Top 121 Quotes & Sayings by Ernie J Zelinski - Page 2

If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing - and you will have it all!

Just one great idea can change your life dramatically. Look for it. It's there somewhere!

Prosperity Comes When You Do the Right Things with Your Life

Do It Badly - But at Least Do It!

Learning to enjoy being single involves the ability to experience everything through your own essence, instead of living vicariously through a spouse or partner.

Regardless of how little time and work someone takes to perform a task, there has to be a more efficient and effective way to perform it.

If You Hang Around with a Bunch of Blunderers Long Enough, you Will Become One Yourself.

Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is.

Your prosperity and happiness will ultimately be determined by the enrichment you create for others in this world. If whatever you are doing does not enrich your life, or that of others, then it's time to do something else.

Great opportunity is all around you and it will inspire you to either take advantage of it or deny that it is there.

If you want to retire happy, great health is important. The foundation for all happiness lies in health. Physical, mental, or spiritual health - you must use it or lose it!

Ordinary People Attain Extraordinary Success - You Can Too!

Your prosperity will grow to the extent that you do. Your feeling of prosperity may require that you overcome the fear of leaving a secure job for a less secure job, with less pay, but a lot more freedom. Fact is, feeling more prosperous doesn't necessarily mean earning more money. Sometimes it means earning less money.

Don't believe you have to travel far and wide to discover opportunities. The best opportunities will always be found in your own back yard, and not half way around the world in someone else's backyard. You have to look for them, however.

You can't have the space for prosperity and success when you are obsessed with security. It is not possible to obtain unwavering security - physical, emotional, or economic - by having money. Keep in mind that security, like success, can be defined in many ways. If you focus less on how much your financial assets are worth, and more on what a creative and well-balanced individual you can be, security will take on a new meaning.

Taoism extols the virtue of flexibility. What survives on earth is what effortlessly adapts to the changing environment and changing circumstances.

Foster a curiosity for the uncommon, regardless of how unpopular it is. The uncommon is where opportunity likes to hide.

Real success doesn't care how you get there.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.

Being unemployed is the true test of who you really are.

Get Creative - You Will Surprise Yourself and Change the World!

There is no secret to how to attain prosperity. The Universe supports and rewards us for taking risks on things that matter to the Universe. When we remember this, the mysteries about prosperity disappear, and prosperity stands explained. Prosperity will then manifest itself easily provided the Universe agrees that we are doing the right things in our lives to deserve this prosperity.

Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.

Making the simple complex doesn't take ingenuity. Making the complex simple, now, that's ingenuity!

Thank Heaven for Retirement!

Unfortunately, money is more often misused and abused than used intelligently. Most people haven't figured out how to use money wisely to truly enhance their lives. Most, it seems, act rationally with their money only when they can't dream up any more irrational ways to spend it. To be sure, financial insanity has developed its own big following including you and me.

Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.

Creativity is the joy of not knowing it all.

Nice people are often not good people and good people are often not nice people.

I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich.

Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose as a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life.

Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.

Creativity is thinking big.

If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.

Live a little. Laugh a little. Love a little. Happiness will find you in a big way.

Two people look at the same Exercise above: One sees "Opportunity Is Nowhere" and one sees "Opportunity Is Now Here."

Instead of Criticizing Someone's Success, Why Not Learn Something Valuable from It?

A Bit of Craziness Is Good for Business

Want to know the secret behind The Secret? The Law of Attraction will not bring you abundance and prosperity for just thinking pleasant, positive thoughts. It is no cosmic mistake that the word "attraction" has the word "action" in it. Abundance is, in fact, the result of creative thinking and a lot of action. Much action, much prosperity, in other words. What are you waiting for?

The Most Creative Shortcut to Success Is to Reevaluate What Success Means to You.

Having a great deal of opportunity proves nothing. Opportunity without creative action is like a brand new Ferrari without an engine. You possess something valuable, but it won't get you anywhere.

Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you.

What do you see? OPPORTUNITYISNOWHERE

Many people strive for personal freedom throughout their adult lives, and never attain it. First, they become imprisoned a good portion of their lives by their jobs. Then, after they leave the work force, they become imprisoned by retirement.

Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of.

People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any fool. But to be highly productive, and still have plenty of time to rest and play, this is where true genius resides.

You Are Already a Millionaire - Your Creativity Makes It So.

According to the book Celebrate Today, June 18th is National Splurge Day. Besides being the birthday of Paul McCartney and Isabella Rossellini, it's also mine. Go ahead; celebrate my birthday and don't worry about the cost!

Never economize on the small luxuries of life. Drinking fine wine and eating chocolate won't solve your problems - but they won't hurt either.

There are two principles for creative success - one general and one definitive. The general principle is that everyone has the ability to be creative and make a big difference in this world. The definitive principle is that almost everyone has volunteered to be exempt from the general principle.

Enriching others is the only way to get rich, if that is what we desire. The more we serve, the more we deserve, getting what we give, no more and no less.

Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.

Good deeds are seldom remembered; bad deeds are seldom forgotten.

It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.

If you believe that happiness can be bought, then why don't you try selling some of yours?

It's interesting and somewhat dismaying how many people will look up to anyone who wins a multimillion-dollar lottery - but will deride anyone who has worked either hard or smart to attain prosperity and real success.

When you find yourself on the side of majority, question yourself about what you are doing and why. It is likely wrong.

Opportunity can't reward you with its many gifts if you fail to recognize it and act on it. What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made from the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. Let the good times roll!

The day you wind up single through divorce or separation is the day you get to test who you really are.

Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.