Monday 16 February 2015

20 quotes to brighten your day



A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in              -Greek Proverb

Interest is the golden key to learning, remembering and the like. Where we cannot find an immediate interest, we can inject one by imagination and forward looking vision                     -Psychology

We are as big as our mind. Every growth in knowledge, awareness, interest, means a growth in personality.                 -Psychology

Concentration is a natural faculty. It grows by exercise. The mind works best when trusted.                  -Psychology

It is a mistake to suppress all emotions. Emotion is the great driving power of living. But emotion should not be an undisciplined riot. Feelings should be strong and deep, but they should be directed by intelligence. -Psychology

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold your foot long enough to enable you to put the other one somewhat higher.        -T.H. Huxley

Nothing can ever stop you if you have the right mental attitude; nothing on earth can help you if you have the wrong mental attitude    - Thomas Jefferson

Attitude is the speaker of your present and the prophet of your future.   -John Maxwell

We need not be slaves to any particular emotion. We can cultivate a certain type of emotion, just as we cultivate a certain type of friend.    -Psychology

Beware of your words for they tell the world about your attitude. Beware of your attitude for it foretells the world about your future and how far you will get    -Andres Lara

As Evan once said, ‘You can’t do anything about the length of your life but you can do something about its width and depth’. Dying should not be the worst of your fears; not having lived should be your worst fear. Start living.        -Andres Lara

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live                    -Norman Cousins

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.          -Frank Crane

Great things are possible with outrageous requests               -Thea Alexander

Ask and you will be a fool for five minutes, don’t ask and you will be a fool forever                                -Chinese Proverb

Both tears and sweat  are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you results           -Jesse Jackson

You become what you think most of the time               -Earl Nightingale

The unconscious mind is the great store house of memory. Many of these memories are of childish happenings, ideas and wishes. Hence, the unconscious mind is cruder and more childish than the conscious mind.         -Psychology

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.    -Publius Terentius Afer

The first step towards success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself daily -Mark Caine

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