Every Experience

"He now realized there was no such thing as failure and that every experience had bright colorful outcomes when he was open to possibility."

-- Ingrid E. Cummings


"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."

-- Seneca


"Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting. It's about being so prepared to face a challenge and believing so strongly in a cause that you are fighting for that you refuse to quit"

-- Richard J. Machowicz


"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Curious Vitamin

"By swallowing a curious vitamin every day, that vitamin c will stretch the bounds of your mental vision, enabling you to perceive more possibilities, on the surface, underneath the surface, beyond the surface."

-- Ingrid E. Cummings



New Year is the Year……

New are the Hopes, Aspirations, Resolutions, Spirits and filled with Happiness, Success, Peace, Togetherness of your Family & Friends……………

May the Year 2012 to follow be among the best you have ever spent.
I specially Wishing you all for a Promising & Fulfilling New Year....

Have a great Year ahead ! HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

Successful Living

"A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time
doing second things first."

-- Robert J. McKain


"To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?"

-- Catherine Graham


"True change isn't willful. It's so fluent and intuitive that we don't even realize it happened."

-- Garrett Kramer

Before Quit, Try

"Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try."

-- Ernest Hemingway


"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true,
 there would be little hope of advance.
"

-- Orville Wright


"Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take."

-- Josh Billings


"The longer I live, the more certain I am that the difference between the great and the insignificant is energy. An invincible determination A purpose once fixed, and then death or victory."

-- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

It's Who We Become

"Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term. It's who we become, as we overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve our goals that can give us the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment."

-- Anthony Robbins


"Everyone wants to be appreciated. So, if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

-- Mary Kay Ash


"Life is a long lesson in humility."

-- James M. Barrie


"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."

-- Maya Angelou

Lifelong Learning

"We affirm that we ought to learn all we can in this life and expect to continue learning in the next. For us, lifelong learning is not simply a practical expedient for a flat world. It is a theological imperative for this world and the world to come."

-- Ingrid E. Cummings


"Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted."

-- Alfred Adler


"Life where you're always doing something you love is art."

-- Leo Babauta


"A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards."

-- Karl Kraus

Joy of Christmas 2011

"Christmas is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas."

-- Dale Evans


"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."

-- Calvin Coolidge


"Christmas is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas."

-- Dale Evans

Stock Clerk or Person Who Make History

"Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk."

-- J. C. Penney


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

-- Aristotle


"Don't take 'no' for an answer. Don't even take 'yes' for an answer. The answer is always 'why?' or 'tell me more.'"

-- Ingrid E. Cummings


"There are three kinds of people in the world, the wills, the won'ts and the can'ts. The first accomplish everything; the second oppose everything; the third fail in everything."

-- Eclectic Magazine

Demolish My Bridges

"I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward.
"

-- Firdtjof Nansen


"Human beings who are most alive, though, go beyond a superficial level of curiosity to seek out the next level of wondering."

-- Ingrid E. Cummings


"What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job."

-- Zig Ziglar


"You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you."

-- Ruth Smeltzer

Steadily Building

"The great successful people of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and
that a bit, but steadily building --steadily building."

-- Robert Collier


"Do you want my one-word secret of happiness - It's growth - mental, financial, you name it."

-- Harold S. Geneen


"Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him."

-- Wayne Dyer


"Shine one corner of the world -- just one corner."

-- Shunryu Suzuki

In Order To Excel

"In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without a total 100 percent dedication, you won't be able to do it."

-- Willie Mays


"Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest."

-- Mark Twain


"We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows."

-- Robert Frost


"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Triggers Curiosity Mind

"Curiosity is the cornerstone of a vigorous mind. It cannot be overstated how powerful is the simple act of asking a seemingly naive question. It triggers a consideration of something altogether new, depositing a speck of impurity into the mix, like the impurity that begets a pearl in an oyster."

-- Ingrid E. Cummings


"The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal."

-- Seth Godin


"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

-- Mark Twain


"It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done."

-- Samuel Smiles

Model Someone

"When you're trying to generate an idea or an approach that's bold and memorable, it may help to model or emulate someone you admire."

-- Ingrid E. Cummings


"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


"My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny."

-- Elaine Maxwell


"Greatness is won, not awarded."

-- Guy Kawasaki

That Breakthrough

"Brushing your teeth and exercising are routine things you habitually do while you wait for that big breakthrough. Implicit in Pearson's thought is that a breakthrough may never quite arrive, there's no guarantee but that's okay because you'll do just fine plodding along making small but steady progress using kaizen."

-- Ingrid E. Cummings


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

-- Albert Einstein


"One's best success comes after their greatest disappointments."

-- Henry Ward Beecher


"I wouldn't give a nickel for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity."

-- Albert Einstein

Strong Wind

"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are."

-- Arthur Golden


"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."

-- Mark Twain


"The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and
what we could become."

-- Ben Herbster


"To learn, read. To know, write. To master, teach."

-- Hindu proverb

Wishful Thinking

"No one can just sit around on the back porch thinking a whole slew of happy thoughts and then expect the universe to open its purse strings and let fly with the good stuff. That's called wishful thinking."

-- Ingrid E. Cummings


"Friendship is love with understanding."

-- Ancient Proverb


"What it boils down to is this - it's up to you to get hold of you mind, control it, quiet it. God does the rest. And immediately, the being ready and the pouring in are all one act."

- Nancy Pope


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

-- Epictetusnes

What You Put Into The Universe

"The Law of Attraction is this: As you sow, so shall you reap, meaning that whatever you put out into the universe will be reflected back to you. What this mean from a practical standpoint is that we always attract into our lives whatever we think about most often."

-- Ingrid E. Cummings


"To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate."

-- Michael Jordan


"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."

-- Alan Alda


"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

-- C.G. Jung

Faster The Process

"In terms of building a vigorous mind, the interest rate is analogous to the degrees of passion you exhibit in your study of photography, weaving, candle-making, whatever. The more into it you are, the faster the entire process will progress. Your passion serves as the catalyst in the equation."

-- Ingrid E. Cummings


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

-- David Phillips


"Every artist was first an amateur.
"

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Live from your heart and you will be most effective."

-- Arthur Wang

Thunderous Breakthroughs

"Thunderous breakthroughs are almost always the result of a cumulative aggregation of small steps and seemingly trifling achievement."

-- Ingrid E. Cummings


"Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow."

-- Doug Firebaugh


"And will you succeed? Yes! You will indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed)."

-- Dr. Seuss


"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

-- Confucius

Kaizen

"Kaizen is the fine art of cutting grand goals down to size, the amazing power of taking one step at a time, putting one foot in front of the other. This notion is sophisticated and elegant in its simplicity, yet it's been neglected. We live in a fast-paced culture and we want to rush to get to the finish, quickly.

There's something in us that resists the slow and steady. But slow and steady progress is how you develop a vigorous mind. It's how you accomplish any goal, for that matter."

-- Ingrid E. Cummings


"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust
the action steps."

-- Confucius

Twenty Minutes Everyday

"Spending just twenty minutes a day may strike you as requiring forever to reach any substantial goal. Not at all. What will cause you to take forever to reach your goal is waiting until you have an entire weekend to devote to it. That seldom happens, as you well know."

-- Ingrid E. Cummings


"You must let Life flow through you and allow it to express itself naturally.

Don't let the little worries of life, or even the big ones, depress you and cause you to lose your vitality.

Assert the Life Force and manifest it in every thought, act and deed.

It won't take long before you will be exhilarated and bubbling over with vitality and energy."

-- Thought Vibrations Can Change the World

Getting Started

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

-- Mark Twain (1835-1910)


"You cannot climb a mountain if you will not risk a fall."

-- Rick Beneteau


"Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground."

-- William James


"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

Need For Struggling

"Whether children or adults, it's actually satisfying to struggle. We're born to struggle. We need to be struggling. It's how to keep our brains alive, growing and thriving. Challenge is pleasure."

-- Ingrid E. Cummings


"You must let Life flow through you and allow it to express itself naturally.

Don't let the little worries of life, or even the big ones, depress you and cause you to lose your vitality.

Assert the Life Force and manifest it in every thought, act and deed.

It won't take long before you will be exhilarated and bubbling over with vitality and energy."

-- Thought Vibrations Can Change the World

Continued Learning

"Self-development through continued learning is the fundamental strategy for successful living. Although it may be elemental, it's nevertheless a vastly underused tactic."

-- Ingrid E. Cummings


"Unexpected kindness is the mos powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures."

-- Bob Kerrey


"Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding."

-- Myla & Jon Kabat-Zinn


"It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear."

-- Francis Bacon

Twenty Minutes Per Day

"What can you get done in twenty minutes? You can learn a few of the fundamentals of chess. You can pick up five new words of French. But, as with the power of compound interest in your bank account, the cumulative progress created by those twenty intense minutes of attention every day can be astonishing."

-- Ingrid E. Cummings


"Success is ultimately about connection, not perfection."

-- Whitney Johnson


"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


"Love what is ahead by loving what has come before."

-- Herbert Hoover

Everything About You

"Everything about you, from your attitude, ethics and body language to your language, habits and energy, leaves a lasting impression about the person you are."

-- Dr Joe Rubino


"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."

-- Chuang Tzu



"I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labour of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person."

-- Og Mandino

Living Responsibility

"Living responsibility means interpreting that we are the source of everything that shows up around us in life. On some level we have attracted whatever it is for a reason. Likewise, we have the ability to attract something different if we decide that what we have attracted does not serve us."

-- Dr Joe Rubino


"The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. "

-- Leo Rosten


"What can you do right now to begin to turn your life around? The very first thing is to start making a list of things to be grateful for."

-- Joe Vitale
Author and Speaker


"Empty yourself and let the universe fill you."

-- Yogi Tea

Life's Experience

"All of life's experiences present themselves as tools for our own creation. It is entirely up to us to decide how we will experience any aspect of life as it presents us with an opportunity to decide who we choose to be, given the circumstances."

-- Dr Joe Rubino


"The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation."

-- Comer Cotrell


"Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults."

-- Henri Frederic Amiel


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

-- Thich Nhat Hanh

The More You Grow

"The more you grow and become, the more you can yet become. There is no arriving, only the constant process of being and becoming out of your new, empowering and constantly evolving declaration."

-- Dr Joe Rubino


"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

-- Anais Nin


"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


"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

Key To Life

"The key to a life that is satisfying and productive is to identify your key values and make sure they are being honored. Until your life and values are in alignment, life will look like an uphill struggle."

-- Dr Joe Rubino


"Have wisdom in your actions and faith in your merits."

-- Yogi Bhajan


"If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace."

-- Norman Borlaug


"As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind."

-- Isabelle Holland

Life Rules

"When we violate the life rules based upon our value system, then frustration, anger and ineffective communication result. When we honor our values, life works."

-- Dr Joe Rubino


"An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason."

-- Publilius Syrus


"Success is not a gift, nor a concession to favorites of the Universe. It is a universal right. No other basis could exist in the Universe."

-- The Power Within


"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude."

-- Cynthia Ozick

Get What You Expect

"We get what we expect. Take full responsibility for expecting your future to be the way you want it to turn out. Realize that you have consciously or unconsciously attracted to you everything that shows up in your life."

-- Dr Joe Rubino



"A method exists that will stop cruel people from ever deceiving and hurting you again. Here it is. Realize that no one can ever attack or hurt your real nature. They can injure only the unseen and self-flattering pictures you have of yourself.

Only your imaginary identity of being wise or strong is every pained or insulted. So develop and live from your true nature, for it is as far above human conflict as a star is above earth."

-- Vernon Howard

Your Future

"The future will result from your expectations. The quality of your future will be influenced by the commitment you have for it. You get to design and invent it! You are the sole designer and builder of what is to be and the result will be entirely consistent with your expectations."

-- Dr Joe Rubino


"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity."

-- W. Clement Stone
1902-2002, Businessman, Philanthropist and Author



"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."

-- Leonardo da Vinci


"Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence."

-- Robert Green Ingersoll"

Never Ending Improvement

"The decision to make each day an opportunity for personal development means committing to continual and never ending improvement in some aspects of our lives."

-- Dr Joe Rubino


"Look at you, you madman, Screaming you are thirsty And are dying in a desert When all around you there is nothing but water!"

-- Kabir


"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."

-- William Wrigley, Jr.


"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while. You don't do things right once in a while. You do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

-- Vince Lombardi

Our Daily Choice

"Daily, we are offered a choice. We can respond to life's challenges by either resisting or embracing them. Taking the path of personal development means examining who we are today and who we choose to be tomorrow."

-- Dr Joe Rubino


"Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about
something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context."

-- Margaret J. Wheatley


"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

-- Oprah Winfrey


"The lines of giving are complicated, you never know how it will come back. But you have to give because you can't let the cord break with you."

-- Maria Diarra Keita

The Principles

"If you can gain the principles necessary to live a powerful life that fully supports you, you will see things differently and therefore act differently."

-- Dr Joe Rubino


"Every smile is a direct achievement."

-- William Jefferson Clinton


"We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways."

-- Marge Piercy


"All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!"

-- Bob Newhart

In The End Everyday

"In the end, everyday that you live, you are either experiencing by choice or you are a victim of your environment, helpless to set your own destiny. You are either living out of your values or are at the whims of your ego. You are needy or you are the source of everything that shows up around you."

-- Dr Joe Rubino


"Not all who wander are lost."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien


"Never spend your money before you have it."

-- Thomas Jefferson


"A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'"

- Black Hawk

What We Surround Ourselves

"Who and what we surround ourselves with has a great deal to do with creating an environment that either champions us to be all we can be or sabotages us in this effort."

-- Dr Joe Rubino


"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

-- Edgar Allan Poe


"I am growing in my soul a perfect courage. I am the spirit of the soul harmonic with the perfect whole."

- The Power Within


"Strength does not lie in what you have. It lies in what you can give."

Arther Wang

Get To Choose Life

"In short, life can either be an uphill struggle that looks like something you have to survive or it can be a daring adventure played full out in partnership with others. You get to choose which it will be."

-- Dr Joe Rubino


"Crisis breeds opportunity. Look for something positive, take your broken wings and learn to fly again."

-- Orrin Checkmate Hudson


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

-- William A. Ward


"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

-- James Baldwin

Your World Will Be Better

"Negative thinking isn't just a bad habit, it can do real harm to you and your loved ones, especially if you (or they) start to believe it. So turn off that downer station in your head and tune in to the good things you do and have. Your world will be better for it."

-- Barton Goldsmith


"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."

-- Lao Tzu


"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

-- Henry Ford


"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."

-- Marcus Aurelius

Best Way To Improve Self

"One of the best way to make improvements in your own life is to look at how someone you respect changed for the better. Examining how those we admire have improved their circumstances can teach us what it is we need to do to enhance our own lives."

-- Barton Goldsmith


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

-- Jesse Owens


"The wishbone will never replace the backbone."

-- Will Henry


"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."

-- Frank A. Clark

Sense of Self

"Our sense of self is enhanced when we give to others. It generates brain chemicals that actually reduce depression and anxiety as well as increase our capacity for joy."

-- Barton Goldsmith


"But thou, doing kindness, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth."

-- Matthew 6:3


"You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life."

-- Les Brown


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

-- Jesse Owens

Getting Educated

"No matter what stage of life you are in, getting educated is one of the greatest gifts you can give to yourself."

-- Barton Goldsmith


"Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds."

-- Albert Einstein


"Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan."

-- Paul J. Meyer


"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

-- James Baldwin

What is Courage

"Courage is not the absence of fear, it is about moving through the unsure moments to reach your goals despite any anxieties. Facing challenges with the understanding that you have the emotional mettle to withstand the difficulties around the corner is a building block of confidence."

-- Barton Goldsmith


"Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities."

-- Napoleon Bonaparte


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

-- Anais Nin


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

-- Beverly Sills

The More You Do It

"Remember: The more you do it, the easier it will be to repeat it. If you have many successes, it;s easier to have them again."

-- Barton Goldsmith


"When thou sees an eagle, thou sees a portion of genius; lift up thy head!"

-- William Blake


"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

-- Nido Qubein


"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

-- Elinor Smith

Learning Is Important

"The reason that learning is so important to your success is really simple. The more you know on a subject, the more you increase your opportunities for success."

-- Jack Hatfield


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

-- Thomas A. Edison


"To know when to be generous and when to be firm - this is wisdom."

-- Elbert Hubbard


"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."

-- Lewis Carroll

Testing Own Limits

"Test your limits on a constant basis and adopt not only that change is life and life is change, but also the philosophy that you don't know you can't do something. If you have something you want out of life, you must abandon the idea that you can't."

-- Jack Hatfield


"Empathy is the greatest thing. There's an expression I love: 'Let people live in your heart.'"

-- Toshiro Kanamori, 4th grade teacher


"You are the author of your own life story and God is the publisher who makes it all possible."

-- Raquel Szann


"To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?"

-- Catherine Graham

Stretch a Little Farther

"Each time you stretch a limit a little farther, you grow. If you don't test the limits you currently have, then you will never advance beyond where you are right now."

-- Jack Hatfield


"To discover in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless."

-- Marsha Sinetar


"Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you. We are all learners, doers and teachers."

-- Richard Bach

Testing The Limitations

"Testing the limitations that you have on a constant basis is extremely important to your success. It is a natural process that begins the day you are born and ends only upon your death. Testing your boundaries causes you to grow in ways that you would not have otherwise."

-- Jack Hatfield


"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn
paths of accepted success."

-- John D. Rockefeller


"The throat is our center of expression. Who we are sneaks out in our attitudes and in what we say."

-- John Robson

You May Have Overlooked

"Doing more opens door that you may have overlooked until now. Those doors might lead to a future that surpass your wildest dreams of where you would like to be. If you don't like your life, then do something about it and make change happen."

-- Jack Hatfield


"Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory."

-- Zig Ziglar


"A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books."

-- Chinese Proverb


"The secret to a long and healthy life is to be stress-free. Be grateful for everything you have, stay away from people who are negative, stay smiling and keep running."

-- Fauja Singh, 100-yr-old Marathoner

The More We Share

"The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have."

-- Leonard Nemoy


"Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect."

-- Rob Reiner
Director


"Never accept the negative until you've thoroughly explored the positive."

Arthur Wang


"If you wait for life to issue you an invitation to experience stress, and then issue another invitation for stress relief, you risk losing your opportunity to use stress to your advantage."

-- Jack Hatfield

Mental Toughness

"Mental toughness is a desired attribute. Keeping your emotions focused on the positive in the face of negative is being tough."

-- Jack Hatfield


"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

-- Samuel Beckett


"I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be."

-- Ken Venturi


"There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me."

-- Andre Gide

Measure of Wealth

"The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money."

--Benjamin Jowett
1817-1893, English Scholar, Classicist and Theologian


"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."

-- Erica Jong


"If things go wrong, don't go with them."
-- Roger Babson


"In every soul there has been deposited the see of great future, but that seed will never germinate, much less grow to maturity, except through the rendering of useful service."

-- Napoleon Hill

True Security

"The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends and your family."

-- Anthony Robbins


"I am resolved, without disturbance to my own mind or repulsion to others, to do this one thing, splendidly, satisfactorily. I am determined to attract this person to the doing of my desire."

-- From the Magnetic Will Section of The Power Within


"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose."

-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Otherwise We Hardern

"We must always change, renew and rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."

-- Orlando A. Battista


"The dream was always running ahead of one. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was a miracle."

-- Anais Nin


"We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him."

-- Napoleon Hill

Expand Our Lives

"The way to expand our lives is to model the lives of those people who are already succeeding."

-- Anthony Robbins


"Imagination is the eye of the soul."

-- Joseph Joubert


"Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?"

-- Eliza Dushku


"Every man dies - not every man really lives."

-- William Wallace

A Way Shall Be Found

"No matter what happens in your life, you've got to be able to believe, This too shall pass, and that if you keep persisting, you'll find a way."

-- Anthony Robbins


"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."

-- Scottish Proverb


"All the advice you ever gave your partner, is for you to hear."

-- Byron Katie


"The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows."

-- Laurence Lee

Error in Life

"If you're going to make an error in life, err on the side of overestimating your capabilities (obviously, as long as it doesn't jeopardize your life.)"

-- Anthony Robbins


"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - A commitment to excellence - That will enable you to attain the success you seek."

-- Mario Andretti


"It is better to be kind than right."

-- Wayne Dyer


"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

-- Mary Oliver

Afraid of Disappointment

"Most people constantly say, Let's be realistic, are really just living in fear, deathly afraid of being disappointed again. Out of that fear, they develop beliefs that cause them to hesitate, to not give their all, consequently they get limited results."

-- Anthony Robbins


"I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day."

-- Og Mandino

Think With It

"The object of our definite chief aim should become your hobby. You should ride this hobby continuously, you should sleep with it, eat with it, play with it work with it, live with it and Think with it."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Sometimes, the things that we can't change end up changing us."

"The best journeys answer questions that in the begining you didn't even think to ask."

-- Arthur Wang


"In our sheer preoccupation with technology, we do not realize the inherent artistic choices when creating technology ... and the questioning and reflection that the process of creating art implies."

-- Tapan Parikh

Short-Term Pain

"Remember, anything you want that's valuable requires that you break through some short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure. If you want a great body, you've got to sculpt that body, which requires breaking through short-term pain. Once you've done it enough times, working out become pleasurable."

-- Anthony Robbins


"Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish."

-- John Jakes


"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."

-- Thucydides


"Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future."

-- Alan Cohen

Never Be Idle

"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

-- Thomas Jefferson


"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."

-- Arthur Ashe


"Pure and simple, balance is happiness."

-- Frederick Lenz


"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."

-- W.B. Prescott

Is It The Same Problem

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

-- Charles Schultz


"Don't be a leader -- be a ladder."

-- Jayesh Patel


"Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it."

-- Charles Garfield

Necessary To Change Plans

"From time to time it may become necessary to change the plans you have adopted for the achievement of the object of your definite chief aim. Make these changes without hesitation. No human being has sufficient foresight to build plans which need no alternation or change."

-- Napoleon Hill


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


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

-- Wayne Dyer


"The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it."

-- Mignon McLaughlin

Contractor and Builder

"You are a contractor and builder and like men who build houses out of mere wood and brick and steel, you must draw up a set of plans after which to shape your success building. You are living in a wonderful age, when the materials that go into success are plentiful and cheap."

-- Napoleon Hill


"If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth ... This is the real message of love."

-- Thich Nhat Hanh



"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything. This kind of determination is the great distinction between extraordinary people and little ones."

-- Thomas Fuller

There Will Be Roadlocks

"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

-- Michael Jordan


"The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors."

-- Anthony Robbins


"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

-- JK Rowling

What You Like Best

"In your search for the work for which you are best fitted, it will be well if you bear in mind the fact that you will most likely attain the greatest success by finding out what work you like best, for it is well known fact that a man generally best succeeds in the particular line of endeavor into which he can throw his whole heart and soul."

-- Napoleon Hill


"The question isn't who is going to let me. It's who is going to stop me."

-- Ayn Rand


"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."

-- Harrison Ford


"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."

-- Frank A. Clark

Habit of Definite Chief Aim

"The habit of working with a definite chief aim will breed in you the habit of prompt decision and this habit will come to your aid in all that you do. Moreover, the habit of working with a definite chief aim will help you to concentrate your attention on any given task until you have mastered it."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast."

-- Norman Vincent Peale



"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."

-- Will Rogers


"If you can dream it, you can do it."

-- Walt Disney

Follow Your Heart

"Almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

-- Steve Jobs


"In your struggle for success you should keep constantly in mind the necessity of knowing what it is that you want, of knowing precisely what is your Definite Purpose and the value of the principle of organized effort in the attainment of that which constitutes your definite purpose."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Simplicity of living means meeting life face to face. It means confronting life clearly, without unnecessary distractions. It means being direct and honest in relationships of all kinds. It means taking life as it is."

-- Duane Elgin

Indecision Become Weakness

"Until you selects a Definite Purpose in Life, you will dissipates your energies and spreads your thoughts over so many subjects and in so many different directions that they lead not to power but to indecision and weakness."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

-- Alexander Graham Bell


"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

-- John F. Kennedy


"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

-- Steve Jobs

Enjoy Making Decisions

"You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever, the very next person you stand behind in line or sit next to on an airplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open and all of the things that you've been waiting for to fall in place."

-- Anthony Robbins


"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."

-- James R. Cook


"Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society."

-- Cesar Chavez


"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

-- William Faulkner

Vitalizing Your Mind

"That you will attract to you people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not. This being true, can you not see the importance of vitalizing your mind with a Definite Chief Aim that will attract to you people who will be of help to you and not a hindrance?"

-- Napoleon Hill


"Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me."

-- Immanuel Kant


"There are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water."

-- Ivy Baker Priest


"Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Start with what they know; build with what they have. But with the best of leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say, we have done this ourselves."

-- Lao Tzu

Making That Achieving Decision

"Realize that the hardest step in achieving anything is making a true commitment, a true decision. Carrying out your commitment is often much easier than the decision itself, so make your decisions intelligently but make them quickly."

-- Anthony Robbins


"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

-- Edith Wharton


"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."

-- Henry David Thoreau


"There comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now."

-- Wangari Maathai

Definite Chief Aim Determination

"Any Definite Chief Aim that is deliberately fixed in the mind and held there with the determination to realize it, finally saturates the entire subconcious mind until it automatically influences the physical action of the body toward the attainment of that purpose."

-- Napoleon Hill


"The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds."

-- Theo Jansen


"We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more."

-- Anne Sophie Swetchine


"The only gift is a portion of thyself."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Listen To The Silence

"Something I have found refreshing is to just sit quietly for a few minutes and listen to the silence or my heart beating. I have found contemplative walks to be a wonderful time to get creative ideas. Being out in nature is a way that many people find the silence and peace to listen."

-- Mary Claire O'Neal


"Do not suppress it - that would" hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it."

-- Peace Pilgrim


"The integrity of beauty is that inner straining towards goodness and completion."

-- John O'Donohue


"Abundance doesn't follow giving until giving becomes its own reward."

-- Jan Denise

Expressed in Actions

"A good Encyclopaedia contains most of the known facts of the world, but they are as useless as Sand Dunes until organized and expressed in terms of actions."

-- Napoleon Hill


"We build too many walls and not enough bridges."

-- Isaac Newton


"That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes."

-- Denis Waitley


"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

-- Anais Nin

Replace The Negative Thoughts

"The important thing to remember is to replace those negative, fearful and defeating thoughts when you hear them. Trying to push the thought out of your mind without replacing it with something else just make it harder to think about anything other than the original thought."

-- Mary Claire O'Neal


"If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger."

-- Buzz Aldrin


"In a painting you create beauty with the addition of each brush stroke. In a company you create it with the addition of each talented, engaged person and with each thoughtful act."

-- Bill Witherspoon


"This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind."

-- Gwendolyn Brooks

You Decide Your Life

"We all have a mountain to climb, our path in life. For most people, the desired path is happiness, fulfillment and love. Whatever you label it, it is your journey, your path and only you can decide what work best for you."

-- Mary Claire O'Neal


"If you judge people you have no time to love them."

-- Mother Teresa


"Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness - both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter."

-- Dawna Markova


"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

-- Leo Tolstoy

Without Blaming Someone

"If you can run a losing race without blaming your loss on someone else, you have bright prospects of success further down the road in life."

-- Napoleon Hill


"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."

-- Friedrich Engels


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

-- Wendell Phillips


"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."

-- Burton Hills

Think Positive and Masterfully

"Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience."

-- Eddie Rickenbacker
1890-1973, Decorated Aviator and Businessman


"When you develop your ability to balance your emotions, unexpected problems won't knock you off balance as easily, and you'll return more quickly to a positive outlook."

-- Peggy McColl


"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

-- Benjamin Franklin


"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.
Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."

-- Cicero

Commit To Long-Term Result

"Deciding to commit yourself to long-term results, rather than short-term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime. Failing to do this can cause not only massive financial or societal pain, but sometimes even the ultimate personal pain."

-- Anthony Robbins


"No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined.
No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled.
No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined."

-- Harry Emerson Fosdick
(1878-1969, American minister)


"Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have."

-- Thomas A. Edison

Developing Success

"Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character.
The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him."

-- William Carleton


"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

No Failures, Only Results

"No matter how prepared you are, there's one thing that I can absolutely guarantee: if you're on the river of life, it;s likely you're going to hit a few rocks. That's not being negative, that's being accurate. The key is that when you do run aground, instead of beating yourself up for being such a failure, remember that there are no failures in life. There are only results. If you didn't get the results you wanted, learn from this experience so that you have references about how to make better decisions in the future."

-- Anthony Robbins


"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."

-- Richard M. DeVos


"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were."

-- David Rockefeller

The Mind Becomes Withered

"Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."

-- Mother Teresa


"When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky."

-- Buddha


"Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it."

-- Julie Andrews

Good and Bad Judgment

"Success truly is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is the result of experience and experience is often the result of bad judgement. Those seemingly bad or painful experience are sometimes the most important."

-- Anthony Robbins


"The only thing complaining does is to convince other people you are not in control and that you let less than positive circumstances control your mood and outlook."

-- Arthur Wang


"Every time you take a risk or move out of your comfort zone, you have a great opportunity to learn more about yourself and your capacity."

-- Jack Canfield

Mind Requires Systematic Exercise

"It should be remembered, however that the mind requires or its development, a variety of exercise, just as the physical body, to be properly developed, calls for many forms of systematic exercise."

-- Napoleon Hill


"There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living."

-- Arthur Wang


"Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before."

--Franz Kafka

Singleness of Purpose

"Singleness of purpose is essential for success, no matter what may be one's idea of the definition of success. Yet singleness of purpose is a quality which may and generally does call for thought on many allied subjects."

-- Napoleon Hill


"To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift."

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt


"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled."

-- Andrew Carnegie

Take Action To Get It

"Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it."

-- Jack Canfield
Author, Chicken Soup for the Soul


"There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man."

-- Sean Connery


"What is now proved was once only imagined."

-- William Blake


"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine."

-- Elvis Presley

Destiny Decisions

"The three decisions that control your destiny are:
1) Your decisions about What to focus on.
2) Your decisions about What things mean to you.
3) Your decisions about What do do to create the results you desire."

-- Anthony Robbins


"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."

-- Steven Covey


"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance."

-- Charles Lindbergh


"It is only when people shake off the baggage of financial misinformation they have acquired from their parents, teachers, friends and past financial disasters that they are able to advance themselves financially."

-- Todd Dean

Nothing Just Happens

"Nothing ever just Happens. Everything from the lowest animal form that creeps on the earth or swims in the seas, on up to a man is the Effect of Nature's evolutionary process. Evolution is Orderly Change. No Miracle are connected with this orderly change."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Behind me is infinite power, before me is endless possibility, around me is boundless opportunity."

-- Arthur Wang


"When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think. When you give your children wisdom, you do not tell them what to know, or what is true, but, rather, how to get to their own truth."

-- Neale Donald Walsch

True Decisions

"Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility."

-- Anthony Robbins


"Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can."

-- Arthur Wang


"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you."

-- Winnie the Pooh


"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."

-- Michelangelo Buonarroti

Have A Bigger Yes Burning

"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say no to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger yes burning inside."

-- Stephen Covey


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

-- Ovid


"Begin by studying men who have accumulated great wealth and find out the Cause of their achievements."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Whatever we think about and thank about, we bring about."

-- Wayne Dyer

Accept Failure

"You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try
- you don't take the risk."

-- Rosalynn Carter


"The man who can intelligently use the knowledge possessed by another is as much or more a man of education as the person who merely has the knowledge but does not know what to do with it."

-- Napoleon Hill


"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be."

-- Marcel Pagnol

Make The Decision Now

"Make the decision now that can send you in a new, positive and powerful direction for growth and happiness. Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent and committed decision."

-- Anthony Robbins


"The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become."

-- Brian Tracy


"The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself."

-- Wallace Wattles


"The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy and the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most."

-- Robert Kiyosaki

Getting Improvement

"Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes."

-- Frieda Norris


"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

-- Winston Churchill


"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."

-- Bill Cosby

Organized Knowledge

"Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it."

-- Julia Child


"Pursue meaningful adventures."

-- Chris Guillebeau

Never Fall Before

"If you never fall you won't know how to pick yourself up."

-- Arthur Wang


"To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it."

-- Josh Jenkins


"You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose."

-- Rhonda Byrne


"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."

-- Warren Buffett

Define Ourselves

"None of us is defined by our circumstances, nor are we defined by how other people perceive us. It is up to each one of us to define ourselves, and that is a life's work. Each of us has the ability to lead a dynamic life by pursuing our unique goals and dreams. There are no limits to what you can do."

-- Stedman Graham



"The people's good is the highest law."

-- Cicero


"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do.
Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children."

-- Alex Haley

Secrets of Energy

"This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men."

-- Captain J. A. Hadfield


"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

-- Charles R. Swindoll


"A dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it. A genuine dream is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential."

-- John Maxwell

Grow Through Life

"Don't go through life, grow through life."

-- Eric Butterworth


"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."

-- Baltasar Gracian


"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."

-- James M. Barrie


"A man is half whipped the minute he begins to feel sorry for himself, or to spin an alibi with which he would explain away his defects."

-- Napoleon Hill

Don't Assign Limits

"We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none."

-- Christian Nestell Bovee


"You're never too old to become younger."

-- Mae West


"Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head."

-- Ann Landers


"Never in the history of the world has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect."

-- Napoleon Hill

Obstacle or Opportunity

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

-- J. Sidlow Baxter
1903-1999, Author and Theologian


"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."

-- Lionel Hampton


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

-- Christopher Morley

Think for a Moment

"Think for a moment. Is there a difference between being interested in something and being committed to it? You bet there is. Many times people say things like, 'Gosh, I really would like to make more money' or 'I'd like to be closer to my kids' or 'You know, I'd really like to make a difference in the world'. But that kind of statement is not a commitment at all. It's merely stating a preference, saying, I'm interested in having this happen, if I don't have to do anything. That's not power! It's a weak prayer made without even the faith to launch it."

-- Anthony Robbins


"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

-- Oscar Wilde


"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

-- John Wooden

Own Mistakes

"You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses."

-- Napoleon Hill


"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing."

-- Aristotle


"The cause of the confusion prevailing in your mind that weakens your thoughts is the false belief that there is a power or powers outside you greater than the power within you."

-- John McDonald

Our Mind

"A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself."

-- Louis L'Amour
1908-1988, Novelist


"In Unlimited Power, I made it abundantly clear that the most powerful way to shape our lives is to get ourselves to take action."

-- Anthony Robbins


"Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success."

-- Martha Stewart

Today Is Your Day

"You have a clean slate every day you wake up. You have a chance every single morning to make that change and be the person you want to be. You just have to decide to do it. Decide today's the day. Say it; This is going to be my day."

-- Brendon Burchard


"A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?"

-- Wes Craven


"There are no facts, only interpretations."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Control Is In You

"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change."

-- Barbara de Angelis


"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong."

-- Peter T. Mcintyre


"Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works."

-- Napoleon Hill

Next Ten Years

"More importantly, maybe we should be asking ourselves, How am I going to live the next ten years of my life? How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to? What am I going to stand for from now on? What's important to me right now and what will be important to me in the long run? What actions can I take today that will shape my ultimate destiny? You see, ten years from now you will surely arrive. The question is: Where?"

-- Anthony Robbins


"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

--Lao Tzu

Raise Your Standard

"Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to becoming."

-- Anthony Robbins

Question To Improve Life

"My own magnificent obsession began with some simple questions: How can I take immediate control of my life? What can I do today that can make a difference, that could help me and others to shape our destinies? How can I expand, learn, grow and share that knowledge with others in a meaningful and enjoyable way?"

-- Anthony Robbins

Controlled Focus

"Most people have no ideas of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives. Controlled focus is like a laser beam that can cut through anything that seems to be stopping you."

-- Anthony Robbins

Aim In Life

"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson


"Until we become humble in our own hearts we are not apt to profit greatly by the experiences and thoughts of others."

"Humility is a forerunner of success."

-- Napoleon Hill

Single Purpose

"Singleness of purpose is essential for success, no matter what may be one's idea of the definition of success."

-- Napoleon Hill


"The best rose bush, after all is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses."

-- Henry Van Dyke

Enduring Power

"Enduring power never grows out of Fear. Any power that is built upon Fear is bound to crumble and disintegrate. Understand this great truth and you will never be so unfortunate as to try to raise yourself to power through the Fears of other people who may owe you temporary allegiance."

-- Napoleon Hill

Weakness in Attitude

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

-- Albert Einstein


"You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted."

-- Kevin Costner


"Nothing ever just happens. Everything from the lowest animal form that creeps on the earth or swims in the seas, on up to main is the Effect of Nature's evolutionary process."

-- Napoleon Hill


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

-- Marcus Aurelius
121-180, Roman Emperor and Philosopher

Nothing You Cannot Achieve

"To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve... If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can`t achieve."

-- Kevin Spacey


"Begin by studying men who have accumulated great wealth and find out the cause of their achievement."

-- Napoleon Hill


"It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not."

-- Arthur Wang


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

-- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English Author

Earth Ability

"Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can."

-- Gracie Allen


"A winner never quits and a quitter never winds."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped."

-- African proverb


"Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed."

-- Booker T. Washington

Invest In Knowledge

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

-- Benjamin Franklin


"If you cannot do great things yourself, remember that you may do small things in a great way."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Don't let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart."

-- Arthur Wang


"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

If You Love Life

"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

-- Bruce Lee


"A man's chief business in life is to succeed."

-- Napoleon Hill


"I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then."

-- Lewis Carroll


"If you take a deep breath and look around, 'Look what's happening to me!' can become 'Look what's happening!' And what's happening? The incredible drama of life is happening.
And we're in it!"

-- Sylvia Boorstein

What Worrying Is Like

"Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere."

-- Arthur Wang


"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm."

-- Sir Winston Churchill


"All new ideas, and especially those of an abstract nature find lodgment in the human mind only after much repetition a well known truth which accounts for the re-statement in this summary of the principle known as the Master Mind."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

-- Robert Brault

Treating People

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

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad."

-- Arnold H. Glasgow


"There are opportunities to make money all around you."

-- Napoleon Hill

Opportunity From Failure

"One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again."

-- Henry Ford


"When you lose your sense of humor, get a job running an elevator, because your life will be a series of Ups and Downs anyway."

-- Napoleon Hill


"There is no failure. Only feedback."

-- Arthur Wang


"Nobody will think you're somebody if you don't think so yourself."

-- African-American proverb

Seek Those Who Tell Truth

"Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need."

-- Napoleon Hill


"There are two worlds; the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination."

-- Leigh Hunt


"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power of Knowledge

"Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

-- Thomas Edison


"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath."

-- Michael Caine


"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

-- Max Dupree

Losing is Experience

"Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator."

-- Yogi Berra


"Success in life, no matter what one may call success, is very largely a matter of adaptation to environment in such a matter that there is harmony between the individual and his environment."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow."

-- Woody Guthrie

Work Is Healthy

"It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction."

-- Henry Ward Beecher


"Only a life lived for others is worth living."

-- Albert Einstein


"One grows out of the other, therefore, any person who has the knowledge and the ability to develop power, through the principle of harmonious co-ordination of effort between individuals minds, or in any other manner, may be successful in any reasonable undertaking that is possible of successful termination."

-- Napoleon Hill

Happiness With 2 Principles

"The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have."

-- John D. Rockefeller III


"Feelings of worth flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family."

-- Virginia Satir


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

-- Michael Altshuler


"Never in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect."

-- Napoleon Hill

Run The Day

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

-- Jim Rohn


"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe."

-- Arthur Wang


"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

-- Lao Tzu


"You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses."

-- Napoleon Hill

Making It in Life

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."

-- Tennessee Williams


"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well."

-- H. T. Leslie


"People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first."

-- David H. Comins


"All the so-called geniuses probably gained their reputations because by mere chance or otherwise, they formed alliances with other minds which enabled them to step up their own mind vibrations to where they were enabled to contact the vast Temple of Knowledge recorded and filed in the ether of the universe."

-- Napoleon Hill

One Resolution

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:
To rise above the little things."

-- John Burroughs


"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."

-- Thomas Jefferson


"Some are destined to succeed, some are determined to succeed."

-- H. H. Swami Tejomayananda


"When two or more people harmonize their minds and produce the effect known as a Master Mind, each person in the group becomes vested with the power to contact with and gather knowledge through the Subconcious minds of all the other members of the groups."

-- Napoleon Hill

Be Miserable or Be Motivated

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

-- Wayne Dyer


"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."

-- Winnie the Pooh


"Power, in unlimited quantities may be enjoyed by any group of men or women, who possess the wisdom with which to submerge their own personalities and their own immediate individual interests, through the blending of their minds in a spirit of perfect harmony."

-- Napoleon Hill

Believe in Co-Operation

"If you do not believe in co-operation, look what happens to a wagon that loses a wheel."

-- Napoleon Hill


"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."

-- Ayn Rand


"Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure."

-- Paulo Coelho


"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."

-- Jean de La Fontaine

Perfect Harmony

"Two minds will not blend nor can they be co-ordinated unless the element of perfect harmony is present, whereas lies the secret of success or failure of practically all business and social partnerships."

-- Napoleon Hill


"If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined."

-- Paul J. Meyer


"I will never put my name on a product that does not have the best that is in me."

-- John Deere


"Not appreciating what we have now, robs us of our abundance even when it exists."

-- Marshall Sylver

Story of Faith and Vision

The Catalina Island is twenty-one miles away from the coast of California, and many people have taken the challenge to swim across it. On July 4th 1952, Florence Chadwick stepped into the water off Catalina Island to swim across to the California coast. She started well and on course, but later fatigue set in, and the weather became cold. She persisted, but fifteen hours later, numb and cold, she asked to be taken out of the water.

After she recovered, she was told that she had been pulled out only half a mile away from the coast. She commented that she could have made it, if the fog had not affected her vision and she would have just seen the land. She promised that this would be the only time that she would ever quit.

She went back to her rigorous training. And two months later she swam that same channel. The same thing happened. The fatigue set in, and the fog obscured herview, but this time she swam with faith and vision of the land in her mind. She knew that somewhere behind the fog was land. She succeeded and became the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel. She even broke the
men's record by two hours.

Creating The Master Mind

"A Master Mind may be created through the bringing together or blending in spirit of perfect harmony of two or more minds. Out of this harmonious blending the chemistry of the mind creates a third mind which may be appropriated and used by one or all of the individual mind."

-- Napoleon Hill


"You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise."

-- Seneca


"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Failure Is Blessing

"Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats."

-- Napoleon Hill


"The big lesson. The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards. They are the ones that care."

-- Michael Dlouhy


"Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant."

-- Anthony J. D'Angelo

Render More Service

"Render more service than that for which you are paid and you will soon be paid for more than you render. The law of 'Increasing Returns' takes care of this."

-- Napoleon Hill


"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it."

-- George Moore


"I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it."

-- Lyndon B. Johnson

Kite of Success

"Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."

-- Benjamin Franklin


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

-- Tony Robbins

Teach To Know More

"You should begin teaching these laws to those whom you are most interested, as it is a well known fact that the more one tries to teach a subject the more he learns about that subject."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."

-- Frank Zappa


"If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit."

-- Bill Clinton


"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

-- Thornton Wilder

Cause of Mistakes

"No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes."

-- Napoleon Hill


"You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!"

-- John Lennon


"Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die."

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Correcting Weak Spots

"The most successful men and women on earth have had to correct certain weak spots in their personalities before they began to succeed. The most outstanding of these weakness which stand between men and women and success are intolerance, cupidity, greed, jealously, suspicion, revenge, egotism, conceit, the tendency to reap where they have not sown and the habit of spending more than they earn."

-- Napoleon Hill


"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers."

-- Brian Tracy


"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States."

~Ronald Reagan

Adjusting Self To Succeed

"Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk."

-- Chinese Proverb


"You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."

-- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

Anxiety Increase Fears

"Clearly, sticking with an anxiety-based mindset only serves to increase our fears at a time when we most need to be thinking of creative ways to build our business, find new jobs, or increase our savings."

-- Libby Gill


"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt


"There is no such thing as a weird human being. It's just that some people require more understanding than others."

-- Tom Robbins


"Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings."

-- W. Lee Grant

Yesterday and Tomorrow

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

-- Lyndon B. Johnson


"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those, which fail."

-- Napoleon Hill


"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."

-- Norman Cousins


"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mediate on Your Vision

"Mediate on your vision until it takes shape and comes into focus in your minds eye. If negative thoughts arise (Who do you think you are?, What makes you think you can have all that) acknowledge and release them without giving them too much energy."

-- Libby Gill


"A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl."

-- Stephan Hoeller


"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away."

-- Sir Arthur Helps

Be Grateful for the Negatives

"Be grateful for the negatives. It may sound counter intuitive but remember to give thanks for the lessons learned and insights gleaned from situations that turned out less than ideal."

-- Libby Gill


"Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself."

-- Brian Tracy


"Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others."

-- Dennis Diderot


"Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: NOW."

-- Denis Waitley

You Should Do What You Love

"When you aren't doing what you love and loving what you do, you're more likely to sleep too much because you're awake, you're doing things you don't love."

-- Dr. John F. Demartini


"Life is a magic vase filled to the brim; so made that you cannot dip into it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it - drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love."

-- John Ruskin


"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

Getting Out of Bed

"It's wise to set out on the day's journey early. But to get up early demands that you retire at a reasonable hour. Successful people spring out of bed, but stressed people just crawl out reluctantly."

-- Dr. John F. Demartini


"Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil."

-- Arthur Wang


"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."

-- Helen Keller

Be Grateful People

"A heart that has been opened by gratitude can transform any crises into a blessing and opportunity. Truly successful people are grateful people."

-- Dr. John F. Demartini


"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished."

-- Og Mandino


"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased."

-- Katharine Hepburn


"To wish to be well is a part of becoming well."

-- Seneca

Gratitude is Creator of Miracles

"Gratitude is the creator of miracles. Grateful thoughts empower you and make you feel lighter as they open up your heart and allow you to feel the love that is always inwardly present. Feeling thankful eases the tensions of daily life. Gratefulness heals, soothes and enlightens."

-- Dr. John F. Demartini


"Nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it."

-- T. Harv Eker


"A man's errors are his portals of discovery."

-- James Joyce


"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty."

-- Arthur Wang

Something Mystical About Water

"There's something mystical about water. It helps us make transformations that alter our entire physical, mental and spiritual outlook. Just think about how a bath refreshes and relaxes you."

-- Dr. John F. Demartini


"It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it."

-- John Wooden


"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."

-- Clarence Budington Kelland

Moments for Solitude

"Designating a part of each day even if it's just for a few moments for solitude and inner reflection is time well spent. Meditative silence can fire you up like no other activity or form of exercise."

-- Dr. John F. Demartini


"He who knows most grieves most for wasted time."

-- Dante


"There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best."

-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox