Thought of the day Quotes in English

Dignity and Respect has to do with what you are ready, willing, and able to accept within yourself and in accepting to be able to give others. It is your personal power to make a difference by being true to the best within you and letting that truth shine through your words and actions.

- Gail Pursell Elliott

To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you'll hit your target every time.

- Bruce Jenner

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

- Maxwell Maltz

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

- Jim Rohn

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.

- Og Mandino

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

- Henry David Thoreau

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

- Maxwell Maltz Quotation

A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.

- Tom Morris

The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of planning in life, and the tragic brevity of time.

- W.J. Davison

Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

- Ann Landers

Dreaming is wonderful, goal setting is crucial, but action is supreme. To make something great happen you must get busy and make it happen. Take that action step today that will put you on your path to achievement.

- Greg Werner

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.

- Maxwell Maltz

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull Starr Download or Share

Winners make it happen. Losers let it happen.

- Leonard Lavin Download or Share

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Stephen R. Covey Download or Share

Creative ideas reside in people’s minds but are trapped by fear or rejection. Create a judgment free environment and you’ll unleash a torrent of creativity.

Alex Osborn Download or Share

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

- Samuel Johnson Download or Share

Every great human achievement is preceded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.

- Brian Tracy Download or Share

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

- Famous Short Robert Browning Download or Share

Failure is success if we learn from it.

- A Quotation From Malcolm S. Forbes Download or Share

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

- Erica Jong Download or Share

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

- Michelle Burford Download or Share

People are not lazy. They simply have important goals that do not inspire them.

- Anthony Robbins Download or Share

Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

- Susan Sontag Download or Share

Do something to move yourself toward your major goal every day.

- Brian Tracy Download or Share

A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

- Henrik Ibsen Download or Share

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

- Les Brown Download or Share

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

- Martin Luther King Jr. Download or Share

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

- Robert Burton Download or Share

You can never earn in the outside world more than you earn in your own mind.

- Brian Tracy Download or Share

This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.

- Scott Reed Sayings Download or Share

We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

- Denis Waitley Download or Share

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.

- Joseph Joubert

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

- Dietrich Bonhoffer

Knowledge is not power; Implementation is power.

- Garrison Wynn

England and America are two countries sseparted by a common language.

- George Bernard Shaw

Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else's results.

- Mark Victor Hansen

Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.

- Randolph S. Bourne

Goals are new, forward moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them.

- Mark Victor Hansen

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

- Laurence J. Peter

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

-Voltaire

The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing.

- William Cowper Brann

We will either find a way or make one.

- Hannibal

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

- John Wayne

Sooner or later lazy people work harder. Half jobs produce half results.

- Destin

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

- Wayne Dyer

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

- Henry Ford

A vision keeps the Wealthy Soul focused on the path and not on the boulders.

- Michael Norwood

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

- Dale Carnegie

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

- Orison Swett Marden Quotation

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

- Winston Churchill

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

- Anthony Robbins

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

- Clarence Darrow

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

- Ray Bradbury

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

- Albert Camus

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe whit fur.

Doug Larson

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

- Bernard Meltzer

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it is the only idea we have.

- Henri Alban-Fournier

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

- Les Brown

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

- Frederick W. Faber

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

- Abraham Lincoln

Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.

- Judith Martin

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

William Hazlitt Download or Share

Continuous excellent effort, not maximum strength or superior IQ, is the key to unlocking your potential as an achiever.

- Greg Werner Download or Share

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Dorothea Brande Download or Share

Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization.

Brian Tracy Download or Share

Every accomplishment begins with a decision to try.

- Edward T. Kelly Download or Share

Deeds, not words shall speak to me.

- John Fletcher Download or Share

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

- Napoleon Hill Download or Share

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

-Carl Sandburg Download or Share

Goals determine what you are going to be.

Julius Erving Download or Share

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

- Allen Lakein Download or Share

Plan your work and work your plan.

Napoleon Hill Download or Share

The more you can dream the more you can do.

Michael Korda Download or Share

Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.

Jonathan Swift Download or Share

Celebrate any progress. Don't wait to get perfect.

Ann McGee Cooper Download or Share

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

David Lloyd George Download or Share

Goal setting starts with a pad of paper, a pen and you.

Gary Ryan Blair Download or Share

For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward.

- Jim Rohn Download or Share

A good plan today is better than a great plan tomorrow.

George S. Patton Download or Share

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Henry Ford Download or Share

Think about your goals at every opportunity throughout the day.

Brian Tracy Download or Share

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Les Brown Download or Share

This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.

Scott Reed Download or Share

Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

William Shakespeare Download or Share

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, he can achieve.

Napoleon Hill Download or Share

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

- Francois de La Rocbefoucauld

Five years from now, we will be a different company, and five years from then, we will be another different company.

- Jacques Nasser

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

- Oprah Winfrey

If we don't know what we want, we become like a floating balloon. Our direction in life is at the mercy of external forces.

- Bob Greene

Everyone needs and deserves love and happiness. Let's not wait until we're perfect to go out and find it.

- Pat A. Mitchell

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better.

- Harry S. Truman

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses...On your powers, instead of your problems.

- Paul J. Meyer

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

- Earl Nightingale

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 Quotation

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.

- Arnold Palmer

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.

- Greg Anderson

The best opportunities in life are the ones we create. Goal setting provides for you the opportunity to create an extraordinary life.

- Gary Ryan Blair Download or Share

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

- Helen Keller Download or Share

Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.

- Peter Drucker Download or Share

To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.

- by Stephen R. Covey Download or Share

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

- Colin Powell Download or Share

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

- by William Ellery Channing Download or Share

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you’re doing.

- by W.E.Deming Download or Share

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

- Marilyn Ferguson Download or Share

Make progress one time and it makes you happy. Make progress day after day, week after week and it makes you a champion.

- Greg Werner Download or Share

The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.

- Brian Tracy Thoughts Download or Share

Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.

- Nicholas Lore Download or Share

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

- Charles J. Givens Sayings Download or Share

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

- Ayn Rand Download or Share

Make no small plans for they have not the power to stir men’s blood.

- Niccolo Machiavelli Download or Share

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

- Lee Iacocca Download or Share

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.

-Napoleon Bonaparte Download or Share

What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

- Napoleon Hill Download or Share

You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

- W. Clement Stone Download or Share

There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

- Wayne Dyer Download or Share

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets.

- Nido Qubein Download or Share

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

- St. Francis of Assisi Download or Share

You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

- W. Clement Stone Download or Share

Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

- Napoleon Hill Download or Share

I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

- Dr. Jonas Salk Download or Share

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

- Belva Davis Download or Share

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

- Doanld Curts Download or Share

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

- Janet Erskine Stuart Download or Share

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.

- Stedman Graham Download or Share

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results.

- Napoleon Hill Download or Share

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.

- Richard Bach Download or Share

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

- Jack and Garry Kinder Download or Share

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

- Jawaharlal Nehru Download or Share

What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions and using your personal power and taking action.

- Anthony Robbins Download or Share

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

- Henry David Thoreau Download or Share

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

- Dale Carnegie

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

- Helen Keller

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny, but what we put into it is ours.

- Dag Hammarskiold

Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

- Mary Lou Retton

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

-Anne Frank

Your choices today determine your tomorrow and you make your life through the power of choice.

- Kathy Smith

Just as friction between certain types of rocks produces sparks of light, so it is the friction of our individualities rubbing against each other that illuminates who we really are.

- Rev. Rowland C. Croucher

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

- Maxwell Maltz

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

- Theodor Reik

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

- English Thought by Mark Twain

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

- George Bernard Shaw

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

- Les Brown

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

- Napoleon Hill

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

- Anthony Robbins

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

- Les Brown

If you don’t set goals for yourself, you are doomed to work to achieve the goals of someone else.

- Brian Tracy

Long-term planning is not about making long-term decisions, it is about understanding the future consequences of today's decisions.

-Gary Ryan Blair

Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

- Robert Collier

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success.

- Henry David Thoreau

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

- Robert Graves

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

- Samuel Ullman

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

- Ben Stein

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

- Orison Swett Marden

In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets.

- Nido Qubein *

We can’t reach our goals without significant continuous improvement in all areas.

- Patrick J. Early

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘Always do what you are afraid to do.’

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Old habits can't be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed down the stairs one step at a time.

- Mark Twain

If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

- Zig Ziglar

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

- William Jennings Bryan

Once you have a clear picture of your priorities that is values, goals, and high leverage activities organize around them.

- Stephen Covey

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.

- W.J. Slim

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

Reduce your plan to writing.. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

- Napoleon Hill

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

- A.C. Benson

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

- James Lane Allen

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

- Socrates

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

- Theodore Roosevelt

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.

- Thomas Jefferson

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

- Thomas Aquinas

True silence is the rest of the mind, it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

- William Penn

When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, ‘Let's go, let's go,’ and ceilings start to move up.

- Zig Ziglar

When the great scorer comes to write against your name, he marks not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

- Grantland Rice

A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.

- Hans Selye

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

- Dale Carnegie

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

- Jim Rohn

Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it?.

- Charles Connolly

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

- James Lane Allen

Vision doesn't usually come as a lightning bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.

- Dr. Michael Norwood

Does planning make the man or woman? Maybe so, maybe not. But why take the chance. Knowing without a doubt that you are prepared by doing your homework provides a feeling that is beyond price. The confidence and power needed to succeed in life.

Gary Ryan Blair

To be successful you've got to have a dream, a vision, a burning passion, a magnificent obsession. This dream, goal, obsession has to become your prime motivator. It takes enthusiasm, commitment, pride, a willingness to work hard, a willingness to go the extra mile, a willingness to do whatever has to be done in order to get the job done.

- Jeffrey J. Mayer

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.

- Orison Swett Marden

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

- Henry Ford

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

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

- Confucius

Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.

- Denis Waitley

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

- Denis Waitley