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