Tuesday, September 30, 2014

#1511 A fire from within

May every sunrise hold more promise, and every sunset hold more peace.  ~ blessing

Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.  ~ Winston Churchill

The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen. ~Roy E. Moody

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. ~Keanu Reeves

Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering. ~ Steve Maraboli

Quotes about motivation

- What are you motivated to do today to enrich your life and others?

Monday, September 29, 2014

#1510 Building us

Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours.  ~ Swedish proverb

Good things happen to those who hustle.  ~ Anais Nin

Good order is the foundation of all good things.  ~ Edmund Burke

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.  ~ Barack Obama

Whatever good things we build, end up building us.  ~ Jim Rohn

Quotes about good things

- What are some good things you could make happen?  (Start with one today.)

Saturday, September 27, 2014

#1509 Swerve from your path

Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even an elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.  ~Zoroaster

As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech. ~Katherine Francke

The best portion of a good person's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. ~William Wordsworth

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. ~William Hazlitt

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path. ~Mary Webb

Quotes about kindness

- How receptive are you to show a kindness today?

Friday, September 26, 2014

#1508 Go along

If you want to get along, go along. ~ Sam Rayburn

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

We rise by lifting others.  ~ Robert Ingersoll

A peron's a person no matter how small. ~ Dr. Seuss

People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other. ~ Martin Luther King

Quotes about getting along

- What strategies can you use to get along better with some people?

Thursday, September 25, 2014

#1507 Sprinkled around us

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.  ~Walt Streightiff

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life; learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.  ~Robert Fulghum

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.  ~John Muir

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.  ~Helen Keller

In every single moment there is significance. Wonder is sprinkled all around us.  ~Flavia

Quotes about wonder

- What daily wonders await for you?

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

#1506 Strong to live

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. ~Aesop

Character develops itself in the stream of life. ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold. ~Euripides

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking. ~J.C. Watts

Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away. ~William Hersey Davis

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act...reap a habit. Sow a habit ... reap a character. Sow a character ... reap a destiny. ~George D. Boardman

Quotes about character

- How would you describe your character?

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

#1505 Give it away

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ~ Helen Keller

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better. ~ Robert F. Kennedy

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. ~ Pablo Picasso

Quotes about purpose in life

- What is your gift?
- In what ways can you give it away?
- What worthy purposes can you see for your life?