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Motivational Proverbs 1
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
You cannot change the past, but you can ruin a perfectly good present by worrying about the future.
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!
It is not the situation ... It is your reaction to the situation.
To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities.
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you do not share it, you do not give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
The secret of happiness is to make others believe that they are the cause of it.
Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
The difficult is done at once, the impossible takes a little longer.
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
Never share your secrets with anybody! It will destroy you.
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenge to change ourselves.
Commitment is emotional intent backed up by action. Commitment is not something you pledge, it is something you do.
Feeling depressed is our inner self-asking us to listen.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It is our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.
We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.
Coincidences are God’s ways of remaining anonymous.
In asking for miracles, we are not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change.
Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.
There is not shortcut to anywhere worth going.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Anger is one letter away from danger.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
The relationship with your heart is the relation you have with your existence, the relationship with your head is for society.
Nobody can give you the meaning of your life - it is your life and the meaning has also to be yours.
I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that wont work.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
We did not loose the game; we just ran out of time.
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one’s doubts.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It is the transition that is troublesome.
Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
The best cosmetic for the lips is truth, for the voice is prayer, for the eyes is compassion, for the hands is charity and for the heart is love.
You want and you get that is luck, you want and you wait that is time, you want but you compromise that is life, and you want, you wait and you do not compromise that is success!
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never t have tried to succeed.
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
Communication is to a relationship what breathing is to living.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
The best way to predict future is to invent it.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear; not absence of fear.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once they grow up.
The most pathetic person in the work is someone who had sight, but has n vision.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
In three words, I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on.
First keep the peace within you, then you can also bring peace to others.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Do not pray when it rains if you do not pray when the sun shines.
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
Be nice to people on your way up because you will meet them on your way down.
Every time we judge something, we give others a clue to judging us.
Teach the young people how to think and not what to think.
They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Forgiveness is not an emotion, it is a decision.
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Never deprive someone of hope. It may be all they have.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what’s right.
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Wealth is thoughts, not things.
Many people may hear; but few people actually listen.
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
A job is what we do for money; work is what we do for love.
We do not see things as they are; we see them as we are.
In heaven, angel is nobody in particular.
Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear; but around in awareness.
You are not wealthy until you have something money cannot buy.
A lot of people have gone farther than they thought they cold because someone else thought they could.
All people want is someone to listen.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you are scared to death.
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
You cannot live and let go. You have to let go to live.
Many people approach risk as if it is the enemy when it is really fortune’s accomplice.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Being happy does not mean everything’s perfect, it means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.
You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.
Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us.
Life is not the way it is supposed to be. It is the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
Nobody remembers who finished second but the person who finished second.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.
You are not paid for the hour. You are paid for the value you bring to the hour.
Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
Half of our mistakes in life arise from thinking when we ought to feel and feeling when we ought to think.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
When you judge another you do not define them, you define yourself.
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Even if you are on the right track, you will not get anywhere if you are standing still.
You were born original. Do not die a copy.
People who say they sleep like a baby usually do not have one.
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick those pieces up and begin again.
People change. And forget to tell each other.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and mist fools do.
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine.
Live every day as if it was your last and then some day you will be right.
It is better to live as long as you want rather than want as long as you live.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Nothing is all wrong. Even the clock that has stopped running…is right twice a day.
Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.
Experience is something you do not get until just after you need it.
Open your arms to change, but do not let go of your values.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
If a man has not discovered something that he would die for, he is not fit to live.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become
character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them.
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I have ever met.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart.
It is not the mountains ahead that wear you out, it are the grain of sand in your shoe.
There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over.
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That is why it is a comfort to go hand in hand.
Not all change is growth, as not all movement is forward.
Most of us can read the writing on the wall. We just assume it is addressed to someone else.
People will not remember what you did. People will not remember you what you said. But, people will remember how you made them feel.
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
A woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Getting what you go after is success; but liking it while you are getting it is happiness.
In war, there is no prize for the runner-up.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil.
When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.
All disagreements are results of misunderstanding someone else's level of consciousness.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Ultra competitive people who always need to win end up enjoying things less.
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.
It is not what life takes away from you that counts. It is what you make of what is left with you.
This thing what we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
Not everything that is faced can be changed but surely things can be changed when faced.
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Do not ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
I would never die for my belief because I might be wrong.
It is choice, not chance that determines your destiny.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Words alone are cheap but communication is expensive.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
The nice thing about egotist is that they do not talk about other people.
The economy is based upon people wanting more; their happiness on wanting less.
Every patient is a doctor after his cure.
A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.
The longest road out is the shortest road home.
What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone.
You never miss the water until the well has run dry.
The one, who waits the fine day, will get the fine day.
Have it yourself, or else do without it.
The person who brings a story to you will take away two from you.
What I am afraid to hear I had better say first myself.
An excuse is nearer to a woman than her apron.
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