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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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