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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Quotes from Gabrielle Reece



Gabrielle Allyse Reece is an American professional volleyball player, sports announcer and fashion model. Gabrielle Reece was the WBVL kills leader for four consecutive years (from 1993 to 1996), and was also named Offensive Player of the Year in 1994-95, and the League blocks leader in 1993. She also competed in the 1999-2000 Olympic Challenge Series and the 1999-2000 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, as well as other competitions.

Here are some of her inspiring quotes:
1. "I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I wanted to be the best."
2. "Why not go to the highest point of excellence?"
3. "Stay calm and aggressive."
4. "I have to believe in the process. It has become like a religion. It is part of my everyday life."
5. "You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it."

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Quotes from Dorothy Stuart Hamill


Dorothy Stuart Hamill is an American figure skater and the 1976 Olympic champion. She also has been an Ice Capades headliner from 1977-1984. Dorothy Hamill continues to skate in shows to this day. When she is asked when she will stop, she says, "Never."

Here are Dorothy Hamill's quotes:
1. "I was passionate. I found something that I loved."

2. "I think timing had a lot to do with it. I think I was sort of ready for it."

3. "I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal."

4. "You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on."

5. "I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it."

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Donald John Trump's quotes


Donald John Trump is an American business magnate, television personality, and author. He is the Chairman and CEO of the US-based real-estate developer Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts, a company that operates several casinos and hotels all over the world.

Here are some of his quotes:
1. "As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big."

2. "Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make."

3. "I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line."

4. "In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally
accomplish."

5. "Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Quotes from Martina Navratilova


Martina Navratilova is a Czech athlete and a former World No. 1 women's tennis player. She has also been named as the second best female player of the 20th century, only next to Steffi Graf. She has won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, an all-time record of 31 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and 10 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. She has also reached the Wimbledon singles final 12 times (with 9 consecutive years from 1982 through 1990). She also won the women's singles title at Wimbledon a record of 9 times.

Here are her quotes:
1. “I just try to concentrate on concentrating.”

2. “Just go out there and do what you have to do.”

3. "The player ultimately has to take responsibility. If they're not 100 percent, they're the only
ones who can make that decision."

4. "The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are at their worst."

Sunday, November 15, 2009

William Shakespeare's quotes


William Shakespeare is an English poet and playwright. He is known as the greatest writer in the English language. His works, including “Romeo and Juliet” and “Macbeth” have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Here are Shakespeare's inspiring quotes:

1. "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

2. "Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."

3. "Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."

4. "Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

5. "Boldness be my friend."

Friday, November 13, 2009

Inspiring quotes from Henry Van Dyke


Henry Van Dyke is an American author, educator, and clergyman. He became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg in 1913. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received many other honors. He also wrote the lyrics to the popular hymn, "Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee" in 1907.

Here are some of his inspiring quotations:

1. "Genius is talent set on fire by courage."

2. "In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence."

3. "Look around for a place to sow a few seeds."

4. "What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us."

5. "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Julie Andrews' beautiful quotes


Julia Elizabeth Wells, popularly known as Julie Andrews is an English actress, singer, author and icon. She has received honors from award organizations such as Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Awards, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards. She is also an author of children's books. In 2008 she published an autobiography, "Home: A Memoir of My Early Years".

Here are her quotes:

1. "I would be a fool to deny my own abilities."

2. "A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it."

3. “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”

4. “Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and
be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.”

5. "Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly."

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Margaret Fuller's quotes


Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli was an American journalist, critic and women's rights activist. She wrote the book “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, considered the first major feminist work in the United States.


Here are some quotes from Margaret Fuller:

1. "I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression."

2. “Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.”

3. “Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.”

4. "Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow."

5."Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife."

Friday, February 27, 2009

Elbert Green Hubbard inspires


Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. He is most famous for his essay “A Message to Garcia”. He also wrote the book "Health and Wealth", published in 1908, which focused on using intelligence to rid one of fear and to bring the body back to health and happiness which leads to true wealth through service to others.

Here are some of his inspiring quotes:

1. "A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience."

2. "A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."

3. "A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them."

4. "The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one."

5. "The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Martha Graham's quotes


Martha Graham was one of the best known American teachers and choreographers of modern dance.

Be inspired with Martha Graham's quotes:

1. "The only sin is mediocrity."

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

3. "Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion."

4. "Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired."

5. "Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Quotes from Katherine Mansfield


Kathleen Mansfield Murry, who also went by the pen name Katherine Mansfield was a prominent short fiction writer from New Zealand and considered to be one of the best short story writers of her time. Her works include "Miss Brill", "Prelude", "The Garden Party", "The Doll's House", and "The Fly".
Here are her inspiring quotes:

1. "When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."

2. "Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different."

3. “I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.”

4. “Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't
build on it it's only good for wallowing in.”

5. "What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties."

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Anais Nin's inspiring Quotes


Anais Nin was a Cuban-French writer. Her career as a published journal writer ran for sixty years, starting from her first published journal at the age of eleven.

Here are Anais Nin's quotes:

1. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

2. "Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."

3. “Good things happen to those who hustle.”

4. “Dreams are necessary to life.”

5. "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

Monday, February 9, 2009

Dr. Joyce Brothers' quotes


Dr. Joyce Brothers is an American psychologist and columnist who has been published
daily since 1960 and also maintained a monthly column in the magazine Good Housekeeping for four decades.

Quotes from Dr. Joyce Brothers:

1. "Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking
of yourself as a success."

2. "Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away
just below the conscious level."

3. “The person interested in success has to learn to view failure
as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the
top.”

4. “If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment
may be a way of life you should seriously consider.”

5. "A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for
success."

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Quotes from John F. Kennedy


John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, widely known as JFK was the thirty-fifth President of the United States. Americans consider JFK as one of the best presidents, along with Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan.

Quotes from JFK:
1. "We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."

2. "Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."

3. "There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less
than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. "

4. "Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved
by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of
human destiny is beyond human beings."

5. "Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's
what happens to you in life."




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www.simpleology.com

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Golda Meir's quotes


Golda Meir was elected to the Knesset (parliament), when Israel became a state. She
was elected Prime Minister in 1969.

Here are her quotes:

1. "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy
to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning
the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

2. "To be or not to be is not a question of compromise.
Either you be or you don't be."

3. “The dog that trots about finds a bone.”

4. "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it."

5. "You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity."



Source:
www.Simpleology.com

Monday, January 26, 2009

Happy New Year dear Visitors!

My dear friends and visitors,

I would like to thank all of you for your continued support and constant visit to this blog.
I do hope that the articles posted in this blog really helped you in overcoming your struggles and inspired you to go on.. live a happy life!

This new year, expect that there will be more challenges to face but dear fellow, never ever give up! Be tough!
I will be here to continue posting more quotes and share to you the things that keep me inspired so you, too will also be inspired!

I wish you all a very happy and prosperous 2009!!!!

God bless you!