Sunday, December 10, 2006

Motivational Quotes By Great Inventors

Quotes By Great Inventors To Motivate Us

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small steps.” Henry Ford

“I had to succeed because I have run out of things which didn’t work.” Thomas Edison.

“It is not that you have failed, it’s just that you have not found that ‘something more’.” Alexander Graham Bell.

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.” Henry Ford.

“Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before.” Alexander Graham Bell.

“Don’t call it a mistake, call it an education.” Thomas Alva Edison.

“When one door closes another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” Alexander Graham Bell.

“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Astronaut Neil Armstrong.

“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.” Thomas Alva Edison.

“There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.” Henry Ford.

“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge.” Henry Ford.

Monday, December 04, 2006

Motivational Quotes By Great Leaders

“When you do get to the top you will see another peak and another goal you may want to reach.” Margaret Thatcher.


“Satisfaction lies in the effort; not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.” Mahatma Gandhi.


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


“Never, never, never give in, in whatever you do.” Winston Churchill.


“There were all kinds of things of which I was afraid at first, but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid. Most men can have the same experience if they choose.” Theodore Roosevelt.


“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” Margaret Thatcher.


“Success is going from failures to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill.


“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” Nelson Mandela


Never give up until you win. “The nose of the bulldog is slanted back, so that he can still breathe without ever letting go.” Winston Churchill


“There is no security on this earth, only opportunity.” General Douglas McArthur.


“As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Nelson Mandela.


“When written in Chinese, the word “crisis” is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” John. F. Kennedy.


“Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: that wisdom preserves the life of its possessor.” King Solomon




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Saturday, December 02, 2006

Motivation Through Positive Thoughts

Self motivation, believe in yourself and thinking positive can lead you to success. If we choose to think positive and those positive thoughts become our dominant thoughts, we can attract more positive influences and positive circumstances and experience. There is nothing good or bad. William Shakespeare once said, “There is nothing whether good or bad, but our attitude makes it so.”

Negative thoughts can be turned to positive thought, as what was said by A W Tozer, “Our attitude towards things is likely to be more important than the things themselves.” William James also said, “People can alter their lives by altering attitudes of mind.”

Our inner thoughts and attitude determines our success. Norman Vincent Peale once said, “Any fact facing us if not as important as our attitudes toward it, for that determines or success or failure.”

Positive thoughts can be acquired as said by Paul J. Meyer, “Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts….and habits can be acquired.”

Think positive for no one can help you except yourselves. G Baily once said, “It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another, without helping himself.”

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” Norman Vincent Peale.



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Friday, December 01, 2006

Quotes To Motivate Us

“Men of genius are admired. Men of wealth are envied. Men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted.” Arthur Friedman

“We sow our thoughts and we reap our action. We sow our actions, and we reap our habits. We sow our habits and we reap our character. We sow our character and we reap our destiny.” Anonymous.

“A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.” Mark Twain.

De Grellet once said, “I shall pass through his world but once. If therefore, there is any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do, let me do it now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”

“I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.” William Ernest Henley

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” Francis Bacon