Saturday, April 16, 2011

Quotation Saturday

CONTENTMENT

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when there be no redress.
--Elizabeth Montagu

Contentment is the realization of how much I already have.
--Dave Grant

RECOGNITION

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
-- Mother Theresa

"Praise works with only three types of people; men, women, and children."
-- Anonymous

"Appreciate people.  Nothing gives more joy than appreciation."
-- Ruth Smeltzer

"When someone does something well, applaud!  You will make two people happy."
-- Samuel Goldwyn

PURPOSE

You must be single-minded. Drive for one thing on which you have decided." -- George S. Patton

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny." -- Brian Tracy

"When you have a clear purpose, you won’t have time for negativity." -- Mark Victor Hansen

CHALLENGES

Every time you face a challenge, you are being tested as to how strong your beliefs and intentions are. People who go through great hardships to achieve greatness have a kind of aura about them that says: "Don't mess with me, I know what I'm about. I have been thoroughly tested in battle." Confront your challenges with a brave face. The greater the challenge, the greater the gift of power.
--A. C. Ping

Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
--Theodore N. Vail

DREAM

A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary.
--Anonymous
 
Hope is the dream of the waking man.
--French Proverb
 
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
--Henry David Thoreau

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