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Thank you for taking the time to see what this page is all about. My intention is no deeper or broader than stated in the title above. Many quotes you see have no identifying author attached to them as the majority of them come from my notes, for which I admit I did not always write down who Said them.
I will update and add Authors as I find the rightful owners, but It does not change the wisdom or understanding behind the words. I hope you will use this list of quotes and other helpful words to encourage, motivate, and pick you up when you need it.
Feel free to add your favorite quotes to the comments which will be posted here. Wisdom, notes, quotes, and motivation is what we all need daily to keep our minds, attitudes, and lives headed in the right direction.
I want to begin with the wisest man who ever lived, King Solomon. Enjoy.
Wisdom
“The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:
¶”To know wisdom and instruction, to perceive the words of understanding, to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, judgment, and equity; To give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion- A wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel, to understand a proverb and an enigma, the words of the wise and their riddles. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. But fools despise wisdom and instruction. “
{Proverbs 1:1-7}
Teaching and Principals from Wayne Dyer
| Principals and Teaching |
|---|
| Choose Quality rather than appearances. |
| Never allow someone else’s opinion to enable you to feel bad. |
| What I think about myself it what is most important and not what others think about me. |
| Choose ethics rather than rules |
| Embrace the silence with meditation. |
| You can’t solve a problem with the same mind that caused it. |
| The law of attraction will not change to accommodate me any more than the law of gravity will. |
| If I do not believe, expect nothing. |
| Stop sending out greed with “give me, give me, give me.” And start asking how I can serve? What can I do to make things better for others? |
| I must see, act, and feel as though I already have what I want and need, never needy or desperate. |
| Treasure your divinity; you will live forever, so act like it. |
| Choose knowledge instead of achievement. |
| You cannot give away what you do not have. |
| Keep no justified resentments |
| Don’t die with your music still in you. |
| Flush the past and bury and remembrance of it and live in the now. |
| We get what we expect in life, in relationships, and everything. So, what are you expecting today? |
Quotes
| QUOTE | AUTHOR |
|---|---|
| “With every negative situation that happens in my life always learn the lesson and look at it only as an event that came to pass.” | {Kevin Trudeau} |
| “A fool vents all of his feelings, but a wise man holds them back.” | {Proverbs} |
| “If I continue to think as I’ve always thought, I will continue to get what I’ve always got.” | |
| “Dreams without plans only leads to disappointments in life.” | |
| “If you think you can or you think you can’t, either way, you are right.” | |
| “Make sure your servant`s towel is always bigger than your ego. Find your broom and grow your influence.” | |
| “That’s it! I`m gonna do it period! | {Kevin Trudeau} |
| “Think and Grow Rich.” | {Napoleon Hill} |
| “The more precise and clear my goals are, the better my chances are of success.” | |
| “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” | {Hebrews 11:1} |
| “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” | {Benjamin Franklin} |
| “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” | {Benjamin Franklin} |
| “When your attitude is right, the facts don`t matter.” | {Kevin Trudeau} |
| “He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.” | {Benjamin Franklin} |
| “look before, or you`ll find yourself behind.” | {Benjamin Franklin} |
| “Better slip with foot than tongue.” | {Benjamin Franklin} |
| “In life, nothing is ever as good or as bad as it seems.” | |
| “If I do not love myself, then no one else will love me either.” | |
| “Do more than what you are paid for, and soon you will be paid for more than you do.” | |
| “Winners do more than is required, they go the extra mile.” | |
| “Just because I make a mistake, doesn`t mean that I am | {Maxwell Maltz} |
| “How people in this world treat me is their karma, how I react is mine.” | {Wayne Dyer} |
| “Every time you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, no exceptions. In the same way whenever anyone squeezes me in life, what is inside of me is what will always come out.” | {Wayne Dyer} |
| “What I think about myself is more important than what others think about me.” | {Wayne Dyer} |
| “Jesus said to him, If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.” | {Jesus} |
| “A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.” THOMAS CARLYLE | |
| “As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world…as in being able to remake ourselves.” | {Mahatma Gandhi} |
| “I will always win if I never accept defeat.” | {General George S. Patton} |
| “Never say, I can’t afford it…rather say, how can I afford it.” | {Robert Kiyosaki} |
14 Laws of the Universe
Quotes
| QUOTES | AUTHOR |
|---|---|
| “If you don’t think you’ve got crazy in your family, it’s you” | [Dave Ramsey] |
| “Every failure is a blessing in disguise provided it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called failures are only temporary defeats.” | [Napoleon Hill] |
| “The best way to predict your future is to create it” | [Abraham Lincoln] |
| “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented” | [Elie Wiesel] |
| “Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” | [Mary Anne Radmacher] |
| “Be alone, that is the secret of invention, be alone. That is when ideas are born.” | [Nikola Tesla] |
| “Talent has a target no one else can hit. Genius has a target no one else can see.” | [Arthur Schopenhauer] |
| “Fools multiply when wise men are silent.” | [Nelson Mandela] |
| “There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading, the few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” | [Will Rogers] |
| “There is little success where there is little laughter.” | [Andrew Carnegie] |
| “Don`t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. What the world needs is people who have come alive.” | [Dr. Howard Therman] |
| “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. “ | [Dr. Martin Luther King] |
| “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” | [Desmond Tutu] |
| “A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player.” | [John Wooden] |
| “The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have to but toil for awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.” | [Og Mandino] |
| “The wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” | [Og Mandino] |
| “The most utterly lost of all days is that in which you have not once laughed.” | [Og Mandino] |
| “Persistent people begin their success where other people end in failure.” | [Og Mandino] |
| “Throughout the scripture, God uses those who have the courage and not those who are looking for defeat. I never knew a case where God used a discouraged man or woman to accomplish any great thing for Him.” | [D.L. Moody] |
| “Repentance is not just regret or remorse, although part of it, but a change in direction and heart. “ | |
| “A people pleaser cannot be a slave of Christ.” | [Chuck Swindoll] |
| (as Christians) “We have imputed righteousness. God is truly good, we are not.” | |
| “I can`t hold onto something and expect God to work with it. I have to surrender all.” | [Angela] (serving a 15 yr. prison sentence) |
| “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” | [Aristole] |
| “Surrendering my life (to Christ) is not a one-time event, it`s a lifetime practice.” | [Dr. Claude Thomas] |
| “Success is an inner process and is something that you bring to everything you do in life. It comes from inside me and my thoughts.” | [Wayne Dyer] |
| “Do not allow what you cannot do to interfere with what you can do.” | |
| “If God would have wanted me to smoke, He would have put a chimney on top of my head.” | [Maury Davis] |
| “Faith is confidence in the righteous character of God even when our circumstances seem otherwise. Faith is not colored by our circumstances. “ | |
| “Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due when it is in the power of your hand to do so.” | [Proverbs 3:27] |
| So are the ways of everyone greedy for gain; it takes away the life of its owners.” | [Proverbs 1:19] |
Earl Nightingale Quotes
Everything begins with an idea
“You are now, and you do become what you think about.”
“We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.”
“People are where they are because that is where they want to be–whether they will admit that or not.”
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice… it is conformity.”
“Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.”
“No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.”
“What’s going on in the inside shows on the outside.”
“We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.”
Quotes and Notes from Jim Rohn
“Humans can do the most incredible things no matter what happens.”
“If you do something long enough a ratio will appear. And, once it starts it tends to continue. The law of averages can be increased and we can get better if we keep at it.
“Wages make you a living, profits make you a fortune.”
“don’t wish for fewer challenges, wish for more wisdom.”
“don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills.
“Profits are better than wages.”
“It is not the circumstances and what happens to you that makes the difference in your life, but rather it is what you do with it.”
“If I help enough people get what they want, I can have whatever I want.”
“Respond to deserve and not just to need ” (or want).
“It should not be about handouts for those who are lazy or refuse to do the work, who make no effort.”
“don’t wish for life to be easier, wish you were better.”
Want to enjoy true happiness in this life then practice these things:
(Jim Rohn)
Produce
be productive in your life. If not, you will not be happy.
Develop good close friends
And value them throughout your life.
Spirituality
We are more than just a random accident- Start someplace (the bible is a really good place to start!)
Parable of the Sower and the Seeds
(story Jesus told in the bible) that Jim Rohn used to explain in regards to achieving financial and life goals.
The sower was ambitious
The sower had excellent seed
The Sower went out to sow his seed
The 1st part the birds took away ( in life this will happen, just accept)
But the Sower kept on sowing
The 2nd part fell on rocky ground, the hot sun caused it to die
(again, this happened and not every plan works out perfectly)
But the Sower kept on sowing
The 3rd part fell and sprung up and the thorns choked it out and it died. (distractions, circumstances, and life that happens outside of someone’s control)
But the sower kept sowing
Finally, the 4th part fell on good soil and it produced a crop, some 30%, 60%, and some 100%
It is better not to try and make the 30% produce 60% as we will likely just be frustrated and discontented. Better to accept that every venture or effort we put in will not produce the exact same results and be thankful for the increase.
| QUOTE | AUTHOR |
|---|---|
| “If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” | Gandhi |