MotivationalThoughtsBlog continue to supplement a collection of motivational words. It is pleased to see that my eldest has turned to this activity with an interest. Here is my Top Present of motivational words in each of the categories founding in the blog.

Adventures

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

Age

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. /Jean Rostand/

Family

Family life is full of major and minor crises — the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce — and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It’s difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul. /Thomas Moore/ 

Friendship

When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. /Edward W. Howe/

Funny

I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way. /Carl Sandburg/

Learning

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. /Morris Adler/ 

Life

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching. /Unknown Source/

Self growth

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. /Zig Ziglar/

Success

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. /Bob Dylan/

Travel

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. /Lao Tzu/

Work

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. /Albert Einstein/

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Herbert Otto

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
Samuel Johnson

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Abraham H Maslow

The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.
Anthony Robbins

One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.
Brian Tracy

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for.
Oscar Wilde

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous Huxley

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
John Heider

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow.
C.R. Lawton

Become addicted to constant and never ending self-improvement.

Anthony J. D’ Angelo

He who stops being better stops being good.

Oliver Cromwell

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Zig Ziglar

Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

You are what you think about all day long.

Robert Schuller

If you don’t program yourself, life will program you.

Les Brown

Times will change for the better when you change.
Maxwell Maltz

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The turning point, I think, was when I really realized that you could do it yourself. That you have to believe in you because sometimes that’s the only person that does believe in your success but you.
Tim Blixseth

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
Stephen Covey

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
BC Forbes

We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought, which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.
Napoleon Hill

Everybody has talent; it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.
George Lucas

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.
Phillip Calvin McGraw (Dr Phil)

Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives.
Jim Rohn

You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Marcus Antonius

Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.
Mme. Du Deffand

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
Thomas Sprat

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Berthold Auerbach

Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.
Sir William Jones

Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater.
Epictetus

Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.
Henry W. Longfellow

The only journey is the journey within.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
Doug Firebaugh

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

Abraham Maslow

We improve ourselves by victories over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.

Edward Gibbon

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

George Eliot

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Mark Twain

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
 

Henry Ford

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
 

Satchel Paige

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day’s long.  

Pope Paul VI

It takes a long time to become young.

Pablo Picaso

No man is ever old enough to know better.

Holbrook Jackson

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Samuel Ullman

Old age is no place for sissies.

Bette Davis

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Doug Larson

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

Mignon McLaughlin

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Amos Bronson Alcott

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Kurt Vonnegut

We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

Frank Howard Clark

When you become senile, you won’t know it.

Bill Cosby

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Mark Twain

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

George Bernard Shaw

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Stanislaw Lec

Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Abigail Van Buren

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich von Shiller

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.

Sophocles

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Jean Rostand

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. Michel

Eyquem de Montaigne

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

George Herbert

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

One’s age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

Thomas Arnold

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

Dr. Robert Anthony

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Bob Hope

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Knut Hamsun

No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.

Fernando de Rojas

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. Arthur Wing Pinero

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.

George Meredith

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Anouk Aimee

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Life is all memory, except for the present moment that goes by so quick you hardly catch it going. Tennessee Williams

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him. Ben Ames Williams

There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton

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

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. Tao Te Ching

Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it. Charles Swindoll

An unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. Socrates

It is with life as with a play—it matters not how long the action is spun out, but how good the acting is. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. Arthur Schopenhauer

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Eleanor Roosevelt

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. Eleanor Roosevelt

A life is not important, except in the impact it has on other lives. Jackie Robinson

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. Christopher Darlington Morley

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us. Orison Swett Marden

Who loves not women, wine and song, remains a fool his whole life long. Martin Luther

Life isn’t a matter of milestones but of moments. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Never take life seriously; no one ever comes out alive anyway. Allie Hemphill

Learn as if you would live forever, live as if you would die tomorrow. Mahatma Gandhi

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers. Erich Fromm

I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery, than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. Harry Emerson Fosdick

You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. Evan Esar

When it’s all over, it’s not who you were … it’s whether you made a difference. Robert ‘Bob’ Dole

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. Lillian Dickson

If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching or cool one pain or help one fainting robin unto his nest again I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Madame Marie Curie

We don’t know yet about life, how can we know about death? Kung Fu-tzu Confucius

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Joseph Campbell

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. Richard E. Byrd

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. Josh Billings

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. Kenny Ausubel

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one. Elbert Hubbard

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on. Robert Frost

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin

That it will never come again Is what makes life so sweet. Emily Dickinson

Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. Samuel Butler

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. Guatama Buddha

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September 1

Only the curious will learn, only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The Quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. Eugene S. Wilson

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. John Naisbitt

I’ve known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought. Wilson Mizner

Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning. Cha’n Master Mingjiao

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. Sir John Lubbock

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B. B. King

To teach is to learn twice. Joseph Joubert

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. John Cotton Dana

A little learning ia a dangerous thing – drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring, their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain and drinking largely sobers us again. Alexander Pope

<!–[if !supportLists]–>An education isn’t how much you have commited to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. Anatol France

Educations purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

That is what learning is. You sudennly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way. Doris Lessing

The wisest mind jas something yet to learn. George Santayana

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. Martina Horner

Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. Walt Disney

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. Carl Rogers

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Sydney J. Harris

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? Eric Fromm

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. Walter Lippmann

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson

No man was ever wise by chance. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. Horace

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment. Fred Brooks

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams

The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. Josh Billings

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. Don Herold

Bad times have a scientific value. These are ocassions a good learner would not miss. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony J. D’Angelo

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. Richard David Bach

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. Joseph Addison

Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlived its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning. Gary Ryan Blair

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. Benjamin Disraeli

Personally I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. Sir Winston Churchill

The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind. David Hume

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