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Quotes to Quote – IXX

Deepti — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:11:15 +0000

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It is often said that the attitude of a person determines his altitude. However cliched that may sound, the truth in that statement is undeniable. A man who has conceded defeat can’t be led to victory, and a man who is bent upon wining is not easy to defeat. Here are a few quotes that will remind you of the importance of attitude if, and when, you are about to neglect it.

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

Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in the little things.
Charles Simmons

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It’s all how you look at it.
J. Kenfield Morley

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Unknown

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises
Demosthenes

Life is like a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
Ernest Holmes

Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Sir John Lubbock

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.
Florence Scovel Shinn

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
Abraham Maslow

Quotes to Quote – XVIII

Deepti — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:49:26 +0000

The pursuit of happiness is one of the main goals of any living being. We spend every living moment in search of happiness. Yet, it is a very few of us who are able to find it. Here are a few quotes that may set you on the path of happiness, even if it is for a short time:

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

-Al Batt

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

-Alfred Lord Tennyson

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

-Ann Radcliffe.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.

-Ayn Rand

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

-Bertrand Russell

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

-Christopher Morley

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

-Helen Keller

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

-Henry David Thoreau

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

-Joseph Addison

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

-Mahatma Gandhi

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters.

-Oprah Winfrey

What’s your favourite happiness quote?

Quotes to Quote – XVII

Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Change, they say, is the only constant. Whether we like it or not, change happens, and it is best if we prepare ourselves for it. Here are a few quotes on change that you might just like.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
Gail Sheehy

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
Lynn Hall

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Kettering

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tryon Edwards

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Arthur Baldwin

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Euripides

Quotes to Quote – XVI

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Today we are all looking for one thing – Success. The definition of success might differ for each one of us, but the path to get there is the same. Here are a few quotes about success by people who manged to be successful.

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry

Success without honour is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.
Joe Paterno

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Cecil B. DeMille

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Author Unknown

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.
Walter Cronkite

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.
Arnold H. Glasow

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, but, as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington

(What’s your favourite Success quote. Leave a comment and let us know.)

Quotes to Quote – XV

Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
Blaise Pascal

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
E. M. Forster

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
B. C. Forbes

Treat the other man’s faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
Henry S. Haskins

Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore

Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.
Carter Lindberg

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
George Seaton

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
Blaise Pascal

A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.Gladys Taber

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
George Santayana

It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wrendell Homes

Faith is a passionate intuition.
William Wordsworth

(What’s your favourite faith quote. Leave a comment and let us know.)

Quotes to Quote – XIV

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Love is a universal language that transcends all boundaries. This fortnight, to celebrate Valentine’s day, The MAG brings to you a collection of love quotes. Hope you like… nay love them!

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
J. Krishnamurti

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa

Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia

Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
Hugh Elliott

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
Ray Stannard Baker

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Og Mandino

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Quotes to Quote – XIII

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George Bernard Shaw said, we learn from history, that we learn nothing from history. I am sure that is a quote that you must have heard – even used – at one time or another. Here are a few more quotes about history that tell us that there is more to history than what the books say.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert F. Kennedy

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Karl Marx

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold

Well behaved women rarely make history.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.
Ernst Troeltsch

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.
Aristotle

Any time gone by was better.
Jorge Manrique

A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it.
Malcolm Cowley

He who has money, lives long: he who has authority, can do no wrong: he who has might, establishes right. Such is history! Ecce historia!
Gottfried Benn

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban

The world is too dangerous to live in – not because of the people who do evil but because of the people who sit and let it happen.
Albert Einstein

History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.
Donald Creighton

Life must be lived forward, but it can only be understood backward.
S?ren Kierkegaard

History repeats itself because no one was listening the first time.
Anonymous

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Quotes to Quote – XII

Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Avoiding the phrase ?I don?t have time…?, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.
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Recognition is the greatest motivator.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
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Quotes to Quote – XI

Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

In these tough times, when economies all across the world are facing difficult times, here are a few quotes to make you think and, perhaps, smile :

Never spend your money before you have earned it. ?? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? Thomas Jefferson

The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have – and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.
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Economy is how to spend money without enjoying it.
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The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world’s population.
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When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.

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All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That’s economics in a nutshell.
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The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another’s labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.?? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Leo Tolstoy

The superior person understands rightness; the inferior person understands profit.? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Confucius

If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
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Quotes to quote -X

Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Quotations are special because they help us say in one line, something that would? otherwise take up pages and pages of lines. Here is a collection of a few quotes, collected from all over the Internet — just for your pleasure.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
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People say that you’re going the wrong way when it’s simply a way of your own.
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Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had?
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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
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He of whom many are afraid ought to be afraid of many.
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
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It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
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