Habit of setting goals

"The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit
of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious
chore will become endurable as you parade through each day
convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring,
brings you closer to achieving your dreams."

-- Og Mandino, Author

Take care of your body

"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."

-- Jim Rohn, Author, Speaker, Philosopher

Take a chance

"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The person who goes the
furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."

-- Dale Carnegie, Author and Trainer

Going to smile

I'm going to smile and make you think I'm happy
I'm going to laugh so you don't see me cry
I'm going to let you go in stlye
And even if it kills me I'm going to smile

- Unknown

Make a difference

Make a difference be a leader, just think, If you leave here tomorrow, would they still remember you?

- Unknown

 

Hold on Tight

In all my years I have learned one thing: hold on tight to things dear to you, even if you don't feel a pull against your hands because if you hold on loosely, one strong pull can take everything all away.

- Janet Diane Belland

 

Dedicated

Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe dedicated.

- Unknown

Deterioration

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

- C. L. De Montesquieu

Life is Beautiful

You never run out of things to look at, therefore you never run out of things to photograph, therefore you never run out of things to paint, therefore you never run out of things to write about, therefore you never run out of things to sing about, therefore life's beautiful

- Unknown

Three People

No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three other people in our field.

- Howard Gardner

True Love

The course of true love never did run smooth.

- William Shakespeare

Never interrupt

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing worth can be taught

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

- Oscar Wilde

Not converted

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

- John Morley

Successful Person

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

- Vincent J. Lombardi

Success

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress.
Working together is SUCCESS."

-- Henry Ford

Cool head

The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.

- R. Shannon

Stay out of debt

"If one wants to get out and stay out of debt he should act
his wage."

-- Source Unknown

Road to peace

There is no road to peace, peace is the road.

- Gandhi

Life worked out just as planned

Why are you so happy? People ask me that everyday and I will with a smile on my face and power in my words say that I am happy because nothing in life goes as I planned, but if I just smile i can pretend that someday,somewhere life will be like I imagined. This smile won't be one of a wish or a prayer it will be a real honest to goodness smile letting everyone know that life worked out just like it was planned

- KAC

Embrace your past

You can run from the disappointment through trying to forget, but it's only when you embrace your past that you truly move forward.

- Unknown

Everything is wrong

When it seems like everything is wrong and will never be right again remember even the darkest nights must give way to day

- Unknown

Come the brightest days

You may not see
What you've been given
After what has been taken away
Just remember
From the darkest of nights
Always come the brightest days

- Piece of Heaven, Go Fish

 

 

 

Obstacles

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

- Michael Jordan

Will fight to the death for you

I may not like or agree with your opion. But I will fight to the death for you to have it

- Unknown

You know you better

What is meant to be, will always find its way
And when your down and feeling alone,  just wanna run away, trust yourself and don't give up. You know you better than anyone else.

- Fly by Hilary Duff

Road to peace

There is no road to peace, peace is the road.

- Gandhi

Do not mistake innocence for ignorance

"Don't mistake innocence for ignorance. Don't mistake purity for inexperience. Don't mistake humility for weakness. I sincerely meanthis. You understand more than you know."

- John Reuben "The Boy vs. The Cynic"

Ways you will miiss

You can't possible hit the ball if you are thinking of the ways you'll miss.

- Unknown

Know your religion

Know your religion,  know who you are and don't be ashamed.

- Carlos Mencia

Fall on your face

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

- Unknown

Do not stay where you are

The first step toward getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

- Unknown

Tommorow, may not be

Live, laugh, love, every day to it's fullest, for who knows, tommorow, may not be.

- Sharukh khan

Cannot be brave

You cannot be brave if you do not have a coward inside you.

- Deepak Chopra

Purpose of human existence

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

- Carl Jung

Decide to stay

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

- Christopher Reeve

Today is going fast

Don't brood about the future
Don't dwell upon the past

Live for today

For that is going fast"

- Krow

They are for the better

Sometimes no matter how hard you try, things don't work out the way you want them to. Maybe sometimes things have to change. And maybe sometimes they're for the better.

- Nani

Like a star

I am like a star; I shine but not everyone can see me shining.

- Alissa 

Watch me, then go do it

There are many things in your life that people are going to tell you, you cant do. All you have to do is say watch me, then go do it.

- Unknown

Better tomorrow

You can't have a better tomorrow if you're always thinking about yesterday.

- C.Roth

Going through Hell

If you're going through Hell.... run like hell

- Unknown 

True friends stand up beside

People always say there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Its true. Just sometimes the tunnel is longer than you would of hoped, but if look hard enough you can see the tiny glitter of light ahead of you. From that glint you know that you can keep going. Its scary to walk through a tunnel alone but that's where your true friends stand up beside you and guide you towards the light. Even when all you want more than anything is to turn around and go back.

 

- Burninghalo

Troubles in a pocket

Put your troubles in a pocket with a hole in it.

- Unknown 

Optimism

Optimism is a cheerful frame of mind that enables a tea kettle to sing though its in hot water up to it's nose.

- Anonymous

Responsible for your own soul

Others can remove what you call your own
But you do deflect the wind that blows
As you do reflect the light that glows
You are responsible for your own soul

- Shadowsinthelight 

Failing does not make losers

"Failing doesn't make you a loser, failing to try again does"

- Lyndsey McCann

Do not forget to help others

I know we all want to make it there, and if its possible, make it there first.
But don't forget to help others get there on the way, even if you have to slow down and change your direction for a while.

- Unknown

Live and dream

Live as if you die today,
Dream as if you live for ever

 

- Unknown

Master of my fate

As i go through this day let me be strong let me believe that I belong, Let me build courage to face down my fears and replace them with faith that I am worth all my tears. For the self that I value is what keeps me great and makes me the master whatever my fate.

- Unknown

Greater the difficulty, more the glory

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.  

-Unknown

Highest goodnes is like water

The highest goodnes is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays only in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near "The Eternal"

- Unknown

You will be invincible

Aspire to be who you want to be, and let no obstacle be to high. You can achieve your dreams. Let no one stand in your path, if your heart is true and your cause just, you will be invincible.

- Sarah Bott

Surrender what you are

Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are,  for what you could become.  

- Unknown

Send the elevator back

"When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator back down"

- Keith Hawkins

Force of a man determined

There is in this world no greater force than the force of a man determined to rise.

 

- Unknown
 

Stand up for yourself

Stand up for yourself even though you are standing alone...

- Miss Pader Thao

Someone with something less

Remember when you don't have something,
there's always someone with something less.

- Unknown 

Better by tomorrow

Life teaches you,
That happiness will always come hand in hand with sorrow.
And that no matter how bad it gets,
It may be better by tomorrow

 

- Unknown Poet
 

Good writer

A good writer has the power to capture passing and inspiring thoughts; to pen them down; and to publish them for the benefit of our generation and the generations to come.

- Jose B. Cabajar

Should not interrupt those doing

Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

- Unknown

Optimism

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

Shoot for the stars

Shoot for the stars, if you miss you might just hit the moon.

- Schooleybob

Your are right either way

If you think you can or if you think you can't, your're right either way

- Henry Ford

Dancing

Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart it another

- Unknown

Dreams come true

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

- John Updike

Never give up

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

- Babe Ruth

Keep your ideals

Keep your ideals high enough to inspire you, and low enough to encourage you.

- Unknown

Diamond is coal

A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.

- Unknown

Change the way you think

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

- Unknown

Impossible

No great work is impossible. The word it self says I'm possible.

- Unknown

How small and How big

It's a feeling of how small you are, but yet, how big you could be.

- Will Smith

 

Run a million miles

When needing a challenge to be fulfilled turn to the man who, if asked to run a million miles, would start to run.

-Ben Greenhalgh

Until you reach for them

The sun will never shine if you don't you look at it, the moon will never fall unless you want it to and the stars will never come until you reach for them.

- Tony Brunotte

Learning

Learning is absorbing another's experience.

- Bryan

Hard Work

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

- Thomas Jefferson

Do what is best

"If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who
comes up on the short end."

-- Julius Erving, American Basketball Player

Great foundation of failure

"I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's
complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure."

-- Og Mandino, Author

Growth must be chosen again

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward
growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be
overcome again and again."

-- Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

Mark of an educated mind

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a
thought without accepting it."

-- Aristotle

Sucess

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

-- George S. Patton

Blaming others

"Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our
fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and
is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem."

-- Eric Allenbaugh, Author

Truth

"The truth is more important than the facts."

-- Frank Lloyd Wright

Good for anything else

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for
anything else."

-- Benjamin Franklin

Married to the same woman

"I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years.
That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive."

-- Johnny Carson

Acres of diamonds

"You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of
your own 'acres of diamonds.'"

-- Earl Nightingale

Fear

"Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by
submitting to it."

-- Les Brown, Author
 

 

One Person

"To the world, you may be one person, but to one person, you
just might be the world."

-- Anonymous

God does not play dice

"God does not play dice with the universe."

-- Albert Einstein

No scarcity of opportunity

"There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what
you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it
happen."

-- Wayne Dyer, Author and Speaker

Not to give up hope

"The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to
because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think
you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you
come through the other side."

-- George Lucas

Know something

"The secret of success is to know something nobody else
knows."

-- Aristotle Onassis

Key to happiness

"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an
opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."

-- John Dewey

Three stages of Truth

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is
ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is
accepted as being self-evident."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

Right to be an Individual

"Remember always that you have not only the right to be an
individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make
any useful contribution in life unless you do this."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

Key to Failure

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is
trying to please everybody."

-- Bill Cosby

Generous impulse

"Always act upon a generous impulse."

-- Unknown

Things in the spirit of love

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the
moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you
have done things in the spirit of love."

-- Henry Drummond, Scientist and Author

The strongest oak tree

"The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is
protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one
that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for
its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching
sun."

-- Napoleon Hill, Writer

Life is no brief candle

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it
burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future
generations."

-- George Bernard Shaw

Man Vs Machine

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine
can do the work of one extraordinary man."

-- Elbert Hubbard, Author and Publisher

Nothing will work

"Nothing will work unless you do."

-- Maya Angelou

Perseverance

"Great works are performed, not by strength, but by
perseverance."

-- Samuel Johnson

Experience

"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."

-- Charles Buxton, Author

Keep your marriage brimming

"To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup,
whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut
up."

-- Ogden Nash

Dull and illumined mind

"To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind
the whole world burns and sparkles with light."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet and Essayist

Tide will turn

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against
you, never give up then, for that is just the time that the
tide will turn."

-- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Writer and Abolitionist

Make each day useful

"Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the
worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy,
old age without regret and life a beautiful success."

-- Louisa May Alcott, Author

Conceive and Believe

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can
achieve."

-- Dr. Napoleon Hill

Set your sights high

"Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most
wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now.
Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to
hamper you or hold you up in any way."

-- Eileen Caddy, Author

Expect to experience success

"Start small; Think possibilities; Reach beyond your known
abilities; Invest all you have in your dream; Visualize
miracles; Expect to experience success."

-- Rev. Robert H Schuller

Man will have discovered fire

"Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we
shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in
the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."

-- Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

I am only one

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

-- Helen Keller, Author and Lecturer

Be a fountain

"Be a fountain, not a drain."

-- Rex Hudler, Baseball player

Have a little laugh at life

"I live by this credo: Have a little laugh at life and look
around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter had
always brought me out of unhappy situations. Even in your
darkest moment, you usually can find something to laugh about
if you try hard enough."

-- Red Skelton, Comedian

Kindness is a language

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind
can read."

-- Mark Twain

Stand Up

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

-- Japanese Proverb

Listening

"Listening is a high art of loving. Ask yourself, 'When was the
last time I really listened to my child? My parent? My brother
or sister?' When someone is ready to share, three magic words
amplify your connection, and they are: 'Tell me more.'"

-- Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey

Patience and perseverance

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which
difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

-- John Quincy Adams

Which way you go

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said
the Cat. "I don't much care where." said Alice. "Then it
doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.

-- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Certainly I can

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em,
'certainly I can!' - and get busy and find out how to do it."

-- Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-Sixth U.S. President

Best Possible Use

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish
something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass
anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best
possible use."

-- Earl Nightingale

Our strength tomorrow

"Our real problem is not our strength today; it is rather the
vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength
tomorrow."

-- Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States

ABC of Success

"Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage."

-- Charles Luckman

Wonderful life

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it
sooner."

-- Colette

Describe truth, leave elegance

"If you are out to describe truth, leave elegance to the
tailor."

-- Albert Einstein

Bring things into fruition

"All of the great achievers of the past have been visionary
figures; they were men and women who projected into the future.
They thought of what could be, rather than what already was,
and then they moved themselves into action, to bring these
things into fruition."

-- Bob Proctor

Make me feel important

"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around
his or her neck that says. 'Make me feel important.' Not only
will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life."

-- Mary Kay Ash, Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

Tide will turn

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against
you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute
longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and
time that the tide will turn."

-- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Novelist

Humble

"It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low;
but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare
attainment."

-- St. Bernard, French Theologian and Reformer

Do not save your loving speeches

"Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they
are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them
rather now instead."

-- Anna Cummins, Poet

Wish without power

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power
to make it come true."

-- Richard Bach, Writer

Give me Liberty

"I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me
liberty or give me death."

-- Patrick Henry

Leader leads through inspiration

"A leader leads through inspiration. People like to work with
people going places and are starved for the energy and
excitement that business was always meant to have."

-- Loral Langemeier, Author of The Millionaire Maker

Wisdom

"The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness."

-- Michel de Montaigne, Essayist

Walk on holy gound

"To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy
ground."

-- Stephen Covey

See with your own eyes

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their
own hearts."

-- Albert Einstein

Eat before shopping

"Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are
likely to make unnecessary purchases."

-- American Heart Association Cookbook

Long hours of labor and toil

"Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very
best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love
carefully, remembering that your children need models, not
critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly
strive to present your best side to your children. And even if
you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you
have a loving family, you are a success."

-- Og Mandino, Author and Speaker

How to respond to a Situation

"I'm living proof that your choice of how to respond to a
situation constitutes your ultimate power."

-- Naomi Judd, Singer and Songwriter

Start Today

"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Rule your lives

"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within."

-- Earl Nightingale

Experience

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."

-- Auguste Rodin

Success is a science

"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the
result."

-- Oscar Wilde

Everything faced can be changed

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can
be changed until it is faced."

-- James A. Baldwin

Kindness

"No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads
to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness
throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and
make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others
is that it makes them kind themselves."

-- Amelia Earhart

Tremendous Consequences

"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come
from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little
things."

-- Bruce Barton, Author

Control over what you do

"You have no control over what the other guy does. You only
have control over what you do."

-- A. J. Kitt

Making an apple pie from scratch

"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first
create the universe."

-- Carl Sagan

Achiever

"Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned
around when I began to believe in me.'"

-- Dr. Robert Schuller, Minister and Author

Information

"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with
experience."

-- Clarence Day

Nothing is as real as a dream

"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around
you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase
it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within
you, no one can take it away."

-- Tom Clancy, Author

Advance confidently in the direction of your dreams

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

-- Henry David Thoreau

Success

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."

-- Earl Wilson

Do your best

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"

-- General George S. Patton

Good Example

"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."

-- Mark Twain

Being on the tightrope

"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is
waiting."

-- Karl Wallenda

Dreams

"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions
stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the
highest form of living."

-- Anais Nin

Motivation

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
    

- Norman R. Augustine

Footprints

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
    

 - unknown

Make them feel

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget  how you make them feel.

     - Carol Buchner

Undertake more

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.

     - Henry Drummond

Motivation

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
    

- Norman R. Augustine

Man of value

Try not to be a man of success, but rather to be a man of value.
    

 - Albert Einstein

Dreams pass into reality

"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions
stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the
highest form of living."

-- Anais Nin

One foot from a winning touchdown

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve
success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the
last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown."

-- Ross Perot

Courage

"Courage is being scared to death -- but saddling up anyway."

-- John Wayne

Sweet, Simple things

"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of
life which are the real ones after all."

-- Laura Ingalls Wilder, Author

Successful

"Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work."

-- David Sarnoff

Not retreating but advancing

"We are not retreating -- we are advancing in another
Direction."

-- General Douglas MacArthur

Creativity

"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm."

-- Earl Nightingale

Visionaries

"Visionaries are NOT special people. The gift of true vision
requires only a willingness to open your eyes to first, find
the horizon. Once fixated on the horizon comes the ability to
see beyond, where the true magic of life exists."

-- Rick Beneteau

Look at what you have

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have
more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never
have enough."

-- Oprah Winfrey

Look like a Winner

"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a
winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and
confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."

-- Arthur Ashe, Professional Tennis Player

Change to grow

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we
aren't really living."

-- Gail Sheehy

Do not speak evil

"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and
if you do know, ask yourself why am I telling it?"

-- Johann Kaspar Lavater, Theologian

A Teacher to fulfill your dreams

"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs
and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking
you with a sharp stick called 'truth'."

-- Dan Rather

Choose to live

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You
can only decide how you're going to live -- now."

-- Joan Baez, Musician

Explore dream

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw
off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the
trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover."

-- Mark Twain

One more time

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way
to succeed is always to try just one more time."

-- Thomas Edison

Kind words

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes
are truly endless."

-- Mother Teresa

Render more

"Always render more and better service than is expected of you,
no matter what your task may be."

-- Og Mandino, Author

Procrastination

"The greatest thief this world ever produced is
procrastination, and he is still at large."

-- Henry Wheeler Shaw, Humorist

Things may come

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by
those who hustle."

-- Abraham Lincoln

Attempt the impossible

"This became a credo of mine... attempt the impossible in
order to improve your work."

-- Bette Davis, Actress

Fruit of labor and thought

"Men give me credit for genius. All the genius I have lies in
this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.
Day and night, it is before me. I explore it in all its
bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then ... people
are pleased to call [the effort that I made] the fruit of
genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought."

-- Alexander Hamilton

Greatest good

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share
your riches, but to reveal to him his own."

-- Benjamin Disraeli, Former British Prime Minister

Quality of a person's life

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to
their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen
field of endeavor."

-- Vince Lombard, Football Coach

Pride in Caring

"Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I'm talking
about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole
idea of caring -- fiercely caring."

-- Red Aurbach, Professional Basketball Coach

Remember the things

"Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year
ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of
fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of
them turn out all right after all?"

-- Dale Carnegie, Author and Trainer

Desire Vs Doubt

"Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream
will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily
this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires,
unless you make them so."

-- Marcia Wieder, Speaker and Author

Promise and Perform

"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our
fears."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld, author and essayist

Success before work

"The only place where success comes before work is in the
dictionary."

-- Donald Kendall

Life unexamined

"The life which is unexamined is not worth living."

-- Socrates

All like to be loved

"We all like to be loved, but if I made decisions based on
being liked, I wouldn't be a very responsible CEO."

-- Malcolm Rogers, Executive Director, Boston Museum of Fine Art

Living each day

"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation
in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and
pure foolishness."

-- May Sarton, Poet

Knock yourself on the head

"Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because
he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to
knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself
ten years ago."

-- Horace Mann

High sounding words

"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions
that correspond with them."

-- Abigail Adams, U.S. First Lady

Big people are, above everything

"Really big people are, above everything else, courteous,
considerate and generous -- not just to some people in some
circumstances -- but to everyone all the time."

-- Thomas J. Watson, Founder of IBM

Enjoy life today

"If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow
or next year... Today should always be our most wonderful day."

-- Thomas Dreier, Author

Dreaming is planning

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the
excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of
planning."

-- Gloria Steinem, Author and Journalist

Size of the dog

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of
the fight in the dog."

-- Mark Twain

Crazy

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the
others crazy?"

-- Albert Einstein

Risk to blossom

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was
more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

-- Anais Nin, Author

Enthusiasm

"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with
enthusiasm."

-- Vince Lombardi, Football Coach

How far you go in life

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the
young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the
striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday
in your life you will have been all of these."

-- George Washington Carver

Decision about Who You Are

"Every decision you make -- every decision -- is not a decision
about what to do. It's a decision about Who You Are. When you
see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin
to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations
turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do."

-- Neale Donald Walsch, Author

Price and Value

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."

-- Warren Buffett

 

Hold fast to dreams

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken
winged bird that cannot fly."

-- Langston Hughes

Dreams are renewable

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

-- Dale Turner

Every man's work

"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or
pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a
portrait of himself."

-- Samuel Butler, British writer

Less than you are capable of

"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."

-- Abraham Maslow

Through Changing

"When you are through changing, you are through."

-- Bruce Barton

Invent Future

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

-- Alan Kay

First Giant Hurdle

"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to
take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick
walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If
you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you are
doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle."

-- George Lucas, Film Producer

Action

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

-- Pablo Picasso

Find something you care about

"It's very important that you find something that you care
about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going
to have to devote a lot of your life to it."

-- George Lucas

Powerful Motivation

"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."

-- Les Brown, Speaker and Author

Love Darkness

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will
endure the darkness for it shows me the stars."

-- Og Mandino, Author

Education and Experience

"Do you know the difference between education and experience?
Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what
you get when you don't."

-- Pete Seeger

Space between dreams and reality

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

-- Belva Davis, Award-Winning Journalist

Going to work

"When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their
hearts at home."

-- Betty Bender

Showing Dreams

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone
else."

-- Erma Bombeck

Enjoy Excellence

"The secret of joy is contained in one word -- excellence. To
know how to do something well is to enjoy it."

-- Pearl S. Buck, author

Something of value

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

-- Hermann Hesse, Novelist and Poet

Goal

"A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a
deadline."

-- Harvey Mackay, Author

Do Right

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish
the rest."

-- Mark Twain

Change your beliefs

"Within you right now is the power to do things you never
dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as
soon as you can change your beliefs."

-- Dr. Maxwell Maltz, Author

Effort

"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all
resistance, sweeps away all obstacles."

-- Claude M. Bristol, Author

Desire

"The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a
long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive,
any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited."

-- Earl Nightingale, Author

Can do a job

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em,
'certainly I can!' - and get busy and find out how to do it."

-- Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-Sixth U.S. President

Marry

By all means marry.

If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.

If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
 

--Socrates

 

Make your dreams come true

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."

-- Paul Valery

God did not trust me

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just
wish that He didn't trust me so much."

-- Mother Teresa

Inferior

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, Former First Lady of the U.S.

What wears you out

"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies
for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead
that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe."

-- Robert Service

Experience

"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."

-- Oscar Wilde

Joy in Work

"To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth."

-- Pearl S. Buck

Success

"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right
direction."

-- Al Bernstein

Friendship

Friendship Is Like Standing On Wet Cement,
The Longer You Stand More Difficult Is To Leave it & Even
If You Leave It,You Leave Your FootPrints Behind !

Setting High Standards

"Let us be about setting high standards for life, love,
creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are
low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high
standards makes every day and every decade worth looking
forward to."

-- Greg Anderson, Author

Sense of Humor

"A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive,
tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile
through the unbearable."

-- Moshe Waldoks, Rabbi and Humorist

Success Defined

"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair
for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not
enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain
sense of purpose."

-- Margaret Thatcher

Big Changes

"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a
second chance."

-- Harrison Ford

Treat Friends

"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in
their best light."

-- Jennie Jerome Churchill, Mother of Winston Churchill

World needs People

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

-- Harold Thurman Whitman, Philosopher and Theologian

Abundance

"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we
tune into."

-- Wayne Dyer, Author and Speaker

Intense Desire

"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."

-- Eric Hoffer, Author and Philosopher

Your true Passion

"Your true passion should feel like breathing; it's that
natural."

-- Oprah Winfrey

Success in Marriage

"Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the
right mate, but through being the right mate."

-- Barnett Brickner, Rabbi

Unlimited Quality

"If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your
business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take
care of itself."

-- Frank Perdue, Founder of Perdue Chicken

Your turn will come

"Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life,
don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of
teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is
inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one
wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just
part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you
know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit.
Your turn will come."

-- Og Mandino, Author

Why are we afraid

"Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If
we understood enough, we would never be afraid."

-- Earl Nightingale

Command Attention

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you
will command the attention of the world."

-- George Washington Carver

Successful Man

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with
the bricks others have thrown at him."

-- David Brinkley

Exerting One's Strength

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing
down, the other is pulling up."

-- Booker T. Washington

Ladder to Success

"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs
of opportunity."

-- Ayn Rand

Blessings

"Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are
and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return,
the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will
finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for
you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence."

-- Og Mandino, Author

Life

"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the
instrument as one goes on."

-- Samuel Butler

Children

"Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in
there having it! The more helpless they are, the more
instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be
preserved free of corruption from an early age."

-- Paul Klee, Swiss Artist

What is Talent

"A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal,
something you can lose yourself in - something that you can
start at 9 in the morning, look up from your work and it's 10
o'clock at night - and something that you have a natural
ability to do very well."

-- George Lucas

Ideas

"Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of
paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them
during the night before they get away."

-- Earl Nightingale