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March 28, 2010

Short Motivational Quotes by John F Kennedy

One of America's greatest motivational leaders. Read a few inspiring words from him

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help.

It takes two to make peace.

Change is the law of life.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

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March 21, 2010

Short Positive Sayings

When you're down, a dose of positive motivation helps you feel better. Read these positive sayings to get you out of bed.

Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations.
Brian Tracy

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't - you're right.
Henry Ford

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Dyer

When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Roosevelt

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Rogers

Your aspirations are your possibilities.
Samuel Johnson

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January 31, 2010

Short Don't Quit Quotes

We never realize how close we're to winning when we decide to quit. Cool motivational collection of never quit quotations.

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
Zig Ziglar

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
Chinese Proverb

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
Edward Eggleston

Americans never quit.
Douglas MacArthur

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January 14, 2010

Don't Give Up Quotes to Motivate you everyday

You should never give up hope. For all you know you may just be reaching your goal anytime. Read these don't give quotes and get inspired everyday.

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
Sidney Sheldon

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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January 10, 2010

Never Give Up Motivational Quotes - I

Don't give up because you may just be near the winning post. Pearls of motivational sayings from wise men who have won the hard way.

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP!
General George S Patton

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

The man who wins may have been counted out several times,but he didn’t hear the referee.Never quit or give up….never…..never give up.
H.E. Janson

I’m proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.
Orel Herhiser

It matters if you just don’t give up.
Stephen Hawking

Over the last several years, there have been ups and downs, but I have no regrets… I will always be an entrepreneur, as I am having the roller coaster ride of my life!
Prakash Somasundram, Founder, Yolk

I am confident. I never give up.
Arantxa Vicario, Spanish Tennis player

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
Keats

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May 20, 2009

Short Positive Motivation Quotes - 1

You don't have to get it right, you just have to get it going.
Anonymous

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.
Mahatma Gandhi

We are what we repeatedly do.
Aristotle

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Napoleon Hill.

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April 17, 2009

10 Short Motivational Proverbs 2

Proverbs motivate us with their native wisdom.

Every great thing only consists of many small particles united
Latin Proverb

A promise is a cloud; fulfilment is rain.
Arabian Proverb

Don't be a thief and you won't fear the king
Afghanistan Proverb

God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage
Bulgarian Proverb

The Bird Will Not Fly into Your Arrow
Unknown Proverb

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April 14, 2009

Short Motivational Proverbs 1

You never know what you can until you try.
English Proverb

Plan your year in the spring, your day at dawn
Chinese Proverb

A woman is a flower vase of beauty and fragrance.
So smell her gently, do not wrestle with her
Arabian Proverb

Everyone must row with the oars he has.
English Proverb

God gives the nuts, but He does not crack them
German Proverb

You have to paddle your own canoe
American Proverb

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
Chinese Proverb

With a sweet tongue of kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair
Iranian Proverb

Don't postpone a good deed.
Irish proverb

The bird that remembers its flock mates, never missed the way
Nigerian Proverb

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April 08, 2009

Short Zen and Buddhist Quotes

Zen and Buddhist wisdom flows from short motivational quotes. A list of good quotes.

Move and the way will open.

When walking, walk. When eating, eat.

Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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April 03, 2009

25 Short Motivational Life Quotes

Quotations about life are always powerful. more so when they are short and inspiring. Here's 25 short motivational quotes about life.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
Powel Davies

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein

To live in love is to live in life, and to live in life is to live in love.
Leo Buscaglia

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.
Cate Blanchett

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.
Samuel Johnson

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March 25, 2009

Short Motivational Sayings That are Positive

We’re all in a hurry and want to relish short and motivating sayings in the midst of life. Go ahead and do it.

Friends make everything bearable!

Fall seven times, stand up eight!

Your luck is how you treat people.

Life is short. Eat dessert first.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

To enjoy the flavor of life take big bites.

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March 15, 2009

Positive Life Quotes to Motivate You

Life is all about being motivated by failures and your ability to learn from positive experieces. Life quotes to motivate you.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.
George Sand

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
Kathy Norris

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February 20, 2009

Short Funny Motivational Quotes

Short and humorous quotes for a few laughs.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
Lou Holtz

If you can't laugh, the days are just too long.
Lauren Anderson

Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful when pushed and easily upset.
Jack Herbert

You can't win the raffle if you don't buy the ticket.
Ally McBeal

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Short Motivational Quotes - 3

List of short motivational quotes to start your day in a positive way.

Recognition is the greatest motivator.
Gerard C. Eakedale

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann von Goethe

Everything you need you already have.
Wayne Oates

Different is not necessarily better but better is always different.
Hugh Lendrum

Aim not for what you are, but for what you could be.
Lucas Hellmer

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
William Boetcker

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February 19, 2009

Short Motivational Quotes - 2

Short and uplifting motivational quotes to help drive your motivation up every morning.

Don't look down on anyone unless you are helping them up.
Jesse Jackson

There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear.
Napoleon Bonaparte

When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out.
David Weatherford

Three things that never come back: the spent arrow; the spoken word; the lost opportunity.
Anonymous

Yearn for the impossible.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do not wait for extraordinary situations to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
Jean Paul Richter

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February 18, 2009

Short Motivational Quotes - I

Motivate yourself with these short motivation quotes that are positively energising.

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
Mike Ditka

You don't have to do anything you don't want to do.
David Harold Fink

Who dares wins.
Winston Churchill

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see. You have to believe what you feel.
Morrie Schwartz

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Sir John Lubbock

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
Seneca

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February 06, 2009

Motivating Life Quotes

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.
George Sand

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
A. Powell Davies

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.
Unknown Source

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
Albert Camus

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Swedish Proverb

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February 05, 2009

Quotes about staying positive

To stay positive is to change your mindset. Listen to what experts say about staying positive.

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
Norman Vincent Peale

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. POSITIVE thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.
Norman Vincent Peale

Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.
Vic Braden

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January 22, 2009

Motivating Happiness Quotes to Help Fight Depression

Uplifting Positive Sayings to liven up your spirits.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Earl Nightingale

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
Eddie Cantor

Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.
John Templeton

If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve! It may make you wealthy, though it is more likely that it will make you happy.
George Matthew Adams

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
Chinese Proverb

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Helen Keller

It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.
Sharon Salzberg

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January 15, 2009

Positive Motivational Quotations

Miracles start to happen when you give as much
energy to your dreams as you do to your fears.
Richard Wilkins

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
P. Vaull Starr

Our deepest fears 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, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
Marianne Williamson

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Coco Chanel

Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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January 02, 2009

Tuesday Motivational Dose for you

Finding it hard to motivate yourself on a Tuesday. Just try this positive dose of energy.

By focusing your mind on a positive goal instead of an ambiguous fear, you put your brain to work. It instantly begins devising a plan for success. Instead of worrying about the future you start to do something about it. This is the first step in motivating yourself to take action. When know what you want, you become motivated to take action
John Wesley

Creative visualization helps you use your natural creative imagination in a more conscious way to create a clear image, idea or feeling sense of what you really want and to achieve your goal by focusing constantly on it and giving it your positive energy until it becomes objective reality...
Vadim Kotelnikov,

You cannot always rely on others to encourage you, if you have positive friends who are always there when you need them then you are indeed lucky and very much in the minority. If you are lonely or have few friends when you face any difficulties in your life you must rely on your own motivation to get you through. Lack of self motivation at that time could lead to depression.

You need self motivation to achieve because if you don't encourage yourself to accept opportunity and challenge who will?
Karl Perera

Set yourself boundaries If you find that the work you are doing is taking too long to complete then you are either not doing it right or you are in fact doing too much. So look at how you can cut back on the amount of time you spend on each project or piece of work and ways in which it can be simplified or any training that you may need.
Soonee

Persevere and be patient. Even the most self motivated people sometimes lose their enthusiasm and fall behind. Be patient with yourself when you have a setback. Take a break and then return to the task.
Anonymous

Provide a way for relief: if your employees work for 8 hours, and if you know that it only takes 6 hours to finish their work, what’s the point in disabling chatting programs, web browsing or any other method that provides a relief? By enabling such things (without announcing that they are enabled) the employee will be happy and he may think that he fooling you by using them and on the other side you will be knowing but acting as if you are not noticing it, these stuff provide a relief from hard work and so may prevent loss of motivation due to stress or frustration.
Farouk Radwan

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August 22, 2008

Robert Kiyosaki Quotations

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

Do today what you want for your tomorrows

It is not how much you make that counts but how much money you keep.

The only difference between a rich person and poor person is how they use their time.

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