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Having Troubles Seeing the Flash Version of the Quotes Above? Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past. "The true measure of a man is his dignity in defeat and humility in victory" If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference. "Walk slowly at a relaxed pace and you will not stumble." "Genius is eternal patience." Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. "Nothing you do is a deposit unless the other person perceives it as such." Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back? To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop. Every problem has a limited life span. There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. "You can say 'No' and smile only when there is a bigger 'Yes' burning inside of you." One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. No failure is ever final - nor is any success. Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. "Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods." "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellowmen; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." "I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future." "Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become." “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." "If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are." "There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up." "Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals." "There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle." "Entrepreneurship is a state of mind, a cando attitude, a capacity to focus on a vision and work toward it." "Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward." "If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams." "The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping." What I think about, I bring about. The thought of success will foster success. The thought of love will foster love. The thought of security will foster security. What am I thinking about today? "Our life's journey of self discovery is not a straight line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us." "No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." "The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else." "Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost." "Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines." "Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count." "I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness." "The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television." "Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk." "We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents." "He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." “In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich." "It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods." "Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure." "Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise...his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals." "If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments." "On the occasion of every accident that befalls you...inquire what power you have for turning it to use." "The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success." "Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away." A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." "Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made." "You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power." "A little twist to the usual, "Everything comes to he who waits". Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." Out of clutter find simplicity. "One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never even meet." "If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve." "If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life." "The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire." "It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself." "We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough." "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." "Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom." "He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times." "There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment." "The most damaging phrase in the language is, "It's always been done that way"." Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them. "Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul." There is a choice you have to make, in everything you do. And you must View any and all obstacles as lessons, not indications of failure. Keep in mind that you are practicing patience and detachment from outcome. When anything appears to be an obstacle, do not use that material fact to deny the existence of the universal energy that is your essence. Everything that shows up in your life is supposed to; this includes the falls in your life, which provide you with the energy to propel yourself to a higher state of awareness. Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought. "Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future." The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. "Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly." Giving opens the way to receiving. “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures. Take a risk a day one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it. There is only one journey. Going inside yourself. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. “Mans mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." "Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words and giving in return. Whatever people do, they do for a reason and they think that it meets their needs....by THEIR perception. "Vision is the art of seeing the invisible." "What I think about, I bring about. The thought of success will foster success. The thought of love will foster love. The thought of security will foster security. What am I thinking about today?" If you get caught up in things over which you have no control, it will adversely affect those things over which you have control. Celebrate any progress. Don't wait to get perfect. How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us. Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. Though you are no longer here, your spirit will always be alive in me. For God to use your painful experiences, you must be willing to share them. "Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you." Everyone needs and deserves love and happiness. Let's not wait until we're perfect to go out and find it. There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give it everything. You are where you are today because you’ve chosen to be there." "Continuous excellent effort, not maximum strength or superior IQ, is the key to unlocking your potential as an achiever." "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?" "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." "Duties are not performed for duties' sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty, the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself." "When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently." "Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken." "Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream but create!" "In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues." "I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom." To be successful you've got to have a dream, a vision, a burning passion, a magnificent obsession. This dream, goal, obsession has to become your prime motivator. It takes enthusiasm, commitment, pride, a willingness to work hard, a willingness to go the extra mile, a willingness to do whatever has to be done in order to get the job done. "Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price." "Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate the man then you destroy yourself." "It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions." "Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk." "Feel the fear and do it anyway." "Does planning make the man or woman? Maybe so, maybe not. But why take the chance. Knowing without a doubt that you are prepared by doing your homework provides a feeling that is beyond price the confidence and power needed to succeed in life." "I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win if you don't you won't. "The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most Farreaching consequence of submission to authority." "To accomplish our destiny...we must cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us." "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." "A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often just to save it from drying out completely." "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.} The things that come to those who wait may just be the things left behind by those who got there first. "Prayer is the acid test of devotion." Pain is the price you pay for resisting life. It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, “Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm." “Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions." We've all heard about people who've exploded beyond the limitations of their conditions to become examples of the unlimited power of the human spirit. You and I can make our lives one of these legendary inspirations, as well, simply by having courage and the awareness that we can control whatever happens in our lives. Although we cannot always control the events in our lives, we can always control our response to them, and the actions we take as a result. If there's anything you're not happy about--in your relationships, in your health, in your career--make a decision right now about how you're going to change it immediately. "You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you." "Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come." What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams . . . and what we do to make them come about. "If you talk about it, it is a dream, If you envision it, you gain excitement, If you plan it, it is possible, If you schedule it, it becomes reality" "The past does NOT equal the future!" We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. Marketing is merely a civilized form of warfare in which most battles are won with words, ideas and disciplined thinking. Think about your goals at every opportunity throughout the day. People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing that's why we recommend it daily. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over and over again, but expecting a different result. "He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail." F.E.A.R. = False Evidence Appearing Real Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by the crowd. If you don't run your own life....someone else will. "Repetition is the mother of skill" "We see things not as they are, but as we are." If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed. Every accomplishment begins with a decision to try. Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. "It is the moment of our decisions that our destinies are created" To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions. "Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover." Practice creative abandonment of time consuming activities that are not longer of importance to you. "You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour." "Win-win agreements are tremendously liberating. But as the product of isolated techniques, they won't hold up. Even if you set them up in the beginning, there is no way to maintain them without personal integrity and a relationship of trust." What would life be like if we had no courage to attempt anything? Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear. I've met a lot of leaders in the Army who were very competent--but they didn't have character. And for every job they did well, they sought reward in the form of promotions, in the form of awards and decorations, in the form of getting ahead at the expense of someone else, in the form of another piece of paper that awarded them another degree—a sure road to the top. You see, these were competent people, but they lacked character. I've also met a lot of leaders who had superb character but who lacked competence. They weren't willing to pay the price of leadership, to go the extra mile because that's what it took to be a great leader. And that's sort of what it's all about. To lead in the 21st century, to take soldiers, sailors, airmen into battle--you will be required to have both character and competence." As I say YES to life, life says YES to me! We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. "The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures." Goals determine what you are going to be. Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway, and touching the walls on both sides." If you were starting over today, what changes would you make in your life? We must either find a way or make one. "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." "To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you'll hit your target every time." Life is a mirror, if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting. "Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival." The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal. "Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense." Young love is when you love someone because of what they do right. Mature love is when you love someone in spite of what they do wrong. The best way out of a difficulty is through it. “All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things." "Nature gives you the face you have when you are twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But it is up to you to earn the face you have at fifty." "Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar." "Begin at the beginning, the king said gravely, and go till you come to the end; then stop." Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall." "If you learn to appreciate more of what you already have, you will find yourself having more to appreciate." He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. The supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity. "The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes." The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels satisfaction. "The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character." "Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you design." "At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, ‘I was always happy.’ Hopefully, we will be able to say, ‘I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.’" "The language of truth is unadorned and always simple." "It's hard to wring my hands when I am busy rolling up my sleeves." "Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver." Every great human achievement is preceded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort. "By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other centers in perspective." Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living. Everything here, but the soul of man, is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within. A bit of baseball wisdom: You can't steal second with your foot on first. Any time you're tempted to say "Impossible," add an apostrophe and a space, and say, "*I'm* possible." "Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests." If you swing hard enough and often enough you must eventually hit a home run. "We see the world, not as it is, but as we are--or, as we are conditioned to see it." The secret of living is giving. The greatest revolution of my life is the discovery that individuals can change the outer aspects of their lives by changing the inner attitudes of their minds. "External success has become an ambition without a cause--and with increasingly hollow spiritual rewards." The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will now. "The secret of living is to find...the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand." "Know yourself well first, then you can know others. With this knowledge comes the vision for personal success." "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are." You can have more, be more and do more because you can change the person you are. "If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains." One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say cannot be done." Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Where there is life, there is hope Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life – purpose - is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife. Quickly say That's good! to every setback and adversity, and then find out what is good about it. It is the ability to choose which makes us human." "If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable" A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut. You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus." Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence, a time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny and a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. "Good actions get good results in time." "Argue for your limitations, and you get to keep them.” You can judge the validity of any idea or concept by asking Is this true for me? Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever acheive greatly. "The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get." All you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within and you will surely find it. Whatever we focus on determines how we feel. And how we feel--our state of mind--powerfully influences our actions and interactions. Rather than jump to conclusions, consider all the possibilities and choose to focus on one that will empower you and those you care about. "The life of a small group of people, who live true to their convictions, does more and more certain good than all writing. Let us, therefore, young and old, direct all our actions as much as possible towards the realization of our convictions." "Make your own recovery the first priority in your life." “By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered in the task of creating effective, useful, and peaceful lives--for ourselves, and for our posterity." "Make sure your right, and then go do it." "Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." Do something to move yourself toward your major goal every day. The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career! Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving, but does not make any progress. "Bad situations provide the opportunity for great deeds." True independence comes when we cease to FORCE and start to FLOW. Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy. You will never find time for anything. You must make it. I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things, and give Him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered. We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. "We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them or to build with them.” "Synergy is almost as if a group collectively agrees to subordinate old scripts and to write a new one." Feed your mind with mental protein, not mental candy. Read, listen to and watch positive, uplifting material. "Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash." "The easiest success measurement tool is a simple question. What did you do today to move forward? The easiest project plan on earth is also a simple question. What will you do tomorrow to move forward? At the end of each day, document your success and design your next move." "For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination." "You cannot tailor make the situations in life but you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those situations." "Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside." "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 your-self, and from the universe." “Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is hard to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline." "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." "Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." “The true voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes, but having new eyes." "Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are." "Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight." "Long range planning works best in the short term." "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." “Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems." "Genuine security arises from actual, firsthand knowledge that one is both capable and worthy of achieving happiness (through conscious, responsible action) and, once having attained it, that he deserves it." "We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present." "If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you." "Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it." "Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving." "A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself; he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him." A man is as great as the dreams he dreams, As great as the love he bears; As great as the values he redeems, And the happiness he shares. A man is as great as the thoughts he thinks, As the worth he has attained; As the fountains at which his spirit drinks And the insight he has gained. A man is as great as the truth he speaks, As great as the help he gives, As great as the destiny he seeks, As great as the life he lives. "It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about." "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." "Once you have a clear picture of your priorities that is values, goals, and high leverage activities organize around them." "Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know that man is here for the sake of other men." "If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone." "Nothing carries more potential for change than individual acts of human kindness." "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." "A vision keeps the Wealthy Soul focused on the path and not on the boulders." "The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams." "It's always fun to do the impossible." "He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king." "When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to understand his fellow men." "Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else." "Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." "A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him." "When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first." "When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes." "I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." "Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing." "If you're not giving the world the best you have, what world are you saving it for?" "It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." "One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken way unless it is surrendered." "The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live." "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world." "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." "A am realistic I expect miracles." "The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." “Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means." "Conflict cannot survive without your participation." "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain and most fools do." "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation." "A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." "When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by reams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life." "Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun." "Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially." "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." "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." "I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time." "To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life." "The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring." "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." "Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within." "All of the top achievers I know are lifelong learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence." "Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world." "Believing in yourself, is an endless destination. Believing you have failed, is the end of your journey." “When your selfworth goes up, your net worth goes up with it." "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." “The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers." "The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart this you will build your life by, and this you will become." "There is only one success, to be able to spend your life in your own way." "The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years." "Those who do not create the future they want must endure the future they get." "If you've had wonderful family relationships, you will be able to call yourself a true success in life no matter what else you've achieved." "No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self approval." "Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality." "I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and selfrespect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from." "In imagination, there's no limitation." “There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self." "Let's honor our mistakes by allowing them to teach us. Let's consider our failings to be gifts, and share them humbly with others. Let the cracks in our perfect facades let in light and air so that new life can grow through them." "The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers." "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." "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." "What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens." "Power is the ability to do good things for others." “When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life." A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on." "Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul." "Only the insecure strive for security." "I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly." "It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
"The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results." “Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business." “Be smart, be intelligent and be informed." "Live, love and, be present in each moment. Each moment quickly passes by, but over time, their culmination makes for a truly fulfilled life." "Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do." "The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today." “You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." "Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have."" "Compassion does not mean to be solicitous to someone who appears to be stray, imperfect, or needy. It means to see that person as we see ourselves, as unique human beings with wants, hopes, needs, dreams, and desires." "How committed are you? There is a remarkable difference between a commitment of 99% and 100%." "You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self defeating ways means you've lost them forever." "A life lived with integrity even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come." "Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world." "If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search." "When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams." "It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome." "Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends." “The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of them.. I'm stunned by how many people are actually not rich." "Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." "The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn." “When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself." "Whatever you're ready for is ready for you." "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." "We cannot put off living until we're ready. Life is fired at us point blank." "We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." "The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions." "A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your successes." "Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging." "The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income." "The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses." "Reflect upon you present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” "The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship." "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." "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." "When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition." Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken." "Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself." "It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed." "The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." "The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual, everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort." "No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?" "Everyone who has achieved financial independence will tell you that at least in the early days you have to work smarter and harder. The price of success must be paid in full, and it must be paid in advance. There are no shortcuts." "High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation." "There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative." "Whats's going on in the inside shows on the outside." "Your achievements in life are dependent on a simple two step process: 1) think positive achievement thoughts, and 2) take positive actions toward those thoughts. Don't wait another second, start the process right now. "Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them." "We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true." "Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible." "Just as friction between certain types of rocks produces sparks of light, so it is the friction of our individualities rubbing against each other that illuminates who we really are." "View every problem as an opportunity." “The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives." "Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us." "Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." "Joy comes from using your potential." "Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets." "Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values." "We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it." "Goals are new, forwardmoving objectives. They magnetize you towards them." "I don't try to jump over 7foot bars, I look around for 1foot bars that I can step over. "When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound. Rebuild those plans and set sail once more toward your coveted goal." "It is better to be motivated by the souls hunger rather than the egos greed." "Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self -knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life." "You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be." "Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved." "There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children... one is roots, the other wings." "Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else's results" "Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe." Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it! "If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, un-forgiveness, selfishness, and fears." "When we extend ourselves to another human being in any way at all, when we positively touch the life of one person, we benefit the whole of humanity." "There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal." "Accept everything about yourselfI mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the endno apologies, no regrets." "The best way to find your-self is to lose yourself in the service of others." "A life lived with integrity even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come." "There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do, there is only scarcity of resolve to make it happen." "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." "Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm ... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others." "The worst thing that one can do is not try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized and never knowing." "You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do." "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." "Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty." "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." "The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche." "Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility." "When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve." "The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist." "A winner is someone who recognizes his Godgiven talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals." "A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve." "Concentrate: put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket." "The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid." "A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." "There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way." "You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers." "So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it." "Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success." "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for every thing I do." "As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher." "We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success." "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." "Most misfortunes are the results of misused time." "Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hourbyhour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going." "Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect." "Aim for success not perfection... Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person." "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck." "There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life happiness, freedom and peace of mind are always attained by giving them to someone else." "Reduce your plan to writing... The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire." "The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all." "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." "Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one directionally, without regret or reservation." "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." "This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything." "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." "Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results." "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." "Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around." "When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, 'Figuring out how to think about the problem'." "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow'." "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." "When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations." "People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as simple as that." "Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." "To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas." "The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose." "Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears." "Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin." "The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress." "The first step to becoming is to will it." "Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength." "While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us." "Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal." "Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it." "The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." "Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory." "The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them." "To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life." "Persons of high selfesteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else." "The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don't know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations they don't, but those things are easy enough to learn but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more." "Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life." "Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder…" "Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim." "Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself." "Dreams not pursued by action are simply that, dreams with little prospect of being attained. Action taken without a plan or direction is simply that action with little prospect of success. Tie the plan and the action together and the dreams can become reality." "The greatest potential of control tends to exist at the point where action takes place." "Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeedthere's so little competition." "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." "A good plan today is better than a great plan tomorrow." "Our greatest battles are that with our own minds." "We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons." "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." "Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer." "The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself." "As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do." "People with small minds talk about other people. People with average minds talk about events. People with great minds talk about ideas" "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. "Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can." "For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead…" "Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised." "Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals." "Maintaining a comfort zone can, paradoxically, lead to discomfort in the long run." "The finest eloquence is that which gets things done." "In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it." "In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed." "Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible, it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could." "Without discipline, there's no life at all." "You cannot have success without the failures." "It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences." "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." "Life…can only be understood backwards…" "To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing." "The more you can dream the more you can do." "Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it." "You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being, not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money, but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason." "Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point." "Our aspirations are our possibilities" "The times in our lives in which we feel that we have the least power are actually the times when we have the most. Those are the times in which we affirm or redefine who we are, what we believe, and make choices that can impact ourselves and those we encounter for a lifetime. " "Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires. "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." "The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results." "Be Prepared!" "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." "Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are." "Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment." "They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations." "Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted." "Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality." "The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective." "Learning how to set and achieve a goal is perhaps the single most important thing your child can learn to prepare for school, adulthood, and employment. The more adept your child is at understanding this important life skill, the more options he or she will have." "The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account." "Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life." "Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels." "Each golden sunrise ushers in new opportunities for those who retain faith in themselves, and keep their chins up... 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 sunser." "Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done." "I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at." "Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great." "You can't shake hands with a clenched fist." My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. "Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers." "People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic." "Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality." “I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism. “Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. "As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way." Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your own experience or convictions. "Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain." Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. "You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself." "If you can't change the circumstances, change your perspective." "One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young." The past should be a springboard not a hammock. You give your best not because you need to impress people. You give your best because that's the only way to enjoy your work. Remember that you are responsible for your happiness and what happens in your life today. Think big, believe big, act big, and the results will be big. "Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed." Success depends above all, upon people. Build relationships, teams, partnerships and motivate people to contribute. Cultivate leadership, creativity, excellence. Listen; seek new ideas and advice. "Faith without challenge is nothing." "The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind." "When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place." We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward. Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. An ounce of discretion is worth more than a pound of knowledge. "Failure is success if we learn from it." "We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion which we have of things." "Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today." "If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure." "Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are gardeners." "If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have."
"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it." With too much data, too many demands, and too much competition, is it any wonder that people today are looking for ways to stop and smell the roses? Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed. "Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company." Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. 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 can not do. "The character traits most critical to creating empowerment are: Integrity habits are congruent with values, words with deeds, expressions with feelings. Maturity courage balanced with consideration. Abundance mentality there is plenty out there for everybody. A person with these character traits can be genuinely happy for the success and accomplishments of others." "Our inheritance of well founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries can bestow." You aren't your experiences. You are what you make of them. "Old habits can't be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed down the stairs one step at a time." "Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." "It never works out like it's planned, but it always works out like it should." "We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard." "By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods." "Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. "Success is not permanent and failure is not fatal." "Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer." If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is." "A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others." "We must ask where we are and whither we are tending." "In life you are either a passenger or a pilot... it is your choice." It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. "The unexamined life is not worth living." "Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered either by themselves or by others." "If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it." What one great thing would you dare to dream if you knew you could not fail? The easiest person to deceive is one's own self." Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. "Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects." There is a better way to do it; find it. sign Thomas Edison had hanging in his office A fool vents all his feelings, but a wise man holds them back. Proverbs Joy can be real only if people look upon their lives as an opportunity to be of service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. "The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living." Seek goodness in others. Love more persons . . . more impersonally, more unselfishly, without thought of return. The return, never fear, will take care of itself. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. "It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are." Quality questions create a quality life. Businesses succeed when their decision makers ask the right questions about product lines or markets or strategic planning. Relationships flourish when people ask the right questions about where potential conflicts exist and how to support each other rather than tearing each other down. Communities benefit when leaders ask the right questions about what is most important and how citizens can work together toward shared goals. For whatever area of your life you want to improve, there are questions you can ask that will provide you with answers solutions that can catapult you and those you love to a higher level of success and enjoyment. Do you need to ask questions about quality? commitment? contribution? "The dreams you see most clearly are most likely to come true." "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at his best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat." Leadership is similar to team work. You have to remain centered, be mindful, assess a situation, bring people together, come to an agreement, and discover solutions by using the talents of everyone involved. If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.With confidence, you have won even before you have started. "Not only has our competitive orientation cost society the skill of low achievers who might have excelled under different learning conditions, but it has largely undermined our capacity for teamwork and trust. In the classrooms of our youth, students were rarely allowed to pool knowledge on tests or work together on research projects. Such prohibitions, coupled with comparative grading policies, conditioned us to view one another as opponents." "Your children need your presence more than your presents." "Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go." "He that is overcautious will accomplish little." "Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy." "Even the longest journey begins with the first step" When you come right down to it, the ground you stand on is the ground you stand on. "Play is the exultation of the possible." "One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations." "Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct." There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. To travel the "high road" from pain to pleasure, discover numerous positive ways to change your outlook. Consider some of these strategies: Sing along with your favorite music...read something that offers information you can immediately apply...laugh at a funny movie or show...swim several laps...share a meal with your family or with a friend...dance...soak in a warm tub...come up with five new ideas...get to know a stranger...tell silly jokes to friends, knowing they'll probably still like you anyway...write in your journal...hug and kiss your spouse. The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being. "The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve it, generation after generation." "Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them." The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking." "Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve." "Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame." The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. "We two form a multitude." Why are so many people afraid to make even the smallest effort to help others? One of the most common reasons is that they are just embarrassed. They're afraid of being rejected or appearing foolish. But you know what? If you want to play the game of life and win, you've got to play full out. You've got to be willing to feel stupid, and you've got to be willing to try things that might not work. Otherwise, how can you innovate, how can you grow, how can you discover who you really are? "If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month." "He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without." "The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary." "To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you have won the greatest championship." "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." "There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win." "Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will." "Whatever you do in life, echoes thru eternity." "Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points." "Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. 'I can t' often means 'I won t.' You can change 'I won t' to 'I will' with willpower." "Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration." "Every day you waste is one you can never make up." "Our necessities never equal our wants." "Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it. "Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind. Any tune we choose is fine so long as it does not disturb others." "Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity." "All these things, like sickness and sorrow, that we think that we could do with out, are really making us stronger in our faith. In my suffering I became strong! It is in pain and anguish that we call upon God the most." "Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding." "Rule your mind or it will rule you." "Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day." "The amount of resistance to something is equal to the potential for gain. "Deep, abiding joy is available to anyone who learns the secret of pursuing every task with energy and dedication, as though it were a calling." "The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results. "Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." "I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is." "People become successful because they get the important things done. They become successful by producing high quality work, and delivering it on time. They become successful because they dot their "i's" and cross their "t's." They become successful by doing the things they're supposed to do, doing them well, and getting them done on time! Successful people get results! "Self acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory." "I am not my memories. I am my dreams." "All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake to find that it was vanity; But dreamers of day are dangerous men, that they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible." "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." "The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order.You will always be compensated in full for everything you do." "Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won." "Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior." "A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." "Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give." "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." Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come shining through. No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep believing The dream that you wish will come true. "Long-term planning is not about making long-term decisions, it is about understanding the future consequences of today's decisions." The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually disguises itself as hardwork. To be wealthy, you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence. The most effective way to control your focus is through the use of questions. For any question you pose, your brain provides an answer. For example, if you ask, "Why is so-and-so taking advantage of me?" you can't help but focus on how you're being bilked, whether it's actually true or not. But if you ask instead, "How can I improve this situation?" you are certain to get answers that enable you to take positive action. The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being." You inevitably attract into your life people and circumstances in harmony with your dominant thoughts. Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value." To avoid criticism... Do nothing...Say nothing...Be nothing! Don't focus on the days when you failed. Focus on all of the days when you won. Keep a chart, monitor your successes, and don't give up! Never Follow the crowd. Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for. It is a thing to be achieved. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. . .. . I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking. "Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." "Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom." The little I know I owe to my ignorance. "Take responsibility for all that you are and all that you can be." "Most people fail in life because they major in minor things." "There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way." "The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked." For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before." It is not what you say, or wish, or hope or intent, it is only what you do that counts. Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit. "The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities." Change is inevitable. You can't avoid it. The best thing to do is accept change, learn from it, and use it to your BEST advantage! Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity. "The best philosophy is to do one's duties, to take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is." Five frogs are sitting on a log. Four decide to jump off. How many are left? Answer: five. Why? Because there's a difference between deciding and doing. "Self-knowledge is best learned, not by contemplation, but by action. Strive to do your duty and you will soon discover of what stuff you are made." "If we don't know what we want, we become like a floating balloon. Our direction in life is at the mercy of external forces." "To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are." "Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." "Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory." "The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be." If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?" "My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. "My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will." We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become. Any man's finest hour -- his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear -- is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle -- victorious. . . . Leave no regrets on the field. True silence is the rest of the mind, it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do. You can only stumble if you are moving. Human beings can transform themselves. They can grow larger or smaller but they grow every day. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. The more you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. Our dreams and goals are never completely realized. They are always there before our eyes, but always just slightly out of reach. And so, as we strive to fulfill our vision, we must make the most of every living moment. "Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you." We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams. Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in.
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