the
atracton not just the picture or the thought
- Jack Canfeld
We are here to change. We are here to grow, develop 867.
and unfold. We are progressive beings that have infnite
capacity
- Michael Beckwith
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THE LAW OF ATTRACTION
Learn to become stll. And to take your atenton away 868.
from what you dont want, and all the emotonal charge
around it, and place your atenton on what you wish to
experience
- Michael Beckwith
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a 869.
man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness
follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him
- Buddha
You can begin to shape your own destny by the attude 870.
that you keep.
- Michael Beckwith
You give birth to that on which you fx your mind 871.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery
The greatest discovery of my generaton is that human 872.
beings can alter their lives by altering their attudes of
mind
- William James
Whatever you create in your life you must frst create in 873.
your imaginaton
- Tycho Photou
Acton will sometmes be required, but if youre really 874.
doing it in line with what the universe is trying to deliver,
its going to feel joyous, youre going to feel so alive, tme
will just stop, you could do it all day
- Bob Doyle
See yourself living in abundance and you will atract it. It 875.
always works, it works every tme with every person
- Bob Proctor
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THE LAW OF ATTRACTION
As soon as you start to feel diferently about what you 876.
already have, you will start to atract more of the good
things, more of the things you can be grateful for.
- Joe Vitale
Its really important that you feel good. Because this 877.
feeling good is what goes out as a signal into the universe
and starts to atract more of itself to you. So the more you
can feel good, the more you will atract the things that help
you feel good and that will keep bringing you up higher and
higher
- Joe Vitale
And you can break yourself free from your hereditary 878.
paterns, cultural codes, social beliefs; and prove once and
for all that the power within you is greater than the power
thats in the world
- Michael Beckwith
Grattude is absolutely the way to bring more into your 879.
life.
- Marci Shimof
The best way to predict the future is to create it. 880.
- Peter F. Drucker
The soul atracts that which it secretly harbors; that which 881.
it loves, and also that which it fears.
- James Allen
Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall 882.
not remain so if you only perceive an ideal and strive to
reach it. You cannot travel within and stand stll without.
- James Allen
You are never given a wish without also being given 883.
the power to make it true. You may have to work at it,
however.
- Richard Bach
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THE LAW OF ATTRACTION
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no 884.
jokes and cannot tell the diference between reality and
an imagined thought or image. What we contnually think
about eventually will manifest in our lives.
- Robert Collier
Whatever you create in your life you must frst create in 885.
your imaginaton.
- Tycho Photou
You create your own universe as you go along. 886.
- Winston Churchill
If youre thinking of debt, thats what youre going to 887.
atract.
- Bob Proctor
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts 888.
by the atracton of his own.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. 889.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took 890.
possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me
every material thing I want, and much more than I need.
But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the
humblest person as it is to the greatest.
- Andrew Carnegie
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tny 891.
maters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Follow your bliss and the Universe will open doors where 892.
there were walls.
- Joseph Campbell
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THE LAW OF ATTRACTION
What you resist persists. 893.
- Carl Jung
Every intenton sets energy into moton, whether you are 894.
conscious of it or not.
- Gary Zukav
What power this is I cannot say. All that I know is that it 895.
exists.
- Alexander Graham Bell
Your mind is a powerful magnet that will atract to you 896.
the things you identfy yourself with. If you have sad
thoughts, you will atract tragedies. If you are a good man,
you will atract the company of good people.
- Alfredo Karras
tHoUGHts
Let a person radically alter his thoughts, and he will be 897.
astonished at the rapid transformaton it will efect in the
material conditons of his life.
- James Allen
You control your future, your destny. What you think 898.
about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals
on paper, you set in moton the process of becoming the
person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands
- your own.
- Mark Victor Hansen
Creaton is always happening. Every tme an individual has 899.
a thought, or a prolonged, chronic way of thinking, theyre
in the creaton process. Something is going to manifest out
of those thoughts
- Michael Beckwith
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THE LAW OF ATTRACTION
Change your thoughts and you change your world. 900.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The signifcant problems we face cannot be solved at the 901.
same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
People become really quite remarkable when they start 902.
thinking that they can do things. When they believe in
themselves they have the frst secret of success.
- Norman Vincent Peale
You are a living magnet and you atract into your life the 903.
people and the circumstances that are in harmony with
your dominant thoughts.
- Brian Tracy
Thoughts are sending out that magnetc signal that is 904.
drawing the parallel back to you
- Joe Vitale
Your thoughts and your feelings create your life. It will 905.
always be that way. Guaranteed.
- Lisa Nichols
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained 906.
thinking.
- Voltaire
Whatever we think about and thank about we bring 907.
about.
- John Demartni
Our job as humans is to hold on to the thoughts of what 908.
we want, make it absolutely clear in our minds what we
want, and from that we start to invoke one of the greatest
laws in the Universe, and thats the law of atracton. You
become what you think about most, but you also atract
what you think about most.
- John Assaraf
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THE LAW OF ATTRACTION
As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is 909.
he.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I atract to my life whatever I give my Atenton, Energy 910.
and Focus to. Whether wanted or unwanted.
- Michael Losier
A clear vision, backed by defnite plans, gives you a 911.
tremendous feeling of confdence and personal power.
- Brian Tracy
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we 912.
want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
- Dr. Wayne Dyer
Thoughts become things 913.
- Mike Dooley
Our life is what our thoughts make it. 914.
- Marcus Aurelius
Change your thoughts, change your life. 915.
- James Allen
Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never 916.
go higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our 917.
thoughts. With our thoughts we make our world.
- Buddha
By choosing your thoughts, and by selectng which 918.
emotonal currents you will release and which you will
reinforce, you determine the quality of your Light. You
determine the efects that you will have upon others, and
the nature of the experiences of your life.
- Gary Zukav
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THOUGHTS
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, 919.
empter and simpler.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The ancestor of every acton is a thought. 920.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is 921.
necessary is only to try to think them again.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man is what he thinks about all day long. 922.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word 923.
and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and
everything will be well.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you 924.
want to be.
- Henry David Thoreau
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; acton the fruit 925.
behind it
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you 926.
will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
- James Allen
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be 927.
the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the
thoughts
- Marcus Aurelius
Mans greatness lies in his power of thought. 928.
- Blaise Pascal
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THOUGHTS
In my garden there is a large place for sentment. My 929.
garden of fowers is also my garden of thoughts and
dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the fowers, and
the dreams are as beautful.
- Abram L. Urban
The revelaton of thought takes men out of servitude into 930.
freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
WeALtH
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your 931.
soul are infnitely precious things that cannot be taken
from you.
- Oscar Wilde
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. 932.
- Henry David Thoreau
Wealth is the product of mans capacity to think. 933.
- Ayn Rand
Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having tme 934.
- Margaret Bonnano
Only the man who does not need it, is ft to inherit 935.
wealth, the man who would make his fortune no mater
where he started.
- Ayn Rand
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth 936.
and power, but for the passionate sense of potental -- for
the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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THOUGHTS
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy 937.
and wise
- Benjamin Franklin
Wealth is not a mater of intelligence its a mater of 938.
inspiraton.
- Jim Rohn
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. 939.
- Benjamin Franklin
Wealth, like happiness, is never atained when sought 940.
afer directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful
service.
- Henry Ford
The queston for each man to setle is not what he would 941.
do if he had means, tme, infuence, and educatonal
advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.
- Hamilton Wright Mabie
It is not the creaton of wealth that is wrong, but the love 942.
of money for its own sake.
- Margaret Thatcher
Dont judge mens wealth or godliness by their Sunday 943.
appearance.
- Benjamin Franklin
They say it is beter to be poor and happy than rich and 944.
miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately
rich and just moody?
- Princess Diana
No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to 945.
his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich
or poor according to what he is, not according to what he
has.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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THOUGHTS
The greatest wealth is to live content with litle. 946.
- Plato
for the majority of instances where money is desired for 947.
the admited object of blessing others, the real underlying
motve is a love of popularity, and a desire to pose as a
philanthropist or reformer....If your real desire is to do
good, there is no need to wait for money before you do it;
you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you
are.
- James Allen
They who are of the opinion that Money will do 948.
everything, may very well be suspected to do everything
for Money.
- George Savile
The real measure of your wealth is how much youd be 949.
worth if you lost all your money.
- Unknown
Id like to live as a poor man with lots of money. 950.
- Pablo Picasso
Its good to have money and the things that money can 951.
buy, but its good, too, to check up once in a while and
make sure that you havent lost the things that money
cant buy.
- George Horace Lorimer
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of 952.
energy that tends to make us more of who we already are,
whether its greedy or loving.
- Dan Millman
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it 953.
smells.
- J. Paul Gety
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WEALTH
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for 954.
gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days
have a price.
- Kahlil Gibran
Money isnt the most important thing in life, but its 955.
reasonably close to oxygen on the gota have it scale.
- Zig Ziglar
The litle money I have - that is my wealth, but the 956.
things I have for which I would not take money, that is my
treasure.
- Robert Brault
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and 957.
occupaton which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jeferson
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. 958.
- Benjamin Franklin
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is 959.
the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the 960.
beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of
spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle
process all begins.
- Jim Rohn
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for 961.
greatness - great wealth, great return, great satsfacton,
great reputaton, and great joy.
- Jim Rohn
Wealth is the product of mans capacity to think. 962.
- Ayn Rand
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WEALTH
All wealth is the product of labor. 963.
- John Locke
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if 964.
our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
- Edmund Burke
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not 965.
money.
- Robert Collier
Money was never a big motvaton for me, except as a way 966.
to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
- Donald Trump
Lack of money is the root of all evil. 967.
- George Bernard Shaw

WIsDoM
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true 968.
wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is
true power.
- Unknown
Wise men speak because they have something to say; 969.
Fools because they have to say something.
- Plato
The well bred contradict other people. The wise 970.
contradict themselves.
- Oscar Wilde
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong 971.
atempt to acquire it
- Albert Einstein
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WEALTH
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you 972.
make a living; the other helps you make a life.
- Sandra Carey
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot 973.
change, the courage to change the things I can, and the
wisdom to know the diference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Sometmes I lie awake at night, and ask, Where have I 974.
gone wrong? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take
more than one night.
- Charles M. Schulz
A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he 975.
spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why arent
we like that wise old bird?
- Unknown
The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questons. 976.
- John A. Simone, Sr.
The highest form of wisdom is kindness 977.
- The Talmud
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how 978.
to do it, and virtue is doing it.
- David Starr Jordan
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the 979.
approximate depth of his ignorance.
- Gian Carlo Menot
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud 980.
to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfsh to seek other
than itself.
- Kahlil Gibran
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WEALTH
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in 981.
the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than 982.
he was yesterday.
- Abraham Lincoln
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a 983.
circle of those who are
- C.S. Lewis
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is 984.
enlightenment.
- Lao Tzu
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this 985.
will only fll your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do
not repeat them in the future.
- Swami Sivananda
The road of life twists and turns and no two directons are 986.
ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not
the destnaton.
- Don Williams, Jr.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were 987.
to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi
By three methods we may learn wisdom: frst, by 988.
refecton, which is noblest; second, by imitaton, which is
easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most biter.
- Confucius
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man 989.
follows public opinion
- Chinese Proverbs
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WEALTH - WISDOM
A word to the wise aint necessary, its the stupid ones 990.
who need the advice.
- Bill Cosby
A man begins cutng his wisdom teeth the frst tme he 991.
bites of more than he can chew.
- Herb Caen
Honesty is the frst chapter in the book of wisdom. 992.
- Thomas Jeferson
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to 993.
overlook.
- William James
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of 994.
our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- Jean Paul
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows 995.
the exceptons.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
To be satsfed with a litle, is the greatest wisdom; and 996.
he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a
contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble fndeth it
not.
- Akhenaton
We are made wise not by the recollecton of our past, but 997.
by the responsibility for our future.
- George Bernard Shaw
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very 998.
coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in
exchange - my youth.
- Sara Teasdale
Wisdom is found only in truth. 999.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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WISDOM
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books 1000.
alone.
- Horace
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetme of listening 1001.
when youd have preferred to talk.
- Doug Larson
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