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Always think positive ! - Audrey Lourdes 3/6/2008
Audrey’s favorite quotes:
"When you believe you can-you can!"- Maxwell Maltz
"Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more." - Mother Teresa
Other Inspirational Quotes:
“The harder I work, the luckier I get!” - Annonymous
"Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed-there's so little competition."- Elbert Hubbard
"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve."- Napoleon Hill
"What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."- Napoleon Hill
"I dream my painting and then paint my dream."- Vincent Van Gogh
All glory comes from daring (bravery) to begin."- William Shakespeare
"Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life."- Mark Twain
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."- Colin Powell
"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time."- Arnold Glasow
Whatever you are, be a good one."- Abraham Lincoln
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf."- Native American Proverb
You become what you think about."- Earl Nightingale
People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as simple as that."- Earl Nightingale
"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."- Ben Stein
"Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin."- Robert Collier
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."- Vincent van Gogh
"Learn what is true in order to do what is right."- Thomas Henry Huxley
"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."- Victor Hugo
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read."- Japanese Proverb
"Fall down seven times; stand up eight times."- Japanese Proverb
"To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate."- Michael Jordan
"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." - Thomas Jefferson
"What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."- Aesop
"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."- Aristotle
"If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything."- Win Borden
"Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity."- William Menninger
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."- Abraham Lincoln
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."- Arthur Ashe
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."- Satchel Paige
"Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself." - Richard M. Nixon
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." - Henry Ford
Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer." - Leo F. Buscaglia
"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent." - Irving Berlin
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain
""I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders." - George P. Burnham
"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?" - Lee Iacocca
"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong."- Peter T. Mcint
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."- Lou Holtz
"The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Lao Tzu
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." - Maya Angelou
"Information is the oxygen of the modern age." - Ronald Reagan
If we do not learn to live together as friends, we will die apart as fools."- Martin Luther King
"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."- Napoleon Hill (be a teamplayer-when you work for someone – do your best – follow directions –bring into play your talents)
"The first and best victory is to conquer self." - Plato
"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
"Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s a result of something…hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication." - Roger Staubach
"Be Prepared!" and “DO YOUR BEST” - Boy Scout Motto
"You cannot have success without the failures."- H. G. Hasler
"Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success." - Napoleon Hill
"We’ve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true." - Denis E. Waitley
"Our aspirations are our possibilities" - Robert Browning
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." - Winston Churchill
"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He that walketh with wise men shall be wise…" - Bible, Proverbs 13:20
If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it." - Zenrin
"Time ripens all things; no man is born wise." - Miguel de Cervantes
"Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success…" - John Keats
"Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder…" - Paul J. Meyer
"Some defeats are only installments to victory." - Jacob A. Riis
"To win…you’ve got to stay in the game…" - Claude M. Bristo
"Great hopes make everything great possible." - Benjamin Franklin
"Success is a journey, not a destination." - Ben Sweetland
"The journey is the reward." - Taoist Proverb
"There is always room at the top." - Daniel Webster
"Success is never final." - Winston Churchill
"In life, as in chess, forethought(planning) wins." - Charles Buxton
"Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more." - Mother Teresa
"If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain." - Jimmy Durante
Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far one can go."- T.S. Elliot
"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." - Henry Ford
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." - Bob Dylan
"Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." - Napoleon Hill
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal: Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." - Thomas Jefferson
"It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you are not." - Denis Waitley
"We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes." - John F. Kennedy
"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be." - David Viscott
"Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden
Creative ideas reside in people’s minds but are trapped by fear or rejection. Create a judgment-free environment and you’ll unleash a torrent of creativity." - Alex Osborn
"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Without discipline, there's no life at all." - Katharine Hepburn
"I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened." (do not worry)- Mark Twain
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered." - Michael J. Fox
Most misfortunes are the results of misused time." - Napoleon Hill
"Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing."- Abraham Lincoln
"When you believe you can-you can!"- Maxwell Maltz