Making A Life Plan

"Making a life plan is stimulating and motivating, and it contributes to success in all areas of life.  Keep in mind, however, the need to remain flexible regarding the future, since life involves constant adaptation.  What you are doing in five or ten years may not necessarily be what you expect - it might be much better than you ever dreamed possible."

-- Mark Fisher


"The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts your perception to such an extent that it changes the world you see."

-- Robert Holden


"The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought."

-- Dan Brown

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We Are All Inter Connected

"To really bear fruit in life we cannot act alone; you only have to look at how nature works in our gardens to realise the truth of this.  Bees collect and transfer pollen; birds recycle vegetation; the wind enables seeds to be pollinated; worms cultivate soil; and fallen apples provide energy for families of insects.  While our gardens may be walled or fenced off, we are all interconnected in some way."

-- Peter Hawkins


"Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have."

-- Gloria Estefan


"Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people."

- Albert Einstein

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Confronting Fear and Keep Going On

"People who make successful changes (even if it takes them many attempts) have done their mental maths.  They have identified the cost of not making the change and compared it to the cost benefit of making the change. Not making the change is costing them dearer.  Courage isn't about the absence of fear - it is about confronting it and going on regardless."

-- Elaine Harrison


"The only safe thing is to take a chance."

-- Mike Nichols


"The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go."

-- Elizabeth Gilbert

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Increase Your Change of Success

"The only way to manage the risk is by taking full responsibility.  Doing this means you commit to learning what you need to know, thereby increasing your chances of success."

-- Judith Leary-Joyce


"Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now."

-- Wallace Wattles


"Worrying doesn't take away tomorrows troubles, but it does take away todays peace."

-- MotivationStuff.com

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You Need Courage To Dare Great Things

"It takes courage to pursue our dreams.  It takes courage to persevere through obstacles and opposition to make our dreams come true.  It takes courage to dare great things to achieve our goals.  Many people have dreams, but only people of courage get to celebrate the achievement of their dreams."

-- Pat William and Jim Denney


"The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now."

-- Chinese Proverb


"Trees are the best monuments that a man can erect to his own memory. They speak his praises without flattery, and they are blessings to children yet unborn."

- Lord Orrery

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You Need Practise and Training

"If you dream of running a marathon yet have not so far jogged a step, then it would be pointless going gung-ho and buying a pair of top-of-the-range running shoes and signing up for the race a couple of weeks before the date.  Some things require practise and training."

-- Elaine Harrison


"We inter-breathe with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body."

-- Thich Nhat Hanh


"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

-- MotivationStuff.com

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Full Commitment Equal Full Success

"Only full commitment really engages your energy.  Once you are committed, your chances of success increase ten fold.  It is amazing how much difference it makes when you are really clear and give your full attention to a task."

-- Judith Leary-Joyce


"One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself."

-- Gretchen Rubin


"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."

-- Marianne Williamson

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What is Happiness in You

"Happiness is activity with purpose.  It's love in practice.  It's both a grasp of the obvious and an awe of the mysterious.  Happiness is a life well-lived and filled with people of substance.  It's a wide variety of experiences and memories that become priceless forms of currency to spend and to invest."

-- Jim Rohn


"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."

-- Charlotte Whitton


"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

-- MotivationStuff.com

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Use Your Core Talent

"You have a core talent that you enjoy and that you can use relatively easily, so be liberal with it.  Offer your help to people, with or without payment, if you can.  Not only will you demonstrate how good you are, people will remember and tell others about you."

-- Judith Leary-Joyce


"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery


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

-- Franz Kafka

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Don't Quit When Things Go Wrong

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint on the clouds of doubt,
And you can never tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things go wrong that you mustn't quit.

-- MotivationStuff.com

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Somebody Must Try Hard

"I think that when you want to be somebody, you have to try hard.  You have to work hard and the more time you put into something that you want and you like, the quicker you can be better.  You have to be dedicated to your profession.  Maintain an intense and focused commitment to excellence, to hard work, to continuous improvement."

-- Pat William and Jim Denney


"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."

-- Mahatma Gandhi


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

-- Sydney Harris

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Focus On An Idea

"The more you focus on an idea, issue or thought, the more your brain looks for opportunities that link to it.  So when you are pregnant, the streets are suddenly filled with kids and pregnant women."

-- Judith Leary-Joyce


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

-- Dennis P. Kimbro


"I realize there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go."

-- Jeffrey McDaniel

Your Dreams Take Time To Mature

"Our hopes and dreams take time to mature before they can truly flourish, yet in time of instant gratification we are not prepared to wait.  You can't plant an acorn in the ground and expect an oak tree within a week, no matter how much you care for it."

-- Peter Hawkins


"Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation."

-- Aristotle


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

-- Marilyn vos Savant


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Keep You Mind Open To Learning

"There is a whole world out there of new ideas, worthwhile information and established knowledge and advice.  So keep your mind open to new learning for the interest and possibilities it can bring you."

-- Judith Leary-Joyce


"The world is fed by our willingness to weep for the impossibility of being human. And the irony is, weeping for the impossibility of being human is human."

-- Stephen Jenkinson


"Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation."

-- Aristotle

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Believing In Your Dreams

"Believe in your dreams.  Don't let anyone take it from you.  Follow it with an intense passion.  Pursue it with relentless focus.  Never give up.  Never let go.  Never stop fighting for the things that truly matter.  Dreams really do come true - through the power of extreme focus."

-- Pat William and Jim Denney


"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

-- Socrates


"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly."

-- Stephen R. Covey

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Live Life Connected To Purpose

"There is a reason why you want what you want. Discover, acknowledge and embrace that reason, that purpose.  Live this day, this month, this year, this life strongly connected to purpose. And you’ll connect yourself to all the elements of a life well lived."

-— Ralph Marston


"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it -- this is knowledge."

-- Confucius


"The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape."

-- Bono

The University of Life

"It is tempting to assume that learning comes through reading books or going on a course.  An awful lot does, but there's also much to be said for the University of Life - some of the best learning comes from what we do and consciously reflecting on the experience."

-- Judith Leary-Joyce


"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

-- Goethe


"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."

-- J.K. Rowling

Success Attracts Success

"Success attracts success!  There is no escape from this great universal law; therefore, if you wish to attract success make sure that you look the part of success, whether your calling is that day laborer or merchant price."

-- Napoleon Hill


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

-- Mark Twain


"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

-- Margaret Mead


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Thoughts On The Things You Want

"The one most important province of your conscious mind is to center your thoughts on the thing you want, and to shut the door on every suggestion of fear or worry or disease.  If you once gain the ability to do that, nothing else is impossible to you."

-- Robert Collier


"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

-- Albert Einstein


"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

- Leo Tolstoy

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The Written Word is Amazing

"The written word is truly an amazing thing.  With the help of it we can record out innermost thoughts and spread them if we like.  With the help of the written word we can look far, far back into time, through the decades, the centuries and, yes, even the millennias."

-- Henrik Edberg


"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."

-- Sir J. Lubbock


"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

- John Irving


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Your Power of Thought Create Life

"For mind does its building solely by the power of thought.  Its creations take form according to its thought.  Its first requisite is a mental image, and your desire held with unswerving purpose will form that mental image."

-- Robert Collier


"I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul."

-- Douglas MacArthur


"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

-- Oscar Wilde

In Life We Are Not The Issue

"In life we need to realize that we are not the issue, we are not the problem, and we were not created to hinder or harm others, but to love and help one another. When a creator creates something it answers an issue, solves a problem and bridges gaps to make things better."

-- Tennille Whittington


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

-- Martin Luther King, Jr


"If you have an idea to do something great, just do it. Don't wait. Just do it."

-- Elaine Newkirk

Think Victory and You Succeed

"Disbelief is negative power. When the mind disbelieves or doubts, the mind attracts "reasons" to support the disbelief. Doubt, disbelief, the subconscious will to fail, the not really wanting to succeed, is responsible for most failures.  Think doubt and fail. Think victory and succeed."

-- David Joseph Schwartz, Ph.D.


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

-- Robert Brault


"One powerful elixir is beauty. There is nothing quite like beauty. When you bring beauty and grief together, you can't look at it, because it's so sad -- and you can't look away, because it's so beautiful. It's a moment of being transfixed, and the key is turned in the lock."

-- Chris Jordan

We Have Control Over Our Life

"We each have control over our own lives.  It may not seem like it but we do.  Everyday that we go through life unhappy about any single thing, we have made the decision to be unhappy.  We don’t have a lot of control over the people or situations that make us unhappy but the one thing we do have control over is ourselves.  We are the only people that decide if we are going to be happy or not.  It’s up to us."

-- Mary Jane


"The proper function of man is to live -- not to exist."

-- Jack London


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

-- Eric Butterworth

You Are Using A Fraction of Your Real Ability

"Your body is for all practical purposes merely a machine which the mind users.  This mind is usually thought of as consciousness; but the conscious part of your mind is in fact the very smallest part of it.  Ninety per cent of your mental life is subconscious, so why you make active use of only the conscious part of your mind you are using a fraction of your real ability; you are running on low gear."

-- Robert Collier


"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you'll be a success."

-- Albert Schweitzer


"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."

-- Chief Seattle

Why Many People Failed

"Why do so many people fail? Because they quit when it gets hard. When things aren’t going your way, you look for the easy way out. You stop and move onto something else.  Most people believe luck is something that just comes to a few of us. I believe luck is something you can create yourself. For me, luck is the result of: hard work, belief and most importantly, persistence."

-- Nick Humphrie


"It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life."

-- Bryant H. McGill


"With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space - becoming an integral part of the experience itself."

-- Bernie Krause

What Does Positive Thinking Means

"Positive thinking doesn't mean that you keep your head in the sand and ignore life's less pleasant situations. Positive thinking just means that you approach the unpleasantness in a more positive and productive way. You think the best is going to happen, not the worst."

-- Mayo Clinic Staff


"When we show our respect for other living things, they show respect for us."

-- Arapho Proverb


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

-- John Wooden

Positive Thinking Increase Your Life Span

"A positive attitude can boost your energy, heighten your inner strength, inspire others, and garner the fortitude to meet difficult challenges. According to research from the Mayo Clinic, positive thinking can increase your life span, decrease depression, reduce levels of distress, provide greater resistance to the common cold, offer better psychological and physical well-being, reduce the risk of death from cardiovascular disease, and enable you to cope better during hardships and times of stress."

-- Frank Sonnenberg


"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."

-- William Wordsworth


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

-- Henry Stanley Haskins

Belief That Triggers Your Mind

"Belief, strong belief, triggers the mind to figuring ways and means and how-to.  And believing you can succeed makes others place confidence in you.  Those who believe they can move mountains, do. Those who believe they can't, cannot. Belief triggers the power to do."

-- David Joseph Schwartz, Ph.D.


"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."

-- Elbert Hubbard


"As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else."

-- Maya Angelou

Come Back Only After You Done It

"Remember, I had learned as a Boy Scout: When you set out to do something don't come back until you have done it.  Was I frightened? You bet I was. But it never occurred to me not to follow instructions. I just didn't know any better. I was, in this respect, a product of habit a good habit."

-- W. Clement Stone


"Courage is grace under pressure."

-- Ernest Hemingway


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

-- Gautama Buddha