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Quotations

These quotations have assisted me over many years through their profound insights. They have wisdom, encouragement and motivation to remind us that we are indeed capable of achieving whatever our hearts desire without fear or limitation.

I encourage you to browse through the quotations below or write down those that inspire you and keep it visible so that it can be your silent teacher whenever you need it.

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Quotation List

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."
George Bernard Shaw

“When you see a worthy person endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person then examine your inner self.”
Confucius

“You are that which you are seeking.”
Brandon Bays

“Success like happiness cannot be pursued, it must ensue and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.”
Viktor Frankl

“He who has a “why” to live for can bear with almost any “how”.
Nietzsche

Babies don’t come out saying “Life Sucks”.

All events are neutral. It is the way we interpret them that determines the way we feel
Meiron Lees

“Thoughts are just projections of the mind”
Dalai Lama

"Patience and tolerance are the antidotes for anger."
Dalai Lama

“Accept then act. Whatever the present moment contains accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it not against it. Make it your ally not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.”
Eckhart Tolle

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Never be too busy to meet someone new.

Practice the walk, suppress the talk

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others

Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting closer to where you want to be tomorrow.

"Don’t live with the brakes on.”
H.Jackson Brown.JR

“Those who are awake live in a state of constant amazement.”
Buddha

This will be a better world when the power of love replaces the love of power.

“No wise man ever wished to be younger”
Jonathan Swift

“Knowing others is knowledge; knowing oneself is wisdom.”
Buddha

“If you can’t find the truth right where you are, where else do you think you will find it?”
Buddha

“You are not a human being having a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being having a human experience.”
Wayne Dyer

“If you do not go within, you go without.”
Neale Donald Walsch

“Love is the guiding force which enables us to see the unity in all things.”
Tycho

“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
William Blake

“Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path to follow.”
Buddha

“Believe those who are seeking the truth; Doubt those who find it.”
Andre Gide

“Fear is the energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, runs, hides, harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, stays, reveals, shares, heals.”
Neale Donald Walsch

“Masters are those who have chosen only love in every instance in every moment.”
Neale Donald Walsch

“If you go beyond the clouds there is always sunshine.”
Proverb

‘The longer you dwell on your misfortunes the greater is their power to hurt you.”
Voltaire

“If you take care of each moment you will take care of all time."
Buddha

“Look to this day for yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and tomorrow a vision of hope.”
Sanskrit Proverb

Listen and silent have the same letters

If you think the worst and get the worst you suffer twice. It you think the best and get the worst you only suffer once!

A winning mind has clarity of a dream

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal

A tree doesn’t grow to half its potential size and say “That will do”.

Be consistent but don’t do it all the time

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without the loss of enthusiasm.” 
Churchill

Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love

An egotist is someone that thinks about himself more than he thinks about me

Procrastination is the act of keeping up with yesterday

Logic makes you think, emotion makes you act

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire

The power of your passion is driven by your persistence

It’s not what lies behind us or what lies in front of us that matters but what lies within us

The definition of Leadership:To get people to follow you to places they wouldn’t normally go

“Man is a hero not because he is braver than anyone else but because he is braver for 10 minutes longer.”
Emerson

The imagination is a preview of life’s forthcoming attractions

The easiest thing in life is to know, the hardest thing is to do something about it.

The quality of your life is the quality of this present moment

Your thoughts “talk” you into or out of anything

All conditions are temporary

A true master is not the one that has the most students but one who creates the most masters

Success is a journey

“We are not looking for the meaning of life, we are looking for the experience of being alive”
Joseph Campbell

Attitudes are the colour with which we view our reality

A new definition of a miracle: Anything that turns out better than you expected.

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree I’d spend six sharpening my axe.”
A.Lincoln

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat."
Lily Tomlin     

“In the depths of winter I discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus

 “My life seems like one big obstacle with me as the chief obstacle.”
Jack Paar

“If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.”
T.S Elliot

“What makes for a straighter spine: vitamin D, milk or self esteem?”
Deepak Chopra

“God asks only that you include yourself among those you love.”
Neale Donald Walsch

“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
Anon

“If you don’t enjoy what you have, how could you be happier with more?"
Anon

“What is fulfilling is not dependent on the ever changing circumstances of life.”
Marjolein Wolf

“When we learn how to truly give, we will know how to truly live.”
Tycho

“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got.”
Anon

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
Anon

“A project may be a failure a person never is.”
K. Bradford Brown

“The real losers are those who measure their worth by numbers.”
K. Bradford Brown

Acronym for Fear:
False
Evidence
Appearing
Real

“Never argue for your limitations.”
Dick Sutphen

“It is your resistance to what is that causes your suffering.”
Dick Sutphen

“Problems are your tools to teach yourself what works and what doesn’t.”
Dick Sutphen

“In your heart you know the right thing to do at each moment in time.”
Dick Sutphen

“Know yourself because you can’t change what you don’t recognize.”
Dick Sutphen

“Everything you have ever experienced has led up to your being the person you are now.”
Dick Sutphen

Do you want to be right or happy?

“When problems become overwhelmingly complex, seek simple solutions.”
Dick Sutphen

“Happiness is a choice
Acceptance is a choice
Forgiveness is a choice
Anger is a choice
Desire is a choice
Love is a choice
Life is a choice
Your time, your choice”
Scott Shaw

“Forgive and you will be free. Forget and you will be freer.”
Scott Shaw

Don’t “should” on yourself or others!

Others don’t have to change for me to be happy.

See your work as work in progress.

Monday is just as good as Friday.

You have two ears and one mouth. Use them in those proportions.

I can think differently!

I control my car not other people.

Strive to be outstanding not perfect.

If you can’t love someone else, love yourself.

“Worry is not preparation.”
Cheri Huber

“When I work, I work hard. When I sit I sit loose and when I worry, I fall asleep.”
A 100 year old woman when asked about her longevity

There is but one secret to success – don’t give up!

It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good too, to check once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost things that money can’t buy.

“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.”
Rev Jesse Jackson

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
Mother Teresa

Ask yourself this. If you were to collect $1 for every kind word you spoke and pay $1 for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?

Your attitude determines your altitude!

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
Dennis Waitley

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Feed your mind with the right positive thoughts. Protect your mind from the wrong negative thoughts. Now prepare yourself for unimaginable rewards.”
Warren Veenman

“If you were going to die soon and only had one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
Stephen Levine

Don’t wait for your ship to come in, go out and get it.

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.”
James Oppenheim

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.”
Unknown

Two men went to the Australian outback to sell shoes for their Shoe Company.
The one called his boss and said “Sir there is no opportunity here, no one wears shoes.”
The other called his boss and said “Sir there is a great opportunity here, no one wears shoes.”

“If you can dream it you can do it.”
Walt Disney