When Money Is Hope

If money is your hope for independence you will
never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge,
experience, and ability.

--Henry Ford


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

--Albert Einstein


Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light
can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only
love can do that.

--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Believe You Are Best

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.

--Muhammad Ali


The man or woman who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

--Marjorie Holmes


Remember, "It's NOT what you eat between Thanksgiving and New Years
that matters, BUT what you eat between New Years and Thanksgiving!"

--Dean Miller

Love The Doing

"You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences."

-- Ayn Rand


"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."

-- Charles F. Kettering


"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would solve most of the world's problems."

-- Gandhi

Darkest Moment Light

The black moment is the moment when the real message
of transformation is going to come. At the darkest
moment comes the light.

--Joseph Campbell


The more we know, the better we forgive. Whoe'er
feels deeply, feels for all that live.

--Mme. de Stael


Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing
how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

--David Starr Jordan

Confidence In Your Ability

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

--Rosalynn Carter


I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

--Gerry Spence


So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Prerogative of The Brave

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.

--Mahatma Gandhi


Don't wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

--Mother Teresa


There are two ways of exerting one's strength;
one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

-- Booker T. Washington

You Do Not Fail

"Men do not fail; they give up trying."

--Elihu Root


"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have."

--Thomas Jefferson


"Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad."

--Christina Rossetti

Stick To Your Plan

Frequently, the difference between success and failure is the
resolve to stick to your plan long enough to win.

--David Cottrell


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

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The most important thing about goals is having one.

--Geoffrey F. Abert

It Is The Courage

Success is never final. Failure us never fatal.
It's courage that counts.

--John Wooden


There are two lasting bequests we can give to our children:
one is roots, the other is wings.

--Hodding Carter


Nothing can stop the man with the right mental
attitude...nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.

--Thomas Jefferson

Past Is Finished

"The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know."

-- Rebecca Beard


"To touch someone with kindness is to change someone forever. Heavy, huh? But that's not the half of it. Because for everyone you touch you also reach everyone they will ever know. And everyone they will ever know. And so, for the rest of all time, your kindness will be felt in waves that will spread long after you move on."

-- Mike Dooley


"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

Big Secret In Life

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."

-- Oprah Winfrey


"You're alive. Do something. Look. Listen. Choose. Act."

-- Barbara Hall


"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

Top View Is Best

It's easier to go down the mountain than up,
but the view from the top is best.


Love doesn't make the world go round,
but it sure makes the ride worthwhile.


Excellence is not an act, it is a habit.

--Aristotle

Trouble Shall Pass

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life
and repeat to yourself the most comforting words
of all: "This, too, shall pass."

--Ann Landers


Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction.
It is something accessible and human that we
learn through our everyday experience, as often
at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.

--Leo Buscaglia


If you command wisely, you'll be
obeyed cheerfully.

--Thomas Fuller

Be A Believer

Believe it is possible to solve your problem.
Tremendous things happen to the believer. So
believe the answer will come. It will.

--Norman Vincent Peale


Those things that hurt, instruct.

--Ben Franklin


He who has great power should
use it lightly.

--Seneca

An Uninspired Mind

An uninspired mind is a handicap we
all can do something about.

--James R. Ball


Some thoughts always find us young,
and keep us so. Such a thought is the
love of the universal and eternal beauty.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson


The most elusive and desired quality of
leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume
of the mind.

--Harriet Rubin

The Challenges

"Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of
victory."

-- General George S. Patton


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

--Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) Scottish-born American
industrialist, philanthropist, educator


"The most influential person who will talk to you all day is you, so
you should be very careful about what you say to you!"

-- Zig Ziglar

Someone Must Be On Top

I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine
inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be
on top,why not you?"

--Gen. George S. Patton jr.


"The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to
become a happy, joyous person."

--Brian Tracy


"Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked
out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?"

-- Jim Rohn

Why I Succeed

"I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games.
26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot...and missed.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I
succeed."

-- Michael Jordan
Professional Basketball Player


As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into
one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous
activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)


Whatever you are, be a good one.

-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Feeling Of Warmth and Good Cheer

"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."

-- Brian Tracy


"Praise works with only three types of people; men, women, and
children."

-- Anonymous


"The Best People builders are Praise and Encouragement."

--Brian Tracy

Achievement Is Desire

"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire
brings weak results."

*-- Napoleon Hill


"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


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

*-- William Feather