Famous Quotes

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind!"
 William James
 

"Dreams  are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still  untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born."
Dale E. James
 

"Men  often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot  do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I  can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the  beginning."
Mahatma Gandhi
 

"Every man (person) dies. Not every (person) truly lives."
Braveheart

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
Mother Teresa

"The  intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful  servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has  forgotten the gift."
Albert Einstein

I am only one; but still I  am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will  not refuse to do the something I can do."
Helen Keller"

"If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen."
Cher
 

"A year from now you may wish you had started today."
Karen Lamb

"In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them."
Dr. Joyce Brothers

"We are what we repeatedly do."
Aristotle

"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things."
Amelia Earhart

"The  real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the  right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thingat the tempting moment."
Dorothy Nevill

"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely."
Karen Kaiser Clark

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."
Ayn Rand
 

"What's  terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend  that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you  know quite well you're capable of better."
Doris Lessing

"If you are clear about what you want, the world responds with clarity."
Loretta Staples

"Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, for therein lies the true power."
Lori Hard

"Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them."
Henry Hoskins"

"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."
Jonathan Winters
 

"It only takes one person to change your life - you."
Ruth  Casey
 

"A day will never be anymore than what you make of it. Practice being a 'doer'!"
Josh S. Hinds

"You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face, and show the world all the love in your heart."
Carole King

"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?"
Ben Franklin

"We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience."
Gary Zukav

"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
Theodore Rubin

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
Conrad Hilton

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."
Goethe

"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives."
Louise Hay

I  suggest that happiness largely results from an attitude of gratitude.  These are the "best of times" if we choose to make them so. Most readers  are healthy. We are educated. We have friends and opportunity is all  around us. We are, by any reasonable standard, wealthy. We can travel,  read the best books ever written. We can start businesses, learn new  languages or other skills, we can change our minds, and our lives.
Anon

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to improve the world."
Anne Frank

"A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence."
Stephen Covey

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

"Trust that still, small voice that says, This might work and I'll try it."
Diane Mariechild

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
James Dean

"The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am, they REVEAL who I am."
Dr. Laura Schlessinger

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."
Brian Tracy

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."
Louis L'Amour

Freedom  and opportunity exist only if they are used! And one way we fuel our  dreams and empower the future is by "borrowing" confidence from the  past. Celebrate your past achievements and use them to know, deep  inside, that you can boldly go wherever your wish in the future. Go  climb some big mountains!
Anon

"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."
Jeremy Kitson

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt

Can  you make the changes you want in your life? Of course you can! You've  changed in the past and you can (and will) change in the future. The  keys to making the positive, powerful changes you desire are maintaining  a sense of Positive Self-Direction, deciding WHAT you want, learning  HOW to do it, and creating a PLAN to get there. PLAN your work and then  work the PLAN. It can be done and you can do it!
Anon

"Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash."
Harriet Rubin

"If you can DREAM it, you can DO it."
Walt Disney

"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do."
Martha Grimes

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

"The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult."
Mme. Du Deffand

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
Beverley Sills

"Never accept failure, no matter how often it visits you. Keep on going.Never give up. Never."
Dr Michael Smurfit

"I  hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful  people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very  hard."
Helen Gurley Brown

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt

" A dream is a wish your heart makes."
Annette Funicello

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
Gandhi

"Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow."
Doug Firebaugh

"Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit."
Mary Lou Retton

"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for."
Dostoyevsky

"Those who do not create the future they want must endure the future they get."
Draper L. Kaufman, Jr.

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now."
Joan Baez

Highly  successful people organize their lives around their most important  goals. World class athletes don't have to "find" time to train. Stephen  King and other prolific writers don't "try" to write! They organize  their lives and their environments to support their most important  projects. Greatness is rarely achieved in our "spare time." Have a plan  and work your plan.

"If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly."
Lauren Bacall

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it.
Peter Drucker

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

"Vision isn't enough unless combined with venture.
It's not enough to stare up the steps unless we also step up the stairs."
Vance Havner

"It is never too late to be what we might have been."
George Eliot

"No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again."
John Wanamaker

"I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
And so it is with you. We are in charge of our Attitudes."
Charles Swind

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."
Goethe

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver

“Entrepreneurship is a state of mind, a can-do attitude, a capacity to focus on a vision and work toward it.”
Barry Rogstad

"If  one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors  to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success  unexpected in common hours."
Henry David Thoreau

“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but (instead) someone.”
Coco Chanel

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."
Helen Keller

"Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees."
Karle Wilson

"Only  on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I  could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it  was possible, the life of my choice.”
Ellen Glasgow

"We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility."
Albert Einstein

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."
George Bernard Shaw

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
T. S. Eliot

"You are what you think about all day long."
Dr. Robert Schuller
 

"Picture in your mind a sense of personal destiny."
Wayne Oates
 

"Finish  each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some  blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you  can. Tomorrow is a new day."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”
Jane Austen
 

“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.”
Pearl S. Buck
 

"People  become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can  do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of  success."
Norman Vincent Peale
 

"Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.”
Jim Rohn
 

"Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it."
Mae West
 

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
Helen Keller
 

"Better than a thousand useless words is one single word that gives peace."
Buddha
 

"I  long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to  accomplish small tasks, as if they were great and noble."
Helen Keller
 

"Somewhere  along the line we discover who we really are, and then make our real  decisions for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for  yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 

"To follow, without halt, one aim: That's the secret of success."
Anna Pavlova
 

"Inspiration grows into full-scale creation through persistence and
imagination."
Carol Lloyd
 

"Work  and play are the same. When you're following your energy and doing what  you want all the time, the distinction between work and play  dissolves."
Shakti Gawain 
 

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
Pamela Vaull Starr
 

Strategic planning“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
Les Brown
 

"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so."
Belva Davis
 

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily."
Zig Ziglar
 

"With  every wish that you make comes the power to make it come true. But it  is up to you to provide the work that will make it a reality. Are you  using your power to make your wishes come true today?"
Libby Rosenauer
 

"We must either find a way or make one."
 Hannibal
 

"It's a simple formula; do your best and somebody might like it."
Dorothy Baker
 

"You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. 
Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable."
Peter Drucker, Austrian-American management consultant and educator
 

"When they said to you at graduation, 'Follow your dream,’ did anybody say you have to wake up first?"
Bill Cosby
 

"We become what we think about most of the time."
Unknown
 

"Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it."
Mae West"
 

'People are not lazy.  They simply have impotent goals, that is goals that do not inspire them.'
Anthony Robbins
 

'Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow!'
Norman Vincent Peale
 

"Dreams are renewable.
No matter what our age or condition,
there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born."
 Dale E. Turner
 

"Life's  up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine [your] values  and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the  life you want."
Marsha Sinetar
 

"Nothing splendid has ever been  achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them  was superior to circumstance."
Bruce Barton
 

"You gain  strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really  stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing which you think  you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt
 

You can choose to be happy  or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really  responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have  been taught and accept as true.
Sidney Madwed
 

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."
Goethe
 

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

"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."
Erica Jong
 

"Don't be prisoner of your past, but the architect of your future."
Unknown
 

"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at" -
Bruce Lee
 

"Don't  just do something, sit there! Sit there long enough each morning to  decide what is really important during the day ahead."
Richard Eyre
 

"Yesterday's passions may not serve tomorrow's goals."
Frederic Hudson
 

"You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great."
Les Brown
 

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you,
you will grow vigorous and happy, 
however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John R. Miller
 

"Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it."
Elaine St. James
 

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
 

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
Stephen Covey
 

"Whatever you do, you need courage. 
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. 
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. 
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. 
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

"I want to do it because I want to do it."
Amelia Earhart
 

I  have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad  fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it  into something of value.
Hermann Hesse
 

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but
manifestations of strength and resolutions.
Kahlil Gibran
 

The  country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands  bold, persistent, experimentation. 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.
Theodore Roosevelt
 

"Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists
a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
To  win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a  gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice
 - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow.
To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.
Friedrich Nietzsche
 

'Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.'
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
 

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of
strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
Vincent Lombardi
 

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln
 

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau
 

As life is action and passion,
it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time,
at the peril of being not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
 

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
Sterne
 

"Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well."
Josh Billings
 

Study  the unusually successful people you know, and you will find them imbued  with enthusiasm for their work which is contagious.
Not only are they themselves excited about what they are doing, 
but they also get you excited.
Paul W. Ivey
 

" When I was a young man I observed That nine out of the ten things I did were failures.
Not wanting to be a failure, I did ten times more work."
Roosevelt
 

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. 
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."
Helen Keller
 

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.
Bailey
 

"Procrastination is the natural assassin of opportunity."
Unknown
 

You can do anything you think you can.
This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem.
It should make of you an incurable optimist.
It is the open door.
Robert Collier
 

"Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit."
Aristotle
 

"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this
world's happiness now.  How?  By giving a few words of sincere
appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged.  Perhaps you
will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient
may cherish them over a lifetime."
Dale Carnegie--                                                 
 

"People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be."
Harvey Mackay
 

"If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there.  Then never, never, never give up."
Norman Vincent Peale
 

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
Elbert Hubbard
 

" If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain.
If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees.
If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people."
Old Chinese Proverb
 

Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible
Unknown
 

The  illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and  write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler
 

Experience  shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is  he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
Charles Buxton
 

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. 
The worst thing you can do is nothing."
Theodore Roosevelt
 

"We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do."
Ethel Barrett
 

The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service,
and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer
- and him for nothing.
Robert Collier
 

Yesterday is a cancelled cheque.
Tomorrow is a promissory note.
Today is ready cash, use it!
Unknown
 

Too many of us wait to do the perfect thing, with the result we do nothing.
The way to get ahead is to start now. While many of us are waiting until
conditions are "just right" before we go ahead, others are stumbling along,
fortunately ignorant of the dangers that beset them. By the time we are, in
our superior wisdom, decided to make a start, we discover that those who
have gone fearlessly on before, have, in their blundering way, traveled a
considerable distance. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that
you don't know now, and that you will not know next year, if you wait.
The William Feather Magazine
 

The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first;
intelligence;
then discernment and judgement, 
which enable one to recognise the best method as to attain it;
the singleness of purpose;
and, lastly, what is most essential of all, 
will-stubborn will.
Ferdinand Foch
 

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
 

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be.
Imagination gives you the picture.
Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
Robert Collier
 

Big thinking precedes great achievement.
Wilfred Peterson
 

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything,
that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold,
but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.
Dr. A. B. Meldrum
 

The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness.
The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given.
If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result.
Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.
And  since the only real freedom a person has is the choice of what thoughts  he will feed to his Inner-Consciousness he is totally responsible for  the outcomes he gets.
Sidney Madwed
 

Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people.
A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink.
Just so with the human mind.
Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.
Alfred A. Montapert
 

Success and failure are the result of small steps, taken over time, one after another. 
Magnificent mansions are built of lowly bricks, one on top of another. 
Marathons are completed one step at a time. 
What do you want? 
What sort of life would you prefer? 
You CAN have it, one day at a time. 
But you must walk in the direction you want to go.
by Philip E. Humbert, PhD
 

We  ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past  errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.
George Washington
 

"If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, 
you can only win."
Shelley Long
 

Every person has free choice.
Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws.
Your choice determines the consequences.
Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
Alfred A. Montapert
 

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect.
The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.
Francois Fenelon
 

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference,
ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time,
add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
Marian Wright Edelman
 

"Humility does not mean you think less of yourself.
It means you think of yourself less."
Author Ken Blanchard
 

It  seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of  nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Feodor Dostoyevsky
 

Trust yourself.
Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Foster C. McClellan
 

Welcome every problem as an opportunity.
Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you.
The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out.
Grace Speare
 

'Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.'
Mary C. Crowley
 

'Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.'
Albert Einstein
 

'What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence.
The only consequence is what we do.'
John Ruskin
 

There was this man who saw a scorpion floundering around in the water.  He
decided to  save it by stretching out his finger, but the scorpion stung
him.  The man still tried to get the scorpion out of the water, but the
scorpion stung him again.  Another man nearby told him to stop saving the
scorpion that kept stinging him.  But the man said: "It is the nature of
the scorpion to sting.  It is my nature to love.  Why  should I give up my
nature to love just because it is the nature of the scorpion to sting?"

LESSON:
Don't give up loving.  Don't give up your goodness ... Even if the people
around you sting.
Unknown
 

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be. You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, 
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
M Williamson (Nelson Mandela, 1994 Inaugural Speech)
 

"Life is not easy for any of us.  But what of that? 
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. 
We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
Marie Curie, Polish-French chemist
 

The best way to predict the future is to invent it"
Dennis Gabor
 

Reputation is what people think of you
Character is what God knows about you
Russian Proverb
 

"Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. 
Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why
we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it."
Greg Anderson, US basketball player
 

'There are two lasting bequests we can give our children:
One is roots. The other is wings.'
Hodding Carter, Jr.
 

Accomplishment:
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
Author Unknown
 

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you,
not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
Jeremiah 29:11:
 

It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on
the inside.
Unknown
 

'Before you wonder 'Am I doing things right,' ask 'Am I doing the right things?'
Stephen R. Covey
 

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic, that I
regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the
field, I would pick the trait of persistence. 
Determination.  
The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get
up off the floor saying, 'Here comes number seventy-one!'"
Richard M. Devos
 

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
Nido Qubein
 

'And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.'
Erica Jong
 

"Work like you don't need the money,
love like you've never been hurt,
and dance like no one's watching!"
Unknown
 

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to,
something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Tony Dorsett
 

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of
strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
Vincent Lombardi
 

"It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. 
The question is, 'What are we busy about?'"
Henry David Thoreau
 

Highly effective people:
In working with highly effective people, and some not-so-effective people,
one of the distinctions is how they use their energy.  We all have the same
amount of time, and most of us have good skills, and lots of ambition.  The
difference is in "drama verses performance".
 

Highly effective people don't always drive fancy cars or have flamboyant
lifestyles.  Often they are the "sneaky" ones who go about their business,
focus on their priorities, live simple, orderly lives, and suddenly amaze
us with their "over night success".  While others around them are full of
froth, foam and drama, they just roll in and go about their business.
Philip E. Humbert, PhD
 

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
Elinor Smith
 

Each golden sunrise ushers in new opportunities for those who retain faith
in themselves, and keep their chins up. No one has ever seen a cock crow
with its head down. Courage to start and willingness to keep everlastingly
at it are the requisites for success. Meet the sunrise with confidence.
Fill every golden minute with right thinking and worthwhile endeavor. Do
this and there will be joy for you in each golden sunset.
Alonzo Newton Benn
 

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
Dolly Parton
 

"It is yourself that must constantly be transforming. 
You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you."
Deepak Chopra
 

All  riches and all material things that anyone acquires through self-effort  begin in the form of a clear concise mental picture of the thing one  seeks
Andrew Carnegie
 

I pity the man that just wants to get rich for he will make nary a penny.
For he must first concern himself with the service he'll rendres to be worth the riches he seeks.
Henry Ford
 

The  position a person occupies in the world depends on the quality and  quantity of the service he renders plus the mental attitude which he  relates to others
Andrew Carnegie
 

Do the thing you fear the most and death of fear is certain
Bob Stafford

A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying
responsibilities.
Jules Ormont 
 

THE STORY OF AN UNFOLDING STRATEGY
Michelangelo lived several centuries ago.  He is still viewed as one of the
greatest sculptors and artists who has ever lived.  One day he was rolling
a large block of marble down the dusty road in his village.  One of his
neighbours approached him, and asked,  "Where are you going with that rock,
Michelangelo?"
"I'm going to unleash the angel that is captured inside," he responded.
A long time later the same neighbour entered Michelangelo's workshop. 
There stood a magnificent statue of an angel.  The neighbour was
overwhelmed by its beauty, and asked, "How did you manage to carve such a
beautiful statue?"

"It was always there," said Michelangelo.  "I merely took a hammer and
chisel and chipped away all the pieces that did not look like an angel!"
 

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
William Penn
 

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."
Albert Einstein
 

You cannot achieve anything worthwhile for yourself or for others without first
developing a heartfelt belief in your ability to accomplish the task.
Unknown
 

KEEP YOUR FACE TO THE SUNSHINE AND YOU CANNOT SEE THE SHADOWS!!!
Helen Keller
 

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
Unknown
 

"If someone is going down the wrong road,
he doesn't need motivation to speed him up,
he needs education to turn him around."
Jim Rohn.
 

"Life takes on meaning when you become motivated,
set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner."
Les Brown.
 

AN IRISH FRIENDSHIP WISH
May there always be work for your hands to do;
May your purse always hold a coin or two;
May the sun always shine on your windowpane;
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain;
May the hand of a friend always be near you;
May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
 

We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.
R. C. Allen
 

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe
failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than
to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an
awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the
confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be
realised. Thus talent is a species of vigour.
Eric Hoffer
 

Tidbits:
Kindness is more important than perfection.
When you give a presentation, keep your mind on what you can convey rather than on what you can get out of it.
Give people a second chance- run them through the system again.
Circumstances don't chance us.  The way we handle circumstances changes us.
 

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us
how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent
spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many
blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is
Phillips Brooks
 

"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to,
when all they need is one reason why they can"
Willis R. Whitney
 

"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become." 
Jim Rohn
 

The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions
 Paulo Coelho
 

Don't  wish it were easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for less  problems; wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges; wish for  more wisdom." 
 Jim Rohn