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  • Life Purpose Quote

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    Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw
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    All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. - J.R.R. Tolkien (Print this quote full size)
    The Purpose of Life?
    To totally immerse yourself in situations that interest you and to explore the inner experiences – the thoughts, feelings, learnings, and growth – that result – Robert Scheinfeld (Print this quote full size) from The Invisible Path to Success
    Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do. It's a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do. - Neale Donald Walsch
    To live is to choose. But to choose, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go, and why you want to get there…. - Kofi Annan
    Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. - Dalai Lama
    I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have. - Anne Heche
    The future is not a result of choices among alternative pathsoffered by the present, but a place that is created - createdfirst in the mind and will, created next in activity. The futureis not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. Thepaths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of makingthem, changes both the maker and the destination. - Deborah James, Business Consultant
    As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live - Garth Henrichs
    Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key tounlocking our potential. - Winston Churchill

    Motivational Quote

    You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it. - Dr. Robert Anthony
    If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. - Woody Allen
    Trying is failing with honor - James Arthur Ray
    What he means by this is that instead of saying you'll "try", you need to "do".
    And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. - Nelson Mandela
    It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop - Confucious
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    Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. - Mark Victor Hansen
    It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Stop sitting there with your hands folded looking on, doing nothing; Get into action and live this full and glorious life. Now. You have to do it. - Eileen Caddy
    It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. - Sir Edmund Hillary
    Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent Van Gogh
    Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. - Thomas Edison
    Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to start where he was. Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford
    It is better to try something and fail thanto be successful at not trying anything. - Unknown Wise Person
    Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental 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 imagination. Norman Vincent Peale
    Hoping and dreaming of a better world are not enough if we are unwilling to work - but when we work towards our dreams, wonderful things can happen. - Lloyd Newell
    Don't wait. The time will never be just right. - Napoleon Hill
    Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. - Dr. David M. Burns
    Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. - David Lloyd George
    The wisest follow their own direction. - Euripides


    Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. - James R. Cook
    I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach. - Wayne Gretzky
    Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
    All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. - Dorthea Brande
    Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great? - Jimmy Johnson, Coach of the Dallas Cowboys (winners of two Superbowl championships under his leadership)


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    Positive Thinking Quote

    Nothing can stop the person with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the person with the wrong attitude. - Thomas Jefferson
    Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. - Benjamin Disraeli
    One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind. Vince Lombardi
    Interestingly, no one disputes the devastating impact that stress, a poor self-image, fear and despair can have on both body and soul. Instead, we resist the notion that positive thinking can produce the opposite effect. - George Ebert
    Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself - Herman Hesse
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    I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

    You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

    - Michael Phelps


    Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus. - Oprah Winfrey


    Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. - Benjamin Franklin
    One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.- Dale Carnegie
    Albert Camus said ..."Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."

    Whether it appears so or not, you have total freedom right now. What would happen if you fully exercised that freedom this very minute? - Mark Joyner, founder of Simpleology


    The more we become aware of who and what we truly are, the fewer problems we have. - Lynn Grabhorn
    When your life is working there will be an absence of drama - Iyanla Vanzant
    The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time - William James (Print this quote full size)
    Whatever you’re feeling is what you’re vibrating and what you’re vibrating is what you’re attracting. Lynn Grabhorn
    Guilt is the [cause] of most poverty, most failures. - Foster Hibbard
    If you do not feel you deserve good things, subconsciously, you will do all within your power to punish yourself by not getting those good things. So the feeling of deserving is a very important thing - John Harricharan
    One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. - Henry Miller (Print this quote full size)
    There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them / so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right. - Peace Pilgram
    Thoughts are typically behind any shift in mood that we experience. - Joe Vitale and Larina Kase, "What's Stopping You? How to End Self Sabotage"


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    Quotes About Change

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    If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. - Dr. Robert Anthony
    For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur. - Jim Rohn
    That's the risk you take when you change; that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along. - Lisa Alther

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    Fear Quotes

    Real difficulties can be overcome. It’s the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. Theodore Vail
    If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. Jimmy Carter
    Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie
    You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
    Fear is only a state of mind - Bartholomew
    Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear - Mark Twain
    Doubt can only be removed by action - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    The unfulfilling job is not the failure; not pursuing your dreams is the real failure. Developing a vision requires conquering your fears and finding motivation from within. - Peter Murphy


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    When You're Feeling Discouraged / In a Bad Mood Quotes

    When nothing else will change for the better, change your thoughts for the better. And you’ll soon see everything else following positively along. - Unknown Wise Person (Print this quote full size)
    Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today - Guy Finley (Print this quote full size)
    A bad day is just a day where you have been thinking more negative thoughts than positive ones. - Unknown Wise Person
    Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be. - Samuel Johnson
    Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up - Thomas A Edison (Print this quote full size)
    You have to go through the darkness to truly know the light. This may sound like a cliche, but it's true nonetheless. Often the greatest doubts occur just before a breakthrough. - Lama Surya Das from Awakening the Buddha Within
    When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. - Henry Ford (Print this quote full size)
    Noting who around you is quick to criticize and who is quick to encourage is a fast way to separate low achievers from high performance people - Danny Cox & John Hoover from Seize the Day: 7 Steps to Achieving the Extraordinary in an Ordinary World
    Realize that your present difficulty is only a small part of you, and the rest of you is doing quite well, thank you. - Lynn Grabhorn


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    Self Image Quotes

    Do you want to know what's really beautiful? Confidence.

    Do you want to know what's really powerful? Persistence.

    Do you want to know what's really sexy? (Please, I know about sexy.) Not needing to be needed.

    And if still "they" don't notice your good looks, your strength, and your sashay... could you feel more sorry for them?

    Who needs Botox? - Mike Dooley in Notes From the Universe



    But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confidence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts. - Kirsten Dunst
    An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life. - Dr. Joyce Brothers
    When you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive. – Don Miguel Ruiz
    Be yourself. The world worships an original. - Ingrid Bergman
    How you handle or mishandle your money tells us who you are and, more important, it tells YOU who you are. Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money. Your value system, or lack of one causes money to flow around you, passed you, or to you. When money is in your possession, what you do with it screams loudly who you are. - Dave Ramsey
    Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance, and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'? - Unknown Wise Person
    If you don't like the way you are, don't worry about it. You can change the way you are. - Zig Ziglar
    Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
    Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality - LeRoy Washington
    It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. - Agnes Repplier
    The lower your self-esteem, the more apt you are to believe that someone else holds the key to your happiness. - Hellen Hemphill
    We are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are. - Lynn Grabhorn from
    Excuse Me Your Life is Waiting Playbook


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    Relationship Quotes

    People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. - Joseph F. Newton
    True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for giving me that experience" - Dr. Michael Beckwith
    When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter. - Tom Robbins
    The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. - William James
    One does not make friends. One recognizes them. - Garth Henrichs
    How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can, if we let it, hold any of us back from doing exactly what each of us needs to do to feel fulfilled. - Walter Anderson
    [Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you - Eckhart Tolle in "The Power of Now"
    It took me years to realize that I had spent my rescuing days [saving everyone she knew: boyfriend, girlfriends and their problems, kids she counselled] distracting myself with everyone else's problem instead of figuring out how to make myself happy. I think subconsciously I expected the gratitude of others to make me happy, but it didn't. In fact, I lost the job, the friends, and even the boyfriend I had tried to save. - Carolyn N. Bushong from
    The Seven Dumbest Relationship Mistakes Smart People Make

    In my opinion, this book rates as one of the most important books you can ever read on relationships. - Catherine - Life With Confidence


    Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die - Malachy McCourt (Print this quote full size)


    You don't get married to get a commitment, you get married because you already have a commitment - Catherine, Life With Confidence
    Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. - Muhammad Ali
    We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversation with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk. - Thomas Moore


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    Confidence Quotes

    Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work – Jack Nicklaus
    Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. - Robert Collier
    One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. – Arthur Robert Ashe

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    Success Quotes

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    Success is about who you are, not what you have. Successful people work to discover their talents, to develop those talents, and then to use those talents to benefit others as well as themselves. - Tom Morris
    Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. - Conrad Hilton
    Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. - Robert Collier
    Success is a journey not a destination. – Arthur Robert Ashe
    One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. – Arthur Robert Ashe
    Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little "scary action," as well. – Joe Vitale
    True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right. - Walter Anderson

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    The Best Expectation  The best expectation in life, is not trying to live up to someone else's.



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    Learning from our fears  Hi Lonwabo,

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    Wherever you go...  Wherever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius

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    I believe that our limitation to succeed in any areas ...

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    change  change with change if you will not change then change will change you.

    If my mind can conceive it  “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
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    Time-management   Do the right things, don't do things right. - Randy Pausch


    The Music in you  "Do not die with the music in you."by unknown author "Whether you can sing or play a musical instrument matters not, you can shout love, mercy and joy"...

    Be positively nice  Do to others as if they were you.

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    dont think negative  Dont expect, expect unexpected
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    never give up  "If at the end of the day, you still have energy, you have only cheated yourself"

    - whatever you do, do it right and do it the best you can.



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    life is what you make it  life is what you make it


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    Taking a chance  My biggest regrets are the chances I didn't take.



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    happiness  Happiness is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it but only you can feel the warmth!




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    Wisdom Appreciated  "Wisdom is rarely appreciated until it is presented as a self revelation."

    Achieving Your Desires  Everything you desire is there. The question is if you want it.


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    Years In Your Life  "It is not the YEARS in your life that count, it is the LIFE in your years."

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    I've learned that....  “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou
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    Motivation  "Nothing goes from your brain, it's just a case of you finding it."


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    Follow Your Dreams, Follow Your Heart, Do what's Right for You.

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    A gold medal is a nice thing but...   A gold medal is a nice thing - but if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it.

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    What a wonderful day to...  What a wonderful day to be helping people get what they want!

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    Nothing To Frighten You  "There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid" - Gandhi

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