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When it comes to staying close to success and perfectionism, things often get out of control but things could be managed easily when you stay inspired and believe in your abilities. This blog, a compilation of motivational quotes, will help you do in quick time.

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them. – Homer

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: – ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ – Martin Luther King Jr.

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. – Edith Sitwell

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. – Martha Washington

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture…Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. – Norman Vincent Peale

If you think that a promotion or pay hike would cheer you up then observations of an expert are here to prove you wrong.

Srikumar Rao, a Columbia University professor and author of “Happiness at Work“, has suggested that happiness at the workplace is all about attitude and nothing else.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

“The single biggest obstacle to workplace happiness is the belief that we are prisoners of circumstance, powerless before the things that happen to us”, she said.

“To change your job, you must change the way you think about it. We create our own experience.”

Melbourne-based life coach Marion Lawrence agreed, saying people who subscribe to an “if I get a promotion/pay rise/quit my job, then I will be happy” attitude will never be fulfilled.

“That kind of attitude relies on an external reward to trigger happiness. The problem is, when those things you have aimed towards arrive, the happiness doesn’t last because you are conditioned to look to the next goal,” she said.

It was suggested that employers can play a critical role in turning their employees happy and help them increase the productivity levels by emphasizing upon relaxation and ensuring that employees are focused on their individual wellbeing.

When it comes to inner peace and happiness, there are very few people who can claim to be happy and satisfied. This blog, a compilation of motivating quotations, is a step from our side to help you find endless reasons to enjoy life with inspiring quotes.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.  – J. Robert Oppenheimer

I am often accused of being childish.  I prefer to interpret that as child-like.  I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things.  I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish.  I still listen to instinctual urges.  I play with leaves.  I skip down the street and run against the wind.  I never water my garden without soaking myself.  It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work. – Leo F. Buscaglia, Bus 9 to Paradise

The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapés of knowledge and never had their fill.  - Ted Morgan

Standardization is the fertilizer of college education.  A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure.  – Martin H. Fischer

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.  – Leonard L. Levinson

The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in.  - Robert J. Kibbee

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery:  He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.  – G.K. Chesterton

In today’s world, no one of us has time to find happiness and many of us who try to find it finds it in strange things and ways. While social networking and drinking at the bar are some of the most-implemented ways to be socialized and get happy, the world is surely going down.

If you think yourself as an exception, let us give you some questions to answer:

1. When was the last time you really laughed?
2. When was the last time you helped someone?
3. Do you love nonliving things more than living beings?
4. Can you forgive a person who lied or betrayed you?

If answers to the first two questions is more than a day back, yes to the third one, and no to the last one, you can yourself analyze why love and happiness are going out from this world.

Remember, we are human beings and must behave like one. We need to find happiness in natural ways and not in unnatural forms. Happiness is close to you but we need to make efforts to find it out and spread it to all near us. That’s life!