Rekindle The 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


Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people
who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

--Gail Lumet Buckley


The key elements in the art of working together
are how to deal with change, how to deal with
conflict, and how to reach our potential...the
needs of the team are best met when we meet the
needs of individuals persons.

--Max DePree

If You Won't

The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy won't work- if you won't.

-- Zig Ziglar


Hugging has no unpleasant side effects and is all natural.
There are no batteries to replace,
it's inflation-proof and non-fattening
with no monthly payments.
It's non-taxable, non-polluting,
and is, of course, fully refundable.


Make it a bad moment, not a bad day.

-- Katherine Mylius

Like An Egg

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

--C. S. Lewis


We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

--Angelina Jolie


If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more,
do more and become more, you are a leader.

--John Quincy Adams

Have No Regrets

"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


"I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do."

-- Jana Stanfied


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

-- Jean Houston

Knew It Would Not Fail

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?

--Dr. Robert Schuller


True friends are those who, When you make a fool
of yourself, Don't believe that this condition
is permanent.

--Erwin T. Randall


Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates
new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits
the mental, emotional, and psychological differences
between people.

--Stephen Covey

Love

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

-- Lao-Tzu


"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone;
it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."

-- Ursula Le Guin


Love is the most priceless treasure life affords us.

-- Alan Harris

Try In One's Life

There is only one-way in which one can endure
man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in
one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

--Alan Paton


The best relationship is the one in which your love
for each other exceeds your need for each other.


None of us is as smart as all of us.

--Ken Blanchard

Who Dared Believe

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except
by those who dared believe that something inside
them was superior to circumstance.

--Bruce Barton


A successful team beats with one heart.


Every person, all the events of your life are there
because you have drawn them there. What you choose
to do with them is up to you.

--Richard Bach

Security Does Not Exist

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

-- Helen Keller


"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."

--Norman Cousins


"I believe that you control your destiny,
that you can be what you want to be."

--Leo Buscaglia


"In dreams begins responsibility."

--William Butler Yeats

Life Hopes Dreams Goals

"Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes,
there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they
become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans
that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that
achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner
commitment. The response to the challenges of life --
purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face
up to adversity and strife."

*-- Denis Waitley


"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."

*-- Denis Waitley


"You can't win unless you learn how to lose."

*-- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Impossible and Possible

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

*-- Tommy Lasorda


"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it."


"Listen to the mustn'ts, child.
Listen to the don'ts.
Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts.
Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me...
Anything can happen, child.
Anything can be."

*-- Shel Silverstein

When Defeat Comes

"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not
sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your
coveted goal."

-- Napoleon Hill author of 1936 classic Think and Grow Rich


"The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you
like and respect yourself."

--Brian Tracy


"I acted like Cary Grant for so long that I became Cary Grant"

- -Cary Grant

Learn To Be Happy First

"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that
you want."

--Jim Rohn


"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small
people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you,
too, can become great."

--Mark Twain


"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced
every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment,
repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our
disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or
failure."

--Jim Rohn

Your Circumstances

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

-- George Bernard Shaw, "Mrs. Warren's Profession," 1893


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

--Winston Churchill


"Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on
Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job
done."

-- Jim Rohn

Life Is No Brief Candle

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which
I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as
brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."

-- George Bernard Shaw


"Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future,
and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have
taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be."

--Brian Tracy

Likes a Compliment

"Everyone likes a compliment."

*--Jim Rohn


"Appreciate people. Nothing gives more joy than
appreciation."

*-- Ruth Smeltzer


"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."

*-- Robert Frost


"Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world."

*-- Annie Lennox

Unremembered Kindness Love

"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."

*-- William Wordsworth


"My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more."

*-- Og Mandino


"By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength,
no strength that could not become a defect."

*-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be Eager To Learn

Always be eager to learn, no matter how successful you might already
be. In the Millionaires' Club, we sometimes invite a billionaire to
come talk to us. He says, "Your doing okay, but come on. How about if
you really poured it on."

--Jim Rohn


Make a decision today to do something wonderful with your life.

--Brian Tracy

"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all
that you want."

--Jim Rohn

Difficulties We Experience

"The difficulties we experience always illuminate the lessons we need most."

*-- Unknown


"Make one person happy each day, and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time, at least."

*-- Charley Willey


"The meaning of life is to give life meaning."

*-- Ken Hudgins

Real Decision

"A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided."

*-- Tony Robbins


"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."

*-- Robert Louis Stevenson


"If your sunshine wants far outstrip your cold morning desire, have a talk with yourself. Then have a lot more talks with yourself.
Convince number one that you can succeed -- and you will succeed. If
you don't believe in you, why should anyone else?"

*-- Tom Hopkins

Tons of Discipline

"The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for
success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you
should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether
you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline."

-- Brian Tracy


"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough
problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you
had last year."

-- John Foster Dulles


"Whatever is expressed, is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself,
with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with
those words."

-- Brian Tracy

Never Short Sell Yourself

"Never sell yourself short. Anything anyone else has done, you can
probably do as well."


The fastest way to improve your relationships is to make others feel
important in every way possible

--Brian Tracy


We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or
desperation.

--Jim Rohn

Dignity Of Choice

"Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings.
How tall will a tree grow? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings,
on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can
choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to
the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do?"

-- Jim Rohn


"A smile is your greatest social asset."

--Zig Ziglar


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

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Try Something

It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it
frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt


Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue
over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small
hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone
else's hands, but not you."

-- Jim Rohn


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

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have Definite Practical Ideal

"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an
objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your
ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust
all your means to that end."

*-- Aristotle {BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher}


"In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress
but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the
day's generous utterances and the day's good deed."

*-- Clare Booth Luce


"He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by
the attraction of his own."

*-- Henry Ward Beecher