You Can Quote Me On That

by Catherine Giordano

Will you be making New Year’s Resolutions this year?  Will you be keeping them next year? Did you keep them last year?  

Why do people have so much trouble with New Year’s resolutions? Perhaps because they are boring and easily forgotten. They are not inspirational or motivational 

I have an idea for this year’s resolutions. Instead of making a to-do list, make a list of your favorite inspirational quotes. Write them out or print them out. Take the list and frame it. Put it where you will see it often. Be inspired throughout the year. 

Perhaps you don’t have a favorite quote. Allow me to help. I have been collecting quotes and organizing them into categories in inspirational essays. They are all posted online.  

The quotes are on happiness, love, success, work, health, and kindness. Choose your favorite quotes—maybe one from each topic and you’ll be ready for the new year.

 

How to Be Happy: Quotes from Famous People on Happiness 

How to Be Successful:  Quotes from Famous People on Success 

How to Find Love: Quotes by Famous People on Love 

How to Work Harder, Smarter, Better: Quotes from Famous People on Work 

How to Be Healthy: Quotes from Famous People 

Make My Day: Quotes on Kindness from Famous People

 

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Not inspired by my collections or too lazy to make your own list (you really should work on that) try this book: Whatever You Are, Be a Good One.  It incudes 100 hand-lettered inspirational quotations.The delightful drawings alone will be inspirational. I recommend the hard cover version so you can keep it near your bed or on your coffee table so you will see it everyday. Read a page a day or pick a page at random and let fate decide what your inspirational quote for the day will be. It makes a wonderful gift for someone also. 

But first take a minute to look at my quotes. I worked hard to find the very best quotes in each category.

I'll tell you my choices.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. --Abraham Lincoln

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. --Robert Collier

Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever. --Leo Buscaglia

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.  --Tim Duncan

Those who think they have no time for exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. --Edward Stanley

Always be a little kinder than necessary. --James M. Barrie

The above are my New Year's resolutions. I'm going to print them out on a card and put the card on the bulletin board over my desk so I will see it everyday first thing in the morning.

I hope you will check out my quote collections and choose a few for yourself. 

From Happiness to Success to Love

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 Modified by Catherine Giordano

by Catherine Giordano


 I’ve been doing a series of articles based on quotations from famous people. 

However, I don’t just give you a list of quotes like most websites that focus on quotations. I organize the quotes into “rules,” categorizing them according to theme and then add some advice of my own. 

I also have a value-added feature of providing a little bit of information about the person who gave us the quote. It puts the quote in context and eliminates that nagging question, “Who the heck is that person?”

I’ve learned a lot doing these articles. I began with one about happiness, then did one about success, and a few days ago I did a third one about love. 

I started off thinking I could just knock each one out in a couple of hours. I was wrong. Each one takes 10 to 15 hours to do. I have to find the exact right quotes, research the authors, discern the themes, write my commentary, and find or create the pictures to illustrate the article.

It’s hard work, but it is fun and I learn a lot in the process.  Read all three articles.

 

How to Be Happy    How to Be Successful    How to FindLove

When you read the articles, please rate it. using the check boxes at the end, and/or write a comment. Also, I'd love it if you did the one-question poll.

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Success or Happiness: Which is easier to achieve?

I wrote an article, How to be Happy,  about the 15 rules of happiness, using quotations from famous people, and it attracted good number of viewers.

So I thought I'd try the same technique for success. I wrote How to Be Successful, but I only came up with 10 rules this time. Does this mean that success is easier to achieve than happiness?

Did I miss any of the rules?  Use the comments section to let me know what you think I should add.  Or you could just use the comments section to tell me what a good job I did.)

Also, take a few seconds to do he polls at the end of each article.  I'd love to see how that turns out.


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I Haven't Failed ...

"I haven't failed I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”  That’s a quote from Thomas Edison, the prolific inventor.

I used this quote in picture format to illustrate my news print poem today entitled “Scopes.”   Read it at http://newsprintpoetry2012.blogspot.com/2012/08/scopes.html

Sometimes I do poems that are mini pep-talks. Today’s poem was one of them. I really needed to receive that pep-talk. Especially the part about patience and perseverance.

My readership is growing, but it feels that the growth comes so slowly.  Patience!  I will find a way to make it happen. Perseverance!  

Sometimes I feel like I am getting close to that 10,000 number. I’ve been putting a lot of time into learning SEO, Search Engine Optimization. When google, yahoo, and bing etc. can find me, it builds readership. I am starting to see results.

So I will keep at it, and with a little help from my friends, I’ll be a widely read, and hopefully profitable, blogger.  Success!

I found this at http://bloggers.com