Could Have, Might Have or Should Have Done It

"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions:
could have, might have, and should have."

-- Louis E. Boone


"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

-- Stephen Covey


"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."

-- George Herman "Babe" Ruth

15 Minutes Each Day For Your Children

Add an extra 15 minutes each day to the time
you invest with your children or spouse - that's the
equivalent of more than two weeks each year.

-from 212 the extra degree


Triumph often is nearest when
defeat seems inescapable.

--B.C. Forbes


Never stop. One always stops as soon
as something is about to happen.

--Peter Brook

Sunshine - Kindness - Excellence

Keep your face to the sunshine, and
you will not see the shadows.

--Helen Keller


No act of kindness, not matter
how small, is ever wasted.

--Aesop


Excellence is not an act, it is a habit.

--Aristotle

Self Respect, True Commitment and Humility

"Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."

-- Abraham Lincoln


"True commitment begins when we reach the point of not knowing how we can possibly go on, and decide to do it anyway."

-- Author Unknown


"Humility does not mean you think less of yourself.
It means you think of yourself less."

-- Ken Blanchard

Different In Shallow and Strong Men

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

*-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)


"They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts."

*-- Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)


"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

*-- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Objections First Before Things

"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome."

--Samuel Johnson


"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

--Gotama Buddha


"The will must be stronger than the skill."

--Muhammad Ali

Nothing Or Everything Is A Miracle

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.

--Albert Einstein


Be prepared and be honest.

--John Wooden


If everyone is moving forward together.
then success will take care of itself.

--Henry Ford

Attitude Towards Life

So much of life is about attitude and how
we handle what life throws our way. Life
is good - even when a situation
appears to be the worst.

*-- Tony Pearce


The most important thing you do as a leader
is to hire the right people.

*-- Tony Pearce


For you to be the very best, you cannot allow
yourself to become complacent in your
comfort zone. You need to be
reaching for improvement.

*-- Tony Pearce

Living Out To Your Imagination

Live out of your imagination,
not your history.

--Stephen Covey


Criticize the act, not the person.

--Mary Kay Ash


Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.

--Wally Amos

How To Experience Peace

"If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another."

-- Tenzin Gyatso


"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."

-- Voltaire

Taking Responsibility For Your Self

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop
a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

--Les Brown


The best proof of love is trust.

--Joyce Brothers


Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.

--Dale Carnegie

The Person Who Can Stop You Is

"Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you."

--Jeffrey Gitomer


People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life.

--Gita Bellin


"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."
-- William Shakespeare

Know Your Most Precious Resource

"Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count."

*-- Brian Tracy


"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

*-- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)


"People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily."

*-- Zig Ziglar

Excellence Is A Habit

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,
therefore, is not an act but a habit.

--Aristotle


The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

--Lily Tomlin


Be nice to people on your way up.
You might need them on your way down.

--Jimmy Durante

Empty Heads and Empty Hearts

Empty pockets never held anyone back.
Only empty heads and empty
hearts can do that.

--Norman Vincent Peale


People will forget what you said. People will even
forget what you did. But people will NEVER
forget how you made them feel.

--Unknown


Engaging leaders make good
employees into better people.

--Ed Gubman

They Work Very Very Hard

The only thing that separates successful people from
to work very, very hard.

--Helen Gurley Brown


I'm not concerned with your liking me or disliking me...all
I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

--Jackie Robinson


The elevator to success is out of order. You'll
have to use the stairs...one step at a time.

--Joe Girard

Put Things Into Your Own Hands

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better,
you have to take things into your own hands.

--Clint Eastwood


The best preparation for tomorrow is to
do today's work superbly well.

--Sir William Osler


A gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.

--Chinese Proverb

Getting Out Of Comfort Zone

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."

-- Brian Tracy


The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.

-- Roger Houseden


"Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves."

-- Germaine Greer

About Failure and Success

"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."

*-- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)


"People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else."

*-- Unknown


"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."

*-- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

The World Can Be Changed By Us

We could change the world tomorrow if all
the millions of people around the world
acted the way they believe.

--Jane Goodall


Integrity is not a ninety percent thing, not a ninety-five
percent thing. Either you have it or you don't.

--Peter Scotese


The time is always right to do what is right.

--Martin Luther King Jr.

What Do We Remember In Life

We do not remember days, we remember
moments in our lives.

--Unknown


Aim for service and success will follow.

--Albert Schweitzer


The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of good ideas.

--Linus Pauling

A Few Sincere Words

You never know when a moment and a few sincere
words can have an impact on a life.

--Zig Ziglar


The greatest management principle in the world is
'The things that get rewarded and
appreciated get done'

--Michael Le Boeuf


I've spent a good part of my life studying economic
successes and failures...above all, I've learned that
everything takes a back seat to innovation.

--Tom Peters

Where Does Happiness Grow

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."

*-- Douglas Jerrould


"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

*-- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)


"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

*-- e e cummings (1894 - 1962)

End Your Day Looking At The Mirror

"End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the
mirror and saying, 'I love you!' Do this for thirty days and watch
how you transform."

*-- Mark Victor Hansen


"Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true."

*-- Napoleon Hill


"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!"

*-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Think You Are Too Small

"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."

--Anita Roddick


"If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough."

--Edward Everett Hale


"Instead of telling the world What it is supposed to do, Why don't you immediately do it yourself? In this way, I assure you, Your happiness will be surprisingly multiplied."

--Sri Chinmoy

When Things Become Difficult

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

--Seneca


"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

*-- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)


Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.

--Italian Proverb

A Living And A Life

We make a living by what we get, but we
make a life by what we give.

--Winston Churchill


One person with a commitment is worth more than
100 people who have only an interest.

--Mary Crowley


Allow me to be a blessing to you and
allow yourself to be a blessing to others.

--John Coonley

Someday You Shall In Life

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving,
and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday
in your life you will have been all of these.

--George Washington Carver


When we choose not to focus on what is missing from
our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's
present...we experience true heaven on earth.

--Sarah Ban Breathnach


Forgiveness does not change the past, but it
does enlarge the future.

--Paul Boese

Realized I Was That Somebody

I always wondered why somebody didn't
do something about that. Then I
realized I was somebody.

--Lily Tomlin


You get the best effort from others not
by LIGHTING a fire beneath them, but
by BUILDING a fire with them.

--Bob Nelson


A good leader inspires people to have confidence
in their leader. A great leader inspires
people to have confidence in themselves

--Anonymous

When Knowledge Is Useless

Knowledge is of no value unless
you put in into practice.

--Heber J. Grant


As I grow older, I play less attention to what
people say. I just watch what they do.

--Andrew Carnegie


If not you, who?
If not now, when?

--Abraham Maslow

Believe In Themselves and Accomplish

Outstanding leaders go out of their
way to boost self-esteem of their
personnel. If people believe
in themselves, it's amazing
what they can accomplish.

--Sam Walton


Everyone has an invisible sign
hanging from their neck saying
make me feel important.

--Mary Kay Ash


A Soldier will fight long and hard
for a bit of colored ribbon.

--Napoleon Bonaparte