Best Chapter of Your Life

198 Pages·2011·0.88 MB·English

Best Chapter of Your Life
Helping you create your next career or passionate retirement

Inspirational
Quotations
Volume 4

Compiled and edited by
Karl Hoppe, CPC, CHt, NLP, EFT
BestChapterOfYourLife.Com
Best Chapter of Your Life
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to
attempt."
William Shakespeare 1564-1616, Poet, Playwright, Actor

We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
-Carl Jung

"It is better to wear out than to rust out."
Richard Cumberland:

"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."
Michael Korda:

Attitudes are more important than facts.
-George MacDonald

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher)

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you,
well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best
preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for
instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
Newell Hillis

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893, British scholar)

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness;
it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963, British author)

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Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to
express the source of inspiration and joy within
~ Deepak Chopra

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get
credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have
none.
- Philip Caldwell

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
Agatha Christie 1890-1976, Novelist

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation.
-Dr. Robert Schuler

"Whenever you're facing any form of resistance, gratitude has the power to
quickly dissolve it. This is true whether the hindrance comes from inside of you or
outside of you."
Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth

"It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top."
Henry Ward Beecher:

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So
overweight people are now average… which means, you have met your New Year's
resolution.
Jay Leno

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to
make sure the old year leaves.
Bill Vaughan

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect,
and thank God that it can go.
Brooks Atkinson

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New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not
encourage them to take up more of my time.
James Agate

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Charles Lamb

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.
Oprah Winfrey

―It is never too late to be what you might have been.‖
- T.S. Eliot

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
– Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American Poet

"Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through
endless planning to take action."
David J. Schwartz Trainer and Author

"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and
sweeps away all obstacles."
Claude M. Bristol

―The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time,
influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the
things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of
opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change
them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success‖.
-Hamilton Wright Mabie

"Just go out there and do what you've got to do."
~ Martina Navratilova:

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Now I experience the love in everyone. I no longer am a person who judges others
for being overweight, for being too young or too old, for having their hair a certain
way, or for how they dress. When you judge others, you don't define them, you
define yourself as someone who needs to judge and compartmentalize people.
-Wayne Dyer

"The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get
there if you are willing to work. It is called massive action. Action is the gas in the
tank. Without it, the car will not run."
Marcy Blochowiak Author of No Glass Ceiling

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
-Friedrich Engels

"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else,
through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or
any goal."
Vincent Lombardi

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most
amazing view. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral
valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets' towers into a dark
primeval forest....down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles
and grottos of endless stone. And down again into a deep vast ancient unknown
chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the
white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high
crags, until something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than
your deepest dreams waits for you just beyond the next turning of the canyon
walls...
-Benedicto by Edward Abbey

"An unwritten want is a wish, a dream, a never-happen. The day you put your goal in
writing is the day it becomes a commitment that will change your life. Are you
ready?"
Tom Hopkins Author and Speaker

―Where are you going? Who are you looking for? Your beloved is right here… Cease
looking for flowers, there blooms a garden in your own home. While you go looking
for trinkets, your treasure house awaits you in your own being. There is no need
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for suffering, God is here!‖
~Rumi

Chance favors only the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895, French scientist who developed pasteurization)

"Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities
enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them."
Samuel Smiles

"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the
determination to make the right things happen."
Peter Marshall

If the sky falls, hold up your hands.
Spanish Proverb

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
Chinese Proverb

"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."
Johann von Goethe

If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does
not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it.
Persian Proverb

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
Jules Renard

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey (1954-, American TV personality, producer, actress, author)

"Mind is all that counts. You can be whatever you make up your mind to be."
Robert Collier

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"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how
you're going to live. Now."
Joan Baez Singer, Songwriter and Activist

"The average person goes to their grave with their music still in them."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

―Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.‖
- Martin Luther King

―Whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve!‖
Napoleon Hill

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
-Emily Dickinson

"When reciting affirmations, feel the words in your heart as you say them and
know that what you feel you'll create."
Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth

Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust
our old programs accordingly.
Dr. Ann Faraday

"If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to
get there. Then never, never, never give up."
Vincent Peale:

We only think when we are confronted with problems.
John Dewey (1859-1952, American philosopher, educator)

In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.
Pliny The Elder (c.23-79, Roman neophatonist)

"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are
impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but
perseverance."
Samuel Johnson
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"Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you,
well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best
preparation for the hours or ages that follow it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, Poet and Essayist
It's nice to know that we don't need to wait till tomorrow, we can start to change
the world today!
Wil Rose

The good man acts for honor's sake, and the more so the better he is, and acts for
his friend's sake, and sacrifices his own interest.
-Aristotle

"In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You
must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism.
Without a total 100 percent dedication, you won't be able to do this."
Willie Mays:

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to
raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years
ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I
demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my
life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to
becoming.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of
it."
Thomas Jefferson:

"Bring awareness to each act. Walking on the road, walk fully alert; eating, eat with
awareness. Whatsoever you are doing, don't let the past and the future interfere.
Be in the present. That's what awareness is all about."
~Osho

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There are two dimensions to life, and we should be able to touch both.
One is like a wave, and we call it the historical dimension.
The other is like the water, and we call it the ultimate dimension, or nirvana.
We usually touch just the wave, but when we discover how to touch the water,
we receive the highest fruit that meditation can offer.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
Jacques Delille (1738-1813, French poet

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always, wins -
not through strength but by perseverance."
Jackson Brown:

"When you focus on what's wrong, you get more of what's wrong. Conversely, when
you focus on what's right, you get more of what's right."
Gina Mollicone-Long Author of the newly released book Think Or Sink

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave
behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into
another!
Gail Sheehy (1937-, American journalist, author)

Anger is one letter away from danger.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the
person you believe you were meant to be."
George Sheehan 1918-1993, Physician and Author

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views
so fast as they shall appear to be new views.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, 16th American President)

―One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
‘Tis the set of the sails
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And not the gales,
That tells the way we go‖.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude
toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an
opportunity."
J. Sidlow Baxter 1903-1999, Author and Theologian

If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one.
Author Unknown

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try
another. But above all, try something."
Franklin D Roosevelt:

"It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all
obstacles that built this bridge."
~ John J. Watson

Past Data should now be the basis of Present Truth. Data from a prior time or
experience should always and only be the basis for new questions. Always the
treasure should be in the questions, not in the answer.
-Neale Donald Walsch

"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on
the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt.
Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang
onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of
today?"
Mary Manin Morrissey Creator of The Miracle Mastery Conference

It is not what you are called, but what you answer to.
African Proverb

"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong
enough."
John Christian Bovee
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