Post Motivational Stories/Quotes

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[/FONT] [FONT=Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif]-Albert Einstein
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif]-Frank Lloyd Wright
(1867-1959) Architect[/FONT]
 
A Story And A Poem
BUTTERFLY
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no further.
So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.
The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.
The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time.
Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.
What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If God allowed us to go through our lives

Moral of the story:
without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. We could never fly!
 
The woman who lived with fear: A story
So I will tell you the story of the woman who lived with Fear, a story by Karen Gould.

There was a woman— no one knew why Fear came to live with her, but he did. He lived with her constantly. Everyone knew this, because she would hardly ever come out of her cabin. They knew it was Fear that kept her inside.
One day, she decided “I will go and get berries with the others. I will get out of my cabin and go.” But Fear stopped her. He sat right in front of her and said “Oh no, you cannot go out. You will be with the others and they will laugh at you. Something bad will happen. You shouldn’t go out.” She argued with Fear, but Fear never gave up.
The next day she thought again “I want to go out and pick berries with others.” Fear again said “No, you can’t.” She tried to push past Fear, but Fear would not let her go. So she struggled a little bit, but eventually gave up.
The next day she got up, and Fear seemed just a little bit smaller than he had been before. So she stepped up to Fear and said “I think I will go out and pick berries today.” Fear said “No, you can’t,” and they got into a physical struggle. She struggled and struggled for hours to get past Fear, until she was too exhausted to continue struggling.
The next day she got up and Fear was a little bit smaller. She said “Today, I will pick berries.” This happened for two more days, and both days Fear got a little bit smaller. And finally one day she got up and said “Today I will pick berries.” Now Fear, who used to tower over her, was only about waist high. She walked up to Fear, pushed him down, and went out to pick berries. She had a great day, and when she came home that night Fear was even smaller.

The next day she got up and kicked Fear out of the way, hardly even thinking about it. She went out that day to do as she wanted. As she was picking berries, suddenly a bear came along and thought they were his berries. Suddenly, she realized that she must run for her life. She started running, but the bear was right behind her.She thought the bear would get her. All of a sudden, there was Fear— big as ever— to grab her by the hand and pull her as fast as you can imagine, so that she got away from the bear. She went back to her cabin exhausted, and Fear was angry. He said “I told you this would happen. I told you something bad would get you.”
She went to sleep, and in the morning Fear was as large as ever. She thought about it, and said “Why are you back so large?” He replied “Because you must learn to deal with me every day.” She began the process again, and eventually got fear down to a tiny size.
She thought “It would be bad to be without fear, but I must manage it in its right dimension.” So she picked up Fear and put him in her pocket. She still carries around fear everywhere, but it doesn’t dictate her life anymore.
 
A water bearer in China had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream to the House, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water to his house.Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments,perfect for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot wasashamed of it's own imperfection. And miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.
After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you. I have been able to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causeswater to leak out all the way back to your house. Because of myflaws, you have to do all of this work, and you don't get full value from your efforts," the pot said.
The bearer said to the pot, "Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw. So I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you've watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there



Moral: Each of us has our own unique flaws. We're all cracked pots. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what they are, and look for the good in them. Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. Remember to appreciate all the different people in your life.
 
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]“A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif]-William Penn
(1644-1718) Founded the English colony that later became the U.S. State of Pennsylvania.[/FONT]
 
hmm.. am new to this website..and i was just going thru some of the stories and quotes posted in this thread.. really good ones..and dey are actually quite motivating and inspiring... good work guys! cheers! :)
 
The business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out. Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.

Suddenly an old man appeared before him.

"I can see that something is troubling you," he said.

After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said, "I believe I can help you."

He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, "Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time."

Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.

The business executive saw in his hand a check for $5,000,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!

"I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized. But instead, the executive decided to put the uncashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there and might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought.

With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.

Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the uncashed check. At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as the executive was about to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man.

"I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried. "I hope he hasn't been bothering you. He always escapes from the rest home and goes around telling people he's John D. Rockefeller. "

And she led the old man away by the arm.

The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he'd been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, convinced he had half a million dollars behind him. Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.





Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. - Richard L. Evans
 
With every failure, u inch closer to success
I hv seen so many of us loosing their heart when they fail in anything. Don't we know that the road to success passes by en number of failures. Every failure is a learning in fact if we take it in the right spirit. Edison who had the maximum patents (more than 1000) in his name was expelled from his school in an early age. But he wasn't discouraged. And becaz of his determination and repeated efforts in his experiments despite failures, he went on to become one of the greatest inventors of all times.

”Edison failed 10,000 times in his storage battery experiments. But instead of succumbing to defeat, Edison said, “Why, I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” He persevered and finally succeeded. With the same zeal, he tested over 6,000 vegetable growths as filament material in one of his most famous inventions - the light bulb. After 1,200 experiments, he succeeded and the success of this invention has greatly changed our lives ever since.”

Should we still be afraid of failures?
 
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif]-Helen Keller
(1880-1968), author, lecturer, activist[/FONT]
 
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]“A friend is one with whom you are comfortable, to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed, and for whom you are grateful.”[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif]-William Arthur Ward
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