Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Some motivation needed here

Some quotes to bounce myself back on track and to gain the momentum and encouragement I need:

  • "One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful" -Sigmund Freud

  • "Great hopes make great men" -- Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) English Historian

  • "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." -- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer
  • "Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past."-- Tyron Edwards
  • "Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."-- Bernard Williams (1929-) English Philosopher

  • "The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are:first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense."-- Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) American Inventor
  • "He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."-- Arabian Proverb
  • "It is a glorious achievement to master one's own temper."-- Anonymous

  • "When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen."-- Arland Gilbert

  • "The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."-- Chinese proverb

  • "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."-- William Arthur Ward

  • "We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. " -- E. Merrill Root (1895-1973) American Writer
  • "Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."--Mary Kay Ash
  • "He who has persevered (through hard works, determinations and efforts), wins" (man jadda wajada) -- Arabic proverb

Those quotes are just those few I found in my email inbox and Google. Care to share some of your favourite quotes here too?

14 comments:

ubisetela said...

Thanks for sharing.
That's what I need to start my morning. Motivation!

ManaL said...

Ubi,

Yupps....some say motivation is like taking a bath coz it never fail to perk us up.

Hazyr said...

"It is a glorious achievement to master one's own temper."

Fuh...I really need to remind myself regularly on this one! ;)

Thanks for sharing!

ManaL said...

Hazyr,

It is NEVER that easy not to lose our temper, getting flipped and all that. Nabi SAW once said in a hadith reported by abu huraira:

"A strong person is not the person who throws his adversaries to the ground. A strong person is the person who contains himself when he is angry." [Al-Bukhari; Book 47, No. 47.3.12]

Yoda (Star Wars) too advised on the consequences of anger:

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."

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Rt Hon Sir Cipan Nougat-Tenuk said...

Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit ... until he discovered rubber.

lol

Rt Hon Sir Cipan Nougat-Tenuk said...

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires ... especially the ones wearing the short skirts.

Rt Hon Sir Cipan Nougat-Tenuk said...

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.

This explains The Story of Wayne Rooney and The Granny.

Rt Hon Sir Cipan Nougat-Tenuk said...

Thousand apologies, Manal ... but I just couldn't resist the temptation.

hangs head in shame

ManaL said...

Avang Cips,

HAHAHAHHAHAHAAH TRUST U TO BE ONE NAUGHTY GEEZER!

ManaL said...

Cip no.1,

Rubber? thats priceless.Its like a guarantee to avoid masalah pembuangan anak. Pleasuring a man is a simple job, no?

ManaL said...

Cip no.2,

Hmmm where have those short-skirt teachers gone ah? Tukar kerja AirAsia kot?

ManaL said...

Cip no.3,

Does that also mean that he gets to shag the granny once he is deemed successful?

Siti Khadijah said...

Dreams are free,hope for the best prepare for the worst....Abdul Hamid Othman

ManaL said...

Madam Curi,

Dreams are indeed free, but to realize them is another feat yet to be measured.

Nak prepare for the worst? I've heard that for ages but I guess we human can only plan and hope its the best laid plan. After that, we tawakkal to God wishing things would turn out well. Abdul Hamid Othman our ex-lecturer , ex-minister, now the PM religious advisor ke?