The Opening
Nuggets of wisdom and humour will empower you with positive thinking. I love quotes. I use them in my presentations and lectures, and sprinkle them through my books. I also draw on them for for personal inspiration and motivation. These quotations are not mine.
Dale Carnagie summed up my feelings when he wrote:
"The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?"
"The foundation of a human being is his intellect; and a man without intellect has no religion."[Prophet Muhammad]
"Beloved within you and you seek Him here and there,
He is "closer to you than your jugular vein,"
Yourself is the hurdle, between your love and you."
.....Shah Bhitai [Shah Jo Risalo]
"Be realistic : Plan for a miracle." [Bhagwan Shree Rajnesh]
"There are two ways of spreading light : to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." [Edith Wharton]
"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us." [Samuel Smiles]
"There is not enough darkness in the whole world to put out the light of a single candle."[Anonymos]
"Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional"[Tim Hansel]
"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve."[Napoleon Hill]
"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."[John Wooden]
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."[Henry Ford]
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first."[Mark Twain]
"To see is to know; to desire is to be able to; to dare is to have."[Alfred De Musset]
More Inspirational and Quotable Gems
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Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam
Makhdoom's Quest For The Truth
Sufism : Journey Towards The Truth
Makhdoom's Quality Quest