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Here , month-by-month, are my 'get-motivated-for-success' favourite quotations. They are ones that inspire and motivate me and I hope that they will help to develop further your success, happiness and prosperity!

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Enjoy - and let them be the wind beneath your wings!

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August QUOTES Theme: Windows on the mystery, wonder and delight of being human-1

1. In India, when we meet and greet and we say "Namaste", which means: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides, I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us. --Ram Dass

2. "We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

3. the unconscious is a living psychic entity which, it seems, is relatively autonomous, behaving as if it were a personality with intentions of its own' Jung 1990 p.17

4. Completely new thoughts and creative ideas can present themselves from the unconscious - thoughts that have never been conscious before. The grow up from the dark depths of the mind like a lotus a..... Jung 1990 p.17

5. a mid-life crisis – that's when you get to the top of the ladder and find its been leaning against the wrong building! Anon

6. Everybody has their own private Mount Everest they were put on this earth to climb.  You may never reach the summit; for that you will be forgiven.  But if you don't make at least one serious attempt to get above the snow-line, years later you will find yourself lying on your deathbed, and all you will feel is emptiness.  ~ Hugh Macleod

7. Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.  ~ Paula Poundstone

8. "whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve" Napoleon Hill

9. Without emotion, man would be nothingbut a biological computer. Love, joy,sorrow, fear, apprehension, anger,satisfaction, and discontent providethe meaning of human existence. Arnold M. Ludwig---1980

10. If you have faith as small as a mustard seed...Nothing will be impossible for you. Matthew 17:20

11. ***When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao Tzu

12. ***The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. Lao Tzu

13. ***“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” Albert Einstein

14. “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” Albert Einstein 15. ***Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” Albert Einstein

16. “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein

17. "In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it." —Michelangelo

18. "Desire is the key to motivation, but it's 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

19. ***"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."Abraham Lincoln

20. "Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?" — Benjamin Franklin

21. ***To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

22. “Consider who you were and endeavor to know yourself, which is the most difficult point of knowledge imaginable. The knowledge of yourself will keep you from vanity.”– Miguel de Cervantes, The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha

23. “.... we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.” – Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed

24. ***“The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.”– José Ortega y Gasset, “Historical Reason,” Lecture in Buenos Aires Oct. 1940.

25. “Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure—that of being Salvador Dali.” – Salvador Dali, Diary of a Genius

26. “Work at being a humble person.” – Sir John Marks Templeton

27. ***“It is no small pity, and should cause us no little shame, that, through our own fault, we do not understand ourselves.....We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which we seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.” – Teresa of Avila, Interior Castle

28. "Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about the soul than he did." – Sir John Marks Templeton

29. ***MIHI QUAESTIO FACTUS SUM(I have become a question to myself.)—Augustini Confessiones (liber X, caput xxxiii)

30. Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. Napoleon Hill

31. From "Silence in action" by Vimala Thakar

"Do you know how much energy is wasted in the chattering of the mind? Every thought consumes energy. Every emotion consumes energy. Even when you are physically alone and by yourself you could be spending lots of energy through the chattering of your mind. The chattering which consumes energy will have to come to an end. Energy should not be wasted in reactions. Reacting and brooding also imply consumption of vital energy. Unwarranted indulgence in thought and emotion is sheer waste of energy. So please find out how much energy you are wasting throughout the day. If you allow that energy to gather itself unto itself, you will have immensurable more energy"

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JULY QUOTES Theme: ACTION

1 Well done is better than well said. ~Benjamin Franklin

2 Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. ~Italian Proverb

3 After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. ~Author Unknown

4 The shortest answer is doing. ~Lord Herbert

5 Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. ~Alfred Adler

6 We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. ~Frank Tibolt

7 A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabian Proverb

8 Never mistake motion for action. ~Ernest Hemingway

9 Action is eloquence. ~William Shakespeare

10 Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. ~Oscar Wilde

11 Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

12 Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg. ~Author Unknown

13 If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas. ~Charles Barkley

14 Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. ~Edmund Burke

15 Talk doesn't cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb

16 Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. ~Baltasar Gracian

17 All know the way; few actually walk it. ~Bodhidharma

18 Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ~Nicolas de Chamfort

19 The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb

20 I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act. ~G.K. Chesterton

21 If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. ~Henry J. Kaiser

22 Action is the antidote to despair. ~Joan Baez

23 Don't find fault. Find a remedy. ~Henry Ford

24 We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. ~Harold Nicolson

25 One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. ~D.H. Lawrence

26 Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. ~James Baldwin

27 He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

28 What ought to have been done, and what shall be done, often stifle doing between them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

29 Nature takes away any faculty that is not used. ~William R. Inge

30 I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. ~William J. Lock

31 People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. ~Lewis Cass

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JUNE

1 "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten". - B.F. Skinner

2 "Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly." - Stephen R. Covey

3 "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung

4 "All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence." - Denis Waitley

5 "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." - William Blake

6 "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." - Jim Ryun

7 "Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

8 "Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." - Ann Lander

9 "Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it" - Dwight D. Eisenhower

10 "Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that

wants our love." - Rainer Maria Rilke

11 "Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us." - Earl Nightingale

12 "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein

13 "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." - Leo Buscaglia

14 It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine Saint-Exupéry

15 "Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other." - Brain Tracy

16 "I shut my eyes in order to see." - Paul Gaugain

17 "Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up's" - Peter Davies

18 "Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without the hope of emancipation." - John C. Granville

19 "One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind." - Robert Collier

20 "You will never leave where you are, until you decide where you'd rather be." - Dexter Yager

21 "People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering." - St Augustine

22 “What is it to function holistically? My answer = To proceed in all particulars with a sense of the whole.” Roger Prentice

23 “Concepts are delicious snacks with which we try to alleviate our amazement.” - A J Heschel

24 "Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it." - Buddha

25 “The utterances of the heart— unlike those of the discriminating intellect— always relate to the whole.” Jung

26 "Motivate them, train them, care about them, and make winners out of them... they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back." - J. Marriott

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

28 "Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into." - Wayne Dyer

30 "One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak." - G. K. Chesterton

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MAY

26 "The biggest mistake people make in life is not making a living at doing what they most enjoy." - Malcolm S. Forbes

27 "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great!" - Zig Ziglar

28 "A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

29 "You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give." - Anon

30 "Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly." - Ambroce Bierce

31 "We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow-worm." - Winston Churchill

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