Category — Quotes

Whether you want to become famous, promote yourself, build a business or just be an object of attention, access to mass media in the form of online video can be your greatest asset. But you still need a hook…an angle that will get the viewing public interested in what you have to say or do.

Joe Vitale, master internet marketing guru, was asked to come up with a number of ways to promote a business. He came up with seventeen.

Here are the first five:

1. Contests – People love to watch, participate and see the results of contests. If you can come up with a new, unique or different kind of contest you are bound to get noticed or talked about.

2. Awards – Everyone likes to be a part of, win and once again participate in awards of some kind. We like to associate ourselves with winners or be one ourselves. Awards for the worst singer, the messiest room (broadcast on webcam) or most pimped ride are different and once again unique.

3. Surveys – Media loves to quote surveys because they are based on fact. If you can do a survey on an unusual topic like “do you follow the five second rule or the fifteen second rule” (for eating food after being dropped on the floor), that’s newsworthy.

4. Trivia – Everybody loves trivia. Once again it’s based on fact so it can be newsworthy, but also it can be trivia based on your specific area of interest or business.

5. Tie in with current events – While the public is intrigued with a subject, this is the perfect time to hitch-hike off the publicity. Things like having an election while the presidential race is running or an athletic competition just prior to the Olympics.

That’s just the first five. Enough to get you brainstorming and seeing what angle or twist you can apply to have it work for you.

The trick IS to come up with that unusual twist. Meditate on it, ask your kids, think about crazy movies or tv shows, look at headlines in sensational magazines and work from there.

And remember this is just the first five ideas. Joe came up with twelve more which will be explained in further articles.

By thinking outside the box and being different you can get yourself noticed and be famous by morning!

Why good luck quotes? Perhaps you don’t believe in luck, but you can see that some people have more good things happen to them. Whether you choose to call that luck or not, here is what some famous people have to say about the phenomenon.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves. – Larry King

Luck is believing you’re lucky. – Tennessee Williams

Everything in life is luck. – Donald Trump

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. – Thomas Jefferson

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like? – Jean Cocteau

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky. – Dr. Armand Hammer

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. – Edward Gibbon

The day You decide to do it is your lucky day. – Japanese Proverb

Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer. – Author Unknown

Be where the luck is. – Steven Scott

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow’s good luck. – Og Mandino

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck. – George S. Clason

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness. – Les Brown

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. – John Quincy Adams

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. – Demosthenes

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. – Seneca

To this collection, I’ll add my own good luck quote: Why argue about the source of luck or the meaning of the word when you can just go out and create your own share.

November 29th is the birthday of a literary genius and a pioneer of rights for women. Louisa May Alcott is the author of classic novels, most famously Little Women, which teach generations of people to embrace their talents, work hard throughout life, and enjoy the fruits of their labor.

Let us celebrate the birthday of this inspirational female author with 12 Louisa May Alcott quotes.

1. “Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”

2. “Many argue; not many converse.”

3. “There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.”

4. “Housekeeping ain’t no joke!”

5. “Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I’d rather see you poor men’s wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.”

6. “Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.”

7. “Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”

8. “Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us-and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.”

9. ” ‘Stay’ is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.”

10. “A startled or surprised look from one of you when I spoke sharply rebuked me more than any words could have done, and the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.”

11. “Resolve to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.”

12. “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.”

Whether you are familiar with Ms. Alcott as an author or as an historical figure, she provided for our parents, us and our children truly inspiring words of wisdom. Let us celebrate her birth with these 12 Louisa May Alcott quotes.

Arnold Palmer is one of the most famous golfers in history, but these 18 Arnold Palmer quotes show us that golf isn’t the only thing this great man has on his mind. There are quite a few life lessons to be learned in the words of this wise man. Here are 18 prime examples.

1. “Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.”

2. “The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.”

3. “What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.”

4. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting it is.”

5. “I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.”

6. “It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.”

7. “What other people may find in poetry, I find in the flight of a good drive.”

8. “You must play boldly to win.”

9. “Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.”

10. “I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone’s golf game: it’s called an eraser.”

11. “From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself — both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father’s mind, one’s abiding respect for the game.”

12. “Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.”

13. “Putting is like wisdom – partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.”

14. “It’s a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get”

15. “Bob Jones, my first golf hero, once commented that he never learned anything from a golf tournament he won.”

16. “I’ve learned the great value of diplomacy and seeking an honorable peace. But part of that wisdom is knowing when to fight and another part is knowing when to fight even harder.”

17. “Timing is everything in life and in golf.”

18. “Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.”

Arnold Palmer definitely had the right mindset for success. It’s not hard to see why he seemed to excel at everything he did. Let these 18 Arnold Palmer quotes remind us that while talent may be a critical component of achieving success, attitude weighs just as heavily.

As Elbert Hubbard said: “Don’t take life too seriously; you’ll never get out of it alive.” How true, isn’t it? As for now, I don’t think anyone of us is going to escape death.

So, live your life and enjoy the moment while you can. As life is no bed of roses, but then we can always see the colorful and funnier side of life. That’s why I love  funny inspirational quotes. They are witty and humorous because the messages of these quotes are indeed true. Truth is painful, but can be funny at many a times. 
 
As laughter is the best medicine, I think funny inspirational quotes are the cheapest or in rather free form of medicine. You can find them all over the place; internet, greeting cards, magazines, daily papers, comic strips, comedy shows and others.

Many motivational speakers love to use these funny inspirational quotes in their speech openings. The funny quotes act as an ice-breaker to get the audience in the happy mood, before these speakers start their main subject of their speech or talk. They know that humor is excellent tool to build rapport with their listeners.

Personally I do love to use funny inspirational quotes when I’m socilizing in casual gatherings or birthday parties. At happy occsions like these, every one is in the cheerful mood and a dose of funny inspirational quotes can definitely enliven up the ambience.

Here are some really funny inspirational quotes which I use them in between  conversations and refreshments at parties or casual get-togethers.

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
-Montaigne

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing. – George Bernard Shaw

A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes. – Edgar Watson Howe

If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion. – Elbert Hubbard

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. – H. L. Mencken

To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end. – Helen Rowland

Marriage is the price men pay for sex; sex is the price women pay for marriage. -Anonymous

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. – Jim Backus

To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse. – E. Y. Harburg

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion … produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. -Jean Cocteau

 Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.- Walter Winchell  

Hope the above funny inspirational quotes make your day.

I have to admit that I’m in the mood for some Pooh quotes. After all, the lovable bear’s words have been with me since childhood. Here are 16 Pooh quotes to celebrate the existence of one of the most lovable and incredible characters a child can ever meet.

1. “You can’t help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn’t spell it right; but spelling isn’t everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn’t count.”

2. “If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”

3. “It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?”

4. “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”

5. “People who don’t Think probably don’t have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that’s blown into their heads by mistake.”

6. “Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.”

7. “Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.”

8. “Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?”

9. “I used to believe in forever . . . but forever was too good to be true.”

10. “If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”

11. “My spelling is wobbly. It’s good spelling but it wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

12. “Some people care too much, I think it’s called love.”

13. “They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.”

14. “You can’t stay in your corner of the forest, waiting for others to come to you; you have to go to them sometimes.”

15. “When late morning rolls around and you’re feeling a bit out of sorts, don’t worry; you’re probably just a little eleven o’clockish.”

Now after reading all of that, how can you help but love the lovable Pooh? Perhaps that’s what’s wrong with some kids nowadays. There’s just not enough Pooh in their lives to teach them respect, love, kindness and caring. This month, let’s share these Pooh quotes (and Pooh and his stories in general) with the children in our lives and maybe, just maybe, the world can be a better place.

People from all over the world enjoy reading quotes. There are lots of kinds of quotes such as: Friendship Quotes, Sad Love Quotes, cute quotes, heartbreak quotes and many more. And they all have something in common – to help us in the bad times and to make us feel better.

As you may very well know, life is not easy in fact sometimes I can be really hard to deal with the every day situation. Reading those nice little quotes might even help you to overcome to obstacles. So what is the big secret or the power of quotes?

First and foremost quotes are wise words that try to teach us something about our life. They are not just words someone collected and put them all together, there is a deep reason why a certain quote has become a millstone of our culture. If you have an issue in your life, you can be sure that you are not alone in this and there were lots of people that had the same problem and their history is perpetuated between the quotes words.

Second, when you are reading quotes it a time to stop and think about your situation: how it all started, why it ended that way and how you can make it better. And the most important is the third thing: giving you hope for better days. Yes as much as it sounds crazy to cute quotes can really help you to be more optimistic in life and conquer everything you like to achieve in this amazing world.

There are lots of quotes that have only one propose – fun and good time, in fact they are actually one liner jokes that will make you amused for hours. So the next time you are reading sad quotes don’t forget to read some funny and lighter quotes because after all it is all about make you feel better!

Once in a while a musician just doesn’t have talent, he or she has depth and understanding that seems almost spiritual – and a few of the Johnny Cash quotes I’ve read suggest that the man was one of these rare souls. Wondering what I mean? These twelve quotes sum it up nicely…

1. “How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.”

2. “You’ve got to know your limitations. I don’t know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.”

3. “Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.”

4. “What have I become, my sweetest friend. Everyone I know goes away, in the end.”

5. “Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”

6. “I’ve probably had the equivalent of college in the roads I’ve traveled since then, but it would have been great to go from high school right into college to study music and literature.”

7. “Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.”

8. “When God forgave me, I figured I’d better do it too.”

9. “Children, all your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate… I choose love.”

10. “It makes me so mad that some people underestimate the wisdom and energy of young people. All because they don’t look the way older folks think they should look. I’m working on a song about it. Maybe some of those closed minded people will realize long hair and tattoos don’t mean they should be ignored. Close minded people are part of what’s wrong with this world.”

11. “You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that’s part of it: knowing that you’re not shut out forever, and that there’s a goal you still can reach.”

12. “I’d like to wear a rainbow every day, and tell the world that everything is o.k. But I’ll try to carry off a little darkness on my back. Until things are brighter, I’m the Man in Black.”

Some famous musicians are shallow, some care more about the money than they do about the art. Johnny Cash was not one of them. He was a man with a message and these twelve Johnny Cash quotes give us a bit of insight into the man behind the hypnotic voice.

Among all the quotes, I’ve always loved those inspirational positive quotes. Never underestimate the power of these quotes. They can motivate and make one to take some form of positive actions. If you know Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), then you should know the amazing power of words.

These postive quotes may appear simple, but the meaning and the message they send out can change one’s life forever. It is that potent and profound, believe me.   

I do love funny inspirational quotes, but the positive quotes are the one which are part of my life now since I discoverd them back in my school days. Every now and then, other than reading motivational books from people like Anthony Robbins, Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer or Dale Carnegie, I love to collect and read positive quotes.    
 
These positive quotes have being my life companion for a long time now.  Whenever I feel down in the dumps, or struggle with disappointment, merely reading these profound quotes can pull me up and put me in a better and positive perspective. 

Read slowly through these positive quotes below with your eyes and heart. They could probably change your life as they have changed mine long time ago.  

We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are. – Talmund

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.- Josh Billings

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
- St Catherine of Siena

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.- Henri L. Bergson

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. – Earl Shoaf

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. – Dr Wayne Dyer

Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves. Some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all. – Sam Ewing

Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.
- Jim Rohn

Pessimist : A person who says that O is the last letter of ZERO, instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY. – Anonymous

 Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting
- Elizabeth Bibesco

Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things. – Peter Drucker

Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude. – Zig Ziglar

The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal. – Victor Hugo

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Waldo Emerson

More often in life, we end up regretting the chances in life that we had, but didn’t take them, than those chances that we took and wished we hadn’t.  - Anonymous

Shakespeare’s birthday is right around the corner and what better way to celebrate the birth of this literary genius than with some thought-provoking and soul-stirring Shakespeare quotes? For all of you Shakespeare fans out there, these 14 quotes from some of his most famous works go out to you…

1. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

2. “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”

3. “To be, or not to be, that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,or to take arms against a sea of troubles.”

4. “What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable. In action, how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!”

5. “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorr’d in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it.”

6. “Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.”

7. “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”

8. “Why then the world’s mine oyster, which I with sword will open.”

9. “All that glisters is not gold, often have you heard that told. Many a man his life hath sold, but my outside to behold gilded tombs do worms enfold.”

10. “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

11. “The course of true love never did run smooth.”

12. “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones — so let it be with Caesar.”

13. “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

14. “Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits here hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”

It takes a cultured and educated individual to appreciate the works of Shakespeare. As we celebrate the anniversary of his birth this month, let these 14 Shakespeare quotes serve as a remembrance of how brilliant his works and his imagination really were.