QUOTES ON OCCASION

ability

Malcolm S Forbes: Ability Quotes
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Helen Keller: Ability Quotes
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Mary Lou Retton: Ability Quotes
As
simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by
making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been
given.

Mother Teresa: Ability Quotes
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Chinese proverb: Ability Quotes
Behind every able man, there are always other able men.

Abundance

Wayne Dyer: Motivational Abundance Quotes
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Motivational Abundance Quotes
He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.

Deepak Chopra: Motivational Abundance Quotes
Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.

Albert Einstein: Motivational Abundance Quotes
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

John Petit-Senn: Motivational Abundance Quotes
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Charles Dickens: Motivational Abundance Quotes
Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Cicero: Motivational Abundance Quotes
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.




Achievements

Zig Ziglar
If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.

H. Jackson Brown
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

Francis Wayland
It is by what we ourselves have done, and not by what others have done for us, that we shall be remembered in after ages.

Benjamin Franklin
It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

John Wooden
It is not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

Zig Ziglar
It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude.

Vince Lombardi
It
is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one
who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.

Greg Hickman
It
is time to break through the barriers that have held you back and held
you down for such a long time. It is time to reach out and indelibly
etch your place in history.

David Feherty
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

Zig Ziglar
It's not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that's important.


Action

Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Walter Linn
It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.

Christian Nevell Bovee
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Vincent Lombardi
It
is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the
one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Brian Tracy
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Dhammapada
Just
as a flower, which seems beautiful has color but no perfume, so are the
fruitless words of a man who speaks them but does them not.

Nike
Just Do It.

Red Auerbach
Just do what you do best.

Johann von Goethe
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Adventure

Laurence Sterne: Adventure Quotes
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
David Grayson: Adventure Quotes
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Amelia Earhart: Adventure Quotes
Adventure is worthwhile.

Daniel Roy Wiarda: Adventure Quotes
Adventure: the pursuit of life.

G. K. Chesterton: Adventure Quotes
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Albert Schweitzer: Adventure Quotes
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Napoleon Bonaparte: Adventure Quotes
Chance is the providence of adventurers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Adventure Quotes
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ovid: Adventure Quotes
Fortune and love befriend the bold.

Voltaire: Adventure Quotes
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

Age

R. Palmer: Age Quotes
A
comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its
bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it should give us hopes
of eternal youth in a better world.
Gloria Pitzer: Age Quotes
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

Rabindranath Tagore: Age Quotes
Age considers; youth ventures.

George William Curtis: Age Quotes
Age is a matter of feeling...not of years.

Jean Paul Richter: Age Quotes
As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

Unknown: Age Quotes
Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege.

George Bernard Shaw: Age Quotes
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Henry David Thoreau: Age Quotes
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Bernard M. Baruch: Age Quotes
To me old age is 15 years older than I am.

George Bernard Shaw: Age Quotes
We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing!

John W. Turk: Age Quotes
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.

William Dean Howells: Age Quotes
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

Frank Lloyd Wright: Age Quotes
Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

Aim
Napoleon Hill: Aim Quotes
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Anonymous: Aim Quotes
A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.

Francis Bacon: Aim Quotes
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Joe Paterno: Aim Quotes
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Andrew Carnegie: Aim Quotes
Aim for the highest.

Norman Vincent Peale: Aim Quotes
All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

Orison Swett Marden: Aim Quotes
All
who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed
their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed
impossible.

Earl Nightingale: Aim Quotes
All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Abraham Lincoln: Aim Quotes
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

Edmund Burke: Aim Quotes
Ambition can creep as well as soar.

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Appreciation

Anonymous: Appreciation Quotes
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
Booker T. Washington: Appreciation Quotes
Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.

Sam Walton: Appreciation Quotes
Appreciate
everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite
substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise.
They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.

Voltaire: Appreciation Quotes
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Albert Schweitzer: Appreciation Quotes
At
times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another
person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who
have lighted the flame within us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Appreciation Quotes
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Henry Clay: Appreciation Quotes
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.

Anonymous: Appreciation Quotes
Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.

William Arthur: Appreciation Quotes
Flatter
me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not
forget you.

Cicero: Appreciation Quotes
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

Belief

Blaise Pascal: Belief Quotes
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Michael Korda: Belief Quotes
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Unknown Author: Belief Quotes
Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can.

Wally Amos: Belief Quotes
It
doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have
tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing,
it's your first attempt at it.

John Burroughs: Belief Quotes
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

Everett D. Martin: Belief Quotes
It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Graham Greene: Belief Quotes
It is impossible to go through life without trust. That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all - oneself.

La Rochefoucauld: Belief Quotes
It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Thomas Paine: Belief Quotes
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

Unknown author: Belief Quotes
It is not important what you believe, only that you believe.


Choice

George Eliot: Quotes about Choice
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Denis Waitley: Quotes about Choice
There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Benjamin Franklin: Quotes about Choice
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

John Wayne: Quotes about Choice
Tomorrow
is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very
clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It
hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Kahlil Gibran: Quotes about Choice
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Frank Swinnerton: Quotes about Choice
We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance.

Leo Buscaglia: Quotes about Choice
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Edgar A. Guest: Quotes about Choice
You
are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it
aside; you are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead
or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or
just be contented to stay where you are.




Expectation

Abraham Lincoln: Expectation Quotes
The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Expectation Quotes
The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

William Congreve: Expectation Quotes
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.

Orison Swett Marden: Expectation Quotes
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

Earl Nightingale: Expectation Quotes
We tend to live up to our expectations.

Claude M. Bristol: Expectation Quotes
We usually get what we anticipate.

Brian Tracy: Expectation Quotes
We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

Viktor E. Frankl: Expectation Quotes
What
was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life.
We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the
despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from
life, but rather what life expected from us.

Benjamin Disraeli: Expectation Quotes
What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.

John Lubbock: Expectation Quotes
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Brian Tracy: Expectation Quotes
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Michael Jordan: Expectation Quotes
You have to expect things of yourselves before you can do them.

Brian Tracy: Expectation Quotes
Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations.

Decision Making

Louis Pasteur: Decision Making Quotes
Chance favors only the prepared mind.
Pythagoras: Decision Making Quotes
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be. Custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

H. L. Hunt: Decision Making Quotes
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

George L. Morrisey: Decision Making Quotes
Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Euripides: Decision Making Quotes
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Decision Making Quotes
Each
indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost
days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has
magic, power, and genius in it.

Will Rogers: Decision Making Quotes
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Decision Making Quotes
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

William A. Ward: Decision Making Quotes
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

Peter Marshall: Decision Making Quotes
Give
to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand
for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.