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Wednesday 28 October 2009

Strength Quotes (Part 2)


"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would have thus been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." Charles Darwin

"For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache." Drake

"Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace." John Dryden

"If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way." Erik Erikson

"Patience and time do more than strength or passion." Jean De La Fontaine

"The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven." Kahlil Gibran

"By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect." Goethe

"He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without." Goethe

"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do." Elbert Hubbard

"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity." Ben Jonson

"There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. Put your mind to work for you. Believe that you can do it. The world will tell you that you can't. Yet, in your belief you'll find the strength, you'll find the ability, to do it anyway."Ralph Marston

"There is [a] spiritual strength derived from the subjecting of the physical appetite to the will of the individual. "He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than king." If there were no other virtues in fasting but gaining strength of character, that alone would be sufficient justification for its universal acceptance." David McKay

"There is nothing so strong as gentleness, and nothing so gentle as strength." Leo Muir

"I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power." Jawaharlal Nehru

"The Enoch situation recalls another quotation, far more recent, from President Spencer W. Kimball in his great bicentennial address: "We commit vast resources to the fabrication of . . . ships, planes, missiles, fortifications — and depend on them for deliverance. When threatened, we become anti-enemy instead of pro-kingdom of God. . . . What are we to fear when the Lord is with us? Can we not take the Lord at his word and exercise a particle of faith in him? . . . We must leave off the worship of modern-day idols and a reliance on the arm of flesh." Mr. Nixon has an answer to that one: Faith without strength is futile. What a revealing statement! Faith is the source of strength, the very power by which the worlds were created. To say it is helpless without military backing recalls an ancient saw: "I trust God but I feel better with money in the bank." In the spirit of the times we preach that to expect security without a four-man bodyguard is futile, when security is not to need a bodyguard; that charity without a guaranteed profit is futile, when charity means asking no profit; that free agency without strict supervision is futile, and so on. Mr. Nixon rejects Napoleon's dictum that in the end it is the spirit that always wins — Napoleon should know, but Nixon will have none of that: that goes only for the long run, he says, but "in that short run in which we all live, the sword is the essential shield for the spirit," and "in the final analysis victory will go to the side . . . [with the] power." "Power is the ability to make things happen, . . . to set the course of history." "The uses of power cannot be divorced from the purposes of power." In Mr. Nixon's book, God is indeed on the side of the big battalions." Hugh Nibley

"In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest."Alexander Pope

"God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them." Pusey

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt

"This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive." Robert W. Service

"There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm." Beverly Sills

"NATIVE vigor of impulses and desires conserved by education and experience, the establishment of inner harmony and cooperation among the powers and capacities of the soul, the formation of a life purpose, and the direction of the individual life in accordance with the eternal principles of right that underlie human progress, — these are the elements of both strength and righteousness in human character.' Edward Sisson

"Above all challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish." Cecile Springer

"Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free."
Adlai Stevenson

"Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of." Jonathan Swift

"My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure." Lord Tennyson

"None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility." Thomas J. Watson

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength." Oprah Winfrey

"There is a comfort in the strength of love: ‘Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart." William Wordsworth

"No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves." Dwight Eisenhower

"When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision." Ronald Reagan

"Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage." John F. Kennedy

"It is not because things are different that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."Anonymous

"A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough." Ronald Reagan

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it." Rabindranath Tagore

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else." Erma Bombeck

"Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found." Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." Friedrich Nietzsche

(Source: www.motivatingquotes.com)

Strength Quotes (Part 1)


“Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.”
–Tom Chappel

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye."
– Helen Keller

"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men." Seneca

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." Mahatma Gandhi

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." Thomas Paine

"We acquire the strength we have overcome." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft." Theodore Roosevelt

"Strength is a matter of a made up mind." John Beecher

"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong." Calvin Coolidge

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength." Ralph Sockman

"What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can." German Proverb

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks." Phillips Brooks

"Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used." Richard E. Byrd

"Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength." Henry Ward Beecher

"The burden is equal to the horse's strength." The Talmud

"It is truly said: It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do." Chow Ching

"Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm." Jean Paul Richter

"Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow." Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away." Dag Hammarskjold

"Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get." Elbert Hubbard

"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."
J. F. Clarke

"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings as eagles; They shall run, and not be weary; and They shall walk, and not faint." [Isaiah 40:31]Bible

"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education."Maya Angelou

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within." Anonymous

"You can’t really be strong until you see a funny side to things." Anonymous

"Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used." Richard E. Byrd

"When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes." Joseph Campbell

"Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do."
Lord Chesterfield

"It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account." Confucius

(Source: www.motivatingquotes.com)

Monday 19 October 2009

Success Quotes (Part 2)


"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
–Dale Carnegie

"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand."
–– Bruce Barton

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success."
– Thomas J. Watson

"The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.”
–Mark Caine

“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”
- Christopher Morley

“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”
- Christopher Morley

"When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success."
Orison Swett Marden

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire.Here's what would be pitiful,if your income grew and you didn't.
Jim Rohn s

"The great successful men of the world have used their imagination…they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building."
Robert Collier

"Success doesn't come to you…you go to it."Marva Collins

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." Earl Nightingale

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." Vincent T. Lombardi

"Success is a journey, not a destination." Ben Sweetland

If you care at all,you'll get some results.If you care enough, you'll get incredible results.
Jim Rohn

"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right." Edward Simmons

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek." Mario Andretti - race car driver

"No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction." Charles Kendall Adams

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
Benjamin Disraeli

The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work - if you won't.
Zig Ziglar

"I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph." John H. Johnson

Unless you change how you are,you will always have what you've got.
Jim Rohn

"My list of ingredients for success is divided into four basic groups: Inward, Outward, Upward and Onward." David Thomas

"A stumble may prevent a fall." English Proverb

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.
Jim Rohn

"God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest." Swedish Proverb

"Possession of the ball is the key to winning in football, basketball, and the game of life."
Laing Burns, Jr.

"Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure." Dell Crossword

"Success often comes to those who have the aptitude to see way down the road." Laing Burns, Jr.

(Source: www.motivatingquotes.com)

Saturday 10 October 2009

Health Quotes (Part 1)



Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.
Leo Tolstoy

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Benjamin Franklin

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Anthony Robbins

The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Benjamin Franklin

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
Thomas Jefferson

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.
Chinese Proverb

Nothing is more fatal to health, than an over care of it.
Benjamin Franklin

To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less.
Chu Hui Weng 

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
(Source: www.inspirational-quotes-and-quotations.com)

Age Quotes


And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. letter to Otto Juliusburger
It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.
It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
I want to die young at a ripe old age.
All would live long, but none would be old.
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
Among all my patients in the second half of life ... there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age: first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
A woman has the age she deserves.
There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning -- a really delightful sensation after you have ceased struggling.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare.
With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.
Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.
First you are young; then you are middle-aged; then you are old; then you are wonderful.

How a minority,
Reaching majority,
Seizing authority,
Hates a minority!

In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
My idea of Hell is to be young again.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
Live your life and forget your age.
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
(also attributed to Bernard Baruch in slightly different form)
The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night.

The Conservative
We as for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
Though an old man I am but a young gardener.
Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
In his later years Pablo Picasso was not allowed to roam an art gallery unattended, for he had previously been discovered in the act of trying to improve on one of his old masterpieces.
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.
How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young -- or slender.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
(Source: www.wisdomquotes.com)