Be My Friend

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend.

--Albert Camus


A leader is someone who helps improve
the lives of other people or improve the
system they live under.

--Sam Ervin


Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one
thing until you get there.

--Josh Billings

Some Achieve Success Is Proof

That some achieve great success, is proof to all
that others can achieve it as well.

--Abraham Lincoln


The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a
warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

--Oscar Wilde


Death is more universal than life; everyone dies
but not everyone lives.

--A. Sachs

Joy Overcoming Obstacles

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures,
but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have
set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed
if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming
obstacles.

--Helen Keller


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

--Thich Nhat Hanh


Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable
you are and how much you have going for you, the
smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music
will play, and you will finally be able to move
forward the life that God intended for you with
grace, strength, courage, and confidence.

--Og Mandino

Choose Happy

Life is too short not to enjoy it and too long
to live miserable. Choose to be happy!

--Author Unknown


Do what's best for people, and in return,
people will give you their best.

--Author Unknown


If you want to get something done...START!

--Victor Scrivani

Ladder Of Success

The ladder of success is best climbed
by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

--Ayn Rand


Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying
the world on your shoulders. The world
would go on even without you. Don't take
yourself so seriously.

--Norman Vincent Peale


Get excited and enthusiastic about your
own dream. This excitement is like a
forest fire -you can smell it, taste it,
and see it from a mile away.

--Denis Waitley

Open Hearted

"We are all here for a single purpose: to grow in wisdom and to learn to love better. We can do this through losing as well as through winning, by having and by not having, by succeeding or by failing. All we need to do is to show up openhearted for class."

-- Rachel Naomi Remen


"What you must dare is to be yourself."

-- Dag Hammarskjold


"It is in giving that we receive."

-- St. Francis of Assisi

Web Of Life

Man did not weave the web of life,
he is merely a strand in it. Whatever
he does to the web, he does to himself.

--Chief Seattle


Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

--Kahlil Gibran


Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding
old barriers, quietly building new structures.

--John F. Kennedy

Alter Attitude Of Mind

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can
alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

--William James


The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

--Mother Teresa


If you get up one more time than you fall,
you will make it through.

--Chinese Proverb

Want It Desperately

You can have anything you want if you want it
desperately enough. You must want it with an
exuberance that erupts through the skin and
joins the energy that created the world.

--Sheila Graham


To understand your parents' love,
you must raise children yourself.

--Chinese proverb


All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

--Buddha

Today Yesterday Tomorrow

"Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach."

-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe


"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


"You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being, not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money, but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason."

-- Dr. Wayne Dyer

Forgive Yourself and Move On

"When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on."

-- Bernie S. Siegel


"Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have."


"A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe."

-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Forgiveness

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness
is the attitude of the strong.

--Mahatma Ghandi


The great accomplishments of man have resulted
from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

--Thomas J. Watson


There is always room at the top.

--Daniel Webster

Obstacles That You Have Overcome

Success is to be measured not so much by the
position that one has reached in life as by
the obstacles which he has overcome.

--Booker T. Washington


A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.

--Leo Buscaglia


Life lived for tomorrow will always be
just a day away from being realized.

--Leo Buscaglia

Teamwork and Intelligence

Talent wins games, but teamwork and
intelligence wins championships.

--Michael Jordan


We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors,
we have only borrowed it from our children.


People are lonely because they build walls
instead of bridges.

--Joseph F. Newton Men

Vision With Venture

Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture.
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up
the stairs.

--Vaclav Havel


If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves,
it is pointless to search elsewhere.

--Francois de la Rochefoucauld


Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

--William Jennings Bryan

Tons of Discipline

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

-- Brian Tracy


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

-- John Foster Dulles


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

-- Brian Tracy

Never Short Sell Yourself

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


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

--Brian Tracy


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

--Jim Rohn

Dignity Of Choice

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

-- Jim Rohn


"A smile is your greatest social asset."

--Zig Ziglar


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

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Try Something

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

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt


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

-- Jim Rohn


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

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have Definite Practical Ideal

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

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


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

*-- Clare Booth Luce


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

*-- Henry Ward Beecher