Pause For Thought
A Selection Of Quotes To Help Inspire You.
- “Always tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember anything.”Mark TwainRoughin' It
- “Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you're right!”Henry Ford
- “When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade.”Norman Vincent Peale
- “Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them.
As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.”Norman Vincent Peale - “Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”James Dean
- “Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply & vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice that says, 'This is the real me', and when you have found that attribute and attitude ... follow it.”James Truslow Adams
- “Watch your thoughts, for they become your words.
Choose your words, for they become your actions.
Understand your actions, for they become habits.
Study your habits, for they become your character.
Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny.”Unknown - “Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Begin it now.”GoetheFrom Faust - “The moment one definately commits oneself, then providence moves too”W.H. Murray
- “Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.”Norman Vincent Peale - “Believe it is possible to solve your problem.
Tremendous things happen to the believer.
So believe the answer will come.
It will.”Albert Einstein - “Never talk defeat.
Use words like Hope, Belief, Faith, Victory.”Norman Vincent Peale - “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”The Buddah - “Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.
Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.”Norman Vincent Peale - “The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”Norman Vincent Peale
- “A positive mental attitude is a belief that things are going to turn out well, and that you can overcome any kind of trouble or difficulty.”Norman Vincent Peale
- “The tests of life are not meant to break you, but to make you.”Norman Vincent Peale
- “It is of practical value to learn to like yourself.
Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.”Norman Vincent Peale - “Rich people constantly learn and grow.
Poor people think they already know.
School is never out for a pro!”T. Harv Eker - “Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders.
The world would go on even without you.
Don't take yourself so seriously.”Norman Vincent Peale - “Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.”Albert Einstein - “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”Albert Einstein
- “Success is 1pc inspiration and 99pc perspiration.”Thomas Edison
- “Never judge a person, for your judgement is merely based on your perception.
Perception and fact are not the same thing.”Unknown - “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”Helen Keller - “Success is creating a state of mind that allows you to obtain anything you really desire.'”Mark Victor-Hansen
- “To love is to encourage others to be the best they can be and focusing on being the best you can be also. Radiate that and you have to do very little to influence people in a positive way.”Unknown
- “Your success will be determined by how you represent events in your mind and whether you let them limit you.
Steer your life in the direction you want to go.”Unknown - “Failure is merely feedback in disguise :-)
If something ain't working, don't beat yourself up.
Just change the strategy :-)”Pat Slattery - “However beautiful the strategy, one should occasionally look at the results”Winston Churchill
- “Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion:
You must set yourself on fire”Reggie Leach - “We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom”Michel de Montaigne
- “Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well.
Then youth will be happy, old age without regret and life a beautiful success.”Louisa May Alcott - “If you feel stuck, do something different.
If you don't know how, find someone who has what you want and do what they do.”Pat Slattery - “Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”Voltaire
- “When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.”George Bernard Shaw
- “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try!”Beverly Sills
- “Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize, how good things really are.”Marianne Williamson
- “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 even ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated.
Once we become aware of our capacity for love and ...happiness, the light has been turned on.”Sharon Salzberg - “Be not afraid of life.
Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”William James - “All blame is a waste of time.
The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off ourselves...especially when we are looking for external reasons to explain our unhappiness or frustration.
We may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming them, but we won't succeed in changing whatever it is about ourselves that is making us unhappy.”Wayne Dyer - “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost;
That is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.”Henry David Thoreau - “At the center of your being...you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”Lao Tzu
- “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”Lao Tzu - “The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”Joan Didion
- “Dreams are renewable.
No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.”Dr. Dale Turne - “Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there.
What you choose to do with them is up to you.”Richard Bac - “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.”Helen Keller - “God grant me the serenity to ACCEPT the people I cannot change,
the COURAGE to change the ONE I can.....
and the WISDOM to KNOW - -
THAT ONE IS ME.” - “Tragedies do happen.
We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how our lives would be had they not occured.
But none of that is important; they did occur, and so be it...from there onwards we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild.”Paulo Coelho - “The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy or unfulfilled.
For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”M. Scott Peck - “We learn courage when we face danger,
we learn patience when we endure sufferings,
we learn tenderness when we taste pain,
and we treasure health when illness strikes.
To think,
Our troubles might just be our greatest opportunity!” - “Destiny Has Nothing To Do With Chance, And Everything To Do With Choice...
So Don't Wait For Yours, Go And Achieve It...” - “Most people get ahead during the time that others waste.”Henry Ford
- “Tragedies do happen.
We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how our lives would be had they not occured.
But none of that is important; they did occur, and so be it...from there onwards we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild.”Paulo Coelho - “The fear of loss is the path to the dark side”Yoda
- “Do! or do not.
There is no try.”Yoda - “If nothing changes, nothing changes!”Earnie Larson
- “If I have an dollar and you have an dollar, and I give you my dollar and you give me your dollar, we each have one dollar!
However, if I have an idea and you have an idea and you give me your idea and I give you my idea we each have two ideas.”Buckminster Fuller - “For many:
They live how they know.
For the others.
They know how to live!
For the fortunate
They are the same thing!”Shane O'Riordan - “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”Albert Einstein
- “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself.
Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”Dr. Wayne Dyer - “In every single thing you do, you are choosing a direction.
Your life is a product of choices.”Dr. Kathleen Hall - “We all need to decide whether to "play it safe" in life and worry about the downside, or instead take a chance, by being who we really are and living the life our heart desires.
Which choice are you making?”Charlie Badenhop - “Life is a choice - as is how you handle the pitfalls along its bumpy road.”Julie Donner
- “The reason man may become the master of his own destiny is because he has the power to influence his own subconscious mind.”Napoleon Hill
- “Whatever the human mind can conceive and believe...
It can acheieve”Napoleon Hill - “You always do what you want to do.
This is true with every act.
You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice.
Only you have the power to choose for yourself.”W. Clement Stone - “We either make ourselves happy or miserable.
The amount of work is the same.”Carlos Castaneda - “All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.”Robert Fritz - “Miracles come in moments.
Be ready and willing.”Dr. Wayne Dyer - “Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last!”Marcus Antoninus
- “If you cannot be happy with what you have, then how can you expect to be happy with what you have not?
The path to a good life starts only when you stop spending all your time seeking a better one.
Live each moment to the best of your ability and an amazing future lies ahead for you.
Think beyond yourself...”Shane O'Riordan - “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek & find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it”Rumi
- “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
- “Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.”Colin Powell
- “Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.”Yoda
- “It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis”Margaret Bonnano
- “Even though my life is scarred with mistakes I refuse to rummage through my trash heap of failures...
Optimism will be my companion, and Victory my hallmark.”Max Lucado - “Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?”Oprah Winfrey
- “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”Napoleon Hill
- “If you don't know, ask.
You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.”Seneca - “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”E.E. Cummings
- “Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons.
First, we act without thinking and second, we keep on thinking without acting.”Pat Slattery - “Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude”Dale Carnagie
- “No group as an entity can create ideas. Only individuals can do this . A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas”Estill Green
- “Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along”Hugh Allen
- “Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”Theodore Roosevelt
- “Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?”Anonymous
- “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”Confucius
- “You can't base your life on other people's expectations”Stevie Wonder
- “The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.”Marianne Williamson
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams”Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”John Wooden
- “Confidence is contagious; so is lack of confidence”Vince Lombardi
- “If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything!”Win Borden
- “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”Max Lucado
- “By working hard 8 hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss & work hard 12 hours a day”Robert Frost
- “Live without pretending. Love without depending. Listen without defending. Speak without offending”Drizzy Drake (Aubrey Drake Graham)
- “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion.
Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.
Impossible is potential.
Impossible is temporary.
Impossible is nothing”Mohammad Ali - “If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it.
If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be it's victim”Richard Bach - “We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”Aristotle - “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”Dale Carnagie
- “All men dream,but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of there minds,wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men,for they may act there dream with open eyes, to make it possible.”T.E. Lawerence - “It is NEVER too late to be what you might have been.”George Eliot
- “A happy brain is a balanced brain. And a laughing brain is a creative brain”Anne Wilson Schaef
- “The teacher who fails to remain a student fails as a teacher”Robin Sharma
- “Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.”Clarence Day
- “You have to find the place that you can shine, if you don't fit in with what everybody else is doing.”Cher
- “Education is not merely the acquisition of technical knowledge, but the understanding with sensitivity and intelligence of the whole problem of living... the whole structure of human existence”J. Krishnamurti
- “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young”Henry Ford
- “Our highest endeavour must be to develop free human beings, who are
able to impart purpose and direction to their lives.”Rudolf Steiner - “It must be remembered that the purpose of education
is not to fill the minds of students with facts...
it is to teach them to think, if that is possible,
and always to think for themselves.”Robert Hutchins - “If we did all the things we are capable of,we would literally astound ourselves”Thomas Edison
- “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”Confucius
- “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.”Carl Jung
- “Passionate People become powerful people.
Passionate People generate enthusiasm in others.
Passionate People create waves of favour.
Passionate People stay focused on their dream”Dr. Mike Murdock - “Losers let it happen; winners make it happen!”Denis Waitley
- “We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance”Benjamin Disraeli
- “He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised.
To praise is an investment in happiness.
The poorest human being has something to give that the richest cannot buy”George Matthew Adams - “Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.
It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness.
But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering,
'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.”Carl Jung - “Upon awakening, decide to do something--anything--that will improve the quality of life for someone, without seeking any credit for yourself.”Dr. Wayne Dyer
- “The secret of happiness is freedom.
The secret of freedom is courage.”Thucydides - “Yesterday is a cancelled check;
Tomorrow is a promissory note;
Today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely”Anonymous - “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”HS Truman
- “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”The Buddha
- “There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth,
not starting,
or not going all the way.”The Buddah - “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”Carl Jung
- “To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.”Ken Keyes, Jr.
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.”Peter Drucker
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,is not an act but a habit.”Aristotle
- “Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.”Norman Vincent Peale - “A man is but the product of his thoughts.
What he thinks, he becomes!”Mohandas Gandhi - “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward;
they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - “Your vision will become clear
only when you look into your heart ...
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.”Carl Jung - “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”Walt Disney
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do...”Steve Jobs
- “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”Steve Jobs - “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 - “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me.
Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful... that’s what matters to me.”Steve Jobs - “We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else.
We built it for ourselves.
We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not.
We weren’t going to go out and do market research.
We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.”Steve Jobs - “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it.
You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”Steve Jobs - “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You are already naked!
There is no reason not to follow your heart.”Steve Jobs - “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary”Steve Jobs - “Formal education will make you a living.
Self education will make you a fortune.”Jim Rohn - “In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”Eleanor Roosevelt - “People Are Always Blaming Their Circumstances For Where They Are.
I Don't Believe In Circumstances.
The People Who Get On In This World Are Those Who Get Up & look For The Circumstances They Want & If They Can't Find Them; Make Them”George Bernard Shaw - “Take the first step.
You don't have to see the full staircase.
Just take the first step”Martin Luther King - “If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?”Confucius - “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbour.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore.
Dream.
Discover.”Mark Twain - “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”Victor Frankl
- “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”Thomas A. Edison
- “The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.”Jim Rohn
- “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”Harry Golden
- “I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.”Maya Angelou - “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”Abraham Lincoln
- “I Choose..
to live by choice, not by chance;
to make changes, not excuses;
to be motivated, not manipulated;
to be useful, not used;
to excel, not compete.
I choose self-esteem, not self-piy.
I choose to liste to my inner voice, not the random opinion of others.”Unknown - “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believ is great work.
And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle.
As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.”Steve Jobs - “You do not need to apologise to anyone for wanting, pursuing or gaining success.
What anyone else thinks cannot be your primary concern
If you want success in life then go and get it.
Stop allowing your perception about what anyone else thinks become an excuse not to do what you want to do; what you know you have to do.
Your thoughts, your life, your choice...”Shane O'Riordan - “People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable.
Be honest and transparent anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People who really want help may attack you if you help them.
Help them anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt.
Give the world your best anyway”Mother Teresa - “Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”Ralph Waldo Emerson - “Limitations live only in our minds.
But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”Jamie Paolinetti - “Success comes in cans; failure in can'ts!”
- “We are free to choose our actions, but we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions.”Stephen R Covey
- “Vision without action is merely a dream.
Action without vision just passes the time.
Vision with action can change the world.”Joel Arthur Barker - “When we are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.”Epictetus - “All our dreams can come true: if we have the courage to pursue them.”Walt Disney
- “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”Theodore Rossevelt
- “You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go”Dr. Seuss - “We all have the ability.
The difference is how we use it.”Stevy Wonder - “You search for happiness; it is in your heart.
You search for truth; it is in your mind.
You search for gold; it is in your smile.
You search for beauty; it is in your eyes.
You search for another to fulfill you, when it is yourself you should seek.”Buddha - “Nature knows no pause in progress & development, & attaches her curse on all inaction”Goethe
- “I hated every minute of training, but I said,
"Don't quit.
Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."”Muhammad Ali - “You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.”Eckhart Tolle
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