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The Treasury of Quotes, by Valentino Salvato. Version 3.2, February 2009. Infinite, Unlimited, Sustainable, Readily Renewable Motivation and Inspiration www.valentino-salvato.com All the quotes in this collection are positive and consistent with my vision of human development summarized in the diagram at the end of this eBook. You have received this eBook for free and you shall give it for free. God bless you. www.valentino-salvato.com 1 The Treasury of Quotes, by Valentino Salvato. Version 3.2, February 2009. • Go as far as you can see, when you get there you'll see further. Orison Swett Marden. • Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. Unknown. • Just because you can't do everything doesn't mean you shouldn't do something. Earl Nightingale. • What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napoleon Hill. • You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' George Bernard Shaw. • To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson. • People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Elizabeth Kubler Ross. • Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James. • In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime. Richard Bach. • It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson. • Only those who can see the invisible, can accomplish the impossible. Patrick Snow. • There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. Hindu proverb. • There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. Douglas Everett. • Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford. • Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive it isn't. Richard Bach. • Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers. • Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. Henri L. Bergson. • We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. George Bernard Shaw. www.valentino-salvato.com 2 The Treasury of Quotes, by Valentino Salvato. Version 3.2, February 2009. • Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson. • Begin with the end in mind. Stephen Covey. • The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude… I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. Charles Swindoll. • People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar. • What we see depends mainly on what we look for. Sir John Lubbock. • Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you. Jerry Gillies. • Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. • The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves. Mike Ditka. • A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life. Bill Gothard. • The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. William James. • You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi. • One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self- confidence is preparation. Arthur Ashe. • I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have. Thomas Jefferson. • Life's like a boom-a-rang. The more good you throw out, the more you receive in return. Josh S. Hinds. • You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. George Horace Lorimer. • Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. Jeremy Kitson. • If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page. Mark Houlahan. • And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln. • The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them, but to reveal their own. Benjamin Disraeli. www.valentino-salvato.com 3 The Treasury of Quotes, by Valentino Salvato. Version 3.2, February 2009. • Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. Henry Van Dyke. • If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. David Carradine. • It's never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot. • Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right. Henry Ford. • Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. Emile Coue. • No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. William Blake. • We tend to get what we expect. Norman Vincent Peale. • In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein. • Seize the day, Carpe Diem. Quintus Hortius Flaccus. • When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top. Anonymous. • If you are aware of your weaknesses and are constantly learning, your potential is virtually limitless. Jay Sidhu. • Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, but you have an obligation to be one. Eleanor Roosevelt. • Knowledge itself is power. Francis Bacon. • Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action. David Seabury. • The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. Thomas Huxley. • The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions. Dwight D. Eisenhower. • A good goal is like a strenuous exercise, it makes you stretch. Mary Kay Ash. • Opportunity... often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Napoleon Hill. • The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. Moliere. • If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. • That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased. Ralph Waldo Emerson. • If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. Thomas Edison. www.valentino-salvato.com 4 The Treasury of Quotes, by Valentino Salvato. Version 3.2, February 2009. • Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. Lou Holtz. • Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford. • Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer. Leo F. Buscaglia. • We are new every day. Irene Claremont de Castillego. • A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin. • The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite. Cicero. • I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. Winston Churchill. • A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill. • Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber. • What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath. Thomas Crum. • You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. Zig Ziglar. • Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. Chinese proverb. • The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. Henry Ward Beecher. • Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us. James Harvey Robinson. • He who believes is strong. Strong convictions precede great actions. J.F. Clarke. • Expect the dawn of a new beginning in the dark nights of life. Lloyd John Ogilvie. • Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact.