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The following are 31 (one for each day) quotes that are short but very effective. We need to always look within ourselves for motivation. This enhances our ability to broaden our scope and receive all of the positive external things and ideas that are happening in our communities and networks.

1. When all seems lost the future still remains.
2. The mind is like a parachute, it works best when it is opened.
3. Wisdom emerges when our minds choose to honor what our hearts have known all along.
4. Dreams come true when you know what to do.
5. Someone's opinion of you DOES NOT have to become your reality.
6. You CAN'T soar like and eagle if you are running around with pigeons.
7. Work harder on your business than you do on your job.
8. If there's no enemy within than the enemy outside can do you no harm.
9. If you believe it than you'll see. Walk by faith and not by sight.
10. God will direct thy path, go forward, do what you can and leave the rest to a power greater than yourself.
11. Don't let your fear of failure out way your desire to succeed.
12. If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
13. Be ye not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
14. Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
15. Life is either a daring adventure or it's boring.
16. Retrain your thinking by reading 10 - 15 pages of inspiration each day.
17. Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before you.
18. Don't let anybody steal your dreams.
19. As long as you are going to go about your day thinking anyway, you may as well "think big".
20. Every time someone says NO - you say NEXT!
21. Have unwavering faith - I know, like I know like I know that it's already on its way.
22. No risk, no reward. Nothing ventured nothing gained.
23. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
24. I might not make it but at least I tried.
25. Visualize your victory.
26. It's not over until I win.
27. We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden
28. When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
29. If you don't ask, you don't get.
30. When the love of power overcomes the power of love, the world will know peace.
31. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift.

Posted By: Tamela Saulsberry
Saturday, August 9th 2008 at 1:07PM
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Terrific! These are likable quotes a great survival tool in life's up and downs. Thanks for sharing yours.
--MIISRAEL
Saturday, August 9th 2008 at 2:14PM
MIISRAEL Bride

Thanks for these quotes. I particularly find that #25 is more useful for me at this time.--JH
Saturday, August 9th 2008 at 3:20PM
Dr. Jesse Hargrove

"Time can be your best friend or worst enemy...make time work for you"...this quote is from me:)
Saturday, August 9th 2008 at 3:40PM
Dr. Ahmad Glover

For man to know himself is for him to feel that for him there is no human master. For him Nature is his servant, and whatsoever he wills in Nature, that shall be his reward. If he wills to be a pigmy, a serf or a slave, that shall he be. If he wills to be a real man in possession of the things common to man, then he shall be his own sovereign. When man fails to grasp his authority he sinks to the level of the lower animals, and whatsoever the real man bids him do, even as if it were of the lower animals, that much shall he do. If he says "go." He goes. If he says "come," he comes. By this command he performs the functions of life even as by a similar command the mule, the horse, the cow perform the will of their masters. For the last four hundred years the Negro has been in the position of being commanded even as the lower animals are controlled. Our race has been without a will; without a purpose of its own, for all this length of time.

Because of that we have developed few men who are able to understand the strenuousness of the age in which we live. Where can we find in this race of ours real men. Men of character, men of purpose, men of confidence, men of faith, men who really know themselves? I have come across so many weaklings who profess to be leaders, and in the test I have found them but the slaves of a nobler class. They perform the will of their masters without question. To me, a man has no master but God. Man in his authority is a sovereign lord. As for the individual man, so of the individual race. This feeling makes man so courageous, so bold, as to make it impossible for his brother to intrude upon his rights.

So few of us can understand what it takes to make a man - the man who will never say die; the man who will never give up; the man who will never depend upon others to do for him what he ought to do for himself; the man who will not blame God, who will not blame Nature, who will not blame Fate for his condition; but the man who will go out and make conditions to suit himself. Oh, how disgusting life becomes when on every hand you hear people (who bear your image, who bear your resemblance) telling you that they cannot make it, that Fate is against them, that they cannot get a chance. If 400,000,000 Negroes can only get to know thesmelves, to know that in them is a sovereign power, is an authority that is absolute, then in the next twenty-four hours we would have a new race, we would have a nation, an empire, - resurrected, not from the will of others to see us rise, - but from our own determination to rise, irrespective of what the world thinks

Marcus Garvey...
Sunday, August 10th 2008 at 12:03PM
Dr. Ahmad Glover

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