Quotes From the Masters

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Selected Powerful, Life-Changing,Motivational Quotes From the Masters

Attitude

"Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes."- Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993, inspirational speaker, writer and U.S. clergyman

"A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug."- Patricia Neal, 1926- , American stage and film actress

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."- William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 Great English dramatist & poet

"He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast."- Proverbs 15:15

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering hisattitudes of mind."- William James, 1842-1910, U.S. pragmatist, philosopher and psychologist

"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."- Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British politician

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."- George Eliot (real name, Mary Ann Evans), 1819-80, American author

"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us."

- Earl Nightingale, 1921-1989, motivational author, philosopher and syndicated radio personality

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."- Charles Kettering, 1876-1958, US electrical engineer & inventor

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earthcan help with man with the wrong mental attitude."- Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, third president of the United States

"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magicallyconnect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before wechanged."- Earl Nightingale, 1921-1989, motivational author, philosopher and syndicated radio personality

Belief in Yourself

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."- Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, motivational lecturer and author, writing in his bestseller, "Think andGrow Rich"


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"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."- Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898, English author, puzzle creator and recreational mathematician, in"Alice in Wonderland"

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence inyour own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

- Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, American Christian reformed pastor, speaker and author

"Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right."- Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American automobile industrialist

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is a promise of whatyou shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."- James Bennett, 1864-1912, English author, writing in his bestselling little book, "As A ManThinketh"

"To those who can dream there is no such place as faraway."- Unknown

"Thought is action in rehearsal."- Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist

"Man is what he believes."

Gratitude

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."- Cicero, 106 BC-43 BC, 'Pro Plancio,' 54 B.C.

"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart."

- Seneca, 5 BC-65 AD, Roman dramatist, Stoic philosopher, & politician

"It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation."- Roberto Benigni, 1952- , Italian actor, comedian and director, quoted in Newsweek

"Some people are always grumbing because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns haveroses."- Alphonse Karr, 1808-1890, French poet, writer and botanist

Motivational

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."

- Helen Keller, 1880-1968, U.S. blind and deaf educator

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."- Woody Bennett, 1935 - , American movie actor, comedian, & director

"It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish."- J. R. R. Tolkien, 1892-1973, British scholar and fantasy novelist


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"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why werecommend it daily."- Zig Ziglar, motivational speaker and author

"We tend to live up to our expectations."- Earl Nightingale, motivational author

"Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow."- Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993, American clergyman and inspirational speaker

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."- Dr. Joyce Brothers, 1949- , American psychologist and television personality

"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unlessyou dare to battle."- Richard M. DeVos, co-founder of Amway Corporation

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, youcan do it - as long as you really believe 100 percent."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1947- , Austrian born actor and body builder

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."- John Wooden, 1910- , Hall of Fame basketball player and coach

"All things are difficult before they are easy."- Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661, English clergyman and historian

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."- Thomas Paine, 1737-1809, U.S. (English-born) patriot and political philosopher

"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive it isn't."

- Richard Bach, 1936- , author of such works as "Illusions" and "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."- Will Rogers, 1879-1935, performer, journalist and philosopher

"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the

knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."

- Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, motivational lecturer and author, writing in his bestseller,

"Think and Grow Rich"

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