Monday, June 05, 2006
When you make people feel better about themselves, you also feel better about yourself.
"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life." -- Norman Cousins
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant." -- Horace
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." -- Albert Einstein
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
"At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should
either applaud you or prod you."
"Dare to risk public criticism."
"Develop a bias for action, a sense of urgency, to get things done."
"Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change."
"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
"Don't say, 'If I could, I would.' Say, 'If I can, I will.'" -- Jim Rohn
"Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully."
"Evaluation of the past is the first step toward vision for the future."
"Every farmer knows that you can't sow and reap on the same day. There is a timetable for
your harvest that requires both working and waiting. Patience is a small price to pay for what
you will receive." -- Neil Eskelin
"Every man should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him.
To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind."
"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised." -- Denis Waitley
"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few
errors in judgment, repeated every day." -- Jim Rohn
"Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only
death could bring release." -- John M. Wilson
"Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, "We don't teach
people to be nice. We simply hire nice people." Wow! What a clever short cut."
"Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying,
once and for all." -- Ovid
"Here's the philosophy of the rich and the poor. Poor people spend their money and invest
what's left. The rich invest their money and spend what's left. Think like the rich--invest your
money first, then spend what's left."
"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."
"I had six honest serving men - they taught me all I knew: Their names were Where and What
and When and Why and How and Who."
"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow." -- Woodrow Wilson
"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
"Internalize the 'Golden Rule' of sales that say, 'All things being equal, people will do business
with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.'"
"Knowledge might be power, but only when you take action." -- Richard Keeves
"Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves
better than they are."
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they
gave up." -- Thomas Edison
"Never begin the day until it is finished on paper." -- Jim Rohn
"No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you
still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning." -- Barbara
De Angelis
"Nothing will kill a sale faster than lack of enthusiasm."
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star
does not change his mind." --
"People are inherently fair and are motivated to pay you back for any nice things you do for
them." -- Brian Tracy
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." -- Zig Ziglar
"Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, 50
books per year, and will guarantee your success." -- Brian Tracy
"Since the perfect human being has not been discovered, we all need to live with our hang-ups
and our idiosyncrasies until they can be ironed out. One of the most important qualities in
successful, dynamic living is that of self-acceptance." -- Denis Waitley
"Success is dependent upon the glands--sweat glands."
"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but
not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant;
have humor, but without folly."
"The fault is not in the stars, but in ourselves."
"The finest eloquence is that which gets things done." -- David Lloyd George
"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us
sooner or later, with astounding accuracy."
"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us
sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." -- Florence Shinn
"The key to change... is to let go of fear." -- Rosanne Cash
"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without
growing apart."
"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."
"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work." --
Robert Frost
"The same God who created Rembrandt created you, and you are as precious in God's sight as
Rembrandt or anyone else." -- Zig Ziglar
"The smart ones ask when they don't know. And sometimes, when they do."
"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't
read." -- Abraham Lincoln
"The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be
successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have." -- Nido
Qubein
"The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship
"There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in
the face of some situations."
"There are some things you don't have to know how it works - only that it works. While some
people are studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. It just depends on which end of this
you want to get in on."
"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm
resolve of a determined soul."
"There is no sudden leap to greatness. Your success lies in doing, day by day. Your upward
reach comes from working well and carefully." -- Max Steingart
"There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle"-
Robert Alden
"There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take."
"There should be less talk. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house.
That says enough." -- Mother Theresa
"To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the
maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The
maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that
is most favorable toward the ends you desire." -- Nido Qubein
"Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is
nearest of all to us"- Meister Eckhart
"Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by
affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and
successful." -- Norman Vincent Peale
"We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to
deserve not need."
"What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This
is the key to your future." -- Brian Tracy
"What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of
consequence is what we do." -- John Ruskin
"What you want will pull like a magnet. Here's the other part. What for? Purpose is stronger
than object. It's the 'What for?' that's even more powerful than the object. And the more you can
describe in detail to stir the emotion and the intellect and the spirit and the soul, then the more
powerful the 'what for' is."
"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'" --
Sydney Harris
"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you
should take -- choose the bolder."
"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring
about right results." -- James Allen
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they
want."
"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly,
smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having
a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.'" -- Stephen Covey
[Another] important factor in overcoming fear-complete trust in God.
“Son, if you’re in something, get in it. If you’re not in it, get out. If you’re not giving your best
effort, you’re not being fair to the man you’re working for, and you’re not being fair to yourself.”
A couple cannot survive if one person always makes decisions independent of the other. It takes
longer to make a decision if you insist on discussion that produces unity, but it removes the
danger of hasty decisions that can cause a couple future problems in their marriage.
A man needs to recognize the tremendous worth of his wife. Women have two incredibly
important capacities because of the special way they're created. First, they have an intuitive
desire to build meaningful relationships with those in their lives. Not only that, but they also
have the capacity to recognize a healthy and intimate relationship. In a practical way, this
means that a woman carries inside her a built-in marriage manual!
A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882,
American poet, essayist)
A vigorous five mile walk will do more good for an unhappy, but otherwise healthy adult than all
the medicine and psychology in the world. Paul Dudley White
Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world;
make a note of its lessons and move on. Tom Hobson
Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim
threatens your future.
Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. George S. Patton (1885-
1945, American army general during World War II)
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any
misfortune. William James (1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author)
Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the
easiest.
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor,
persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. Orison Swett Marden
(1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were
at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts
and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day. Ching Ning
Chu (Chinese-American businesswoman, lecturer, author)
Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you - Dale Carnegie (1888-1955,
American trainer, author, "How to Win Friends and Influence People")
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(1906-1945, German Lutheran pastor and theologian)
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. A. L. Linall Jr. (1947-, American editor)
Added benefits of drive through talking: (a) Gives you a chance to fully understand what the
other person is saying before you respond. This also prevents tuning out the other person while
he or she is talking. (b) Validates the other person and his or her opinions. When you not only
listen but also repeat back what someone says, you communicate that the person and his or her
opinions are important to you and worth taking seriously.
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. Hans Selye (1907-
1982, Canadian physician born in Austria, research on stress)
After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years,
look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. Alfred Edward
Perlman
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old,
and some never grow up. Tryon Edwards (1809-1894, American theologian)
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. Henry David Thoreau (1817-
1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
Aim for your star, no matter how far, you must reach high above and touch your life with love,
you must never look back, but charge on! Attack! See your goal your star of desire, see it red
hot, feel it burning, you must be obsessed with it to make it your true yearning, be ready my
friends for when you truly believe it, you will certainly achieve it and by all of God’s universal
laws you will always receive it! Bob Smith (American editor, author, founder of Orison Swett
Marden Foundation)
All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose. John W. Gardner (1912-2002,
American educator, social activist)
All good work is done the way ants do things, little by little. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904 Greek
writer and translator)
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Albert Camus (1913-1960,
French existential writer)
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and
insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try
to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. Ralph Ransom
All of man's troubles come from his inability to sit alone, quietly, in a room, for any length of
time. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
James Allen (1864-1912, British-born American essayist, author, "As A Man Thinketh")
And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make
changes in their life--if you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. You have the
ability to totally transform every area in your life--and it all begins with your very own power of
choice.
Anger creates distance, and distance destroys relationships. It causes husbands and wives and
parents and children to drift away from each other. Home becomes little more than a dormitory
with hostile roommates.
Do not be threatened by the presence of conflict, but use it as a flashing road sign that gets your
attention to do whatever is necessary to resolve it at some point.
Do not fear sudden calamity if you are walking uprightly before God. It may be setting the stage
for a great victory that will bring praise and honor to your heavenly Father. These battles are
training grounds for greater victories to come.
Don't allow guilt to overwhelm you when you notice negative emotional signals flashing. Rather,
make a decision to use those signals as a motivation to evaluate and change your focus.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."
Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb
higher tomorrow. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German philosopher)
Every man has tremendous value. It's hidden at times, perhaps, but always there -- a worth
based on the incredible impact he has on every member of the family through his everyday
actions and attitudes. Encourage him to remember how important he is and to make that
impact positive and affirming.
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough, but not baked in the same oven. Yiddish Proverb
Everyone must row with the oars they have. English Proverb (Sayings of British origin)
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment." -- Baltasar
Gracion
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. Vincent
Van Gogh (1853-1890, Dutch-born French painter)
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone
else to miss and waste life.Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881, Swiss philosopher, poet, critic)
If you have nothing else to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that
you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.
George M. Adams (1878-1962, American author)
If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time." --
Brian Tracy
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the
challenges and does something about it. Vince Lombardi (1913-1970, American football coach)
Life has a practice of leaving you unexpectedly, so live it to the fullest while you can
Many people complain that their mate is strangely silent when they do something above and
beyond the norm. We need to give praise and thanks to each other for special acts of kindness.
One simple way to honor your wife is by regularly showing that you appreciate her. Specific
words of praise always score major points. Flattery is insincere or excessive praise. It's rooted
in motives of self-interest; it implies you want something from her. True praise, on the other
hand, focuses more on character qualities and is not self-serving.
Others have done it before me. I can, too. Corporal John Faunce (American soldier)
Our greatest joy and satisfaction comes from the act of giving. - Leo Buscaglia
Refrain from confronting your husband's deficiencies in anger. A man has a tendency to fight his
conscience, and if you become his conscience, he'll either fight you or flee from you. Whichever
route he takes, you've failed in your desire to spend more time with him.
So many men and woman treat each other as objects to be used. They may not verbalize it, but
they maintain an inward conviction that their mate should do things that have never been
discussed. This is like steadily pouring acid on intimacy.
The key to a close-knit marriage is maximizing the times together and minimizing the times
apart. Our culture has a tendency to emphasize "doing your own thing" rather than marital
closeness. The more activities you can do as a couple, the better the chances are that you'll
develop a deep, lasting relationship.
The pain we feel for others helps us move forward in our personal journey into maturity.
Additional benefits include heightened thoughtfulness, gentleness, carefulness, kindness,
patience, and self-control.
The Spirit-filled person is one who seeks to do the will of God and lives by faith drawing upon
the supernatural resources of God the Holy Spirit for every attitude, motive and desire of his
life. - b. bright
The successful apology dissolves anger and humiliation. It shows respect, builds trust, and helps
prevent further misunderstanding. A sincere apology makes it much easier to forgive."
The true test of character is... how we behave when we don't know what to do. John Holt (1908-
1967, Australian Prime Minister)
The words of your mouth are a creative force. They play a big part in predestining your future.
Your words are the architects of your life. The tongue is like a tool. We need to use our tools of
the present to build our future we desire.
To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority
of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963,
British author)
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. Les Brown (1945-,
American speaker, author, trainer, motivator
true apology depends on the three Rs: regret, responsibility, and remedy.
We cannot allow our errors in judgment, repeated every day, to lead us down the wrong path.
We must keep coming back to those basics that make the biggest difference in how our life
works out. And then we must make the very choices that will bring life, happiness and joy into
our daily lives.
We created our circumstances by our past choices. We have both the ability and the
responsibility to make better choices beginning today.
We should instead discuss our roles in marriage and what areas we can encourage each other to
do. We should choose areas based on genuine love and not on expectations that have never
been discussed.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. Otto Rank (1884-1939, Austrian-born
psychoanalyst)
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in
listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of
fear. Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you
are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973, Spanish
artist)
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is
watching." -- Mark Twain
You always project on the outside how you feel on the inside." -- Denis Waitley
The true test of character is... how we behave when we don't know what to do. John Holt (1908-
1967, Australian Prime Minister)
Throw a resourceful person into a river, and he will probably come out with a fish in his hand.
Arabian Proverb
Big results require big ambitions. James Champy (American author and international
management consultant)
You can do what you want to do, sometimes you can do it even than you thought you could.
Jimmy Carter (1924-, American President (39th))
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784,
British author)
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. Wayne Dyer (1940-,
American psychotherapist, author, lecturer)
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Samuel Ullman (1840-1924, German-born American educator, writer, poet)
I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known. Confucius (BC 551-
479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit,
reason, passion, desire. Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek philosopher)
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time. Sam
Walton (1918-1992, American businessman, founder of Wal-mart)
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. George William Curtis (1824-1892, American journalist)
Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge
ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. Robert Johnson
The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong, (1942-, American
author)
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius, (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. Oprah Winfrey
Never let your failures go to your heart or your successes go to your head.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than
what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. Charles
Swindoll(1934-, American pastor, author)
If you can command yourself, you can command the world. Chinese Proverb
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. Mark Twain (1835-1910, American
humorist, writer)
You create your opportunities by asking for them. Patty Hansen (American author, wife of
Mark Victor Hansen)
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be
alone than in bad company. George Washington (1732-1799, American President (1st))
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing
that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your
current situation. Brian Tracy(1944-, Canadian-born American trainer, speaker, author,
businessman)
Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may
expect to be well. James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888, American minister, theologian)
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. William John Bennett (1943-, American federal
official)
Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no suchthing as failure, only feedback.
They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it. Michael J. Gelb (American
peak performance expert, author, trainer)
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do
anything with it. M. Scott Peck
If you are always dwelling in trouble, change your address. American Proverb
Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure. Marcus Aurelius (121-12180,
Roman emperor, philosopher)
"Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the
demands of Christ." -- William Barclay
"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the
doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be the miracle." -- Phillips Brooks
Every day above ground is a good day.
"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is
willing to do and dare. The 'sure thing' boat never gets far from shore." -- Dale Carnegie
"Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment and convert it into
an opportunity to alter you destiny." -- Denis Waitley
"It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to
develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and
the time they require." -- Jim Rohn
"You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package." -- Richard M.
DeVos
"The greatest communication skill is paying value to others" -- Denis Waitley
"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." --
Ambrose Bierce
"The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and
behavior affect the rights and well being of others." -- Sharon Anthony Bower
"Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood." -- Brian
Tracy
"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend you energies on
moving forward toward finding the answer." -- Denis Waitley
"Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of
human affairs." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment
with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader." -- Paul J. Meyer
"Concentrate your powers. Identify what you are particularly good at doing and do more of it."
-- Brian Tracy
"No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and
conscience clear, never to be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to
strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." -- John Lubbock
"Look for role models who have succeeded in achieving goals similar to your own - individuals
with whom you can personally identify." -- Denis Waitley
"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and
approximate to the characters we most admire." -- Christian Nevell Bovee
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the
murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time." -- Sir
John Lubbock
"Never argue with the inevitable." -- Patricia Fripp
"Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape." -- Dr. Michael McGriffy
"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; who knows
the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the
best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least
fails while daring greatly." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"Courage is fear that has said its prayers." -- Dorothy Bernard
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes
and having fun." -- Mary Lou Cook
"My mentor said, 'Let's go do it,' not 'You go do it.' How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!'" --
Jim Rohn
"Apprentice for two years to a great, inspiring leader who'll mentor and teach you. Execute his
or her requests with excellence and elegance. Meet and befriend all his or her friends,
associates, bankers, clients, suppliers and actively keep them in your own Rolodex." -- Mark
Victor Hansen
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires." -- William Arthur Ward
"To teach is to learn twice." -- Joseph Joubert
"I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in
God's hands, that I still possess." -- Martin Luther
"Lift up your heart to GOD, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the
least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; he is
nearer to us than we are aware of." -- Brother Lawrence
A closed mouth gathers no feet.
bobdelamar (1/23/2006 4:56:33 PM): Don't worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will
have its own worries. Matthew 6:34 God liberated his children from slavery and created a path
through the sea. He gave them a cloud to follow in the day and a fire to see at night. And he gave
them food.... Each morning the manna came. Each evening the quail appeared. "Trust me. Trust
me and I will give you what you need." The people were told to take just enough for one day.
Their needs would be met, one day at a time.
Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown
"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a
matter of life or death to you."- C.S. Lewis
"He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more, He who loses faith,
loses all." Eleanor Roosevelt
"The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with
his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism
of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the
crisis overcome." John Haggai
"Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated." -- Denis Waitley
"Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error." -- Jean Baptiste Moliere
"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have
things occur to you, to let your mind think." -- Mortimer Adler
"The twin killers of success are impatience and greed." -- Jim Rohn
"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater." --
Albert Einstein
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions. -- Admiral Grace Hopper
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. -- Thomas Carlyle
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but
because they are not already common." -- John Locke
"The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke." -- W.J. Cameron
When I have finally decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead on it and make trail after
trial until it comes. -- Thomas Edison
"Perseverance is more Prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome
when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little." -- Plutarch
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and
obstacles vanish into air." -- John Quincy Adams
"Usually a person has more faith in their fear than faith in their future...." Doug Firebaugh
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or
confidence." Helen Keller
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today; Let us move forward
with strong and active faith." Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of
us must travel and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy." Plato
"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." -- Charles Schwab
"You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you
possessed." -- Napolean Hill
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." -- Walter Bagehot
"We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
The consciousness of wrongdoing makes us irritable, and our heart in its cunning quarrels with
what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamour within." -- Henri Amiel
"What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them." -- Denis
Waitley
"Acting is just a way of making a living; the family is life." -- Denzel Washington
"I've been very blessed. My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted. When you
grow up in a household like that, you learn to believe in yourself." -- Rick Schroeder
"Take time out every day for the important people in your life." -- Brian Tracy
"It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it
means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it." -
- Andre Agassi
"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way
that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around." -- Katharine Hepburn
"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive,
along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have
found that attitude, follow it." -- William James
"Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put
on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling." --
Vincent Van Gogh
"Trust your instincts. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's." Billy
Wilder
"Don't let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong
for the last ten years, I would suggest that's long enough!" Jim Rohn
"Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to
perform are high." Jim Rohn
"Live each day as if your last, not in the future, not in the past. You may not get what you want,
but, in the long run, you will get what you expect." Denis Waitley
"Excuses are the language of the failure, and the melody of the mediocre…" -- Doug Firebaugh
"The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread
in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure." -- Denis Waitley
"It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow." -- Harvey Mackay
"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." -- Henry Ford
"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small
jumps." -- David Lloyd George
"Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal." --
Brian Tracy
"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them." -- Pablo Picasso
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star
does not change his mind." -- Leonardo da Vinci
"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as necessary to resolve it." -- Rene Descartes
"You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hard-
working. Never be faint-hearted. Be resolute, but never bitter." -- Ralph J. Bunche
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking
that having problems is a problem." Theodore Rubin
"The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that
they can make it work or make it better." Barbara Pletcher
"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
"Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations." Richard M.
DeVos
"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right." Henry Ford
" He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how..." -Friedrich Nietzsche-
Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwisewe harden. Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist
"Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can
learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God."-George Washington
Carver
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.' --
M. Grundler
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. .. C.S. Lewis
There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why ... I dream of things that
never were and ask why not? .. Robert F. Kennedy
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the
strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. .. Harriet
Tubman
When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old. .. Bill Clinton
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the
world cries and you rejoice. .. Cherokee Expression
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. .. Douglas MacArthur
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Be ready for the sudden surprise visits of God. A ready person never needs to get ready— he is
ready. - Oswald Chambers
Unguarded strength is actually a double weakness, because that is where the least likely
temptations will be effective in sapping strength. The Bible characters stumbled over their
strong points, never their weak ones. - Oswald Chambers
In times of uncertainty, wait. Always, if you have any doubt, wait. Do not force yourself to any
action. If you have a restraint in your spirit, wait until all is clear, and do not go against it.-
Streams in the Dessert
"Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the
belief that whatever you do doesn't matter."
"We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax,
the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value."
Jim Rohn
"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there."
"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention
of the world."
"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."
"Doubt can only be removed by action."
"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
"Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture"
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every
difficulty."
"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it."
When you flee temptations don’t leave a forwarding address."
"Out of nothing comes nothing. But out of suffering may come the cure."
"I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse."
"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which
bring results." - Florence Nightingale
"A friend is a man who knows all about you, and still likes you."~ Elbert Hubbard
"Cultivate only the habits you are willing to have master you."
"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive. Easy to govern, but impossible to
enslave" ~Henry Brougham
"Fortune does not make men, it unmasks them."
"Have good friends or have none."~ Royal Path of Life
"In every triumph there is a lot of try."
"It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. "
"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable."
"Nothing is easy and worthwhile."
"Only dead fish swim with the stream."
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like
work."~Thomas Edison
"Real friendships are so rare, that when they occur, they are famous. " ~Clarence Day
"We cannot choose whom we will love if we claim to be Christians."
"A team is a group of people who may not be equal in experience, talent, or education but in
commitment." -- Patricia Fripp
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." -- Helen Keller
"Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to
your door." -- Denis Waitley
"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A
realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run." --
Syndey J. Harris
"Denying or refusing to deal with some unpleasant fact in your life is the source of most stress
and unhappiness." -- Brian Tracy
"Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they
want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the
efforts of others to achieve their greatest success." -- Stephen Covey
"Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason
why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and
horses." Dale Carnegie
"Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more
skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom." -- Jim Rohn
"First we make our habits, then our habits make us." Denis Waitley
"Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will
develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty." -- William J. Bennett
"Good friends are good for your health." Irwin Sarason
"Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love
what you are doing." Brian Tracy
"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within
him the gift of miracles." Samuel Smiles
"How friendly are your companies’ first words? Just try this…start all conversations with
customers using one of the following words or phrases: 'great!' 'no problem', 'you're in luck',
'that's my favorite problem'." -- Jeffrey Gitomer
"How much should you earn? As much as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether you earn
$10,000 a year or $100,000 a year as long as you've done the best you can." -- Jim Rohn
"I am happy and content because I think I am." Alain-Rene Lesage
"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the
way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves." -- Karl Wilhelm
Von Humboldt
"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
"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow." -- Woodrow Wilson
"If all you do is all you're doing, all you'll get is all you're getting." -- Brian Tracy
"If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking." -- Denis Waitley
"If you add value out, you'll bring value in." -- Jeffrey Gitomer
"In the Midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." -- Deepak Chopra
"It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man
than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the
machinery, but the friction. Fear secrets acids; but love and trust are sweet juices." Henry
Ward Beecher
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." --
Aristotle
"It's time to stop tiptoeing around the pool and jump into the deep end, head first. It's time to
think big, want more and achieve it all!" -- Mark Victor Hansen
"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want." Jim Rohn
"Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will
enable you to enjoy them." -- Nido Qubein
"Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving
water has been shown to lower blood pressure." -- Patch Adams
"Never doubt that a small group of concerned citizens can change the world, indeed it's the only
thing that has." -- Margaret Mead
"Nothing needs reforming so much as other people's habits." Mark Twain
"One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us." -- Mary Kay Ash
"Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is
possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they
begin to see it as possible." -- Cherie Carter-Scott
"Our success should not be a random event, but the result of conscious actions." -- Tony Jeary
"Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all
times." -- Brian Tracy
"Success is never ending, failure is never final." -- Dr. Robert Schuller
"Success is not the destination; it's a way to travel." -- Denis Waitley
"The arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume we will, in defiance of every
hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties
being with one mind resolved to die free rather than live slaves." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear."
Brian Tracy
"The life you are leading is simply a reflection of your thinking." -- Doug Firebaugh
"The more you know, the less you need to say." -- Denis Waitley
"The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can!" -- Denis Waitley
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your
complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." --
Mark Twain
"The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be
successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have." -- Nido
Qubein
"The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the
finest transportation and endurance for their lives." Denis Waitley
"There are those who work all day, those who dream all day, and those who spend an hour
dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because
there's virtually no competition." -- Steven J. Ross
"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in
this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love
and thanks of man and woman." -- Thomas Paine
"Thought is creative. You create your entire life with your thoughts, hour by hour and minute
by minute." -- Brian Tracy
"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that
sang best." -- Henry Van Dyke
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness." -- The Declaration of Independence
"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope." Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.
"Whatever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will
be America’s heart, her benedictions and her prayers." -- John Quincy Adams
"Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier." -- Charles F. Kettering
"Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great
return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy." -- Jim Rohn
"Working hard is the foundation for any success in life... but many people have what I call the
'Reverse Disease'...they see 'working hard' as 'hardly working'... and expect the same results....
yeah right." -- Doug Firebaugh
"You can't solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the
next level." -- Albert Einstein
F.E.A.R - False Emotion Appearing Real
"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life." -- Norman Cousins
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant." -- Horace
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." -- Albert Einstein
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
"At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should
either applaud you or prod you."
"Dare to risk public criticism."
"Develop a bias for action, a sense of urgency, to get things done."
"Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change."
"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
"Don't say, 'If I could, I would.' Say, 'If I can, I will.'" -- Jim Rohn
"Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully."
"Evaluation of the past is the first step toward vision for the future."
"Every farmer knows that you can't sow and reap on the same day. There is a timetable for
your harvest that requires both working and waiting. Patience is a small price to pay for what
you will receive." -- Neil Eskelin
"Every man should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him.
To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind."
"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised." -- Denis Waitley
"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few
errors in judgment, repeated every day." -- Jim Rohn
"Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only
death could bring release." -- John M. Wilson
"Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, "We don't teach
people to be nice. We simply hire nice people." Wow! What a clever short cut."
"Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying,
once and for all." -- Ovid
"Here's the philosophy of the rich and the poor. Poor people spend their money and invest
what's left. The rich invest their money and spend what's left. Think like the rich--invest your
money first, then spend what's left."
"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."
"I had six honest serving men - they taught me all I knew: Their names were Where and What
and When and Why and How and Who."
"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow." -- Woodrow Wilson
"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
"Internalize the 'Golden Rule' of sales that say, 'All things being equal, people will do business
with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.'"
"Knowledge might be power, but only when you take action." -- Richard Keeves
"Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves
better than they are."
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they
gave up." -- Thomas Edison
"Never begin the day until it is finished on paper." -- Jim Rohn
"No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you
still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning." -- Barbara
De Angelis
"Nothing will kill a sale faster than lack of enthusiasm."
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star
does not change his mind." --
"People are inherently fair and are motivated to pay you back for any nice things you do for
them." -- Brian Tracy
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." -- Zig Ziglar
"Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, 50
books per year, and will guarantee your success." -- Brian Tracy
"Since the perfect human being has not been discovered, we all need to live with our hang-ups
and our idiosyncrasies until they can be ironed out. One of the most important qualities in
successful, dynamic living is that of self-acceptance." -- Denis Waitley
"Success is dependent upon the glands--sweat glands."
"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but
not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant;
have humor, but without folly."
"The fault is not in the stars, but in ourselves."
"The finest eloquence is that which gets things done." -- David Lloyd George
"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us
sooner or later, with astounding accuracy."
"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us
sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." -- Florence Shinn
"The key to change... is to let go of fear." -- Rosanne Cash
"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without
growing apart."
"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."
"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work." --
Robert Frost
"The same God who created Rembrandt created you, and you are as precious in God's sight as
Rembrandt or anyone else." -- Zig Ziglar
"The smart ones ask when they don't know. And sometimes, when they do."
"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't
read." -- Abraham Lincoln
"The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be
successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have." -- Nido
Qubein
"The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship
"There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in
the face of some situations."
"There are some things you don't have to know how it works - only that it works. While some
people are studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. It just depends on which end of this
you want to get in on."
"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm
resolve of a determined soul."
"There is no sudden leap to greatness. Your success lies in doing, day by day. Your upward
reach comes from working well and carefully." -- Max Steingart
"There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle"-
Robert Alden
"There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take."
"There should be less talk. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house.
That says enough." -- Mother Theresa
"To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the
maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The
maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that
is most favorable toward the ends you desire." -- Nido Qubein
"Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is
nearest of all to us"- Meister Eckhart
"Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by
affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and
successful." -- Norman Vincent Peale
"We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to
deserve not need."
"What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This
is the key to your future." -- Brian Tracy
"What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of
consequence is what we do." -- John Ruskin
"What you want will pull like a magnet. Here's the other part. What for? Purpose is stronger
than object. It's the 'What for?' that's even more powerful than the object. And the more you can
describe in detail to stir the emotion and the intellect and the spirit and the soul, then the more
powerful the 'what for' is."
"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'" --
Sydney Harris
"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you
should take -- choose the bolder."
"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring
about right results." -- James Allen
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they
want."
"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly,
smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having
a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.'" -- Stephen Covey
[Another] important factor in overcoming fear-complete trust in God.
“Son, if you’re in something, get in it. If you’re not in it, get out. If you’re not giving your best
effort, you’re not being fair to the man you’re working for, and you’re not being fair to yourself.”
A couple cannot survive if one person always makes decisions independent of the other. It takes
longer to make a decision if you insist on discussion that produces unity, but it removes the
danger of hasty decisions that can cause a couple future problems in their marriage.
A man needs to recognize the tremendous worth of his wife. Women have two incredibly
important capacities because of the special way they're created. First, they have an intuitive
desire to build meaningful relationships with those in their lives. Not only that, but they also
have the capacity to recognize a healthy and intimate relationship. In a practical way, this
means that a woman carries inside her a built-in marriage manual!
A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882,
American poet, essayist)
A vigorous five mile walk will do more good for an unhappy, but otherwise healthy adult than all
the medicine and psychology in the world. Paul Dudley White
Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world;
make a note of its lessons and move on. Tom Hobson
Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim
threatens your future.
Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. George S. Patton (1885-
1945, American army general during World War II)
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any
misfortune. William James (1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author)
Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the
easiest.
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor,
persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. Orison Swett Marden
(1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were
at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts
and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day. Ching Ning
Chu (Chinese-American businesswoman, lecturer, author)
Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you - Dale Carnegie (1888-1955,
American trainer, author, "How to Win Friends and Influence People")
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(1906-1945, German Lutheran pastor and theologian)
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. A. L. Linall Jr. (1947-, American editor)
Added benefits of drive through talking: (a) Gives you a chance to fully understand what the
other person is saying before you respond. This also prevents tuning out the other person while
he or she is talking. (b) Validates the other person and his or her opinions. When you not only
listen but also repeat back what someone says, you communicate that the person and his or her
opinions are important to you and worth taking seriously.
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. Hans Selye (1907-
1982, Canadian physician born in Austria, research on stress)
After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years,
look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. Alfred Edward
Perlman
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old,
and some never grow up. Tryon Edwards (1809-1894, American theologian)
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. Henry David Thoreau (1817-
1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
Aim for your star, no matter how far, you must reach high above and touch your life with love,
you must never look back, but charge on! Attack! See your goal your star of desire, see it red
hot, feel it burning, you must be obsessed with it to make it your true yearning, be ready my
friends for when you truly believe it, you will certainly achieve it and by all of God’s universal
laws you will always receive it! Bob Smith (American editor, author, founder of Orison Swett
Marden Foundation)
All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose. John W. Gardner (1912-2002,
American educator, social activist)
All good work is done the way ants do things, little by little. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904 Greek
writer and translator)
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Albert Camus (1913-1960,
French existential writer)
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and
insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try
to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. Ralph Ransom
All of man's troubles come from his inability to sit alone, quietly, in a room, for any length of
time. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
James Allen (1864-1912, British-born American essayist, author, "As A Man Thinketh")
And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make
changes in their life--if you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. You have the
ability to totally transform every area in your life--and it all begins with your very own power of
choice.
Anger creates distance, and distance destroys relationships. It causes husbands and wives and
parents and children to drift away from each other. Home becomes little more than a dormitory
with hostile roommates.
Do not be threatened by the presence of conflict, but use it as a flashing road sign that gets your
attention to do whatever is necessary to resolve it at some point.
Do not fear sudden calamity if you are walking uprightly before God. It may be setting the stage
for a great victory that will bring praise and honor to your heavenly Father. These battles are
training grounds for greater victories to come.
Don't allow guilt to overwhelm you when you notice negative emotional signals flashing. Rather,
make a decision to use those signals as a motivation to evaluate and change your focus.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."
Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb
higher tomorrow. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German philosopher)
Every man has tremendous value. It's hidden at times, perhaps, but always there -- a worth
based on the incredible impact he has on every member of the family through his everyday
actions and attitudes. Encourage him to remember how important he is and to make that
impact positive and affirming.
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough, but not baked in the same oven. Yiddish Proverb
Everyone must row with the oars they have. English Proverb (Sayings of British origin)
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment." -- Baltasar
Gracion
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. Vincent
Van Gogh (1853-1890, Dutch-born French painter)
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone
else to miss and waste life.Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881, Swiss philosopher, poet, critic)
If you have nothing else to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that
you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.
George M. Adams (1878-1962, American author)
If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time." --
Brian Tracy
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the
challenges and does something about it. Vince Lombardi (1913-1970, American football coach)
Life has a practice of leaving you unexpectedly, so live it to the fullest while you can
Many people complain that their mate is strangely silent when they do something above and
beyond the norm. We need to give praise and thanks to each other for special acts of kindness.
One simple way to honor your wife is by regularly showing that you appreciate her. Specific
words of praise always score major points. Flattery is insincere or excessive praise. It's rooted
in motives of self-interest; it implies you want something from her. True praise, on the other
hand, focuses more on character qualities and is not self-serving.
Others have done it before me. I can, too. Corporal John Faunce (American soldier)
Our greatest joy and satisfaction comes from the act of giving. - Leo Buscaglia
Refrain from confronting your husband's deficiencies in anger. A man has a tendency to fight his
conscience, and if you become his conscience, he'll either fight you or flee from you. Whichever
route he takes, you've failed in your desire to spend more time with him.
So many men and woman treat each other as objects to be used. They may not verbalize it, but
they maintain an inward conviction that their mate should do things that have never been
discussed. This is like steadily pouring acid on intimacy.
The key to a close-knit marriage is maximizing the times together and minimizing the times
apart. Our culture has a tendency to emphasize "doing your own thing" rather than marital
closeness. The more activities you can do as a couple, the better the chances are that you'll
develop a deep, lasting relationship.
The pain we feel for others helps us move forward in our personal journey into maturity.
Additional benefits include heightened thoughtfulness, gentleness, carefulness, kindness,
patience, and self-control.
The Spirit-filled person is one who seeks to do the will of God and lives by faith drawing upon
the supernatural resources of God the Holy Spirit for every attitude, motive and desire of his
life. - b. bright
The successful apology dissolves anger and humiliation. It shows respect, builds trust, and helps
prevent further misunderstanding. A sincere apology makes it much easier to forgive."
The true test of character is... how we behave when we don't know what to do. John Holt (1908-
1967, Australian Prime Minister)
The words of your mouth are a creative force. They play a big part in predestining your future.
Your words are the architects of your life. The tongue is like a tool. We need to use our tools of
the present to build our future we desire.
To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority
of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963,
British author)
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. Les Brown (1945-,
American speaker, author, trainer, motivator
true apology depends on the three Rs: regret, responsibility, and remedy.
We cannot allow our errors in judgment, repeated every day, to lead us down the wrong path.
We must keep coming back to those basics that make the biggest difference in how our life
works out. And then we must make the very choices that will bring life, happiness and joy into
our daily lives.
We created our circumstances by our past choices. We have both the ability and the
responsibility to make better choices beginning today.
We should instead discuss our roles in marriage and what areas we can encourage each other to
do. We should choose areas based on genuine love and not on expectations that have never
been discussed.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. Otto Rank (1884-1939, Austrian-born
psychoanalyst)
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in
listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of
fear. Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you
are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973, Spanish
artist)
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is
watching." -- Mark Twain
You always project on the outside how you feel on the inside." -- Denis Waitley
The true test of character is... how we behave when we don't know what to do. John Holt (1908-
1967, Australian Prime Minister)
Throw a resourceful person into a river, and he will probably come out with a fish in his hand.
Arabian Proverb
Big results require big ambitions. James Champy (American author and international
management consultant)
You can do what you want to do, sometimes you can do it even than you thought you could.
Jimmy Carter (1924-, American President (39th))
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784,
British author)
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. Wayne Dyer (1940-,
American psychotherapist, author, lecturer)
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Samuel Ullman (1840-1924, German-born American educator, writer, poet)
I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known. Confucius (BC 551-
479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit,
reason, passion, desire. Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek philosopher)
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time. Sam
Walton (1918-1992, American businessman, founder of Wal-mart)
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. George William Curtis (1824-1892, American journalist)
Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge
ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. Robert Johnson
The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong, (1942-, American
author)
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius, (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. Oprah Winfrey
Never let your failures go to your heart or your successes go to your head.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than
what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. Charles
Swindoll(1934-, American pastor, author)
If you can command yourself, you can command the world. Chinese Proverb
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. Mark Twain (1835-1910, American
humorist, writer)
You create your opportunities by asking for them. Patty Hansen (American author, wife of
Mark Victor Hansen)
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be
alone than in bad company. George Washington (1732-1799, American President (1st))
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing
that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your
current situation. Brian Tracy(1944-, Canadian-born American trainer, speaker, author,
businessman)
Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may
expect to be well. James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888, American minister, theologian)
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. William John Bennett (1943-, American federal
official)
Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no suchthing as failure, only feedback.
They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it. Michael J. Gelb (American
peak performance expert, author, trainer)
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do
anything with it. M. Scott Peck
If you are always dwelling in trouble, change your address. American Proverb
Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure. Marcus Aurelius (121-12180,
Roman emperor, philosopher)
"Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the
demands of Christ." -- William Barclay
"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the
doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be the miracle." -- Phillips Brooks
Every day above ground is a good day.
"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is
willing to do and dare. The 'sure thing' boat never gets far from shore." -- Dale Carnegie
"Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment and convert it into
an opportunity to alter you destiny." -- Denis Waitley
"It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to
develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and
the time they require." -- Jim Rohn
"You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package." -- Richard M.
DeVos
"The greatest communication skill is paying value to others" -- Denis Waitley
"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." --
Ambrose Bierce
"The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and
behavior affect the rights and well being of others." -- Sharon Anthony Bower
"Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood." -- Brian
Tracy
"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend you energies on
moving forward toward finding the answer." -- Denis Waitley
"Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of
human affairs." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment
with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader." -- Paul J. Meyer
"Concentrate your powers. Identify what you are particularly good at doing and do more of it."
-- Brian Tracy
"No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and
conscience clear, never to be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to
strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." -- John Lubbock
"Look for role models who have succeeded in achieving goals similar to your own - individuals
with whom you can personally identify." -- Denis Waitley
"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and
approximate to the characters we most admire." -- Christian Nevell Bovee
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the
murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time." -- Sir
John Lubbock
"Never argue with the inevitable." -- Patricia Fripp
"Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape." -- Dr. Michael McGriffy
"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; who knows
the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the
best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least
fails while daring greatly." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"Courage is fear that has said its prayers." -- Dorothy Bernard
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes
and having fun." -- Mary Lou Cook
"My mentor said, 'Let's go do it,' not 'You go do it.' How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!'" --
Jim Rohn
"Apprentice for two years to a great, inspiring leader who'll mentor and teach you. Execute his
or her requests with excellence and elegance. Meet and befriend all his or her friends,
associates, bankers, clients, suppliers and actively keep them in your own Rolodex." -- Mark
Victor Hansen
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires." -- William Arthur Ward
"To teach is to learn twice." -- Joseph Joubert
"I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in
God's hands, that I still possess." -- Martin Luther
"Lift up your heart to GOD, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the
least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; he is
nearer to us than we are aware of." -- Brother Lawrence
A closed mouth gathers no feet.
bobdelamar (1/23/2006 4:56:33 PM): Don't worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will
have its own worries. Matthew 6:34 God liberated his children from slavery and created a path
through the sea. He gave them a cloud to follow in the day and a fire to see at night. And he gave
them food.... Each morning the manna came. Each evening the quail appeared. "Trust me. Trust
me and I will give you what you need." The people were told to take just enough for one day.
Their needs would be met, one day at a time.
Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown
"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a
matter of life or death to you."- C.S. Lewis
"He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more, He who loses faith,
loses all." Eleanor Roosevelt
"The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with
his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism
of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the
crisis overcome." John Haggai
"Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated." -- Denis Waitley
"Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error." -- Jean Baptiste Moliere
"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have
things occur to you, to let your mind think." -- Mortimer Adler
"The twin killers of success are impatience and greed." -- Jim Rohn
"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater." --
Albert Einstein
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions. -- Admiral Grace Hopper
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. -- Thomas Carlyle
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but
because they are not already common." -- John Locke
"The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke." -- W.J. Cameron
When I have finally decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead on it and make trail after
trial until it comes. -- Thomas Edison
"Perseverance is more Prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome
when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little." -- Plutarch
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and
obstacles vanish into air." -- John Quincy Adams
"Usually a person has more faith in their fear than faith in their future...." Doug Firebaugh
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or
confidence." Helen Keller
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today; Let us move forward
with strong and active faith." Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of
us must travel and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy." Plato
"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." -- Charles Schwab
"You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you
possessed." -- Napolean Hill
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." -- Walter Bagehot
"We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
The consciousness of wrongdoing makes us irritable, and our heart in its cunning quarrels with
what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamour within." -- Henri Amiel
"What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them." -- Denis
Waitley
"Acting is just a way of making a living; the family is life." -- Denzel Washington
"I've been very blessed. My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted. When you
grow up in a household like that, you learn to believe in yourself." -- Rick Schroeder
"Take time out every day for the important people in your life." -- Brian Tracy
"It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it
means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it." -
- Andre Agassi
"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way
that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around." -- Katharine Hepburn
"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive,
along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have
found that attitude, follow it." -- William James
"Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put
on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling." --
Vincent Van Gogh
"Trust your instincts. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's." Billy
Wilder
"Don't let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong
for the last ten years, I would suggest that's long enough!" Jim Rohn
"Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to
perform are high." Jim Rohn
"Live each day as if your last, not in the future, not in the past. You may not get what you want,
but, in the long run, you will get what you expect." Denis Waitley
"Excuses are the language of the failure, and the melody of the mediocre…" -- Doug Firebaugh
"The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread
in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure." -- Denis Waitley
"It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow." -- Harvey Mackay
"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." -- Henry Ford
"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small
jumps." -- David Lloyd George
"Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal." --
Brian Tracy
"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them." -- Pablo Picasso
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star
does not change his mind." -- Leonardo da Vinci
"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as necessary to resolve it." -- Rene Descartes
"You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hard-
working. Never be faint-hearted. Be resolute, but never bitter." -- Ralph J. Bunche
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking
that having problems is a problem." Theodore Rubin
"The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that
they can make it work or make it better." Barbara Pletcher
"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
"Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations." Richard M.
DeVos
"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right." Henry Ford
" He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how..." -Friedrich Nietzsche-
Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwisewe harden. Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist
"Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can
learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God."-George Washington
Carver
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.' --
M. Grundler
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. .. C.S. Lewis
There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why ... I dream of things that
never were and ask why not? .. Robert F. Kennedy
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the
strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. .. Harriet
Tubman
When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old. .. Bill Clinton
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the
world cries and you rejoice. .. Cherokee Expression
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. .. Douglas MacArthur
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Be ready for the sudden surprise visits of God. A ready person never needs to get ready— he is
ready. - Oswald Chambers
Unguarded strength is actually a double weakness, because that is where the least likely
temptations will be effective in sapping strength. The Bible characters stumbled over their
strong points, never their weak ones. - Oswald Chambers
In times of uncertainty, wait. Always, if you have any doubt, wait. Do not force yourself to any
action. If you have a restraint in your spirit, wait until all is clear, and do not go against it.-
Streams in the Dessert
"Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the
belief that whatever you do doesn't matter."
"We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax,
the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value."
Jim Rohn
"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there."
"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention
of the world."
"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."
"Doubt can only be removed by action."
"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
"Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture"
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every
difficulty."
"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it."
When you flee temptations don’t leave a forwarding address."
"Out of nothing comes nothing. But out of suffering may come the cure."
"I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse."
"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which
bring results." - Florence Nightingale
"A friend is a man who knows all about you, and still likes you."~ Elbert Hubbard
"Cultivate only the habits you are willing to have master you."
"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive. Easy to govern, but impossible to
enslave" ~Henry Brougham
"Fortune does not make men, it unmasks them."
"Have good friends or have none."~ Royal Path of Life
"In every triumph there is a lot of try."
"It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. "
"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable."
"Nothing is easy and worthwhile."
"Only dead fish swim with the stream."
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like
work."~Thomas Edison
"Real friendships are so rare, that when they occur, they are famous. " ~Clarence Day
"We cannot choose whom we will love if we claim to be Christians."
"A team is a group of people who may not be equal in experience, talent, or education but in
commitment." -- Patricia Fripp
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." -- Helen Keller
"Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to
your door." -- Denis Waitley
"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A
realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run." --
Syndey J. Harris
"Denying or refusing to deal with some unpleasant fact in your life is the source of most stress
and unhappiness." -- Brian Tracy
"Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they
want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the
efforts of others to achieve their greatest success." -- Stephen Covey
"Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason
why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and
horses." Dale Carnegie
"Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more
skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom." -- Jim Rohn
"First we make our habits, then our habits make us." Denis Waitley
"Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will
develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty." -- William J. Bennett
"Good friends are good for your health." Irwin Sarason
"Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love
what you are doing." Brian Tracy
"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within
him the gift of miracles." Samuel Smiles
"How friendly are your companies’ first words? Just try this…start all conversations with
customers using one of the following words or phrases: 'great!' 'no problem', 'you're in luck',
'that's my favorite problem'." -- Jeffrey Gitomer
"How much should you earn? As much as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether you earn
$10,000 a year or $100,000 a year as long as you've done the best you can." -- Jim Rohn
"I am happy and content because I think I am." Alain-Rene Lesage
"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the
way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves." -- Karl Wilhelm
Von Humboldt
"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
"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow." -- Woodrow Wilson
"If all you do is all you're doing, all you'll get is all you're getting." -- Brian Tracy
"If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking." -- Denis Waitley
"If you add value out, you'll bring value in." -- Jeffrey Gitomer
"In the Midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." -- Deepak Chopra
"It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man
than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the
machinery, but the friction. Fear secrets acids; but love and trust are sweet juices." Henry
Ward Beecher
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." --
Aristotle
"It's time to stop tiptoeing around the pool and jump into the deep end, head first. It's time to
think big, want more and achieve it all!" -- Mark Victor Hansen
"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want." Jim Rohn
"Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will
enable you to enjoy them." -- Nido Qubein
"Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving
water has been shown to lower blood pressure." -- Patch Adams
"Never doubt that a small group of concerned citizens can change the world, indeed it's the only
thing that has." -- Margaret Mead
"Nothing needs reforming so much as other people's habits." Mark Twain
"One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us." -- Mary Kay Ash
"Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is
possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they
begin to see it as possible." -- Cherie Carter-Scott
"Our success should not be a random event, but the result of conscious actions." -- Tony Jeary
"Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all
times." -- Brian Tracy
"Success is never ending, failure is never final." -- Dr. Robert Schuller
"Success is not the destination; it's a way to travel." -- Denis Waitley
"The arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume we will, in defiance of every
hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties
being with one mind resolved to die free rather than live slaves." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear."
Brian Tracy
"The life you are leading is simply a reflection of your thinking." -- Doug Firebaugh
"The more you know, the less you need to say." -- Denis Waitley
"The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can!" -- Denis Waitley
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your
complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." --
Mark Twain
"The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be
successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have." -- Nido
Qubein
"The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the
finest transportation and endurance for their lives." Denis Waitley
"There are those who work all day, those who dream all day, and those who spend an hour
dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because
there's virtually no competition." -- Steven J. Ross
"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in
this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love
and thanks of man and woman." -- Thomas Paine
"Thought is creative. You create your entire life with your thoughts, hour by hour and minute
by minute." -- Brian Tracy
"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that
sang best." -- Henry Van Dyke
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness." -- The Declaration of Independence
"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope." Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.
"Whatever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will
be America’s heart, her benedictions and her prayers." -- John Quincy Adams
"Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier." -- Charles F. Kettering
"Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great
return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy." -- Jim Rohn
"Working hard is the foundation for any success in life... but many people have what I call the
'Reverse Disease'...they see 'working hard' as 'hardly working'... and expect the same results....
yeah right." -- Doug Firebaugh
"You can't solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the
next level." -- Albert Einstein
F.E.A.R - False Emotion Appearing Real
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