That One Step That Changes

This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything.

-- Scott Reed

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

--Henri Frederic Amiel

Never Take The Sure Boat

The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

-– Dale Carnegie

When you know what you want, and you want it badly enough, you'll find a way to get it.

-- Jim Rohn

The greater things in life are unseen thats why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream...

-- Anonymous

Work Hard For Your Success

"Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it."

-- Unknown

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

--Lucretius

We love because it's the only true adventure.

--Nikki Giovanni

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

-- Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's

Get A Fresh Start Any Time

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."

-- Mary Pickford


"Fortune favors the brave."

--Publius Terence


"Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge."

--Stephen Levine

Taking A Step Back Wiser

"One step back does not mean defeated. It just means that you will take the same step forward again but wiser."

-- Jossie Estrella


"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

-- Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the Untied States of America


"It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance."

-- General George S. Patton


"We and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do,would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."

-- Franklin Rooservelt, 32nd President of the Untied States of America

The Person Who Can Changed Life

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

*-- Carol Burnett (1936 - )


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

*-- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)


"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,'that would suffice."

-- Meister Eckhart

Never Be Afraid To Try

"The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it."

-- Debbi Fields


"Procrastination is the natural assassin of opportunity."

-- Anonymous


"You create your opportunities by asking for them."

-- Patty Hansen

You Have To Change It

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."

*-- Maya Angelou


"It's like driving at night in the fog. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

*-- Edgar Lawrence Doctorow


"While we are postponing, life speeds by."

*-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Energy Comes The Moment

"Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries."

*-- Corita Kent


"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions - he had money, too."

*-- Margaret Thatcher


"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

*-- Thomas Edison

That Secrets Of Getting Ahead

"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 first one."

*-- Mark Twain


"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

*-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery {1900-1944 French Poet}


"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our
potential."

*-- Sir Winston Churchill

What We Need To be and What We Are

"In the end it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

*-- Max Dupree


"Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us."

*-- Henry Ward Beecher


"They can conquer who believe they can."

*-- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)

Faced It To Changed It

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

-- James Baldwin


Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

--Michael Leunig


Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity

-- George Patton

Don't Consent To Creep

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

-- Helen Keller

Where there is love there is life.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

-- Ralph Nader

All Ninety Nine Percent Perspiration

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

-- Thomas Alva Edison


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

-- Martin Luther King Jr.


Most of what we call management consists of makingit difficult for people to get their jobs done

-- Peter Drucker

Felt Only With Your Heart

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

--Helen Keller


Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.

-- Peter Drucker


All serious daring starts from within.

-- Eudora Welty

Mistaken Knowledge and Wisdom

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

-- Sandra Carey

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

--Sam Keen

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you.

-- Max DePree

Don't Be Part Of The Problem

"It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem."

-- Coretta Scott King


"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes."

-- Henry J. Kaiser


"If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you."

-- Mary Tricky

The World Is Just a Mirror

"The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are. "

-- Thomas Dreier


"The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance."

-- Brian Tracy


"To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail."

-- Dorothea Brande

Be Aware Of Nature Talent

"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed."

*-- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)


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

*-- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)


"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all."

*-- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )

Look For The Right Person

"If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done."

-- Joseph Marshall Wade


"Time is not a line, but a series of now points."

-- Taisen Deshimaru


"The responsibility for both present and future is in our own hands. If we live right today, then tomorrow has to be right."

-- Eknath Easwaran