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Having Troubles Seeing the Flash Version of the Quotes Above? The very highest leader is barely known by men. Then come the leader they know and love. Then the leader they fear. Then the leader they despise. The leader who does not trust enough will not be trusted. When actions are performed without unnecessary speech The people say, "We did it ourselves." "The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up." "You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones." "A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension and third, when you take action towards its achievement." "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it. Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves." "Success won't just come to you. It has to be met at least halfway" Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. "Man does not drift into goodness the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination." Have less. Do less. Be more. "There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen." Good, better, best never let it rest, until your good is better than your best. Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays. Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice." "One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole." "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can." "If you have put your foot in your mouth, it is probably not the time to try to dance." "The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate it is life, intensified, brilliant life." Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. "Remember, we learn nothing by speaking." "There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all." "You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life." "I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams." You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all. "Any time you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem." "Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it." "Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you." "It is better to correct your own faults than those of another." If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great. If things are ever to move forward, someone must be willing to make the first step. Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment based on what you are feeling and thinking. That is what's real. "Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed there's so little competition." "Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success." I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change. "You don't just luck into things . . . You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities." It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. "It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in. Theodore Roosevelt said Do what you can, with what you have, right where you are. This is great advice. The surest way to make your self happy is to make someone else happy. It takes a habit to replace a habit. Catch people in the act of doing something right. Define your personal dignity today. Make a list of the positive internal qualities that you value that never change. Read it every morning and evening to remind yourself that no matter what you meet in the course of the day, regardless of the actions of others, no one can define who you are but you. " If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference. "I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened." "The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker." "Some defeats are only installments to victory." In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. After all, if we do the wrong thing, at least we can learn. IF YOU CAN DO don't not. "If you don’t set goals for yourself, you are doomed to work to achieve the goals of someone else." "If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed." "It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed." Happiness can exist only in acceptance. Kindness is something that we must own and extend to ourselves, before we are able to extend it to others. When we do this, we do not determine whether someone deserves our kindness anymore than we determine whether someone deserves to be spoken to in their own language. It is simply something we do because it has become our nature to be kind. Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn to exercise his will his personal responsibility. "Look at frustration as a positive thing. It is the frustration that drives you to improve." To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. "You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination." "There are many ways to measure success; not the least of which is the way your child describes you when talking to a friend." "Time ripens all things; no man is born wise." "Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor." The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are your "buts" you use today. You are not the only influence in your children's life....that is why you MUST BE the BEST INFLUENCE in your children's life! As you go the way of life you will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think. All things are difficult before they are easy. "The most important thing about goals is having one." "Let us move on, and step out boldly, though it be into the night and we can scarcely see the way." Know that every "no" is one step closer to a "YES"! Never give up! "Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing." Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Just remember....when you think all is lost, the future remains. "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." "Let us become the change we seek in this world." "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." "The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams." "It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop." "Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want." "Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle." "'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'" "Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." "I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives." "Commitment challenges you to set a goal and then to support it with a promise. You must promise to achieve and never entertain the thoughts of making excuses or shunning responsibility." "Dedicated to the central concept that knowledge and inspiration must be accompanied by ongoing support." "There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard." "By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment." "The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them." "The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position." "The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things." "Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe." "Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future. "How often do we miss the serendipitous beauty of the many facets of the people who populate our world? If we only look, we'll surely find more than we could ever imagine. Not only in others, but in ourselves as well." "Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. "Remember: If you're not experiencing failure, you're not working hard enough!" "Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors." "However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks." "Indecision is the seedling of fear." "Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society than by his own initiative. Without realizing it, he makes society rather than himself the agent of change. The power he finds in his victimization may lead him to collective action against society, but it also encourages passivity within the sphere of his personal life." Research has consistently shown that those who succeed tend to make decisions rapidly and are slow to reverse a well-thought-out position. Conversely, people who fail usually decide slowly and change their minds frequently. Once you've made a sound decision, stick by it! The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until the other person is ready. "Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible." If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius. Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment. Full effort is full victory. Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality." The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself. How would you feel if you had mastered and attained all your goals a year from now? How would you feel about yourself? How would you feel about your life? Answering these questions will help you develop compelling reasons to achieve your goals. Having a powerful enough why will provide you with the necessary how. Take this opportunity to brainstorm your top four one-year goals. Under each one, write a paragraph about why you are absolutely committed to achieving these goals within the year. Good leaders are like baseball umpires: they go practically unnoticed when doing their jobs right. The philosophy behind marketing is is based on the old observation that every man is really two men -- the man he is and the man he wants to be. "Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them." I think there is a great hunger within people to reach for the best in them. Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. Nature is neutral; if you do the same things that other successful people have done, you will enevitable enjoy the same success they have. Years later, people look back upon their darkest day and say – as Churchill said of London's war years -- "This was our finest hour." In a tough spot right now? You may be on the very edge of winning! "Really seeking to understand another person is probably one of the most important deposits you can make, and it is the key to every other deposit." Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself. The happiest person is he who thinks the most interesting thoughts. The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait forever before taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them. When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turndown of the performer. The dog that fetches will also carry. (Translation: If someone reveals another's secrets to you, the same person will reveal your secrets to the world.) Do or do not. There is no try. "Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness. "The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving." "Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it." Timing is everything. There is a tide in the affairs of men which when taken at the flood leads on to fortune. And the day came when the risk to remain in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloom. "The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to into the impossible." "Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and some pure foolishness." Listening is very inexpensive; not listening could be very costly! "This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved." A little bit added to what you've already got gives you a little bit more. "Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." To be a winner, you have to think like a winner! "We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience." "True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat." Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it. You can. It's up to you. Decide to do it and follow through. Any time you wrap your emotional life around the weaknesses of another person, you empower those weaknesses to control you." I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and non-learners. How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. (C) 2006 Free-Great-Quotes.com |