Quotes on Confidence

Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. ~Author Unknown


Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
Which we ascribe to heaven.
~William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well


A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~David Brinkley


It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~Author Unknown


We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. ~Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive


It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. ~W.C. Fields


Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. ~Henry Ford


I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. ~Allen H. Neuharth


If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ~Vincent Van Gogh


Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. ~Buckminster Fuller


Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~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 light from within. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross


Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein


Success comes in cans, not cant's. ~Author Unknown


Put your future in good hands - your own. ~Author Unknown


What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. ~John Bunyan


I am not a has-been. I am a will be. ~Lauren Bacall


The light of starry dreams can only be seen once we escape the blinding cities of disbelief. ~Shawn Purvis, ShawnPurvis.com


I'm not old enough to play baseball or football. I'm not eight yet. My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren't going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I wouldn't need to run that fast. When I play baseball, I'll just hit them out of the park. Then I'll be able to walk. ~Edward J. McGrath, Jr., "An Exceptional View of Life," quoted in Chicken Soup for the Soulby Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen, 1993


If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. ~Author Unknown


Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. ~Peter T. Mcintyre


Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~Anaïs Nin, Diary, 1969


Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours. ~Richard Bach,Illusions


You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan


It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary


Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. ~Mark Twain


Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. ~Bruce Barton


A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. ~Sydney Smith


Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. ~Mary Kay Ash


Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. ~Norman Vincent Peale


Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown. ~Author Unknown


The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. ~Paul Tillich


Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne


People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. ~Sa'Di


It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. ~Sally Kempton,Esquire, 1970


When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there. ~Cecil Selig


Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. ~Les Brown


You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss


Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. ~Richard Kline


Knock the "t" off the "can't." ~Samuel Johnson


Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. ~Sophia Loren

Love Quotes

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein


There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder. ~Charles Morgan


You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"


Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. ~Ovid


Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ~Eric Fromm


Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ~Kahlil Gibran


Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway. ~Judith Viorst,Redbook, 1975


Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949


Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière


When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca


Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb


Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella


For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard


Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! ~Sandra J. Dykes


Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~Mark Overby


Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown


Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown


Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb


The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. ~Theodor Reik, Of Love and Lust, 1957


Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~Peter Ustinov


Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595


The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. ~Albert Ellis


Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ~Michael Leunig


Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524


Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde


Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ~Henry David Thoreau


To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~Laurence Marks, M*A*S*H, "Love Story," original air date 7 January 1973, spoken by the character Hawkeye


A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. ~Frank A. Clark


Shall we compare our hearts to a garden -
with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds,
swooping birds and sunshine, rain -
and most importantly, seeds.
~Grey Livingston


Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~Robert Heinlein


The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore


We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe


If I love you, what business is it of yours? ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld


My debt to you, Belovèd,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day.
~Jessie B. Rittenhouse


We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. ~Quoted by Alexandra Penney in Self

Success Quotes

"Success is a journey, not a destination." Ben Sweetland

If you care at all,you'll get some results.If you care enough, you'll get incredible results.

"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right." Edward Simmons

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek." Mario Andretti - race car driver

"No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction." Charles Kendall Adams

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
Benjamin Disraeli

The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work - if you won't.

"I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph." John H. Johnson

"Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure." Dell Crossword

"Success often comes to those who have the aptitude to see way down the road." Laing Burns, Jr.

"There's no limit to what a man can achieve, if he doesn't care who gets the credit." Laing Burns, Jr.

"Truth, self control, asceticism, generosity, non-injury, constancy in virtue ? these are the means of success, not caste or family." Mahabharata

We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.

Success is a journey, not a destination. – Ralph Arbitelle

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. – Roosevelt

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don’t, you have achieved half your failure. – David Ambrose

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: try to please everybody. – Herbert Bayard Swope

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. – Arnold Toynbee

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. – Cecil B. DeMille

The secret of success is consistency of purpose. – Benjamin Disraeli

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. –Theodore Roosevelt

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight. – Anita DeFrantz

A life isn’t significant except for its impact on other lives. – Jackie Robinson

It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. – Tom Brokaw

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. –Helen Keller

Try not to be a man of success, but rather to be a man of value. - Albert Einstein

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. – Henry Ward Beecher

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. – Theodore Roosevelt

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. –Francis Bacon

Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing. – George Eliot

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. – Italian proverb

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. – Abraham Lincoln

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside you. –Wayne Dyer

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. – Cherie Carter-Scott

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. – Mario Cuomo

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. Courage is what counts. – Sir Winston Churchill

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. – Abraham Lincoln

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. –Albert Pike

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 Ewig

The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men. – Captain J.A. Hatfield

Rule your mind or it will rule you. – Horace

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. – Sidney Greenberg

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. – Kim Lyons

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. – Sandra Carey

How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. – David Norris

Reflections

For some weird reasons I don't feel like working today.
So sitting in the office i am just thinking about how I have lived my life till now.
Last one month has been rather strange from my standards.
After the Hectic first year of MBA i finally got some time to breathe and then think.(Strange I am so out of work that I have started watching cricket)
I remembered all the things that have happened over the last 4-5 years .Looking back I did realised I had made some really stupid mistakes in relationships and some of them I have repeated many times.
Well I have fallen in Love many times (ok LUST might be a better word) but i still believe that deep down maybe i used to like those girls.
So after years of hopping from one "Destination" to "another" I have finally hit a slump. It seems that now I am only surrounded by girls in whom i have no interest in . It seems that suddenly there is a shortage of girls in this palnet.
I knew sex ratio was bad in this country but I didn't felt it was that bad few years back.
It looks like even the decent looking girls are now married or committed . And suddenly I have started finding only those girls who are decent looking (sometimes even attractive) but so much shit in their mind that u feel so bad even talking to them.
Most of my male friends have either got married or in the process of doing so.And the rest of them are desperately hitting on girls that should be avoided at all costs.And whenever I talk to rest of my friends they make me remember all that old incidents in which I did s0methings which I shouldn't have done.
So now i remember all those girls who could be considered "Destination ones" whom I met and Left.I really feel like an Asshole but I hope I will meet someone good again .And won't screw it up this time.
Oh I forgot.Being an optimist I tried contacting some of the girls again .I did managed to get their numbers somehow.(common friends,email ids and what not) .I must say it was really an interesting experience.Some of them actually got married.Rest of them are in Happy Relationships.
One thing I really like about girls .Even when they are really angry they kind of suppress it .So except one girl nobody shouted at me. And she also cooled down after few minutes. So I had to witness only few minutes of verbal abuse in the whole process. That verbal abuse was fine ,actually kind of liked it. But, silence of some did hurt me a little.

First Blog

Finally I am penning down my first blog.
I read hundreds of blogs while applying to B schools.I thought even I should start blogging.So here I go :)