| ~*~ "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."- Julie Cameron, The Artist's Way ~*~ He who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles ~*~ The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success. B.C. Forbes ~*~ "It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us." ~*~ "The question is not what you look at but what you see." Henry David Thoreau ~*~ "The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." Albert Einstein ~*~ "Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize." Norman Vincent Peale ~*~ "Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon." E. M. Forster ~*~ "One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life." Anatole France (1844-1924) ~*~ "It is better to sleep on what you plan to do than to be kept awake by what you've done." ~*~ "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." Elbert Hubbard, writer ~*~ "The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." Victor Hugo, writer ~*~ "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." Lester Louis Brown (b. 1928), Indian writer, author ~*~ Laughter is a form of internal jogging. Norman Cousins (1915-1990) ~*~ "Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans." - Peter Drucker ~*~ "The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it." Mack R. Douglas ~*~ "Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi ~*~ "The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." Vince Lombardi ~*~ "When the most important times are occurring, we don't even recognize them or notice. We are just busy living our lives. Only looking back do we know what was a great moment in our lives." Federico Fellini (1920-1993) ~*~ "Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow." Swedish Proverb ~*~ "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows." Helen Keller ~*~ "Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results." James Allen ~*~ "The content of your thoughts and personal beliefs can be proven by a single indicator - your current results." James A. Ray ~*~ "A team is a group of people who may not be equal in experience, talent, or education but in commitment." Patricia Fripp ~*~ "Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves." Dale Carnegie ** ~*~ "He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still." - - Charles Caleb Colton ~*~ "Always do more than is required of you." George S. Patton ~*~ "Successful people begin where failures leave off. Never settle for 'just getting the job done.' Excel!" Tom Hopkins ~*~ "Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes." Charles Prestwich Scott ~*~ "Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one." Hans Selye ~*~ "Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope." George Marshall ~*~ "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." William James ~*~ "Dig the well before you are thirsty." Chinese Proverb ~*~ "Don't fight forces; use them." R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) Inventor and educator ~*~ "Time. The most valuable gift given or received. Why do we waste it? Because we think we always have tomorrow when in reality all we have is now." Bob Perks ~*~ "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." Og Mandino, Author ~*~ "Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you. Not because they are nice, but because you are." ~*~ "We learn to walk by stumbling." Bulgarian Proverb ~*~ "Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want." Dan Stanford ~*~ "With courage, you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity." Keshavan Nair ~*~ "Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength." Ralph Sockman ~*~ "At one time or another we all regret something. You may regret something you said, or something that you didn't say. You may regret that you stayed too late, or that you went too early. You may regret that you won something, or that you lost. But in all your life, you'll never regret being kind." ~*~ "People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." Norman Vincent Peale ~*~ "Impatient people always get there too late." - Jean Dutourd ~*~ "Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes." Jim Rohn ~*~ "Every situation can be a positive situation if you look upon it as an opportunity for growth and self-improvement." Brian Tracy ~*~ "Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving" W. T. Purkiser, Christian Author ~*~ "Laughter is a great unifier. People who laugh together become one, if only for a little while." ~*~ "A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time." Mark Twain ~*~ "When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner." English Proverb ~*~ "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." Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Poet ~*~ "The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse." Jule Renard ~*~ "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." Robert Frost ~*~ "Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don't use their excuses. Take charge of your own life." ~*~ "Life is for one generation; a good name is forever." Japanese Proverb ~*~ "You need courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity." Jim Rohn ~*~ "Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up." ~*~ "When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he sells his integrity for the value of an ounce." ~*~ "The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." Peter Ferdinand Drucker ~*~ "Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing." - Harriet Braiker ~*~ "The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation." Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) ~*~ "Man does not plan to fail, he fails to plan." Mark Allen ~*~ "I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say 'We'll just have to see'." - Dick Fosbury, who won an Olympic gold medal at the 1968 Mexico City Games after he invented a revolutionary high-jump technique. ~*~ He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning. Danish Proverb ~*~ "The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances." Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (1731-1802), US First Lady, wife of George Washington ~*~ "The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn." James Allen (1864 - 1912) ~*~ "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." Mark Twain ~*~ "We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance." - Harrison Ford ~*~ "Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst." Walter Weckler ~*~ "Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking." J. C. Watts, Jr. U. S. Congress member ~*~ "Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means." - Robert Louis Stevenson ~*~ "Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty." - Frank Herbert Dune Chronicles ~*~ "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow." C.R. Lawton ~*~ Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. Babe Ruth ~*~ You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership. Dwight D. Eisenhower ~*~ If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. Maya Angelou Writer ~*~ "To win...you've got to stay in the game." - Claude M. Bristol ~*~ Sympathy sees and says, "I'm sorry." Compassion sees and says, "I'll help." ~*~ "The path to success is to take massive, determined action." Anthony Robbins ~*~ "You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight." Jim Rohn ~~~ ~*~ The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Gandhi ~*~ We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present. Charles Handy ~*~ "Style is being yourself, but on purpose." Patricia Fripp ~*~ "You do not need to be different from who you are. You only need to be more of the person you already are." Brian Tracy ~*~ "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own." Benjamin Disraeli ~*~ "The fear is worse than the pain." Shannon Bahr ~*~ "Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." General George S. Patton ~*~ "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see..." Henry David Thoreau ~*~ "Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller, workable units." Nido Qubein ~*~ "It is not what you say you believe that is important, but what you model, encourage, reward and let happen." Patricia Fripp ~*~ When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.~~~- Isak Dinesen ~*~ "Anything that changes your values changes your behavior..." George Sheehan ~*~ "Your self-confidence increases when you know you are living your life according to your highest values." Brian Tracy ~*~ "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas A. Edison ~*~ Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. - John Riefenbaker, author. ~*~ I expect to pass through this world but once; any good things that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow creatures, let me show it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. - William Penn (1644-1718) ~*~ "It's okay to send flowers, but don't let the flowers do all the talking. Flowers have a limited vocabulary. About the best flowers can say is that you remembered. But your words tell the rest." Jim Rohn ~*~ You talk the talk, but can you walk the walk? Being in integrity means you really are who you appear to be. How you live your life is reflected in your commitments, your values, your beliefs, your sense of right and wrong. When you live in harmony with what you believe in, you have peace and happiness flowing into your life. ~*~ "Laughter is an instant vacation." Milton Berle ~*~ "You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to: Helen Keller Louis Pasteur Michelangelo Mother Teresa Leonardo da Vinci Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein." ~*~"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing" | |
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