Self Esteem Quotes

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Grim Cris

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ~ Lucille Ball

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. ~ Baltasar Gracian

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. ~ Ben Johnson

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem. ~ Samuel Johnson

A person’s worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves. ~ Jean De La Bruvere

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued. ~ Jean De La Bruvere

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Morale is self esteem in action. ~ Avery Weisman

A man can stand a lot if he can stand himself. ~ Axel Munthe

Famous quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Grim Cris

‘All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.’

‘Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.’

‘Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.’

‘If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.’

Quotes that Rock

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Grim Cris

Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen every day.

Just in case you need reminding, you’re beautiful.

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

An esential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Have the most beautiful day ever! Don’t forget to smile :)

Moving On Quotes

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Grim Cris

Letting go doesn’t mean giving up… it means moving on. – Anonymous

My Mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on. – the movie Forrest Gump

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. – Theodore Roosevelt

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. – Les Brown

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. – Bob Newhart

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. – Walt Disney

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. – Conrad Hilton

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. – Anonymous

You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. – Oprah Winfrey

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. – Helen Keller

Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs. – Dick Raymond

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive. – Donald Trump

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. – John F. Kennedy

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. – Winston Churchill

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Niebuhr

Letting go doesn’t mean giving up… it means moving on. – Anonymous

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. – Lao Tzu

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on. – Bill Cosby

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. – Hermann Hesse

It is our choices … that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. – J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C. S. Lewis

Every wall is a door. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. – Rabindranath Tagore

Love one another but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. – Khalil Gibran

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery. – Erma Bombeck

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. – H. L. Mencken

Forget love… I’d rather fall in chocolate. – Anonymous

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. - W. Somerset Maugham

25 Quotes on Bold

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Grim Cris

1. “Be bold when others are scared.”-Thomas J. Powell

2. “We’re getting really bold now. We’ll just go right up to someone and ask them.” -Christine Richerds

3. “We need to be visionary; we have to be bold.” -Angela Hunt

4. “I knew I had to do something bold to get myself noticed.” -Kathleen Hynes

5. ” Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” – Helen Keller

6. “Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.” -Herbert Spencer

7. “Our solutions must be beyond anything we have ever considered, … We should not be afraid to try bold new approaches.” -Mary Landrieu

8. “The Bold and the Beautiful.” -Eddie Cibrian

9. “Fortune befriends the bold.” -Emily Dickinson

10. “Freedom lies in being bold.” -Robert Frost

11. “Boldness be my friend.” -William Shakespeare

12. “How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.” -William Wordsworth

13. “Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.” -Alan Alda

14. “Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together.” -Brad Henry

15. “No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”-Isaac Newton

16. “Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.” -Anthony Storr

17. “Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.” -Matt Blunt

18. “Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.” -Voltaire

19. “Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. -Aristophanes

20. “Freedom lies in being bold.” -Robert Frost

21. “How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.” – Sigmund Freud

22. “Realize that ultimate success comes from opportunistic, bold move which by definition, cannot be planned.” – Ross Johnson

23. “Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

24. “It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

25. “The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it’s boldness.” -Victor Hugo

Famous Motivational Quotes

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Grim Cris

- “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” – Charles R. Swindoll

- “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.” – Jesse Jackson

- “The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

- “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo

- “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci

- “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan

- “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

- “We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.” – Peter F. Drucker

- “Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer

- “You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.” – William Boetcker

Great Inspiring Quotes

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Grim Cris

Let me inspire your day. Let me make it better and happier. Let me share with you some great inspiring quotes! :)

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. ~ Helen Keller

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. ~ Thomas Carlyle

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. ~ William Hazlitt

Death is more universal than life; Everyone dies but not everyone lives. ~ A. Sachs

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best. ~ David O. McKay

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what you bring to life. ~ John Homer Miller

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one yourself. -James Anthony Froude

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -Henry David Thoreau

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. -Horace Bushnell

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. – William James

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Famous Quotes

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Grim Cris

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

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day. – Albert Camus

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future. -Bob Dylan

Happiness depends upon ourselves. -Aristotle

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. -Albert Einstein

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader -Aristotle

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality. -Mahatma Gandhi

Nature does nothing uselessly. -Aristotle

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. -Benjamin Franklin

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. -Einstein

You must be the change you want to see in the world. -Ghandi

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. -Aristotle

We are disturbed not by events, but by the views that we take of them -Epictetus

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” -Ghandi

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -Benjamin Franklin

Imagination is more important than knowledge. -Albert Einstein

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. -Aristotle

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. -Mahatma Gandhi

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales -Einstein

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. -Aristotle

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -Isaac Asimov

The resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. -Friedrich Nietzsche

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. -George Bernard Shaw

We are what we repeatedly do. -Aristotle

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. -Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. -Benjamin Franklin

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. -Rita Mae Brown

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
We are a part of the earth and it is part of us. -Chief Seattle

The price of greatness is responsibility. -Churchill

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. -Maya Angelou

Alice came to a fork in the road. “Which road do I take?” she asked.
“Where do you want to go?” responded the Cheshire cat.
“I don’t know,” Alice answered.
“Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.” ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. -Ludwig Börne

I am a part of all that I have seen. -Alfred Lord Tennyson

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. -Friedrich Nietzsche

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Peace is the diploma you get in the cemetery. – Peter Tosh

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. – Peter Tosh

I think it is better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should be maleable and progressive, working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas cannot generate. Life becomes stagnant. -George Carlin

Our outlook on life is a kind of paintbrush, and with it we paint our world. It can be bright and filled with hope and satisfaction, or it can be dark and gloomy. – Earl Nightingale

Our environment, the world in which we find ourselves living and working, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. – Earl Nightingale

Only after the last tree has been cut down
Only after the last river has been poisoned
Only after the last fish has been caught
Only then will you find you cannot eat money -Cree Prophecy

Famous Leadership Quotes

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Grim Cris

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Harold R. McAlindon

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader. – Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. – General Douglas MacArthur

The real leader has no need to lead– he is content to point the way. – Henry Miller

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves. – Lao Tzu

A leader is a dealer in hope. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don’t take too much advice — keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world. – Noah Porter

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. – Aristotle

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King, Jr. (from Christian Leadership World)

Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm. – Publilius Syrus

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. – George Patton

Where there is no vision, the people perish. – Proverb

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points. -Horace

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer. – Henry W. Longfellow

I light my candle from their torches. – Robert Burton

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. – Woodrow Wilson

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. – Publius Syrus

A bold onset is half the battle. – Giuseppe Garibaldi

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. – Cornelius Nepos

To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose’s egg. – James Thomas

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. – Edmund Spenser

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. – Solon

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. – Napoleon Bonaparte

No man can stand on top because he is put there. – H. H. Vreeland

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. – Ovid

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy. – Seneca

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. – Abraham Lincoln

What you cannot enforce do not command. – Sophocles

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place. – Philip Armour

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. – Friedrich Nietzsche

It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.) – Latin Proverb

Let him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself. – Thomas Carlyle

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible. – Polybius

Wise Quotes about Life

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Grim Cris

It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. – Albert Einstein

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. – John W. Gardner

A hopeless person feels difficulty in every chance but, a hopeful person feels a chance in every difficulty. – Unknown

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. – Pope John XXIII

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Now that it’s all over, what did you really do yesterday that’s worth mentioning? – Coleman Cox

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. – Unknown

A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books. – Chinese proverb

Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. – Unknown

Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window – or break down a door. – Unknown