Key To Realize Dream

"The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning."

*-- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )


"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

*-- John Updike


"Just because you're a supernatural, unstoppable, manifesting machine, doesn't mean you can't ask for help. A lot of help. And fully expect to receive it."

*-- Mike Dooley

Own Resolution Is Important

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

--Abraham Lincoln


Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars

--Les Brown


Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

-- C. S. Lewis

Empty Head Will Held You Back

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

--Norman Vincent Peale

Goals in writting are dreams with deadlines.

--Brian Tracy

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

--Sir James M. Barrie

Going Where Does Matters

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going."

-- Brian Tracy


"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."

-- Bruce Lee


"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Great Accomplisement Not Done By Impulse

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

--Vincent Van Gogh


Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

--Charles Prestwich Scott


Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

--Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Falling Into Someone Plan

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they might have planned for you? Not much."

*-- Jim Rohn


"The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

*-- Anonymous


"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."

*-- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)

Christmas Gift Suggestions

"Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect."

-- Oren Arnold


"Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world."

-- Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), American president. Presidential message (December 25, 1927)


"My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?"

-- Bob Hope, American film actor and comedian

Success Is About Courage

Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

--Orison Swett Marden


People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

--Earl Nightingale


Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

--John Lennon

Seek Challenge To Find Our Best

"Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves."

-- Robert Rodriguez


"A good plan today is better than a great plan tomorrow."
-- George S. Patton


"There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made."

-- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)

"There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made."

-- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)

Enjoy Life Today Not Tomorrow

"If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time - not tomorrow, nor next year, nor in some future life after we have died. The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year. Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life. Today should always be our most wonderful day."

-- Thomas Dreier


"That are you doing today to become a champion?"

-- Drayton McLane Jr.


"Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Make Your Mind Happy

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

*-- Abraham Lincoln


"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

*-- Aristotle


"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

* -- James Oppenheim

Changing Yourself First

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

-- Leo Tolstoy

"Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of those pieces."

-- Judith Viorst

"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. "

-- Confucius

Don't Postpone What You Want To Do

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."

*-- Pablo Picasso


"Nothing limits achievement like small thinking;
nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination."

*-- William Arthur Ward


"The beauty of all things lies in your ability to appreciate them."

*-- Author Unknown

Accept Tough Jobs For Miracles

"When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and Enthusiasm, miracles can happen."

*-- Arland Gilbert


"Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts."

*-- Eknath Easwaran


"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies."

*-- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Hardships Is Strength

"Strength does not come from winning.
Your struggles develop your strengths.
When you go through hardships
and decide not to surrender,
that is strength."

-- Arnold Schwarzenegger


"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

-- Beverly Sills


"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

-- Henry Thoreau

Mediocrity Result Is Disappointment

"The price of excellence is discipline.
The cost of mediocrity is disappointment."

*-- William Arthur Ward


"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means."

*-- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)


"Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield
to him."

*-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Stop The Fear Of Poverty

"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live."

-- George Bernard Shaw


"Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy."

-- Wayne Dyer


"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."

-- Mother Teresa

First Look At The Purpose In Life

"You want to look at your purpose in life. You want to find that meaning within. Once you find that meaning within, and you start to express your purpose, that's when the money starts coming. That's when you attract it."

-- Andy Fuehl

"No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve."

-- Anthony Robbins

Strength Through Perseverance

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance."

-- H. Jackson Brown


"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win. If you don't you won't."

-- Bruce Jenner


"There's always a way... You just have to find it!"
-- Paul Briganti

Grateful and Fear Disappears

"When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears."

-- Anthony Robbins


"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."

-- Michelangelo Buonarroti


"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

-- G.K. Chesterton

Courage Is Doing Something Afraid

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."

-- Eddie Rickenbacker (1890 - 1973)


"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time."

-- Anna Freud (1895 - 1982)


"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."

-- James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)

That One Step That Changes

This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything.

-- Scott Reed

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

--Henri Frederic Amiel

Never Take The Sure Boat

The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

-– Dale Carnegie

When you know what you want, and you want it badly enough, you'll find a way to get it.

-- Jim Rohn

The greater things in life are unseen thats why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream...

-- Anonymous

Work Hard For Your Success

"Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it."

-- Unknown

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

--Lucretius

We love because it's the only true adventure.

--Nikki Giovanni

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

-- Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's

Get A Fresh Start Any Time

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."

-- Mary Pickford


"Fortune favors the brave."

--Publius Terence


"Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge."

--Stephen Levine

Taking A Step Back Wiser

"One step back does not mean defeated. It just means that you will take the same step forward again but wiser."

-- Jossie Estrella


"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

-- Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the Untied States of America


"It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance."

-- General George S. Patton


"We and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do,would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."

-- Franklin Rooservelt, 32nd President of the Untied States of America

The Person Who Can Changed Life

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

*-- Carol Burnett (1936 - )


"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."

*-- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)


"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,'that would suffice."

-- Meister Eckhart

Never Be Afraid To Try

"The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it."

-- Debbi Fields


"Procrastination is the natural assassin of opportunity."

-- Anonymous


"You create your opportunities by asking for them."

-- Patty Hansen

You Have To Change It

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."

*-- Maya Angelou


"It's like driving at night in the fog. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

*-- Edgar Lawrence Doctorow


"While we are postponing, life speeds by."

*-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Energy Comes The Moment

"Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries."

*-- Corita Kent


"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions - he had money, too."

*-- Margaret Thatcher


"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

*-- Thomas Edison

That Secrets Of Getting Ahead

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."

*-- Mark Twain


"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

*-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery {1900-1944 French Poet}


"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our
potential."

*-- Sir Winston Churchill

What We Need To be and What We Are

"In the end it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

*-- Max Dupree


"Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us."

*-- Henry Ward Beecher


"They can conquer who believe they can."

*-- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)

Faced It To Changed It

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

-- James Baldwin


Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

--Michael Leunig


Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity

-- George Patton

Don't Consent To Creep

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

-- Helen Keller

Where there is love there is life.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

-- Ralph Nader

All Ninety Nine Percent Perspiration

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

-- Thomas Alva Edison


I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

-- Martin Luther King Jr.


Most of what we call management consists of makingit difficult for people to get their jobs done

-- Peter Drucker

Felt Only With Your Heart

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

--Helen Keller


Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.

-- Peter Drucker


All serious daring starts from within.

-- Eudora Welty

Mistaken Knowledge and Wisdom

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

-- Sandra Carey

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

--Sam Keen

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you.

-- Max DePree

Don't Be Part Of The Problem

"It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem."

-- Coretta Scott King


"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes."

-- Henry J. Kaiser


"If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you."

-- Mary Tricky

The World Is Just a Mirror

"The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are. "

-- Thomas Dreier


"The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance."

-- Brian Tracy


"To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail."

-- Dorothea Brande

Be Aware Of Nature Talent

"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed."

*-- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)


"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

*-- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)


"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all."

*-- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )

Look For The Right Person

"If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done."

-- Joseph Marshall Wade


"Time is not a line, but a series of now points."

-- Taisen Deshimaru


"The responsibility for both present and future is in our own hands. If we live right today, then tomorrow has to be right."

-- Eknath Easwaran

No Rules To Accomplishment

Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something.

- Thomas A. Edison


Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters.

- Albert Einstein


Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.

- David Loyd George

Choose Life Wisely

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

- Karen Kaiser Clark


People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

--John Harrigan


People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Tranform Into One Million Realities

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

- Maya Angelou


When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.

--Dr Seuss


It's amazing how many cares disappear when you decide not to be something, but to be someone.

- Coco Chanel

Conrete Steps To Actualize Your Plan

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

--W. Clement Stone


The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

--Author Unknown


Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against an injustice, they send forth a ripple of hope.

--Robert F. Kennedy

Greatest Quality Is Courage

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

--James Allen

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

--Viktor E. Frankl

In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

--Warren Buffet

If You Were To Believe

If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it, even if I did not have the ability in the beginning.

--Mahatma Gandhi


If you value yourself, you understand that you are a gift to anyone you meet.

--Rhonda Britten


One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this.

--Don Quixote

The Deepest Life Secret

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself a new. Seek therefore, not to find out who you are; seek to determine who you want to be.

-- Author Unknown

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

-- Wayne Dyer

Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back and forth. It involves more listening than talking.

- - Jack Welch

Ask These Questions

"You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am Iaround? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have megoing? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay?"

*-- Jim Rohn


"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all."

*-- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)


"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."

*-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)

The Way Power Works

Not one of us knows what affect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage. The way in which power works is a mystery.

--Albert Schweitzer


If the only time I saw you was in my dreams, I'd sleep forever.

--Anonymous


Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.

--- Napoleon Bonepart

Be Alive, Breathe, Think and Enjoy

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

-- Marcus Aurelius


"Joy is the feeling of grinning inside."

-- Melba Colgrove


"Money is one of the most important subjects of your entire life. Some of life's greatest enjoyments and most of life's greatest disappointments stem from your decisions about money. Whether you experience great peace of mind or constant anxiety will depend on getting your finances under control."

-- Robert G. Allen

The Best Thing For Ourselves and Others

"The best thing we can do for ourselves and the people in our lives is to love them unconditionally, forgive them without reservation and to accept them exactly as they are."

-- Iyanla Vanzant


"Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life."

-- Ann Landers


"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."

-- William Penn

Good News and Bad News For You

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

--Michael Altshuler


"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."

-- Jean Nidetch


"Life does not happen to us, it happens from us."

-- Mike Wickett

What You Sow Is Not Lost

A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love.

--Basil


If we all did the things we are capable of,we would astound ourselves.

--Thomas Edison


The only journey is the journey within.

--Rainer Maria Rilke

Happiness The By Product

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

--Aldous Huxley


Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

--William Thackeray


Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.

--Marquise du Deffand

What Conquer All Things

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

--Benjamin Franklin


To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to give content to your own lot: to mitigate another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own.

--Thomas Edwards


You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

--Robert F. Kennedy

You Win When You Are Not Afraid

"I enjoy every opportunity and live every moment. And that is why I have no regrets. It's when you are not scared of losing that you win everything."

-- Shailendra Singh


"Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have."

-- Author Unknown


You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution.

-- Bob Proctor

Best Things In Life Is Already Yours

"If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars. or your legs. or your hands. or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself."

-- Dale Carnegie


"My actions are my only true belongings."

-- Thich Nhat Hanh


"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life."

-- Wayne Dyer

Accept Conditions Or Responsibility

"There are two primary choices in life;
to accept conditions as they exist,
or accept the responsibility for changing them."

-- Denis Waitley


"Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human."

-- John Cogley


"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice."

-- George Jackson (1941 - 1971)

The Dark Days and Light Days

If it weren't for the dark days, we wouldn't know what it is to walk in the light.

--Earl Campbell


The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attitude of the strong.

--Mahatma Ghandi


I never wanted to be a successful person. I wanted to be a significant person.

--Nido Qubein

Obstacle Path Or Stepping Stone

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the path of the strong.

-- Thomas Carlyle


Life in abundance comes only through great love.

-- Elbert Hubbard


Leadership is not a designated position; it's a phenomenon. It is people following people because they want to, not because they have to.

-- Larry Wilson

Enthusiasm Above All Skill

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

-- Edward Appleton

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

-- Plato

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

--Elbert Hubbard

Live On Imagination Not History

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

-- Stephen Covey


I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

-- Pablo Picasso


Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.

-- Lao Tzu

What Are The Real Mistakes

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-- John Powell


Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
-- Christopher Reeve


Joy is not in things; it is in us.
-- Richard Wagner

Learn To Forgive Yourself

"When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on."

-- Bernie S. Siegel


For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, "It might have been".

-- John Greenleaf Whittier


"A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe."

-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Make Most Of Our Talents

"As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can; by making the best choices;
by making the most of the talents we've been given."

-- Mary Lou Retton


"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."

-- Arthur C. Clarke


"Now is the time to act and solve all problems and not to succumb to lame excuses."

-- Brahma Kumaris

Happy That Didn't Wait Twenty Years

"It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years."

-- Paulo Coelho


"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

-- John Wooden


"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will."

-- Jawaharlal Nehru

Refused To Quit And You'll Be Rewarded

Effort only fully releases its reward
after a person refuses to quit.

--Napoleon Hill


We don't see things as they are;
we see things as we are.

--Anais Nin


Nobody who ever gave his best regreted it.

--George Halas

Ten Percent Of Life You Make It Happened

Life is ten percent what you make it
and ninety percent how you take it.

--Ben Franklin


For those to whom much is given,
much is required.

--John Fitzgerald Kennedy


You can't depend on your judgment when
your imagination is out of focus.

--Mark Twain

Don't Keep Thinking Of Yesterday

"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."

-- Charles F. Kettering


"If you are facing the right direction, all you have to do is keep on walking."

-- Unknown


"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

-- Robert F. Kennedy

Focus On A Limited Set Of Targets

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating
all of your energies on a limited set of targets.

--Nido Qubein


The first law of success is concentration - to bend all
the energies to one point, and to go directly to that
point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.

--William Mathews


When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's
power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

-- Norman Vincent Peale

Live It, Taste It Without Fear

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt


"It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive."

-- Pema Chodron


"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly."

*-- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)

Strong Postive Attitude Produce Miracles

"A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug."

-- Patricia Neal


"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

-- Epictetus


"Many say I am just one to try. I say I am one less to quit."

-- Diego Marchi

Trespass Your Limit

"The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them."

-- Tom Morris


"Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do someting and you don't talk back."

-- W.K. Hope


"No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought."

-- John Stuart Mill

What Is The Most Important Goals

The most important thing about goals is having one...

--Geoffrey Abert


Life is 10 percent what you make it
and 90 percent how you take it.

--Irving Berlin


We don't see things as they are;
we see things as we are.

--Anais Nin

Connection Of Action and Mistake

Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving. They make
mistakes, but they don't quit.

-- Conrad Hilton


To the world you may be just one person,
but to one person you may be the world.

-- Brandi Snyder


How you respond to the challenge in the second half
will determine what you become after the game,
whether you are a winner or loser.

-- Lou Holtz

When You Take Yourself Responsible

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

-- Les Brown


It is one of the blessings of old friends that
you can afford to be stupid with them.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson


Success is a science; if you have the
conditions, you get the result.

--Oscar Wilde

What Money and Success Changes

Money and success don't change people;
they merely amplify what is already there.

--Will Smith


Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never
forgotten, never let it disappear

--John Lennon


You can’t talk your way out of what you’ve behaved yourself into.

--Stephen Covey

The Only Limitation To Our Dream

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

*-- Franklin D. Roosevelt


"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."

*-- Arnold Glasgow


"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion."

*-- Ethopian proverb

Fulfilling The Success Process

"Success is merely the process of fulfilling your own hopes and dreams--not the standards set by society, but by the standards set by you."

*-- George Pataki


"You are accountable for what you do, and no one else is accountable."

*-- Edith Martin


"The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development.
I used to say, 'If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.'
Now I say, 'I will take care of me for you if you will take care of you for me.'"

*-- Jim Rohn

The Success Elevator Is Spilt

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

--Joe Girard


When you are in love, you can't fall asleep because
reality is better than your dreams.

--Dr. Seuss


Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

--John Maxwell

Don't Create A Victims Of Yourself

"People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives."

-- Stedman Graham


"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

-- Herbert Spencer

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

Tough Jobs As Challenge

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.

--Arland Gilbert


Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.

--Deepak Chopra


A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

--Hugh Downs

You Have Hoped For

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;
remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

--Epicurus


It is not the cards you are dealt but what you do with them that counts.

--Anonymous


Today you are You, that is truer than true.
There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

--Dr. Seuss

Danger Who Are Afraid

"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."

--George Bernard Shaw


"Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone."

--Louis L'Amour


"The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear."

--Maya Angelou

Man That Has Mind

"One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."

*-- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)


"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."

*-- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)


"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."

*-- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

Something To Hold To

To succeed… you need to find something to hold on to,
something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

--Tony Dorsett


To handle yourself, use your head;
to handle others, use your heart.

--Donald Laird


Behold the turtle. He only makes progress
when he sticks his neck out.

--James Bryant Conant

Just Be My Friend

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow;
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead;
Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

--Albert Camus


Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

--Albert Schweitzer


It ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving
forward. That's how winning is done! Now if you know what you're
worth then go out and get what you're worth.

--Rocky Balboa

Good To Your Friends Enemies

Do good to your friends to keep them,
to your enemies to win them.

--Benjamin Franklin


Every success is built on the ability
to do better than good enough.


I want you to be everything that's you,
deep at the center of your being.

--Confucius

Improving The World

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart, head and hands.

--Robert M. Pirsig


"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

--William Arthur Ward


"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."

--Frank Lloyd Wright

Don't Keeps Ideas

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.

--Alfred North Whitehead


Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given
never forgotten, never let it disappear.

--John Lennon


Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

--Zig Ziglar

View Better On Top

"It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top."

--Arnold Bennett


"Love is the answer.
Now, what is your question?"

--Author Unknown


"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."

--Moliere

Our Imagination The Only Limit

"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."

*-- Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)


"Problems are a sign of life'."

*-- Normal Vincent Peale


"It may not be your fault for being down, but it's got to be your fault for not getting up."

*-- Steve Davis

Don't Wait Too Long To Decide

"The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you're wasting. It's up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you."

*-- Derek Jeter


"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

*-- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)


"Nothing is Impossible in this world. Impossible itself says, I m possible."

*-- Unknown Author

Best Of What You Can Become

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to
become the best that you are capable of becoming.

--John Wooden


You should not chose your friends just on
how they treat you, but how they treat
others as well. This shows what kind of
person they really are.


Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.

--Kenny Rogers

Appreciate What You Already Have

"What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it-would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have."

--Ralph Marston


"The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire."

--Brian Tracy


"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."

--Emily Dickinson

What Pessimist and Optimist Sees

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty

--Sir Winston Churchill


Love possesses not nor will it be possessed,
for love is sufficient unto love.

--Kahlil Kibran


Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

--Earl Wilson

Thanks Those Who Rekindle Inner Spirit

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame by an encounter
with another human being. We should all be thankful
for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."

- Albert Schweitzer


"Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human."

--John Cogley


"My actions are my only true belongings."

--Thich Nhat Hanh

Matter of Concentration and Perservance

Success in life is a matter not so much
of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

--C. W. Wendte


We are never more discontented with others
than when we are discontented with ourselves.

--Henri Frederic Amiel


The greatest inspiration is
often born of desperation.

--Comer Cotrell

Failed To Be Successful

Men never plan to be failures; they
simply fail to plan to be successful.

--William A. Ward


The quality of your life is the
quality of your relationships.

--Anthony Robbins


Instruction does much, but
encouragement does everything.

--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Worst Enemy Is Self Pity

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world."

--Helen Keller


"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life."

--Wayne Dyer


"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door,
and the whole world will be clean."

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art Of Acceptance

"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."

--Russell Lynes


"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."

--Victoria Holt


"A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark."

--Chinese Proverb

No Way Out Of Sweat and Tears

World-class success requires that you grow up emotionally and come to terms with the fact that life isn't fair and success isn't free. You can be the most positive thinker in the world but you still have to pay the price every great achiever has paid.

There is no way out of the blood sweat and tears. You will pay the price or be forced to accept the fact that you had a shot at your vision and let it slip away. It's the price of all out massive action or a lifetime of regret.

--Steve Siebold


Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

--Shirley MacLaine


Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

--Dean Acheson

Age Issue Of The Mind

Age is an issue of mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

--Mark Twain


Always do right. This will gratify some
people and astonish the rest.

--Mark Twain


Courage is resistance to fear, mastery
of fear, not absence of fear.

--Mark Twain

When You Look Back

"When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I
didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done."

* --Malcolm Forbes


"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."

*-- Dale Carnegie


"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is
invisible, it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is
powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer
you more joy than any material possession could."

*-- Barbara DeAngelis

Opportunity All Areas Of Life

"An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life."

--Jim Rohn


"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune."

--William James


"Things are only impossible until they're not."

--Jean-Luc Picard

Chance Becoming Prophet

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of becoming a prophet.

--Isaac Bashevis Singer


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

--Dwight D. Eisenhower


"Men do not fail; they give up trying."

--Elihu Root

You Fear Your Fear

"Whatever you fear most has no power; it is your fear that has the power."

--Oprah Winfrey


One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears--by listening to them.

--Dean Rusk


"Your imagination is your preview to life's coming attractions."

--Albert Einstein

Nothing Something All Lost

"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost;
When health is lost, something is lost;
When character is lost, all is lost!"

--German Proverb


"The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who without a dream."

--Harry Kemp


"The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them."

--Kimon Nicolaides

Never Be The Same Again

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and
understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of
any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

--Og Mandino


Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

--Og Mandino


Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions,
never know too much to learn something new.

--Og Mandino

Mediocre Talent Avid Faith

"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but
with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent."

-- Sophia Loren (1934 - )


"Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear, positive,
self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of."

-- Mark Victor Hansen


"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act."

-- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)

Belief And Willingness

If you believe it, you can make it happen.
That's all you need, is belief - and of course the willingness
to follow through on whatever needs to be done on your part.

--Barefoot Doctor


"Is it possible for the rose to say, 'I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?' Or is it possible for the lamp to say, 'I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people'? Or can a tree say, 'I'll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad'? These are images of what love is about."

--Anthony De Mello


"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

--Benjamin Franklin

Mirror In Behavior

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone
shows their image.

--Goethe


Be generous with kindly words, especially
about those who are absent.

--Goethe


Dream no small dreams for they have no
power to move the hearts of men.

--Goethe

Forgiveness Enlarge Future

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

Paul Boese


"It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always."

--Oprah Winfrey


"If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much."

--Donald H. Rumsfeld

Outer Aspects Lives

"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

-- William James (1842-1910)


"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you
act."

-- George W. Crane


"If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the
"as if" technique."

--William James (1842-1910)

Help Enough People

"If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want."

--Zig Ziglar


"I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days or great days."

--Lance Armstrong


"If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals."

--Brian Tracy

Human Life Purpose

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to
show compassion and the will to help others.

--Albert Schweitzer


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

--Henry Ford


Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more
you sweat, the luckier you get.

--Ray Kroc

Happiness From Within

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within.

--Helen Keller


Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

--Albert Einstein


The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

--Abraham Lincoln

Man Is Born For Life

"Man is born to live, not to prepare for life."

*-- Boris Pasternak


"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

*-- Anne Frank


"The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?"

*-- Oprah

Choosing A Friend

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

--Benjamin Franklin


I never worry about action, only inaction.

--Winston Churchill


The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.

--Nelson Mandela

Become A Worthwhile Person

"If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development."

*--Brian Tracy


"I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities."

*--Whoopi Goldberg


"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value."

*--Albert Einstein

Better Than Day Before

"The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before."

*--Steve Young


"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."

*--Michael Jordan


"Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable."

*--Brenda Ueland

Astonish Ourselves

"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves."

*--Thomas Edison


"Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture."

*--Russell Baker


"If you follow no other truth, follow the truth that within your being is called joy. If you follow that, you're always going to be right where you need to be, and you will always have life within your being."

*--Sheradon Bryce

What Love Given or Not

What love we've given, we'll have forever.
What love we fail to give, will be lost
for all eternity.

--Leo Buscaglia


Follow effective action with quiet reflection.
From the quiet reflection will come even more
effective action.

--Peter Drucker


The great use of life is to spend it for
something that will outlast it.

--William James

A Year From Now

"A year from now you may wish you had started today."

*--Karen Lamb


The best time to plant an oak tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today."

*--Unknown


"... for magic to happen in your life, you must believe in magic."

*--Grandmother, quoted by Lynn Andrews

Human Intelligence

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

--Stephen Hawking


Love always creates, it never destroys.
In this lie's man's only promise.

--Leo Buscaglia


Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

--Carl Jung

How Many Obstacles Cleared

Success is to be measured not so much by the
position that one has reached in life as by
the obstacles which he has overcome.

--Booker T. Washington


Life lived for tomorrow will always be
just a day away from being realized.

--Leo Buscaglia


A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.

--Leo Buscaglia

Work Harder For More Luck

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find
the harder I work, the more I have of it.

--Thomas Jefferson


Hate the sin, love the sinner.

--Mahatma Gandhi


Divide and rule, a sound motto.
Unite and lead, a better one.

--Goethe

Loving Words During Your Absence

Never part without loving words to think of
during your absence. It may be that you will
not meet again in this life.

--Jean Paul Richter


No man is good enough to govern another
man without that other's consent.

--Abraham Lincoln


The best way to prepare for life is to
begin to live.

--Elbert Hubbard

First Convince Yourself

Let he him who would be moved to convince
others, be first moved to convince himself.

--Thomas Carlyle


Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

--William Thackeray


Life is a pure flame, and we live by
an invisible sun within us.

--Sir Thomas Brown

Don't Squander Time

Dost thou love life?
Then do not squander time, for that
is the stuff life is made of.

--Benjamin Franklin


Kind words are the music of the world.

--F. W. Faber


He that would be a leader must
also be a bridge.

- Welsh Proverb

Be My Friend

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend.

--Albert Camus


A leader is someone who helps improve
the lives of other people or improve the
system they live under.

--Sam Ervin


Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one
thing until you get there.

--Josh Billings

Some Achieve Success Is Proof

That some achieve great success, is proof to all
that others can achieve it as well.

--Abraham Lincoln


The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a
warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

--Oscar Wilde


Death is more universal than life; everyone dies
but not everyone lives.

--A. Sachs

Joy Overcoming Obstacles

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures,
but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have
set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed
if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming
obstacles.

--Helen Keller


Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but
sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

--Thich Nhat Hanh


Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable
you are and how much you have going for you, the
smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music
will play, and you will finally be able to move
forward the life that God intended for you with
grace, strength, courage, and confidence.

--Og Mandino

Choose Happy

Life is too short not to enjoy it and too long
to live miserable. Choose to be happy!

--Author Unknown


Do what's best for people, and in return,
people will give you their best.

--Author Unknown


If you want to get something done...START!

--Victor Scrivani

Ladder Of Success

The ladder of success is best climbed
by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

--Ayn Rand


Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying
the world on your shoulders. The world
would go on even without you. Don't take
yourself so seriously.

--Norman Vincent Peale


Get excited and enthusiastic about your
own dream. This excitement is like a
forest fire -you can smell it, taste it,
and see it from a mile away.

--Denis Waitley

Who Is A Friend

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

--Elbert Hubbard


The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk
the language of the visionary and the idealist.

--Eric Hoffer


Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam,
not a stagnant pool.

--Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every Calling Can Be Great

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

--Oliver Wendell Holmes


No more duty can be urged upon those who are
entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty
to their best convictions.

--Edwin Hubbel Chapin


You never lose by loving. You always lose
by holding back.

--Barbara de Angelis

Own Resolution To Succeed

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to
succeed is more important than any other.

--Abraham Lincoln


Everybody likes a compliment.

--Abraham Lincoln


And in the end it's not the years in your life that
count. It's the life in your years.

--Abraham Lincoln

Scientific and Spiritual Power

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.

--Martin Luther King, Jr.


At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

--Martin Luther King, Jr.


I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color
of their skin, but by the content of their character.

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Perseverance Not Strength

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the
stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance.

--H. Jackson Brown


Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to let them know that you trust them.

--Booker T. Washington


Leaders make the best decisions by rummaging through the attic (brain), searching in the basement (common sense and intuition), and then visiting the living room (heart) to reflect on what was found in all of those areas.

--Jerry R. Lewis

Love and Life

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

--Leo Buscaglia


The only thing in life that you have 100% control
of is your effort and your word.

--Neil Carlson


LIfe's piano can only produce the melodies of brotherhood
when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic,
necessary, and beautiful as the white keys.

--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith In First Step

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see
the whole staircase.

--Martin Luther King, Jr.


Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

--Martin Luther King, Jr.


A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus
but a molder of consensus.

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Baptist minister and civil rights leader. Born Michael Luther King, Jr., on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. The grandson and son of Baptist ministers, King grew up singing in his church choir. In 1935, his father changed both of their names to Martin to honor the
German Protestant.

Young Martin attended segregated public schools and graduated
from high school at age 15. In 1948, he received his B.A. degree
from Morehouse College in Georgia, the alma mater of both is father
and grandfather, and in 1951 he earned is B.D. from Crozer
Theological Seminary.

While at Crozer, King was elected president of a predominantly
white senior class. In 1955, he received a Ph.D. from Boston
University, where he also met his future wife, Coretta Scott , with
whom he had four children.

He was the guiding light for the most crucial years in America's
civil-rights struggle. Chosen president of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference in 1957, advocating nonviolence, he was
jailed, attacked and had his house bombed.

King's finest hour came on 28 August 1963, leading the march in
Washington, DC, and making his famous "I have a dream" speech.
Sadly, he was assassinated in 1968.

The Sure Thing Boat

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is
willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets
far from the shore.

--Dale Carnegie


My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be
able to persuade my wife to marry me.

--Winston Churchill


I like the dreams of the future better than
the history of the past.

--Thomas Jefferson

Being Young or Old

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty
or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

--Henry Ford


There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we
have contact with the world. We are evaluated and
classified by these four contacts: what we do, how
we look, what we say, and how we say it.

--Dale Carnegie


True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and
must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.

--George Washington

Look Too Far Ahead

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link
in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

--Winston Churchill


You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

--Golda Meir


Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you
want to test a man's character, give him power

--Abraham Lincoln

When Money Is Hope

If money is your hope for independence you will
never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge,
experience, and ability.

--Henry Ford


Anyone who has never made a mistake has never
tried anything new.

--Albert Einstein


Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light
can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only
love can do that.

--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Believe You Are Best

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.

--Muhammad Ali


The man or woman who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

--Marjorie Holmes


Remember, "It's NOT what you eat between Thanksgiving and New Years
that matters, BUT what you eat between New Years and Thanksgiving!"

--Dean Miller

Love The Doing

"You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences."

-- Ayn Rand


"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."

-- Charles F. Kettering


"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would solve most of the world's problems."

-- Gandhi

Darkest Moment Light

The black moment is the moment when the real message
of transformation is going to come. At the darkest
moment comes the light.

--Joseph Campbell


The more we know, the better we forgive. Whoe'er
feels deeply, feels for all that live.

--Mme. de Stael


Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing
how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

--David Starr Jordan

Confidence In Your Ability

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

--Rosalynn Carter


I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

--Gerry Spence


So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Best or Most Fear Worlds

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

--James Branch Cabell


The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

--Carl Jung


To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

--Anna Pavlova

Dreams Into Reality

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality,
it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

--Jesse Owens


Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

--Euripides


Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

--David Starr Jordan

Lighted The Flame Within

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by
a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to
think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted
the flame within us.

--Albert Schweitzer


Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.

--Lao Tzu


As we express our gratitude, we must never forget
that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,
but to live by them.

--John F. Kennedy

Your Tomorrow

Your tomorrow will be the result of your attitude and the choices you make today!" --- SO --- "Practice the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.


Insistence, Persistence & Consistence.

--Sidney Szydlow


Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

--Helen Keller

Nothing Is Far

"Nothing's far when one wants to get there."

--Queen Marie of Rumania


"What you believe yourself to be, you are."

--Claude M. Bristol


"Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution."

--Dr. David Schwartz

Your Own Resolution

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more
important than any one thing.

--Abraham Lincoln


To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

--Anne-Sophie Swetchine


Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

--Colin Powell

Life Takes On Meaning

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated,
set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable
manner.

--Les Brown


The quality of your life is the quality of your
relationships.

--Anthony Robbins


Abundance is not something we acquire. It is
something we tune into.

--Wayne Dyer

Ability To Do

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that
which you have no ability to do.

--Orison Swett Marden


Friends are like stars, you don't always see them,
but you know they're always there.

--Vannii Arcri


It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability
to discover ability in others is the true test.

--Elbert Hubbard

Bigger Than Trouble

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."


Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

--Napoleon Hill


A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

--Denis Waitley

Life Hard

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted
to ask, "Compared to what?"

--Sydney J. Harris


If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.

--Donald Trump


Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done,
it's always your choice.

--Wayne Dyer

Abundance Is

"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."

--Dr. Wayne Dyer


"It's not enough to be busy. The question is, what are we busy about?"

--Henry David Thoreau


"Always do the right thing. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

--Mark Twain

Keep Your Vision Alive

Where there is vision, there is life and growth, accomplishment,
fulfillment and joy. Keep your vision alive. It is important to see clearly, what you wish to accomplish and hold fast to it. Though it may tarry, it will surely come to past at the appointed time.

--James McKoy


Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones
that are unconquerable.

--Theodore N. Vail


People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content
with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

--Andrew Carnegie

Must Apply and Do

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


A good deed is never lost: he who sows
courtesy reaps friendship; and he who
plants kindness gathers love.

--Basil


Our greatest glory is not in never falling
but in rising every time we fall.

--Confucius

Right Wrong Mental Attitude

Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man with
the wrong mental attitude.

--Thomas Jefferson


One of the things I keep learning is
that the secret of being happy is
doing things for other people.

--Dick Gregory


The thing always happens that you really
believe in; and the belief in a thing
makes it happen.

--Frank Loyd Wright

Effort Releases

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person
refuses to quit.

--Napoleon Hill


The life and love we create is the life and love we live.

--Leo Buscaglia


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

--Zig Ziglar

Transform Thoughts

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

--Napoleon Hill


True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

--Antoine De Saint-Exupery


It's not your salary that makes you rich,
it's your spending habits.

--Charles A. Jaffe

Temporary Setbacks

One of the secrets of success is to refuse to
let temporary setbacks defeat us.

--Mary Kay


He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over
which he himself must pass.

--George Herbert


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.

--Helen Keller

Nature For Inspiration

Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration
in the day's work. I follow in building
the principles which nature has used in
its domain.

--Frank Lloyd Wright


Gravitation is not responsible for
people falling in love.

--Albert Einstein


In business for yourself,
not by yourself.

--William James

Door Of Wisdom

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

--Benjamin Franklin


A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never
outgrows it.

--Frank A. Clark


Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.

--Peter F. Drucker

Playing It Too Safe

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk
of your life...Time is the only wealth we're given.

-Barbara Sher


Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

-William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)


You have to accept whatever comes and the only important
thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Believe Create Fact

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth
living and your belief will help create the fact.

--James Truslow Adams


Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.

--Lao Tzu


And above all things, never think that you're not
good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
My belief is that in life people will take you at
your own reckoning.

--Isaac Asimov

Live and Work Each Day

Live and work each day as though you are going to be hit by a bus
tomorrow, but get the heck out of the way if you see one coming.

--Connie Jones


Happiness is most abundantly felt and most measurably remembered
in the giving not the getting.

--Jerry R. Lewis, Ed. D.,


All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to
encourage them to do good to themselves.

--Randolph Bourne

Dwell In Possibility

"Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility."

--Oprah Winfrey


"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."

--Frank Lloyd Wright



"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."

--Dale Carnegie

Open Hands

"Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands."

--Leo O'Donovan


"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."

--Mitch Albom


"I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough."

--Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Like Water

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees
only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only
reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and
wholly relaxed.

--Indria Devi


If you don't like something, change it.
If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Don't complain.

--Maya Angelou


Save the world from unfulfilled potential.
Take action on your dreams...now!

--Mr. Positive!

The Word Impossible

We must remove the word "impossible" from our
vocabulary.

--Bernie S. Siegel


No soul is desolate as long as there is a human
being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

--George Eliot


Good actions enoble us, and we are the sons
of our own deeds.

--Miguel de Cervantes

Hanging On

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging
on after others have let go.

--William Feather


One's friends are that part of the human race
with which one can be human.

--George Santayana


The doors of wisdom are never shut.

--Benjamin Franklin

Noble Work

Every noble work is, at first, impossible.

--Thomas Carlyle


Look at people; recognize them, accept them
as they are, without wanting to change them.

--Helen Beginton


If you do not value yourself independently
of your achievements, you will not value your
achievements.

--Gillian Butler & Tony Hope

Enjoying Roses Today

"All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."

--Dale Carnegie


"If you start to think the problem is 'out there,' stop yourself. That thought is the problem."

--Stephen Covey


"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are."

--Marianne Williamson

Known and Unknown

"The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed."

--Gordon Parks


"Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience."

--Brian Tracy


"The best way to say, 'I love you, God,' is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, 'Thank you, God,' is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now."

--Don Miguel Ruiz

Doing What Is Right

Always do right. This will gratify some people
and astonish the rest.

--Mark Twain


When you judge another, you do not define them,
you define yourself.

--Wayne Dyer


When we see problems as opportunities for growth,
we tap a source of knowledge within ourselves
which carries us through.

--Marsha Sinetar

Doesn't Know So

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be
able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know
it so it goes on flying anyway.

--Mary Kay Ash


Criticize the act, not the person.

--Mary Kay Ash


Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

--Mary Kay Ash

Never Excuse Yourself

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard
than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

--Henry Ward Beecher


Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly
impossible conditions are people who simply don't
know how to quit.

--Robert Schuller


We should not look back unless it is to derive
useful lessons from past errors, and for the
purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

--George Washington

Launch To Greater Heights

An arrow can be shot by dragging the bow back; similarly,
if life is dragging you back with difficulties, be patient.
It is getting ready to launch you to greater heights.

--Author Unknown


Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

--Pat Riley


Always give hundred percent, and you'll never have to
second-guess yourself.

--Author Unknown

Pick One Gift

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift,
let it be enthusiasm.

--Bruce Barton


A fruit never tasted so sweet than as the one you
walked furthest to pick.

--Author Unknown


Start believing in yourself and others will too.

--Author Unknown

No Ideal Circumstances

Do not wait for ideal circumstances; they will never
come; nor for the best opportunities.

--Janet Erskine Stuart


The highest compact we can make with our
fellow is: Let there be truth between us
two forevermore.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson


Anybody can do just about anything with himself
that he really wants to and makes up his mind
to do. We are all capable of greater things than
we realize.

--Norman Vincent Peale

Defeated Age

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind,
your talents, the creativity you bring to your
life and the lives of the people you love. When
you learn to tap this source, you will have truly
defeated age.

--Sophia Loren


Love is a verb.

--Clare Boothe Luce


If you know peace, then you thrive;
if you know contentment, then you are rich.

--Su Shi

Happiness Is Mental Attitude

Happiness is not a matter of fortune or wordly
possessions. It is a mental attitude. It comes
from appreciating what we have, instead of being
miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple,
yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.


The best way to get even is to forget...


To know even one life has breathed easier
because you lived...is to have succeeded!

--Emerson

Happiness Comes From

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply,
to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life,
to be needed.

--Storm Jameson


Find the good -- and praise it.

--Alex Haley


Gratitude is the heart's money.

--French proverb

Essentials In Life

The grand essentials to happiness in this life
are something to do, something to love, and
something to hope for.

--Joseph Addison


Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

--Harvey Mackay


You may search my time-worn face,
You'll find a merry eye that twinkles.
I am NOT an old lady
Just a little girl with wrinkles!

--Edythe E. Bregnard

An Obstacle An Opportunity

What is the difference between an obstacle and an
opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity
has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

--J. Sidlow Baxter


Celebrate the happiness that friends are
always giving, make everyday a holiday and
celebrate just living!

--Amanda Bradley


Everything has its wonders, even darkness and
silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be
in, therein to be content.

--Helen Keller

Optimist and Pessimist Sees

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity;
a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

--Winston Churchill


Look at people; recognize them, accept them as
they are, without wanting to change them.

--Helen Beginton


It is the very essence of good leadership to
give away all credit for positive achievement,
to identify only team goals and always to refer
to them as such.

--Joe Klock

Do Something You Love

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you are doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.

--George Lucas


All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them."

--Walt Disney


We all have the extraordinary coded within us...waiting to be released.

--Jean Houston

Belief Makes Things Happen

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."

--Frank Lloyd Wright


Never make an assertion, no matter how real it seems to be to you, if you do not want it reproduced or continued in your life.

--Bob Proctor
From Working With the Law


"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."

--Donald Trump