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Thursday, January 29, 2015
15 Thankful Quotes to Cherish
1. Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.-Alice Walker
2. I'm just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that's the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective.-Tim Tebow
3. When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.-Tecumseh
4. Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.-Alphonse Karr
5. Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.-Henri Frederic Amiel
6. There's no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.-Joyce Meyer
7. Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.-Oprah Winfrey
8. If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.-Frank A. Clark
9. He enjoys much who is thankful for little.-Thomas Secker
10. No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. - James Allen
11. A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues. - Cicero
12. Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.- Sarah Ban Breathnach
13. If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. - Meister Eckhardt
14. Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.- Buddha
15. Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.- Ralph Marston
Monday, January 26, 2015
15 Simple Quotes to Simplify Your Life
1. The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.- Hans Hofmann
2. All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.- Winston Churchill
3. My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.- Dalai Lama
4. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.- Leonardo Da Vinci
5. Only great minds can afford a simple style.- Stendhal
6. Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.- Arnold H. Glasgow
7. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.-Confucius
8. It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.-Amelia Barr
9. My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.-Cary Grant
10.Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.-Steve Jobs
11. The most simple things can bring the most happiness.-Izabella Scorupco
12. Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.-Albert Einstein
13. Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.-Charles Mingus
14. The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.-Julian Casablancas
15. My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.-Brian Lamb
Thursday, January 22, 2015
15 Quality Quotes to Embrace
1. Give them quality. That’s the best kind of advertising.-Milton Hersey
2. Quality is not an act. It is a habit.-Aristotle
3. Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.-William A. Foster
4. Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.-Henry Ford
5. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.-Steve Jobs
6. Quality begins on the inside… then works its way out.-Bob Moawad
7. It is quality rather than quantity that matters. – Seneca
8. Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.-Gucci Family Slogan
9. Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.-John Ruskin
10. Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.-Tom Peters
11. The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.-Martin Luther King, Jr.
12. The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.-Orison Swett Marden
13. The quality of life is determined by its activities.-Aristotle.
14. The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.- Vincent Lombardi
15. It is the quality of our work that will please God and not the quantity.-Mahatma Gandhi
Monday, January 19, 2015
20 Positive Quotes to Live Your Life
2. Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.-Leah LaBelle
3. If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.-Pat Riley
4. Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.- George Allen,.
5. We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. – Robin Sharma
6. There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. – W. Clement Stone
7. A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.-Herm Albright
8. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. - William James
9. Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem. - Norman Vincent Peale
10. Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events. - Brian Tracy
11. Positivity doesn’t just change the contents of your mind…It widens the span of possibilities that you see. - Barbara Fredrickson,
12. People who feel positively think differently. They think better. - Deborah Norville, N
13.A 'positive attitude' is definitely one of the keys to success. My definition of a positive attitude is a simple one: Looking for the good in all circumstances. -Catherine Pulsifer
14. You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream. ~ C. S. Lewis
15. Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people. - Roy Bennett
16. There is something called positive thinking that people often confuse with hope. But it is different. Positive thinking is a state of mind, while hope is a useless state of the heart. Positive thinking is about doing and hope is about feeling. So, positive thinking is what you need. - Stevan V. Nikolic
17. If you want to get positive results you have to refuse to think negative thoughts by substituting them with constructive ones. When you develop a positive attitude toward life, your life will start having a positive result.- Roy Bennett
18. The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.-Winston Churchill
19. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.-Edward Rickenbacker
20. Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.-Zig Ziglar
Thursday, January 15, 2015
15 Opportunity Quotes for You to Catch Hold Of
1. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.- Winston S. Churchill
2. The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity. - John F. Kennedy
3. We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas A. Edison
4. Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.-Anne Sullivan
5. Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.-Bobby Unser
6. To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.-John Dewey
7. Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
8. Ability is of little account without opportunity.-Lucille Ball
9. Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.-Nolan Ryan
10. The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.-Brian Tracy
11. There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.-Douglas MacArthur
12. Some of our important choices have a timeline. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.-James E. Faust
13. Every day is a new opportunity.-Terry McAuliffe
14. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. -Benjamin Disraeli
15. The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.-Orison Swett Marden
Monday, January 12, 2015
10 Noble Quotes to Live By
1. A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation, and encourages perseverance.-Gary Hamel
2. I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.-Helen Keller
3. Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.-Lin Yutang
4. Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.-Taylor Caldwell
5. Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.-Thomas Hughes
6. Work alone is noble.-Thomas Carlyle
7. He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.-John Fletcher
8. Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.-Carlo Goldoni
9. To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is nobler and much less trouble.-Mark Twain
10. Noble deeds which are concealed are most esteemed. -Blaise Pascal
Thursday, January 8, 2015
20 Top Management Quotes for Success
1. Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.- Ronald Reagan
2. I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people.- Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
3. The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.- Agha Hasan Abedi
4. Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.- Anne M. Mulcahy
5. Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.-Brian Tracy
6. The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.-Anthea Turner
7. The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.-James Cash Penney
8. Effective management always means asking the right question.-Robert Heller
9. There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. - Peter F. Drucker
10. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. - Theodore Roosevelt
11. If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings—and put compensation as a carrier behind it—you almost don’t have to manage them. - Jack Welch
12. The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance. - Brian Tracy
13. Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. - Paul Hawken.
14. Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. – John Rockefeller
15. The Four Keys of Great Managers: (1) When selecting someone, they select for talent … not simply experience, intelligence or determination. (2) When setting expectations, they define the right outcomes … not the right steps. (3) When motivating someone, they focus on strengths … not on weaknesses. and (4) When developing someone, they help him find the right fit … not simply the next rung on the ladder. -Marcus Buckingham
16. What gets measured gets managed.-Peter Drucker
17. You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people.-Admiral Grace Hooper
18. Management is nothing more than motivating other people. -Lee Iacocca
19. The smaller the function, the greater the management. -C. Northcote Parkinson
20. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.-Peter F. Drucker
Monday, January 5, 2015
10 Love Quotes to Bring Meaning to Your Life
1. Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing, and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. -Ann Landers
2. Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
3. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.-Lao Tzu
4. Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.-Franklin P. Jones
5. The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.- Helen Keller
6. To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything. -T. Tolis
7. You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness. - Julia Roberts
8. Where there is love there is life. - Mahatma Gandhi
9. With love one can live even without happiness. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
10. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.- Sam Kee
Thursday, January 1, 2015
15 New Year’s Quotes to Usher a New Beginning
1. Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. -Helen Keller
2. Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.-Charles Kettering
3. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in a year – Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! -Edward Payson Powell
5. Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day. -Michael Josephson
6. We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. -Edith Lovejoy Pierce
7. One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. -John Burroughs
8. A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year. -Edgar Guest
9. The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. -G.K. Chesterton
10. Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. - Oprah Winfrey
11. Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed. - Cavett Robert
12. Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won’t have to chase your dreams; they will come to you. -Randy Pausch
13.Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world. - Ann Landers
14. For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.- T.S. Eliot
15. We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. - Edith Lovejoy Pierce
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