Not That Fearful After All

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"When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams. "

*-- Les Brown


"The years in your life are less important than the life in your years."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"There is only one you... Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!"

*-- Charles Swindoll

Obstacles in Life

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"Obstacles in life are like logs in your path.
You can step over it or move it out of the way.
You could cut it up and make firewood."

-- Siew Hoon


"All things are difficult before they are easy."

-- John Norley


"They can conquer who believe they can."

-- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)

Learn From Trees

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"We can learn a lot from trees: they're always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward."

-- Everett Mamor


"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."

-- Neil Armstrong


"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."

-- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)

Habits of Success

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"If you develop the habits of success, you will make success a habit."

-- Michael E. Angier


"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


"Life begins when you do."

-- Hugh Downs

Think BIG

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"As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big."

-- Donald Trump.


"We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death."

-- Leo Buscaglia


"Don't discard your fantasies as merely wishful thinking. Honor them as messages from the deepest part of your being about what you can do and directions you can choose."

-- Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer

Life Most Persistent Question

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"Life’s most persistent and urgent question is,
‘What are you doing for others?' "

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.


"Practice kindness today. Smile at a stranger, tell someone that they are looking GREAT, or simply give someone an unexpected compliment. I assure you it will make their day better....as well as yours!"

-- Chee Seng


"Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom."

-- Hugo De Groot (1583 - 1645)

What Is Courage

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"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

-- Thomas Fuller


"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

-- Confucius


"Today, let your heart dance. You will find no shortage of dance partners, as your feet join in. And your eyes. And your smile. And every part of your body and your feelings. Let your heart dance all day long."

-- Shirley Yong

The Key To Unlock Energy

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"The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited."

-- Earl Nightingale


"A mind too active is no mind at all."

-- Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963)


"The difference between whether you say, 'I wish I would have,' or 'I'm glad I did,' at the end of your life is whether or not you take DECISIVE ACTION during your life."

-- Chris Widener

The Life In Your Years Counts

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

-- Abraham Lincoln


"There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen."

-- Jim Lovell


"If you think you have an incurable disease, you're right. If you thinkyour problem is curable, then you are also right."

-- Dr. H. Koning, MD

Given Equal Time

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"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."

-- H. Jackson Brown


"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself."

-- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)


"The placebo effect should be called the faith effect. As Jesus said, with faith, you can move mountains.

"To say that in a scientific way:Whatever you do to get well, it has to fit into the story you have about how people get sick and get well."

-- Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD

Do Something You Love

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"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

-- Dale Carnegie


"Being big or small isn't the crucial issue.
If you don't move, you don't move."

-- Steve Ballmer


"The human being lives, moves, and has his being in a limitless ocean of health-power, and he uses this power according to his faith."

-- Wallace D. Wattles

Wins Via Perseverance

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

-- H. Jackson Brown


"Cease to complain. Your words move others. Your words move you. Make yours send everyone in the right direction. Complaining once less a day chokes off 365 seeds of negativity a year. Start TODAY!"

-- David Tang


"Who begins too much accomplishes little."

-- German Proverb

The Result Is What Counts

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"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged on one thing....the result."

-- Vince Lombardi


"Results, specific amd measurable, come from having a clear vision, defining what improvement and adaptation looks like and having a beginning and an end in mind. Results come from knowing what you are achieving today and havinga clear specific strategy for closing the gap between today's reality and your vision for tomorrow."

-- Lee Choo


"If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill."

-- Joan Welsh

Perceived Humans As Potentials

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"If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities."

-- Barbara Bush


"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

-- Confucius


"To think that you are not going to fail is an illusion.
Fail faster, you will only be closer to what you want."

-- Shirley

The Size Of Your Future

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The size of the future you actually experience will largely be determined by one factor: people you choose to connect with. When you invite people who are truly committed to growth into every aspect of your life, your own potential for growth becomes truly unlimited.

-- Dan Sullivan


"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after awhile he gets to know something."

-- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)


"Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image."

-- Denis Waitley

It Takes Only A Burning Desire

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"There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people."

-- Jan Ashford


"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."

-- C. S. Lewis


"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."

-- Joseph Campbell

An Attitude of Gratitude

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"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."

-- Brian Tracy


"The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors;
that which it loves, and also that which it fears."

-- James Allen


"What we do is a measure of who we are. If we imagine our work as labor, we become laborers. If we imagine our work as art, we become artists."

-- Jeffrey Patnaude

Making Best Choices

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"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


"It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld


"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal."

-- Mike Ditka

What Makes The Different

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"A hundred years from now, it will not matter what your bank account was, the sort of house you lived in, or the kind of car you drove. But the world may be different because of the time you spent with your child."

-- Tony


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

-- Alex Pang


"The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours."

-- Frank Bettger

The Reason Why Many Failed

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"So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin."

-- W. Clement Stone


"The quieter you becomethe more you hear."

-- Aloysious


"Try turning off the radio or CD player in your car. Spend the time concentrating instead on your breathing or simply enjoy the scenery as you drive. When I do this, (even as I drive around town) I find that I arrive in a calmer, more relazed state of mind."

-- Yvonne Ng

Ability and Character

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

-- John Wooden


"Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life."

-- Germaine Greer


"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about."

-- Dale Carnegie

Don't Go Too Fast

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"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast -- you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."

-- Eddie Cantor


"We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them."

-- Siok Peng


"...focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."

-- Greg Anderson

Value Yourself Highly

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"If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price."

-- Roger Koh


"Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished."

-- Sharon Salzberg


"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's
only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."

-- Wayne Dyer

Experience of Fully Engaged

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"Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing."

-- Phil Jackson


"It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls."

-- Seow Fuen


"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise ofmen, but from doing something worthwhile."

-- Sir Wilfred Grenfell (1865 - 1940)

Actions Have Consequences

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"Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions."

-- Holly Lisle


"We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse."

-- Anne-Sophie Swetchine


"When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy."

-- Samuel Goldwyn

Concentrate On One Thing

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"Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at time."

-- Samuel Smiles


"To accomplish a great task, you must step out in faith and have complete confidence that your next step will soon become clear to you. Remember this wonderful advice: 'Leap - and the net will appear!'"

-- Siew Hong


"It's not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know."

-- Anthony Robbins

The Will To Try It

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"The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life are the will to try it, and the faith to believe it’s possible."

-- Rich Devos


"How many things have you wanted to try or do in your lifetime and haven’t? You may have chalked it up as a silly thought or an unrealistic whim. Of course there are much serious matters at hand that you need to deal with, right? Don’t forget to stop and smell the roses…start today with something small. It’s never too late to stretch out for things not marked off your MUST DO list!"

-- Ah Bee


"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."

-- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Give Thanks To What You Have

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"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."

-- Oprah Winfrey


"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

-- Conrad Hilton


"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."

-- Abraham Lincoln


"Complain to one who can help you."

-- Yugoslav Proverb

Winners Are Once Losers

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"Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try."

-- Dennis DeYoung


"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."

-- Henry Miller


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

-- William Arthur Ward


"Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails."

-- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)

An Important Thing In Life

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"The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten."

-- Andre Malraux


"You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering."

-- Henri Frederic Amiel


"Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are."

-- Kurt Cobain


"People fail forward to success."

-- Mary Kay Ash

Change Your World Within

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"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

-- Norman Vincent Peale


"Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use."

-- Charles Schultz


"You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conductis mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such mustbe his spirit."

-- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)


"The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity."

-- Ruby Dee

Get Out Of Comfort Zone

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"Step out of your comfort zone at least once each week and create over 50 additional opportunities for excitement, challenge, and possibility each year. That is what life's about!"

-- Joey


"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."

-- Michael Jordan


"Perseverance is not a long race: it is many short races, one after another."

-- Walter Elliot

Never Too Late To Start

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"It is not always easy to find your true calling. Sometimes we find it through trial and error. But always remember, it's NEVER too late. Ray Kroc, for example, founded McDonalds at age 52. Many people have decided to go back to school in their 60s and 70s. It's never too late to find your purpose and your passion in life. We are all unique beings, with different interests and different talents. Discover yourgifts, discover what moves you. Find what makes your heart sing!"

-- David Tang


"Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music."

-- Mac Anderson


"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

-- Jimmy Dean

Don't Believe In Circumstances

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"People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I do not 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 cannot find them, they make them."

-- George Bernard Shaw


"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway."

-- John Wayne (1907 - 1979)


"Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24-7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world..."

-- Hugh Elliott

The Portal of discovery

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"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."*

-- James Joyce (1882 - 1941)


"Trees are our best antiques."

-- Alexander Smith


Thought Of The Day :

The wonder stirred within us by nature is a combination of amazement and admiration that is inspiring. Inspiration so real and unassuming in the scenes, sounds and smells we encounter. Take some time today to notice all the beauty nature has to offer us....completely free of charge!

Your Own Future Depends On Who

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"Your future depends on many things , but mostly on you."

-- Mike


"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."

--M. Kathleen Casey


"Life is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while standing still."

-- Linda Brakeall


"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."*

-- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)

When Is The Time For Action

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"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."

-- Carl Sandburg


"What I do today is important because I am paying a day of my life for it. What I accomplish must be worthwhile because the price is high."

-- Lily


"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."

-- Carlos Castaneda


"We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier."

-- Walter Savage Landor

Marriages Made In Heaven

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"Marriages may be made in Heaven but a lot of the details have to be worked out here on Earth"

-- Gloria Pitzer


Thought Of The Day :

What can you do today to improve your marriage or current relationship? One LITTLE thing can make a BIG difference. Try this. Pick up the phone and call your significant other as soon as you are done reading this email....tell them how much they mean to you. You will make their day!


"If your position is everywhere, your momentum is Zero."

-- Michael Korda

Winning and Losing

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"The difference in winning and losing is most often... not quitting."

-- Walt Disney


"When patterns are broken new worlds emerge."

-- Tuli Kupferburg


Thought Of The Day :

Change is not easy. But it is simple. Things will always change. We don't have a choice about that, but we do have a choice on how we react to change; and whether or not we choose to create change. The choice really boils down to this...either we manage change, or it will manage us. The choice is yours.

Joy Of Happiness

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"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt


"The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life."

-- Leo Tolstoy


"Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."

--Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


"Everything in this world was declared impossible before it was actually done."

-- Author Unknown

Lets Us Be Thankful

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"When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself."

-- Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief


"When a man cares he is unafraid. When he is fair, he leaves enough for others.When he is humble, he can grow."

-- Lao Tzu


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

-- James Bryant Conant


"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."

-- William Feather

The Only Coin In Life

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"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."

--Carl Sandburg


"Learn to value yourself, which means; to fight for your happiness."

-- Ayn Rand


"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great."

-- Fernando Flores


"There is enough in this world for a man's need. But there is never enough in any world for a man's greed."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

Look Within Yourself For The Strength

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

--Anna Freud


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

-- Lao Tzu


"If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act."

-- Lee Iacocca


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

-- Carl Jung

Believe In Your Heart You Can

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"We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have."

-- James R. Ball


"The quieter you become the more you hear."

-- Unknown


Thought Of The Day :

Take some time to look in your time closet. Clear out that which doesn't fit, for whatever reason. Create some space for play and relaxation so that when the next great opportunity comes along, you're ready to make the most of it!

Time To Take An Action

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Thought Of The Day :

Clear away some of the clutter to make room for your dreams. As you say, “no more” to what’s no longer true for you, to those activities, habits, even relationships that are not aligned with how you want to live your life, you make room to ask, “Now What?”


"The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something."

-- Carl Sandburg


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

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There Are No Defeat

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"Being defeated is only a temporary condition;
giving up is what makes it permanent."

-- Marilyn vos Savant


"Ultimately love is everything."

-- M. Scott Peck


"Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility."

-- Dale Dauten


"If a man would move the world, he must first move himself."

-- Socrates

No Age Limit

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"You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams."

-- Dara Torres
2008 Olympic Champion


"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

Great Things Start Small

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

-- Vincent Van Gogh


"Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue."

-- Samuel Johnson


"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing
another mistake."

-- Confucius


"For myself, I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else."

-- Winston Churchill

Happiness Is Within Youself

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"Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

-- Marcus Aurelius


"If you open your heart, love opens your mind."


"You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw."

-- Susan Podziba


"I forgive myself for having believed for so long that...
I was never good enough to have, get, be what I wanted."

-- Ceanne DeRohan

Determination Keeps You Going

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"Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you."

-- Denis Waitley


"Things do not change; we change."

-- Henry David Thoreau


"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

--Helen Keller

Start Living Today

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Thought Of The Day :

"A poem titled, “To Live” There once was a very cautious man, who never laughed or cried, he never cared, he never dared, he never dreamed or tried. And when one day he passed away, his insurance was denied. For since he never really lived, they claimed he never died."


"To get what you’ve never had, you must do what you’ve never done."

-- Unknown


"Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God."

-- Mary Manin Morrissey

Be Grateful In The Process

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Thought Of The Day :

"When you are doing something you don't like to do, see if you can find at least one thing to be grateful for in the process. Just a simple thing to build your gratitude muscles!!"


"When I started counting my blessings,my whole life turned around."

-- Willie Nelson


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

-- Irving Berlin

Never Turn Back On Life

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"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt


"The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul."

-- Rona Barrett


"While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other."

-- Franklin P. Adams


"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance."

-- Dave Barry

Become a Self Made Millionaire

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"There are so many ways for you to become a self-made millionaire that it is almost impossible for you not to achieve this goal if you are really serious about it."

-- Brian Tracy


"Each new hour holds new chances, for new beginings.The horizon move forward, offering you space to place new steps of change."

--Maya Angelou


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

--James Branch Cabell


"Hope is the bird that sings before the dawn is day."

--Rabynanth

Getting Ahead In Difficult Profession

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"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 superiortalent."

-- Sophia Loren


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

-- Emerson


"I have gathered the wisdom that can be gained from personal experience."

-- A Wise Person


"Be mindful of how you approach time. Watching the clock is not the same as watching the sun rise."

-- Sophia Bedford-Pierce

Believe In Learning From Adversity

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"My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present, and dream about the future. I'm a firm believer in learning from adversity. Often the worst of times can turn to your advantage. My life is a study of that."

-- Donald Trump


"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Success Is Rarely Immediate

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Thought Of The Day :

If you are doing everything right but can’t seem to come out on
top, be patient. Hold the course. Success is rarely an immediate,
overnight thing. Life frequently makes us wait. Remember that
with each sunrise come new opportunities. Today offers a clean
slate on which to record your life … and your legacy.



"The best mind-altering drug is truth."

-- Lily Tomlin


"The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' - a leader says, 'Let's go!'"

-- E. M. Kelly

Develop Your Own Character

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Thought Of The Day :

Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for
they become actions. Understand your actions, for they become
habits. Study your habits, for they will become your
character. Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny.


"Whether you think you can, or you can’t…you’re right."

-- Henry Ford


"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

-- Annie Dillard

The Most Valuable Education

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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."

-- Thomas Huxley


"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."

-- Shirley MacLaine


"Success is dependent on effort."

--Sophocles


"The doors of wisdom are never shut."

--Benjamin Franklin

Keeping The Enthusiam

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"Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the
enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle."

-- Norman Vincent Peale


"I always try to turn my personal struggles
into something helpful for others."

-- Henri Nouwen


"You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the beauty,
love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they may be consecrated
at the altar of daily life."

-- MacRina Wiederkehr


"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

-- Walt Disney

Never Let The Odds Stop You

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"Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do."

-- Leroy "Satchel" Paige


"To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love
forever is to live forever."

-- Henry Drummond


"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation
with the bricks others have thrown at him."

-- David Brinkley


"Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them."

-- Ralph Gerard

Adversity Made a Person

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"Adversity introduces a man to himself."

-- A Wise Person


"I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved."

--George Eliot


"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."

--Arnold H. Glasow


"He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner."

--Benjamin Franklin

When Life Becomes Meaningful

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"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


"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions."

-- Jim Rohn

True Purpose In Life

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Thought Of The Day:

What are your greatest gifts?
How can you best serve mankind?
These are the questions you must answer to find your true purpose in life:
Who am I?
What am I meant to do here?
What am I trying to do with my life?
How can I serve others?


"The creation of a thousand forests
is in one acorn."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"It is always your next move."

-- Napoleon Hill

Look For The Good

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Thought Of The Day :

Okay, life is not always a bowl of cherries. But, there
is a profound truth in this Pollyanna attitude - look
for the good, and you will find it. Look for the bad,
and you will find it. It is your choice to make.


"Things turn out best for the people who make
the best of the way things turn out"

-- John Wooden


"Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow
from, but not well enough to lend to."

-- Ambrose Bierce

Don't Be Defeated By Temporary Setbacks

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"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


"Everyone is the better for a little
all-round use of the muscles every day,
and the best way to get this is to do
it by engaging in some form of play or
amusement."

-- Wallace D. Wattles

When You Have Everything To Do

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"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."

--Lord Acton


"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."

--Mother Teresa


"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

--Stephen Covey


"Exercise because you are too healthy to sit still, and not because you wish to become healthy, or to remain so."

-- Wallace D. Wattles

The Best Prize In Life

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"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

--Theodore Roosevelt


"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside."

--Wayne Dyer


"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."

--Henry David Thoreau


"A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

-- J. Paul Getty

Enjoy Life By Slowing Down

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"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."

-- Eddie Cantor


"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy."

-- Spike Milligan


"There are a thousand ways in whichyou can get exercise enough to keep your body supple and your circulationgood, and yet not fall into the rut of 'exercising for your health.'"

-- Wallace D. Wattles


"Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'"

-- Paul McCartney

First Be Who You Really Are

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"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want."

-- Margaret Young


"Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders."

--Bob Moawad


"If you are lucky enough to have done well, then it is your responsibility to send the elevator back down."

--Kevin Spacey


"Personal responsibility begins with ME. That's why it is personal."

--John Miller

Alter Life By Altering Attitudes

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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that
human beings can alter their lives by altering
their attitudes of mind."

-- William James


Thought Of The Day

Our attitude is our personal boomerang to the world -
whatever we throw out will come back to us. Express
enthusiasm and it comes back. Offer a smile and
it is returned. Start to gossip and that's what
we will hear. You get the idea.


"You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless."

-- Caroline Myss

Making Time Count

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"Counting time is not nearly as important
as making time count."

-- Anonymous


Thought Of The Day :

Start each day with a meditation or prayer. Refresh
your mind and refocus your heart on what you are
passionate about. Concentrate on one new thing
you can do today to deepen your passion.


"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness More Inward Disposition

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"Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances."

-- Benjamin Franklin


"We must love one another or die."

--W.H. Auden


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

--Helen Keller


"You can be greater than anything that can happen to you."

--Norman Vincent Peale

Steadily Raise Level of Asipiration

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"A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration."

-- Kurt Lewin


"Who would live and not love?"

-- Rachel Russell


"No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are,
raise your sights and see the possibilities – always
see them, for they're always there."

— Norman Vincent Peale


"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first."

--Shakespeare

Look Within and Discover

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"Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover that the gold we sought, we already are."

-- Alan Cohen


"I go by instinct...I don't worry about experience."

-- Barbra Streisand


"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

-- Robert Byrne


"Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness."

-- Jean Vanier

Pick Up The Mug and Throw Back

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"If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it.
Maintain the high ground when you're under fire.

No victory is worth winning at the expense of picking up the mud that has been slung at you and throwing it back."

-- Rubel Shelly


"Happiness is contagious....Be a carrier!"


"If you are not afraid to face the music,
someday you may lead the band."


"If a person has enough push, he or she
will manage to pull through."

-- A Wise Human

The Strength That Came About

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"Strength is the matter of the made-up mind."

-- John Beecher


"Loyalty is what we seek in friendships."

--Cicero


"There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity."

-- Gen. Douglas MacArthur


"Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow
from, but not well enough to lend to."

-- Ambrose Bierce

Find Our True Direction

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"Sometimes in the winds of change
we find our true direction."

-- Unknown


Thought Of The Day :

Embrace change in your life! The root word for “motivation”
is “move” and movement is change. Ask yourself right now…

Am I moving forward, or standing still?

Do I have the career that I love?

Am I pleased with the relationship I have with my spouse, my kids?

Do I have a healthy lifestyle?

Is my energy level where it needs to be?


"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become."

-- Jim Rohn

Feeling of Inferior

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"Remember, no one can make you feel inferior
without your consent."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt


"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


Thought Of The Day :

We all have excess baggage that we desperately need
to let go of. We have all made mistakes in the past;
made poor judgment calls, harbored ill feelings
towards others, hurt someone or been hurt by someone.

The only person who gets hurt by holding on to this
baggage is yourself. It is like a snake bite. It is
not the bite that kills you; it is the venom that
infects your system.

Purge Yourself

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"Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out."

-- Tina Turner


"There are some people who can't say the words "I love you,"
but they can sure let you know that they love you."

-- Mister Rogers


"If you fall, get up and try again."

-- A Wise Person


"Find release from your concerns and have a good time."

-- From My Fortune Cookie

Asking For Happiness

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"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition."

-- Arthur Rubinstein


"To be alive at all involves some risk."

-- Harold MacMillan


"Find a need and fill it."

-- Ruth Strafford Peale


"Bloom where you are planted."

-- A Wise Person

Take Time To Enjoy

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"We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are."

-- Calvin & Hobbes


"Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot
live without and know we cannot live within."

--James Baldwin


"I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station,
who did not do better work and put forth greater effort
under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism."

--Charles M. Schwab


"Don't expect a great day; create one."

--Author Unknown

Life The Game of Boomerangs

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"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy."

-- Florence Shinn


"Laughter is the one form of communication
every culture can understand."

-- A Wise Person


"You are not your job, status or bank account;
you are who you think you are."

-- A Wise Person


"The last of the human freedoms is to choose
one's attitudes."

-- Victor Frankl

Success Needs Effort

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"Success is dependent on effort."

--Sophocles


"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."

-- Shirley MacLaine


"The doors of wisdom are never shut. The doors of wisdom are never shut."

-- Benjamin Franklin


WHAT'S LOVE?

Love is...What makes a weak man brave And a king step off his throne Good times, bad times Easy times, tough times It comes in an instant And lasts three days after forever That's what love is.

-- Mike

The Great Power

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"The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose."

-- J. Martin Kohe


"The only thing even in this world are the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours."

-- Woody Hayes


Thought Of The Day :

There is a story told by an old Indian:

“On my shoulders are two wolves. One wolf tempts me to do and say wrong things. On the other shoulder is a wolf that continually encourages me to live up to my very best.”

A listener asked the old man, “Which of these wolves has the greatest power over you?”

The old man replied, “The one I feed.”

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Definition of Success

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"Success is the progressive
realization of a worthy ideal."

-- Earl Nightingale


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

-- John Foster Dulles


Thought Of The Day :

Based on Earl’s and John quote above, let’s define success. Success is…

- The school teacher who is teaching school because that’s what
he or she wants to do.

- The woman who is a wife and mother because she wanted to
become a wife and mother and is doing a good job of it.

- The entrepreneur who starts his own company because that
was his dream...that’s what he wanted to do.

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Do It Without Thought Of Failure

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

-- Dr. Robert Schuller


"The greatest possession we have costs nothing, it's known as love.
A personal greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated."

-- Brian Jett


"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus."

-- Oprah Winfrey


"It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world."

-- Al Franken

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The Universe Never Owes Us

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"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

-- Mark Twain


"Love is metaphysical gravity."

-- Buckminster Fuller


"Life does not cease to be funny when people
die any more than it ceases to be serious
when people laugh."

--George Bernard Shaw


"The thought manifests as the word.
The word manifests as the deed.
The deed develops into habit.
And the habit hardens into character.
So watch the thought and its ways with care.
And let it spring from love,
born out of concern for all beings."

-- Buddha

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You Have This Moment To Sparkle

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"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not on this earth for eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake."

-- Marie Beynon Ray


"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."

-- A Wise Person


"You have two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

-- Denis Waitley


"It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference."

-- Jenny Craig

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Life Is Something You Create

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"People talk about finding their lives. In reality, your life is not something you find - it's something you create."

-- David Phillips


"If you're angry with a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other."

-- Walter Anderson


"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

-- Peter Ustinov


"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

-- Winston Churchill

Get Your Values Clear

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"When your values are clear to you,
making decisions becomes easier."

-- Rod Disney


"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."

-- George Eliot


Thought Of The Day :

Make a list of your personal core values. Start with
a personal brainstorming session.

Don't feel like you have to do it all in
one sitting. Set a timeframe of a week or a month and carry
the list with you wherever you go.

As various possibilities cross your mind, add them to the list.
Don't feel like you have to filter your ideas.

This is simply your personal research into your own mind, heart and soul.
Just let the ideas flow!

Take Care of Each Moments

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"If we take care of the moments, the
years will take care of themselves."

-- Maria Edgeworth


"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."

-- Sallust


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Precious moments with your children…where did they go?

Lost minutes stretch into hours, then days.

Lost yesterdays pass away and become weeks and months.

We look back and shake our heads in disbelief,
wondering where the years went. Sound familiar? If you are on
this path, fix it now..

Fast Forward 20 Years What Will Be Your Regret

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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the
bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade-winds
in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

-- Mark Twain


"Do not try to exert your will upon the
formless to compel it to give you more
vitality or power. It is already placing
all the power there is at your service."

-- Wallace D. Wattles


"A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm."

-- Bill Vaughn


"Dare to be yourself."

-- Andre Gide

Own Resolution To Succeed

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

-- Abraham Lincoln


"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."


-- Abraham Lincoln


"Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man."

--Mohandas Gandhi


“One important key to success is self confidence.
An important key to self confidence is preparation.”

-- Arthur

Ninety-Nine Percent Excuses

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"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people
who have the habit of making excuses."

-- George Washington Carver


"You can fool all the people some of th"e time,
and some of the people all the time, but you
cannot fool all the people all the time."

-- Abraham Lincoln


"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."

-- Mohandas Gandhi


"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."

-- James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)

Everyone Will Have Been All Of These

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"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


"Everybody likes a compliment."

-- Abraham Lincoln


"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station,
through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in."

-- George Washington Carver


"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."

-- Clarence Thomas (1948 - )

Determined Spirits Unquenchable Faith

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"A small body of determined spirits fired by an
unquenchable faith in their mission can alter
the course of history."

--Mohandas Gandhi


"If you look for the bad in people expecting
to find it, you surely will."

-- Abraham Lincoln


"Where there is no vision, there is no hope."

-- George Washington Carver


"You will believe that the power of health
in the universe is 10,000 times greater
than that of disease -- in fact, that
disease has no power whatever."

-- Wallace D. Wattles

Your Highest Aspirations

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"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

-- Louisa May Alcott


"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

-- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)


Thought Of The Day :

Establish your set of personal and professional goals and talk and think about them often...even daily.

Think about what you want and your plans to get it!

Visualize your self achieving those goals and think about how it makes you feel. I promise, you will feel more positve and energized!

Have a wonderful weekend and I'll be back on Monday!

The Wonderful Things About Appreciation

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"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what
is excellent in others belong to us as well."

-- Voltaire


"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

-- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)


Thought Of The Day :

Every year there is a special day approaching...Your Mother's or Father BirthDay!

Be sure to send your special thanks, appreciation
and love to your mom, wife, daughter, grandmother or
father, husband, son, grandfather, etc.!

Don't delay...that day will be here before you know it.

Give her or him the day off, make her or him a special dinner, send her or him a
handmade card from you and your kids etc.

You will really make her or his day!

Faith Is SomethingTo Grasp

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"Faith is not something to grasp,
it is a state to grow into."

-- Mohandas Gandhi


"You will believe that the power of health
in the universe is 10,000 times greater
than that of disease -- in fact, that
disease has no power whatever."

-- Wallace D. Wattles


"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."

-- Mohandas Gandhi


"No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind."

-- George Washington Carver

It Is The Life In Your Years

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

--Abraham Lincoln


"Fear of something is at the root of hate for others,
and hate within will eventually destroy the hater."

-- George Washington Carver


"Action expresses priorities."

-- Mohandas Gandhi


"Do not try to exert your will upon the
formless to compel it to give you more
vitality or power. It is already placing
all the power there is at your service."

-- Wallace D. Wattles

Their Music Still In Them

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"Many people die with their music still in them.
Why is this so? Too often it is because they are
always getting ready to live. Before they know it,
time runs out."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


"The minute you settle for less than you deserve,
you get even less than you settled for."

-- Maureen Dowd


"Wherever you see a successful business, someone
once made a courageous decision."

-- Peter Drucker


"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Meet It Your Best Whatever Comes

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"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


"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."

-- William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)


"It is never too late to give up our prejudices."

-- Henry David Thoreau


"The human being lives, moves, and has his
being in a limitless ocean of health-power."

-- Wallace D. Wattles

Form a Mental Vision Of Your Goal

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"Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin."

-- Kathleen Norris


"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and
discerns those inner qualities that make all men human
and, therefore, brothers."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.


"The time is always right to do what is right."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.


"We must accept finite disappointment,
but we must never lose infinite hope."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Be Thankful For Today

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"Let's start with what we can be thankful for, and get our mind
into that vibration, and then watch the good that starts to come,
because one thought leads to another thought."

-- Bob Proctor


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

-- John Updike (1932 - 2009)


Thought Of The Day :

What are you thankful for today?

Start the day off by counting your blessings. I know this might be hard,
especially if you are going through a really difficult
time in your life. Even if it is just one great thing,
make mention of it out loud.

For instance, here is mine:
"I am thankful that I have 3 healthy and happy children
that bless my life each day."

I wish all of you a wonderful Day!

Have A Meaningful Life

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

-- Les Brown


"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose."

-- Lyndon B. Johnson


Thought Of The Day :

Find a way to remove all the negative relationships from your life.
Negative people will always drag you down to their level.

Is that a place where you want to be?

I think not! So…if you think you
could make some upgrades to your current circle of friends…then
start today!

When you increase your associations with positive and
uplifting people….you feel good and strive to become even better!

High Energy Level

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"The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results."

-- Anthony Robbins


"Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer."

-- Elbert Hubbard


"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."

-- Emily Dickinson

Take Step To Fulfill Your Ambition

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"If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now."

-- Mildred Mcafee


"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."

-- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)


"There are really only two conditions of the human mind: Very, very happy. Or, about to become very, very happy. Which are you today?"

-- Mike Dooley


"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying a way small stones."

-- Chinese Proverb

Strengthing The Soul

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

-- Helen Keller


"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

-- Benjamin Franklin


"Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are."

-- Julia Cameron


"If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy."

-- A Wish Human

Great Achievers Have Vision

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"All of the great achievers of the past have been visionary figures; they were men and women who projected into the future. They thought of what could be, rather than what already was, and then they moved themselves into action, to bring these things into fruition."

-- Bob Proctor


"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

-- James Joyce (1882 - 1941)


"Everyone has the power of greatness. Not for fame, but greatness. Because greatness is determined by service."

-- Martin Luther King


"If we are together nothing is impossible.If we are divided all will fail."

-- Winston Churchill

Within Each Of Us

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"Within each of us is a hidden store of energy.
Energy we can release to compete in the marathon of life.
Within each of us is a hidden store of courage.
Courage to give us the strength to face any challenge.
Within each of us is a hidden store of determination.
Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost."

*-- Roger Dawson


"We hold these truths to be self-evident; That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights;that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.'"

*-- Thomas Jefferson


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

*-- Abraham Lincoln

Faith Means Taking The First Step

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"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


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

-- Abraham Lincoln


Thought Of The Day :

Feeling a bit stressed today? Stop what you are doing, close your eyes and breathe. If you are stressed, you will notice your breathing is probably shallow - a condition that both reflects your stress and contributes to it.

Breathe deeply for at least 10 breaths and notice that you've become calmer and more relaxed. Now multiply that one-minute breathing vacation by three...at least three times a day, stop and become aware of your breathing.

Start to restore balance in your life by returning to the most fundamental experience of living...breathe.

No Race Can Proper

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"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."

-- Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)


"Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas."

-- Paula Poundstone


Thought Of The Day :

Happy Friday to you all! Studies show we need 12 laughs a day to stay healthy. Consider this a gift of good health! Laughter is of pure, unadulterated … FUN. Laughter is terrific for anyone, because in today’s world, who do you know that won’t appreciate a good reason to laugh! So make it a goal to have a good old fashioned belly laugh today. You know the kind I am talking about! Laughter IS an instant vacation!

Have a GREAT weekend!

Set Goals To Get Result

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"Big goals get big results. No goals gets no results or somebody else's results."

-- Mark Victor Hansen


"All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude."

-- Harvey Mackay


"Energy, mental clarity, and positive regard for others are the three most important benchmarks of well-being."

-- Jeanne


"When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things."

-- Norman Vincent Peale

Success Achievement Recipe

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"What is the recipe for successful achievement?

To my mind there are just four essential ingredients:

1) Choose a career you love...
2) Give it the best there is in you...
3) Seize your opportunities...
4) And be a member of the team."

--Benjamin F. Fairless


"Age doesn't protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."

-- Jeanne Moreau


"You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face and show the world all the love in your heart. Then people are going to treat you better. You're going to find, yes you will, that you're beautiful as you feel."

-- Carole King


"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."

-- Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)

When Change Does Not Come

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"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

--President Barack Obama


"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine."

-- Thomas Jefferson


"We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent."

-- President Barack Obama


"Who you really are is enough."

-- Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Raise Your Sights No Matter How Dark

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"No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities – always see them, for they're always there."

-- Norman Vincent Peale


"You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."

-- Anonymous


"What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better."

-- Wendell Phillips (1811 - 1884)


"I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message."

-- Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter

Definition of a True Friend

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"A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities."

-- William Arthur Ward


"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery


"You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the processof achieveing it you become someone worth becoming."

-- Jim Rohn


"The geat blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it."

--Seneca

Where Happiness Came From

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

-- Thomas Jefferson


"Inch by inch, life’s a cinch. Yard by yard, life is hard."

-- A Wise Human


Thought Of The Day :

Don’t underestimate the power of small incremental changes. Dream big and constantly pull yourself in the right direction by checking off to-do after to-do…one small task a day can rapidly eat away at something that looks and feels unreachable.

Imagine Dream and Achieve

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"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it."

-- William Arthur Ward


"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self."

-- Napoleon Hill


Thought Of The Day :

When you toss a rock into a lake you see a splash and the ripples spreading out, but those ripples can go far beyond what you see. The same is true in life. Our actions, the things we say create a ripple effect that has a huge impact on you and the people around you, even when you don't see it or aren't aware of it."The Ripple Effect", when understood and used appropriately, can change your life and the life of those who are touched by your influence.

Taking The Fist Step

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

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.


"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else."

-- Wayne Dyer


"The time is always right to do what is right."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.


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

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Expect The Best of Yourself

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"Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality"

-- Ralph Marston


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

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.


"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

--Martin Luther King, Jr.


"It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. "

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Your Ideal Is The Prophecy

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"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be. Your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."

— James Allen


"You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything."

-- Annie Sullivan


"There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way."

-- Christopher Morley


"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway."

-- John Wayne (1907 - 1979)

Stand, Walk, Run, Climb and Dance

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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and
walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900, German Philosopher)


"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

-- Aristotle


"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

-- Plato


"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

--Francis Bacon

Planning For The Future

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"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now."

-- Alan Lakein


"Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

-- Norman Cousins
(1915-1990, American Editor, Humanitarian, Author)


Thought Of The Day :

Always work from a list. When something new comes up, add it to the list before you do it. You can increase your productivity and output by 25% or more – about 2 hours a day – from the first day that you being working consistently from a list. Make your list the night before the day ahead. The more time you take to make written lists of everything you have to do, in advance, the more effective and efficient you will be.

Liking or Disliking

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

-- Jackie Robinson


"When technology interferes with moving your body, contemplating the grand scheme of things,and relating to other humans face to face, it's time to shift the focus."

-- Victoria Moran, Living a Charmed Life


Thought Of The Day :

Remove all derogatory words and phrases from your vocabulary today. Practice empathy. Walk awhile in others’ shoes and consider their feelings before speaking and acting. Before ever beginning to say anything bad about another person…imagine them standing right next to you first. Make today a great day!

A Loving Heart

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"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."

-- Thomas Carlyle


"The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession."

-- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)


"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

-- Aristotle


"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

-- Plato

Breeds Confidence and Courage

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"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

-- Dale Carnegie


"The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness."

-- Neale Donald Walsch


"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."

--Harriet Beecher Stowe


"The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Human Greatest Glory

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"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

-- Buddha


"The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious."

— John Sculley


"Stay close to what makes you come alive. You do the most for someone else by staying connected to what keeps you glowing."

-- Victoria Moran, Living a Charmed Life

Look At The World With a Child Eyes

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"Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child."

-- Ron Wild


"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other."

-- George Eliot


"When we take our time, we have more of it."

-- Victoria Moran, Living a Charmed Life


"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible."

-- Jonathan Swift

More Important Is Where You Are Moving

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"Where you come from is not nearly as important as where you are going."

-- Peter


"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."

-- Zelda Fitgerald


"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."

-- Mildred Barthel


"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty isrealizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."

-- Salma Hayek

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Life Is Creating Not Possessing

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"It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed."

-- Vida D. Scudder


"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."

-- William James


Thought Of The Day:

Now hear this! Never say "yes" without considering the time investment you are committing. Having the courage to say "no" to requests that are inappropriate or unnecessary could be your most effective time management tool.

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Finally Is What You Are

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“It's not what you know or who you know. It's what you are that finally counts.”

-- Zig Ziglar


"I dream, therefore I become."

-- Cheryl Renee Grossman


Thought Of The Day :

Your success or failures in life will not be decided by the number of setbacks you encounter, but rather how you react to them. We cannot change our pasts, we cannot change the fact that people will act a certain way and we cannot change the inevitable. Life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we react to it.

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Your State Of Life

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"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind."

-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer


"Love is not about getting - but giving."

-- Henry Van Dyke


"Big thinking precedes great achievement."

-- Wilferd Peterson


"Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy."

-- Rumi

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What Lies Within Us

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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

-- Ted

"Love is an act of endless forgiving - a tender look which becomes a habit."

-- Peter Ustinov


"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground."

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt


"We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them."

-- Buddha

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Definite Chief Aim

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"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The 2nd is to be kind. The third is to be kind."

-- William James


"Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development."

-- Ted Ward


"Celebrate what you want to see more of in your life."

-- James

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Destiny Need To Be Achieved

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"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. "

-- William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)


"If you judge people, you have not time to love them."

-- Mother Teresa


"The empires of the future are empires of the mind."

-- Winston Churchill


"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark."

-- David Ogilvy

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One Quality One Must Have

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“There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants and the burning desire to achieve it.”

-- Napoleon Hill


"What we call luck is the inner man externalized."

-- Robertson Davies


Thought Of The Day :

"Want to get that promotion at work or be a better parent? Your mental picture of yourself has a powerful effect on your behavior. Visualize yourself as the person you intend to be in the future. Your self-image, the way you see yourself on the inside, largely determines your performance on the outside. All improvements in your outer life begin with improvements on the INSIDE…in your mental pictures."

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How Far You Go In Your Life

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“How far you go in your 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


"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

-- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)


Thought Of The Day :

How many times a day, week, a month, do we have the opportunity to be great through simple acts of kindness? I would venture to say ALOT! Ever get a compliment from a complete stranger? How good does that feel! Pretty good, huh? I have a job for all of you today. Compliment a complete and total stranger. It might not be easy, but I promise you that you will BOTH feel like a million bucks! Never underestimate the power of touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, or an honest compliment. We ALL have the potential to turn a day....or even a life around!

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OffSpring Of Thoughts

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"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge; both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought."

-- Napoleon Hill


"If we spend our lives in loving, we will have no leisure to complain or to feel unhappy."

-- Joseph Lambert


"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible."

— Jonathan Swift


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

-- Elbert Hubbard

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Be A Wise Person

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"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man."

-- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)


"The genius of communication is the ability to be totally honest and totally kind at the same time."

--James Powell


"Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself."

--Theodore T. Hunger


"Dissatisfaction and discouragement are not caused by the absence of things but the absence of vision."

—-Anonymous

Plant Only Good Seeds

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"I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day."

-- Og Mandino


"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."

-- William James (1842 - 1910)


"Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement."

-- Claude M. Bristol


"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."

-- Anna Quindlen

Potentials Rather Than Problems

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"If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems,
as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses,
as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive,
then they thrive and grow to their capabilities."

-- Barbara Bush


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

-- Thomas A. Edison


"Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal."

-- Lenore Hershey


"Step number one for changing the entire world, is falling in love with it as it already is. The same is true for changing yourself."

-- Mike Dooley