Little by Little Make Progress

"Substitute positive thoughts for every negative one that comes into your mind.  Little by little you will make progress.  If you do it long enough, your subconscious mind will take over and change your habits automatically.  In fact, it will change your entire personality."

-- Barry Parker


"Character -- the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life -- is the source from which self-respect springs."

-- Joan Didion


"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become."

-- The Buddha

Choose One Thing To Change

“Choose one habit—a way of doing something—that you want to change. Make it a small and specific change. If you make it too broad or difficult, you risk failing and ending up dispirited, as with the grand New Year’s resolutions we talked about.”

-- Tom Connellan


"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

-- Albert Einstein


"Life is more fun if you play games."

-- Roald Dahl

Why People Fail To Take Action

"Many people fail to take action because they’re afraid to fail. Successful people, on the other hand, realize that failure is an important part of the learning process. They know that failure is just a way we learn by trial and error. Not only do we need to stop being so afraid of failure but we also need to be willing to fail—even eager to fail."

-- Jack Canfield


"I've always had the feeling that life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you."

-- Maya Angelou


"The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved."

-- Mother Teresa

Sorry About That

"Many winners in life are those who have been handed the worst life has to offer.  So you can't blame circumstances in your life for holding you back!  Sorry about that!"

-- Susan Jeffers


"Creativity is not found just in the chosen few who exhibit artistic talent. It is a force that flows through every single one of us, allowing us to dream things up and make them happen."

-- Peggy Taylor and Charlie Murphy


"I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization."

-- Roger Ebert

Travel Life's Pathway

"We travel life’s pathway in the energy of love; we are free to acknowledge or ignore it as we choose, though it remains within regardless of the choices we make. This is the energy of the universe, and whether you are aware of it or not, the simple truth is that you are now and always will be in love, literally!"

-- Gary Dooley


"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood."

-- Fred Rogers


"Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

Give Your Mind New Set of Eyes

"When you define your goals, you give your brain something new to look for and focus on.  It's as if you're giving your mind a new set of eyes from which to see all the people, circumstances, conversations, resources, ideas and creativity surrounding you."

-- Darren Hardy


“So the key to reaching your goal is knowing where you want to go and which actions you need to do to get there—and then persistence and effort will get you there.”

-- Tom Connellan


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

-- Aristotle

The Most Powerful Way To Learn

"The most powerful way I've learned to compress time is to learn through other people's experience.  We can never truly master time as long as our primary strategy for learning and mastering our is based upon trial and error."

-- Anthony Robbins


"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

-- Howard Thurman


"Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear."

-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Fertilize What You Plant In Your Mind

"When you plant a definite chief aim in your sub-conscious mind you must fertilize it with full belief that infinite intelligence will step in and mature that purpose into reality in exact accordance with the nature of the purpose.  Anything short of such belief will bring you disappointment."

-- Napoleon Hill


"To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim."

-- Mark Nepo


"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

-- Confucius

Drive Your Success Into Your Subconscious Mind

"Drive your success into your subconscious mind.  Remember that your subconcious mind can't distingish a vivid imagination of success from real success, and it adjusts your habits accordingly.  So think of your goals every morning when you wake, and in the evening when you go to bed.  See yourself successful - see the end result."

-- Barry Parker


"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

-- Lao T


"I don't even think about whether I love music or not because my connection to music is deeper than love."

-- David France

First Know Yourself

"At this moment, do you know exactly what your assets are? Are you aware of your true abilities, your potential for growth, your successes of the past, no matter how small? If you're not, fake inventory of yourself. To know where you're going and how to get there, you must first know yourself."

-- W. Clement Stone


"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you."

-- Langston Hughes


"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."

-- Thich Nhat Hanh