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Best Chapter of Your Life Helping you create your next career or passionate retirement
Inspirational Quotations
Volume 4
Compiled and edited by
Karl Hoppe CPC CHt NLP EFT BestChapterOfYourLifeCom
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to
attempt
William Shakespeare 1564-1616 Poet Playwright Actor
We cannot change anything until we accept it
Condemnation does not liberate it oppresses
-Carl Jung
It is better to wear out than to rust out
Richard Cumberland
In order to succeed we must first believe that we can
Michael Korda
Attitudes are more important than facts
-George MacDonald
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities
Aristotle (BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher)
Dont waste your life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you
well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best
preparation for the hours or ages that follow it
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882 American poet essayist)
Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events success is readiness for
instant action when the opportune moment arrives
Newell Hillis
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them
Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893 British scholar)
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness
it is generally the by-product of other activities
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963 British author)
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Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to
express the source of inspiration and joy within
~ Deepak Chopra
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team and the team ought to get
credit for the wins and the losses Successes have many fathers failures have
none
- Philip Caldwell
The secret of getting ahead is getting started
Agatha Christie 1890-1976 Novelist
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation
-Dr Robert Schuler Whenever youre facing any form of resistance gratitude has the power to
quickly dissolve it This is true whether the hindrance comes from inside of you or
outside of you
Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth Its easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top
Henry Ward Beecher Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people So
overweight people are now averagehellip which means you have met your New Years
resolution
Jay Leno
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in A pessimist stays up to
make sure the old year leaves
Bill Vaughan
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past Let it go for it was imperfect
and thank God that it can go
Brooks Atkinson
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New Years Resolution To tolerate fools more gladly provided this does not
encourage them to take up more of my time
James Agate
New Years Day is every mans birthday
Charles Lamb
Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right
Oprah Winfrey
―It is never too late to be what you might have been
- TS Eliot
If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain
ndash Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 American Poet
Life is too short to waste Dreams are fulfilled only through action not through
endless planning to take action
David J Schwartz Trainer and Author
Its the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and
sweeps away all obstacles
Claude M Bristol
―The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means time
influence and educational advantages the question is what he will do with the
things he has The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of
opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face and resolves to change
them he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success
-Hamilton Wright Mabie
Just go out there and do what youve got to do
~ Martina Navratilova
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Now I experience the love in everyone I no longer am a person who judges others
for being overweight for being too young or too old for having their hair a certain
way or for how they dress When you judge others you dont define them you
define yourself as someone who needs to judge and compartmentalize people
-Wayne Dyer
The big secret in life is that there is no secret Whatever your goal you can get
there if you are willing to work It is called massive action Action is the gas in the
tank Without it the car will not run
Marcy Blochowiak Author of No Glass Ceiling An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory
-Friedrich Engels
Leaders arent born they are made And they are made just like anything else
through hard work And thats the price well have to pay to achieve that goal or
any goal
Vincent Lombardi
May your trails be crooked winding lonesome dangerous leading to the most
amazing view May your rivers flow without end meandering through pastoral
valleys tinkling with bells past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark
primeval forestdown into a desert of red rock blue mesas domes and pinnacles
and grottos of endless stone And down again into a deep vast ancient unknown
chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs where deer walk across the
white sand beaches where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high
crags until something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than
your deepest dreams waits for you just beyond the next turning of the canyon
walls
-Benedicto by Edward Abbey
An unwritten want is a wish a dream a never-happen The day you put your goal in
writing is the day it becomes a commitment that will change your life Are you
ready
Tom Hopkins Author and Speaker
―Where are you going Who are you looking for Your beloved is right herehellip Cease
looking for flowers there blooms a garden in your own home While you go looking
for trinkets your treasure house awaits you in your own being There is no need
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for suffering God is here
~Rumi Chance favors only the prepared mind
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895 French scientist who developed pasteurization)
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities
enough and if they do not find them they will make them
Samuel Smiles
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen but give us the
determination to make the right things happen
Peter Marshall
If the sky falls hold up your hands
Spanish Proverb
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous
Chinese Proverb
Knowing is not enough we must apply Willing is not enough we must do
Johann von Goethe
If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is he will not jump If he does
not know how wide it is he will jump and six times out of ten he will make it
Persian Proverb
As I grow to understand life less and less I learn to love it more and more
Jules Renard
The more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate
Oprah Winfrey (1954- American TV personality producer actress author)
Mind is all that counts You can be whatever you make up your mind to be
Robert Collier
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You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how
youre going to live Now
Joan Baez Singer Songwriter and Activist The average person goes to their grave with their music still in them
Oliver Wendell Holmes ―Everyone can be great because everyone can serve
- Martin Luther King ―Whatever you can conceive and believe you can achieve
Napoleon Hill We turn not older with years but newer every day
-Emily Dickinson
When reciting affirmations feel the words in your heart as you say them and
know that what you feel youll create
Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust
our old programs accordingly
Dr Ann Faraday
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to
get there Then never never never give up
Vincent Peale
We only think when we are confronted with problems
John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)
In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain
Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)
If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair Few things are
impossible to diligence and skill Great works are performed not by strength but
perseverance
Samuel Johnson
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Dont waste your life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you
well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best
preparation for the hours or ages that follow it
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Poet and Essayist Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change
the world today
Wil Rose
The good man acts for honors sake and the more so the better he is and acts for
his friends sake and sacrifices his own interest
-Aristotle
In order to excel you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport You
must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism
Without a total 100 percent dedication you wont be able to do this
Willie Mays
Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to
raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years
ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I
demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my
life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to
becoming
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert
Im a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of
it
Thomas Jefferson
Bring awareness to each act Walking on the road walk fully alert eating eat with
awareness Whatsoever you are doing dont let the past and the future interfere
Be in the present Thats what awareness is all about
~Osho
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There are two dimensions to life and we should be able to touch both
One is like a wave and we call it the historical dimension
The other is like the water and we call it the ultimate dimension or nirvana
We usually touch just the wave but when we discover how to touch the water
we receive the highest fruit that meditation can offer
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends
Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance
Jackson Brown
When you focus on whats wrong you get more of whats wrong Conversely when
you focus on whats right you get more of whats right
Gina Mollicone-Long Author of the newly released book Think Or Sink
All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave
behind is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into
another
Gail Sheehy (1937- American journalist author)
Anger is one letter away from danger
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Success means having the courage the determination and the will to become the
person you believe you were meant to be
George Sheehan 1918-1993 Physician and Author
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views
so fast as they shall appear to be new views
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)
―One ship sails East
And another West
By the self-same winds that blow
lsquoTis the set of the sails
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And not the gales
That tells the way we go
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity Our attitude
toward it Every opportunity has a difficulty and every difficulty has an
opportunity
J Sidlow Baxter 1903-1999 Author and Theologian
If you want to be successful you must either have a chance or take one
Author Unknown
It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit it frankly and try
another But above all try something
Franklin D Roosevelt
It was courage faith endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all
obstacles that built this bridge
~ John J Watson
Past Data should now be the basis of Present Truth Data from a prior time or
experience should always and only be the basis for new questions Always the
treasure should be in the questions not in the answer
-Neale Donald Walsch Even though you may want to move forward in your life you may have one foot on
the brakes In order to be free we must learn how to let go Release the hurt
Release the fear Refuse to entertain your old pain The energy it takes to hang
onto the past is holding you back from a new life What is it you would let go of
today
Mary Manin Morrissey Creator of The Miracle Mastery Conference
It is not what you are called but what you answer to
African Proverb
A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong
enough
John Christian Bovee
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If youre not part of a solution youre a part of the problem There is no middle
road I dont think we can destroy the Earth but I think the Earth can destroy
us
-Oh Shinnah
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will
accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop
Robert Hughes
Charity is the spice of riches
Jewish Proverb
If you dont like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and
waiting for you The snake sheds its skin with impunity relying on the same nature
which you rely on
Author Unknown
Its a very funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best
you very often get it
William Somerset Maugham
A leader once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one must
be undaunted when the going gets tough
Ronald Reagan
If I accept you as you are I will make you worse however if I treat you as
though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Author and Philosopher
Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket signifies in the final
sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed from those who are cold and
not clothed The world in arms is not spending money alone It is spending the
sweat of its laborers the genius of its scientists the hopes of its children
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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Service is nothing but love in work clothes
Author Unknown
A man can do all things if he but wills them
Leon Battista Alberti
A crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk just a
tinkling cymbal where there is not love
Francis Bacon 17th Century English Lord Chancellor philosopher and author
The only way to have a friend is to be one
Ralph Waldo Emerson 19th Century American author and poet
Its not what you do once in a while its what you do day in and day out that
makes the difference
Jenny Craig Diet Specialist
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on
the labors of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to
give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving
Albert Einstein (1879-1955 German-born American physicist)
A resolute determination is the truest wisdom
Napoleon I
Without consistency there is no moral strength
Author Unknown
See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained pursue it resolutely
William Shakespeare
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure
-Dale Carnegie
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself
William Penn (1644-1718 British religious leader founder of Pennsylvania)
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How we think shows through in how we act Attitudes are mirrors of the mind
They reflect thinking
David J Schwartz Trainer and Author
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but
to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill
Vision is freely given to those who ask to see
-Course in Miracles
Tough times never last but tough people do
Dr Robert Schuller
A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything
else
Bette Davis (1908-1989 American actress producer)
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything
Alexander Hamilton
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference He has
it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter
Norman Cousins (1915-1990 American editor humanitarian author)
The practice of medicine is an art not a trade a calling not a business a calling in
which your heart will be exercised equally with your head Often the best part of
your work will have nothing to do with powders or potions
-Sir William Osler
Strength does not come from physical capacity It comes from an indomitable
will
~ Mahatma Gandhi
―You dont love someone for their looks or their clothes or for their fancy car
but because they sing a song only you can hear
Anon
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―They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever
Oscar Wilde
―Love is like a friendship caught on fire In the beginning a flame very pretty
often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering As love grows older our
hearts mature and our love becomes as coals deep-burning and unquenchable
Bruce Lee
―Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty
John Finely
―It takes a lot of understanding time and trust to gain a close friendship with
someone As I approach a time of my life of complete uncertainty my friends are
my most precious asset
Anon
―Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process
Harold S Geneen People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest
- Hermann Hesse 1877-1962 Civilization is a method of living an attitude of equal respect for all men
- Jane Addams 1860-1935 The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next
- Matthew Arnold 1822-1888
Vacillating people seldom succeed Successful men and women are very careful in
reaching their decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter
~ L G Elliott
Those with goals tend to succeed because they are focused and know where they
are going while those without goals do not
Ted Karam Author from his new book Jumping On Water Awaken Your Joy - Empower Your Life
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Every time you go out on the ice there are slight flaws You can always think of
something you should have done better These are the things you must work on
Dorothy Hamill (1956- American figure skater)
Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it
fate
~ Carl Jung When you speak of someone or about someone you should speak as though they
were in the room with you The ears that you speak to today are attached to the
mouth that could relay the message tomorrow
William Biddy Allen 1903-2001 Bus Driver - Loving father of 7 children
It is no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might dream The failure is to
fall short of dreaming all that we might realize
-Dee Hock When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they
are regarded by others let them reflect how little they have contributed to the
happiness of others
Author Unknown
I have become my own version of an optimist If I cant make it through one door
Ill go through another door - or Ill make a door Something terrific will come no
matter how dark the present
~ Rabindranath Tagore
―The present moment
contains past and future
The secret of transformation
is in the way we handle this very moment
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 - present Vietnamese Buddhist monk)
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―Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it Do not believe in
anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many Do not believe in
anything simply because it is found written in your religious books Do not believe in
anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders Do not believe in
traditions because they have been handed down for many generations But after
observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is
conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it
Buddha (Founder of Buddhism 568 - 488 BC) I try to avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward
Charlotte Bronte
Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity
Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Theologian
There is only one duty only one safe course and that is to try to be right
Winston Churchill (1874-1965 British statesman Prime Minister)
We are born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of wine we
have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born Astrology
does not lay claim to anything more
-Carl Jung
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them One is more
delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is angrier for being told
one is angry
Katherine F Gerould
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread they can sure make something out
of you
~ Muhammed Ali Beware of the thoughts you keep because everything in reality manifests from
the mind
Justin Palmer Second Year College Student
Confess you were wrong yesterday it will show you are wise today
Author Unknown
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We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope
~ Martin Luther King Jr
In the beginning the Universe was created
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move
-Douglas Adams
Any individual can be in time what he earnestly desires to be if he but set his
face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear
upon its attainment
Herman J Randall
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world
~ Helen Keller Many of lifes failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up
~ Thomas Edison
When you give your undivided attention to something there is a softening and
opening in the listener that allows access to the meaning underneath the words
-Betty Burkes
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they
are about to change the world I am more awed by those who struggle to make one
small difference
Ellen Goodman Journalist
If you look into your own heart you find nothing wrong there what is there to
fear
Confucius (BC 551-479 Chinese ethical teacher philosopher) Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls
~ Mother Teresa What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-
conceit For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he
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already knows
- Epictetus 55 AD-135 AD
There are admirable potentialities in every human being Believe in your strength
and your youth Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself It all depends on me
- Andre Gide 1869-1951
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage
- Anais Nin 1903-1977 Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in
other areas But can it really True effectiveness requires balance
~ Stephen Covey
I dont pay good wages because I have a lot of money I have a lot of money
because I pay good wages
- Robert Bosch Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do
the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not it is
the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a mans training
begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly
Thomas H Huxley 1825-1895 Biologist
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have and to be able
to lose all desire for things beyond your reach
Yutang Lin (1895-1976 Chinese writer and philologist)
Men are failures not because they are stupid but because they are not
sufficiently impassioned
Struther Burt
If you look at what you have in life youll always have more If you look at what
you dont have in life youll never have enough
Oprah Winfrey Television Host Producer and Philanthropist
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Im trying not to look too far ahead All Im thinking is one shot at a time one hole
at a time and thats what I want to keep doing
Michelle McGann
I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in
which we face them that constitutes our comfort
-Elizabeth T King My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content
with your failure
~ Abraham Lincoln
―There is nothing but love and all else is illusion
- Dr John Demartini There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer no disease that enough
love will not heal no door that enough love will not open
- Emmet Fox
All my limitations are self-imposed and my liberation can only come from true self-
love
- Max C Robinson
We fail to see that we can control our own destiny make ourselves do whatever is
possible make ourselves become whatever we long to be
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine )
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will
~ Sugar Ray Robinson 1920-1989 Boxer
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
Confucius
Half the people you know are above average
-Steven Wright
Your close relationships are either a catalyst for manifesting what you really
want or theyre a hindrance to your manifestation If you truly value the power of
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love in your life you owe it to yourself to discover how to tap into the power of
your relationship as a force for manifestation
Drs Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up Even when they do it is not
perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888 American author )
One is not idle because one is absorbed There is both visible and invisible labor To
contemplate is to toil to think is to do The crossed arms work the clasped hands
act The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation
Victor Hugo (1802-1885 French poet dramatist novelist)
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of
greed in the headlines
-Charles Kuralt
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our
focus we never concentrate our power Most people dabble their way through life
never deciding to master anything in particular
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time
~ Anthony J DAngelo
Courage comes from wanting to do it well Security comes from knowing you can do
it well Confidence comes from having done it well
~ Author Unknown
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel
Napoleon Hill
There is a true genius in everyone But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a
tree it would never stop doubting itself
~ Einstein~
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People ask for criticism but they only want praise
- W Somerset Maugham 1874-1965 Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if
you let it pass the desire may never return and you may remain in ignorance
- William Wirt 1772-1834 Cynicism is not realistic and tough Its unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it
means you dont have to try
- Peggy Noonan 1950-present There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into
gear
David Mahoney Executive and Philanthropist You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences
W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965 British novelist playwright)
Dont ask yourself what the world needs Ask yourself what makes you come alive
and then go and do that Because what the world needs are people who have come
alive
~ Howard Thurman When a great moment knocks on the door of your life it is often no louder than
the beating of your heart and it is very easy to miss it -Boris Pasternak Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure
~ Thomas Alva Edison
To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in
your heart
- Thomas Watson Sr Begin challenging your own assumptions Your assumptions are your windows on the
world Scrub them off every once and a while or the light wont come in
Alan Alda Actor Writer and Director
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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most
argumentative
Giovani della Casa (1503-1556 Papal secretary of state)
Have you ever felt like you wanted to go but you felt like you wanted to stay
- Song Lyric Jimmy Durante
To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all
~ Oscar Wilde
Awareness is like a beam of light that shines endlessly into space We only
perceive that light when it is reflected off some object and consciousness is
producedAwareness is the light by which we see the worldWe mistake the clear
light of pure awareness for the shadows that it casts in consciousnessWe forget
that we are the light itself and imagine that we are the densities that reflect the
light back to us
-Stephen Levine Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal
Albert Camus (1913-1960 French existential writer) The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation
Mark Twain
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn Our rewards
will always be in exact proportion to our service
Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Author of The Strangest Secret
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he
knows where he is going
Napoleon Hill
Wisdom tells me I am nothing
Love tells me I am everything
And between the two my life flows
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
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No employer today is independent of those about him He cannot succeed alone no
matter how great his ability or capital Business today is more than ever a question
of cooperation
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars
Les Brown
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world
Joseph Addison (1672-1719 British essayist poet statesman)
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a
fate that falls on man unless they act
~ G K Chesterton
Find something positive to think about and dont let the conversation in your head
end with a negative comment Always end on a positive comment
Dr Tomi Bryan and Dr Jerry White From their latest release The 5 Keys To The Great Life
Whales do not sing because they have a message They sing because they have a
song
-Ashes and Snow
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life
- Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956
Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though
checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor
suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat
- Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting
- Stanislaw Leszczynski 1677-1766
There is no joy in getting by on your job - doing as little as you can There is a
LOT of pleasure in doing more than you have to And whosoever shall compel you
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to go a mile go with him twain says the Bible wisely
-Norman Carlisle
We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once
Calvin Coolidge
The starting point of all achievement is desire Keep this constantly in mind Weak
desires bring weak results just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich
I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me
instead of looking within myself to see what was there
Belle Livingstone
Rather than thinking if and when start doing take action stop talking about if
and when
~ Catherine Pulsifer
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity -
Ayn Rand
Being a man or indeed being human is not something for which one should
apologize but something to which one should aspire and with all the gusto he can
muster
-- David Cunningham
The question isnt who is going to let me its who is going to stop me
- Howard Roark The Fountainhead 1943
I am the Master of my Fate Captain of my Soul
-- W E Henley
Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it
Boldness has genius power and magic in it
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me
instead of looking within myself to see what was there
Belle Livingstone
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order
and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a
time
Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Novelist
The path to success is to take massive determined action
Anthony Robbins
All of the significant battles are waged within the self
Sheldon Kopp (1929- American psychologist)
Follow effective action with quiet reflection From the quiet reflection will come
even more effective action
~ Peter F Drucker
Dont be dismayed at good-byes
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again
And meeting again after moments or lifetimes
is certain for those who are friends
-Richard Bach
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual
sense of humor
Thomas W Higginson 1823-1911 Minister Abolitionist and Author
When performance exceeds ambition the overlap is called success
Cullen Hightower
Well done is better than well said
Benjamin Franklin
The first and the best victory is to conquer self
Plato (BC 427-347 Greek philosopher)
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Man is what he believes
-Anton Chekhov One half of life is luck the other half is discipline - and thats the important half
for without discipline you wouldnt know what to do with luck
Carl Zuckmeyer 1896-1977 Writer and Playwright
Try and fail but dont fail to try
~ Stephen Kaggwa
I believe that one of the greatest gifts we have been given is our imagination It
costs nothing to access is available 247 and is our doorway to freedom With
imagination we have inside of us the most amazing ability to change our state and
transform our life in a moment
~ Veronica Hay The world is full of abundance and opportunity but far too many people come to
the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a
steam shovel They expect little and as a result they get little
Ben Sweetland Author of I Will Blessed is the person who sees the need recognizes the responsibility and actively
becomes the answer
William A Ward
I am not a mechanism an assembly of various sections
And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly that I am ill
I am ill because of wounds to the soul to the deep emotional self
And the wounds to the soul take a long long time only time can help
And patience and a certain difficult repentance
Long difficult repentance realization on lifes mistake and the freeing of oneself
From the endless repetition of the mistake
Which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify
-D H Lawrence
Victory belongs to the most persevering
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Gratitude opens doors It paves the way to abundance and prosperity like nothing
else
It can line your pockets with gold and fill your bank account quicker than a New
York minute
Yet how many of you are living from a thankful heart each day
~Veronica Hay Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
Bruce Springsteen You gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we
really stop to look fear in the face You must do that which we think we cannot
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Social Activist and First Lady of the United States
Dont let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you Instead give to
yourself that which empowers you
Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)
―The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having
new eyes
~ Marcel Proust
―Then your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall spring up
quickly
~ Isaiah 588
―And your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music
from it or confused sounds
mdash Kahlil Gibran
In every life the most important change is self-change -- and in every situation
the principles are the same
- J Kingston Cowart
It takes courage to lead a life Any life
Erica Jong
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Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time
-Ken Wilber
Peoples tendency towards good is as waters tendency is to flow downhill
Mencius When I let go of what I am I become what I might be
~ Lao Tsu
The higher my rank the more humbly I behave The greater my power the less I
exercise it The richer my wealth the more I give away Thus I avoid respectively
envy and spite and misery
~ Sun Shu Ao
There is no greater happiness than freedom from worry and there is no greater
wealth than contentment
~Lao Tsu
Failure lies not in falling down Failure lies in not getting up
~ Chinese proverb
A meal however simple is a moment of intersection It is at once the most basic
the most fundamental of our lifes activities maintaining the life of our bodies
Shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion uniting people
deeply
~ Elise Boulding The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms
-- Socrates You are never going to get it all done - you just wont Rather you will find order
and peace in your workday if you accept it and then do one more thing Implement
a system that consistently shows you whats most critical at any moment what to
do after the critical and where to find everything else when you need to That
system is not hard - its quite simple to set up
Michael Linenberger From Master Your Workday Now Check out his book and bonuses
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Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have
just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together
into a life of action and purpose
Lance Armstrong 7-Time Winner of the Tour de France
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value
Albert Einstein
We have contributed each in the time allotted us our endeavors to render a
permanent blessing to our country
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826 Third American President)
If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost that is where they
should be Now put foundations under them
~ Henry David Thoreau
If you didnlsquot musterbate then you wouldnlsquot awfulize terribilize
catastrophize say ―I canlsquot stand it and put yourself down
If you only stuck with ―Ilsquod like very much to do well but I never
have to you wouldnlsquot then disturb yourself hellip musterbation is
evil and pernicious
- Albert Ellis
There are 2 theories to arguing with a womanneither works
-Will Rogers
Dont tell me that worry doesnt do any good said the over-worked executive I
know better The things I worry about never happen
-Cited in More ofThe Best of BITS amp PIECES
Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were
innocent Anger is natural Grief is appropriate Healing is mandatory Restoration
is possible
~ Jane Rubietta
Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can
~ Richard Bach
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Inspiration and genius--one and the same
~ Victor Hugo
It is important to acknowledge a mistake instantly correct it and learn from it
That literally turns a failure into a success Success is on the far side of failure
TJ Watson 1874-1956 Founder if IBM
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of
inspiration
~ George Eliot
Trust your hunches Theyre usually based on facts filed away just below the
conscious level
Dr Joyce Brothers Psychologist and Television Personality Every artist was first an amateur
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a
true master For this reason mastery demands all of a person
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Theoretical Physicist Philosopher and Author In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain
Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)
The more difficulties one has to encounter within and without the more
significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be
Horace Bushnell
If the sky falls hold up your hands
Spanish Proverb
Begin with the end in mind
Stephen Covey
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good try to use ordinary
situations
- Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825 German Novelist
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunities
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery it wouldnt seem so
wonderful
Michelangelo 1475-1564 Painter Sculptor and Architect
We only think when we are confronted with problems
John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)
Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can
~ Thomas Carlyle
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex It takes a touch of
genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction
~Albert Einstein
―Ecstasy is your very nature not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary
~Osho
The quieter you can become the more youre able to hear
~Chinese Proverb
The only real valuable thing is intuition
~ Albert Einstein
To be ecstatic is natural spontaneous It needs no effort to be ecstatic it needs
great effort to be miserable
~Osho
Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight
Anita DeFrantz Olympic Rower Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust
our old programs accordingly
Dr Ann Faraday
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I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world
I may not ever complete the last one
But I give myself to it
I have been circling for thousands of years
And I still dont know
Am I a falcon a storm or a great song
-Rilke
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to
make them come true
~ Leon J Suenes
Dont be a cynic and disconsolate preacher Dont bewail and moan Omit the
negative propositions Challenge us with incessant affirmatives Dont waste
yourself in rejection or bark against the bad but chant the beauty of the good
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once whether
youre ready or not to put it into action
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author
Fall seven times stand up eight
Japanese proverb
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars
or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven
to the human spirit
~ Helen Keller
Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends
Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet)
First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have
to do
Epictetus
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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to
make them come true
Leon J Suenes
If you would create something you must be something
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Stay together friends
Dont scatter and sleep
Our friendship is made
Of being awake
The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away weeping
That way it stays in the garden whereas another roundness rolls
through a dry riverbed looking for what it thinks it wants
Stay here quivering with each moment like a drop of mercury
-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives as parallel realities It is
always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend when we choose not
to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance
thats present love health family friends work the joys of nature and personal
pursuits that bring us pleasure the wasteland of illusion falls away and we
experience heaven on earth
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to
raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years
ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I
demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my
life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to
becoming
~ Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert) Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change
the world today
~ Wil Rose
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A bird doesnt sing because it has an answer it sings because it has a song
~ Maya Angelou
Great minds have purposes little minds have wishes Little minds are subdued by
misfortunes great minds rise above them
~ Washington Irving
Step by step I cant think of any other way of accomplishing anything
~ Michael Jordan
If you employed study thinking and planning time daily you could develop and use
the power that can change the course of your destiny
~ W Clement Stone
We are called to speak for the weak for the voiceless for victims of our nation
and for those it calls enemy for no document from human hands can make these
humans any less than our brothers
-Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Disposal of hazardous wastes is not the root problem Rather it is the root
symptom
-Hawken Paul There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the
things we do
Freya Stark
Try a little harder to be a little better
Gordon B Hinckley
If you love something and stick with it you will get phenomenal results
Bob Proctor
You can chain me you can torture me you can even destroy this body but you will
never imprison my mind
Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Political and Spiritual Leader
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Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and
triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead
Chinese Proverb Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs
Michael Levine
Nurture your mind with great thoughts To believe in the heroic makes heroes
Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881 British Prime Minister The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your
blueprint or plan Strategies are like recipes choose the right ingredients mix
them in the correct proportions and you will always produce the same predictable
results
~ Charles J Givens
More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our
lives that determine our destiny
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
Happy the manwoman who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his
wishes and his powers
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I hope that my achievements in life shall be these that I will have fought for what
was right and fair that I will have risked for that which mattered and that I will
have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better
place for what Ive done and who Ive been
~ C Hoppe
The vision that you glorify in your mind the ideal that you enthrone in your heart
this you will build your life by and this you will become
James Allen
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Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
Gandhi
There never was a time when in my opinion some way could not be found to
prevent the drawing of the sword
-General Grant To be a warrior
is to be genuine
in every moment of your life
-Chogyam Trungpa Im convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs
from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance
- Steve Jobs Regret for wasted time is more wasted time
Mason Cooley
Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow
Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)
More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our
lives that determine our destiny
Anthony Robbins Author and Speaker
Material possessions will rust away wear away or depreciate but your inner
resources character must never depreciate In seeking success you must also seek
fulfillment Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be
~ Elizabeth Dole Anything in life that we dont accept will simply make trouble for us until we make
peace with it
~ Shakti Gawain
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious
stupidity
-Dr Martin Luther King Jr
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Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobodys going to know
whether you did it or not
Oprah Winfrey Talk Show Host Producer and Philanthropist
If you must begin then go all the way because if you begin and quit the unfinished
business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time
Chogyam Trungpa
I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career I have lost almost 300 games
On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and I
missed I have failed over and over and over again in my life And thats precisely
why I succeedcc
~ Michael Jordan
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what
they most enjoy
~ Malcolm Forbes
Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future
Paul Boese Botanist
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons
determination
Tommy Lasorda (1927- American baseball manager) I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more
~ Dr Jonas Salk The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame
Rod Steiger
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul
~ Marcus Aurelius
The best way
to make your dreams come true
is to wake up
-Kabir
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You can do what you have to do and sometimes you can do it even better than you
think you can
Jimmy Carter (1924- American President (39th)) ―If you create an act you create a habit If you create a habit you create a
character If you create a character you create a destiny
ndash Andre Maurois They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them
feel
~ Carl W Buechner When you affirm big believe big and pray big putting faith into action big things
happen
Dr Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Preacher and Author You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are taken
out of your life
~ James G Bilkey
In every difficult situation is potential value Believe this then begin looking for it
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832 German poet dramatist novelist)
Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be
sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all around
It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want
in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us These
secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth helps you get clarity on
your real heart directives
-Sara Paddison
The best thing to spend on your children is your time
~ Louise Hart
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The best things come to those who wait
- Unknown
Ask five economists and youll get five different explanations six if one went to
Harvard
~ Edgar R Fiedler There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through
encouragement from someone else I dont care how great how famous or
successful a man or woman may be each hungers for applause
~ George M Adams Do not fear death fear the unlived life
Natalie Babbitt Leadership is no longer about your position Its now more about your passion for
excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title
Robin Sharma
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions have
all come back from defeat
Sam Snead (1912-2002 American golfer)
What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision
-Helen Keller The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement
Yet almost no one gets the encouragement they need
to grow to their full potential If everyone received the
encouragement they need to grow the genius in most
everyone would blossom and the world would produce
abundance beyond the wildest dreams We would have
more than one Einstein Edison Schweitzer Mother
Theresa Dr Salk and other great minds in a century
~Sidney Madwed
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Dont build your happiness on someone elses unhappiness
~ Richard Rose
―The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all
the world
~ Ramana Maharshi
Somewhere there is someone who dreams of your smile and finds in your presence
that life is worthwhile
So when you are lonely remember its true somebody somewhere is thinking of
you
~ Anon
If youre open to altering your plans a bit you might achieve even better results
than youd anticipated
Peggy McColl A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will
point out the means
William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)
Successful people dont do different things they just do things differently
- Unknown You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are
taken out of your life
James G Bilkey Author
Dreams do come true if we only wish hard enough You can have anything in life if
you will sacrifice everything else for it
James M Barrie (1860-1937 British playwright)
Seven blunders of the world
that lead to violence
wealth without work
pleasure without conscience
knowledge without character
commerce without morality
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science without humanity
worship without sacrifice
politics without principle
-Mahatma Gandhi
When people speak of prosperity they generally mean success and measure it in
terms of financial abundance There are books seminars and training sessions
designed to help individuals to be prosperous Clearly many are seeking the path to
prosperity Ironically when one is seeking prosperity the message they give to
themselves and the universe is that they do not have enough This is a scarcity
mentality and tends only to manifest more scarcity
~ Gwen Randall Young Money makes money and the money makes more money
~ Benjamin Franklin
BE the change you wish to see in the world
- Ghandhi The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched
They must be felt with the heart
~ Hellen Keller
Understanding does not cure evil but it is a definite help inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness
-Carl Jung
You are not powerless about anything
When you get a vision and then find
alignment with it you ARE powerful
And then amazing things begin to
happen around you
- Abraham-Hicks
Be kind whenever possible It is always possible
~ Dalai Lama
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A consistent soul believes in destiny a capricious one in chance
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881 British statesman Prime Minister)
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots
George Herbert (1593-1632 British metaphysical poet)
It is not the greatness of a mans means that makes him independent so much as
the smallness of his wants
William Cobbett (1762-1835 British journalist reformer)
If you desire many things many things will seem few
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American scientist publisher diplomat) Its the little things you do that can make a big difference What are you
attempting to accomplish What little thing can you do today that will make you
more effective You are probably only one step away from greatness
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker You may delay but time will not and lost time is never found again
~ Benjamin Franklin
Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction
~ Matthew Burton
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light
~ Helen Keller
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength
~ Sigmund Freud
Blessed are those that can give without remembering and take without
forgetting
~ Liz Bebesco Waiting is a trap There will always be reasons to wait
The truth is there are only two things in life reasons and results and reasons
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simply dont count
~ Dr Robert Anthony
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become
wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing The long
term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their
Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed
~ Srully Blotnick
If now there is something you
choose to experience in your life
do not want it -- choose it
Do you choose success in worldly
terms Do you choose more money
Good Then choose it Really
Fully Not half-heartedly
- Conversations with God Book 1
Its a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you
very often get it
-Somerset Maugham
A world of abundance surrounds you if only you will step up and claim it Make life
happen through you rather than letting it happen to you It will make all the
difference in the world
- Ralph Marston Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving
it
~ William Arthur Ward
We must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible
otherwise we would not continue to search
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Prosperity consciousness is the awareness that all of us have something of value
to offer and we all deserve to get paid for what we provide to others
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Peggy McColl Author of Viral Explosions Proven Techniques to Expand Explode or Ignite Your Business Or Brand Online Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying
~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it
- Lou Holtz Procrastination is opportunitys natural assassin
~ Victor Kiam Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough
- Og Mandino 1923-1996 American Motivational Author and Speaker When you judge others you do not define them you define yourself
~ Earl Nightingale
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly
~ Richard Bach
If you tell the truth you dont have to remember anything
-Mark Twain
The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity
belonging to them
William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions
have all come back from defeat
Sam Snead 1912-2002 Golfer Faith is the assurance of things hoped for
- Unknown
The mediocre teacher tells The good teacher explains The superior teacher
demonstrates The great teacher inspires
~ William A Ward
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Never complain and never explain
~ --Benjamin Disraeli
Bless a thing and it will bless you Curse it and it will curse you If you bless a
situation it has no power to hurt you
Emmet Fox 1886-1951 Spiritual Leader Man alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man
alone can dream and make his dreams come true
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970 American speaker author Think And Grow Rich) Without AMBITION one starts nothing Without WORK one finishes nothing
The prize will NOT be sent to you You have to WIN it
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please
everyone
- Bill Cosby What we leave behind is not engraved in stone monuments but woven into the lives
of others
~ Pericles The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of
being unwanted
~ Mother Teresa (1910-1997 Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)
Tough times never last Tough people do
-Robert Schuller
Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions
- Eric Butterworth
A fellow at one of my workshops confessed For years I was so miserable that I
prayed to God daily to let me wake up as happy as my dog I went home and
thought about it Am I as happy as my dog Hmmmm
~ Alan Cohen
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of
your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the
unknown
Denis Waitley Author and Speaker
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us
William Feather (1888-19 American writer businessman )
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow but only
empties today of its strength
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892 Preacher
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win by fearing to
attempt
William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British poet playwright actor)
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of
your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the
unknown
Denis Waitley (1933- American author speaker trainer peak performance expert)
Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as
it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong
is simply your own false imagination Thats all
~Robert Adams
How many ideas have there been in history that were unthinkable ten years
before they appeared
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Life in itself is an empty canvas it becomes whatsoever you paint on it You can
paint misery you can paint bliss This freedom is your glory
~Osho
―Cease trying to work everything out with your minds it will get you nowhere Live
instead by intuition and inspiration let your whole life become a revelation
~Eileen Caddy
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People should appreciate ugliness because if it wasnt for ugliness beautiful
things wouldnt look beautiful
~ Sam Lau
No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig If
you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time Let it first
blossom then bear fruit then ripen
~Epictetus
You are the Self that perfect immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else
ever existed Nothing else will ever exist There is only one Self and you are That
Rejoice
~Robert Adams
Part of being a champ is acting like a champ You have to learn how to win and not
run away when you lose Everyone has bad stretches and real successes Either way
you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident
~ Nancy Kerrigan
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision
~ Muhammad Ali
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents works his tail off to
develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals
~ Larry Bird
Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love a gift to that person a
beautiful thing
-Mother Teresa
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end Its not a day when you
lounge around doing nothing its when youve had everything to do and youve done
it
-Lord Acton
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
- Walter Bagehot
Only the weak are cruel Gentleness can only be expected from the strong
~ Leo Buscaglia
If you are too busy to spend time with your children then you are busier than God
intended you to be
~ Rabbi Mendel Epstein
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Procrastination is the fear of success People procrastinate because they are
afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now Because
success is heavy carries a responsibility with it it is much easier to procrastinate
and live on the someday Ill philosophy
~ Denis Waitley
Happiness cannot come from without It must come from within
~ Helen Keller
I make occasional visits to reality But Im not a full- time resident
-Ashleigh Brilliant
People are like sticks of dynamite The power is on the inside but nothing happens
until the fuse gets lit
Mac Anderson Author Are you disappointed discouraged and discontented with your present level of
success Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status Do you want to
become a better and more beautiful person than you are today Would you like to
be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine
humility Then start dreaming Itlsquos possible You can become the person you have
always wanted to be
Robert H Schuller (1926- American minister author social leader)
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You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant
aspiration
- James Allen 1864-1912 Author of As A Man Thinketh
The man who has done his best has done everything
~ Charles Schwab Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can start from now
and make a brand new ending
~ Carl Bard
When I get ready to talk to people I spend two thirds of the time thinking what
they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 16th President of the United States Discontent is the first necessity of progress
Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)
You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how
youre going to live - now
- Joan Baez Singer Songwriter
Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as
it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong
is simply your own false imagination Thats all You are the Self that perfect
immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else ever existed Nothing else will
ever exist There is only one Self and you are That Rejoice
~Robert Adams If your dream is a big dream and if you want your life to work on the high level
that you say you do theres no way around doing the work it takes to get you
there
~ Joyce Chapman We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an
imperfect person perfectly
~ Sam Keen
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―A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe a part limited in time
and space He experiences himself his thoughts and feeling as something
separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness This
delusion is a kind of prison for us restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest to us Our task must be to free ourselves from
this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and
the whole of nature in its beauty
-- Albert Einstein
―Each contact with a human being is so rare so precious one should preserve it
- Anais Nin
―Only connect That was the whole of her sermon Only connect the prose and the
passion and both will be exalted and human love will be seen at its height Live in
fragments no longer Only connect
-- EM Forster
―Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the
self And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our
connectedness to others
-- Harriet Goldhor Lerner
―And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to
do the same As we are liberated from our fear our presence automatically
liberates others
-- Marianne Williamson
No no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like
waters and righteousness like a mighty stream
Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968 American Civil Rights leader Nobel Prize winner 964)
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a
very long time
~ Andre Gide (1869-1951 French author)
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Write down the thoughts of the moment Those that come unsought for are
commonly the most valuable
Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Philosopher Statesman Scientist and Author
A woman should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to
accomplish it Even if she fails again and again to accomplish her purpose (as she
necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will
be the measure of her true success and this will form a new starting point for
future power and triumph
~ James Allen
To be blind is bad but worse is to have eyes and not see
~ Helen Keller
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning
to see an imperfect person perfectly
` Sam Keen
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can
start from now and make a brand new ending
` Carl Bard Always make a total effort even when the odds are against you
Arnold Palmer (1929- American golfer)
Learning is finding out what you already know Doing is demonstrating that you
know it Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you You are
all learners doers teachers
Richard Bach (1936- American author)
Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day
Jenner Bruce 1949- American track athlete author speaker
Doubt whom you will but never yourself
John Christian Bovee (1820-1904 American author lawyer)
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When you give someone a book you dont give him just paper ink and glue You
give him the possibility of a whole new life
Christopher Morley 1890-1957 Novelist Journalist and Poet
Dont be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality If you can dream
it you can make it so
Belva Davis Award-Winning Journalist
The secret of mans being is not only to live but to have something to live for
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose
Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity and high purpose by itself is
utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Watch your thoughts they become words
Watch your words they become actions
Watch your actions they become habits
Watch your habits they become character
Watch your character it becomes your destiny
~ Frank Outlaw
Take good care of your future because thats where youre going to spend the
rest of your life
~ Charles F Kettering
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams
John Barrymore
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground
Stephen Covey
Its never too late to be what you might have been
George Elliot
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Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder
than anything we can say
Wilfred Peterson
True peace is not merely the absence of some negative force - tension confusion
or war it is the presence of some positive force - justice good will and
brotherhood
-Martin Luther King Jr
The important thing in this world is not where we stand but in what direction we
move
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing Action always
generates inspiration Inspiration seldom generates action
-Frank Tibolt
The only way to eliminate waris to love our children more than we hate our enemies
-Golda Meir
It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope
is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they
both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your
years
~ Abraham Lincoln
Hold your head high stick your chest out You can make it It gets dark
sometimes but morning comes Keep hope alive
~ Jesse Jackson
Set your sights high the higher the better Expect the most wonderful things to
happen not in the future but right now Realize that nothing is too good Allow
absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way
Eileen Caddy Author
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To understand the heart and mind of a person look not at what he has already
achieved but at what he aspires to do
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931 Lebanese poet novelist )
Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality
Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is
transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible
~Osho
What is the best thing about being 100 years old Lack of peer pressure
-Michael Pritchard
The more credit you give away the more will come back to you The more you help
others the more they will want to help you
~ Brian Tracy
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact
~ William James
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes Chance nature
compulsions habit reason passion desire
~ Aristotle When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth think of Algebra
-Will Rogers
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say Yes Ive got
dreams of course Ive got dreams Then they put the box away and bring it out
once in a while to look in it and yep theyre still there These are great dreams
but they never even get out of the box It takes an uncommon amount of guts to
put your dreams on the line to hold them up and say How good or how bad am I
Thats where courage comes in
~ Erma Bombeck
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You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really
stop to look fear in the face You must do the thing which you think you cannot
do
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you love the money will follow
Marsha Sinetar (American author To Build The Life You Want Create The Work You Love)
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement we must choose freedom and the
responsibility this entails
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998 American expert on love lecturer author)
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of
itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as
powerful as your desires unless you make them so
Marcia Wieder (American speaker trainer author)
I work every day -- or at least I force myself into my office or room I may get
nothing done but you dont earn bonuses without putting in time Nothing may
come for three months but you dont earn the fourth without it
Mordecai Richler (1931- Canadian writer)
If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation
by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in
which you are rendering it
Roger Babson 1875-1967 Statistician and Columnist Its simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about
what the other fellow is going to do
- John R Amos
All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas
~ Hakuin
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly
or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man
~Chang Tzu
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The important thing is not to stop questioning Curiosity has its own reason for
existing One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of
eternity of life of the marvelous structure of reality It is enough if one tries
merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day Never lose a holy
curiosity
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect
abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human
laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought
of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will
bring it into being
~Eileen Caddy
Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality
Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is
transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible
~Osho
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who
keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road
Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961 Statesman and Secretary-General of UN
Life is one massive challenge after another for everyone So you cant feel sorry
for yourself One real measure of you as a person is how much you can handle
without whining
~ Mike Brescia Author
We are each of us angels with only one wing And we can only fly by embracing each
other
-Luciano de Crescenzo
He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he
would like to have
~ Socrates
Quite often we change jobs friends and spouses instead of ourselves
~ Akbarali H Jetha
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame
~ Benjamin Franklin
You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where
your thoughts take you
- James Allen
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will
embrace for that day We cannot change our past
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way We cannot change
the inevitable The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have and that
is our attitude
- Charles Swindoll author
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others
- Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC
If you want your life to be more rewarding you have to change the way you think
- Oprah Winfrey
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless
- Mother Teresa
By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible
- Italian Proverb
Enthusiasm is the all-essential human jet propeller It is the driving force which
elevates people to miracle workers and creates endless energy the source of all
accomplishment
-Norman Vincent Peale
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends
you choose for you will become like them-
- W Clement Stone
Ones philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one
makes In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves The process
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never ends until we die And the choices we make are ultimately our own
responsibility
- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something that were
supposed to do
~ Richard Rose I love the name of honor more than I fear death
~ Julius Caesar
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future making it predictable
and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible
Hannah Arendt 1906-1975 Political Theorist
Man has no greater enemy than himself
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374 Italian poet humanist)
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety
-Aesop
You cannot tailor make your situation in life but you can tailor make your
attitudes to fit those situations
- Zig Ziglar speaker and author Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you
and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in
line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not
get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker The only people who never fail are those who never try
Ilka Chase (1905-1978 American author actor)
In truth you are spirit The body has been projected by the mind which itself
originates from Spirit If the wrong identification ceases there will be peace and
permanent indescribable bliss
~Ramana Maharshi
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I flow with loving gratitude for all my blessings today
- Zoe Jarboe
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be
~ Abraham Lincoln You are wealthy now with an abundance of what you are thinking about The world
is a creative engine and will create whatever you are really thinking Every thought
in your mind is a prayer about you no matter who the subject seems to be
~ Brad Jensen
A man who works with his hands is a laborer a man who works with his hands and
his brain is a craftsman but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his
heart is an artist
-Louis Nizer
When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score
John Enoch Powell (1912-1998 British statesman)
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get credit Try if
you can to belong to the first class there is far less competition
~ Dwight Morrow 1873-1931 Businessman Politician and Diplomat
Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt
conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything
~ St Ignatius Loyola Action is the real measure of intelligence
~ Napoleon Hill
Take the first step and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid But the
first essential is that you begin Once the battle is started all that is within and
without you will come to your assistance
~ Robert Collier
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You are what you are today because of the decisions and the choices YOU made
yesterday
~ Wayne Goonie
I have never seen a man who could do real work except under the stimulus of
encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom he is
working
Charles M Schwab (1862-1939 American industrialist businessman)
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can
- Danny Kaye (1913-1987) Entertainer A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in
spite of overwhelming obstacles
~ Christopher Reeve A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always
with the same person
~ Mignon McLaughlin
We learn from failure much more than from success we often discover what we
will do by finding our what we will not do and probably he who never made a
mistake never made a discovery
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904 Scottish author)
I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)
Life has indeed many ills but the mind that views every object in its most
cheering aspect and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good bears
within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote
Lydia H Sigourney 1791-1865 Poet
The Next Step
The first step needs action to start it
The last requires patience to end
So we question which ones most important
When we realize our dreams our best friend
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Well the answer is neither theyre equal
But the one that will help you win through
And connect what you start to the finish
Is the next step thats waiting for you
Lifes dreamers are great Goal Achievers
Their faith and persistence just blends
Into one awesome cocktail of knowledge
That whatever they want they can get
You see they never visualize failure
Its success that they see shining through
Its essential to start and to finish
But the next step is what you must do
Alison Wilson
Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you
and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in
line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not
get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker
There is no such thing as natural touch Touch is something you create by hitting
millions of golf balls
~ Lee Trevino
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation We do not act rightly because
we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted
rightly We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit
~ Aristotle
The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement If everyone received the
encouragement they need to grow the genius in most everyone would blossom and
the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams
~ Unkwown
I do not believe in miracles at least not defined in the conventional religious
manner as divine disruptions of the natural order But if a miracle is defined as an
infinitely improbable phenomenon then our existence is a miracle which no theory
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natural or supernatural will ever explain
-John Horgan
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that with nine women
pregnant you can get a baby in a month
--Wernher von Braun
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never
find out
~ Frank A Clark
You are what you are today because of the decisions and the
choices YOU made yesterday
~ Revt Wayne Goonie
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do
a little
~ Edmund Burke
We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something
that were supposed to do
~ Richard Rose
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small
people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become
great
- Mark Twain
Rich and poor are first created in the mind
A poor man asks How much will it COST me
A rich man asks How much will it MAKE me
Which one are you
~ Bryan Kumar
If you think you can do something that you cannot the belief itself prevents you
from accomplishing the task either because you never try it in the first place or
because you have block yourself by your belief
-Deena Zalkind Spear
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)
Character is doing whats right when nobodys looking
- J C Watts Jr Politician
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people
always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great
Mark Twain 1835-1910 Humorist and Writer
We are all salesmen every day of our lives We are selling our ideas our plans our
enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact
~ Charles M Schwab It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition
- Vernon Howard Maturity begins when were content to feel were right about something without
feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong
Sydney J Harris 1917-1986 Syndicated Columnist
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum
- Frances Willard Educator
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given
~ Deepak Chopra Once power was considered a masculine attribute In fact power has no gender
~ Katherine Graham
An invasion of armies can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come
Victor Hugo
As the purse is emptied the heart is filled
Victor Hugo
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Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them
give way beneath her and yet sings knowing that she hath wings
Victor Hugo
Have no fear of robbers or murderers They are external dangers petty dangers
We should fear ourselves Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murders
The great dangers are within us Why worry about what threatens our heads or
purses Let us think instead of what threatens our souls
Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door closes a prison
Victor Hugo
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man
Victor Hugo Be all you can be and live a good life -- have fun with it
Tina Yothers
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace
Yes Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive inner peace does
not
-Eckhart Tolle
A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Physician and writer
The superior persons learning goes in his ear attaches to his heart expands to
the end of his limbs and is established in his actions
Even in his smallest word or slightest action he sets an example
~ Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) When I thought I couldnt go on I forced myself to keep going My success is
based on persistence not luck
Estee Lauder Entrepreneur
If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased
Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003 American actress writer)
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Make Your Mark Count A childs life is like a piece of paper on which every person
leaves a mark
- Chinese Proverb
Pain shared is lessened joy shared increased
~ Spider Robinson
The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits
~ Albert Einstein
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift let it be enthusiasm
Bruce Barton (1886-1967 American author advertising expert)
When you give your children knowledge you are telling them what you think That
is you are telling them what they are supposed to know what you want them to
understand is true
When you give your children wisdom you do not tell them what to know or what is
true but rather how to get to their own truth
-Neale Donald Walsch
I have found that if you love life life will love you back
- Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Musician
The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see
magic and beauty in them while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves
~ Kahlil Gibran
Practice is just as valuable as a sale The sale will make you a living the skill will
make you a fortune
~ Jim Rohn
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875 British author clergyman)
Dont cry because its over - smile because it happened
Author unknown
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Happiness is like a kiss You must share it to enjoy it
~ Bernard Meltzer Our life is what our thoughts make it
~ Marcus Aurelius The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best Therefore it tends to
become the best It takes the form or character of the best and will receive the
best
-- Wallace Wattles
Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings
-- Marianne Williamson
―And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present and can be none in
the future And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned
to beautiful results
mdash Walt Whitman When you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with your Self
When you lose touch with your Self you lose yourself in the world
Your innermost sense of Self of who you are is inseparable from stillness
This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form
Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks
With wisdom I see that I am nothing
With love I see that I am everything
Between these two my life turns
Nisargadatta Maharaj Man often becomes what he believes himself to be If I keep on saying to myself
that I cannot do a certain thing it is possible that I may end by really becoming
incapable of doing it On the contrary if I shall have the belief that I can do it I
shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the
beginning
Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Indian Nationalist Leader
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Strategies designed to avoid something eventually produce exactly the thing they
are trying to avoid
-Michael Greenwood and Peter Nunn
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but
are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults
seem insignificant
Charles A Cerami
If all you did was just look for things to appreciate you would live a joyous
spectacular life
~Abraham-Hicks
Three things in human life are important The first is to be kind The second is to
be kind And the third is to be kind
- Henry James (1843-1916) Writer The moment of enlightenment is when a persons dreams of possibilities become
images of probabilities
~ Vic Braden Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot
fly
~ Langston Hugues Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which
smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what win and
preserve the heart and secure comfort
Humphry Davy 1778-1829 Chemist
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900 German philosopher)
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 (1871-1940) Writer
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Some dream of doing great things while others stay awake and get on with it
~ Unknown With all your science can you tell how it is and whence it is that light comes into
the soul
-Hanry David Thoreau
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one but you wont come up
with a handful of mud either
- Leo Burnett (1891-1971) Advertising Executive
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the
only way we can leave the future open
Lillian Smith 1897-1966 Writer Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
~ Thomas A Edison Find something youre passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it
Julia Child (1912-2004 American gourmet cook author and television personality)
Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today
and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American
dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are
created equal
- Martin Luther King Jr ―Never let formal education get in the way of your learning
- Mark Twain
The path to success is to take massive determined action
~ Anthony Robbins For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the practice of tolerance ones enemy is the best teacher
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson When defeat comes accept it as a signal that
your plans are not sound rebuild those plans
and set sail once more toward your coveted goal
~ Napoleon Hill
We are all alike on the inside
Mark Twain (1835-1910 American humorist writer)
If you are going to do something carelessly it is better to give it up entirely
Russian Proverb
The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you
Smile and it smiles too
Herbert Samuels
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our
children
Charles R Swindoll
The important thing is not so much that every child should be
taught as that every child should be given the wish to learn
John Lubbock
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been
Mark Twain
It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere
Steve Goodier A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops
Henry Adams
It is only with the heart that one can see clearly for the most
essential things are invisible to the eye
~ Antoine de Sainte Exupery
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the
critical decisive hour Write it on your heart that every day is
the best day of the year
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier Be the living
expression of Gods kindness kindness in your face kindness in your eyes kindness
in your smile
- Mother Teresa
Its never too late to be who you might have been
- George EliotWriter
Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle
- Plato Philosopher
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition
- Vernon Howard
Ilsquove always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up
- Beverly Sills Opera Singer
Help others get ahead You will always stand taller with someone else on your
shoulders
- Bob Moawad Business Leader
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks
like work
Thomas Edison
Dream as if youll live forever
Live as if youll die tomorrow
~ James Dean
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 Author
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As we grow up we get sophisticated out of enchantment and become too smart
about the things that cause children to wonder
-Thomas Moore
People come out to see you perform and youve got to give them the best you have
within you The lives of most men are patchwork quilts Or at best one matching
outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations A lifetime of
training for just ten seconds
Jesse Owens (1913-1980 American Olympian)
Nothing is easy to the unwilling
- Nikki Giovanni Whatever course you have chosen for yourself it will not be a chore but an
adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving if your sights are set
far above the merely secure and mediocre
~David Sarnoff 1891-1971 Entrepreneur I dont know any other way to lead but by example
Don Shula (1930- American football coach) Flexible people never get bent out of shape
- Author Unknown The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record
of successful experiences behind you
~ William Jennings Bryan The important thing is this To be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we could become
~ Charles du Bois Success isnt permanent and failure isnt fatal
- Mike Ditka
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The different between us is that I count and you dont
-Huston Smith
I love strange choices Im always interested in people who depart from what is
expected of them and go into new territory
Cate Blanchett Actress Always do your best What you plant now you will harvest later
Og Mandino (1923-1996 American motivational author speaker wwogmandinocom ) Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the Universe is endlessly
bountiful Just put forth a clear enough request and everything that your heart
desires must come to you
~Shakti Gawain The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would
suffice to solve most of the worlds problems
~ Unknown The only real valuable thing is intuition
- Albert Einstein
Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve
lost a part of your life
~ Michael Leboeuf Fear is an insidious virus Given a breeding place in our minds it will eat away our
spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors
~ James F Bell
You cant base your life on other peoples expectations
Stevie Wonder Grammy Award Winning SingerSongwriter
An excuse is worse than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded
Alexander Pope (1688-1744 British poet critic translator)
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The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and
beginning the work of becoming yourself
- Anna Quindlen ―Exert your talents and distinguish yourself and donlsquot think of retiring from the
world until the world will be sorry that you retire
- Samuel Johnson Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of
the odds against them They make the impossible happen
~ Dr Robert Jarvik
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances
if there is any reaction both are transformed
-Carl Jung There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right between
fairly good and the best between mediocrity and superiority
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess
I wish you enough Hellos to get you through the final Goodbye
Bob Perks
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
~ William Shakespeare
It doesnt matter where you are coming from All that matters is where you are
going
~ Brian Tracy You need to be a somebody before you can be a nobody
-Brant Cortright
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old
Franz Kafka Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it
bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an
unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win and lose many
a battle
~ Annie Besant
I believe in taking a positive attitude toward the world My hope still is to leave
the world a little bit better than when I got here
Jim Henson 1936-1990 Muppets Creator Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life
Gita Bellin
Education is when you read the fine print Experience is what you get if you
dont
- Pete Seeger
Keep your thoughts positive because they become your words
Keep your words positive because they become your behaviors
Keep your behaviors positive because they become your habits
Keep your habits positive because they become your values
Keep your values positive because they become your destiny
-Gandhi
The challenge is not to manage time but to manage ourselves
Stephen Covey
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death It not only gives us
fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which
we hold our present being
~ William Hazlitt
Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith Having
faith in yourself in the process of change and in the new direction that change
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sets will reveal your own inner core of steel
Georgette Mosbacher Business Executive
Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life
Gita Bellin
Careful what you wish for Millions long for immortality who do not know what to
do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon
- Susan Ertz
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us What we have done for
others and the world remains and is immortal
Albert Pine
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us
We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant gorgeous talented fabulous Actually
who are you NOT to be You are a child of God Your playing small does not serve
the world There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont
feel insecure around you We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is
within us It is not just in some of us it is in everyone And as we let our own light
shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same As we are
liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others
~ Marianne Williamson
Focus on where we want to end up not on what we want to avoid
-Paula Underwood Spencer
A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact
that everything has happened for the best
Author Unknown
Change your thoughts and you change the world
- Harold R Mcalindon Today is yesterdays effect and tomorrows cause
~ Phillip Gribble
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find
he can do what he was afraid he couldnt do
~ Henry Ford
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist
- Paul Harvey
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes
up his mind to do We are all capable of greater things than we realize
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)
When everybody is looking for gold its a good time to be in the picks and shovels
business
~ Mark Twain
Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve
lost a part of your life
~ Michael Leboeuf
It is a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you
very often get it
~ W Somerset Maugham
Flatter me and I may not believe you Criticize me and I may not like you Ignore
me and I may not forgive you Encourage me and I will not forget you Love me and
I may be forced to love you
William Arthur Ward
―Trust yourself You know more than you think you do
Benjamin Spock
―A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise
after success
Anon
―Nine tenths of education is encouragement
Anatole Franc
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Maybe you cant change the whole world but if you have love in your heart you can
make small differences every day which really does change the world one life at a
time
Kristina Koncz Customer Experience Specialist
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 (American author The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness)
Truce is better than friction
- Charles Herguth
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them -- a desire a dream a vision
~ Muhammad Ali
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each mans
life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that
take our breath away
~ George Carlin
You can conquer almost any fear if you will make up your mind to do so For
remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind
Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Author and Speaker
Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others
They learn when they do which isnt often on their own the hard way
Robert Heinlein (1907-1988 American science fiction writer)
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the
expense of everybody else
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-Frederic Bastiat
Some think its holding on that makes one strong sometimes its letting go
- Sylvia Robinson We are responsible for what we are and whatever we wish ourselves to be we
have the power to make ourselves If what we are now has been the result of our
own past actions it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be
produced by our present actions so we have to know how to act
~ Swami Vivekananda
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and
make a new ending
~ Maria Robinson
We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves
Brian Tracy (1944- Canadian-born American trainer speaker author businessman)
Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow
- Slovakian Proverb
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know
peace
~Jimi Hendrix Do not wait the time will never be just right
Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your
command and better tools will be found as you go along
~ Napoleon Hill
When we lose the right to be different we lose the privilege to be free
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948 American jurist politician)
You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone which can become a
watered-down occasional hope that youll get to tomorrow Intention without
action is useless
Caroline Myss Author of Entering The Castle
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Plan ahead -- It wasnt raining when Noah built the ark
-Anononymous
Only you can be yourself
No one else is qualified for the job
- Shelby Collinge
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
~ Confucius
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom But in the last analysis our
only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves
~ Bernard M Baruch
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941 Indian poet philosopher)
Worry is the misuse of the imagination
- Dan Zadra
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded
Maya Angelou
Trust yourself Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your
life Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into
flames of achievement
~ Foster C McClellan There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal
experience has brought it home
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873 British philosopher economist)
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall
never sit in
-Greek proverb
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails
- Bertha Calloway
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Democracy arose from mens thinking that if they are equal in any respect they
are equal absolutely
~ Aristotle
Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can
~ Richard Bach
If the world seems cold to you kindle fires to warm it
~ Lucy Larcom All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their
gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible
Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer Physician Hotel Owner and founder of Success Magazine
A Friend is a treasure more precious than Gold For love shared is priceless and
never grows old
Author Unknown
Only that which cannot be taken away by death is real Everything else is unreal it
is made of the same stuff dreams are made of
~Osho
Personality can open doors but only character can keep them open
- Elmer G Leterman
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they
dont know when to quit Most men succeed because they are determined to
~ George Allen Coach
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what
lies within us
~ Walt Emerson Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by
employing it well Then youth will be happy old age without regret and life a
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beautiful success
Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 Novelist Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution
experience lifes deepest joy true fulfillment
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet enough trials to make you
strong enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy
-Anonymous
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the
things we do
- Freya Madeline Stark
We must become the change we want to see
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You know its not more knowledge its not more education its not more facts
that we need Its a better use of what we already have that we need to have You
have each and every one of you within your potential power right now to do a
wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be
respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure
Buddha (568-488 BC Indian born founder of Buddhism)
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change and all patterns alter
- Sharon Salzberg When we let freedom ring when we let it ring from every village and every
hamlet from every state and every city we will be able to speed up that day when
all of Gods children black men and white men Jews and Gentiles Protestants and
Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro
spiritual
Free at last Free at last
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Thank God Almighty we are free at last
~ Reverand Martin Luther King Jr All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them
~ Walt Disney Your own common sense should tell you that common sense alone is not enough
-Ashleigh Brilliant
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and
deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your
place
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
Know what counts
No matter what youve done for yourself or for humanity if you cant look back on
having given love and attention to your own family what have you really
accomplished
- Lee Iacocca
There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen
~ Frederick Faust There are those that look at things the way they are and ask why I dream of
things that never were and ask why not
~ Robert F Kennedy
There is nothing impossible to him who will try
~ Alexander the Great
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance Remember the greatest
failure is to not try Once you find something you love to do be the best at doing
it
Debbi Fields Founder of Mrs Fields Cookies
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left
undone
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars
~ Les Brown
Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been
told is what they cant do They dont know what they want because they dont
know whats available for them
~ Zig Ziglar
Accept that some days youre the pigeon and some days youre the statue
-Anonymous
Be life long or short its completeness depends on what it was lived for
- David Starr Jordan
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life
by altering his attitude
~ William James
It has never been and never will be easy work
But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road
built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
―No matter what anybody tells you words and ideas can change the world
~ John Keating (from the movie Dead Poets Society) hellip Every tomorrow has two handles We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887 American preacher orator writer) The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it
~ Chinese proverb
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Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
~ Thomas Edison
I am always doing things I cant do thats how I get to do them
~ Picasso When you maximize your talents youre on path on purpose on target When you
dont youre off path off purpose off target
Kevin Hall Author of Aspire
Comparisons of ones lot with others teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975 American novelist playwright)
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
While we have the gift of life it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of
us to die - whether it is our spirit our creativity or our glorious uniqueness
- Gilda Radner
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state
of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is
wounded trust impaired
~ Erik H Erikson
Dont go on discussing what a good person should be Just be one
Marcus Aurelius
Our wisdom comes from our experience and our experience comes from our
foolishness
Sacha Guitry
I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery than live in a
world so small that my mind could comprehend it
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Our first teacher is our own heart
Cheyenne proverb
Power coerces
Knowledge persuades
Love converts
Proverb
Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back but so they will kiss their
children and their childrens children
Noah Benshea
We read to know we are not alone
CS Lewis
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better
Albert Einstein
Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always makes
you less than you are
- Malcolm Forbes
When you know that youre capable of dealing with whatever comes you have the
only security the world has to offer
Harry Browne 1933-2006 Writer and Politician
You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never
be ableto repay you
- John Wooden
Freedom know this that every manwoman is free to choose his life and what hell
be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call
persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light in nameless ways be
good and kind but never force the human mind
~ William C Clegg
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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than
the one you are capable of living
~ Nelson Mandela to Marianne Williamson If it werent for the rocks in its bed the stream would have no song
-Carl Perkins
Whenever encountering a troublesome person do not identify him as being cruel
or stupid or rude or anything else like that Instead see him as a frightened
person
Vernon Howard 1918-1992 Author and Philosopher When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it
elsewhere
~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer) Live for the moment
If I have learnt anything it is that life forms no logical patterns It is haphazard
and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by for who knows whether any
of them will ever return
- Margo Fonteyn
Isnt it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings
and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of
tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a
stumbling block or stepping stone
~ Edgar Guest We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit
~ Aristotle
Whatever you can do or dream you can do begin it Boldness has genius power
and magic in it
~ Wolfgang von Goethe Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state Being in love shows a person who he should be ~ Anton Chekhov
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Follow the grain in your own wood
- Howard Thurman
It is said that if you are not living your dreams you are living your fears
~ Ghalil Professional Dreamer
―Dont ask what the world needs Ask what makes you come alive because what the
world needs is people who have come alive
- Harold Thurman
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing
do it with all your mind Put your whole soul to it Stamp it with your own
personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will
accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Essayist Philosopher and Poet
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)
For the most part fear is nothing but an illusion When you share it with someone
else it tends to disappear
- Marilyn C Barrick
The purpose of life is not to arrive safely at your death
- Robert Holden
When everything seems to be going against you remember that theairplane takes
off against the wind not with it
Henry Ford
There are two freedoms the false where a man is free to do what he likes the
true where he is free to do what he ought
~ Charles Kingsley Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one
could find fault with it
John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer)
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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
New ideas pass through three periods
It cant be done
It probably can be done but its not worth doing
I knew it was a good idea all along
-Arthur C Clarke A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you think creates your life all you have to do is ask yourself what you are
willing to accept into your life
~ Ghalil Author - Professional Dreamer
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and
deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your
place
~ Orison Swett Marden Well done is better than well said
~ Benjamin Franklin Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one
could find fault with it
John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer) If youre looking for perfection look in the mirror If you find it there expect it
elsewhere
Malcolm S Forbes (1919-1990 American publisher businessman) Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have
- H Jackson Brown Jr A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things
~ Chinese Proverb
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If we listened to our intellect wed never have a love affair Wed never have a
friendship Wed never go into business because wed be cynical Well thats
nonsense Youve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down
~ Ray Bradbury
Successful people decide how they are going to live they are not victims of
circumstance In good times or bad times they know where they are going and they
know that they are going to get there
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker
First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win
~ Mahatma Gandhi The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing
- Walt Disney 1901-1966 American Film ProducerDirectorAnimator
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas first make him your friend
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
Doubting everything or believing everything are two equally convenient solutions
both of which save us from thinking
-Jules Henri Poincareacute
Dont be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning Thats only the initial
impression The important thing is not to retreat you have to master yourself
Olga Korbut Olympic Gold Medallist Gymnast
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental
difference in someones life
- Sister Mary Rose McGeady All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future
task of the philosopher which is to solve the problem of value to determine the
true hierarchy of values
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him
~ Martin Luther King Dont concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal -
leave that completely to a power greater than yourself All you have to do is know
where youre going The answers will come to you of their own accord and at the
right time
Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Syndicated Radio Announcer and Author
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs
~ Gloria Steinem
Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today
and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American
dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are
created equal
~ Martin Luther King Jr
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you have imagined
David Thoreau Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do
that but the really great make you believe that you too can become great
~ Mark Twain Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure (values) and Ill tell
you their philosophy of life
~ Dale Carnegie To forgive is merely to remember ONLY the LOVING thoughts you gave in the
past and those that were given you ALL the rest must be forgotten
~ A Course In Miracles If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a
prophet
Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904-1991 Journalist and Writer
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us
~ Voltaire
We are all of us stars and we deserve to twinkle
~ Marilyn Monroe
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do
right
~ Nelson Mandela
It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope
is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they
both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society
~J Krishnamurti
Every situation properly perceived becomes an opportunity to heal
~ A Course in Miracles
The love that you withhold in life is the pain that you carry
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as
the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature
John D Rockefeller (1839-1937 American industrialist philanthropist founder Exxon)
All I ask is for an unfair advantage
~ WC Fields Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words Keep your
words positive because your words become your behaviors Keep your behaviors
positive because your behaviors become your habits Keep your habits positive
because your habits become your values Keep your values positive because your
values become your destiny
~Gandhi
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Your ego is creating obstacles Maya creating maya
~Babaji Step back Observe without judgment unconditional Watch now as obstacles
melt become no-thing Do this each time a block appears Step back and observe
without judgment
~Babaji
Everybody cannot be a painter a poet or a geniusthose are given qualities from
birth But everybody can be enlightened Enlightenment is the only thing the only
experience where everybody is equally capable And it does not depend on whether
you believe in God or not it depends only on one thingand that is a little taste (of
meditation) and suddenly you become confident that youre capable of it
~Osho There are no accidents or coincidences in this world Nothing is by chance
Everything you experience is a direct manifestation of where you focus your
attention and hold your vibration
~Jafree When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off
into the darkness of the unknown faith is knowing one of two things will happen
There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly
~ Barbara J Winter High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly make big decisions quickly and
move into action immediately Follow these principles and you can make your dreams
come true
Robert H Schuller Televangelist Pastor and Author
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you but seek out another to console and
you will find consolation
J C Macaulay
High Expectations are the key to everything
~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart
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Until you make peace with who you are youll never be content with what you
have
~ Doris Mortman You must constantly ask yourself these questions Who am I around What are
they doing to me What have they got me reading What have they got me saying
Where do they have me going What do they have me thinking And most
important what do they have me becoming Then ask yourself the big question Is
that okay Your life does not get better by chance it gets better by change
Jim Rohn 1930-2009 Author and Speaker
Believe it You CAN succeed at whatever you do as long as you simply take the
right ACTIONS
~ ER Haas CEO
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do The hard
part is doing it
~ General H Norman Schwarzkopf So let your deepest desires direct your aim Set your sights far above the
reasonable target The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire
that stirs the heart
Price Pritchett Author of You2
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1826-1977 British economist critic)
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or
better than themselves
~ Tryon Edwards
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high
and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it
~ Michelangelo Compared to what we ought to be we are only half awake We are making use of
only a small part of our physical and mental resources Stating the thing broadly
the human individual thus lives far within his limits He possesses power of various
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sorts which he habitually fails to use
William James (1842-1910 American psychologist professor author) People wait for opportunity to come along yet it is there every morning
~ Dennis the Menace A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow
~ George S Patton (1885-1945 American army general during World War II)
The last best fruit which comes to late perfection even in the kindliest soul is
tenderness toward the hard forbearance toward the unforbearing warmth toward
the cold philanthropy toward the misanthropic
~ Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825 German novelist)
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a
prophet
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991 Polish-born American journalist writer)
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than
by those given to us by others
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662 French scientist religious philosopher) Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty
~ John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)
Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect
abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human
laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought
of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will
bring it into being
~Eileen Caddy
Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we
believe And the only real wealth for any of us lies in our faith
~ Gordon B Hinckley
Desire is the Starting Point of All Achievement
~ - Napoleon Hill
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And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to
do the same
Nelson Mandela
The more we have the less we own
Meister Eckhart (1260-1326 German mystic)
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every
pebble in the road
Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887 Preacher and Abolitionist
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength Richard L Evans
The secret of Happiness is Freedom and the secret of Freedom Courage
~ Thucydides (Greek historian 460-404 BC)
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in
the mature than in the young
Paul McCartney SingerSongwriter I cant believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary
Lou Holtz (937- American football coach)
Dont let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he
was
~ Richard L Evans
To dream anything that you want to dream that is the beauty of the human mind
To do anything that you want to do that is the strength of the human will To trust
yourself to test your limits that is the courage to succeed
~ Bernard Edmonds
I find my greatest pleasure and so my reward in the work that precedes what the
world calls success
Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)
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It is good to act as if It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer
an act
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832 British sportsman writer)
Tell me what you want and Ill show you how to get it
~ Bob Proctor
One is very crazy when in love
~ Sigmund Freud
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed Always aim at
purifying your thoughts and everything will be well
Mahatma Gandhi
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything keep it
Mahatma Gandhi Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
Mahatma Gandhi
Hate the sin love the sinner
Mahatma Gandhi
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress
Mahatma Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress
Mahatma Gandhi
True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the
future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied
with what we have which is sufficient for he that is so wants nothing The great
blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach
~ Seneca 4 BC to 65 AD - Spanish Philosopher
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When you paint success pictures in your mind you initiate an inner process
whereby your attitudes hopes aspirations and enthusiasm are elevated in
response to an image of a more promising future Every person who aspires must
first sell themselves hope the promise of a better life
US Andersen 1917-1986 Author of The Magic In Your Mind
How far is far how high is high Well never know until we try
Song from the California Special Olympics If you take each challenge one step at a time with faith in every footstep your
strength and understanding will increase
~ James E Faust
What is your individual purpose What would you like to be able to say is your
legacy I believe that each of us wants to find our purpose in life our raison
detre or reason for being We need to have a motive to get out of bed in the
morning We want to feel alive and passionate about something Something that
makes a difference in the world We are not alone in this and yet many of us are
still searching for that purpose
~ Veronica Hay We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds
Warren Buffett (1930- American investment entrepreneur)
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy but its good too to
check up once in a while and make sure you havent lost the things money cant
buy
George Lorimer 1867-1937 Editor of Saturday Evening Post
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence Talent will not nothing is
more common than unsuccessful men with talent Genius will not unrewarded genius
is almost a proverb Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent
~ Calvin Coolidge
Desperation can be as powerful inspirer as genius
Benjamin Disraeli
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We read to know we are not alone
CS Lewis
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better
Albert Einstein The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the
road after you have shown him the way
Confucius
A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his
grandfather
Angie Papadakis
My father didnt tell me how to live he lived and let me watch him do it
Clarence B Kelland No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing
William Barclay
If you think youre lucky you are
Bobby Dodd
When youre safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when youre
having an adventure you wish you were safe at home
Thornton Wilder Obstacles dont have to stop you If you run into a wall dont turn around and give
up Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it
~ Michael Jordan In order to attain the impossible one must attempt the impossible
~ Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616 Spanish novelist dramatist poet)
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as
the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature
~ John D Rockefeller
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is
when men are afraid of the light
~ Plato
Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by action alone
Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 Philosopher and Author
Poverty is not a shame but the being ashamed of it is
English Proverb
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well
~ Unknown
We need to exert ourselves that much more and break out of the vicious cycle of
dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful those in command of
immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own
image
~ Nelson Mandela
High Expectations are the key to everything
~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart
Failures are expected by losers ignored by winners
~ Joe Gibbs Football Coach Most people live and die with their music still unplayed They never dare to try
Mary Kay Ash
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own
existence
Aristotle
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to
the eye
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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If A equals success then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z
with X being work Y play and Z keeping your mouth shut
~ Albert Einstein
Tomorrows battle is won during todays practice
Japanese Proverb
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days
What you can do or think you can do begin it For boldness has magic power and
genius in it
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Poet Novelist and Scientist
Forget about all the reasons why something may not work You only need to find
one good reason why it will
Dr Robert Anthony
No matter how busy you are you must take time to make the other person feel
important
Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001 American businesswoman founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)
I used to be a very serious not funny negative person Funny-cism Skepticism
Criticism and all Then I got introduced to the world of Positive Thinking Now Im
bipolar
~ Andy Dooley Spiritual Comedian and Professional Speaker
Your past is not your potential In any hour you can choose to liberate the future
Marilyn Ferguson (American writer) Everyone wants to be appreciated so if you appreciate someone dont keep it a
secret
~ Mary Kay Ash 1915-2001 Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds
and these magnets attract to us the forces the people the circumstances of life
which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts
~ Napoleon Hill
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You more often recognize your inadequacies rather than your strengths
~ James E Faust
I live by this credo Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness
instead of sadness Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations Even
in your darkest moment you usually can find something to laugh about if you try
hard enough
Red Skelton 1913-1997 Comedian
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth
George W Crane Some self-confronting questions
Where do I want to be at any given time
How am I going to get there
What do I have to do to get myself from where
I am to where I want to be
Whats the first small step I can take to get moving
~ George A Ford The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can
bribe the public with the publics money
- Alexis de Tocqueville The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race
~ Don Marquis At the height of laughter the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new
possibilities
-- Jean Houston Begin to weave and God will give you the thread
~ German Proverb If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who
are rich
John F Kennedy (1917-1963 35th American President)
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If you keep THINKING what you are thinking you will keep DOING what you are
doing and you will keep GETTING what you are getting
~ Dr Robert Anthony The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world
~ Lao-tzu Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to
let them know that you trust them
Booker T Washington 1856-1915 Educator and Writer ―Stress is the tax you pay for not taking 100 responsibility for your life
mdashDr Barnet Meltzer Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it
~ Irving Berlin It is by surmounting difficulties not by sinking under them that we discover our
fortitude
~ Hannah Webster Foster
Believing requires action
~ James E Faust
Dont do anything in practice that you wouldnt do in the game
George Halas (1895-1983 American football coach)
Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to reach for the
roof and land in the garbage
~ Savanna Skinner
Whatever you focus your intention on is what will show up in your life
Your consistent thoughts create your consistent results
~ Dr Robert Anthony
He who gains a victory over other men is strong but he who gains a victory over
himself is all powerful
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Lao-Tzu (BC 600- Chinese philosopher founder of Taoism) His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the
memory of a wrong
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great masters merit emulation not worship
-- Alan Cohen
Mirth is Gods medicine Everybody ought to bathe in it
-- Henry Ward Beecher
Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things but just look what they can do
when they stick together
~ anon
Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you
are and what you want
-- Alan Cohen
Life isnt about waiting for the storm to pass its about learning to dance in the
rain
~Anonymous
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call
failure is not the falling down but the staying down
Mary Pickford 1893-1979 Actress and Producer
Courage does not always roar Sometimes courage is that quiet voice at the end of
the day that saysI will try again tomorrow
-Mary Anne Radmacher
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act or thought or word that raises
us above ourselves
~ Arthur P Stanley
―You see things and say Whylsquo but I dream things and say Why notlsquo
- George Bernard Shaw
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―The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and
convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges
- Martin Luther King Jr
―Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do
that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great
- Mark Twain
―That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as
well
- Abraham Lincoln
―Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though
checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor
suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat
- Theodore Roosevelt
―Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm
- Winston Churchill
―I have not failed Ilsquove just found 10000 ways that wonlsquot work
- Thomas Edison If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun
--Katharine Hepburn
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees
problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems
~ Winston Churchill
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but
are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults
seem insignificant
Charles A Cerami Author
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If everyone on earth loved each other the earth would shine brighter than the
sun
-- Source unknown
As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again you are
merely a vague guest on a dark Earth
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So many worlds so much to do so little done such things to be
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy nothing can make a fool content
that is why most men are miserable
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer)
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live
~ Flora Whittemore 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 1880-1968 Author and Lecturer Where theres a will theres a way
English Proverb A manwoman without ambition is dead
A man with ambition but no love is dead
A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive
~Pearl Bailey We cant help everyone but everyone can help someone
~ Ronald Reagan
We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we
cannot
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
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Once you realize you dont need anything youre free to have whatever you want
- Ian Watson
Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy ~ Norman Vincent Peale Every goal every action every thought every feeling one experiences whether it
be consciously or unconsciously known is an attempt to increase ones level of
peace of mind
~ Sidney Madwed
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so For
remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind
Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Speaker and Author Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes
Chinese Proverb
―Focus your attention on your desire
not the situation that gave birth to your desire
mdashRich German Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone
and let your hand give in proportion to your purse
~ George Washington
Time I have only just a minute
Only sixty seconds in it
Forced upon me cant refuse it
Didnt seek it didnt choose it
But its up to me to use it
I must suffer if I lose it
Give account if I abuse it
Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it
~ Christine Warren
Do what you can with what you have where you are
~ Theodore Roosevelt
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With every adversity comes a seed of equal or greater opportunity
~ Napoleon Hill
Heart is merely another name for the Supreme Spirit because He is in all hearts
The entire Universe is condensed in the body and the entire body in the Heart
Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
―If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back then
you suffer Every moment is the most important moment of your life No future
time is better than now to let down your guard and love
~ David Deida
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for youll be criticized anyway Youll
be damned if you do and damned if you dont
~ Eleanor Roosevelt Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
~ John Wooden
One difference between successful people and all the rest is that successful
people take action
~ Bob Proctor Speaker and Author
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left Every
mans greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life
~ P W Litchfield ―There is a giant asleep within every man When the giant awakes miracles happen
~ Frederick Faust Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of
itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as
powerful as your desires unless you make them so
Marcia Wieder Author and Speaker
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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning by dreams that need
completion by pure love that needs expressing then we truly live life
~ Greg Anderson Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you
Never excuse yourself
~ Henry Ward Beecher There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge
- both poverty and riches are offspring of thought
~ Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich The person with a fixed goal a clear picture of his desire or an ideal always
before him causes it through repetition to be buried deeply in his subconscious
mind and is thus enabled thanks to its generative and sustaining power to realize
his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort Just pursue
the thought unceasingly Step by step you will achieve realization for all your
faculties and powers become directed to that end
~ Claude M Bristol Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake
~ Henry David Thoreau If opportunity doesnt knock build a door
~ Milton Berle Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am
not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise
not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our quality of life incidence
of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak It is born of strength and
understanding
-- Meher Baba Unworthiness is simply a case of mistaken identity
-- Alan Cohen
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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet
-- Mahatma Gandhi If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march
on
-- Stopford Brooke It is usually the imagination that is wounded first rather than the heart it being
much more sensitive
~ Henry David Thoreau You need not struggle for your good Your good flows to you naturally when you are
relaxed open and trusting
-- Alan Cohen If you dont love it you cant afford it
Alan Cohen
Ask for peace first and you will clearly see your next step
-- Alan Cohen I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited
and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts Namely the physical universe
-- Ken Jenkins Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional
~ Mark Sanborn Life isnt what you want it to be its what you make it become
~ Anthony Ryan
If you are very quiet you can hear the world applauding
--Source unknown
Do you remember how electrical currents and unseen waves were laughed at
The knowledge about man is still in its infancy
~ Albert Einstein
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Wherever you go go with all your heart
~ Confucius I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up Most people in this
business gave up and went on to other things If you simply didnt give up you
would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you
Harrison Ford Actor
The quality of your life is determined by the number of uncomfortable
conversations you are willing to have
~ Rich German
To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define
themselves As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate
influences of the culture and environment we grow up in we come to have beliefs
about the nature of being human These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of
our psychosomatic systems our minds and brains our nervous systems our
endocrine systems and even our blood and sinews We act speak and think
according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems
~ Jeremy W Hayward
A mans true wealth is the good he does in the world Mohammed (c570-c632
Mecca spiritual leader
Every man is the architect of his own fortune
~ Sallust
What is opportunity and when does it knock
It never knocks
You can wait a whole lifetime listening hoping and you will hear no knocking
None at all
You are opportunity and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny
You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity to pursue and seize opportunity as
you develop the strength of your personality and build a self-image with which you
are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing
~ Maxwell Maltz
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Today I would like to become the man my dog thinks I am
Jack Thomson Entrepreneur BE the change you want to see in the world
- Mahatma Gandhi
Leaders are made they are not born They are made by hard effort
which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile
~ Vince Lombardi To honor the spirit is to accept the opportunity for your healing and personal
evolution When you choose to assume radical personal responsibility knowing that
you are responsible for the effect external circumstances have on you you are
taking a stand for the power of your spiritual nature to run the show
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think Its really important that you feel good Because this feeling good is what goes
out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you So the
more you can feel good the more you will attract the things that help you feel
good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher
Joe Vitale Author and Speaker Just listen to the still voice within This is the mind to trust This is god
consciousness speaking not the ego that is seeking recognition
~Angela Walker
There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart If you pray it it will
change your life How does it begin
-- Matthew Anderson
For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin but there was
always some obstacle in the way Something had to be got through first some
unfinished business time still to be served a debt to be paid Then life would
begin At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life
~ Bette Howland
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power then the world will know
peace
Jimmy Hendrix There are two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the
credit Try to be in the first group there is less competition there
Indira Gandhi Its good to have money and all the things that money can buy but its good too to
make sure you havent lost the things that money cant buy George
Horace Lorimer When you take things for granted the things you are granted get taken
Phil Hennessy Self-confidence is a state of mind where you believe that you deserve the best
you are capable of achieving the best and furthermore you expect the best to
happen
--- Dr Barnet Meltzer Writing is good thinking is better Cleverness is good patience is better
~ Hermann Hesse
You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the
greatness you perceive in them is your own
-- Alan Cohen
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their
gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible
Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday If you do it right today
--Sheldon S Maye
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength
not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will
~ Vince Lombardi
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The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too
-- William Hutchinson Murray
Youve got to get up every morning with determination if youre going to
go to bed with satisfaction
-- George Horace Lorimer Faith is born of Definiteness of Purpose
Keep your mind on the things that you do want and off the things that you do not
want
~ Unknown You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals
George S Patton 1885-1945 American Army General
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have
thrown at him
~ David Brinkley
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough
~ Helen Keller
If what you did yesterday seems big you havent done anything
today
Lou Holtz
Dont wait for extraordinary opportunities Seize common occasions and make
them great Weak menwomen wait for opportunities strong menwomen make
them
~ Orison Swett Marden
The recognition you seek from others is really the recognition you seek from
yourself Give it to yourself and you wont need it from others
-- Alan Cohen Ninety percent of the population wish positive but think negative
~ Leslie Householder
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You are more likely to create success when you are relaxed about a result than
when you are uptight about it
-- Alan Cohen Embrace Change True success can be defined by your ability to adapt to
changing circumstances
-- Connie Sky Aim High The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for
what we could become
-- Charles Du Bos Dont ask for an easier life ask to be a stronger person
Shared by Kristen Goeser
Your consciousness is a powerful force for creating It determines the people you
are attracted to and the people who are attracted to you If you want to improve
your lot in life or the quality of your relationships choosing to accept personal
responsibility is the first and most important step
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise it is all
over Bolt up at once
-- Sir Walter Scott
You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you cant have it
- Dr Robert Anthony Live so that you wouldnt be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip
Will Rogers 1879-1935 Comedian and Actor
Everyone rides on the merry go round of life but very few ever take the chance
at the brass ring
-- Kevin Veitch
We gain internal freedom through external actions
- Ram Dass
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Everyone was born original but most people die copies
~ Unknown Without passion you dont have energy without energy you have nothing Nothing
great in the world has been accomplished without passion
~ Donald Trump When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened before us
~ Helen Keller
I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody
Bill Cosby Comedian Actor and Author Give up your identity as a seeker and become a finder Then everything you ever
sought will find you
-- Alan Cohen
The reason we put a lot of emphasis on action is because we do not understand the
power of our thought If you analyze it 90 percent of most peoples actions
are spent trying to compensate for inappropriate thought
~ Dr Robert Anthony Prosperity lets go the bridle
-- George Herbert
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered
heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed They won because they refused to
become discouraged by their defeats
Bertie Charles Forbes 1880-1954 Financial Journalist Author and Founder of Forbes Magazine He who jumps to conclusions falls to their death
-- Mark J Ottaviani Im not a believer in nor the advocate of miracles for the reason that I
have enough knowledge of nature to understand that nature never deviates from
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her established laws Her laws are simply so incomprehensible that they produce
what appears to be miracles
~ Napoleon Hill Learn to listen Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly
Frank Tyger
Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can as long as
ever you can
John Wesley Work like you dont need the money Love like youve never been hurt Dance like
nobody is watching
-- Mark Twain
You believe that a lover will bring you love but it is your love that will bring you a
lover
-- Alan Cohen
The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you
The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting The
more joyful you are the more Well-being flows to you
~Abraham-Hicks What nourishes you is not vitamins in food It is the joy you feel in eating it
-- Ramtha
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this
decide what you want
Ben Stein Attorney Author Actor and Commentator
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure to embrace
the new But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful There is
more security in the adventurous and exciting for in movement there is life and in
change there is power
mdashAlan Cohen
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Vision without action is a daydream Action without vision is a nightmare
-- Japanese Proverb
Success is the result of applying sound principles which align with universal laws
The Science of Success is a powerful road map to guarantee your personal
success
~ Brian Tracy
Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to
die
-- Alan Cohen
There are 3 things that are certain in life death taxes and change You cant
avoid change its mandatory progress however is optional
-- Bill R Good Jr
Surrender the illusion that anyone other than you has power or authority over
your life
Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either
openly before us or close to us
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You must be the change you want to see in the world
~ Gandhi
Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a
friendly level
~ Max L Forman
If you want your life to be a magnificent story then begin by realizing that you
are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page
-- Mark Houlahan
If you want to develop in profound and significant ways it is essential that you
build up a reservoir of spiritual and emotional conviction a source of boundless
freedom that will give you the energy to transcend the apparent limitations of
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your own emotional psychological and cultural experience By practicing
meditation with deadly seriousness you cultivate that freedom and conviction in
no-limitation as a reference point Thats the only reason to meditate in the
context of Evolutionary Enlightenment
mdash Andrew Cohen
If our actions stem from honesty kindness caring and vision then no matter
what the result of our efforts we have added something of value to our souls and
to the world
~ Joan Boysenko
Too often the opportunity knocks but by the time you push back the chain push
back the bolt unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm its too late
~ Rita Coolidge We are formed and molded by our thoughts
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them
~ Buddha
We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of the
soul
~ John OlsquoDonohue
No onelsquos past has to be a prison sentence Forgiveness provides the key to
acknowledge the past and move on When we can forgive we have less to be afraid
of
~ Dr Fred Luskin
Isnlsquot it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings
and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of
tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a
stumbling block or stepping stone
~ Edgar Guest
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly
~ Richard Bach
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I donlsquot wait for moods
You accomplish nothing if you do that Our mind must know it has got to get down
to work
~ Pearl S Buck
There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen
~ Fred Faust
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the
risk it took to bloom
~ Anais Nin
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear
~ Nelson Mandela
Itlsquos not about breaking the rules
It is about abandoning the concept of rules altogether
~ Paul Lemberg
Each moment of our life we either invoke or destroy our dreams
~ Stuart Wilde
Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts This is the
secret of success
Swami Sivananda
Whatever you do do it as totally as possible
Osho
I am not afraidhellipI was born to do this
~Joan of Arc
―There is nothing that you cannot be do or have
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
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―Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing
do it with all your might Put your whole soul into it Stamp it with your own
personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will
accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Success is never final Failure is never fatal It is courage that counts
~ Winston Churchill
What are you tolerating that would not be a part of your ideal day
-- Alan Cohen Trust yourself You know more than you think you do
-- Dr Benjamin Spock True friends and healers do not limit your options They expand them
-- Alan Cohen When it comes to staying young a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day
-- Marty Bucella Achievement seems to be connected with action Successful men and women keep
moving They make mistakes but they dont quit
Conrad Hilton 1887-1979 Founder of Hilton Hotels Successful people form the habit of doing what failures dont like to do They like
the results they get by doing what they dont necessarily enjoy
Earl Nightingale1921-1989 Author and Syndicated Radio Personality When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent
you are clear
Janet AttwoodAuthor of The Passion Test The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it
Chinese proverb
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by
changing the inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their
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lives
~ William James
Never look up to the people who have the painted-perfect lives because try as
they might they can never see beyond the canvas
~ Moira Hallsom
Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born
~ Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body
~ Pythagoras
If life gives you lemons make lemonade
~ Joan Collins
The only place where dreams are impossible is in your own mind
~ Emalie
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions But no man has
a right to be wrong in his facts
~ Bernard M Baruch
Begin to weave and God will give you the thread
~ German Proverb
No day in which you learn something is a complete loss
~ David Eddings
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we
are and what we can be igniting the circuits of our highest potential
-- Rusty Berkus
The optimist says we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears
this is true
-- Source Unknown
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If I had listened to the critics Id have died drunk in the gutter
-- Chekov
Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice It is not a thing to be
waited for it is a thing to be achieved
-- Jeremy Kitson
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental
difference in someones life
- Sister Mary Rose McGeady
One never knows what each day is going to bring The important thing is to be
open and ready for it
- Henry Moore
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in
the same individual
- Arthur Koestler
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it
- Lou Holtz Motivation is like food for the brain You cannot get enough in one sitting It needs continual and
regular top ups
~ Peter Davies
Dont tell me how hard you work
Tell me how much you get done
~ James Ling
Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures
dont like to do
~ Albert Gray
―There is a science of getting rich and it is an exact science like algebra or arithmetic There
are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches and once these laws are learned
and obeyed by anyone that person will get rich with mathematical certainty ~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
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―Everything you want should be yours the type of work you want the relationships you need
the social mental and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled the money
you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you and any requirement that you may (or
may not) have for achievement or service to others If you donlsquot aim for it all youlsquoll never get it
all To aim for it requires that you know what you want ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle ―Eliminate the word impossible from your thinking and speaking vocabularies Impossible is a
failure word The thought ―Itlsquos impossible sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove
youlsquore right ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in accomplishment Big in
income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right now to discover how to make your
thinking make magic for you Start out with this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli ―Life
is too short to be little ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―If you have a big problem in your life all that means is that you are being a small person ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind ―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo for success
nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make much of a difference ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you If God gives you a bucket of fish you
have to distribute those fish If you donlsquot theylsquore going to rot attract a bunch of flies and
start stinking up your soul ~ Russell Simmons from Do You ―In my experience therelsquos only one thing that will always steer you toward success Thatlsquos to
have a vision and to stick with ithellip Once I have a vision for a new venture Ilsquom going to ride that
vision until the wheels come off ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by changing the
inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their lives
~ William James
There is no courage without fear
~ Eddie Rickenbacher
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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make who would you call and what
would you say And why are you waiting
-- Stephen Levine
Remember we all stumble every one of us Thats why its a comfort to go hand in hand
~ Emily Kimbrough The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding
~ the Bible
The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives
~ Louise Hay
The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation
~ Comer Cotrell
Give it all youve got because you never know if theres going to be a next time
~ Danielle Ingrum
Dont try to force anything Let life be a deep let-go God opens millions of flowers everyday
without forcing their buds
~Osho
The definition of Insanity is Doing the Same Things Over and Over Again and Expecting Different
Results
~ Albert Einstein
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us This little treasure
has great great powers and I would say we only have learnt a very very small part of what it can
do
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work
~ John G Pollard
Vacation is a state of mind not an action
-- Alan Cohen
Whatever games are played with us we must play no games with ourselves
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Desperation does not recognize your power to choose
-- Alan Cohen
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When people talk listen completely Most people never listen
-- Ernest Hemingway
Heaven is gained or lost not by dramatic deeds but by the simple of acts of daily living
-- Alan Cohen
There is only one voice worth listening to
--Alan Cohen Reverie is not a mind vacuum It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul
--Gaston Bachelard
Why get rich quick when you can be rich now
-- Alan Cohen
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure
-- Joseph Campbell
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes
-- Henry Kaiser
Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of
another
Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister
When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent you are clear
Janet Attwood Author of The Passion Test
New peace harmony and power fill your relationships when you practice radical personal
responsibility Through it you enter a more refined sphere of relating that enhances your life and
accelerates the realization of your ultimate spiritual self Practicing radical personal responsibility
forever changes the way you approach and resolve conflict
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The Cure for the Common Upset (p 10)
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and
discomfort We spend enormous energy denying our insecurity fighting pain death and loss and
hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature
- Jack Kornfield A Path with Heart
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Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am not aware of
any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has
a greater impact on our quality of life incidence of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant they is a fuel in us which needs
to be ignited with sparks
Johann Gottfried Von Herder
Energy is the essence of life Every day you decide how youre going to use it by
knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal and by maintaining
focus
-Oprah Winfrey
The acquisition of wealth is no longer a driving force in the 24th century We
strive to better ourselves and the rest of humanity
-- From the movie Star Trek Insurrection
―You cannot exercise much power without gratitude for it is gratitude that keeps
you connected with Power
~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
―To do things in a way you want to do them you will have to acquire the ability to
think the way you want to think this is the first step toward getting rich
~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
―There are three crucial dimensions to your explanatory style permanence
pervasiveness and personalization
~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism
―Habits of thinking need not be forever One of the most significant findings in
psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they
think
~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism
―Action always beats inaction ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
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―Itlsquos not enough to be in the right place at the right time You have to be the right person in the
right place at the right time ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Every thought vibrates every thought radiates a signal and every thought
attracts a matching signal back We call that process the Law of Attraction The
Law of Attraction says That which is like unto itself is drawn And so you might
see the powerful Law of Attraction as a sort of Universal Manager that sees to it
that all thoughts that match one another line up
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
―It is our desire that you become one who is happy with that which you are and
with that which you havemdashwhile at the same time being eager for more That is the
optimal creative vantage point To stand on the brink of what is coming feeling
eager optimistic anticipationmdashwith no feelings of impatience doubt or
unworthiness hindering the receiving of itmdashthat is the Science of Deliberate
Creation at its best
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
―As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around you come to see that every
perceived problem appearing ―out there is really nothing more than a
misperception within your own thinking
~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is
―The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is
When the mind is perfectly clear what is is what we want
~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself You must be
able to sustain yourself against staggering blows There is no code of conduct to
help beginners That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner
drive go much further than people with vastly superior talent
Sophia Loren Actress
And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your
years
-- Abraham Lincoln
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Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by
holding grudges harboring resentments and nursing unhealed wounds It is
rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to
understand and accept other people and ourselves
~ Sidney and Suzanne Simon
Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity
Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Poet and Physiognomist People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do
things When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success
Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Speaker and Author Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to
believe in me
Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author
With love in you your only need is to extend it
-- A Course in Miracles
Just because it ended doesnt mean it failed
-- Alan Cohen
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find
it
-- George Moore
Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality
-- Alan Cohen
Our biggest problems cannot be resolved They must be outgrown
-- Carl Jung
True prayer penetrates beyond hope and establishes itself in knowing
-- Alan Cohen
So we see to play successfully the game of life we must train the imaging faculty
A person with an imaging faculty trained to image only good brings into his life
every righteous desire of his heart - health wealth love friends perfect self-
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expression his highest ideals
mdash Florence Scovel Shinn
Dont ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it
Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
mdashHoward Thurman
To the degree were not living our dreams our comfort zone has more control of
us than we have over ourselves
-- Peter McWilliams
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams
-- Doug Ivester (President of Coca Cola)
It is not length of life but depth of life
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them but
to reveal their own
-- Author Unknown
A free lunch is only found in mousetraps
-- John Capuzzi
If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you dont you
have achieved half your failure
-- David Ambrose
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesnt lie in not reaching your
goal The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach It isnt a calamity to die with
dreams unfulfilled but it is a calamity not to dream It is not a disaster to be
unable to capture your ideal but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture It is
not a disgrace not to reach the stars but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach
for Not failure but low aim is a sin
~ Benjamin E Mayes
True success is a state of mindThis mindset is the heart and soul of successful
entrepreneurial enterprise You cant get started without it and you cant make a
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business wildly profitable if you dont get it
~ Unknown
Traditional education will make you a living self-education will make you a
fortune
~ Jim Rohn One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests
~ John Stuart Mill
Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different Rather than wasting
time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we dont have what we
want we can start to pursue other ways to get it
~ Greg Anderson
When you confront a problem you begin to solve it
~ Rudy Guilliani ―Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential And to
do that I insist you throw caution at the wind ignore the pleas of parents
coaches spouses and bosses to be realisticlsquo Realistic people do not accomplish
extraordinary things because the odds of success stymie them The best
performers ignore the odds I will show that instead of limiting themselves to
whatlsquos probable the best will pursue the heart-pounding exciting really big
difference-making dreamsmdashso long as catching them might be possible
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―To be sure great performers are well trained experienced smart and in some
cases divinely talented But the way their brains work during a performance is a
lot more like a squirrellsquos than like Einsteinlsquos Like squirrels the best in every
business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilitiesmdashthey
flat out trust their skills which is why we call this high-performance state of mind
the ―Trusting Mindset Routine access to the Trusting Mindset is what separates
great performers from the rest of the pack
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―In every forest on every farm in every orchard on earth itlsquos whatlsquos under the
ground that creates whatlsquos above the ground Thatlsquos why placing your attention on
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the fruits that you have already grown is futile You cannot change the fruits that
are already hanging on the tree You can however change tomorrowlsquos fruits But to
do so you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Believe that you are the one who creates your success that you are the one who
creates your mediocrity and that you are the one creating your struggle around
money and success
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―8020 thinking requires and with practice enables us to spot the few really important things
that are happening and ignore the mass of unimportant things It teaches us to see the wood
for the trees ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle
―The few things that work fantastically well should be identified cultivated nurtured and
multiplied
~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle
―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a journey The
master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after year The master is the one
who is willing to try and fail and try again for as long as he or she lives ~ George Leonard from Mastery
―Whenever you feel shortlsquo or in needlsquo of something give what you want first and it will come
back in buckets That is true for money a smile love friendship I know it is often the last
thing a person may want to do but it has always worked for me I just trust that the principle
of reciprocity is true and I give what I want ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―One dad would sayThe love of money is the root of all evillsquo The other The lack of money is
the root of all evillsquo ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall every step we
take just gets us to the wrong place faster
Stephen Covey
Becoming a star may not be in your destiny but being the best
that you can be is a goal you can set for yourselves
Bryan Lindsay
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Be yourself Who else is better qualified
Frank J Giblin II
Do not learn from your mistakes learn from the mistakes of others
to that you do not make any
Sean Karsten
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower
Shigenori Kameoka
Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to believe in me
Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author
Upsets always contain the gift of learning except most people have never learned how to unwrap
the package
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is
causing anxiety
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970 British philosopher mathematician essayist) Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes
Chinese Proverb
We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we cannot
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
Dont measure yourself by what you have accomplished but by what you should have accomplished
with your ability
John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)
Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty
John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)
Something good is already happening Can you discover it
-- Alan Cohen
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if theyve got a second Give your
dreams all youve got and youll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you
William James 1842-1910 Philosopher and Author
Out of suffering comes creativity You cannot spell painting without pain
-- John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun
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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the
future are not as real but rather more real than the present
- Alan Watts
Boldness has genius power and magic in it Begin it now
~ Goethe
―In the heart of Emptiness there is a mysterious impulse mysterious because
there is actually nothing in the heart of Emptiness (for there is nothing in
Emptiness period) Yet there it is this mysterious impulse the impulse to hellip
create To sing to shine to radiate to send forth reach out and celebrate to
sing and shout and walk about to effervesce and bubble over this mysterious
exuberance in the heart of Emptiness
~ Ken Wilber from One Taste July 31
―Evolution goes beyond what went before but because it must embrace what went
before then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus it has an inherent
directionality a secret impulse toward increasing depth increasing intrinsic value
increasing consciousness In order for evolution to move at all it must move in
those directionsmdashtherelsquos no place else for it to go
~ Ken Wilber from A Brief History of Everything
The secret of being boring is to say everything
- Voltaire 1694-1778 French Writer and Philosopher
―Donlsquot let what you canlsquot do stop you from what you can do
- John Wooden
―You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the
shore
- Christopher Columbus
―Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
- Confucius
―A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed
- Henrik Ibsen
―It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities
- JK Rowling
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―If you are going through hell keep going
- Winston Churchill
―Yesterday is history Tomorrow is a mystery Today Today is a gift Thatlsquos why
we call it the present
- B Olatunji
―To live is the rarest thing in the world Most people exist thatlsquos all
- Oscar Wilde
―You donlsquot get to choose how you are going to die Or when You can only decide how
you are going to live Now
- Joan Baez
―When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us
- Helen Keller
―Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limited Imagination
encircles the world
- Albert Einstein
―If you want to be happy be
- Leo Tolstoy
―Always do right This will gratify some people and astonish the rest
- Mark Twain
―We must be the change we want to see
- Gandhi
―The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most I can better trust those
who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to
enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity
- Ulysses S Grant
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―Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting
- Elizabeth Bibesco
―The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort but
where he stands at times of conflict and controversy
- Martin Luther King Jr
―Begin doing what you want to do now We are not living in eternity We have only
this moment sparkling like a star in our hand ndash and melting like a snow flake
- MB Ray
―I shall pass through this life but once Any good therefore that I can do let me
do it now Let me not defer or neglect it For I shall never pass this way again
- Etienne de Grellet
―This above all To your own self be true
- William Shakespeare
―To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make
you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight
and never stop fighting
- EE Cummings
―In three words I can sum up what Ilsquove learned about life It goes on
- Robert Frost
―Imagine
- John Lennon
You can if you think you can
George Reeves
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile
achievement
Henry Ford 1863-1947 Industrialist
No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself
-- Conrado I Generoso
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When I am delivering my very best then that is when I feel successful
~ Art Fettig
The only limitations you will ever have are the ones you put on yourself
~ Kristinna Habashy
The secret of manwomans being is not only
to live but to have something to live for
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
To hell with circumstances I create opportunities
~ Bruce Lee
Simplicity is making the journey of this life
with just baggage enough
~ Charles Dudley Warner
I dont think theres any such thing as setting your goals too high The higher you
set your goals the more you are going to work If you dont reach them then its
okay just as long as you set it and then give 100 of yourself
~ Dan Jansen Speed Skater
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the circle of Creation
is completed inside us the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal
everything in sight
~ Michael Bridge
Youlsquore darn tootinlsquo Ilsquom going to bring out the best in you You are the best
― Maureen Coleman middle school teacher
Truth is rarely writ in ink It lives in nature
-- Martin H Fischer
Before planning where you want to go decide who you want to be
-- Alan Cohen
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day wisdom consists in not
exceeding the limit
-- Elbert Hubbard
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere
-- Alan Cohen
When the Japanese mend broken objects they fill the cracks with gold They
believe that when somethings suffered damage and has a history it becomes more
beautiful
-- Barbara Bloom
Efficiency without love is not really efficient
-- Alan Cohen
The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively
-- A Course in Miracles
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than
any other one thing
Laura Ingalls Wilder 1867-1957 Author
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as
few as there are any other great artists It might even be the greatest of the arts
since the medium is the human mind and spirit
John Steinbeck 1902-1968 Writer and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Be careful what you spend your day touching because it will shape your mind your
body and your heart
Sam Keen Speaker and Author
I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in
the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he has imagined he will
meet with success unexpected in common hours
Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Writer and Poet
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out
― Michael Burke
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Turn frustration into fascination
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
Money is not the source of life It is an expression or by-product of doing what
brings you life
-- Alan Cohen
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but
sand the angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are gone
- George Elliot
Proceed when clear
-- Alan Cohen
Slow down and enjoy life Its not only the scenery you miss by going too fast --
you also miss the sense of where you are going and why
Eddie Cantor
Life is here to enjoy The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness When it
appears otherwise you are off the path of destiny Look at your life and ask
What do I need to change to choose in favor of my passions
Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life Be happy now Dont wait for something
outside of yourself to make you happy in the future Think how really precious is
the time you have to spend whether its at work or with your family Every minute
should be enjoyed and savored
Earl Nightingale
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life It turns what we have into enough and
more It turns denial into acceptance chaos into order confusion into clarity It
turns problems into gifts failures into success the unexpected into perfect
timing and mistakes into important events Gratitude makes sense of our past
brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow
Melodie Beattie Writer
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Devotion is commitment at a deep cellular level When you are devoted the
universe will align itself to give you what you desire
Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion
Action breeds confidence and courage If you want to conquer fear do not sit
home and think about it Go out and get busy
~ Dale Carnegie
The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all
the world
~Ramana Maharshi
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be
~Daniel J Boorstin
The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively
from his own resources
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire
not things we fear
~ Brian Tracy
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game and no matter how
great your talent there is only one way to obtain it-work
~ Jack Nicklaus Golfer
A goal without a plan is merely a WISH without a HOPE
~ Unknown
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan in which we must
fervently believe and upon which we must vigorously act There is no other route
to success
~ Stephen A Brennan
Knowledge breeds doubt Wisdom births wonder
Alan Cohen
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When you decide what you want it has to manifestbut only at the level of your
belief
Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion
Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity
- John Dryden
It may make people feel more secure when everyone agrees with them but it
wont create a world made rich by the unique and diverse expressions of the human
soul
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
Choice is destinys soul mate
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Truth is a gem of many facets Each facet reflects the brilliance within and
without But the whole reveals a deeper more profound message than all the parts
by themselves
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
He who knows others is wise he who knows himself is enlightened
- Tao Te Ching
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to
our tasks
-- Helen Keller
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret
-- Ambrose Bierce
We must all suffer one of two things the pain of discipline or the pain of regret
or disappointment
-- Jim Rohn
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Many risks fail because they were not taken in time Too many risks are postponed
until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made This does not mean that one
should say Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead That is foolish and self-
destructive But dont sit back waiting for the perfect moment It almost never
comes
-- David Viscott Risking
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter
-- E E Cummings
Reflect upon your blessings of which every man has plenty not on your past
misfortunes of which all men have some
-- Charles Dickens
What the caterpillar calls the end the rest of the world calls a butterfly
-- Lao Tsu
Out of difficulties grow miracles
-- Jean De La Bruyere
Our patience will achieve more than our force
-- Edmund Burke
You must pay in the past to receive in the future
-- Taylor Simpson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what
lies within us
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why Why Not Why Not You Why Not Now
-- Aslan
To become a leader then you must become yourself become the maker of your
own life
--Warren G Bennis
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You have got to discover you what you do and trust it
Barbra Streisand
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the
circle of Creation is completed inside us the doors of our souls
fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight
Michael Bridge
Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean but the
ocean would be less without that missing drop
Mother Teresa
You dont just stumble into the future You create your own future
Roger Smith
Just dont give up on trying to do what you really want to do
Where there is love and inspiration I dont think you can go
wrong
Ella Fitzgerald
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot
do
Walter Bagehot
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser
John W Gardner
Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life
forever
Keri Russell
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while
so that we can see Life with a clearer view again
Alex Tan
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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine
inspiration
Marcus T Cicero
Youve got to follow your passion Youve got to figure out what
it is you love--who you really are And have the courage to do
that
Oprah Winfrey
Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love
mdashRich German
Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small
things brought together
- Vincent Van Gogh
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark The real tragedy is when
men are afraid of the light
-- Plato
If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being
most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of
persistence
Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway
Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right
stuff to turn our dreams into reality
~James Womack
No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn
-- Hal Borland
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge
of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams
- Les Brown
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on
We act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because
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of imagination
- Maxwell Maltz
There is a sleeping giant in you Release it Believe in yourself
~ Bob Proctor
Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste
neither time nor money but make the best use of both
-- Benjamin Franklin
When you talk to God thats prayer When God talks back its schizophrenia
-- Lily Tomlin
Work is not a substitute for love It is an avenue of loves expression
-- Alan Cohen
Look beyond peoplelsquos appearances
Look beyond the roles one plays and the mask they wear
Look deep into their eyes and peer into their soul
There you will find their true essence
There you will find your true essence
And that essence is love
mdashRich German
Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love
mdashRich German
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a
life spent doing nothing
George Bernard Shaw
Formula for success under promise and over deliver
Tom Peters
Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right things
Peter F Drucker
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Be the change that you want to see in the world
Mahatma Gandhi
Creating space is as important as filling it
-- Alan Cohen
Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words may guide you to the door of heaven but only silence opens it
-- Alan Cohen
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing
Bernard Shaw
Formula for success under promise and over deliver
Tom Peters
Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right
things
Peter F Drucker
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge
of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams
- Les Brown
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works onWe
act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because of
imagination
- Maxwell Maltz
No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn
-- Hal Borland
There is a sleeping giant in you
Release it Believe in yourself
~ Bob Proctor
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Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste
neither time nor money but make the best use of both
-- Benjamin Franklin
Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right
stuff to turn our dreams into reality
~James Womack
If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being
most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of
persistence
Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway
The best way to teach people is by telling a story
Jonathan Swift
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody else has thought
Kenneth Blanchard
All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it
-Samuel Butler
Happiness is like a cat If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you It will never
come
But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business youll find it rubbing
up against your legs and jumping into your lap
- William Bennett
The word impossible is only in the mind and not in the heart
- Sri Chinmoy
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another it is the only
means
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Physicist
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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone
And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone
Paul Tillich
Sometimes the cards we are dealt are not always fair However you must keep
smiling amp moving on
~ Tom Jackson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you
- Elbert Hubard
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends
with anyone else in the world
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Thus nature has no love for solitude and always leans as it were on some support
and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship
- Cicero
So it is life is actually made up of our choices We are the sum total of them and
if we hold to an attitude of love and thanksgiving for all the good things within our
grasp we may have what all ambitious people long for - success
Delma Neeley
Believe and your belief will create the fact
~ William James
The principle is competing against yourself
Its about self improvement about being better than you were the day before
~ Steve Young
All of us you your children your neighbors and their children are
everyday geniuses even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by
everyone Thats probably because school hasnt encouraged us to notice whats
hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself
~ Peter Kline
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If youll not settle for anything less than your best you will be amazed at what
you can accomplish in your lives
Vince Lombardi
Ya gotta put your behind in your past
Then youre ready for whatever comes next
~ Pumba The Lion King
Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become
~ James Allen
Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well what
causes sadness and what brings happiness what makes us suffer and what leads to
healing
~ Dean Ornish MD
Three components make an entrepreneur the person the ideaand the resources
to make it happen
~ Anita Roddick
What we can or cannot do what we consider possible or impossible is rarely a
function of our true capability It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who
we are
~ Anthony Robbins
Either Do or Do Not There is No Try
~ George Lucas
Theres a name for the magic that transforms lives connects dots moves
mountains and orchestrates coincidences that shock and astound Imagination
And theres a name for all that stops you in your tracks stirs fear spins wheels
and leaves one wondering Hey whats up with that Imagination
Careful where you point that thing
~ The Universe
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with
them
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is a passionate intuition
-William Wordsworth
Friendship is a sheltering tree
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision Vision is the perfume
of the mind
--Harriet Rubin
Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing
--Harriet Braiker
I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the
present can I act The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of
mental wellness
-Abraham Maslow 1908-1970 Psychologist
In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge
-Aristotle
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our
potential
Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister
The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you
settled for
Maureen Dowd Newspaper Columnist
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything
outside ourselves will affect us
Stephen R Covey Author and Speaker
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Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually
attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life
Christiane Northrup Medical Doctor and Author
We must learn to keep ourselves awake by an infinite expectation of the
dawn
-- Henry David Thoreau
You dont need to struggle to get your body to do or be what your spirit already is
-- Alan Cohen
One must steer not talk
-- Seneca
The more you quantify the less you qualify
-- Alan Cohen
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know Most are
born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly
-- Buckminster Fuller
Any act motivated by guilt does not assuage guilt but perpetuates it
-- Alan Cohen
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for
themselves
-- Peter McArthur
Be so good they cant ignore you
Steve Martin
Its kind of fun to do the impossible
Walt Disney
Its easy to make a buck Its a lot tougher to make a difference
Tom Brokaw
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When I hear somebody sigh Life is hard I am always tempted to
ask Compared to what
Sydney J Harris
In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing The worst
thing you can do is nothing
Sam Walton
I had to pick myself up and get on with it do it all over again only even better
this time
Theodore Roosevelt
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process
~ Jim Rohn
If you can imagine it you can achieve it If you can dream it you can become it
~ William Arthur Ward
There is much in the world to make us afraid There is much more in our faith to
make us unafraid
-- Cropp
Pray for essence rather than form and the form will be a perfect expression of
the essence
-- Alan Cohen
People who soar are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change
Charles R Swindoll Author and Pastor
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with
- Jim Rohn
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your
dreams
- Les Brown
Life is 10 of what happens to me and 90 of how I react to it
John Maxwell
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What you see depends on what youre looking for
Anon
Mind over matter If you dont mind it doesnt matter
-- Alan Cohen
When you are clear on want to how to shows up
-- Michael Neill
Quit struggling to make your body do or be what your spirit already is
-- Alan Cohen
Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation
-- Isaac Newton
Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Whatever you invest it
in will yield more of the same
-- Alan Cohen
When you find yourself stressed ask yourself one question Will this matter five
years from now If yes then do something about the situation If no then let it
go
Catherine Pulsifer Writer
Theres plenty of intelligence in the world but the courage to do things
differently is in short supply
Marilyn vos Savant Columnist Author and Lecturer
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced
by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas
a strong faith is strengthened by them
Viktor E Frankl 1905-1997 Holocaust Survivor and Author of Mans Search for
Meaning
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength
Richard L Evans
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You were not born a winner and you were not born a loser You are
what you make yourself be
Lou Holtz
Remember if you ever need a helping hand youll find one at the
end of your arm As you grow older you will discover that you
have two hands One for helping yourself the other for helping
others
Audrey Hepburn
Dont take life too seriously because youll never get out alive
Josh Shippe
Without hard work nothing grows but weeds
Gordon B Hinckley
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies
--Mother Teresa
Do what you can to show you care about other people and you will make our world
a better place
--Rosalynn Carter
Again and again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is
only a tough decision waiting to be made
--Robert H Schuller
If in our daily life we can smile if we can be peaceful and happy not only we but
everyone will profit from it This is the most basic kind of peace work
--Thich Nhat Hanh
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties
disappear and obstacles vanish into air
- John Quincy Adams
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win
~ GK Chesterton
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown for going
out I found was really going in
mdashJohn Muir 1913
To me itlsquos really so simple that life should be lived on the edge You
have to exercise rebellion To refuse to tape yourself to the rules
to refuse your own success to refuse to repeat yourself to see
every day every year every idea as a true challenge Then you will
live your life on the tightrope
mdashPhilippe Petit (star of the movie Man on Wire)
The first step to creating the lifestyle of your dreams is to simplify
your life
mdashRich German
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees
problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems
Winston Churchill
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you
have and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more
~ Robert Collier
Instead of waiting for someone to take you under their wing go out there and
find a good wing to climb under
~ Dave Thomas
If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself
~ Lord Chesterfield
The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable
competitive advantage
~ Arie de Geus
Human life is purely a matter of deciding whats important to you
-- Source unknown
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Determination and perseverance move the world thinking that others will do it
for you is a sure way to fail
Marva Collins Educator
All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them
~ Walt Disney
Everything that happens to you is self-created Whenever youre responding to
any situation whether its a sip of coffee or a traffic jam or a love note or
criticism from a boss or rainy weather youre in fact responding to a signal that
you generated within yourself
- Deepak Chopra
Relationships are not about intellect they are about feeling They require an
intelligence of the heart
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is
when adults are afraid of the light
- Plato
A good listener is someone who is curious open-minded and nonjudgmental A
good listener is not a know-it-all A good listener knows that truth often reveals
itself bit by bit much like putting together a jigsaw puzzle
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
Its the night that makes the dawning
Its the depths that make the heights
Its the roots that make the branches
Its the darkness that gives birth to Light
- Joel Heathcote
How you hear what someone says is determined by your interpretations and your
interpretations flow from your past This is very important to know especially if
you find that you overreact to what others say or habitually get your feelings hurt
Remember what someone said is not necessarily what you heard and what you
heard is not necessarily what they meant
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
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―Everything ndash a horse a vine ndash is created for some dutyhellipFor what task then
were you yourself created A manlsquos true delight is to do the things he was made
for
~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations
―Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts for the soul becomes dyed with the
color of its thoughts Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as for example
Where life is possible at all a right life is possible
~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations
―hellipEverything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of the human
freedomsmdashto choose onelsquos attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose
onelsquos own way
~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life
expected from us We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life and
instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by lifemdashdaily
and hourly Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation but in right
action and in right conduct Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to
find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly
sets for each individual
~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in lifehellip Therein he cannot be
replaced nor can his life be repeated Thus everyonelsquos task is as unique as is
his specific opportunity to implement it
~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―Ultimately man should not ask what the meaning of his life is but rather must
recognize that it is he who is asked In a word each man is questioned by life
and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life to life he can only
respond by being responsible
~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―History though shows us that the people who end up changing the world- the
great political social scientific technological artistic even sports
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revolutionaries- are always nuts until theylsquore right and then theylsquore geniuses
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement
―Great performers are by definition abnormal
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement
―We all aspire to mastery but the path is always long and sometimes rocky and
it promises no quick pay off So we look for other paths each of which attracts
a different person
~ George Leonard from Mastery
―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a
journey The master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after
year The master is the one who is willing to try and fail and try again for as
long as he or she lives
~ George Leonard from Mastery
At the heart of it mastery is practice Mastery is staying on the path
~ George Leonard from Mastery
―Comfort kills If your goal in life is to be comfortable I guarantee two things
First you will never be rich Second you will never be happy Happiness doesnlsquot
come from living a lukewarm life always wondering what could have been
Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up
to our fullest potential
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
―You can be a victim or you can be rich but you canlsquot be both Listen up Every
time and I mean every time you blame justify or complain you are slitting
your financial throat
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Herelsquos an equation I want you to remember for the rest of your life CZ = WZ
It means your ―comfort zone equals your ―wealth zone By expanding your
comfort zone you will expand the size of your income and wealth zone
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
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―We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we
wait forever before taking action
~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big
―Donlsquot put off until tomorrow what you can do today
~ Benjamin Franklin
―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in
accomplishment Big in income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right
now to discover how to make your thinking make magic for you Start out with
this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli Life is too short to be littlelsquo
~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big
―In the yogic tradition this principle of using intense effort to burn through
lifelsquos distractions is called Tapas Itlsquos another Sanskrit word roughly defined
as ―heat or ―essential energy The concept is that through a disciplined
approach to work and self-sacrifice Tapas will burn away the negativity that
separates us from God By working our hardest and happily enduring the
hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in
ourselves
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a ―hard
job That person will be eager to get started no matter what kind of work is in
front of her because she understands that shelsquos doing Godlsquos work And when
youlsquore working for God nothing is too hard
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo
for success nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make
much of a difference
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work
~ Vince Lombardi
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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than
your best
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The poor and the middle class work for money The rich have money work for
them
~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―We all have tremendous potential and we all are blessed with gifts Yet the
one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt It is not so
much the lack of technical information that holds us back but more the lack of
self-confidence
~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―Who will you have to become to achieve all you want
~ Tony Robbins
―You could say that I worked every minute of my life or you could say with
equal justice that I never worked a day I have always subscribed to the
expression ―Thank God itlsquos Friday because to me Friday means I can work for
the next two days without interruption
~ John Hope Franklin
―I do not believe that you should devote overly much effort to correcting your
weaknesses Rather I believe that the highest success in living and the deepest
emotional satisfaction comes from building and using your signature strengths
~ Martin Seligman from Authentic Happiness
When you begin to recognize that your own presence here in this world is part of
something infinitely bigger than yourself you feel a sense of obligation awakening
within youmdasha spiritually inspired soul-level moral imperative to evolve for the sake
of the future of the evolutionary process itself The way you respond to that
obligation and to that sense of cosmic responsibility is by demonstrating that the
process is profoundly positivemdashindeed the process is sacredmdashthrough your own
example through your own victory through your own tangible and unmistakable
higher development
~ Andrew Cohen
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Its the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief And once that belief
becomes a deep conviction things begin to happen
Claude M Bristol 1891-1951 Author of The Magic of Believing
We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in our
heads fear must be a head thing
Tom Payne Career Development Expert
I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody
Bill Cosby Actor and Comedian
If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year Today
should always be our most wonderful day
- Thomas Dreier Author
Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their
personnel If people believe in themselves its amazing
what they can accomplish
--Sam Walton
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the
aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker
--Helen Keller
Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either
advance or stay where you are
- Maxwell Maltz
Be curious not judgmental
-Walt Whitman
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it
-William James
All life is an experiment
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone
acknowledges who we are and what we can be igniting the circuits
of our highest potential
Rusty Berkus
Being considerate of others will take your children further in
life than any college degree
Marian Wright Edelman
It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit
it frankly and try another But above all try something
Franklin D Roosevelt
see without looking hear without listening breathe
without asking
W H Auden
Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways
you can as long as ever you can
John Wesley
Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to
reach for the roof and land in the garbage
Savanna Skinner
Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope
~ Josh Billings
Whats going on in the inside shows on the outside
~ Earl Nightingale
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life a good society
~ Confucius
Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have
just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together
into a life of action and purpose
~ Lance Armstrong
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions
~ Michael Josephson
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others
-- Cicero
Simplicity Purity Clarity
-- Alan Cohen
Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to God alone Laughs at
impossibilities And cries it shall be done
-- Charles Wesley
What is genius but the mind heart and art of God shining to the world through an
open window
-- Alan Cohen
Intuition tells you what not why
-- Source unknown
Changing the world is a natural result of inner peace not a substitute for it
-- Alan Cohen
Fortune sides with him who dares
~ Virgil
We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in
our heads fear must be a head thing
Tom Payne Career Development Expert
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you
mdashLewis Smedes Each of us has the power to make others more beautiful by our love
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst a transformer
in any situation any organization Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an
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entire loaf It requires vision initiative patience respect persistence courage
and faith to be a transforming leader
Stephen Covey
Courage is grace under pressure
~ Ernest Hemingway
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions All life is an experiment
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as Youre going o be thinking anyway Think BIG
~ Donald Trump
To win youve got to stay in the game
~ Claude M Bristol
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head
-- Source unknown
Affirm your value by going where you are valued
-- Alan Cohen
Life is too short to hold a grudge also too long
-- Robert Brault
You cannot borrow greatness from another You can only claim it from within
yourself
-- Alan Cohen
One today is worth two tomorrows never leave that till tomorrow which you can
do today
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 US Statesman Diplomat and Inventor
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs
the problem The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized
a problem and turned it into an opportunity
Joseph Sugarman Marketing Expert
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You wouldnt worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how
seldom they do
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady Author Speaker and Politician
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions
- John Randolph
Opportunities They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere
waiting for the observant eye to discover it
- Orison Swett Marden
Yesterday ended last night Every day is a new beginning Learn the skill of
forgetting And move on
--Norman Vincent Peale
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual it is
best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every
department
ndash Andrew Carnegie entrepreneur
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society The optimist invents the
airplane and the pessimist the parachute
Gil Stern
Strive for integrity - that means knowing your values in life and behaving in a way
that is consistent with these values
Unknown
The country clubs the cars the boats your assets may be ample But the best
inheritance you can leave your kids Is to be a good example
Barry Spilchuk
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the
goal
Henry Ford
It is never too late to be what you might have been
George Eliott
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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence the second listening the
third memory the fourth practice the fifth teaching others
Solomon Ibn Gabriol
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers You can tell whether a man is
wise by his questions
Naguib Mahfouz
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others
~ Erich Fromm
Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble
and grateful mind
~ Epictetus
Happiness is activity
~ Aristotle
Every action we take everything we do is either a victory or defeat in the
struggle to become what we want to be
~ Anne Byrhhe
In the absence of clearly defined goals we become strangely loyal to performing
daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it
Robert Heinlein Novelist
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the
consequences of any misfortune
William James 1842-1910 Psychologist and Author
To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle
-- Walt Whitman
God doesnt owe and neither do you
-- Alan Cohen
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Do what makes you smile
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
People who warn that everyone but members of their religion will go to hell dont
realize they are already there
-- Alan Cohen
The emotional frontier is truly the next frontier to conquer in human
understanding The opportunity we face now even before that frontier is fully
explored and settled is to develop our emotional potential and accelerate rather
dramatically into a new state of being
- Doc Childre and Howard Martin The HeartMath Solution
Real transformation requires that you have a beginners mind that you are willing
to say Whatever I think I know may be wrong
Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true
selves
- Carrol Pearson The Hero Within
If a man would move the world he
must first move himself
--Socrates
All sucessful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists They
believed that things went not by luck but by law
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
I skate to where the puck is going to be not where it is
-Wayne Gretzky
When given the choice between being right or being kind always choose kind
--Dr Wayne Dyer Never forget the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for
others
Sir John Templeton 1912-2008 Mutual Fund Pioneer and Philanthropist
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome
Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Essayist Biographer and Poet
Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on
-- Alan Cohen
Shallow men believe in luck Strong men believe in cause and effect
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Contraction is a sign that birth is imminent
-- Alan Cohen
Work is an extension of personality It is achievement It is one of the ways in
which a person defines himself measures his worth ndash and his humanity
ndash Peter Drucker author
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends
-- John Ruskin
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities
--Janos Arnay
The first time you accept good is the last time you will see excellence
John Ulmo Life is like an onion
You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep
~ Carl Sandburg
Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light
~ L P Jacks Just as iron rusts from disuse even so does inaction spoil the intellect
~ Leonardo Da Vinci
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men sayI JUST watch what they
do
~ Andrew Carnegie
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All Things are Difficult before they are Easy
~ John Norley
Everything has been figured out except how to live
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving
Dennis Waitley
Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out
Robert Collier
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude
Thomas Jefferson
They can because they think they can
Virgil
By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself
Menander
Years teach us more than books
Berthold Auerbach
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When you delightfully fantasize about something you want you set into motion a
wave of energy that calls that situation into reality
-- Alan Cohen
Hurt people hurt people
-- Source unknown
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Doing the right thing may be different than what you have been taught the right
thing is
-- Alan Cohen
The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes
it happen
-- Frank Lloyd Wright All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say no and said yes
Moss Hart 1904-1961 Playwright and Theatre Director
We are built to conquer environment solve problems achieve goals and we find no
real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to
achieve
Maxwell Maltz 1899-1975 Author of Psycho-Cybernetics
You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns
have roses
-- Ziggy
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug
~ Patricia Neal
My night has become a sunny dawn because of you
--Ibn Abbad
All mankind is divided into three classes those that are immovable those that are
movable and those that move
--Benjamin Franklin
Dont compete Create Find out what everyone else is doing and then dont do it
mdashJoel Weldon
Show a little faith therelsquos magic in the night
mdashfrom ―Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen
Music is to me proof of the existence of God
It is so extraordinarily full of magic and in tough times
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of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference
mdashKurt Vonnegut
Discontent is the source of all trouble but also of all progress
in individuals and nations
Berthold Auerbach
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself
Thomas Sprat
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves
to copy
Oliver Goldsmith
If at first you dont succeed try try again Then quit Theres
no use being a damn fool about it
WC Fields
Impatience never commanded success
Edwin H Chapin
In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are the safest
~ Livy
Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights
~ Henry David Thoreau
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense
insoluble They can never be solved but only outgrown
~ Carl Jung
Life Begins When you Do
Hugh Downs Vision Without Action is a Daydream
Action Without Vision is a Nightmare
~ Japanese Proverb
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Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one
can possibly want and hold
-- Judith Olney
The love affair you seek is with yourself
-- Alan Cohen
The greatest power requires the lightest touch
-- BasharDarryl Anka
You only live once -- but its forever
-- Alan Cohen
Get off the cross Somebody needs the wood
-- From the film Straight Talk
There are two ways to live your life One is as though nothing is a miracle The
other is as though everything is a miracle
~ Albert Einstein
In the long run men hit only what they aim at
~ Henry David Thoreau philosopher
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state
of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is
wounded trust impaired
~Erik H Erikson
Freedom know this that every manwoman is free To choose his life and what
hell be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call
persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light In nameless ways be
good and kind But never force the human mind
~ William C Clegg
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want and if they canlsquot find them make them
~ George Bernard Shaw
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Relationships are not things We dont have relationships we are in relationship
with one another
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Relationships are our primary teacher They are the context in which we either
grow into the consciousness of God or deny ourselves and others the opportunity
to do so
- Marianne Williamson
Listen deeply The greatest failure in any relationship is the failure to
participate
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Your future is created by what you do today not tomorrow
Robert Kiyosaki
No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a
reality
Napoleon Hill
If you are not planning today you are planning to fail tomorrow
Gopal
How you do anything is how you do everything
T Harv Eker
There is little difference in people but that little difference
makes a big difference The little difference is attitude The
big difference is whether it is positive or negative
W Clement Stone
The vision must be followed by the venture It is not enough to
stare up the steps - We must step up the stairs
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Vance Havner
Go for it nowThe future is promised to no one
Wayne Dyer
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are you would never
think a negative thought
Peace Pilgrim
Either you run the day or the day runs you
Jim Rohn
You must go after your wish As soon as you start to pursue a
dream your life wakes up and everything has meaning
Barbara Sher
To succeed you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe
and act on it with all of your heart
Christy Borgeld
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers
Anonymous
Let him that would move the world first move himself
Socrates
By the time a man realizes that maybe
his father was right he usually has a son
who thinks hes wrong
~ Charles Wadworth
Without Mistakes Perfection is an Illusion
~ Daniel Frankel
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Its not the hours you put in
but what you put into the hours
that counts
~ Jim Rohn
Be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath
~ James 119
Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory
~ Ingrid Bergman
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word
~ William Makepease Thackeray
Professionalism is knowing how
to do it when to do it and doing it
~ Frank Tyger
Intention is not something you do
but rather a force that exists in the universe
as an invisible field of energy
-a power that can carry us
~ Dr Wayne Dyer
I personally measure success in terms
of the contributions an individual makes
to her or his fellow human beings
~ Margaret Mead
Some of the worlds greatest feats
were accomplished by people not
smart enough to know they were
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impossible
~ Doug Larson
Life is a flower of which love is the honey
~ Victor Hugo
Personal integrity is important
not because it gets us what we want
but because it helps us be what we want
~ Michael Josephson
Goals need to be configured to stretch us
but not to break us
~ Kent Krive
Children are apt to live up
to what you believe of them
~ Lady Bird Johnson
Do your work with your whole heart
and you will succeed
- theres so little competition
~ Elbert Hubbard
Hi Karl
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible
objections must first be overcome
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--Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Author
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter
even the most victorious life The human
spirit is never finished when it is defeated
- it is finished when it surrenders
-- Ben Stein Professor and Writer
Love is the first ingredient in the relief
of suffering
-- Padre Pio
Happiness is a function of accepting what is
--Werner Erhard
There are no shortcuts to any place
worth going
- Beverly Sills
It has never been and never will be
easy work But the road that is built in
hope is more pleasant to the traveler
than the road built in despair even though
they both lead to the same destination
~Marion Zimmer Bradley
The reality of life is that your perceptions --
right or wrong -- influence everything else
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you do When you get a proper perspective
of your perceptions you may be surprised
how many other things fall into place
~ Roger Birkman
Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself
with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum
-- Baal Shem Tov
Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself
with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum
-- Baal Shem Tov
Trust yourself You know more than
you think you do
ndash Benjamin Spock doctor
When you play it too safe youre taking
the biggest risk of your life
Time is the only wealth were given
--Barbara Sher
Creativity is inventing experimenting
growing taking risks breaking rules
making mistakes and having fun
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--Mary Lou Cook
Life is playing a violin solo in public and
learning the instrument as one goes on
--Samuel Butler
Opportunities are usually disguised as
hard work so most people dont recognize
them
~ Ann Landers
It is literally true that you can succeed best
and quickest by helping others to succeed
- Napoleon Hill
God loves you and theres nothing you can do about it
-- Sign on church marquis
Give yourself what you would like to receive from others
-- Alan Cohen
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature
-- Emerson
The fewer your words the more compelling your statement
-- Alan Cohen
Pray devoutly hammer stoutly
-- English proverb
There are no blocks to creativity Only distractions
-- Alan Cohen
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If your rules are not working so well borrow someone elses
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
Inner peace is never more than one thought away
-- Alan Cohen
Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret
hiding God
-- Frederick William Robertson
Completion is an attitude not an event
-- Alan Cohen
Enjoy where you are and youll be where youre going
-- Bashar
Your spirit is wireless
-- Alan Cohen
All questions lead to divine knowing
-- Isaac Newton
You cannot import self-worth You can only recognize it
-- Alan Cohen
Enlightened conflict resolution can exist only in an atmosphere of equality
We may not be equal in intelligence or experience or status but we are equal
in our right to be treated with dignity and caring It is not assumed that one
person has more privilege than another that one person is entitled to more
respect or understanding than another nor that one persons feelings are
more important than anothers
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
To seek happiness outside of ourselves Is like trying to lasso a cloud
Happiness is not a thingIt is a state of mind
- Omar Khayyam
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The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us
well I am not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking
not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our
quality of life incidence of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy No man was ever wise by chance
~ Seneca
By thought the thing you want is brought to youby action you receive it
~ Wallace D Wattles
Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
~ Mohandas K Gandhi
Life isnt about finding yourselfLife is about creating yourself
George Bernard Shaw
Im trying to free your mind but I can only show you the doorYou are the one
that has to walk through it
~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]
A friend is a second self
~ Aristotle
Be great in act as you have been in thought
~ William Shakespeare
Character is higher than intellectA great soul will be strong to liveas well as to
think
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I never think of the futureIt comes soon enough
~ Albert Einstein
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fearnot absence of fear
~ Mark Twain
Age wrinkles the bodyQuitting wrinkles the soul
~ Douglas MacArthur
If real is what you can feel smell taste and see then real is simply electrical
signals interpreted by your brain
~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]
Money was never a big motivator for me except for keeping the scoreThe real
excitement is playing the game
~ Donald Trump
Dreams are extremely important You cant do it unless you dream it first
~ George Lucas
If you believe you can you probably can If you believe you wont you most
assuredly wont Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad
~ Denis Waitley
Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limitedImagination
encircles the world
~ Albert Einstein
Everything is always impossible before it works Thats what entrepreneurs are all
aboutDoing things that people have told them is impossible
~ R Hunt Greene
The truth is lived not taught
~ Hermann Hesse
Be of good cheer Do not think of todays failures but of the success that may
come tomorrow You have set yourself a difficult task but you will succeed if you
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persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles
Helen Keller 1880-1968 Blind and Deaf Educator
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something Its as simple
as that A lot of people have ideas but there are few who decide to do something
about them now Not tomorrow Not next week But today The true entrepreneur
is a doer
-Nolan Bushnell Founder of Atari
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision
Muhammad Ali Three-Time World Heavyweight Champion Boxer
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them
Walt Disney 1901-1966 Cartoon Artist and Filmmaker
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings turn routine jobs into
joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings
William Arthur Ward
1921-1994 Writer
If you want to achieve excellence you can get there today As of this second quit
doing less than excellent work
Thomas Watson 1874-1956 Founder of IBM
Ive always believed that a lot of the troubles in the world would disappear if we
were talking to each other instead of about each other
Ronald Reagan
1911-2004 40th President of the United States
The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another is in some way to
make that persons life a little bit better to live
John Assaraf Author and Speaker
Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm
Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any
occupation no matter how frightening or difficult a new meaning Without
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enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish
miracles
Og Mandino
Constant kindness can accomplish much As the sun makes ice melt kindness
causes misunderstanding mistrust and hostility to evaporate
Dr Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 Medical Missionary and Nobel Prize Winner
Dwell not on the past Use it to illustrate a point then leave it behind Nothing
really matters except what you do now in this instant of time From this moment
onwards you can be an entirely different person filled with love and understanding
ready with an outstretched hand uplifted and positive in every thought and deed
Eileen Caddy 1917-2006 Spiritual Teacher and Author
Heres the problem Most people are thinking about what they dont want and
theyre wondering why it shows up over and over again
John Assaraf Speaker and Author
Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
Thomas Edison 1847-1931 Inventor and Scientist
Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on
building the life you desire
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly
lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love
Henry Drummond 1851-1897 Scientist and Author
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Former First Lady Author and Speaker
If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least
responsible for those we admit and entertain
Charles Newcomb ScreenwriterDirector
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To grow you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your
past Your history is not your destiny
Alan Cohen
If you want a kinder world then behave with kindness if you want a peaceful
world make peace within
Dan Millman Writer and Speaker
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order
and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a
time
Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Writer
Believe it can be done When you believe something can be done really believe
your mind will find the ways to do it Believing a solution paves the way to solution
Dr David Schwartz Author of The Magic of Thinking Big
Close your eyes and form a realistic picture of what a post PC world might actually
look like Those who can envision a plausible future thats brighter than today will
earn the opportunity to lead
Ray Ozzie Former Chief Software Architect at Microsoft
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past worry
about the future or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely
and earnestly
- Buddha
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job tellem certainly I can - and get
busy and find out how to do it
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Dont tell me how hard you work Tell mehow much you get done
~ James Ling
Democracy arose from menlsquos thinking that if they are equal in any respect they
are equal absolutely
~ Aristotle
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The beginning is the most important part of the work
~ Plato
Bless those who choose to love and those who choose to hate that those who
choose to hate may choose to love before it is too late
--Esoligh (Underground Hip Hop Artist)
Security is mostly a superstition It does not exist in nature nor do the children
of man as a whole experience it Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than
outright exposure Life is either a daring adventure or nothing
--Helen Keller
Each new hour holds new chances for new beginings The horizon move forward
offering you space to place new steps of change
--Maya Angelou
When a man cares he is unafraid When he is fair he leaves enough for others
When he is humble he can grow
--Lao-Tzu TaoTeChung
Behold the turtle He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out
--James Bryant Conant - Educator and Diplomat
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it
but because they didnt stop to enjoy it
--William Feather
The light of awareness the light of consciousness arises out of a broken heart
the heart by breaking becomes an ocean accommodating all beings
-- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom
The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need according to the
nature of your thought Your environment and financial condition are the
perfect reflection of your habitual thinking
Thought rules the world
-- Dr Joseph Edward Murphy Surgeon
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The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new
courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness beauty and truth
ndash Albert Einstein physicist
Hope is the companion of power and mother of success for who so hopes strongly
has within him the gift of miracles
~ Samuel Smiles
Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those
things that failures dont like to do
~ Albert Gray
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the
link between belief and biology
- Deepak Chopra
Ive always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best
~ Akeem Olajuwon
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear
ndash Socrates philosopher
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the
most brilliant single mind but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains
and talents of his associates
~ W Alton Jones
The reason a dog has got so many friends is because its tail waggles and not its
tongue
-Anonymous
Dont fight a problem solve it
--Millard Fuller
If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation
by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in
which you are rendering it
--Roger Babson
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The starting point of all riches is the development of a prosperity consciousness
You must become a financial success in your thinking long before you achieve it in
your reality Both poverty and riches are the result of a state of mind and the
most important single step you ever take on the road to wealth and financial
independence is the decision to change your thinking to impress into your mind an
unshakable belief that you can and will achieve your financial goals This must
happen before anything else happens
-- Brian Tracy
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it
We must learn to see the world anew
- Albert Einstein
To forgive is the highest most beautiful form of love In return you will receive
untold peace and happiness
--Dr Robert Muller
Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind the stronger the
trees
--J Willard Marriott Founder of Marriott Hotels
Someday may never come So live each day better than the last That way youll
wake up with so much excitement and anticipation youlsquoll jump out of bed and shout
I cant wait
--Bob Perks
The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination and he is still at
large
-- Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885 Humorist
If you dont know where you are going any road will get you there
-- Anonymous
Ive noticed over many years of working with corporate teams that the more
dysfunctional the team the more resistant they are to the concept of love in
the workplace What baggage is it that we drag around behind us like Linus
and his blanket which causes us to be so wounded and pathological Why are
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we blind to the observable truth that those we lead are yearning for us to
open our hearts Why are we in denial about the truth that people--all
people at work and at home--are searching for signs of our approval and
love
- Lance Secretan Industry Week 11202000 We live on our own solitary islands of reality absorbed in and fascinated by
our own points of view Frequently we reach out to one another seeking to
understand or be understood The bridge between our separate realities is
communication To communicate is to relate
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air You
name them--work family health friends and spirit--and youre keeping all
of these in the air You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball If you
drop it it will bounce back But the other four balls-- family health
friends and spirit--are made of glass If you drop one of these they will be
irrevocably scuffed marked nicked damaged or even shattered They will
never be the same You must understand that and strive for balance in your
life
- Brian Dyson CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises from 1959-1994 If you cant be a loving witness to your own anger or rage or sadness or
fear you cant be in the presence of other peoples intense emotions without
your own emotional waters being churned up a bit But if you can learn to
feel safe and fully present to the broad spectrum of emotions within your own
nature you radiate an invisible web of safety that helps others to talk about
their feelings with you
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective
consciousness and if we want a new world each of us must start taking
responsibility for helping create it
- Rosemary Fillmore Rhea A New Heaven and New Earth Your relationships are actually mirrors of your consciousness When you learn
to see your own reflection in the quality of your relationships with others you
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catapult yourself on your path of personal growth and spiritual evolution
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think To put the world right in order we must first put the nation in order to put
the nation in order we must first put the family in order to put the family in
order we must first cultivate our personal life we must first set our hearts
right
- Confucious The sooner we can unburden ourselves of blame the more effective we can
be Blaming others only entrenches us in the role of the victim removing us
from our highest expression of personal power
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be
sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all
around It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others
we all want in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that
burden us These secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth
helps you get clarity on your real heart directives
- Sara Paddison The Hidden Power of the Heart Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time
ago
~ Warren Buffet
The only way to do great work is to love what you do If you havent found it yet
keep looking Dont settle As with all matters of the heart youll know when you
find it
~ Steve Jobs
If you love life do not waste time for time is what life is made up of
~ Bruce Lee
I cannot teach anybody anything I can only make them think
~ Socrates
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Change before you have to
~ Jack Welch
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm
~ Winston Churchill
A leader leads by example not by force
~ Sun Tzu
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour Sit with a
pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute You have just experienced
relativity
~ Albert Einstein
Live as if you were to die tomorrow Learn as if you were to live forever
~ Mohandas Gandhi
A clever person solves a problem A wise person avoids it
~ Albert Einstein
If I have seen a little further is by standing on the shoulders of Giants
~ Sir Isaac Newton
Despair says I cannot lift that weight Happiness says I do not have to
-- James Richardson
People who know they are powerful do not need to engage in power struggles
-- Alan Cohen
No man ever stated his troubles as lightly as he might
-- Emerson
What does your spirit most want you to know and do today
-- Alan Cohen
Its not how good you are Its how bad you want it
-- Author unknown
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The better I feel about myself the less I need you to be different
-- Alan Cohen
The best form of flattery is to master the art of listening
-- Chinese proverb
The only thing more valuable than a good source of news is source of good news
-- Alan Cohen
Disappointments are the hooks upon which God hangs his victories
-- Source unknown
It matters not what youve done with your life for better or worse What
matters is what you do with your life today
-- Alan Cohen
Everyone here is not all there
-- Source unknown
If you cant unify then at least harmonize
-- Alan Cohen
Everybody is a genius But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will
spend its whole life believing that it is stupid
-- Albert Einstein
Fear is excitement without breath
-- Fritz Perls
Dont leave yourself out of the equation
-- Alan Cohen
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles
-- Bernard Baruch
They can because they think they can
~ Virgil
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Exert your talents and distinguish yourself
and dont think of retiring from the world
until the world will be sorry that you retire
~ Samuel Johnson
Energy and persistence conquer all things
~ Benjamin Franklin
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom
~ Aristotle
Heaven never helps the man who will not act
~ Sophocles
The only real journey is the journey within
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new
~ Albert Einstein
Action is the food and drink
that will nourish your success
Action will destroy your procrastination
Act now for is all you have
~ Og Mandino
Computers are incredibly fast accurate and stupid
Humans are incredible slow inaccurate and brilliant
Together they are powerful beyond imagination
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~ Albert Einstein
Practice giving and you will discover how much life can give you
-- Alan Cohen
Oh for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they
ran out of money
-- Source unknown
The best way to heal a bad memory is to create a new and better one
-- Alan Cohen
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love
-- Hamilton Wright Mabie
Fear and resistance are the dragons that stand at the gate of the kingdom that
contains the jewel you seek
-- Alan Cohen
Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy forgiveness To an opponent
tolerance To a friend your heart To a customer service To all charity To
every child a good example To yourself respect
-- Oren Arnold
Affirm I always have enough time to do the things that Spirit would have me do
-- Alan Cohen
There are two obstacles to enlightenment 1 Thinking you know 2 Thinking you
dont know
-- Buddha
Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Take care how you pay
it
-- Alan Cohen
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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles
-- Bernard Baruch
Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation
-- Alan Cohen
Families are like fudge -- mostly sweet with a few nuts
-- Source unknown
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of
our treasures
-- Thornton Wilder
The universe does not require you to stress for good things
-- Alan Cohen
When you bless the good that befalls others it becomes yours as well
-- Alan Cohen
How many more idols must you find before your realize that you are the one you
have been searching for
-- Dan Fogelberg
All limits exist only in thought and that is where they are overcome
-- Alan Cohen
To understand unconditional love lock your wife or husband and your dog in the
trunk of your car for an hour When you open it notice to is happier to see you
-- Source unknown
Outrageous ideas are ultimately the most practical
-- Alan Cohen
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are
-- Kurt Cobain
How good can you let it get
-- Alan Cohen
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If we could look into the secret history of our enemies we should find in each
persons life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities
-- Longfellow
If you sense there must be more there is more
-- Alan Cohen
Do not wait the time will never be just right Start where you stand and work
with whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found
as you go along
Napoleon Hill
1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich
It doesnt matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes What
matters most is getting off You cannot make progress without making decisions
Jim Rohn
1930-2009 Speaker and Author
Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do Its
a decision about Who You Are When you see this when you understand it
everything changes You begin to see life in a new way All events occurrences and
situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do
Neale Donald Walsch
Author of Conversations With God
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached dont adjust the goals
adjust the action steps
Confucius
551-479 BC Philosopher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of
you
Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887 Clergyman Social Reformer and Abolitionist
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Lets choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we think others lead
by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives We can then offer the
universe the gift of our grateful hearts
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Author of Peace and Plenty
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite
impossible to foresee are ahead You can only see one thing clearly and that is your
goal Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin
Kathleen Norris
1880-1966 Novelist
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends
you choose for you will become like them
W Clement Stone
1902-2002 Businessman Philanthropist and Author
Laugh at yourself and at life Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity but
as a remedy a miracle drug that will ease your pain cure your depression and help
you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at
your predicaments thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that
is certain to come Never take yourself too seriously
Og Mandino
1923-1996 Author of The Choice
Asking is the beginning of receiving Make sure you dont go to the ocean with a
teaspoon At least take a bucket so the kids wont laugh at you
Jim Rohn
1930-2009 Author and Speaker
Happiness comes only when we push our
brains and hearts to the farthest reaches
of which we are capable
--Leo C Rosten
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Do not wait the time will never be just right
Start where you stand and work with whatever
tools you may have at your command and better
tools will be found as you go along
~ Napoleon Hill
I shall do less whenever I shall believe what
I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more
whenever I shall believe doing more will help the
cause I shall try to correct errors when shown to
be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as
they shall appear to be true views
ndash Abraham Lincoln 16th US president
If we become increasingly humble about how l
little we know we may be more eager to search
- Sir John Templeton
I dont think anyone can grow unless hes
loved exactly as he is now appreciated for
what he is rather than what he will be
Love and success always in that order Its
that simple and that difficult
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a
lifetimes work but its worth the effort
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Quoted From Lifes Journeys According
to Mister Rogers
When we do the best we can we never know
what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life
of another
ndash Helen Keller lecturer author
We are responsible for what we are and whatever
we wish ourselves to be we have the power to make
ourselves If what we are now has been the result of
our own past actions it certainly follows that whatever
we wish to be in future can be produced by our present
actions so we have to know how to act
~ Swami Vivekananda
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to
attempt
William Shakespeare 1564-1616 Poet Playwright Actor
We cannot change anything until we accept it
Condemnation does not liberate it oppresses
-Carl Jung
It is better to wear out than to rust out
Richard Cumberland
In order to succeed we must first believe that we can
Michael Korda
Attitudes are more important than facts
-George MacDonald
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities
Aristotle (BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher)
Dont waste your life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you
well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best
preparation for the hours or ages that follow it
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882 American poet essayist)
Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events success is readiness for
instant action when the opportune moment arrives
Newell Hillis
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them
Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893 British scholar)
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness
it is generally the by-product of other activities
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963 British author)
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Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to
express the source of inspiration and joy within
~ Deepak Chopra
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team and the team ought to get
credit for the wins and the losses Successes have many fathers failures have
none
- Philip Caldwell
The secret of getting ahead is getting started
Agatha Christie 1890-1976 Novelist
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation
-Dr Robert Schuler Whenever youre facing any form of resistance gratitude has the power to
quickly dissolve it This is true whether the hindrance comes from inside of you or
outside of you
Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth Its easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top
Henry Ward Beecher Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people So
overweight people are now averagehellip which means you have met your New Years
resolution
Jay Leno
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in A pessimist stays up to
make sure the old year leaves
Bill Vaughan
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past Let it go for it was imperfect
and thank God that it can go
Brooks Atkinson
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New Years Resolution To tolerate fools more gladly provided this does not
encourage them to take up more of my time
James Agate
New Years Day is every mans birthday
Charles Lamb
Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right
Oprah Winfrey
―It is never too late to be what you might have been
- TS Eliot
If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain
ndash Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 American Poet
Life is too short to waste Dreams are fulfilled only through action not through
endless planning to take action
David J Schwartz Trainer and Author
Its the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and
sweeps away all obstacles
Claude M Bristol
―The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means time
influence and educational advantages the question is what he will do with the
things he has The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of
opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face and resolves to change
them he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success
-Hamilton Wright Mabie
Just go out there and do what youve got to do
~ Martina Navratilova
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Now I experience the love in everyone I no longer am a person who judges others
for being overweight for being too young or too old for having their hair a certain
way or for how they dress When you judge others you dont define them you
define yourself as someone who needs to judge and compartmentalize people
-Wayne Dyer
The big secret in life is that there is no secret Whatever your goal you can get
there if you are willing to work It is called massive action Action is the gas in the
tank Without it the car will not run
Marcy Blochowiak Author of No Glass Ceiling An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory
-Friedrich Engels
Leaders arent born they are made And they are made just like anything else
through hard work And thats the price well have to pay to achieve that goal or
any goal
Vincent Lombardi
May your trails be crooked winding lonesome dangerous leading to the most
amazing view May your rivers flow without end meandering through pastoral
valleys tinkling with bells past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark
primeval forestdown into a desert of red rock blue mesas domes and pinnacles
and grottos of endless stone And down again into a deep vast ancient unknown
chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs where deer walk across the
white sand beaches where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high
crags until something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than
your deepest dreams waits for you just beyond the next turning of the canyon
walls
-Benedicto by Edward Abbey
An unwritten want is a wish a dream a never-happen The day you put your goal in
writing is the day it becomes a commitment that will change your life Are you
ready
Tom Hopkins Author and Speaker
―Where are you going Who are you looking for Your beloved is right herehellip Cease
looking for flowers there blooms a garden in your own home While you go looking
for trinkets your treasure house awaits you in your own being There is no need
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for suffering God is here
~Rumi Chance favors only the prepared mind
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895 French scientist who developed pasteurization)
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities
enough and if they do not find them they will make them
Samuel Smiles
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen but give us the
determination to make the right things happen
Peter Marshall
If the sky falls hold up your hands
Spanish Proverb
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous
Chinese Proverb
Knowing is not enough we must apply Willing is not enough we must do
Johann von Goethe
If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is he will not jump If he does
not know how wide it is he will jump and six times out of ten he will make it
Persian Proverb
As I grow to understand life less and less I learn to love it more and more
Jules Renard
The more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate
Oprah Winfrey (1954- American TV personality producer actress author)
Mind is all that counts You can be whatever you make up your mind to be
Robert Collier
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You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how
youre going to live Now
Joan Baez Singer Songwriter and Activist The average person goes to their grave with their music still in them
Oliver Wendell Holmes ―Everyone can be great because everyone can serve
- Martin Luther King ―Whatever you can conceive and believe you can achieve
Napoleon Hill We turn not older with years but newer every day
-Emily Dickinson
When reciting affirmations feel the words in your heart as you say them and
know that what you feel youll create
Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust
our old programs accordingly
Dr Ann Faraday
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to
get there Then never never never give up
Vincent Peale
We only think when we are confronted with problems
John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)
In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain
Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)
If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair Few things are
impossible to diligence and skill Great works are performed not by strength but
perseverance
Samuel Johnson
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Dont waste your life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you
well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best
preparation for the hours or ages that follow it
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Poet and Essayist Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change
the world today
Wil Rose
The good man acts for honors sake and the more so the better he is and acts for
his friends sake and sacrifices his own interest
-Aristotle
In order to excel you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport You
must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism
Without a total 100 percent dedication you wont be able to do this
Willie Mays
Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to
raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years
ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I
demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my
life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to
becoming
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert
Im a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of
it
Thomas Jefferson
Bring awareness to each act Walking on the road walk fully alert eating eat with
awareness Whatsoever you are doing dont let the past and the future interfere
Be in the present Thats what awareness is all about
~Osho
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There are two dimensions to life and we should be able to touch both
One is like a wave and we call it the historical dimension
The other is like the water and we call it the ultimate dimension or nirvana
We usually touch just the wave but when we discover how to touch the water
we receive the highest fruit that meditation can offer
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends
Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance
Jackson Brown
When you focus on whats wrong you get more of whats wrong Conversely when
you focus on whats right you get more of whats right
Gina Mollicone-Long Author of the newly released book Think Or Sink
All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave
behind is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into
another
Gail Sheehy (1937- American journalist author)
Anger is one letter away from danger
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Success means having the courage the determination and the will to become the
person you believe you were meant to be
George Sheehan 1918-1993 Physician and Author
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views
so fast as they shall appear to be new views
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)
―One ship sails East
And another West
By the self-same winds that blow
lsquoTis the set of the sails
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And not the gales
That tells the way we go
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity Our attitude
toward it Every opportunity has a difficulty and every difficulty has an
opportunity
J Sidlow Baxter 1903-1999 Author and Theologian
If you want to be successful you must either have a chance or take one
Author Unknown
It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit it frankly and try
another But above all try something
Franklin D Roosevelt
It was courage faith endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all
obstacles that built this bridge
~ John J Watson
Past Data should now be the basis of Present Truth Data from a prior time or
experience should always and only be the basis for new questions Always the
treasure should be in the questions not in the answer
-Neale Donald Walsch Even though you may want to move forward in your life you may have one foot on
the brakes In order to be free we must learn how to let go Release the hurt
Release the fear Refuse to entertain your old pain The energy it takes to hang
onto the past is holding you back from a new life What is it you would let go of
today
Mary Manin Morrissey Creator of The Miracle Mastery Conference
It is not what you are called but what you answer to
African Proverb
A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong
enough
John Christian Bovee
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If youre not part of a solution youre a part of the problem There is no middle
road I dont think we can destroy the Earth but I think the Earth can destroy
us
-Oh Shinnah
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will
accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop
Robert Hughes
Charity is the spice of riches
Jewish Proverb
If you dont like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and
waiting for you The snake sheds its skin with impunity relying on the same nature
which you rely on
Author Unknown
Its a very funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best
you very often get it
William Somerset Maugham
A leader once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one must
be undaunted when the going gets tough
Ronald Reagan
If I accept you as you are I will make you worse however if I treat you as
though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Author and Philosopher
Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket signifies in the final
sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed from those who are cold and
not clothed The world in arms is not spending money alone It is spending the
sweat of its laborers the genius of its scientists the hopes of its children
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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Service is nothing but love in work clothes
Author Unknown
A man can do all things if he but wills them
Leon Battista Alberti
A crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk just a
tinkling cymbal where there is not love
Francis Bacon 17th Century English Lord Chancellor philosopher and author
The only way to have a friend is to be one
Ralph Waldo Emerson 19th Century American author and poet
Its not what you do once in a while its what you do day in and day out that
makes the difference
Jenny Craig Diet Specialist
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on
the labors of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to
give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving
Albert Einstein (1879-1955 German-born American physicist)
A resolute determination is the truest wisdom
Napoleon I
Without consistency there is no moral strength
Author Unknown
See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained pursue it resolutely
William Shakespeare
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure
-Dale Carnegie
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself
William Penn (1644-1718 British religious leader founder of Pennsylvania)
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How we think shows through in how we act Attitudes are mirrors of the mind
They reflect thinking
David J Schwartz Trainer and Author
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but
to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill
Vision is freely given to those who ask to see
-Course in Miracles
Tough times never last but tough people do
Dr Robert Schuller
A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything
else
Bette Davis (1908-1989 American actress producer)
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything
Alexander Hamilton
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference He has
it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter
Norman Cousins (1915-1990 American editor humanitarian author)
The practice of medicine is an art not a trade a calling not a business a calling in
which your heart will be exercised equally with your head Often the best part of
your work will have nothing to do with powders or potions
-Sir William Osler
Strength does not come from physical capacity It comes from an indomitable
will
~ Mahatma Gandhi
―You dont love someone for their looks or their clothes or for their fancy car
but because they sing a song only you can hear
Anon
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―They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever
Oscar Wilde
―Love is like a friendship caught on fire In the beginning a flame very pretty
often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering As love grows older our
hearts mature and our love becomes as coals deep-burning and unquenchable
Bruce Lee
―Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty
John Finely
―It takes a lot of understanding time and trust to gain a close friendship with
someone As I approach a time of my life of complete uncertainty my friends are
my most precious asset
Anon
―Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process
Harold S Geneen People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest
- Hermann Hesse 1877-1962 Civilization is a method of living an attitude of equal respect for all men
- Jane Addams 1860-1935 The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next
- Matthew Arnold 1822-1888
Vacillating people seldom succeed Successful men and women are very careful in
reaching their decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter
~ L G Elliott
Those with goals tend to succeed because they are focused and know where they
are going while those without goals do not
Ted Karam Author from his new book Jumping On Water Awaken Your Joy - Empower Your Life
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Every time you go out on the ice there are slight flaws You can always think of
something you should have done better These are the things you must work on
Dorothy Hamill (1956- American figure skater)
Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it
fate
~ Carl Jung When you speak of someone or about someone you should speak as though they
were in the room with you The ears that you speak to today are attached to the
mouth that could relay the message tomorrow
William Biddy Allen 1903-2001 Bus Driver - Loving father of 7 children
It is no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might dream The failure is to
fall short of dreaming all that we might realize
-Dee Hock When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they
are regarded by others let them reflect how little they have contributed to the
happiness of others
Author Unknown
I have become my own version of an optimist If I cant make it through one door
Ill go through another door - or Ill make a door Something terrific will come no
matter how dark the present
~ Rabindranath Tagore
―The present moment
contains past and future
The secret of transformation
is in the way we handle this very moment
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 - present Vietnamese Buddhist monk)
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―Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it Do not believe in
anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many Do not believe in
anything simply because it is found written in your religious books Do not believe in
anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders Do not believe in
traditions because they have been handed down for many generations But after
observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is
conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it
Buddha (Founder of Buddhism 568 - 488 BC) I try to avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward
Charlotte Bronte
Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity
Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Theologian
There is only one duty only one safe course and that is to try to be right
Winston Churchill (1874-1965 British statesman Prime Minister)
We are born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of wine we
have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born Astrology
does not lay claim to anything more
-Carl Jung
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them One is more
delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is angrier for being told
one is angry
Katherine F Gerould
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread they can sure make something out
of you
~ Muhammed Ali Beware of the thoughts you keep because everything in reality manifests from
the mind
Justin Palmer Second Year College Student
Confess you were wrong yesterday it will show you are wise today
Author Unknown
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We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope
~ Martin Luther King Jr
In the beginning the Universe was created
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move
-Douglas Adams
Any individual can be in time what he earnestly desires to be if he but set his
face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear
upon its attainment
Herman J Randall
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world
~ Helen Keller Many of lifes failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up
~ Thomas Edison
When you give your undivided attention to something there is a softening and
opening in the listener that allows access to the meaning underneath the words
-Betty Burkes
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they
are about to change the world I am more awed by those who struggle to make one
small difference
Ellen Goodman Journalist
If you look into your own heart you find nothing wrong there what is there to
fear
Confucius (BC 551-479 Chinese ethical teacher philosopher) Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls
~ Mother Teresa What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-
conceit For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he
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already knows
- Epictetus 55 AD-135 AD
There are admirable potentialities in every human being Believe in your strength
and your youth Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself It all depends on me
- Andre Gide 1869-1951
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage
- Anais Nin 1903-1977 Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in
other areas But can it really True effectiveness requires balance
~ Stephen Covey
I dont pay good wages because I have a lot of money I have a lot of money
because I pay good wages
- Robert Bosch Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do
the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not it is
the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a mans training
begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly
Thomas H Huxley 1825-1895 Biologist
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have and to be able
to lose all desire for things beyond your reach
Yutang Lin (1895-1976 Chinese writer and philologist)
Men are failures not because they are stupid but because they are not
sufficiently impassioned
Struther Burt
If you look at what you have in life youll always have more If you look at what
you dont have in life youll never have enough
Oprah Winfrey Television Host Producer and Philanthropist
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Im trying not to look too far ahead All Im thinking is one shot at a time one hole
at a time and thats what I want to keep doing
Michelle McGann
I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in
which we face them that constitutes our comfort
-Elizabeth T King My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content
with your failure
~ Abraham Lincoln
―There is nothing but love and all else is illusion
- Dr John Demartini There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer no disease that enough
love will not heal no door that enough love will not open
- Emmet Fox
All my limitations are self-imposed and my liberation can only come from true self-
love
- Max C Robinson
We fail to see that we can control our own destiny make ourselves do whatever is
possible make ourselves become whatever we long to be
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine )
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will
~ Sugar Ray Robinson 1920-1989 Boxer
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
Confucius
Half the people you know are above average
-Steven Wright
Your close relationships are either a catalyst for manifesting what you really
want or theyre a hindrance to your manifestation If you truly value the power of
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love in your life you owe it to yourself to discover how to tap into the power of
your relationship as a force for manifestation
Drs Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up Even when they do it is not
perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888 American author )
One is not idle because one is absorbed There is both visible and invisible labor To
contemplate is to toil to think is to do The crossed arms work the clasped hands
act The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation
Victor Hugo (1802-1885 French poet dramatist novelist)
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of
greed in the headlines
-Charles Kuralt
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our
focus we never concentrate our power Most people dabble their way through life
never deciding to master anything in particular
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time
~ Anthony J DAngelo
Courage comes from wanting to do it well Security comes from knowing you can do
it well Confidence comes from having done it well
~ Author Unknown
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel
Napoleon Hill
There is a true genius in everyone But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a
tree it would never stop doubting itself
~ Einstein~
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People ask for criticism but they only want praise
- W Somerset Maugham 1874-1965 Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if
you let it pass the desire may never return and you may remain in ignorance
- William Wirt 1772-1834 Cynicism is not realistic and tough Its unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it
means you dont have to try
- Peggy Noonan 1950-present There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into
gear
David Mahoney Executive and Philanthropist You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences
W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965 British novelist playwright)
Dont ask yourself what the world needs Ask yourself what makes you come alive
and then go and do that Because what the world needs are people who have come
alive
~ Howard Thurman When a great moment knocks on the door of your life it is often no louder than
the beating of your heart and it is very easy to miss it -Boris Pasternak Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure
~ Thomas Alva Edison
To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in
your heart
- Thomas Watson Sr Begin challenging your own assumptions Your assumptions are your windows on the
world Scrub them off every once and a while or the light wont come in
Alan Alda Actor Writer and Director
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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most
argumentative
Giovani della Casa (1503-1556 Papal secretary of state)
Have you ever felt like you wanted to go but you felt like you wanted to stay
- Song Lyric Jimmy Durante
To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all
~ Oscar Wilde
Awareness is like a beam of light that shines endlessly into space We only
perceive that light when it is reflected off some object and consciousness is
producedAwareness is the light by which we see the worldWe mistake the clear
light of pure awareness for the shadows that it casts in consciousnessWe forget
that we are the light itself and imagine that we are the densities that reflect the
light back to us
-Stephen Levine Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal
Albert Camus (1913-1960 French existential writer) The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation
Mark Twain
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn Our rewards
will always be in exact proportion to our service
Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Author of The Strangest Secret
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he
knows where he is going
Napoleon Hill
Wisdom tells me I am nothing
Love tells me I am everything
And between the two my life flows
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
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No employer today is independent of those about him He cannot succeed alone no
matter how great his ability or capital Business today is more than ever a question
of cooperation
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars
Les Brown
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world
Joseph Addison (1672-1719 British essayist poet statesman)
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a
fate that falls on man unless they act
~ G K Chesterton
Find something positive to think about and dont let the conversation in your head
end with a negative comment Always end on a positive comment
Dr Tomi Bryan and Dr Jerry White From their latest release The 5 Keys To The Great Life
Whales do not sing because they have a message They sing because they have a
song
-Ashes and Snow
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life
- Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956
Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though
checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor
suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat
- Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting
- Stanislaw Leszczynski 1677-1766
There is no joy in getting by on your job - doing as little as you can There is a
LOT of pleasure in doing more than you have to And whosoever shall compel you
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to go a mile go with him twain says the Bible wisely
-Norman Carlisle
We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once
Calvin Coolidge
The starting point of all achievement is desire Keep this constantly in mind Weak
desires bring weak results just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich
I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me
instead of looking within myself to see what was there
Belle Livingstone
Rather than thinking if and when start doing take action stop talking about if
and when
~ Catherine Pulsifer
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity -
Ayn Rand
Being a man or indeed being human is not something for which one should
apologize but something to which one should aspire and with all the gusto he can
muster
-- David Cunningham
The question isnt who is going to let me its who is going to stop me
- Howard Roark The Fountainhead 1943
I am the Master of my Fate Captain of my Soul
-- W E Henley
Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it
Boldness has genius power and magic in it
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me
instead of looking within myself to see what was there
Belle Livingstone
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order
and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a
time
Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Novelist
The path to success is to take massive determined action
Anthony Robbins
All of the significant battles are waged within the self
Sheldon Kopp (1929- American psychologist)
Follow effective action with quiet reflection From the quiet reflection will come
even more effective action
~ Peter F Drucker
Dont be dismayed at good-byes
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again
And meeting again after moments or lifetimes
is certain for those who are friends
-Richard Bach
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual
sense of humor
Thomas W Higginson 1823-1911 Minister Abolitionist and Author
When performance exceeds ambition the overlap is called success
Cullen Hightower
Well done is better than well said
Benjamin Franklin
The first and the best victory is to conquer self
Plato (BC 427-347 Greek philosopher)
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Man is what he believes
-Anton Chekhov One half of life is luck the other half is discipline - and thats the important half
for without discipline you wouldnt know what to do with luck
Carl Zuckmeyer 1896-1977 Writer and Playwright
Try and fail but dont fail to try
~ Stephen Kaggwa
I believe that one of the greatest gifts we have been given is our imagination It
costs nothing to access is available 247 and is our doorway to freedom With
imagination we have inside of us the most amazing ability to change our state and
transform our life in a moment
~ Veronica Hay The world is full of abundance and opportunity but far too many people come to
the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a
steam shovel They expect little and as a result they get little
Ben Sweetland Author of I Will Blessed is the person who sees the need recognizes the responsibility and actively
becomes the answer
William A Ward
I am not a mechanism an assembly of various sections
And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly that I am ill
I am ill because of wounds to the soul to the deep emotional self
And the wounds to the soul take a long long time only time can help
And patience and a certain difficult repentance
Long difficult repentance realization on lifes mistake and the freeing of oneself
From the endless repetition of the mistake
Which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify
-D H Lawrence
Victory belongs to the most persevering
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Gratitude opens doors It paves the way to abundance and prosperity like nothing
else
It can line your pockets with gold and fill your bank account quicker than a New
York minute
Yet how many of you are living from a thankful heart each day
~Veronica Hay Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
Bruce Springsteen You gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we
really stop to look fear in the face You must do that which we think we cannot
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Social Activist and First Lady of the United States
Dont let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you Instead give to
yourself that which empowers you
Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)
―The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having
new eyes
~ Marcel Proust
―Then your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall spring up
quickly
~ Isaiah 588
―And your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music
from it or confused sounds
mdash Kahlil Gibran
In every life the most important change is self-change -- and in every situation
the principles are the same
- J Kingston Cowart
It takes courage to lead a life Any life
Erica Jong
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Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time
-Ken Wilber
Peoples tendency towards good is as waters tendency is to flow downhill
Mencius When I let go of what I am I become what I might be
~ Lao Tsu
The higher my rank the more humbly I behave The greater my power the less I
exercise it The richer my wealth the more I give away Thus I avoid respectively
envy and spite and misery
~ Sun Shu Ao
There is no greater happiness than freedom from worry and there is no greater
wealth than contentment
~Lao Tsu
Failure lies not in falling down Failure lies in not getting up
~ Chinese proverb
A meal however simple is a moment of intersection It is at once the most basic
the most fundamental of our lifes activities maintaining the life of our bodies
Shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion uniting people
deeply
~ Elise Boulding The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms
-- Socrates You are never going to get it all done - you just wont Rather you will find order
and peace in your workday if you accept it and then do one more thing Implement
a system that consistently shows you whats most critical at any moment what to
do after the critical and where to find everything else when you need to That
system is not hard - its quite simple to set up
Michael Linenberger From Master Your Workday Now Check out his book and bonuses
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Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have
just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together
into a life of action and purpose
Lance Armstrong 7-Time Winner of the Tour de France
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value
Albert Einstein
We have contributed each in the time allotted us our endeavors to render a
permanent blessing to our country
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826 Third American President)
If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost that is where they
should be Now put foundations under them
~ Henry David Thoreau
If you didnlsquot musterbate then you wouldnlsquot awfulize terribilize
catastrophize say ―I canlsquot stand it and put yourself down
If you only stuck with ―Ilsquod like very much to do well but I never
have to you wouldnlsquot then disturb yourself hellip musterbation is
evil and pernicious
- Albert Ellis
There are 2 theories to arguing with a womanneither works
-Will Rogers
Dont tell me that worry doesnt do any good said the over-worked executive I
know better The things I worry about never happen
-Cited in More ofThe Best of BITS amp PIECES
Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were
innocent Anger is natural Grief is appropriate Healing is mandatory Restoration
is possible
~ Jane Rubietta
Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can
~ Richard Bach
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Inspiration and genius--one and the same
~ Victor Hugo
It is important to acknowledge a mistake instantly correct it and learn from it
That literally turns a failure into a success Success is on the far side of failure
TJ Watson 1874-1956 Founder if IBM
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of
inspiration
~ George Eliot
Trust your hunches Theyre usually based on facts filed away just below the
conscious level
Dr Joyce Brothers Psychologist and Television Personality Every artist was first an amateur
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a
true master For this reason mastery demands all of a person
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Theoretical Physicist Philosopher and Author In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain
Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)
The more difficulties one has to encounter within and without the more
significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be
Horace Bushnell
If the sky falls hold up your hands
Spanish Proverb
Begin with the end in mind
Stephen Covey
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good try to use ordinary
situations
- Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825 German Novelist
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunities
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery it wouldnt seem so
wonderful
Michelangelo 1475-1564 Painter Sculptor and Architect
We only think when we are confronted with problems
John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)
Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can
~ Thomas Carlyle
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex It takes a touch of
genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction
~Albert Einstein
―Ecstasy is your very nature not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary
~Osho
The quieter you can become the more youre able to hear
~Chinese Proverb
The only real valuable thing is intuition
~ Albert Einstein
To be ecstatic is natural spontaneous It needs no effort to be ecstatic it needs
great effort to be miserable
~Osho
Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight
Anita DeFrantz Olympic Rower Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust
our old programs accordingly
Dr Ann Faraday
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I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world
I may not ever complete the last one
But I give myself to it
I have been circling for thousands of years
And I still dont know
Am I a falcon a storm or a great song
-Rilke
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to
make them come true
~ Leon J Suenes
Dont be a cynic and disconsolate preacher Dont bewail and moan Omit the
negative propositions Challenge us with incessant affirmatives Dont waste
yourself in rejection or bark against the bad but chant the beauty of the good
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once whether
youre ready or not to put it into action
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author
Fall seven times stand up eight
Japanese proverb
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars
or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven
to the human spirit
~ Helen Keller
Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends
Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet)
First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have
to do
Epictetus
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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to
make them come true
Leon J Suenes
If you would create something you must be something
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Stay together friends
Dont scatter and sleep
Our friendship is made
Of being awake
The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away weeping
That way it stays in the garden whereas another roundness rolls
through a dry riverbed looking for what it thinks it wants
Stay here quivering with each moment like a drop of mercury
-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives as parallel realities It is
always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend when we choose not
to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance
thats present love health family friends work the joys of nature and personal
pursuits that bring us pleasure the wasteland of illusion falls away and we
experience heaven on earth
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to
raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years
ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I
demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my
life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to
becoming
~ Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert) Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change
the world today
~ Wil Rose
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A bird doesnt sing because it has an answer it sings because it has a song
~ Maya Angelou
Great minds have purposes little minds have wishes Little minds are subdued by
misfortunes great minds rise above them
~ Washington Irving
Step by step I cant think of any other way of accomplishing anything
~ Michael Jordan
If you employed study thinking and planning time daily you could develop and use
the power that can change the course of your destiny
~ W Clement Stone
We are called to speak for the weak for the voiceless for victims of our nation
and for those it calls enemy for no document from human hands can make these
humans any less than our brothers
-Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Disposal of hazardous wastes is not the root problem Rather it is the root
symptom
-Hawken Paul There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the
things we do
Freya Stark
Try a little harder to be a little better
Gordon B Hinckley
If you love something and stick with it you will get phenomenal results
Bob Proctor
You can chain me you can torture me you can even destroy this body but you will
never imprison my mind
Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Political and Spiritual Leader
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Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and
triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead
Chinese Proverb Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs
Michael Levine
Nurture your mind with great thoughts To believe in the heroic makes heroes
Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881 British Prime Minister The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your
blueprint or plan Strategies are like recipes choose the right ingredients mix
them in the correct proportions and you will always produce the same predictable
results
~ Charles J Givens
More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our
lives that determine our destiny
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
Happy the manwoman who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his
wishes and his powers
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I hope that my achievements in life shall be these that I will have fought for what
was right and fair that I will have risked for that which mattered and that I will
have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better
place for what Ive done and who Ive been
~ C Hoppe
The vision that you glorify in your mind the ideal that you enthrone in your heart
this you will build your life by and this you will become
James Allen
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Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
Gandhi
There never was a time when in my opinion some way could not be found to
prevent the drawing of the sword
-General Grant To be a warrior
is to be genuine
in every moment of your life
-Chogyam Trungpa Im convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs
from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance
- Steve Jobs Regret for wasted time is more wasted time
Mason Cooley
Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow
Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)
More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our
lives that determine our destiny
Anthony Robbins Author and Speaker
Material possessions will rust away wear away or depreciate but your inner
resources character must never depreciate In seeking success you must also seek
fulfillment Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be
~ Elizabeth Dole Anything in life that we dont accept will simply make trouble for us until we make
peace with it
~ Shakti Gawain
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious
stupidity
-Dr Martin Luther King Jr
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Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobodys going to know
whether you did it or not
Oprah Winfrey Talk Show Host Producer and Philanthropist
If you must begin then go all the way because if you begin and quit the unfinished
business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time
Chogyam Trungpa
I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career I have lost almost 300 games
On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and I
missed I have failed over and over and over again in my life And thats precisely
why I succeedcc
~ Michael Jordan
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what
they most enjoy
~ Malcolm Forbes
Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future
Paul Boese Botanist
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons
determination
Tommy Lasorda (1927- American baseball manager) I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more
~ Dr Jonas Salk The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame
Rod Steiger
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul
~ Marcus Aurelius
The best way
to make your dreams come true
is to wake up
-Kabir
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You can do what you have to do and sometimes you can do it even better than you
think you can
Jimmy Carter (1924- American President (39th)) ―If you create an act you create a habit If you create a habit you create a
character If you create a character you create a destiny
ndash Andre Maurois They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them
feel
~ Carl W Buechner When you affirm big believe big and pray big putting faith into action big things
happen
Dr Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Preacher and Author You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are taken
out of your life
~ James G Bilkey
In every difficult situation is potential value Believe this then begin looking for it
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832 German poet dramatist novelist)
Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be
sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all around
It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want
in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us These
secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth helps you get clarity on
your real heart directives
-Sara Paddison
The best thing to spend on your children is your time
~ Louise Hart
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The best things come to those who wait
- Unknown
Ask five economists and youll get five different explanations six if one went to
Harvard
~ Edgar R Fiedler There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through
encouragement from someone else I dont care how great how famous or
successful a man or woman may be each hungers for applause
~ George M Adams Do not fear death fear the unlived life
Natalie Babbitt Leadership is no longer about your position Its now more about your passion for
excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title
Robin Sharma
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions have
all come back from defeat
Sam Snead (1912-2002 American golfer)
What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision
-Helen Keller The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement
Yet almost no one gets the encouragement they need
to grow to their full potential If everyone received the
encouragement they need to grow the genius in most
everyone would blossom and the world would produce
abundance beyond the wildest dreams We would have
more than one Einstein Edison Schweitzer Mother
Theresa Dr Salk and other great minds in a century
~Sidney Madwed
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Dont build your happiness on someone elses unhappiness
~ Richard Rose
―The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all
the world
~ Ramana Maharshi
Somewhere there is someone who dreams of your smile and finds in your presence
that life is worthwhile
So when you are lonely remember its true somebody somewhere is thinking of
you
~ Anon
If youre open to altering your plans a bit you might achieve even better results
than youd anticipated
Peggy McColl A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will
point out the means
William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)
Successful people dont do different things they just do things differently
- Unknown You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are
taken out of your life
James G Bilkey Author
Dreams do come true if we only wish hard enough You can have anything in life if
you will sacrifice everything else for it
James M Barrie (1860-1937 British playwright)
Seven blunders of the world
that lead to violence
wealth without work
pleasure without conscience
knowledge without character
commerce without morality
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science without humanity
worship without sacrifice
politics without principle
-Mahatma Gandhi
When people speak of prosperity they generally mean success and measure it in
terms of financial abundance There are books seminars and training sessions
designed to help individuals to be prosperous Clearly many are seeking the path to
prosperity Ironically when one is seeking prosperity the message they give to
themselves and the universe is that they do not have enough This is a scarcity
mentality and tends only to manifest more scarcity
~ Gwen Randall Young Money makes money and the money makes more money
~ Benjamin Franklin
BE the change you wish to see in the world
- Ghandhi The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched
They must be felt with the heart
~ Hellen Keller
Understanding does not cure evil but it is a definite help inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness
-Carl Jung
You are not powerless about anything
When you get a vision and then find
alignment with it you ARE powerful
And then amazing things begin to
happen around you
- Abraham-Hicks
Be kind whenever possible It is always possible
~ Dalai Lama
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A consistent soul believes in destiny a capricious one in chance
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881 British statesman Prime Minister)
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots
George Herbert (1593-1632 British metaphysical poet)
It is not the greatness of a mans means that makes him independent so much as
the smallness of his wants
William Cobbett (1762-1835 British journalist reformer)
If you desire many things many things will seem few
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American scientist publisher diplomat) Its the little things you do that can make a big difference What are you
attempting to accomplish What little thing can you do today that will make you
more effective You are probably only one step away from greatness
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker You may delay but time will not and lost time is never found again
~ Benjamin Franklin
Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction
~ Matthew Burton
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light
~ Helen Keller
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength
~ Sigmund Freud
Blessed are those that can give without remembering and take without
forgetting
~ Liz Bebesco Waiting is a trap There will always be reasons to wait
The truth is there are only two things in life reasons and results and reasons
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simply dont count
~ Dr Robert Anthony
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become
wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing The long
term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their
Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed
~ Srully Blotnick
If now there is something you
choose to experience in your life
do not want it -- choose it
Do you choose success in worldly
terms Do you choose more money
Good Then choose it Really
Fully Not half-heartedly
- Conversations with God Book 1
Its a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you
very often get it
-Somerset Maugham
A world of abundance surrounds you if only you will step up and claim it Make life
happen through you rather than letting it happen to you It will make all the
difference in the world
- Ralph Marston Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving
it
~ William Arthur Ward
We must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible
otherwise we would not continue to search
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Prosperity consciousness is the awareness that all of us have something of value
to offer and we all deserve to get paid for what we provide to others
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Peggy McColl Author of Viral Explosions Proven Techniques to Expand Explode or Ignite Your Business Or Brand Online Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying
~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it
- Lou Holtz Procrastination is opportunitys natural assassin
~ Victor Kiam Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough
- Og Mandino 1923-1996 American Motivational Author and Speaker When you judge others you do not define them you define yourself
~ Earl Nightingale
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly
~ Richard Bach
If you tell the truth you dont have to remember anything
-Mark Twain
The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity
belonging to them
William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions
have all come back from defeat
Sam Snead 1912-2002 Golfer Faith is the assurance of things hoped for
- Unknown
The mediocre teacher tells The good teacher explains The superior teacher
demonstrates The great teacher inspires
~ William A Ward
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Never complain and never explain
~ --Benjamin Disraeli
Bless a thing and it will bless you Curse it and it will curse you If you bless a
situation it has no power to hurt you
Emmet Fox 1886-1951 Spiritual Leader Man alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man
alone can dream and make his dreams come true
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970 American speaker author Think And Grow Rich) Without AMBITION one starts nothing Without WORK one finishes nothing
The prize will NOT be sent to you You have to WIN it
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please
everyone
- Bill Cosby What we leave behind is not engraved in stone monuments but woven into the lives
of others
~ Pericles The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of
being unwanted
~ Mother Teresa (1910-1997 Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)
Tough times never last Tough people do
-Robert Schuller
Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions
- Eric Butterworth
A fellow at one of my workshops confessed For years I was so miserable that I
prayed to God daily to let me wake up as happy as my dog I went home and
thought about it Am I as happy as my dog Hmmmm
~ Alan Cohen
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of
your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the
unknown
Denis Waitley Author and Speaker
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us
William Feather (1888-19 American writer businessman )
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow but only
empties today of its strength
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892 Preacher
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win by fearing to
attempt
William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British poet playwright actor)
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of
your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the
unknown
Denis Waitley (1933- American author speaker trainer peak performance expert)
Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as
it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong
is simply your own false imagination Thats all
~Robert Adams
How many ideas have there been in history that were unthinkable ten years
before they appeared
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Life in itself is an empty canvas it becomes whatsoever you paint on it You can
paint misery you can paint bliss This freedom is your glory
~Osho
―Cease trying to work everything out with your minds it will get you nowhere Live
instead by intuition and inspiration let your whole life become a revelation
~Eileen Caddy
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People should appreciate ugliness because if it wasnt for ugliness beautiful
things wouldnt look beautiful
~ Sam Lau
No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig If
you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time Let it first
blossom then bear fruit then ripen
~Epictetus
You are the Self that perfect immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else
ever existed Nothing else will ever exist There is only one Self and you are That
Rejoice
~Robert Adams
Part of being a champ is acting like a champ You have to learn how to win and not
run away when you lose Everyone has bad stretches and real successes Either way
you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident
~ Nancy Kerrigan
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision
~ Muhammad Ali
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents works his tail off to
develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals
~ Larry Bird
Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love a gift to that person a
beautiful thing
-Mother Teresa
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end Its not a day when you
lounge around doing nothing its when youve had everything to do and youve done
it
-Lord Acton
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
- Walter Bagehot
Only the weak are cruel Gentleness can only be expected from the strong
~ Leo Buscaglia
If you are too busy to spend time with your children then you are busier than God
intended you to be
~ Rabbi Mendel Epstein
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Procrastination is the fear of success People procrastinate because they are
afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now Because
success is heavy carries a responsibility with it it is much easier to procrastinate
and live on the someday Ill philosophy
~ Denis Waitley
Happiness cannot come from without It must come from within
~ Helen Keller
I make occasional visits to reality But Im not a full- time resident
-Ashleigh Brilliant
People are like sticks of dynamite The power is on the inside but nothing happens
until the fuse gets lit
Mac Anderson Author Are you disappointed discouraged and discontented with your present level of
success Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status Do you want to
become a better and more beautiful person than you are today Would you like to
be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine
humility Then start dreaming Itlsquos possible You can become the person you have
always wanted to be
Robert H Schuller (1926- American minister author social leader)
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You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant
aspiration
- James Allen 1864-1912 Author of As A Man Thinketh
The man who has done his best has done everything
~ Charles Schwab Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can start from now
and make a brand new ending
~ Carl Bard
When I get ready to talk to people I spend two thirds of the time thinking what
they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 16th President of the United States Discontent is the first necessity of progress
Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)
You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how
youre going to live - now
- Joan Baez Singer Songwriter
Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as
it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong
is simply your own false imagination Thats all You are the Self that perfect
immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else ever existed Nothing else will
ever exist There is only one Self and you are That Rejoice
~Robert Adams If your dream is a big dream and if you want your life to work on the high level
that you say you do theres no way around doing the work it takes to get you
there
~ Joyce Chapman We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an
imperfect person perfectly
~ Sam Keen
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―A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe a part limited in time
and space He experiences himself his thoughts and feeling as something
separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness This
delusion is a kind of prison for us restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest to us Our task must be to free ourselves from
this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and
the whole of nature in its beauty
-- Albert Einstein
―Each contact with a human being is so rare so precious one should preserve it
- Anais Nin
―Only connect That was the whole of her sermon Only connect the prose and the
passion and both will be exalted and human love will be seen at its height Live in
fragments no longer Only connect
-- EM Forster
―Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the
self And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our
connectedness to others
-- Harriet Goldhor Lerner
―And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to
do the same As we are liberated from our fear our presence automatically
liberates others
-- Marianne Williamson
No no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like
waters and righteousness like a mighty stream
Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968 American Civil Rights leader Nobel Prize winner 964)
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a
very long time
~ Andre Gide (1869-1951 French author)
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Write down the thoughts of the moment Those that come unsought for are
commonly the most valuable
Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Philosopher Statesman Scientist and Author
A woman should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to
accomplish it Even if she fails again and again to accomplish her purpose (as she
necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will
be the measure of her true success and this will form a new starting point for
future power and triumph
~ James Allen
To be blind is bad but worse is to have eyes and not see
~ Helen Keller
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning
to see an imperfect person perfectly
` Sam Keen
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can
start from now and make a brand new ending
` Carl Bard Always make a total effort even when the odds are against you
Arnold Palmer (1929- American golfer)
Learning is finding out what you already know Doing is demonstrating that you
know it Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you You are
all learners doers teachers
Richard Bach (1936- American author)
Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day
Jenner Bruce 1949- American track athlete author speaker
Doubt whom you will but never yourself
John Christian Bovee (1820-1904 American author lawyer)
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When you give someone a book you dont give him just paper ink and glue You
give him the possibility of a whole new life
Christopher Morley 1890-1957 Novelist Journalist and Poet
Dont be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality If you can dream
it you can make it so
Belva Davis Award-Winning Journalist
The secret of mans being is not only to live but to have something to live for
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose
Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity and high purpose by itself is
utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Watch your thoughts they become words
Watch your words they become actions
Watch your actions they become habits
Watch your habits they become character
Watch your character it becomes your destiny
~ Frank Outlaw
Take good care of your future because thats where youre going to spend the
rest of your life
~ Charles F Kettering
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams
John Barrymore
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground
Stephen Covey
Its never too late to be what you might have been
George Elliot
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Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder
than anything we can say
Wilfred Peterson
True peace is not merely the absence of some negative force - tension confusion
or war it is the presence of some positive force - justice good will and
brotherhood
-Martin Luther King Jr
The important thing in this world is not where we stand but in what direction we
move
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing Action always
generates inspiration Inspiration seldom generates action
-Frank Tibolt
The only way to eliminate waris to love our children more than we hate our enemies
-Golda Meir
It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope
is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they
both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your
years
~ Abraham Lincoln
Hold your head high stick your chest out You can make it It gets dark
sometimes but morning comes Keep hope alive
~ Jesse Jackson
Set your sights high the higher the better Expect the most wonderful things to
happen not in the future but right now Realize that nothing is too good Allow
absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way
Eileen Caddy Author
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To understand the heart and mind of a person look not at what he has already
achieved but at what he aspires to do
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931 Lebanese poet novelist )
Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality
Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is
transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible
~Osho
What is the best thing about being 100 years old Lack of peer pressure
-Michael Pritchard
The more credit you give away the more will come back to you The more you help
others the more they will want to help you
~ Brian Tracy
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact
~ William James
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes Chance nature
compulsions habit reason passion desire
~ Aristotle When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth think of Algebra
-Will Rogers
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say Yes Ive got
dreams of course Ive got dreams Then they put the box away and bring it out
once in a while to look in it and yep theyre still there These are great dreams
but they never even get out of the box It takes an uncommon amount of guts to
put your dreams on the line to hold them up and say How good or how bad am I
Thats where courage comes in
~ Erma Bombeck
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You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really
stop to look fear in the face You must do the thing which you think you cannot
do
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you love the money will follow
Marsha Sinetar (American author To Build The Life You Want Create The Work You Love)
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement we must choose freedom and the
responsibility this entails
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998 American expert on love lecturer author)
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of
itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as
powerful as your desires unless you make them so
Marcia Wieder (American speaker trainer author)
I work every day -- or at least I force myself into my office or room I may get
nothing done but you dont earn bonuses without putting in time Nothing may
come for three months but you dont earn the fourth without it
Mordecai Richler (1931- Canadian writer)
If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation
by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in
which you are rendering it
Roger Babson 1875-1967 Statistician and Columnist Its simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about
what the other fellow is going to do
- John R Amos
All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas
~ Hakuin
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly
or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man
~Chang Tzu
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The important thing is not to stop questioning Curiosity has its own reason for
existing One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of
eternity of life of the marvelous structure of reality It is enough if one tries
merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day Never lose a holy
curiosity
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect
abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human
laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought
of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will
bring it into being
~Eileen Caddy
Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality
Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is
transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible
~Osho
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who
keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road
Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961 Statesman and Secretary-General of UN
Life is one massive challenge after another for everyone So you cant feel sorry
for yourself One real measure of you as a person is how much you can handle
without whining
~ Mike Brescia Author
We are each of us angels with only one wing And we can only fly by embracing each
other
-Luciano de Crescenzo
He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he
would like to have
~ Socrates
Quite often we change jobs friends and spouses instead of ourselves
~ Akbarali H Jetha
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame
~ Benjamin Franklin
You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where
your thoughts take you
- James Allen
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will
embrace for that day We cannot change our past
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way We cannot change
the inevitable The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have and that
is our attitude
- Charles Swindoll author
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others
- Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC
If you want your life to be more rewarding you have to change the way you think
- Oprah Winfrey
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless
- Mother Teresa
By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible
- Italian Proverb
Enthusiasm is the all-essential human jet propeller It is the driving force which
elevates people to miracle workers and creates endless energy the source of all
accomplishment
-Norman Vincent Peale
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends
you choose for you will become like them-
- W Clement Stone
Ones philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one
makes In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves The process
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never ends until we die And the choices we make are ultimately our own
responsibility
- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something that were
supposed to do
~ Richard Rose I love the name of honor more than I fear death
~ Julius Caesar
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future making it predictable
and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible
Hannah Arendt 1906-1975 Political Theorist
Man has no greater enemy than himself
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374 Italian poet humanist)
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety
-Aesop
You cannot tailor make your situation in life but you can tailor make your
attitudes to fit those situations
- Zig Ziglar speaker and author Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you
and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in
line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not
get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker The only people who never fail are those who never try
Ilka Chase (1905-1978 American author actor)
In truth you are spirit The body has been projected by the mind which itself
originates from Spirit If the wrong identification ceases there will be peace and
permanent indescribable bliss
~Ramana Maharshi
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I flow with loving gratitude for all my blessings today
- Zoe Jarboe
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be
~ Abraham Lincoln You are wealthy now with an abundance of what you are thinking about The world
is a creative engine and will create whatever you are really thinking Every thought
in your mind is a prayer about you no matter who the subject seems to be
~ Brad Jensen
A man who works with his hands is a laborer a man who works with his hands and
his brain is a craftsman but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his
heart is an artist
-Louis Nizer
When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score
John Enoch Powell (1912-1998 British statesman)
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get credit Try if
you can to belong to the first class there is far less competition
~ Dwight Morrow 1873-1931 Businessman Politician and Diplomat
Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt
conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything
~ St Ignatius Loyola Action is the real measure of intelligence
~ Napoleon Hill
Take the first step and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid But the
first essential is that you begin Once the battle is started all that is within and
without you will come to your assistance
~ Robert Collier
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You are what you are today because of the decisions and the choices YOU made
yesterday
~ Wayne Goonie
I have never seen a man who could do real work except under the stimulus of
encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom he is
working
Charles M Schwab (1862-1939 American industrialist businessman)
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can
- Danny Kaye (1913-1987) Entertainer A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in
spite of overwhelming obstacles
~ Christopher Reeve A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always
with the same person
~ Mignon McLaughlin
We learn from failure much more than from success we often discover what we
will do by finding our what we will not do and probably he who never made a
mistake never made a discovery
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904 Scottish author)
I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)
Life has indeed many ills but the mind that views every object in its most
cheering aspect and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good bears
within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote
Lydia H Sigourney 1791-1865 Poet
The Next Step
The first step needs action to start it
The last requires patience to end
So we question which ones most important
When we realize our dreams our best friend
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Well the answer is neither theyre equal
But the one that will help you win through
And connect what you start to the finish
Is the next step thats waiting for you
Lifes dreamers are great Goal Achievers
Their faith and persistence just blends
Into one awesome cocktail of knowledge
That whatever they want they can get
You see they never visualize failure
Its success that they see shining through
Its essential to start and to finish
But the next step is what you must do
Alison Wilson
Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you
and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in
line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not
get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker
There is no such thing as natural touch Touch is something you create by hitting
millions of golf balls
~ Lee Trevino
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation We do not act rightly because
we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted
rightly We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit
~ Aristotle
The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement If everyone received the
encouragement they need to grow the genius in most everyone would blossom and
the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams
~ Unkwown
I do not believe in miracles at least not defined in the conventional religious
manner as divine disruptions of the natural order But if a miracle is defined as an
infinitely improbable phenomenon then our existence is a miracle which no theory
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natural or supernatural will ever explain
-John Horgan
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that with nine women
pregnant you can get a baby in a month
--Wernher von Braun
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never
find out
~ Frank A Clark
You are what you are today because of the decisions and the
choices YOU made yesterday
~ Revt Wayne Goonie
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do
a little
~ Edmund Burke
We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something
that were supposed to do
~ Richard Rose
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small
people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become
great
- Mark Twain
Rich and poor are first created in the mind
A poor man asks How much will it COST me
A rich man asks How much will it MAKE me
Which one are you
~ Bryan Kumar
If you think you can do something that you cannot the belief itself prevents you
from accomplishing the task either because you never try it in the first place or
because you have block yourself by your belief
-Deena Zalkind Spear
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)
Character is doing whats right when nobodys looking
- J C Watts Jr Politician
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people
always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great
Mark Twain 1835-1910 Humorist and Writer
We are all salesmen every day of our lives We are selling our ideas our plans our
enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact
~ Charles M Schwab It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition
- Vernon Howard Maturity begins when were content to feel were right about something without
feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong
Sydney J Harris 1917-1986 Syndicated Columnist
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum
- Frances Willard Educator
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given
~ Deepak Chopra Once power was considered a masculine attribute In fact power has no gender
~ Katherine Graham
An invasion of armies can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come
Victor Hugo
As the purse is emptied the heart is filled
Victor Hugo
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Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them
give way beneath her and yet sings knowing that she hath wings
Victor Hugo
Have no fear of robbers or murderers They are external dangers petty dangers
We should fear ourselves Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murders
The great dangers are within us Why worry about what threatens our heads or
purses Let us think instead of what threatens our souls
Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door closes a prison
Victor Hugo
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man
Victor Hugo Be all you can be and live a good life -- have fun with it
Tina Yothers
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace
Yes Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive inner peace does
not
-Eckhart Tolle
A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Physician and writer
The superior persons learning goes in his ear attaches to his heart expands to
the end of his limbs and is established in his actions
Even in his smallest word or slightest action he sets an example
~ Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) When I thought I couldnt go on I forced myself to keep going My success is
based on persistence not luck
Estee Lauder Entrepreneur
If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased
Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003 American actress writer)
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Make Your Mark Count A childs life is like a piece of paper on which every person
leaves a mark
- Chinese Proverb
Pain shared is lessened joy shared increased
~ Spider Robinson
The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits
~ Albert Einstein
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift let it be enthusiasm
Bruce Barton (1886-1967 American author advertising expert)
When you give your children knowledge you are telling them what you think That
is you are telling them what they are supposed to know what you want them to
understand is true
When you give your children wisdom you do not tell them what to know or what is
true but rather how to get to their own truth
-Neale Donald Walsch
I have found that if you love life life will love you back
- Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Musician
The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see
magic and beauty in them while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves
~ Kahlil Gibran
Practice is just as valuable as a sale The sale will make you a living the skill will
make you a fortune
~ Jim Rohn
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875 British author clergyman)
Dont cry because its over - smile because it happened
Author unknown
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Happiness is like a kiss You must share it to enjoy it
~ Bernard Meltzer Our life is what our thoughts make it
~ Marcus Aurelius The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best Therefore it tends to
become the best It takes the form or character of the best and will receive the
best
-- Wallace Wattles
Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings
-- Marianne Williamson
―And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present and can be none in
the future And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned
to beautiful results
mdash Walt Whitman When you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with your Self
When you lose touch with your Self you lose yourself in the world
Your innermost sense of Self of who you are is inseparable from stillness
This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form
Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks
With wisdom I see that I am nothing
With love I see that I am everything
Between these two my life turns
Nisargadatta Maharaj Man often becomes what he believes himself to be If I keep on saying to myself
that I cannot do a certain thing it is possible that I may end by really becoming
incapable of doing it On the contrary if I shall have the belief that I can do it I
shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the
beginning
Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Indian Nationalist Leader
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Strategies designed to avoid something eventually produce exactly the thing they
are trying to avoid
-Michael Greenwood and Peter Nunn
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but
are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults
seem insignificant
Charles A Cerami
If all you did was just look for things to appreciate you would live a joyous
spectacular life
~Abraham-Hicks
Three things in human life are important The first is to be kind The second is to
be kind And the third is to be kind
- Henry James (1843-1916) Writer The moment of enlightenment is when a persons dreams of possibilities become
images of probabilities
~ Vic Braden Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot
fly
~ Langston Hugues Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which
smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what win and
preserve the heart and secure comfort
Humphry Davy 1778-1829 Chemist
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900 German philosopher)
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 (1871-1940) Writer
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Some dream of doing great things while others stay awake and get on with it
~ Unknown With all your science can you tell how it is and whence it is that light comes into
the soul
-Hanry David Thoreau
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one but you wont come up
with a handful of mud either
- Leo Burnett (1891-1971) Advertising Executive
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the
only way we can leave the future open
Lillian Smith 1897-1966 Writer Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
~ Thomas A Edison Find something youre passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it
Julia Child (1912-2004 American gourmet cook author and television personality)
Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today
and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American
dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are
created equal
- Martin Luther King Jr ―Never let formal education get in the way of your learning
- Mark Twain
The path to success is to take massive determined action
~ Anthony Robbins For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the practice of tolerance ones enemy is the best teacher
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson When defeat comes accept it as a signal that
your plans are not sound rebuild those plans
and set sail once more toward your coveted goal
~ Napoleon Hill
We are all alike on the inside
Mark Twain (1835-1910 American humorist writer)
If you are going to do something carelessly it is better to give it up entirely
Russian Proverb
The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you
Smile and it smiles too
Herbert Samuels
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our
children
Charles R Swindoll
The important thing is not so much that every child should be
taught as that every child should be given the wish to learn
John Lubbock
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been
Mark Twain
It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere
Steve Goodier A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops
Henry Adams
It is only with the heart that one can see clearly for the most
essential things are invisible to the eye
~ Antoine de Sainte Exupery
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the
critical decisive hour Write it on your heart that every day is
the best day of the year
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier Be the living
expression of Gods kindness kindness in your face kindness in your eyes kindness
in your smile
- Mother Teresa
Its never too late to be who you might have been
- George EliotWriter
Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle
- Plato Philosopher
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition
- Vernon Howard
Ilsquove always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up
- Beverly Sills Opera Singer
Help others get ahead You will always stand taller with someone else on your
shoulders
- Bob Moawad Business Leader
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks
like work
Thomas Edison
Dream as if youll live forever
Live as if youll die tomorrow
~ James Dean
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 Author
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As we grow up we get sophisticated out of enchantment and become too smart
about the things that cause children to wonder
-Thomas Moore
People come out to see you perform and youve got to give them the best you have
within you The lives of most men are patchwork quilts Or at best one matching
outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations A lifetime of
training for just ten seconds
Jesse Owens (1913-1980 American Olympian)
Nothing is easy to the unwilling
- Nikki Giovanni Whatever course you have chosen for yourself it will not be a chore but an
adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving if your sights are set
far above the merely secure and mediocre
~David Sarnoff 1891-1971 Entrepreneur I dont know any other way to lead but by example
Don Shula (1930- American football coach) Flexible people never get bent out of shape
- Author Unknown The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record
of successful experiences behind you
~ William Jennings Bryan The important thing is this To be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we could become
~ Charles du Bois Success isnt permanent and failure isnt fatal
- Mike Ditka
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The different between us is that I count and you dont
-Huston Smith
I love strange choices Im always interested in people who depart from what is
expected of them and go into new territory
Cate Blanchett Actress Always do your best What you plant now you will harvest later
Og Mandino (1923-1996 American motivational author speaker wwogmandinocom ) Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the Universe is endlessly
bountiful Just put forth a clear enough request and everything that your heart
desires must come to you
~Shakti Gawain The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would
suffice to solve most of the worlds problems
~ Unknown The only real valuable thing is intuition
- Albert Einstein
Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve
lost a part of your life
~ Michael Leboeuf Fear is an insidious virus Given a breeding place in our minds it will eat away our
spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors
~ James F Bell
You cant base your life on other peoples expectations
Stevie Wonder Grammy Award Winning SingerSongwriter
An excuse is worse than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded
Alexander Pope (1688-1744 British poet critic translator)
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The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and
beginning the work of becoming yourself
- Anna Quindlen ―Exert your talents and distinguish yourself and donlsquot think of retiring from the
world until the world will be sorry that you retire
- Samuel Johnson Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of
the odds against them They make the impossible happen
~ Dr Robert Jarvik
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances
if there is any reaction both are transformed
-Carl Jung There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right between
fairly good and the best between mediocrity and superiority
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess
I wish you enough Hellos to get you through the final Goodbye
Bob Perks
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
~ William Shakespeare
It doesnt matter where you are coming from All that matters is where you are
going
~ Brian Tracy You need to be a somebody before you can be a nobody
-Brant Cortright
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old
Franz Kafka Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it
bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an
unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win and lose many
a battle
~ Annie Besant
I believe in taking a positive attitude toward the world My hope still is to leave
the world a little bit better than when I got here
Jim Henson 1936-1990 Muppets Creator Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life
Gita Bellin
Education is when you read the fine print Experience is what you get if you
dont
- Pete Seeger
Keep your thoughts positive because they become your words
Keep your words positive because they become your behaviors
Keep your behaviors positive because they become your habits
Keep your habits positive because they become your values
Keep your values positive because they become your destiny
-Gandhi
The challenge is not to manage time but to manage ourselves
Stephen Covey
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death It not only gives us
fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which
we hold our present being
~ William Hazlitt
Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith Having
faith in yourself in the process of change and in the new direction that change
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sets will reveal your own inner core of steel
Georgette Mosbacher Business Executive
Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life
Gita Bellin
Careful what you wish for Millions long for immortality who do not know what to
do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon
- Susan Ertz
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us What we have done for
others and the world remains and is immortal
Albert Pine
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us
We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant gorgeous talented fabulous Actually
who are you NOT to be You are a child of God Your playing small does not serve
the world There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont
feel insecure around you We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is
within us It is not just in some of us it is in everyone And as we let our own light
shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same As we are
liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others
~ Marianne Williamson
Focus on where we want to end up not on what we want to avoid
-Paula Underwood Spencer
A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact
that everything has happened for the best
Author Unknown
Change your thoughts and you change the world
- Harold R Mcalindon Today is yesterdays effect and tomorrows cause
~ Phillip Gribble
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find
he can do what he was afraid he couldnt do
~ Henry Ford
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist
- Paul Harvey
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes
up his mind to do We are all capable of greater things than we realize
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)
When everybody is looking for gold its a good time to be in the picks and shovels
business
~ Mark Twain
Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve
lost a part of your life
~ Michael Leboeuf
It is a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you
very often get it
~ W Somerset Maugham
Flatter me and I may not believe you Criticize me and I may not like you Ignore
me and I may not forgive you Encourage me and I will not forget you Love me and
I may be forced to love you
William Arthur Ward
―Trust yourself You know more than you think you do
Benjamin Spock
―A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise
after success
Anon
―Nine tenths of education is encouragement
Anatole Franc
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Maybe you cant change the whole world but if you have love in your heart you can
make small differences every day which really does change the world one life at a
time
Kristina Koncz Customer Experience Specialist
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 (American author The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness)
Truce is better than friction
- Charles Herguth
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them -- a desire a dream a vision
~ Muhammad Ali
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each mans
life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that
take our breath away
~ George Carlin
You can conquer almost any fear if you will make up your mind to do so For
remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind
Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Author and Speaker
Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others
They learn when they do which isnt often on their own the hard way
Robert Heinlein (1907-1988 American science fiction writer)
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the
expense of everybody else
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-Frederic Bastiat
Some think its holding on that makes one strong sometimes its letting go
- Sylvia Robinson We are responsible for what we are and whatever we wish ourselves to be we
have the power to make ourselves If what we are now has been the result of our
own past actions it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be
produced by our present actions so we have to know how to act
~ Swami Vivekananda
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and
make a new ending
~ Maria Robinson
We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves
Brian Tracy (1944- Canadian-born American trainer speaker author businessman)
Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow
- Slovakian Proverb
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know
peace
~Jimi Hendrix Do not wait the time will never be just right
Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your
command and better tools will be found as you go along
~ Napoleon Hill
When we lose the right to be different we lose the privilege to be free
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948 American jurist politician)
You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone which can become a
watered-down occasional hope that youll get to tomorrow Intention without
action is useless
Caroline Myss Author of Entering The Castle
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Plan ahead -- It wasnt raining when Noah built the ark
-Anononymous
Only you can be yourself
No one else is qualified for the job
- Shelby Collinge
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
~ Confucius
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom But in the last analysis our
only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves
~ Bernard M Baruch
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941 Indian poet philosopher)
Worry is the misuse of the imagination
- Dan Zadra
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded
Maya Angelou
Trust yourself Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your
life Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into
flames of achievement
~ Foster C McClellan There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal
experience has brought it home
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873 British philosopher economist)
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall
never sit in
-Greek proverb
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails
- Bertha Calloway
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Democracy arose from mens thinking that if they are equal in any respect they
are equal absolutely
~ Aristotle
Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can
~ Richard Bach
If the world seems cold to you kindle fires to warm it
~ Lucy Larcom All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their
gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible
Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer Physician Hotel Owner and founder of Success Magazine
A Friend is a treasure more precious than Gold For love shared is priceless and
never grows old
Author Unknown
Only that which cannot be taken away by death is real Everything else is unreal it
is made of the same stuff dreams are made of
~Osho
Personality can open doors but only character can keep them open
- Elmer G Leterman
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they
dont know when to quit Most men succeed because they are determined to
~ George Allen Coach
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what
lies within us
~ Walt Emerson Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by
employing it well Then youth will be happy old age without regret and life a
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beautiful success
Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 Novelist Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution
experience lifes deepest joy true fulfillment
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet enough trials to make you
strong enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy
-Anonymous
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the
things we do
- Freya Madeline Stark
We must become the change we want to see
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You know its not more knowledge its not more education its not more facts
that we need Its a better use of what we already have that we need to have You
have each and every one of you within your potential power right now to do a
wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be
respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure
Buddha (568-488 BC Indian born founder of Buddhism)
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change and all patterns alter
- Sharon Salzberg When we let freedom ring when we let it ring from every village and every
hamlet from every state and every city we will be able to speed up that day when
all of Gods children black men and white men Jews and Gentiles Protestants and
Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro
spiritual
Free at last Free at last
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Thank God Almighty we are free at last
~ Reverand Martin Luther King Jr All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them
~ Walt Disney Your own common sense should tell you that common sense alone is not enough
-Ashleigh Brilliant
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and
deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your
place
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
Know what counts
No matter what youve done for yourself or for humanity if you cant look back on
having given love and attention to your own family what have you really
accomplished
- Lee Iacocca
There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen
~ Frederick Faust There are those that look at things the way they are and ask why I dream of
things that never were and ask why not
~ Robert F Kennedy
There is nothing impossible to him who will try
~ Alexander the Great
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance Remember the greatest
failure is to not try Once you find something you love to do be the best at doing
it
Debbi Fields Founder of Mrs Fields Cookies
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left
undone
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars
~ Les Brown
Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been
told is what they cant do They dont know what they want because they dont
know whats available for them
~ Zig Ziglar
Accept that some days youre the pigeon and some days youre the statue
-Anonymous
Be life long or short its completeness depends on what it was lived for
- David Starr Jordan
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life
by altering his attitude
~ William James
It has never been and never will be easy work
But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road
built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
―No matter what anybody tells you words and ideas can change the world
~ John Keating (from the movie Dead Poets Society) hellip Every tomorrow has two handles We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887 American preacher orator writer) The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it
~ Chinese proverb
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Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
~ Thomas Edison
I am always doing things I cant do thats how I get to do them
~ Picasso When you maximize your talents youre on path on purpose on target When you
dont youre off path off purpose off target
Kevin Hall Author of Aspire
Comparisons of ones lot with others teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975 American novelist playwright)
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
While we have the gift of life it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of
us to die - whether it is our spirit our creativity or our glorious uniqueness
- Gilda Radner
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state
of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is
wounded trust impaired
~ Erik H Erikson
Dont go on discussing what a good person should be Just be one
Marcus Aurelius
Our wisdom comes from our experience and our experience comes from our
foolishness
Sacha Guitry
I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery than live in a
world so small that my mind could comprehend it
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Our first teacher is our own heart
Cheyenne proverb
Power coerces
Knowledge persuades
Love converts
Proverb
Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back but so they will kiss their
children and their childrens children
Noah Benshea
We read to know we are not alone
CS Lewis
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better
Albert Einstein
Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always makes
you less than you are
- Malcolm Forbes
When you know that youre capable of dealing with whatever comes you have the
only security the world has to offer
Harry Browne 1933-2006 Writer and Politician
You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never
be ableto repay you
- John Wooden
Freedom know this that every manwoman is free to choose his life and what hell
be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call
persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light in nameless ways be
good and kind but never force the human mind
~ William C Clegg
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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than
the one you are capable of living
~ Nelson Mandela to Marianne Williamson If it werent for the rocks in its bed the stream would have no song
-Carl Perkins
Whenever encountering a troublesome person do not identify him as being cruel
or stupid or rude or anything else like that Instead see him as a frightened
person
Vernon Howard 1918-1992 Author and Philosopher When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it
elsewhere
~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer) Live for the moment
If I have learnt anything it is that life forms no logical patterns It is haphazard
and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by for who knows whether any
of them will ever return
- Margo Fonteyn
Isnt it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings
and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of
tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a
stumbling block or stepping stone
~ Edgar Guest We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit
~ Aristotle
Whatever you can do or dream you can do begin it Boldness has genius power
and magic in it
~ Wolfgang von Goethe Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state Being in love shows a person who he should be ~ Anton Chekhov
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Follow the grain in your own wood
- Howard Thurman
It is said that if you are not living your dreams you are living your fears
~ Ghalil Professional Dreamer
―Dont ask what the world needs Ask what makes you come alive because what the
world needs is people who have come alive
- Harold Thurman
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing
do it with all your mind Put your whole soul to it Stamp it with your own
personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will
accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Essayist Philosopher and Poet
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)
For the most part fear is nothing but an illusion When you share it with someone
else it tends to disappear
- Marilyn C Barrick
The purpose of life is not to arrive safely at your death
- Robert Holden
When everything seems to be going against you remember that theairplane takes
off against the wind not with it
Henry Ford
There are two freedoms the false where a man is free to do what he likes the
true where he is free to do what he ought
~ Charles Kingsley Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one
could find fault with it
John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer)
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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
New ideas pass through three periods
It cant be done
It probably can be done but its not worth doing
I knew it was a good idea all along
-Arthur C Clarke A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you think creates your life all you have to do is ask yourself what you are
willing to accept into your life
~ Ghalil Author - Professional Dreamer
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and
deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your
place
~ Orison Swett Marden Well done is better than well said
~ Benjamin Franklin Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one
could find fault with it
John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer) If youre looking for perfection look in the mirror If you find it there expect it
elsewhere
Malcolm S Forbes (1919-1990 American publisher businessman) Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have
- H Jackson Brown Jr A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things
~ Chinese Proverb
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If we listened to our intellect wed never have a love affair Wed never have a
friendship Wed never go into business because wed be cynical Well thats
nonsense Youve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down
~ Ray Bradbury
Successful people decide how they are going to live they are not victims of
circumstance In good times or bad times they know where they are going and they
know that they are going to get there
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker
First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win
~ Mahatma Gandhi The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing
- Walt Disney 1901-1966 American Film ProducerDirectorAnimator
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas first make him your friend
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
Doubting everything or believing everything are two equally convenient solutions
both of which save us from thinking
-Jules Henri Poincareacute
Dont be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning Thats only the initial
impression The important thing is not to retreat you have to master yourself
Olga Korbut Olympic Gold Medallist Gymnast
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental
difference in someones life
- Sister Mary Rose McGeady All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future
task of the philosopher which is to solve the problem of value to determine the
true hierarchy of values
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him
~ Martin Luther King Dont concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal -
leave that completely to a power greater than yourself All you have to do is know
where youre going The answers will come to you of their own accord and at the
right time
Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Syndicated Radio Announcer and Author
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs
~ Gloria Steinem
Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today
and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American
dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are
created equal
~ Martin Luther King Jr
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you have imagined
David Thoreau Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do
that but the really great make you believe that you too can become great
~ Mark Twain Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure (values) and Ill tell
you their philosophy of life
~ Dale Carnegie To forgive is merely to remember ONLY the LOVING thoughts you gave in the
past and those that were given you ALL the rest must be forgotten
~ A Course In Miracles If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a
prophet
Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904-1991 Journalist and Writer
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us
~ Voltaire
We are all of us stars and we deserve to twinkle
~ Marilyn Monroe
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do
right
~ Nelson Mandela
It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope
is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they
both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society
~J Krishnamurti
Every situation properly perceived becomes an opportunity to heal
~ A Course in Miracles
The love that you withhold in life is the pain that you carry
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as
the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature
John D Rockefeller (1839-1937 American industrialist philanthropist founder Exxon)
All I ask is for an unfair advantage
~ WC Fields Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words Keep your
words positive because your words become your behaviors Keep your behaviors
positive because your behaviors become your habits Keep your habits positive
because your habits become your values Keep your values positive because your
values become your destiny
~Gandhi
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Your ego is creating obstacles Maya creating maya
~Babaji Step back Observe without judgment unconditional Watch now as obstacles
melt become no-thing Do this each time a block appears Step back and observe
without judgment
~Babaji
Everybody cannot be a painter a poet or a geniusthose are given qualities from
birth But everybody can be enlightened Enlightenment is the only thing the only
experience where everybody is equally capable And it does not depend on whether
you believe in God or not it depends only on one thingand that is a little taste (of
meditation) and suddenly you become confident that youre capable of it
~Osho There are no accidents or coincidences in this world Nothing is by chance
Everything you experience is a direct manifestation of where you focus your
attention and hold your vibration
~Jafree When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off
into the darkness of the unknown faith is knowing one of two things will happen
There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly
~ Barbara J Winter High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly make big decisions quickly and
move into action immediately Follow these principles and you can make your dreams
come true
Robert H Schuller Televangelist Pastor and Author
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you but seek out another to console and
you will find consolation
J C Macaulay
High Expectations are the key to everything
~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart
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Until you make peace with who you are youll never be content with what you
have
~ Doris Mortman You must constantly ask yourself these questions Who am I around What are
they doing to me What have they got me reading What have they got me saying
Where do they have me going What do they have me thinking And most
important what do they have me becoming Then ask yourself the big question Is
that okay Your life does not get better by chance it gets better by change
Jim Rohn 1930-2009 Author and Speaker
Believe it You CAN succeed at whatever you do as long as you simply take the
right ACTIONS
~ ER Haas CEO
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do The hard
part is doing it
~ General H Norman Schwarzkopf So let your deepest desires direct your aim Set your sights far above the
reasonable target The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire
that stirs the heart
Price Pritchett Author of You2
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1826-1977 British economist critic)
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or
better than themselves
~ Tryon Edwards
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high
and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it
~ Michelangelo Compared to what we ought to be we are only half awake We are making use of
only a small part of our physical and mental resources Stating the thing broadly
the human individual thus lives far within his limits He possesses power of various
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sorts which he habitually fails to use
William James (1842-1910 American psychologist professor author) People wait for opportunity to come along yet it is there every morning
~ Dennis the Menace A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow
~ George S Patton (1885-1945 American army general during World War II)
The last best fruit which comes to late perfection even in the kindliest soul is
tenderness toward the hard forbearance toward the unforbearing warmth toward
the cold philanthropy toward the misanthropic
~ Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825 German novelist)
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a
prophet
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991 Polish-born American journalist writer)
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than
by those given to us by others
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662 French scientist religious philosopher) Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty
~ John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)
Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect
abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human
laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought
of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will
bring it into being
~Eileen Caddy
Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we
believe And the only real wealth for any of us lies in our faith
~ Gordon B Hinckley
Desire is the Starting Point of All Achievement
~ - Napoleon Hill
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And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to
do the same
Nelson Mandela
The more we have the less we own
Meister Eckhart (1260-1326 German mystic)
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every
pebble in the road
Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887 Preacher and Abolitionist
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength Richard L Evans
The secret of Happiness is Freedom and the secret of Freedom Courage
~ Thucydides (Greek historian 460-404 BC)
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in
the mature than in the young
Paul McCartney SingerSongwriter I cant believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary
Lou Holtz (937- American football coach)
Dont let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he
was
~ Richard L Evans
To dream anything that you want to dream that is the beauty of the human mind
To do anything that you want to do that is the strength of the human will To trust
yourself to test your limits that is the courage to succeed
~ Bernard Edmonds
I find my greatest pleasure and so my reward in the work that precedes what the
world calls success
Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)
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It is good to act as if It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer
an act
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832 British sportsman writer)
Tell me what you want and Ill show you how to get it
~ Bob Proctor
One is very crazy when in love
~ Sigmund Freud
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed Always aim at
purifying your thoughts and everything will be well
Mahatma Gandhi
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything keep it
Mahatma Gandhi Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
Mahatma Gandhi
Hate the sin love the sinner
Mahatma Gandhi
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress
Mahatma Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress
Mahatma Gandhi
True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the
future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied
with what we have which is sufficient for he that is so wants nothing The great
blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach
~ Seneca 4 BC to 65 AD - Spanish Philosopher
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When you paint success pictures in your mind you initiate an inner process
whereby your attitudes hopes aspirations and enthusiasm are elevated in
response to an image of a more promising future Every person who aspires must
first sell themselves hope the promise of a better life
US Andersen 1917-1986 Author of The Magic In Your Mind
How far is far how high is high Well never know until we try
Song from the California Special Olympics If you take each challenge one step at a time with faith in every footstep your
strength and understanding will increase
~ James E Faust
What is your individual purpose What would you like to be able to say is your
legacy I believe that each of us wants to find our purpose in life our raison
detre or reason for being We need to have a motive to get out of bed in the
morning We want to feel alive and passionate about something Something that
makes a difference in the world We are not alone in this and yet many of us are
still searching for that purpose
~ Veronica Hay We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds
Warren Buffett (1930- American investment entrepreneur)
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy but its good too to
check up once in a while and make sure you havent lost the things money cant
buy
George Lorimer 1867-1937 Editor of Saturday Evening Post
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence Talent will not nothing is
more common than unsuccessful men with talent Genius will not unrewarded genius
is almost a proverb Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent
~ Calvin Coolidge
Desperation can be as powerful inspirer as genius
Benjamin Disraeli
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We read to know we are not alone
CS Lewis
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better
Albert Einstein The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the
road after you have shown him the way
Confucius
A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his
grandfather
Angie Papadakis
My father didnt tell me how to live he lived and let me watch him do it
Clarence B Kelland No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing
William Barclay
If you think youre lucky you are
Bobby Dodd
When youre safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when youre
having an adventure you wish you were safe at home
Thornton Wilder Obstacles dont have to stop you If you run into a wall dont turn around and give
up Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it
~ Michael Jordan In order to attain the impossible one must attempt the impossible
~ Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616 Spanish novelist dramatist poet)
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as
the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature
~ John D Rockefeller
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is
when men are afraid of the light
~ Plato
Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by action alone
Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 Philosopher and Author
Poverty is not a shame but the being ashamed of it is
English Proverb
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well
~ Unknown
We need to exert ourselves that much more and break out of the vicious cycle of
dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful those in command of
immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own
image
~ Nelson Mandela
High Expectations are the key to everything
~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart
Failures are expected by losers ignored by winners
~ Joe Gibbs Football Coach Most people live and die with their music still unplayed They never dare to try
Mary Kay Ash
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own
existence
Aristotle
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to
the eye
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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If A equals success then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z
with X being work Y play and Z keeping your mouth shut
~ Albert Einstein
Tomorrows battle is won during todays practice
Japanese Proverb
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days
What you can do or think you can do begin it For boldness has magic power and
genius in it
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Poet Novelist and Scientist
Forget about all the reasons why something may not work You only need to find
one good reason why it will
Dr Robert Anthony
No matter how busy you are you must take time to make the other person feel
important
Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001 American businesswoman founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)
I used to be a very serious not funny negative person Funny-cism Skepticism
Criticism and all Then I got introduced to the world of Positive Thinking Now Im
bipolar
~ Andy Dooley Spiritual Comedian and Professional Speaker
Your past is not your potential In any hour you can choose to liberate the future
Marilyn Ferguson (American writer) Everyone wants to be appreciated so if you appreciate someone dont keep it a
secret
~ Mary Kay Ash 1915-2001 Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds
and these magnets attract to us the forces the people the circumstances of life
which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts
~ Napoleon Hill
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You more often recognize your inadequacies rather than your strengths
~ James E Faust
I live by this credo Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness
instead of sadness Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations Even
in your darkest moment you usually can find something to laugh about if you try
hard enough
Red Skelton 1913-1997 Comedian
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth
George W Crane Some self-confronting questions
Where do I want to be at any given time
How am I going to get there
What do I have to do to get myself from where
I am to where I want to be
Whats the first small step I can take to get moving
~ George A Ford The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can
bribe the public with the publics money
- Alexis de Tocqueville The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race
~ Don Marquis At the height of laughter the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new
possibilities
-- Jean Houston Begin to weave and God will give you the thread
~ German Proverb If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who
are rich
John F Kennedy (1917-1963 35th American President)
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If you keep THINKING what you are thinking you will keep DOING what you are
doing and you will keep GETTING what you are getting
~ Dr Robert Anthony The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world
~ Lao-tzu Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to
let them know that you trust them
Booker T Washington 1856-1915 Educator and Writer ―Stress is the tax you pay for not taking 100 responsibility for your life
mdashDr Barnet Meltzer Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it
~ Irving Berlin It is by surmounting difficulties not by sinking under them that we discover our
fortitude
~ Hannah Webster Foster
Believing requires action
~ James E Faust
Dont do anything in practice that you wouldnt do in the game
George Halas (1895-1983 American football coach)
Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to reach for the
roof and land in the garbage
~ Savanna Skinner
Whatever you focus your intention on is what will show up in your life
Your consistent thoughts create your consistent results
~ Dr Robert Anthony
He who gains a victory over other men is strong but he who gains a victory over
himself is all powerful
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Lao-Tzu (BC 600- Chinese philosopher founder of Taoism) His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the
memory of a wrong
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great masters merit emulation not worship
-- Alan Cohen
Mirth is Gods medicine Everybody ought to bathe in it
-- Henry Ward Beecher
Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things but just look what they can do
when they stick together
~ anon
Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you
are and what you want
-- Alan Cohen
Life isnt about waiting for the storm to pass its about learning to dance in the
rain
~Anonymous
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call
failure is not the falling down but the staying down
Mary Pickford 1893-1979 Actress and Producer
Courage does not always roar Sometimes courage is that quiet voice at the end of
the day that saysI will try again tomorrow
-Mary Anne Radmacher
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act or thought or word that raises
us above ourselves
~ Arthur P Stanley
―You see things and say Whylsquo but I dream things and say Why notlsquo
- George Bernard Shaw
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―The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and
convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges
- Martin Luther King Jr
―Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do
that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great
- Mark Twain
―That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as
well
- Abraham Lincoln
―Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though
checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor
suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat
- Theodore Roosevelt
―Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm
- Winston Churchill
―I have not failed Ilsquove just found 10000 ways that wonlsquot work
- Thomas Edison If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun
--Katharine Hepburn
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees
problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems
~ Winston Churchill
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but
are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults
seem insignificant
Charles A Cerami Author
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If everyone on earth loved each other the earth would shine brighter than the
sun
-- Source unknown
As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again you are
merely a vague guest on a dark Earth
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So many worlds so much to do so little done such things to be
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy nothing can make a fool content
that is why most men are miserable
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer)
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live
~ Flora Whittemore 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 1880-1968 Author and Lecturer Where theres a will theres a way
English Proverb A manwoman without ambition is dead
A man with ambition but no love is dead
A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive
~Pearl Bailey We cant help everyone but everyone can help someone
~ Ronald Reagan
We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we
cannot
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
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Once you realize you dont need anything youre free to have whatever you want
- Ian Watson
Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy ~ Norman Vincent Peale Every goal every action every thought every feeling one experiences whether it
be consciously or unconsciously known is an attempt to increase ones level of
peace of mind
~ Sidney Madwed
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so For
remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind
Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Speaker and Author Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes
Chinese Proverb
―Focus your attention on your desire
not the situation that gave birth to your desire
mdashRich German Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone
and let your hand give in proportion to your purse
~ George Washington
Time I have only just a minute
Only sixty seconds in it
Forced upon me cant refuse it
Didnt seek it didnt choose it
But its up to me to use it
I must suffer if I lose it
Give account if I abuse it
Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it
~ Christine Warren
Do what you can with what you have where you are
~ Theodore Roosevelt
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With every adversity comes a seed of equal or greater opportunity
~ Napoleon Hill
Heart is merely another name for the Supreme Spirit because He is in all hearts
The entire Universe is condensed in the body and the entire body in the Heart
Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
―If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back then
you suffer Every moment is the most important moment of your life No future
time is better than now to let down your guard and love
~ David Deida
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for youll be criticized anyway Youll
be damned if you do and damned if you dont
~ Eleanor Roosevelt Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
~ John Wooden
One difference between successful people and all the rest is that successful
people take action
~ Bob Proctor Speaker and Author
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left Every
mans greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life
~ P W Litchfield ―There is a giant asleep within every man When the giant awakes miracles happen
~ Frederick Faust Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of
itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as
powerful as your desires unless you make them so
Marcia Wieder Author and Speaker
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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning by dreams that need
completion by pure love that needs expressing then we truly live life
~ Greg Anderson Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you
Never excuse yourself
~ Henry Ward Beecher There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge
- both poverty and riches are offspring of thought
~ Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich The person with a fixed goal a clear picture of his desire or an ideal always
before him causes it through repetition to be buried deeply in his subconscious
mind and is thus enabled thanks to its generative and sustaining power to realize
his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort Just pursue
the thought unceasingly Step by step you will achieve realization for all your
faculties and powers become directed to that end
~ Claude M Bristol Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake
~ Henry David Thoreau If opportunity doesnt knock build a door
~ Milton Berle Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am
not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise
not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our quality of life incidence
of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak It is born of strength and
understanding
-- Meher Baba Unworthiness is simply a case of mistaken identity
-- Alan Cohen
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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet
-- Mahatma Gandhi If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march
on
-- Stopford Brooke It is usually the imagination that is wounded first rather than the heart it being
much more sensitive
~ Henry David Thoreau You need not struggle for your good Your good flows to you naturally when you are
relaxed open and trusting
-- Alan Cohen If you dont love it you cant afford it
Alan Cohen
Ask for peace first and you will clearly see your next step
-- Alan Cohen I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited
and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts Namely the physical universe
-- Ken Jenkins Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional
~ Mark Sanborn Life isnt what you want it to be its what you make it become
~ Anthony Ryan
If you are very quiet you can hear the world applauding
--Source unknown
Do you remember how electrical currents and unseen waves were laughed at
The knowledge about man is still in its infancy
~ Albert Einstein
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Wherever you go go with all your heart
~ Confucius I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up Most people in this
business gave up and went on to other things If you simply didnt give up you
would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you
Harrison Ford Actor
The quality of your life is determined by the number of uncomfortable
conversations you are willing to have
~ Rich German
To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define
themselves As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate
influences of the culture and environment we grow up in we come to have beliefs
about the nature of being human These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of
our psychosomatic systems our minds and brains our nervous systems our
endocrine systems and even our blood and sinews We act speak and think
according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems
~ Jeremy W Hayward
A mans true wealth is the good he does in the world Mohammed (c570-c632
Mecca spiritual leader
Every man is the architect of his own fortune
~ Sallust
What is opportunity and when does it knock
It never knocks
You can wait a whole lifetime listening hoping and you will hear no knocking
None at all
You are opportunity and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny
You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity to pursue and seize opportunity as
you develop the strength of your personality and build a self-image with which you
are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing
~ Maxwell Maltz
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Today I would like to become the man my dog thinks I am
Jack Thomson Entrepreneur BE the change you want to see in the world
- Mahatma Gandhi
Leaders are made they are not born They are made by hard effort
which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile
~ Vince Lombardi To honor the spirit is to accept the opportunity for your healing and personal
evolution When you choose to assume radical personal responsibility knowing that
you are responsible for the effect external circumstances have on you you are
taking a stand for the power of your spiritual nature to run the show
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think Its really important that you feel good Because this feeling good is what goes
out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you So the
more you can feel good the more you will attract the things that help you feel
good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher
Joe Vitale Author and Speaker Just listen to the still voice within This is the mind to trust This is god
consciousness speaking not the ego that is seeking recognition
~Angela Walker
There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart If you pray it it will
change your life How does it begin
-- Matthew Anderson
For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin but there was
always some obstacle in the way Something had to be got through first some
unfinished business time still to be served a debt to be paid Then life would
begin At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life
~ Bette Howland
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power then the world will know
peace
Jimmy Hendrix There are two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the
credit Try to be in the first group there is less competition there
Indira Gandhi Its good to have money and all the things that money can buy but its good too to
make sure you havent lost the things that money cant buy George
Horace Lorimer When you take things for granted the things you are granted get taken
Phil Hennessy Self-confidence is a state of mind where you believe that you deserve the best
you are capable of achieving the best and furthermore you expect the best to
happen
--- Dr Barnet Meltzer Writing is good thinking is better Cleverness is good patience is better
~ Hermann Hesse
You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the
greatness you perceive in them is your own
-- Alan Cohen
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their
gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible
Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday If you do it right today
--Sheldon S Maye
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength
not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will
~ Vince Lombardi
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The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too
-- William Hutchinson Murray
Youve got to get up every morning with determination if youre going to
go to bed with satisfaction
-- George Horace Lorimer Faith is born of Definiteness of Purpose
Keep your mind on the things that you do want and off the things that you do not
want
~ Unknown You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals
George S Patton 1885-1945 American Army General
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have
thrown at him
~ David Brinkley
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough
~ Helen Keller
If what you did yesterday seems big you havent done anything
today
Lou Holtz
Dont wait for extraordinary opportunities Seize common occasions and make
them great Weak menwomen wait for opportunities strong menwomen make
them
~ Orison Swett Marden
The recognition you seek from others is really the recognition you seek from
yourself Give it to yourself and you wont need it from others
-- Alan Cohen Ninety percent of the population wish positive but think negative
~ Leslie Householder
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You are more likely to create success when you are relaxed about a result than
when you are uptight about it
-- Alan Cohen Embrace Change True success can be defined by your ability to adapt to
changing circumstances
-- Connie Sky Aim High The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for
what we could become
-- Charles Du Bos Dont ask for an easier life ask to be a stronger person
Shared by Kristen Goeser
Your consciousness is a powerful force for creating It determines the people you
are attracted to and the people who are attracted to you If you want to improve
your lot in life or the quality of your relationships choosing to accept personal
responsibility is the first and most important step
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise it is all
over Bolt up at once
-- Sir Walter Scott
You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you cant have it
- Dr Robert Anthony Live so that you wouldnt be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip
Will Rogers 1879-1935 Comedian and Actor
Everyone rides on the merry go round of life but very few ever take the chance
at the brass ring
-- Kevin Veitch
We gain internal freedom through external actions
- Ram Dass
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Everyone was born original but most people die copies
~ Unknown Without passion you dont have energy without energy you have nothing Nothing
great in the world has been accomplished without passion
~ Donald Trump When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened before us
~ Helen Keller
I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody
Bill Cosby Comedian Actor and Author Give up your identity as a seeker and become a finder Then everything you ever
sought will find you
-- Alan Cohen
The reason we put a lot of emphasis on action is because we do not understand the
power of our thought If you analyze it 90 percent of most peoples actions
are spent trying to compensate for inappropriate thought
~ Dr Robert Anthony Prosperity lets go the bridle
-- George Herbert
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered
heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed They won because they refused to
become discouraged by their defeats
Bertie Charles Forbes 1880-1954 Financial Journalist Author and Founder of Forbes Magazine He who jumps to conclusions falls to their death
-- Mark J Ottaviani Im not a believer in nor the advocate of miracles for the reason that I
have enough knowledge of nature to understand that nature never deviates from
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her established laws Her laws are simply so incomprehensible that they produce
what appears to be miracles
~ Napoleon Hill Learn to listen Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly
Frank Tyger
Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can as long as
ever you can
John Wesley Work like you dont need the money Love like youve never been hurt Dance like
nobody is watching
-- Mark Twain
You believe that a lover will bring you love but it is your love that will bring you a
lover
-- Alan Cohen
The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you
The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting The
more joyful you are the more Well-being flows to you
~Abraham-Hicks What nourishes you is not vitamins in food It is the joy you feel in eating it
-- Ramtha
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this
decide what you want
Ben Stein Attorney Author Actor and Commentator
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure to embrace
the new But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful There is
more security in the adventurous and exciting for in movement there is life and in
change there is power
mdashAlan Cohen
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Vision without action is a daydream Action without vision is a nightmare
-- Japanese Proverb
Success is the result of applying sound principles which align with universal laws
The Science of Success is a powerful road map to guarantee your personal
success
~ Brian Tracy
Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to
die
-- Alan Cohen
There are 3 things that are certain in life death taxes and change You cant
avoid change its mandatory progress however is optional
-- Bill R Good Jr
Surrender the illusion that anyone other than you has power or authority over
your life
Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either
openly before us or close to us
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You must be the change you want to see in the world
~ Gandhi
Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a
friendly level
~ Max L Forman
If you want your life to be a magnificent story then begin by realizing that you
are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page
-- Mark Houlahan
If you want to develop in profound and significant ways it is essential that you
build up a reservoir of spiritual and emotional conviction a source of boundless
freedom that will give you the energy to transcend the apparent limitations of
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your own emotional psychological and cultural experience By practicing
meditation with deadly seriousness you cultivate that freedom and conviction in
no-limitation as a reference point Thats the only reason to meditate in the
context of Evolutionary Enlightenment
mdash Andrew Cohen
If our actions stem from honesty kindness caring and vision then no matter
what the result of our efforts we have added something of value to our souls and
to the world
~ Joan Boysenko
Too often the opportunity knocks but by the time you push back the chain push
back the bolt unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm its too late
~ Rita Coolidge We are formed and molded by our thoughts
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them
~ Buddha
We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of the
soul
~ John OlsquoDonohue
No onelsquos past has to be a prison sentence Forgiveness provides the key to
acknowledge the past and move on When we can forgive we have less to be afraid
of
~ Dr Fred Luskin
Isnlsquot it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings
and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of
tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a
stumbling block or stepping stone
~ Edgar Guest
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly
~ Richard Bach
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I donlsquot wait for moods
You accomplish nothing if you do that Our mind must know it has got to get down
to work
~ Pearl S Buck
There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen
~ Fred Faust
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the
risk it took to bloom
~ Anais Nin
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear
~ Nelson Mandela
Itlsquos not about breaking the rules
It is about abandoning the concept of rules altogether
~ Paul Lemberg
Each moment of our life we either invoke or destroy our dreams
~ Stuart Wilde
Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts This is the
secret of success
Swami Sivananda
Whatever you do do it as totally as possible
Osho
I am not afraidhellipI was born to do this
~Joan of Arc
―There is nothing that you cannot be do or have
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
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―Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing
do it with all your might Put your whole soul into it Stamp it with your own
personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will
accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Success is never final Failure is never fatal It is courage that counts
~ Winston Churchill
What are you tolerating that would not be a part of your ideal day
-- Alan Cohen Trust yourself You know more than you think you do
-- Dr Benjamin Spock True friends and healers do not limit your options They expand them
-- Alan Cohen When it comes to staying young a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day
-- Marty Bucella Achievement seems to be connected with action Successful men and women keep
moving They make mistakes but they dont quit
Conrad Hilton 1887-1979 Founder of Hilton Hotels Successful people form the habit of doing what failures dont like to do They like
the results they get by doing what they dont necessarily enjoy
Earl Nightingale1921-1989 Author and Syndicated Radio Personality When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent
you are clear
Janet AttwoodAuthor of The Passion Test The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it
Chinese proverb
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by
changing the inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their
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lives
~ William James
Never look up to the people who have the painted-perfect lives because try as
they might they can never see beyond the canvas
~ Moira Hallsom
Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born
~ Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body
~ Pythagoras
If life gives you lemons make lemonade
~ Joan Collins
The only place where dreams are impossible is in your own mind
~ Emalie
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions But no man has
a right to be wrong in his facts
~ Bernard M Baruch
Begin to weave and God will give you the thread
~ German Proverb
No day in which you learn something is a complete loss
~ David Eddings
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we
are and what we can be igniting the circuits of our highest potential
-- Rusty Berkus
The optimist says we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears
this is true
-- Source Unknown
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If I had listened to the critics Id have died drunk in the gutter
-- Chekov
Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice It is not a thing to be
waited for it is a thing to be achieved
-- Jeremy Kitson
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental
difference in someones life
- Sister Mary Rose McGeady
One never knows what each day is going to bring The important thing is to be
open and ready for it
- Henry Moore
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in
the same individual
- Arthur Koestler
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it
- Lou Holtz Motivation is like food for the brain You cannot get enough in one sitting It needs continual and
regular top ups
~ Peter Davies
Dont tell me how hard you work
Tell me how much you get done
~ James Ling
Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures
dont like to do
~ Albert Gray
―There is a science of getting rich and it is an exact science like algebra or arithmetic There
are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches and once these laws are learned
and obeyed by anyone that person will get rich with mathematical certainty ~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
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―Everything you want should be yours the type of work you want the relationships you need
the social mental and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled the money
you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you and any requirement that you may (or
may not) have for achievement or service to others If you donlsquot aim for it all youlsquoll never get it
all To aim for it requires that you know what you want ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle ―Eliminate the word impossible from your thinking and speaking vocabularies Impossible is a
failure word The thought ―Itlsquos impossible sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove
youlsquore right ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in accomplishment Big in
income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right now to discover how to make your
thinking make magic for you Start out with this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli ―Life
is too short to be little ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―If you have a big problem in your life all that means is that you are being a small person ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind ―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo for success
nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make much of a difference ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you If God gives you a bucket of fish you
have to distribute those fish If you donlsquot theylsquore going to rot attract a bunch of flies and
start stinking up your soul ~ Russell Simmons from Do You ―In my experience therelsquos only one thing that will always steer you toward success Thatlsquos to
have a vision and to stick with ithellip Once I have a vision for a new venture Ilsquom going to ride that
vision until the wheels come off ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by changing the
inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their lives
~ William James
There is no courage without fear
~ Eddie Rickenbacher
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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make who would you call and what
would you say And why are you waiting
-- Stephen Levine
Remember we all stumble every one of us Thats why its a comfort to go hand in hand
~ Emily Kimbrough The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding
~ the Bible
The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives
~ Louise Hay
The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation
~ Comer Cotrell
Give it all youve got because you never know if theres going to be a next time
~ Danielle Ingrum
Dont try to force anything Let life be a deep let-go God opens millions of flowers everyday
without forcing their buds
~Osho
The definition of Insanity is Doing the Same Things Over and Over Again and Expecting Different
Results
~ Albert Einstein
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us This little treasure
has great great powers and I would say we only have learnt a very very small part of what it can
do
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work
~ John G Pollard
Vacation is a state of mind not an action
-- Alan Cohen
Whatever games are played with us we must play no games with ourselves
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Desperation does not recognize your power to choose
-- Alan Cohen
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When people talk listen completely Most people never listen
-- Ernest Hemingway
Heaven is gained or lost not by dramatic deeds but by the simple of acts of daily living
-- Alan Cohen
There is only one voice worth listening to
--Alan Cohen Reverie is not a mind vacuum It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul
--Gaston Bachelard
Why get rich quick when you can be rich now
-- Alan Cohen
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure
-- Joseph Campbell
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes
-- Henry Kaiser
Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of
another
Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister
When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent you are clear
Janet Attwood Author of The Passion Test
New peace harmony and power fill your relationships when you practice radical personal
responsibility Through it you enter a more refined sphere of relating that enhances your life and
accelerates the realization of your ultimate spiritual self Practicing radical personal responsibility
forever changes the way you approach and resolve conflict
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The Cure for the Common Upset (p 10)
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and
discomfort We spend enormous energy denying our insecurity fighting pain death and loss and
hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature
- Jack Kornfield A Path with Heart
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Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am not aware of
any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has
a greater impact on our quality of life incidence of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant they is a fuel in us which needs
to be ignited with sparks
Johann Gottfried Von Herder
Energy is the essence of life Every day you decide how youre going to use it by
knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal and by maintaining
focus
-Oprah Winfrey
The acquisition of wealth is no longer a driving force in the 24th century We
strive to better ourselves and the rest of humanity
-- From the movie Star Trek Insurrection
―You cannot exercise much power without gratitude for it is gratitude that keeps
you connected with Power
~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
―To do things in a way you want to do them you will have to acquire the ability to
think the way you want to think this is the first step toward getting rich
~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
―There are three crucial dimensions to your explanatory style permanence
pervasiveness and personalization
~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism
―Habits of thinking need not be forever One of the most significant findings in
psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they
think
~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism
―Action always beats inaction ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
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―Itlsquos not enough to be in the right place at the right time You have to be the right person in the
right place at the right time ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Every thought vibrates every thought radiates a signal and every thought
attracts a matching signal back We call that process the Law of Attraction The
Law of Attraction says That which is like unto itself is drawn And so you might
see the powerful Law of Attraction as a sort of Universal Manager that sees to it
that all thoughts that match one another line up
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
―It is our desire that you become one who is happy with that which you are and
with that which you havemdashwhile at the same time being eager for more That is the
optimal creative vantage point To stand on the brink of what is coming feeling
eager optimistic anticipationmdashwith no feelings of impatience doubt or
unworthiness hindering the receiving of itmdashthat is the Science of Deliberate
Creation at its best
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
―As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around you come to see that every
perceived problem appearing ―out there is really nothing more than a
misperception within your own thinking
~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is
―The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is
When the mind is perfectly clear what is is what we want
~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself You must be
able to sustain yourself against staggering blows There is no code of conduct to
help beginners That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner
drive go much further than people with vastly superior talent
Sophia Loren Actress
And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your
years
-- Abraham Lincoln
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Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by
holding grudges harboring resentments and nursing unhealed wounds It is
rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to
understand and accept other people and ourselves
~ Sidney and Suzanne Simon
Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity
Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Poet and Physiognomist People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do
things When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success
Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Speaker and Author Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to
believe in me
Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author
With love in you your only need is to extend it
-- A Course in Miracles
Just because it ended doesnt mean it failed
-- Alan Cohen
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find
it
-- George Moore
Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality
-- Alan Cohen
Our biggest problems cannot be resolved They must be outgrown
-- Carl Jung
True prayer penetrates beyond hope and establishes itself in knowing
-- Alan Cohen
So we see to play successfully the game of life we must train the imaging faculty
A person with an imaging faculty trained to image only good brings into his life
every righteous desire of his heart - health wealth love friends perfect self-
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expression his highest ideals
mdash Florence Scovel Shinn
Dont ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it
Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
mdashHoward Thurman
To the degree were not living our dreams our comfort zone has more control of
us than we have over ourselves
-- Peter McWilliams
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams
-- Doug Ivester (President of Coca Cola)
It is not length of life but depth of life
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them but
to reveal their own
-- Author Unknown
A free lunch is only found in mousetraps
-- John Capuzzi
If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you dont you
have achieved half your failure
-- David Ambrose
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesnt lie in not reaching your
goal The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach It isnt a calamity to die with
dreams unfulfilled but it is a calamity not to dream It is not a disaster to be
unable to capture your ideal but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture It is
not a disgrace not to reach the stars but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach
for Not failure but low aim is a sin
~ Benjamin E Mayes
True success is a state of mindThis mindset is the heart and soul of successful
entrepreneurial enterprise You cant get started without it and you cant make a
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business wildly profitable if you dont get it
~ Unknown
Traditional education will make you a living self-education will make you a
fortune
~ Jim Rohn One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests
~ John Stuart Mill
Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different Rather than wasting
time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we dont have what we
want we can start to pursue other ways to get it
~ Greg Anderson
When you confront a problem you begin to solve it
~ Rudy Guilliani ―Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential And to
do that I insist you throw caution at the wind ignore the pleas of parents
coaches spouses and bosses to be realisticlsquo Realistic people do not accomplish
extraordinary things because the odds of success stymie them The best
performers ignore the odds I will show that instead of limiting themselves to
whatlsquos probable the best will pursue the heart-pounding exciting really big
difference-making dreamsmdashso long as catching them might be possible
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―To be sure great performers are well trained experienced smart and in some
cases divinely talented But the way their brains work during a performance is a
lot more like a squirrellsquos than like Einsteinlsquos Like squirrels the best in every
business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilitiesmdashthey
flat out trust their skills which is why we call this high-performance state of mind
the ―Trusting Mindset Routine access to the Trusting Mindset is what separates
great performers from the rest of the pack
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―In every forest on every farm in every orchard on earth itlsquos whatlsquos under the
ground that creates whatlsquos above the ground Thatlsquos why placing your attention on
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the fruits that you have already grown is futile You cannot change the fruits that
are already hanging on the tree You can however change tomorrowlsquos fruits But to
do so you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Believe that you are the one who creates your success that you are the one who
creates your mediocrity and that you are the one creating your struggle around
money and success
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―8020 thinking requires and with practice enables us to spot the few really important things
that are happening and ignore the mass of unimportant things It teaches us to see the wood
for the trees ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle
―The few things that work fantastically well should be identified cultivated nurtured and
multiplied
~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle
―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a journey The
master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after year The master is the one
who is willing to try and fail and try again for as long as he or she lives ~ George Leonard from Mastery
―Whenever you feel shortlsquo or in needlsquo of something give what you want first and it will come
back in buckets That is true for money a smile love friendship I know it is often the last
thing a person may want to do but it has always worked for me I just trust that the principle
of reciprocity is true and I give what I want ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―One dad would sayThe love of money is the root of all evillsquo The other The lack of money is
the root of all evillsquo ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall every step we
take just gets us to the wrong place faster
Stephen Covey
Becoming a star may not be in your destiny but being the best
that you can be is a goal you can set for yourselves
Bryan Lindsay
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Be yourself Who else is better qualified
Frank J Giblin II
Do not learn from your mistakes learn from the mistakes of others
to that you do not make any
Sean Karsten
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower
Shigenori Kameoka
Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to believe in me
Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author
Upsets always contain the gift of learning except most people have never learned how to unwrap
the package
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is
causing anxiety
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970 British philosopher mathematician essayist) Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes
Chinese Proverb
We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we cannot
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
Dont measure yourself by what you have accomplished but by what you should have accomplished
with your ability
John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)
Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty
John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)
Something good is already happening Can you discover it
-- Alan Cohen
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if theyve got a second Give your
dreams all youve got and youll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you
William James 1842-1910 Philosopher and Author
Out of suffering comes creativity You cannot spell painting without pain
-- John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun
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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the
future are not as real but rather more real than the present
- Alan Watts
Boldness has genius power and magic in it Begin it now
~ Goethe
―In the heart of Emptiness there is a mysterious impulse mysterious because
there is actually nothing in the heart of Emptiness (for there is nothing in
Emptiness period) Yet there it is this mysterious impulse the impulse to hellip
create To sing to shine to radiate to send forth reach out and celebrate to
sing and shout and walk about to effervesce and bubble over this mysterious
exuberance in the heart of Emptiness
~ Ken Wilber from One Taste July 31
―Evolution goes beyond what went before but because it must embrace what went
before then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus it has an inherent
directionality a secret impulse toward increasing depth increasing intrinsic value
increasing consciousness In order for evolution to move at all it must move in
those directionsmdashtherelsquos no place else for it to go
~ Ken Wilber from A Brief History of Everything
The secret of being boring is to say everything
- Voltaire 1694-1778 French Writer and Philosopher
―Donlsquot let what you canlsquot do stop you from what you can do
- John Wooden
―You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the
shore
- Christopher Columbus
―Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
- Confucius
―A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed
- Henrik Ibsen
―It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities
- JK Rowling
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―If you are going through hell keep going
- Winston Churchill
―Yesterday is history Tomorrow is a mystery Today Today is a gift Thatlsquos why
we call it the present
- B Olatunji
―To live is the rarest thing in the world Most people exist thatlsquos all
- Oscar Wilde
―You donlsquot get to choose how you are going to die Or when You can only decide how
you are going to live Now
- Joan Baez
―When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us
- Helen Keller
―Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limited Imagination
encircles the world
- Albert Einstein
―If you want to be happy be
- Leo Tolstoy
―Always do right This will gratify some people and astonish the rest
- Mark Twain
―We must be the change we want to see
- Gandhi
―The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most I can better trust those
who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to
enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity
- Ulysses S Grant
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―Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting
- Elizabeth Bibesco
―The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort but
where he stands at times of conflict and controversy
- Martin Luther King Jr
―Begin doing what you want to do now We are not living in eternity We have only
this moment sparkling like a star in our hand ndash and melting like a snow flake
- MB Ray
―I shall pass through this life but once Any good therefore that I can do let me
do it now Let me not defer or neglect it For I shall never pass this way again
- Etienne de Grellet
―This above all To your own self be true
- William Shakespeare
―To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make
you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight
and never stop fighting
- EE Cummings
―In three words I can sum up what Ilsquove learned about life It goes on
- Robert Frost
―Imagine
- John Lennon
You can if you think you can
George Reeves
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile
achievement
Henry Ford 1863-1947 Industrialist
No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself
-- Conrado I Generoso
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When I am delivering my very best then that is when I feel successful
~ Art Fettig
The only limitations you will ever have are the ones you put on yourself
~ Kristinna Habashy
The secret of manwomans being is not only
to live but to have something to live for
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
To hell with circumstances I create opportunities
~ Bruce Lee
Simplicity is making the journey of this life
with just baggage enough
~ Charles Dudley Warner
I dont think theres any such thing as setting your goals too high The higher you
set your goals the more you are going to work If you dont reach them then its
okay just as long as you set it and then give 100 of yourself
~ Dan Jansen Speed Skater
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the circle of Creation
is completed inside us the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal
everything in sight
~ Michael Bridge
Youlsquore darn tootinlsquo Ilsquom going to bring out the best in you You are the best
― Maureen Coleman middle school teacher
Truth is rarely writ in ink It lives in nature
-- Martin H Fischer
Before planning where you want to go decide who you want to be
-- Alan Cohen
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day wisdom consists in not
exceeding the limit
-- Elbert Hubbard
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere
-- Alan Cohen
When the Japanese mend broken objects they fill the cracks with gold They
believe that when somethings suffered damage and has a history it becomes more
beautiful
-- Barbara Bloom
Efficiency without love is not really efficient
-- Alan Cohen
The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively
-- A Course in Miracles
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than
any other one thing
Laura Ingalls Wilder 1867-1957 Author
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as
few as there are any other great artists It might even be the greatest of the arts
since the medium is the human mind and spirit
John Steinbeck 1902-1968 Writer and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Be careful what you spend your day touching because it will shape your mind your
body and your heart
Sam Keen Speaker and Author
I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in
the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he has imagined he will
meet with success unexpected in common hours
Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Writer and Poet
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out
― Michael Burke
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Turn frustration into fascination
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
Money is not the source of life It is an expression or by-product of doing what
brings you life
-- Alan Cohen
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but
sand the angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are gone
- George Elliot
Proceed when clear
-- Alan Cohen
Slow down and enjoy life Its not only the scenery you miss by going too fast --
you also miss the sense of where you are going and why
Eddie Cantor
Life is here to enjoy The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness When it
appears otherwise you are off the path of destiny Look at your life and ask
What do I need to change to choose in favor of my passions
Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life Be happy now Dont wait for something
outside of yourself to make you happy in the future Think how really precious is
the time you have to spend whether its at work or with your family Every minute
should be enjoyed and savored
Earl Nightingale
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life It turns what we have into enough and
more It turns denial into acceptance chaos into order confusion into clarity It
turns problems into gifts failures into success the unexpected into perfect
timing and mistakes into important events Gratitude makes sense of our past
brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow
Melodie Beattie Writer
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Devotion is commitment at a deep cellular level When you are devoted the
universe will align itself to give you what you desire
Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion
Action breeds confidence and courage If you want to conquer fear do not sit
home and think about it Go out and get busy
~ Dale Carnegie
The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all
the world
~Ramana Maharshi
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be
~Daniel J Boorstin
The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively
from his own resources
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire
not things we fear
~ Brian Tracy
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game and no matter how
great your talent there is only one way to obtain it-work
~ Jack Nicklaus Golfer
A goal without a plan is merely a WISH without a HOPE
~ Unknown
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan in which we must
fervently believe and upon which we must vigorously act There is no other route
to success
~ Stephen A Brennan
Knowledge breeds doubt Wisdom births wonder
Alan Cohen
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When you decide what you want it has to manifestbut only at the level of your
belief
Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion
Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity
- John Dryden
It may make people feel more secure when everyone agrees with them but it
wont create a world made rich by the unique and diverse expressions of the human
soul
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
Choice is destinys soul mate
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Truth is a gem of many facets Each facet reflects the brilliance within and
without But the whole reveals a deeper more profound message than all the parts
by themselves
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
He who knows others is wise he who knows himself is enlightened
- Tao Te Ching
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to
our tasks
-- Helen Keller
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret
-- Ambrose Bierce
We must all suffer one of two things the pain of discipline or the pain of regret
or disappointment
-- Jim Rohn
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Many risks fail because they were not taken in time Too many risks are postponed
until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made This does not mean that one
should say Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead That is foolish and self-
destructive But dont sit back waiting for the perfect moment It almost never
comes
-- David Viscott Risking
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter
-- E E Cummings
Reflect upon your blessings of which every man has plenty not on your past
misfortunes of which all men have some
-- Charles Dickens
What the caterpillar calls the end the rest of the world calls a butterfly
-- Lao Tsu
Out of difficulties grow miracles
-- Jean De La Bruyere
Our patience will achieve more than our force
-- Edmund Burke
You must pay in the past to receive in the future
-- Taylor Simpson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what
lies within us
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why Why Not Why Not You Why Not Now
-- Aslan
To become a leader then you must become yourself become the maker of your
own life
--Warren G Bennis
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You have got to discover you what you do and trust it
Barbra Streisand
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the
circle of Creation is completed inside us the doors of our souls
fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight
Michael Bridge
Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean but the
ocean would be less without that missing drop
Mother Teresa
You dont just stumble into the future You create your own future
Roger Smith
Just dont give up on trying to do what you really want to do
Where there is love and inspiration I dont think you can go
wrong
Ella Fitzgerald
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot
do
Walter Bagehot
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser
John W Gardner
Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life
forever
Keri Russell
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while
so that we can see Life with a clearer view again
Alex Tan
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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine
inspiration
Marcus T Cicero
Youve got to follow your passion Youve got to figure out what
it is you love--who you really are And have the courage to do
that
Oprah Winfrey
Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love
mdashRich German
Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small
things brought together
- Vincent Van Gogh
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark The real tragedy is when
men are afraid of the light
-- Plato
If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being
most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of
persistence
Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway
Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right
stuff to turn our dreams into reality
~James Womack
No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn
-- Hal Borland
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge
of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams
- Les Brown
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on
We act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because
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of imagination
- Maxwell Maltz
There is a sleeping giant in you Release it Believe in yourself
~ Bob Proctor
Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste
neither time nor money but make the best use of both
-- Benjamin Franklin
When you talk to God thats prayer When God talks back its schizophrenia
-- Lily Tomlin
Work is not a substitute for love It is an avenue of loves expression
-- Alan Cohen
Look beyond peoplelsquos appearances
Look beyond the roles one plays and the mask they wear
Look deep into their eyes and peer into their soul
There you will find their true essence
There you will find your true essence
And that essence is love
mdashRich German
Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love
mdashRich German
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a
life spent doing nothing
George Bernard Shaw
Formula for success under promise and over deliver
Tom Peters
Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right things
Peter F Drucker
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Be the change that you want to see in the world
Mahatma Gandhi
Creating space is as important as filling it
-- Alan Cohen
Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words may guide you to the door of heaven but only silence opens it
-- Alan Cohen
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing
Bernard Shaw
Formula for success under promise and over deliver
Tom Peters
Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right
things
Peter F Drucker
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge
of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams
- Les Brown
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works onWe
act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because of
imagination
- Maxwell Maltz
No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn
-- Hal Borland
There is a sleeping giant in you
Release it Believe in yourself
~ Bob Proctor
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Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste
neither time nor money but make the best use of both
-- Benjamin Franklin
Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right
stuff to turn our dreams into reality
~James Womack
If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being
most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of
persistence
Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway
The best way to teach people is by telling a story
Jonathan Swift
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody else has thought
Kenneth Blanchard
All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it
-Samuel Butler
Happiness is like a cat If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you It will never
come
But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business youll find it rubbing
up against your legs and jumping into your lap
- William Bennett
The word impossible is only in the mind and not in the heart
- Sri Chinmoy
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another it is the only
means
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Physicist
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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone
And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone
Paul Tillich
Sometimes the cards we are dealt are not always fair However you must keep
smiling amp moving on
~ Tom Jackson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you
- Elbert Hubard
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends
with anyone else in the world
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Thus nature has no love for solitude and always leans as it were on some support
and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship
- Cicero
So it is life is actually made up of our choices We are the sum total of them and
if we hold to an attitude of love and thanksgiving for all the good things within our
grasp we may have what all ambitious people long for - success
Delma Neeley
Believe and your belief will create the fact
~ William James
The principle is competing against yourself
Its about self improvement about being better than you were the day before
~ Steve Young
All of us you your children your neighbors and their children are
everyday geniuses even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by
everyone Thats probably because school hasnt encouraged us to notice whats
hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself
~ Peter Kline
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If youll not settle for anything less than your best you will be amazed at what
you can accomplish in your lives
Vince Lombardi
Ya gotta put your behind in your past
Then youre ready for whatever comes next
~ Pumba The Lion King
Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become
~ James Allen
Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well what
causes sadness and what brings happiness what makes us suffer and what leads to
healing
~ Dean Ornish MD
Three components make an entrepreneur the person the ideaand the resources
to make it happen
~ Anita Roddick
What we can or cannot do what we consider possible or impossible is rarely a
function of our true capability It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who
we are
~ Anthony Robbins
Either Do or Do Not There is No Try
~ George Lucas
Theres a name for the magic that transforms lives connects dots moves
mountains and orchestrates coincidences that shock and astound Imagination
And theres a name for all that stops you in your tracks stirs fear spins wheels
and leaves one wondering Hey whats up with that Imagination
Careful where you point that thing
~ The Universe
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with
them
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is a passionate intuition
-William Wordsworth
Friendship is a sheltering tree
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision Vision is the perfume
of the mind
--Harriet Rubin
Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing
--Harriet Braiker
I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the
present can I act The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of
mental wellness
-Abraham Maslow 1908-1970 Psychologist
In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge
-Aristotle
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our
potential
Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister
The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you
settled for
Maureen Dowd Newspaper Columnist
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything
outside ourselves will affect us
Stephen R Covey Author and Speaker
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Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually
attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life
Christiane Northrup Medical Doctor and Author
We must learn to keep ourselves awake by an infinite expectation of the
dawn
-- Henry David Thoreau
You dont need to struggle to get your body to do or be what your spirit already is
-- Alan Cohen
One must steer not talk
-- Seneca
The more you quantify the less you qualify
-- Alan Cohen
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know Most are
born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly
-- Buckminster Fuller
Any act motivated by guilt does not assuage guilt but perpetuates it
-- Alan Cohen
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for
themselves
-- Peter McArthur
Be so good they cant ignore you
Steve Martin
Its kind of fun to do the impossible
Walt Disney
Its easy to make a buck Its a lot tougher to make a difference
Tom Brokaw
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When I hear somebody sigh Life is hard I am always tempted to
ask Compared to what
Sydney J Harris
In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing The worst
thing you can do is nothing
Sam Walton
I had to pick myself up and get on with it do it all over again only even better
this time
Theodore Roosevelt
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process
~ Jim Rohn
If you can imagine it you can achieve it If you can dream it you can become it
~ William Arthur Ward
There is much in the world to make us afraid There is much more in our faith to
make us unafraid
-- Cropp
Pray for essence rather than form and the form will be a perfect expression of
the essence
-- Alan Cohen
People who soar are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change
Charles R Swindoll Author and Pastor
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with
- Jim Rohn
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your
dreams
- Les Brown
Life is 10 of what happens to me and 90 of how I react to it
John Maxwell
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What you see depends on what youre looking for
Anon
Mind over matter If you dont mind it doesnt matter
-- Alan Cohen
When you are clear on want to how to shows up
-- Michael Neill
Quit struggling to make your body do or be what your spirit already is
-- Alan Cohen
Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation
-- Isaac Newton
Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Whatever you invest it
in will yield more of the same
-- Alan Cohen
When you find yourself stressed ask yourself one question Will this matter five
years from now If yes then do something about the situation If no then let it
go
Catherine Pulsifer Writer
Theres plenty of intelligence in the world but the courage to do things
differently is in short supply
Marilyn vos Savant Columnist Author and Lecturer
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced
by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas
a strong faith is strengthened by them
Viktor E Frankl 1905-1997 Holocaust Survivor and Author of Mans Search for
Meaning
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength
Richard L Evans
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You were not born a winner and you were not born a loser You are
what you make yourself be
Lou Holtz
Remember if you ever need a helping hand youll find one at the
end of your arm As you grow older you will discover that you
have two hands One for helping yourself the other for helping
others
Audrey Hepburn
Dont take life too seriously because youll never get out alive
Josh Shippe
Without hard work nothing grows but weeds
Gordon B Hinckley
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies
--Mother Teresa
Do what you can to show you care about other people and you will make our world
a better place
--Rosalynn Carter
Again and again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is
only a tough decision waiting to be made
--Robert H Schuller
If in our daily life we can smile if we can be peaceful and happy not only we but
everyone will profit from it This is the most basic kind of peace work
--Thich Nhat Hanh
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties
disappear and obstacles vanish into air
- John Quincy Adams
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win
~ GK Chesterton
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown for going
out I found was really going in
mdashJohn Muir 1913
To me itlsquos really so simple that life should be lived on the edge You
have to exercise rebellion To refuse to tape yourself to the rules
to refuse your own success to refuse to repeat yourself to see
every day every year every idea as a true challenge Then you will
live your life on the tightrope
mdashPhilippe Petit (star of the movie Man on Wire)
The first step to creating the lifestyle of your dreams is to simplify
your life
mdashRich German
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees
problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems
Winston Churchill
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you
have and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more
~ Robert Collier
Instead of waiting for someone to take you under their wing go out there and
find a good wing to climb under
~ Dave Thomas
If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself
~ Lord Chesterfield
The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable
competitive advantage
~ Arie de Geus
Human life is purely a matter of deciding whats important to you
-- Source unknown
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Determination and perseverance move the world thinking that others will do it
for you is a sure way to fail
Marva Collins Educator
All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them
~ Walt Disney
Everything that happens to you is self-created Whenever youre responding to
any situation whether its a sip of coffee or a traffic jam or a love note or
criticism from a boss or rainy weather youre in fact responding to a signal that
you generated within yourself
- Deepak Chopra
Relationships are not about intellect they are about feeling They require an
intelligence of the heart
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is
when adults are afraid of the light
- Plato
A good listener is someone who is curious open-minded and nonjudgmental A
good listener is not a know-it-all A good listener knows that truth often reveals
itself bit by bit much like putting together a jigsaw puzzle
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
Its the night that makes the dawning
Its the depths that make the heights
Its the roots that make the branches
Its the darkness that gives birth to Light
- Joel Heathcote
How you hear what someone says is determined by your interpretations and your
interpretations flow from your past This is very important to know especially if
you find that you overreact to what others say or habitually get your feelings hurt
Remember what someone said is not necessarily what you heard and what you
heard is not necessarily what they meant
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
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―Everything ndash a horse a vine ndash is created for some dutyhellipFor what task then
were you yourself created A manlsquos true delight is to do the things he was made
for
~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations
―Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts for the soul becomes dyed with the
color of its thoughts Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as for example
Where life is possible at all a right life is possible
~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations
―hellipEverything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of the human
freedomsmdashto choose onelsquos attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose
onelsquos own way
~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life
expected from us We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life and
instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by lifemdashdaily
and hourly Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation but in right
action and in right conduct Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to
find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly
sets for each individual
~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in lifehellip Therein he cannot be
replaced nor can his life be repeated Thus everyonelsquos task is as unique as is
his specific opportunity to implement it
~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―Ultimately man should not ask what the meaning of his life is but rather must
recognize that it is he who is asked In a word each man is questioned by life
and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life to life he can only
respond by being responsible
~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―History though shows us that the people who end up changing the world- the
great political social scientific technological artistic even sports
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revolutionaries- are always nuts until theylsquore right and then theylsquore geniuses
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement
―Great performers are by definition abnormal
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement
―We all aspire to mastery but the path is always long and sometimes rocky and
it promises no quick pay off So we look for other paths each of which attracts
a different person
~ George Leonard from Mastery
―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a
journey The master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after
year The master is the one who is willing to try and fail and try again for as
long as he or she lives
~ George Leonard from Mastery
At the heart of it mastery is practice Mastery is staying on the path
~ George Leonard from Mastery
―Comfort kills If your goal in life is to be comfortable I guarantee two things
First you will never be rich Second you will never be happy Happiness doesnlsquot
come from living a lukewarm life always wondering what could have been
Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up
to our fullest potential
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
―You can be a victim or you can be rich but you canlsquot be both Listen up Every
time and I mean every time you blame justify or complain you are slitting
your financial throat
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Herelsquos an equation I want you to remember for the rest of your life CZ = WZ
It means your ―comfort zone equals your ―wealth zone By expanding your
comfort zone you will expand the size of your income and wealth zone
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
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―We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we
wait forever before taking action
~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big
―Donlsquot put off until tomorrow what you can do today
~ Benjamin Franklin
―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in
accomplishment Big in income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right
now to discover how to make your thinking make magic for you Start out with
this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli Life is too short to be littlelsquo
~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big
―In the yogic tradition this principle of using intense effort to burn through
lifelsquos distractions is called Tapas Itlsquos another Sanskrit word roughly defined
as ―heat or ―essential energy The concept is that through a disciplined
approach to work and self-sacrifice Tapas will burn away the negativity that
separates us from God By working our hardest and happily enduring the
hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in
ourselves
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a ―hard
job That person will be eager to get started no matter what kind of work is in
front of her because she understands that shelsquos doing Godlsquos work And when
youlsquore working for God nothing is too hard
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo
for success nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make
much of a difference
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work
~ Vince Lombardi
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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than
your best
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The poor and the middle class work for money The rich have money work for
them
~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―We all have tremendous potential and we all are blessed with gifts Yet the
one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt It is not so
much the lack of technical information that holds us back but more the lack of
self-confidence
~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―Who will you have to become to achieve all you want
~ Tony Robbins
―You could say that I worked every minute of my life or you could say with
equal justice that I never worked a day I have always subscribed to the
expression ―Thank God itlsquos Friday because to me Friday means I can work for
the next two days without interruption
~ John Hope Franklin
―I do not believe that you should devote overly much effort to correcting your
weaknesses Rather I believe that the highest success in living and the deepest
emotional satisfaction comes from building and using your signature strengths
~ Martin Seligman from Authentic Happiness
When you begin to recognize that your own presence here in this world is part of
something infinitely bigger than yourself you feel a sense of obligation awakening
within youmdasha spiritually inspired soul-level moral imperative to evolve for the sake
of the future of the evolutionary process itself The way you respond to that
obligation and to that sense of cosmic responsibility is by demonstrating that the
process is profoundly positivemdashindeed the process is sacredmdashthrough your own
example through your own victory through your own tangible and unmistakable
higher development
~ Andrew Cohen
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Its the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief And once that belief
becomes a deep conviction things begin to happen
Claude M Bristol 1891-1951 Author of The Magic of Believing
We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in our
heads fear must be a head thing
Tom Payne Career Development Expert
I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody
Bill Cosby Actor and Comedian
If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year Today
should always be our most wonderful day
- Thomas Dreier Author
Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their
personnel If people believe in themselves its amazing
what they can accomplish
--Sam Walton
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the
aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker
--Helen Keller
Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either
advance or stay where you are
- Maxwell Maltz
Be curious not judgmental
-Walt Whitman
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it
-William James
All life is an experiment
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone
acknowledges who we are and what we can be igniting the circuits
of our highest potential
Rusty Berkus
Being considerate of others will take your children further in
life than any college degree
Marian Wright Edelman
It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit
it frankly and try another But above all try something
Franklin D Roosevelt
see without looking hear without listening breathe
without asking
W H Auden
Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways
you can as long as ever you can
John Wesley
Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to
reach for the roof and land in the garbage
Savanna Skinner
Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope
~ Josh Billings
Whats going on in the inside shows on the outside
~ Earl Nightingale
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life a good society
~ Confucius
Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have
just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together
into a life of action and purpose
~ Lance Armstrong
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions
~ Michael Josephson
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others
-- Cicero
Simplicity Purity Clarity
-- Alan Cohen
Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to God alone Laughs at
impossibilities And cries it shall be done
-- Charles Wesley
What is genius but the mind heart and art of God shining to the world through an
open window
-- Alan Cohen
Intuition tells you what not why
-- Source unknown
Changing the world is a natural result of inner peace not a substitute for it
-- Alan Cohen
Fortune sides with him who dares
~ Virgil
We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in
our heads fear must be a head thing
Tom Payne Career Development Expert
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you
mdashLewis Smedes Each of us has the power to make others more beautiful by our love
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst a transformer
in any situation any organization Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an
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entire loaf It requires vision initiative patience respect persistence courage
and faith to be a transforming leader
Stephen Covey
Courage is grace under pressure
~ Ernest Hemingway
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions All life is an experiment
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as Youre going o be thinking anyway Think BIG
~ Donald Trump
To win youve got to stay in the game
~ Claude M Bristol
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head
-- Source unknown
Affirm your value by going where you are valued
-- Alan Cohen
Life is too short to hold a grudge also too long
-- Robert Brault
You cannot borrow greatness from another You can only claim it from within
yourself
-- Alan Cohen
One today is worth two tomorrows never leave that till tomorrow which you can
do today
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 US Statesman Diplomat and Inventor
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs
the problem The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized
a problem and turned it into an opportunity
Joseph Sugarman Marketing Expert
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You wouldnt worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how
seldom they do
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady Author Speaker and Politician
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions
- John Randolph
Opportunities They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere
waiting for the observant eye to discover it
- Orison Swett Marden
Yesterday ended last night Every day is a new beginning Learn the skill of
forgetting And move on
--Norman Vincent Peale
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual it is
best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every
department
ndash Andrew Carnegie entrepreneur
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society The optimist invents the
airplane and the pessimist the parachute
Gil Stern
Strive for integrity - that means knowing your values in life and behaving in a way
that is consistent with these values
Unknown
The country clubs the cars the boats your assets may be ample But the best
inheritance you can leave your kids Is to be a good example
Barry Spilchuk
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the
goal
Henry Ford
It is never too late to be what you might have been
George Eliott
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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence the second listening the
third memory the fourth practice the fifth teaching others
Solomon Ibn Gabriol
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers You can tell whether a man is
wise by his questions
Naguib Mahfouz
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others
~ Erich Fromm
Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble
and grateful mind
~ Epictetus
Happiness is activity
~ Aristotle
Every action we take everything we do is either a victory or defeat in the
struggle to become what we want to be
~ Anne Byrhhe
In the absence of clearly defined goals we become strangely loyal to performing
daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it
Robert Heinlein Novelist
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the
consequences of any misfortune
William James 1842-1910 Psychologist and Author
To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle
-- Walt Whitman
God doesnt owe and neither do you
-- Alan Cohen
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Do what makes you smile
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
People who warn that everyone but members of their religion will go to hell dont
realize they are already there
-- Alan Cohen
The emotional frontier is truly the next frontier to conquer in human
understanding The opportunity we face now even before that frontier is fully
explored and settled is to develop our emotional potential and accelerate rather
dramatically into a new state of being
- Doc Childre and Howard Martin The HeartMath Solution
Real transformation requires that you have a beginners mind that you are willing
to say Whatever I think I know may be wrong
Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true
selves
- Carrol Pearson The Hero Within
If a man would move the world he
must first move himself
--Socrates
All sucessful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists They
believed that things went not by luck but by law
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
I skate to where the puck is going to be not where it is
-Wayne Gretzky
When given the choice between being right or being kind always choose kind
--Dr Wayne Dyer Never forget the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for
others
Sir John Templeton 1912-2008 Mutual Fund Pioneer and Philanthropist
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome
Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Essayist Biographer and Poet
Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on
-- Alan Cohen
Shallow men believe in luck Strong men believe in cause and effect
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Contraction is a sign that birth is imminent
-- Alan Cohen
Work is an extension of personality It is achievement It is one of the ways in
which a person defines himself measures his worth ndash and his humanity
ndash Peter Drucker author
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends
-- John Ruskin
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities
--Janos Arnay
The first time you accept good is the last time you will see excellence
John Ulmo Life is like an onion
You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep
~ Carl Sandburg
Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light
~ L P Jacks Just as iron rusts from disuse even so does inaction spoil the intellect
~ Leonardo Da Vinci
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men sayI JUST watch what they
do
~ Andrew Carnegie
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All Things are Difficult before they are Easy
~ John Norley
Everything has been figured out except how to live
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving
Dennis Waitley
Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out
Robert Collier
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude
Thomas Jefferson
They can because they think they can
Virgil
By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself
Menander
Years teach us more than books
Berthold Auerbach
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When you delightfully fantasize about something you want you set into motion a
wave of energy that calls that situation into reality
-- Alan Cohen
Hurt people hurt people
-- Source unknown
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Doing the right thing may be different than what you have been taught the right
thing is
-- Alan Cohen
The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes
it happen
-- Frank Lloyd Wright All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say no and said yes
Moss Hart 1904-1961 Playwright and Theatre Director
We are built to conquer environment solve problems achieve goals and we find no
real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to
achieve
Maxwell Maltz 1899-1975 Author of Psycho-Cybernetics
You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns
have roses
-- Ziggy
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug
~ Patricia Neal
My night has become a sunny dawn because of you
--Ibn Abbad
All mankind is divided into three classes those that are immovable those that are
movable and those that move
--Benjamin Franklin
Dont compete Create Find out what everyone else is doing and then dont do it
mdashJoel Weldon
Show a little faith therelsquos magic in the night
mdashfrom ―Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen
Music is to me proof of the existence of God
It is so extraordinarily full of magic and in tough times
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of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference
mdashKurt Vonnegut
Discontent is the source of all trouble but also of all progress
in individuals and nations
Berthold Auerbach
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself
Thomas Sprat
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves
to copy
Oliver Goldsmith
If at first you dont succeed try try again Then quit Theres
no use being a damn fool about it
WC Fields
Impatience never commanded success
Edwin H Chapin
In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are the safest
~ Livy
Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights
~ Henry David Thoreau
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense
insoluble They can never be solved but only outgrown
~ Carl Jung
Life Begins When you Do
Hugh Downs Vision Without Action is a Daydream
Action Without Vision is a Nightmare
~ Japanese Proverb
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Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one
can possibly want and hold
-- Judith Olney
The love affair you seek is with yourself
-- Alan Cohen
The greatest power requires the lightest touch
-- BasharDarryl Anka
You only live once -- but its forever
-- Alan Cohen
Get off the cross Somebody needs the wood
-- From the film Straight Talk
There are two ways to live your life One is as though nothing is a miracle The
other is as though everything is a miracle
~ Albert Einstein
In the long run men hit only what they aim at
~ Henry David Thoreau philosopher
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state
of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is
wounded trust impaired
~Erik H Erikson
Freedom know this that every manwoman is free To choose his life and what
hell be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call
persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light In nameless ways be
good and kind But never force the human mind
~ William C Clegg
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want and if they canlsquot find them make them
~ George Bernard Shaw
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Relationships are not things We dont have relationships we are in relationship
with one another
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Relationships are our primary teacher They are the context in which we either
grow into the consciousness of God or deny ourselves and others the opportunity
to do so
- Marianne Williamson
Listen deeply The greatest failure in any relationship is the failure to
participate
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Your future is created by what you do today not tomorrow
Robert Kiyosaki
No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a
reality
Napoleon Hill
If you are not planning today you are planning to fail tomorrow
Gopal
How you do anything is how you do everything
T Harv Eker
There is little difference in people but that little difference
makes a big difference The little difference is attitude The
big difference is whether it is positive or negative
W Clement Stone
The vision must be followed by the venture It is not enough to
stare up the steps - We must step up the stairs
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Vance Havner
Go for it nowThe future is promised to no one
Wayne Dyer
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are you would never
think a negative thought
Peace Pilgrim
Either you run the day or the day runs you
Jim Rohn
You must go after your wish As soon as you start to pursue a
dream your life wakes up and everything has meaning
Barbara Sher
To succeed you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe
and act on it with all of your heart
Christy Borgeld
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers
Anonymous
Let him that would move the world first move himself
Socrates
By the time a man realizes that maybe
his father was right he usually has a son
who thinks hes wrong
~ Charles Wadworth
Without Mistakes Perfection is an Illusion
~ Daniel Frankel
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Its not the hours you put in
but what you put into the hours
that counts
~ Jim Rohn
Be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath
~ James 119
Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory
~ Ingrid Bergman
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word
~ William Makepease Thackeray
Professionalism is knowing how
to do it when to do it and doing it
~ Frank Tyger
Intention is not something you do
but rather a force that exists in the universe
as an invisible field of energy
-a power that can carry us
~ Dr Wayne Dyer
I personally measure success in terms
of the contributions an individual makes
to her or his fellow human beings
~ Margaret Mead
Some of the worlds greatest feats
were accomplished by people not
smart enough to know they were
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impossible
~ Doug Larson
Life is a flower of which love is the honey
~ Victor Hugo
Personal integrity is important
not because it gets us what we want
but because it helps us be what we want
~ Michael Josephson
Goals need to be configured to stretch us
but not to break us
~ Kent Krive
Children are apt to live up
to what you believe of them
~ Lady Bird Johnson
Do your work with your whole heart
and you will succeed
- theres so little competition
~ Elbert Hubbard
Hi Karl
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible
objections must first be overcome
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--Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Author
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter
even the most victorious life The human
spirit is never finished when it is defeated
- it is finished when it surrenders
-- Ben Stein Professor and Writer
Love is the first ingredient in the relief
of suffering
-- Padre Pio
Happiness is a function of accepting what is
--Werner Erhard
There are no shortcuts to any place
worth going
- Beverly Sills
It has never been and never will be
easy work But the road that is built in
hope is more pleasant to the traveler
than the road built in despair even though
they both lead to the same destination
~Marion Zimmer Bradley
The reality of life is that your perceptions --
right or wrong -- influence everything else
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you do When you get a proper perspective
of your perceptions you may be surprised
how many other things fall into place
~ Roger Birkman
Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself
with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum
-- Baal Shem Tov
Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself
with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum
-- Baal Shem Tov
Trust yourself You know more than
you think you do
ndash Benjamin Spock doctor
When you play it too safe youre taking
the biggest risk of your life
Time is the only wealth were given
--Barbara Sher
Creativity is inventing experimenting
growing taking risks breaking rules
making mistakes and having fun
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--Mary Lou Cook
Life is playing a violin solo in public and
learning the instrument as one goes on
--Samuel Butler
Opportunities are usually disguised as
hard work so most people dont recognize
them
~ Ann Landers
It is literally true that you can succeed best
and quickest by helping others to succeed
- Napoleon Hill
God loves you and theres nothing you can do about it
-- Sign on church marquis
Give yourself what you would like to receive from others
-- Alan Cohen
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature
-- Emerson
The fewer your words the more compelling your statement
-- Alan Cohen
Pray devoutly hammer stoutly
-- English proverb
There are no blocks to creativity Only distractions
-- Alan Cohen
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If your rules are not working so well borrow someone elses
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
Inner peace is never more than one thought away
-- Alan Cohen
Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret
hiding God
-- Frederick William Robertson
Completion is an attitude not an event
-- Alan Cohen
Enjoy where you are and youll be where youre going
-- Bashar
Your spirit is wireless
-- Alan Cohen
All questions lead to divine knowing
-- Isaac Newton
You cannot import self-worth You can only recognize it
-- Alan Cohen
Enlightened conflict resolution can exist only in an atmosphere of equality
We may not be equal in intelligence or experience or status but we are equal
in our right to be treated with dignity and caring It is not assumed that one
person has more privilege than another that one person is entitled to more
respect or understanding than another nor that one persons feelings are
more important than anothers
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
To seek happiness outside of ourselves Is like trying to lasso a cloud
Happiness is not a thingIt is a state of mind
- Omar Khayyam
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The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us
well I am not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking
not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our
quality of life incidence of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy No man was ever wise by chance
~ Seneca
By thought the thing you want is brought to youby action you receive it
~ Wallace D Wattles
Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
~ Mohandas K Gandhi
Life isnt about finding yourselfLife is about creating yourself
George Bernard Shaw
Im trying to free your mind but I can only show you the doorYou are the one
that has to walk through it
~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]
A friend is a second self
~ Aristotle
Be great in act as you have been in thought
~ William Shakespeare
Character is higher than intellectA great soul will be strong to liveas well as to
think
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I never think of the futureIt comes soon enough
~ Albert Einstein
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fearnot absence of fear
~ Mark Twain
Age wrinkles the bodyQuitting wrinkles the soul
~ Douglas MacArthur
If real is what you can feel smell taste and see then real is simply electrical
signals interpreted by your brain
~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]
Money was never a big motivator for me except for keeping the scoreThe real
excitement is playing the game
~ Donald Trump
Dreams are extremely important You cant do it unless you dream it first
~ George Lucas
If you believe you can you probably can If you believe you wont you most
assuredly wont Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad
~ Denis Waitley
Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limitedImagination
encircles the world
~ Albert Einstein
Everything is always impossible before it works Thats what entrepreneurs are all
aboutDoing things that people have told them is impossible
~ R Hunt Greene
The truth is lived not taught
~ Hermann Hesse
Be of good cheer Do not think of todays failures but of the success that may
come tomorrow You have set yourself a difficult task but you will succeed if you
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persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles
Helen Keller 1880-1968 Blind and Deaf Educator
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something Its as simple
as that A lot of people have ideas but there are few who decide to do something
about them now Not tomorrow Not next week But today The true entrepreneur
is a doer
-Nolan Bushnell Founder of Atari
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision
Muhammad Ali Three-Time World Heavyweight Champion Boxer
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them
Walt Disney 1901-1966 Cartoon Artist and Filmmaker
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings turn routine jobs into
joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings
William Arthur Ward
1921-1994 Writer
If you want to achieve excellence you can get there today As of this second quit
doing less than excellent work
Thomas Watson 1874-1956 Founder of IBM
Ive always believed that a lot of the troubles in the world would disappear if we
were talking to each other instead of about each other
Ronald Reagan
1911-2004 40th President of the United States
The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another is in some way to
make that persons life a little bit better to live
John Assaraf Author and Speaker
Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm
Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any
occupation no matter how frightening or difficult a new meaning Without
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enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish
miracles
Og Mandino
Constant kindness can accomplish much As the sun makes ice melt kindness
causes misunderstanding mistrust and hostility to evaporate
Dr Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 Medical Missionary and Nobel Prize Winner
Dwell not on the past Use it to illustrate a point then leave it behind Nothing
really matters except what you do now in this instant of time From this moment
onwards you can be an entirely different person filled with love and understanding
ready with an outstretched hand uplifted and positive in every thought and deed
Eileen Caddy 1917-2006 Spiritual Teacher and Author
Heres the problem Most people are thinking about what they dont want and
theyre wondering why it shows up over and over again
John Assaraf Speaker and Author
Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
Thomas Edison 1847-1931 Inventor and Scientist
Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on
building the life you desire
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly
lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love
Henry Drummond 1851-1897 Scientist and Author
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Former First Lady Author and Speaker
If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least
responsible for those we admit and entertain
Charles Newcomb ScreenwriterDirector
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To grow you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your
past Your history is not your destiny
Alan Cohen
If you want a kinder world then behave with kindness if you want a peaceful
world make peace within
Dan Millman Writer and Speaker
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order
and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a
time
Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Writer
Believe it can be done When you believe something can be done really believe
your mind will find the ways to do it Believing a solution paves the way to solution
Dr David Schwartz Author of The Magic of Thinking Big
Close your eyes and form a realistic picture of what a post PC world might actually
look like Those who can envision a plausible future thats brighter than today will
earn the opportunity to lead
Ray Ozzie Former Chief Software Architect at Microsoft
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past worry
about the future or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely
and earnestly
- Buddha
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job tellem certainly I can - and get
busy and find out how to do it
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Dont tell me how hard you work Tell mehow much you get done
~ James Ling
Democracy arose from menlsquos thinking that if they are equal in any respect they
are equal absolutely
~ Aristotle
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The beginning is the most important part of the work
~ Plato
Bless those who choose to love and those who choose to hate that those who
choose to hate may choose to love before it is too late
--Esoligh (Underground Hip Hop Artist)
Security is mostly a superstition It does not exist in nature nor do the children
of man as a whole experience it Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than
outright exposure Life is either a daring adventure or nothing
--Helen Keller
Each new hour holds new chances for new beginings The horizon move forward
offering you space to place new steps of change
--Maya Angelou
When a man cares he is unafraid When he is fair he leaves enough for others
When he is humble he can grow
--Lao-Tzu TaoTeChung
Behold the turtle He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out
--James Bryant Conant - Educator and Diplomat
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it
but because they didnt stop to enjoy it
--William Feather
The light of awareness the light of consciousness arises out of a broken heart
the heart by breaking becomes an ocean accommodating all beings
-- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom
The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need according to the
nature of your thought Your environment and financial condition are the
perfect reflection of your habitual thinking
Thought rules the world
-- Dr Joseph Edward Murphy Surgeon
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The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new
courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness beauty and truth
ndash Albert Einstein physicist
Hope is the companion of power and mother of success for who so hopes strongly
has within him the gift of miracles
~ Samuel Smiles
Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those
things that failures dont like to do
~ Albert Gray
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the
link between belief and biology
- Deepak Chopra
Ive always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best
~ Akeem Olajuwon
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear
ndash Socrates philosopher
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the
most brilliant single mind but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains
and talents of his associates
~ W Alton Jones
The reason a dog has got so many friends is because its tail waggles and not its
tongue
-Anonymous
Dont fight a problem solve it
--Millard Fuller
If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation
by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in
which you are rendering it
--Roger Babson
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The starting point of all riches is the development of a prosperity consciousness
You must become a financial success in your thinking long before you achieve it in
your reality Both poverty and riches are the result of a state of mind and the
most important single step you ever take on the road to wealth and financial
independence is the decision to change your thinking to impress into your mind an
unshakable belief that you can and will achieve your financial goals This must
happen before anything else happens
-- Brian Tracy
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it
We must learn to see the world anew
- Albert Einstein
To forgive is the highest most beautiful form of love In return you will receive
untold peace and happiness
--Dr Robert Muller
Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind the stronger the
trees
--J Willard Marriott Founder of Marriott Hotels
Someday may never come So live each day better than the last That way youll
wake up with so much excitement and anticipation youlsquoll jump out of bed and shout
I cant wait
--Bob Perks
The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination and he is still at
large
-- Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885 Humorist
If you dont know where you are going any road will get you there
-- Anonymous
Ive noticed over many years of working with corporate teams that the more
dysfunctional the team the more resistant they are to the concept of love in
the workplace What baggage is it that we drag around behind us like Linus
and his blanket which causes us to be so wounded and pathological Why are
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we blind to the observable truth that those we lead are yearning for us to
open our hearts Why are we in denial about the truth that people--all
people at work and at home--are searching for signs of our approval and
love
- Lance Secretan Industry Week 11202000 We live on our own solitary islands of reality absorbed in and fascinated by
our own points of view Frequently we reach out to one another seeking to
understand or be understood The bridge between our separate realities is
communication To communicate is to relate
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air You
name them--work family health friends and spirit--and youre keeping all
of these in the air You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball If you
drop it it will bounce back But the other four balls-- family health
friends and spirit--are made of glass If you drop one of these they will be
irrevocably scuffed marked nicked damaged or even shattered They will
never be the same You must understand that and strive for balance in your
life
- Brian Dyson CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises from 1959-1994 If you cant be a loving witness to your own anger or rage or sadness or
fear you cant be in the presence of other peoples intense emotions without
your own emotional waters being churned up a bit But if you can learn to
feel safe and fully present to the broad spectrum of emotions within your own
nature you radiate an invisible web of safety that helps others to talk about
their feelings with you
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective
consciousness and if we want a new world each of us must start taking
responsibility for helping create it
- Rosemary Fillmore Rhea A New Heaven and New Earth Your relationships are actually mirrors of your consciousness When you learn
to see your own reflection in the quality of your relationships with others you
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catapult yourself on your path of personal growth and spiritual evolution
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think To put the world right in order we must first put the nation in order to put
the nation in order we must first put the family in order to put the family in
order we must first cultivate our personal life we must first set our hearts
right
- Confucious The sooner we can unburden ourselves of blame the more effective we can
be Blaming others only entrenches us in the role of the victim removing us
from our highest expression of personal power
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be
sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all
around It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others
we all want in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that
burden us These secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth
helps you get clarity on your real heart directives
- Sara Paddison The Hidden Power of the Heart Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time
ago
~ Warren Buffet
The only way to do great work is to love what you do If you havent found it yet
keep looking Dont settle As with all matters of the heart youll know when you
find it
~ Steve Jobs
If you love life do not waste time for time is what life is made up of
~ Bruce Lee
I cannot teach anybody anything I can only make them think
~ Socrates
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Change before you have to
~ Jack Welch
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm
~ Winston Churchill
A leader leads by example not by force
~ Sun Tzu
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour Sit with a
pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute You have just experienced
relativity
~ Albert Einstein
Live as if you were to die tomorrow Learn as if you were to live forever
~ Mohandas Gandhi
A clever person solves a problem A wise person avoids it
~ Albert Einstein
If I have seen a little further is by standing on the shoulders of Giants
~ Sir Isaac Newton
Despair says I cannot lift that weight Happiness says I do not have to
-- James Richardson
People who know they are powerful do not need to engage in power struggles
-- Alan Cohen
No man ever stated his troubles as lightly as he might
-- Emerson
What does your spirit most want you to know and do today
-- Alan Cohen
Its not how good you are Its how bad you want it
-- Author unknown
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The better I feel about myself the less I need you to be different
-- Alan Cohen
The best form of flattery is to master the art of listening
-- Chinese proverb
The only thing more valuable than a good source of news is source of good news
-- Alan Cohen
Disappointments are the hooks upon which God hangs his victories
-- Source unknown
It matters not what youve done with your life for better or worse What
matters is what you do with your life today
-- Alan Cohen
Everyone here is not all there
-- Source unknown
If you cant unify then at least harmonize
-- Alan Cohen
Everybody is a genius But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will
spend its whole life believing that it is stupid
-- Albert Einstein
Fear is excitement without breath
-- Fritz Perls
Dont leave yourself out of the equation
-- Alan Cohen
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles
-- Bernard Baruch
They can because they think they can
~ Virgil
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Exert your talents and distinguish yourself
and dont think of retiring from the world
until the world will be sorry that you retire
~ Samuel Johnson
Energy and persistence conquer all things
~ Benjamin Franklin
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom
~ Aristotle
Heaven never helps the man who will not act
~ Sophocles
The only real journey is the journey within
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new
~ Albert Einstein
Action is the food and drink
that will nourish your success
Action will destroy your procrastination
Act now for is all you have
~ Og Mandino
Computers are incredibly fast accurate and stupid
Humans are incredible slow inaccurate and brilliant
Together they are powerful beyond imagination
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~ Albert Einstein
Practice giving and you will discover how much life can give you
-- Alan Cohen
Oh for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they
ran out of money
-- Source unknown
The best way to heal a bad memory is to create a new and better one
-- Alan Cohen
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love
-- Hamilton Wright Mabie
Fear and resistance are the dragons that stand at the gate of the kingdom that
contains the jewel you seek
-- Alan Cohen
Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy forgiveness To an opponent
tolerance To a friend your heart To a customer service To all charity To
every child a good example To yourself respect
-- Oren Arnold
Affirm I always have enough time to do the things that Spirit would have me do
-- Alan Cohen
There are two obstacles to enlightenment 1 Thinking you know 2 Thinking you
dont know
-- Buddha
Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Take care how you pay
it
-- Alan Cohen
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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles
-- Bernard Baruch
Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation
-- Alan Cohen
Families are like fudge -- mostly sweet with a few nuts
-- Source unknown
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of
our treasures
-- Thornton Wilder
The universe does not require you to stress for good things
-- Alan Cohen
When you bless the good that befalls others it becomes yours as well
-- Alan Cohen
How many more idols must you find before your realize that you are the one you
have been searching for
-- Dan Fogelberg
All limits exist only in thought and that is where they are overcome
-- Alan Cohen
To understand unconditional love lock your wife or husband and your dog in the
trunk of your car for an hour When you open it notice to is happier to see you
-- Source unknown
Outrageous ideas are ultimately the most practical
-- Alan Cohen
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are
-- Kurt Cobain
How good can you let it get
-- Alan Cohen
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If we could look into the secret history of our enemies we should find in each
persons life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities
-- Longfellow
If you sense there must be more there is more
-- Alan Cohen
Do not wait the time will never be just right Start where you stand and work
with whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found
as you go along
Napoleon Hill
1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich
It doesnt matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes What
matters most is getting off You cannot make progress without making decisions
Jim Rohn
1930-2009 Speaker and Author
Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do Its
a decision about Who You Are When you see this when you understand it
everything changes You begin to see life in a new way All events occurrences and
situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do
Neale Donald Walsch
Author of Conversations With God
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached dont adjust the goals
adjust the action steps
Confucius
551-479 BC Philosopher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of
you
Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887 Clergyman Social Reformer and Abolitionist
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Lets choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we think others lead
by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives We can then offer the
universe the gift of our grateful hearts
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Author of Peace and Plenty
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite
impossible to foresee are ahead You can only see one thing clearly and that is your
goal Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin
Kathleen Norris
1880-1966 Novelist
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends
you choose for you will become like them
W Clement Stone
1902-2002 Businessman Philanthropist and Author
Laugh at yourself and at life Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity but
as a remedy a miracle drug that will ease your pain cure your depression and help
you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at
your predicaments thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that
is certain to come Never take yourself too seriously
Og Mandino
1923-1996 Author of The Choice
Asking is the beginning of receiving Make sure you dont go to the ocean with a
teaspoon At least take a bucket so the kids wont laugh at you
Jim Rohn
1930-2009 Author and Speaker
Happiness comes only when we push our
brains and hearts to the farthest reaches
of which we are capable
--Leo C Rosten
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Do not wait the time will never be just right
Start where you stand and work with whatever
tools you may have at your command and better
tools will be found as you go along
~ Napoleon Hill
I shall do less whenever I shall believe what
I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more
whenever I shall believe doing more will help the
cause I shall try to correct errors when shown to
be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as
they shall appear to be true views
ndash Abraham Lincoln 16th US president
If we become increasingly humble about how l
little we know we may be more eager to search
- Sir John Templeton
I dont think anyone can grow unless hes
loved exactly as he is now appreciated for
what he is rather than what he will be
Love and success always in that order Its
that simple and that difficult
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a
lifetimes work but its worth the effort
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Quoted From Lifes Journeys According
to Mister Rogers
When we do the best we can we never know
what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life
of another
ndash Helen Keller lecturer author
We are responsible for what we are and whatever
we wish ourselves to be we have the power to make
ourselves If what we are now has been the result of
our own past actions it certainly follows that whatever
we wish to be in future can be produced by our present
actions so we have to know how to act
~ Swami Vivekananda
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Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to
express the source of inspiration and joy within
~ Deepak Chopra
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team and the team ought to get
credit for the wins and the losses Successes have many fathers failures have
none
- Philip Caldwell
The secret of getting ahead is getting started
Agatha Christie 1890-1976 Novelist
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation
-Dr Robert Schuler Whenever youre facing any form of resistance gratitude has the power to
quickly dissolve it This is true whether the hindrance comes from inside of you or
outside of you
Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth Its easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top
Henry Ward Beecher Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people So
overweight people are now averagehellip which means you have met your New Years
resolution
Jay Leno
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in A pessimist stays up to
make sure the old year leaves
Bill Vaughan
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past Let it go for it was imperfect
and thank God that it can go
Brooks Atkinson
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New Years Resolution To tolerate fools more gladly provided this does not
encourage them to take up more of my time
James Agate
New Years Day is every mans birthday
Charles Lamb
Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right
Oprah Winfrey
―It is never too late to be what you might have been
- TS Eliot
If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain
ndash Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 American Poet
Life is too short to waste Dreams are fulfilled only through action not through
endless planning to take action
David J Schwartz Trainer and Author
Its the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and
sweeps away all obstacles
Claude M Bristol
―The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means time
influence and educational advantages the question is what he will do with the
things he has The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of
opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face and resolves to change
them he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success
-Hamilton Wright Mabie
Just go out there and do what youve got to do
~ Martina Navratilova
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Now I experience the love in everyone I no longer am a person who judges others
for being overweight for being too young or too old for having their hair a certain
way or for how they dress When you judge others you dont define them you
define yourself as someone who needs to judge and compartmentalize people
-Wayne Dyer
The big secret in life is that there is no secret Whatever your goal you can get
there if you are willing to work It is called massive action Action is the gas in the
tank Without it the car will not run
Marcy Blochowiak Author of No Glass Ceiling An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory
-Friedrich Engels
Leaders arent born they are made And they are made just like anything else
through hard work And thats the price well have to pay to achieve that goal or
any goal
Vincent Lombardi
May your trails be crooked winding lonesome dangerous leading to the most
amazing view May your rivers flow without end meandering through pastoral
valleys tinkling with bells past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark
primeval forestdown into a desert of red rock blue mesas domes and pinnacles
and grottos of endless stone And down again into a deep vast ancient unknown
chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs where deer walk across the
white sand beaches where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high
crags until something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than
your deepest dreams waits for you just beyond the next turning of the canyon
walls
-Benedicto by Edward Abbey
An unwritten want is a wish a dream a never-happen The day you put your goal in
writing is the day it becomes a commitment that will change your life Are you
ready
Tom Hopkins Author and Speaker
―Where are you going Who are you looking for Your beloved is right herehellip Cease
looking for flowers there blooms a garden in your own home While you go looking
for trinkets your treasure house awaits you in your own being There is no need
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for suffering God is here
~Rumi Chance favors only the prepared mind
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895 French scientist who developed pasteurization)
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities
enough and if they do not find them they will make them
Samuel Smiles
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen but give us the
determination to make the right things happen
Peter Marshall
If the sky falls hold up your hands
Spanish Proverb
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous
Chinese Proverb
Knowing is not enough we must apply Willing is not enough we must do
Johann von Goethe
If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is he will not jump If he does
not know how wide it is he will jump and six times out of ten he will make it
Persian Proverb
As I grow to understand life less and less I learn to love it more and more
Jules Renard
The more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate
Oprah Winfrey (1954- American TV personality producer actress author)
Mind is all that counts You can be whatever you make up your mind to be
Robert Collier
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You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how
youre going to live Now
Joan Baez Singer Songwriter and Activist The average person goes to their grave with their music still in them
Oliver Wendell Holmes ―Everyone can be great because everyone can serve
- Martin Luther King ―Whatever you can conceive and believe you can achieve
Napoleon Hill We turn not older with years but newer every day
-Emily Dickinson
When reciting affirmations feel the words in your heart as you say them and
know that what you feel youll create
Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust
our old programs accordingly
Dr Ann Faraday
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to
get there Then never never never give up
Vincent Peale
We only think when we are confronted with problems
John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)
In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain
Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)
If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair Few things are
impossible to diligence and skill Great works are performed not by strength but
perseverance
Samuel Johnson
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Dont waste your life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you
well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best
preparation for the hours or ages that follow it
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Poet and Essayist Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change
the world today
Wil Rose
The good man acts for honors sake and the more so the better he is and acts for
his friends sake and sacrifices his own interest
-Aristotle
In order to excel you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport You
must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism
Without a total 100 percent dedication you wont be able to do this
Willie Mays
Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to
raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years
ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I
demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my
life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to
becoming
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert
Im a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of
it
Thomas Jefferson
Bring awareness to each act Walking on the road walk fully alert eating eat with
awareness Whatsoever you are doing dont let the past and the future interfere
Be in the present Thats what awareness is all about
~Osho
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There are two dimensions to life and we should be able to touch both
One is like a wave and we call it the historical dimension
The other is like the water and we call it the ultimate dimension or nirvana
We usually touch just the wave but when we discover how to touch the water
we receive the highest fruit that meditation can offer
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends
Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance
Jackson Brown
When you focus on whats wrong you get more of whats wrong Conversely when
you focus on whats right you get more of whats right
Gina Mollicone-Long Author of the newly released book Think Or Sink
All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave
behind is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into
another
Gail Sheehy (1937- American journalist author)
Anger is one letter away from danger
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Success means having the courage the determination and the will to become the
person you believe you were meant to be
George Sheehan 1918-1993 Physician and Author
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views
so fast as they shall appear to be new views
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)
―One ship sails East
And another West
By the self-same winds that blow
lsquoTis the set of the sails
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And not the gales
That tells the way we go
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity Our attitude
toward it Every opportunity has a difficulty and every difficulty has an
opportunity
J Sidlow Baxter 1903-1999 Author and Theologian
If you want to be successful you must either have a chance or take one
Author Unknown
It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit it frankly and try
another But above all try something
Franklin D Roosevelt
It was courage faith endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all
obstacles that built this bridge
~ John J Watson
Past Data should now be the basis of Present Truth Data from a prior time or
experience should always and only be the basis for new questions Always the
treasure should be in the questions not in the answer
-Neale Donald Walsch Even though you may want to move forward in your life you may have one foot on
the brakes In order to be free we must learn how to let go Release the hurt
Release the fear Refuse to entertain your old pain The energy it takes to hang
onto the past is holding you back from a new life What is it you would let go of
today
Mary Manin Morrissey Creator of The Miracle Mastery Conference
It is not what you are called but what you answer to
African Proverb
A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong
enough
John Christian Bovee
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If youre not part of a solution youre a part of the problem There is no middle
road I dont think we can destroy the Earth but I think the Earth can destroy
us
-Oh Shinnah
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will
accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop
Robert Hughes
Charity is the spice of riches
Jewish Proverb
If you dont like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and
waiting for you The snake sheds its skin with impunity relying on the same nature
which you rely on
Author Unknown
Its a very funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best
you very often get it
William Somerset Maugham
A leader once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one must
be undaunted when the going gets tough
Ronald Reagan
If I accept you as you are I will make you worse however if I treat you as
though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Author and Philosopher
Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket signifies in the final
sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed from those who are cold and
not clothed The world in arms is not spending money alone It is spending the
sweat of its laborers the genius of its scientists the hopes of its children
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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Service is nothing but love in work clothes
Author Unknown
A man can do all things if he but wills them
Leon Battista Alberti
A crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk just a
tinkling cymbal where there is not love
Francis Bacon 17th Century English Lord Chancellor philosopher and author
The only way to have a friend is to be one
Ralph Waldo Emerson 19th Century American author and poet
Its not what you do once in a while its what you do day in and day out that
makes the difference
Jenny Craig Diet Specialist
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on
the labors of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to
give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving
Albert Einstein (1879-1955 German-born American physicist)
A resolute determination is the truest wisdom
Napoleon I
Without consistency there is no moral strength
Author Unknown
See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained pursue it resolutely
William Shakespeare
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure
-Dale Carnegie
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself
William Penn (1644-1718 British religious leader founder of Pennsylvania)
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How we think shows through in how we act Attitudes are mirrors of the mind
They reflect thinking
David J Schwartz Trainer and Author
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but
to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill
Vision is freely given to those who ask to see
-Course in Miracles
Tough times never last but tough people do
Dr Robert Schuller
A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything
else
Bette Davis (1908-1989 American actress producer)
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything
Alexander Hamilton
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference He has
it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter
Norman Cousins (1915-1990 American editor humanitarian author)
The practice of medicine is an art not a trade a calling not a business a calling in
which your heart will be exercised equally with your head Often the best part of
your work will have nothing to do with powders or potions
-Sir William Osler
Strength does not come from physical capacity It comes from an indomitable
will
~ Mahatma Gandhi
―You dont love someone for their looks or their clothes or for their fancy car
but because they sing a song only you can hear
Anon
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―They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever
Oscar Wilde
―Love is like a friendship caught on fire In the beginning a flame very pretty
often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering As love grows older our
hearts mature and our love becomes as coals deep-burning and unquenchable
Bruce Lee
―Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty
John Finely
―It takes a lot of understanding time and trust to gain a close friendship with
someone As I approach a time of my life of complete uncertainty my friends are
my most precious asset
Anon
―Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process
Harold S Geneen People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest
- Hermann Hesse 1877-1962 Civilization is a method of living an attitude of equal respect for all men
- Jane Addams 1860-1935 The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next
- Matthew Arnold 1822-1888
Vacillating people seldom succeed Successful men and women are very careful in
reaching their decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter
~ L G Elliott
Those with goals tend to succeed because they are focused and know where they
are going while those without goals do not
Ted Karam Author from his new book Jumping On Water Awaken Your Joy - Empower Your Life
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Every time you go out on the ice there are slight flaws You can always think of
something you should have done better These are the things you must work on
Dorothy Hamill (1956- American figure skater)
Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it
fate
~ Carl Jung When you speak of someone or about someone you should speak as though they
were in the room with you The ears that you speak to today are attached to the
mouth that could relay the message tomorrow
William Biddy Allen 1903-2001 Bus Driver - Loving father of 7 children
It is no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might dream The failure is to
fall short of dreaming all that we might realize
-Dee Hock When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they
are regarded by others let them reflect how little they have contributed to the
happiness of others
Author Unknown
I have become my own version of an optimist If I cant make it through one door
Ill go through another door - or Ill make a door Something terrific will come no
matter how dark the present
~ Rabindranath Tagore
―The present moment
contains past and future
The secret of transformation
is in the way we handle this very moment
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 - present Vietnamese Buddhist monk)
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―Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it Do not believe in
anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many Do not believe in
anything simply because it is found written in your religious books Do not believe in
anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders Do not believe in
traditions because they have been handed down for many generations But after
observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is
conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it
Buddha (Founder of Buddhism 568 - 488 BC) I try to avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward
Charlotte Bronte
Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity
Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Theologian
There is only one duty only one safe course and that is to try to be right
Winston Churchill (1874-1965 British statesman Prime Minister)
We are born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of wine we
have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born Astrology
does not lay claim to anything more
-Carl Jung
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them One is more
delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is angrier for being told
one is angry
Katherine F Gerould
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread they can sure make something out
of you
~ Muhammed Ali Beware of the thoughts you keep because everything in reality manifests from
the mind
Justin Palmer Second Year College Student
Confess you were wrong yesterday it will show you are wise today
Author Unknown
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We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope
~ Martin Luther King Jr
In the beginning the Universe was created
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move
-Douglas Adams
Any individual can be in time what he earnestly desires to be if he but set his
face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear
upon its attainment
Herman J Randall
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world
~ Helen Keller Many of lifes failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up
~ Thomas Edison
When you give your undivided attention to something there is a softening and
opening in the listener that allows access to the meaning underneath the words
-Betty Burkes
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they
are about to change the world I am more awed by those who struggle to make one
small difference
Ellen Goodman Journalist
If you look into your own heart you find nothing wrong there what is there to
fear
Confucius (BC 551-479 Chinese ethical teacher philosopher) Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls
~ Mother Teresa What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-
conceit For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he
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already knows
- Epictetus 55 AD-135 AD
There are admirable potentialities in every human being Believe in your strength
and your youth Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself It all depends on me
- Andre Gide 1869-1951
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage
- Anais Nin 1903-1977 Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in
other areas But can it really True effectiveness requires balance
~ Stephen Covey
I dont pay good wages because I have a lot of money I have a lot of money
because I pay good wages
- Robert Bosch Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do
the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not it is
the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a mans training
begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly
Thomas H Huxley 1825-1895 Biologist
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have and to be able
to lose all desire for things beyond your reach
Yutang Lin (1895-1976 Chinese writer and philologist)
Men are failures not because they are stupid but because they are not
sufficiently impassioned
Struther Burt
If you look at what you have in life youll always have more If you look at what
you dont have in life youll never have enough
Oprah Winfrey Television Host Producer and Philanthropist
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Im trying not to look too far ahead All Im thinking is one shot at a time one hole
at a time and thats what I want to keep doing
Michelle McGann
I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in
which we face them that constitutes our comfort
-Elizabeth T King My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content
with your failure
~ Abraham Lincoln
―There is nothing but love and all else is illusion
- Dr John Demartini There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer no disease that enough
love will not heal no door that enough love will not open
- Emmet Fox
All my limitations are self-imposed and my liberation can only come from true self-
love
- Max C Robinson
We fail to see that we can control our own destiny make ourselves do whatever is
possible make ourselves become whatever we long to be
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine )
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will
~ Sugar Ray Robinson 1920-1989 Boxer
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
Confucius
Half the people you know are above average
-Steven Wright
Your close relationships are either a catalyst for manifesting what you really
want or theyre a hindrance to your manifestation If you truly value the power of
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love in your life you owe it to yourself to discover how to tap into the power of
your relationship as a force for manifestation
Drs Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up Even when they do it is not
perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888 American author )
One is not idle because one is absorbed There is both visible and invisible labor To
contemplate is to toil to think is to do The crossed arms work the clasped hands
act The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation
Victor Hugo (1802-1885 French poet dramatist novelist)
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of
greed in the headlines
-Charles Kuralt
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our
focus we never concentrate our power Most people dabble their way through life
never deciding to master anything in particular
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time
~ Anthony J DAngelo
Courage comes from wanting to do it well Security comes from knowing you can do
it well Confidence comes from having done it well
~ Author Unknown
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel
Napoleon Hill
There is a true genius in everyone But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a
tree it would never stop doubting itself
~ Einstein~
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People ask for criticism but they only want praise
- W Somerset Maugham 1874-1965 Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if
you let it pass the desire may never return and you may remain in ignorance
- William Wirt 1772-1834 Cynicism is not realistic and tough Its unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it
means you dont have to try
- Peggy Noonan 1950-present There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into
gear
David Mahoney Executive and Philanthropist You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences
W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965 British novelist playwright)
Dont ask yourself what the world needs Ask yourself what makes you come alive
and then go and do that Because what the world needs are people who have come
alive
~ Howard Thurman When a great moment knocks on the door of your life it is often no louder than
the beating of your heart and it is very easy to miss it -Boris Pasternak Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure
~ Thomas Alva Edison
To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in
your heart
- Thomas Watson Sr Begin challenging your own assumptions Your assumptions are your windows on the
world Scrub them off every once and a while or the light wont come in
Alan Alda Actor Writer and Director
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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most
argumentative
Giovani della Casa (1503-1556 Papal secretary of state)
Have you ever felt like you wanted to go but you felt like you wanted to stay
- Song Lyric Jimmy Durante
To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all
~ Oscar Wilde
Awareness is like a beam of light that shines endlessly into space We only
perceive that light when it is reflected off some object and consciousness is
producedAwareness is the light by which we see the worldWe mistake the clear
light of pure awareness for the shadows that it casts in consciousnessWe forget
that we are the light itself and imagine that we are the densities that reflect the
light back to us
-Stephen Levine Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal
Albert Camus (1913-1960 French existential writer) The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation
Mark Twain
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn Our rewards
will always be in exact proportion to our service
Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Author of The Strangest Secret
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he
knows where he is going
Napoleon Hill
Wisdom tells me I am nothing
Love tells me I am everything
And between the two my life flows
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
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No employer today is independent of those about him He cannot succeed alone no
matter how great his ability or capital Business today is more than ever a question
of cooperation
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars
Les Brown
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world
Joseph Addison (1672-1719 British essayist poet statesman)
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a
fate that falls on man unless they act
~ G K Chesterton
Find something positive to think about and dont let the conversation in your head
end with a negative comment Always end on a positive comment
Dr Tomi Bryan and Dr Jerry White From their latest release The 5 Keys To The Great Life
Whales do not sing because they have a message They sing because they have a
song
-Ashes and Snow
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life
- Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956
Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though
checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor
suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat
- Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting
- Stanislaw Leszczynski 1677-1766
There is no joy in getting by on your job - doing as little as you can There is a
LOT of pleasure in doing more than you have to And whosoever shall compel you
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to go a mile go with him twain says the Bible wisely
-Norman Carlisle
We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once
Calvin Coolidge
The starting point of all achievement is desire Keep this constantly in mind Weak
desires bring weak results just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich
I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me
instead of looking within myself to see what was there
Belle Livingstone
Rather than thinking if and when start doing take action stop talking about if
and when
~ Catherine Pulsifer
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity -
Ayn Rand
Being a man or indeed being human is not something for which one should
apologize but something to which one should aspire and with all the gusto he can
muster
-- David Cunningham
The question isnt who is going to let me its who is going to stop me
- Howard Roark The Fountainhead 1943
I am the Master of my Fate Captain of my Soul
-- W E Henley
Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it
Boldness has genius power and magic in it
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me
instead of looking within myself to see what was there
Belle Livingstone
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order
and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a
time
Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Novelist
The path to success is to take massive determined action
Anthony Robbins
All of the significant battles are waged within the self
Sheldon Kopp (1929- American psychologist)
Follow effective action with quiet reflection From the quiet reflection will come
even more effective action
~ Peter F Drucker
Dont be dismayed at good-byes
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again
And meeting again after moments or lifetimes
is certain for those who are friends
-Richard Bach
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual
sense of humor
Thomas W Higginson 1823-1911 Minister Abolitionist and Author
When performance exceeds ambition the overlap is called success
Cullen Hightower
Well done is better than well said
Benjamin Franklin
The first and the best victory is to conquer self
Plato (BC 427-347 Greek philosopher)
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Man is what he believes
-Anton Chekhov One half of life is luck the other half is discipline - and thats the important half
for without discipline you wouldnt know what to do with luck
Carl Zuckmeyer 1896-1977 Writer and Playwright
Try and fail but dont fail to try
~ Stephen Kaggwa
I believe that one of the greatest gifts we have been given is our imagination It
costs nothing to access is available 247 and is our doorway to freedom With
imagination we have inside of us the most amazing ability to change our state and
transform our life in a moment
~ Veronica Hay The world is full of abundance and opportunity but far too many people come to
the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a
steam shovel They expect little and as a result they get little
Ben Sweetland Author of I Will Blessed is the person who sees the need recognizes the responsibility and actively
becomes the answer
William A Ward
I am not a mechanism an assembly of various sections
And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly that I am ill
I am ill because of wounds to the soul to the deep emotional self
And the wounds to the soul take a long long time only time can help
And patience and a certain difficult repentance
Long difficult repentance realization on lifes mistake and the freeing of oneself
From the endless repetition of the mistake
Which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify
-D H Lawrence
Victory belongs to the most persevering
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Gratitude opens doors It paves the way to abundance and prosperity like nothing
else
It can line your pockets with gold and fill your bank account quicker than a New
York minute
Yet how many of you are living from a thankful heart each day
~Veronica Hay Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
Bruce Springsteen You gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we
really stop to look fear in the face You must do that which we think we cannot
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Social Activist and First Lady of the United States
Dont let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you Instead give to
yourself that which empowers you
Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)
―The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having
new eyes
~ Marcel Proust
―Then your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall spring up
quickly
~ Isaiah 588
―And your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music
from it or confused sounds
mdash Kahlil Gibran
In every life the most important change is self-change -- and in every situation
the principles are the same
- J Kingston Cowart
It takes courage to lead a life Any life
Erica Jong
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Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time
-Ken Wilber
Peoples tendency towards good is as waters tendency is to flow downhill
Mencius When I let go of what I am I become what I might be
~ Lao Tsu
The higher my rank the more humbly I behave The greater my power the less I
exercise it The richer my wealth the more I give away Thus I avoid respectively
envy and spite and misery
~ Sun Shu Ao
There is no greater happiness than freedom from worry and there is no greater
wealth than contentment
~Lao Tsu
Failure lies not in falling down Failure lies in not getting up
~ Chinese proverb
A meal however simple is a moment of intersection It is at once the most basic
the most fundamental of our lifes activities maintaining the life of our bodies
Shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion uniting people
deeply
~ Elise Boulding The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms
-- Socrates You are never going to get it all done - you just wont Rather you will find order
and peace in your workday if you accept it and then do one more thing Implement
a system that consistently shows you whats most critical at any moment what to
do after the critical and where to find everything else when you need to That
system is not hard - its quite simple to set up
Michael Linenberger From Master Your Workday Now Check out his book and bonuses
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Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have
just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together
into a life of action and purpose
Lance Armstrong 7-Time Winner of the Tour de France
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value
Albert Einstein
We have contributed each in the time allotted us our endeavors to render a
permanent blessing to our country
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826 Third American President)
If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost that is where they
should be Now put foundations under them
~ Henry David Thoreau
If you didnlsquot musterbate then you wouldnlsquot awfulize terribilize
catastrophize say ―I canlsquot stand it and put yourself down
If you only stuck with ―Ilsquod like very much to do well but I never
have to you wouldnlsquot then disturb yourself hellip musterbation is
evil and pernicious
- Albert Ellis
There are 2 theories to arguing with a womanneither works
-Will Rogers
Dont tell me that worry doesnt do any good said the over-worked executive I
know better The things I worry about never happen
-Cited in More ofThe Best of BITS amp PIECES
Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were
innocent Anger is natural Grief is appropriate Healing is mandatory Restoration
is possible
~ Jane Rubietta
Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can
~ Richard Bach
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Inspiration and genius--one and the same
~ Victor Hugo
It is important to acknowledge a mistake instantly correct it and learn from it
That literally turns a failure into a success Success is on the far side of failure
TJ Watson 1874-1956 Founder if IBM
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of
inspiration
~ George Eliot
Trust your hunches Theyre usually based on facts filed away just below the
conscious level
Dr Joyce Brothers Psychologist and Television Personality Every artist was first an amateur
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a
true master For this reason mastery demands all of a person
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Theoretical Physicist Philosopher and Author In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain
Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)
The more difficulties one has to encounter within and without the more
significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be
Horace Bushnell
If the sky falls hold up your hands
Spanish Proverb
Begin with the end in mind
Stephen Covey
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good try to use ordinary
situations
- Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825 German Novelist
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunities
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery it wouldnt seem so
wonderful
Michelangelo 1475-1564 Painter Sculptor and Architect
We only think when we are confronted with problems
John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)
Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can
~ Thomas Carlyle
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex It takes a touch of
genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction
~Albert Einstein
―Ecstasy is your very nature not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary
~Osho
The quieter you can become the more youre able to hear
~Chinese Proverb
The only real valuable thing is intuition
~ Albert Einstein
To be ecstatic is natural spontaneous It needs no effort to be ecstatic it needs
great effort to be miserable
~Osho
Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight
Anita DeFrantz Olympic Rower Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust
our old programs accordingly
Dr Ann Faraday
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I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world
I may not ever complete the last one
But I give myself to it
I have been circling for thousands of years
And I still dont know
Am I a falcon a storm or a great song
-Rilke
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to
make them come true
~ Leon J Suenes
Dont be a cynic and disconsolate preacher Dont bewail and moan Omit the
negative propositions Challenge us with incessant affirmatives Dont waste
yourself in rejection or bark against the bad but chant the beauty of the good
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once whether
youre ready or not to put it into action
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author
Fall seven times stand up eight
Japanese proverb
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars
or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven
to the human spirit
~ Helen Keller
Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends
Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet)
First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have
to do
Epictetus
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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to
make them come true
Leon J Suenes
If you would create something you must be something
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Stay together friends
Dont scatter and sleep
Our friendship is made
Of being awake
The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away weeping
That way it stays in the garden whereas another roundness rolls
through a dry riverbed looking for what it thinks it wants
Stay here quivering with each moment like a drop of mercury
-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives as parallel realities It is
always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend when we choose not
to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance
thats present love health family friends work the joys of nature and personal
pursuits that bring us pleasure the wasteland of illusion falls away and we
experience heaven on earth
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to
raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years
ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I
demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my
life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to
becoming
~ Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert) Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change
the world today
~ Wil Rose
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A bird doesnt sing because it has an answer it sings because it has a song
~ Maya Angelou
Great minds have purposes little minds have wishes Little minds are subdued by
misfortunes great minds rise above them
~ Washington Irving
Step by step I cant think of any other way of accomplishing anything
~ Michael Jordan
If you employed study thinking and planning time daily you could develop and use
the power that can change the course of your destiny
~ W Clement Stone
We are called to speak for the weak for the voiceless for victims of our nation
and for those it calls enemy for no document from human hands can make these
humans any less than our brothers
-Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Disposal of hazardous wastes is not the root problem Rather it is the root
symptom
-Hawken Paul There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the
things we do
Freya Stark
Try a little harder to be a little better
Gordon B Hinckley
If you love something and stick with it you will get phenomenal results
Bob Proctor
You can chain me you can torture me you can even destroy this body but you will
never imprison my mind
Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Political and Spiritual Leader
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Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and
triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead
Chinese Proverb Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs
Michael Levine
Nurture your mind with great thoughts To believe in the heroic makes heroes
Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881 British Prime Minister The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your
blueprint or plan Strategies are like recipes choose the right ingredients mix
them in the correct proportions and you will always produce the same predictable
results
~ Charles J Givens
More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our
lives that determine our destiny
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
Happy the manwoman who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his
wishes and his powers
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I hope that my achievements in life shall be these that I will have fought for what
was right and fair that I will have risked for that which mattered and that I will
have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better
place for what Ive done and who Ive been
~ C Hoppe
The vision that you glorify in your mind the ideal that you enthrone in your heart
this you will build your life by and this you will become
James Allen
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Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
Gandhi
There never was a time when in my opinion some way could not be found to
prevent the drawing of the sword
-General Grant To be a warrior
is to be genuine
in every moment of your life
-Chogyam Trungpa Im convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs
from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance
- Steve Jobs Regret for wasted time is more wasted time
Mason Cooley
Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow
Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)
More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our
lives that determine our destiny
Anthony Robbins Author and Speaker
Material possessions will rust away wear away or depreciate but your inner
resources character must never depreciate In seeking success you must also seek
fulfillment Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be
~ Elizabeth Dole Anything in life that we dont accept will simply make trouble for us until we make
peace with it
~ Shakti Gawain
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious
stupidity
-Dr Martin Luther King Jr
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Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobodys going to know
whether you did it or not
Oprah Winfrey Talk Show Host Producer and Philanthropist
If you must begin then go all the way because if you begin and quit the unfinished
business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time
Chogyam Trungpa
I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career I have lost almost 300 games
On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and I
missed I have failed over and over and over again in my life And thats precisely
why I succeedcc
~ Michael Jordan
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what
they most enjoy
~ Malcolm Forbes
Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future
Paul Boese Botanist
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons
determination
Tommy Lasorda (1927- American baseball manager) I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more
~ Dr Jonas Salk The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame
Rod Steiger
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul
~ Marcus Aurelius
The best way
to make your dreams come true
is to wake up
-Kabir
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You can do what you have to do and sometimes you can do it even better than you
think you can
Jimmy Carter (1924- American President (39th)) ―If you create an act you create a habit If you create a habit you create a
character If you create a character you create a destiny
ndash Andre Maurois They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them
feel
~ Carl W Buechner When you affirm big believe big and pray big putting faith into action big things
happen
Dr Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Preacher and Author You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are taken
out of your life
~ James G Bilkey
In every difficult situation is potential value Believe this then begin looking for it
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832 German poet dramatist novelist)
Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be
sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all around
It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want
in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us These
secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth helps you get clarity on
your real heart directives
-Sara Paddison
The best thing to spend on your children is your time
~ Louise Hart
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The best things come to those who wait
- Unknown
Ask five economists and youll get five different explanations six if one went to
Harvard
~ Edgar R Fiedler There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through
encouragement from someone else I dont care how great how famous or
successful a man or woman may be each hungers for applause
~ George M Adams Do not fear death fear the unlived life
Natalie Babbitt Leadership is no longer about your position Its now more about your passion for
excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title
Robin Sharma
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions have
all come back from defeat
Sam Snead (1912-2002 American golfer)
What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision
-Helen Keller The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement
Yet almost no one gets the encouragement they need
to grow to their full potential If everyone received the
encouragement they need to grow the genius in most
everyone would blossom and the world would produce
abundance beyond the wildest dreams We would have
more than one Einstein Edison Schweitzer Mother
Theresa Dr Salk and other great minds in a century
~Sidney Madwed
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Dont build your happiness on someone elses unhappiness
~ Richard Rose
―The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all
the world
~ Ramana Maharshi
Somewhere there is someone who dreams of your smile and finds in your presence
that life is worthwhile
So when you are lonely remember its true somebody somewhere is thinking of
you
~ Anon
If youre open to altering your plans a bit you might achieve even better results
than youd anticipated
Peggy McColl A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will
point out the means
William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)
Successful people dont do different things they just do things differently
- Unknown You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are
taken out of your life
James G Bilkey Author
Dreams do come true if we only wish hard enough You can have anything in life if
you will sacrifice everything else for it
James M Barrie (1860-1937 British playwright)
Seven blunders of the world
that lead to violence
wealth without work
pleasure without conscience
knowledge without character
commerce without morality
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science without humanity
worship without sacrifice
politics without principle
-Mahatma Gandhi
When people speak of prosperity they generally mean success and measure it in
terms of financial abundance There are books seminars and training sessions
designed to help individuals to be prosperous Clearly many are seeking the path to
prosperity Ironically when one is seeking prosperity the message they give to
themselves and the universe is that they do not have enough This is a scarcity
mentality and tends only to manifest more scarcity
~ Gwen Randall Young Money makes money and the money makes more money
~ Benjamin Franklin
BE the change you wish to see in the world
- Ghandhi The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched
They must be felt with the heart
~ Hellen Keller
Understanding does not cure evil but it is a definite help inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness
-Carl Jung
You are not powerless about anything
When you get a vision and then find
alignment with it you ARE powerful
And then amazing things begin to
happen around you
- Abraham-Hicks
Be kind whenever possible It is always possible
~ Dalai Lama
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A consistent soul believes in destiny a capricious one in chance
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881 British statesman Prime Minister)
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots
George Herbert (1593-1632 British metaphysical poet)
It is not the greatness of a mans means that makes him independent so much as
the smallness of his wants
William Cobbett (1762-1835 British journalist reformer)
If you desire many things many things will seem few
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American scientist publisher diplomat) Its the little things you do that can make a big difference What are you
attempting to accomplish What little thing can you do today that will make you
more effective You are probably only one step away from greatness
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker You may delay but time will not and lost time is never found again
~ Benjamin Franklin
Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction
~ Matthew Burton
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light
~ Helen Keller
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength
~ Sigmund Freud
Blessed are those that can give without remembering and take without
forgetting
~ Liz Bebesco Waiting is a trap There will always be reasons to wait
The truth is there are only two things in life reasons and results and reasons
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simply dont count
~ Dr Robert Anthony
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become
wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing The long
term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their
Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed
~ Srully Blotnick
If now there is something you
choose to experience in your life
do not want it -- choose it
Do you choose success in worldly
terms Do you choose more money
Good Then choose it Really
Fully Not half-heartedly
- Conversations with God Book 1
Its a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you
very often get it
-Somerset Maugham
A world of abundance surrounds you if only you will step up and claim it Make life
happen through you rather than letting it happen to you It will make all the
difference in the world
- Ralph Marston Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving
it
~ William Arthur Ward
We must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible
otherwise we would not continue to search
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Prosperity consciousness is the awareness that all of us have something of value
to offer and we all deserve to get paid for what we provide to others
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Peggy McColl Author of Viral Explosions Proven Techniques to Expand Explode or Ignite Your Business Or Brand Online Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying
~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it
- Lou Holtz Procrastination is opportunitys natural assassin
~ Victor Kiam Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough
- Og Mandino 1923-1996 American Motivational Author and Speaker When you judge others you do not define them you define yourself
~ Earl Nightingale
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly
~ Richard Bach
If you tell the truth you dont have to remember anything
-Mark Twain
The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity
belonging to them
William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions
have all come back from defeat
Sam Snead 1912-2002 Golfer Faith is the assurance of things hoped for
- Unknown
The mediocre teacher tells The good teacher explains The superior teacher
demonstrates The great teacher inspires
~ William A Ward
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Never complain and never explain
~ --Benjamin Disraeli
Bless a thing and it will bless you Curse it and it will curse you If you bless a
situation it has no power to hurt you
Emmet Fox 1886-1951 Spiritual Leader Man alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man
alone can dream and make his dreams come true
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970 American speaker author Think And Grow Rich) Without AMBITION one starts nothing Without WORK one finishes nothing
The prize will NOT be sent to you You have to WIN it
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please
everyone
- Bill Cosby What we leave behind is not engraved in stone monuments but woven into the lives
of others
~ Pericles The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of
being unwanted
~ Mother Teresa (1910-1997 Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)
Tough times never last Tough people do
-Robert Schuller
Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions
- Eric Butterworth
A fellow at one of my workshops confessed For years I was so miserable that I
prayed to God daily to let me wake up as happy as my dog I went home and
thought about it Am I as happy as my dog Hmmmm
~ Alan Cohen
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of
your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the
unknown
Denis Waitley Author and Speaker
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us
William Feather (1888-19 American writer businessman )
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow but only
empties today of its strength
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892 Preacher
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win by fearing to
attempt
William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British poet playwright actor)
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of
your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the
unknown
Denis Waitley (1933- American author speaker trainer peak performance expert)
Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as
it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong
is simply your own false imagination Thats all
~Robert Adams
How many ideas have there been in history that were unthinkable ten years
before they appeared
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Life in itself is an empty canvas it becomes whatsoever you paint on it You can
paint misery you can paint bliss This freedom is your glory
~Osho
―Cease trying to work everything out with your minds it will get you nowhere Live
instead by intuition and inspiration let your whole life become a revelation
~Eileen Caddy
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People should appreciate ugliness because if it wasnt for ugliness beautiful
things wouldnt look beautiful
~ Sam Lau
No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig If
you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time Let it first
blossom then bear fruit then ripen
~Epictetus
You are the Self that perfect immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else
ever existed Nothing else will ever exist There is only one Self and you are That
Rejoice
~Robert Adams
Part of being a champ is acting like a champ You have to learn how to win and not
run away when you lose Everyone has bad stretches and real successes Either way
you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident
~ Nancy Kerrigan
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision
~ Muhammad Ali
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents works his tail off to
develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals
~ Larry Bird
Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love a gift to that person a
beautiful thing
-Mother Teresa
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end Its not a day when you
lounge around doing nothing its when youve had everything to do and youve done
it
-Lord Acton
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
- Walter Bagehot
Only the weak are cruel Gentleness can only be expected from the strong
~ Leo Buscaglia
If you are too busy to spend time with your children then you are busier than God
intended you to be
~ Rabbi Mendel Epstein
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Procrastination is the fear of success People procrastinate because they are
afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now Because
success is heavy carries a responsibility with it it is much easier to procrastinate
and live on the someday Ill philosophy
~ Denis Waitley
Happiness cannot come from without It must come from within
~ Helen Keller
I make occasional visits to reality But Im not a full- time resident
-Ashleigh Brilliant
People are like sticks of dynamite The power is on the inside but nothing happens
until the fuse gets lit
Mac Anderson Author Are you disappointed discouraged and discontented with your present level of
success Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status Do you want to
become a better and more beautiful person than you are today Would you like to
be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine
humility Then start dreaming Itlsquos possible You can become the person you have
always wanted to be
Robert H Schuller (1926- American minister author social leader)
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You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant
aspiration
- James Allen 1864-1912 Author of As A Man Thinketh
The man who has done his best has done everything
~ Charles Schwab Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can start from now
and make a brand new ending
~ Carl Bard
When I get ready to talk to people I spend two thirds of the time thinking what
they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 16th President of the United States Discontent is the first necessity of progress
Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)
You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how
youre going to live - now
- Joan Baez Singer Songwriter
Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as
it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong
is simply your own false imagination Thats all You are the Self that perfect
immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else ever existed Nothing else will
ever exist There is only one Self and you are That Rejoice
~Robert Adams If your dream is a big dream and if you want your life to work on the high level
that you say you do theres no way around doing the work it takes to get you
there
~ Joyce Chapman We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an
imperfect person perfectly
~ Sam Keen
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―A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe a part limited in time
and space He experiences himself his thoughts and feeling as something
separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness This
delusion is a kind of prison for us restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest to us Our task must be to free ourselves from
this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and
the whole of nature in its beauty
-- Albert Einstein
―Each contact with a human being is so rare so precious one should preserve it
- Anais Nin
―Only connect That was the whole of her sermon Only connect the prose and the
passion and both will be exalted and human love will be seen at its height Live in
fragments no longer Only connect
-- EM Forster
―Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the
self And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our
connectedness to others
-- Harriet Goldhor Lerner
―And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to
do the same As we are liberated from our fear our presence automatically
liberates others
-- Marianne Williamson
No no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like
waters and righteousness like a mighty stream
Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968 American Civil Rights leader Nobel Prize winner 964)
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a
very long time
~ Andre Gide (1869-1951 French author)
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Write down the thoughts of the moment Those that come unsought for are
commonly the most valuable
Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Philosopher Statesman Scientist and Author
A woman should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to
accomplish it Even if she fails again and again to accomplish her purpose (as she
necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will
be the measure of her true success and this will form a new starting point for
future power and triumph
~ James Allen
To be blind is bad but worse is to have eyes and not see
~ Helen Keller
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning
to see an imperfect person perfectly
` Sam Keen
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can
start from now and make a brand new ending
` Carl Bard Always make a total effort even when the odds are against you
Arnold Palmer (1929- American golfer)
Learning is finding out what you already know Doing is demonstrating that you
know it Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you You are
all learners doers teachers
Richard Bach (1936- American author)
Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day
Jenner Bruce 1949- American track athlete author speaker
Doubt whom you will but never yourself
John Christian Bovee (1820-1904 American author lawyer)
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When you give someone a book you dont give him just paper ink and glue You
give him the possibility of a whole new life
Christopher Morley 1890-1957 Novelist Journalist and Poet
Dont be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality If you can dream
it you can make it so
Belva Davis Award-Winning Journalist
The secret of mans being is not only to live but to have something to live for
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose
Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity and high purpose by itself is
utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Watch your thoughts they become words
Watch your words they become actions
Watch your actions they become habits
Watch your habits they become character
Watch your character it becomes your destiny
~ Frank Outlaw
Take good care of your future because thats where youre going to spend the
rest of your life
~ Charles F Kettering
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams
John Barrymore
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground
Stephen Covey
Its never too late to be what you might have been
George Elliot
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Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder
than anything we can say
Wilfred Peterson
True peace is not merely the absence of some negative force - tension confusion
or war it is the presence of some positive force - justice good will and
brotherhood
-Martin Luther King Jr
The important thing in this world is not where we stand but in what direction we
move
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing Action always
generates inspiration Inspiration seldom generates action
-Frank Tibolt
The only way to eliminate waris to love our children more than we hate our enemies
-Golda Meir
It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope
is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they
both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your
years
~ Abraham Lincoln
Hold your head high stick your chest out You can make it It gets dark
sometimes but morning comes Keep hope alive
~ Jesse Jackson
Set your sights high the higher the better Expect the most wonderful things to
happen not in the future but right now Realize that nothing is too good Allow
absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way
Eileen Caddy Author
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To understand the heart and mind of a person look not at what he has already
achieved but at what he aspires to do
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931 Lebanese poet novelist )
Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality
Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is
transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible
~Osho
What is the best thing about being 100 years old Lack of peer pressure
-Michael Pritchard
The more credit you give away the more will come back to you The more you help
others the more they will want to help you
~ Brian Tracy
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact
~ William James
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes Chance nature
compulsions habit reason passion desire
~ Aristotle When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth think of Algebra
-Will Rogers
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say Yes Ive got
dreams of course Ive got dreams Then they put the box away and bring it out
once in a while to look in it and yep theyre still there These are great dreams
but they never even get out of the box It takes an uncommon amount of guts to
put your dreams on the line to hold them up and say How good or how bad am I
Thats where courage comes in
~ Erma Bombeck
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You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really
stop to look fear in the face You must do the thing which you think you cannot
do
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you love the money will follow
Marsha Sinetar (American author To Build The Life You Want Create The Work You Love)
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement we must choose freedom and the
responsibility this entails
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998 American expert on love lecturer author)
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of
itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as
powerful as your desires unless you make them so
Marcia Wieder (American speaker trainer author)
I work every day -- or at least I force myself into my office or room I may get
nothing done but you dont earn bonuses without putting in time Nothing may
come for three months but you dont earn the fourth without it
Mordecai Richler (1931- Canadian writer)
If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation
by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in
which you are rendering it
Roger Babson 1875-1967 Statistician and Columnist Its simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about
what the other fellow is going to do
- John R Amos
All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas
~ Hakuin
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly
or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man
~Chang Tzu
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The important thing is not to stop questioning Curiosity has its own reason for
existing One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of
eternity of life of the marvelous structure of reality It is enough if one tries
merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day Never lose a holy
curiosity
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect
abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human
laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought
of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will
bring it into being
~Eileen Caddy
Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality
Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is
transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible
~Osho
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who
keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road
Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961 Statesman and Secretary-General of UN
Life is one massive challenge after another for everyone So you cant feel sorry
for yourself One real measure of you as a person is how much you can handle
without whining
~ Mike Brescia Author
We are each of us angels with only one wing And we can only fly by embracing each
other
-Luciano de Crescenzo
He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he
would like to have
~ Socrates
Quite often we change jobs friends and spouses instead of ourselves
~ Akbarali H Jetha
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame
~ Benjamin Franklin
You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where
your thoughts take you
- James Allen
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will
embrace for that day We cannot change our past
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way We cannot change
the inevitable The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have and that
is our attitude
- Charles Swindoll author
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others
- Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC
If you want your life to be more rewarding you have to change the way you think
- Oprah Winfrey
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless
- Mother Teresa
By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible
- Italian Proverb
Enthusiasm is the all-essential human jet propeller It is the driving force which
elevates people to miracle workers and creates endless energy the source of all
accomplishment
-Norman Vincent Peale
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends
you choose for you will become like them-
- W Clement Stone
Ones philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one
makes In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves The process
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never ends until we die And the choices we make are ultimately our own
responsibility
- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something that were
supposed to do
~ Richard Rose I love the name of honor more than I fear death
~ Julius Caesar
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future making it predictable
and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible
Hannah Arendt 1906-1975 Political Theorist
Man has no greater enemy than himself
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374 Italian poet humanist)
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety
-Aesop
You cannot tailor make your situation in life but you can tailor make your
attitudes to fit those situations
- Zig Ziglar speaker and author Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you
and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in
line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not
get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker The only people who never fail are those who never try
Ilka Chase (1905-1978 American author actor)
In truth you are spirit The body has been projected by the mind which itself
originates from Spirit If the wrong identification ceases there will be peace and
permanent indescribable bliss
~Ramana Maharshi
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I flow with loving gratitude for all my blessings today
- Zoe Jarboe
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be
~ Abraham Lincoln You are wealthy now with an abundance of what you are thinking about The world
is a creative engine and will create whatever you are really thinking Every thought
in your mind is a prayer about you no matter who the subject seems to be
~ Brad Jensen
A man who works with his hands is a laborer a man who works with his hands and
his brain is a craftsman but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his
heart is an artist
-Louis Nizer
When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score
John Enoch Powell (1912-1998 British statesman)
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get credit Try if
you can to belong to the first class there is far less competition
~ Dwight Morrow 1873-1931 Businessman Politician and Diplomat
Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt
conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything
~ St Ignatius Loyola Action is the real measure of intelligence
~ Napoleon Hill
Take the first step and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid But the
first essential is that you begin Once the battle is started all that is within and
without you will come to your assistance
~ Robert Collier
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You are what you are today because of the decisions and the choices YOU made
yesterday
~ Wayne Goonie
I have never seen a man who could do real work except under the stimulus of
encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom he is
working
Charles M Schwab (1862-1939 American industrialist businessman)
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can
- Danny Kaye (1913-1987) Entertainer A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in
spite of overwhelming obstacles
~ Christopher Reeve A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always
with the same person
~ Mignon McLaughlin
We learn from failure much more than from success we often discover what we
will do by finding our what we will not do and probably he who never made a
mistake never made a discovery
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904 Scottish author)
I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)
Life has indeed many ills but the mind that views every object in its most
cheering aspect and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good bears
within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote
Lydia H Sigourney 1791-1865 Poet
The Next Step
The first step needs action to start it
The last requires patience to end
So we question which ones most important
When we realize our dreams our best friend
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Well the answer is neither theyre equal
But the one that will help you win through
And connect what you start to the finish
Is the next step thats waiting for you
Lifes dreamers are great Goal Achievers
Their faith and persistence just blends
Into one awesome cocktail of knowledge
That whatever they want they can get
You see they never visualize failure
Its success that they see shining through
Its essential to start and to finish
But the next step is what you must do
Alison Wilson
Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you
and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in
line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not
get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker
There is no such thing as natural touch Touch is something you create by hitting
millions of golf balls
~ Lee Trevino
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation We do not act rightly because
we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted
rightly We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit
~ Aristotle
The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement If everyone received the
encouragement they need to grow the genius in most everyone would blossom and
the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams
~ Unkwown
I do not believe in miracles at least not defined in the conventional religious
manner as divine disruptions of the natural order But if a miracle is defined as an
infinitely improbable phenomenon then our existence is a miracle which no theory
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natural or supernatural will ever explain
-John Horgan
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that with nine women
pregnant you can get a baby in a month
--Wernher von Braun
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never
find out
~ Frank A Clark
You are what you are today because of the decisions and the
choices YOU made yesterday
~ Revt Wayne Goonie
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do
a little
~ Edmund Burke
We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something
that were supposed to do
~ Richard Rose
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small
people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become
great
- Mark Twain
Rich and poor are first created in the mind
A poor man asks How much will it COST me
A rich man asks How much will it MAKE me
Which one are you
~ Bryan Kumar
If you think you can do something that you cannot the belief itself prevents you
from accomplishing the task either because you never try it in the first place or
because you have block yourself by your belief
-Deena Zalkind Spear
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)
Character is doing whats right when nobodys looking
- J C Watts Jr Politician
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people
always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great
Mark Twain 1835-1910 Humorist and Writer
We are all salesmen every day of our lives We are selling our ideas our plans our
enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact
~ Charles M Schwab It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition
- Vernon Howard Maturity begins when were content to feel were right about something without
feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong
Sydney J Harris 1917-1986 Syndicated Columnist
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum
- Frances Willard Educator
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given
~ Deepak Chopra Once power was considered a masculine attribute In fact power has no gender
~ Katherine Graham
An invasion of armies can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come
Victor Hugo
As the purse is emptied the heart is filled
Victor Hugo
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Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them
give way beneath her and yet sings knowing that she hath wings
Victor Hugo
Have no fear of robbers or murderers They are external dangers petty dangers
We should fear ourselves Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murders
The great dangers are within us Why worry about what threatens our heads or
purses Let us think instead of what threatens our souls
Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door closes a prison
Victor Hugo
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man
Victor Hugo Be all you can be and live a good life -- have fun with it
Tina Yothers
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace
Yes Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive inner peace does
not
-Eckhart Tolle
A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Physician and writer
The superior persons learning goes in his ear attaches to his heart expands to
the end of his limbs and is established in his actions
Even in his smallest word or slightest action he sets an example
~ Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) When I thought I couldnt go on I forced myself to keep going My success is
based on persistence not luck
Estee Lauder Entrepreneur
If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased
Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003 American actress writer)
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Make Your Mark Count A childs life is like a piece of paper on which every person
leaves a mark
- Chinese Proverb
Pain shared is lessened joy shared increased
~ Spider Robinson
The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits
~ Albert Einstein
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift let it be enthusiasm
Bruce Barton (1886-1967 American author advertising expert)
When you give your children knowledge you are telling them what you think That
is you are telling them what they are supposed to know what you want them to
understand is true
When you give your children wisdom you do not tell them what to know or what is
true but rather how to get to their own truth
-Neale Donald Walsch
I have found that if you love life life will love you back
- Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Musician
The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see
magic and beauty in them while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves
~ Kahlil Gibran
Practice is just as valuable as a sale The sale will make you a living the skill will
make you a fortune
~ Jim Rohn
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875 British author clergyman)
Dont cry because its over - smile because it happened
Author unknown
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Happiness is like a kiss You must share it to enjoy it
~ Bernard Meltzer Our life is what our thoughts make it
~ Marcus Aurelius The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best Therefore it tends to
become the best It takes the form or character of the best and will receive the
best
-- Wallace Wattles
Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings
-- Marianne Williamson
―And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present and can be none in
the future And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned
to beautiful results
mdash Walt Whitman When you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with your Self
When you lose touch with your Self you lose yourself in the world
Your innermost sense of Self of who you are is inseparable from stillness
This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form
Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks
With wisdom I see that I am nothing
With love I see that I am everything
Between these two my life turns
Nisargadatta Maharaj Man often becomes what he believes himself to be If I keep on saying to myself
that I cannot do a certain thing it is possible that I may end by really becoming
incapable of doing it On the contrary if I shall have the belief that I can do it I
shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the
beginning
Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Indian Nationalist Leader
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Strategies designed to avoid something eventually produce exactly the thing they
are trying to avoid
-Michael Greenwood and Peter Nunn
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but
are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults
seem insignificant
Charles A Cerami
If all you did was just look for things to appreciate you would live a joyous
spectacular life
~Abraham-Hicks
Three things in human life are important The first is to be kind The second is to
be kind And the third is to be kind
- Henry James (1843-1916) Writer The moment of enlightenment is when a persons dreams of possibilities become
images of probabilities
~ Vic Braden Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot
fly
~ Langston Hugues Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which
smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what win and
preserve the heart and secure comfort
Humphry Davy 1778-1829 Chemist
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900 German philosopher)
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 (1871-1940) Writer
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Some dream of doing great things while others stay awake and get on with it
~ Unknown With all your science can you tell how it is and whence it is that light comes into
the soul
-Hanry David Thoreau
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one but you wont come up
with a handful of mud either
- Leo Burnett (1891-1971) Advertising Executive
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the
only way we can leave the future open
Lillian Smith 1897-1966 Writer Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
~ Thomas A Edison Find something youre passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it
Julia Child (1912-2004 American gourmet cook author and television personality)
Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today
and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American
dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are
created equal
- Martin Luther King Jr ―Never let formal education get in the way of your learning
- Mark Twain
The path to success is to take massive determined action
~ Anthony Robbins For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the practice of tolerance ones enemy is the best teacher
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson When defeat comes accept it as a signal that
your plans are not sound rebuild those plans
and set sail once more toward your coveted goal
~ Napoleon Hill
We are all alike on the inside
Mark Twain (1835-1910 American humorist writer)
If you are going to do something carelessly it is better to give it up entirely
Russian Proverb
The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you
Smile and it smiles too
Herbert Samuels
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our
children
Charles R Swindoll
The important thing is not so much that every child should be
taught as that every child should be given the wish to learn
John Lubbock
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been
Mark Twain
It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere
Steve Goodier A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops
Henry Adams
It is only with the heart that one can see clearly for the most
essential things are invisible to the eye
~ Antoine de Sainte Exupery
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the
critical decisive hour Write it on your heart that every day is
the best day of the year
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier Be the living
expression of Gods kindness kindness in your face kindness in your eyes kindness
in your smile
- Mother Teresa
Its never too late to be who you might have been
- George EliotWriter
Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle
- Plato Philosopher
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition
- Vernon Howard
Ilsquove always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up
- Beverly Sills Opera Singer
Help others get ahead You will always stand taller with someone else on your
shoulders
- Bob Moawad Business Leader
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks
like work
Thomas Edison
Dream as if youll live forever
Live as if youll die tomorrow
~ James Dean
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 Author
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As we grow up we get sophisticated out of enchantment and become too smart
about the things that cause children to wonder
-Thomas Moore
People come out to see you perform and youve got to give them the best you have
within you The lives of most men are patchwork quilts Or at best one matching
outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations A lifetime of
training for just ten seconds
Jesse Owens (1913-1980 American Olympian)
Nothing is easy to the unwilling
- Nikki Giovanni Whatever course you have chosen for yourself it will not be a chore but an
adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving if your sights are set
far above the merely secure and mediocre
~David Sarnoff 1891-1971 Entrepreneur I dont know any other way to lead but by example
Don Shula (1930- American football coach) Flexible people never get bent out of shape
- Author Unknown The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record
of successful experiences behind you
~ William Jennings Bryan The important thing is this To be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we could become
~ Charles du Bois Success isnt permanent and failure isnt fatal
- Mike Ditka
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The different between us is that I count and you dont
-Huston Smith
I love strange choices Im always interested in people who depart from what is
expected of them and go into new territory
Cate Blanchett Actress Always do your best What you plant now you will harvest later
Og Mandino (1923-1996 American motivational author speaker wwogmandinocom ) Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the Universe is endlessly
bountiful Just put forth a clear enough request and everything that your heart
desires must come to you
~Shakti Gawain The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would
suffice to solve most of the worlds problems
~ Unknown The only real valuable thing is intuition
- Albert Einstein
Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve
lost a part of your life
~ Michael Leboeuf Fear is an insidious virus Given a breeding place in our minds it will eat away our
spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors
~ James F Bell
You cant base your life on other peoples expectations
Stevie Wonder Grammy Award Winning SingerSongwriter
An excuse is worse than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded
Alexander Pope (1688-1744 British poet critic translator)
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The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and
beginning the work of becoming yourself
- Anna Quindlen ―Exert your talents and distinguish yourself and donlsquot think of retiring from the
world until the world will be sorry that you retire
- Samuel Johnson Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of
the odds against them They make the impossible happen
~ Dr Robert Jarvik
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances
if there is any reaction both are transformed
-Carl Jung There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right between
fairly good and the best between mediocrity and superiority
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess
I wish you enough Hellos to get you through the final Goodbye
Bob Perks
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
~ William Shakespeare
It doesnt matter where you are coming from All that matters is where you are
going
~ Brian Tracy You need to be a somebody before you can be a nobody
-Brant Cortright
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old
Franz Kafka Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it
bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an
unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win and lose many
a battle
~ Annie Besant
I believe in taking a positive attitude toward the world My hope still is to leave
the world a little bit better than when I got here
Jim Henson 1936-1990 Muppets Creator Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life
Gita Bellin
Education is when you read the fine print Experience is what you get if you
dont
- Pete Seeger
Keep your thoughts positive because they become your words
Keep your words positive because they become your behaviors
Keep your behaviors positive because they become your habits
Keep your habits positive because they become your values
Keep your values positive because they become your destiny
-Gandhi
The challenge is not to manage time but to manage ourselves
Stephen Covey
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death It not only gives us
fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which
we hold our present being
~ William Hazlitt
Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith Having
faith in yourself in the process of change and in the new direction that change
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sets will reveal your own inner core of steel
Georgette Mosbacher Business Executive
Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life
Gita Bellin
Careful what you wish for Millions long for immortality who do not know what to
do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon
- Susan Ertz
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us What we have done for
others and the world remains and is immortal
Albert Pine
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us
We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant gorgeous talented fabulous Actually
who are you NOT to be You are a child of God Your playing small does not serve
the world There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont
feel insecure around you We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is
within us It is not just in some of us it is in everyone And as we let our own light
shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same As we are
liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others
~ Marianne Williamson
Focus on where we want to end up not on what we want to avoid
-Paula Underwood Spencer
A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact
that everything has happened for the best
Author Unknown
Change your thoughts and you change the world
- Harold R Mcalindon Today is yesterdays effect and tomorrows cause
~ Phillip Gribble
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find
he can do what he was afraid he couldnt do
~ Henry Ford
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist
- Paul Harvey
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes
up his mind to do We are all capable of greater things than we realize
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)
When everybody is looking for gold its a good time to be in the picks and shovels
business
~ Mark Twain
Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve
lost a part of your life
~ Michael Leboeuf
It is a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you
very often get it
~ W Somerset Maugham
Flatter me and I may not believe you Criticize me and I may not like you Ignore
me and I may not forgive you Encourage me and I will not forget you Love me and
I may be forced to love you
William Arthur Ward
―Trust yourself You know more than you think you do
Benjamin Spock
―A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise
after success
Anon
―Nine tenths of education is encouragement
Anatole Franc
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Maybe you cant change the whole world but if you have love in your heart you can
make small differences every day which really does change the world one life at a
time
Kristina Koncz Customer Experience Specialist
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 (American author The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness)
Truce is better than friction
- Charles Herguth
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them -- a desire a dream a vision
~ Muhammad Ali
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each mans
life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that
take our breath away
~ George Carlin
You can conquer almost any fear if you will make up your mind to do so For
remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind
Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Author and Speaker
Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others
They learn when they do which isnt often on their own the hard way
Robert Heinlein (1907-1988 American science fiction writer)
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the
expense of everybody else
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-Frederic Bastiat
Some think its holding on that makes one strong sometimes its letting go
- Sylvia Robinson We are responsible for what we are and whatever we wish ourselves to be we
have the power to make ourselves If what we are now has been the result of our
own past actions it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be
produced by our present actions so we have to know how to act
~ Swami Vivekananda
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and
make a new ending
~ Maria Robinson
We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves
Brian Tracy (1944- Canadian-born American trainer speaker author businessman)
Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow
- Slovakian Proverb
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know
peace
~Jimi Hendrix Do not wait the time will never be just right
Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your
command and better tools will be found as you go along
~ Napoleon Hill
When we lose the right to be different we lose the privilege to be free
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948 American jurist politician)
You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone which can become a
watered-down occasional hope that youll get to tomorrow Intention without
action is useless
Caroline Myss Author of Entering The Castle
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Plan ahead -- It wasnt raining when Noah built the ark
-Anononymous
Only you can be yourself
No one else is qualified for the job
- Shelby Collinge
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
~ Confucius
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom But in the last analysis our
only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves
~ Bernard M Baruch
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941 Indian poet philosopher)
Worry is the misuse of the imagination
- Dan Zadra
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded
Maya Angelou
Trust yourself Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your
life Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into
flames of achievement
~ Foster C McClellan There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal
experience has brought it home
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873 British philosopher economist)
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall
never sit in
-Greek proverb
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails
- Bertha Calloway
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Democracy arose from mens thinking that if they are equal in any respect they
are equal absolutely
~ Aristotle
Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can
~ Richard Bach
If the world seems cold to you kindle fires to warm it
~ Lucy Larcom All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their
gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible
Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer Physician Hotel Owner and founder of Success Magazine
A Friend is a treasure more precious than Gold For love shared is priceless and
never grows old
Author Unknown
Only that which cannot be taken away by death is real Everything else is unreal it
is made of the same stuff dreams are made of
~Osho
Personality can open doors but only character can keep them open
- Elmer G Leterman
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they
dont know when to quit Most men succeed because they are determined to
~ George Allen Coach
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what
lies within us
~ Walt Emerson Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by
employing it well Then youth will be happy old age without regret and life a
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beautiful success
Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 Novelist Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution
experience lifes deepest joy true fulfillment
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet enough trials to make you
strong enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy
-Anonymous
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the
things we do
- Freya Madeline Stark
We must become the change we want to see
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You know its not more knowledge its not more education its not more facts
that we need Its a better use of what we already have that we need to have You
have each and every one of you within your potential power right now to do a
wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be
respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure
Buddha (568-488 BC Indian born founder of Buddhism)
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change and all patterns alter
- Sharon Salzberg When we let freedom ring when we let it ring from every village and every
hamlet from every state and every city we will be able to speed up that day when
all of Gods children black men and white men Jews and Gentiles Protestants and
Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro
spiritual
Free at last Free at last
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Thank God Almighty we are free at last
~ Reverand Martin Luther King Jr All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them
~ Walt Disney Your own common sense should tell you that common sense alone is not enough
-Ashleigh Brilliant
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and
deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your
place
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
Know what counts
No matter what youve done for yourself or for humanity if you cant look back on
having given love and attention to your own family what have you really
accomplished
- Lee Iacocca
There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen
~ Frederick Faust There are those that look at things the way they are and ask why I dream of
things that never were and ask why not
~ Robert F Kennedy
There is nothing impossible to him who will try
~ Alexander the Great
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance Remember the greatest
failure is to not try Once you find something you love to do be the best at doing
it
Debbi Fields Founder of Mrs Fields Cookies
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left
undone
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars
~ Les Brown
Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been
told is what they cant do They dont know what they want because they dont
know whats available for them
~ Zig Ziglar
Accept that some days youre the pigeon and some days youre the statue
-Anonymous
Be life long or short its completeness depends on what it was lived for
- David Starr Jordan
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life
by altering his attitude
~ William James
It has never been and never will be easy work
But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road
built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
―No matter what anybody tells you words and ideas can change the world
~ John Keating (from the movie Dead Poets Society) hellip Every tomorrow has two handles We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887 American preacher orator writer) The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it
~ Chinese proverb
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Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
~ Thomas Edison
I am always doing things I cant do thats how I get to do them
~ Picasso When you maximize your talents youre on path on purpose on target When you
dont youre off path off purpose off target
Kevin Hall Author of Aspire
Comparisons of ones lot with others teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975 American novelist playwright)
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
While we have the gift of life it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of
us to die - whether it is our spirit our creativity or our glorious uniqueness
- Gilda Radner
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state
of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is
wounded trust impaired
~ Erik H Erikson
Dont go on discussing what a good person should be Just be one
Marcus Aurelius
Our wisdom comes from our experience and our experience comes from our
foolishness
Sacha Guitry
I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery than live in a
world so small that my mind could comprehend it
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Our first teacher is our own heart
Cheyenne proverb
Power coerces
Knowledge persuades
Love converts
Proverb
Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back but so they will kiss their
children and their childrens children
Noah Benshea
We read to know we are not alone
CS Lewis
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better
Albert Einstein
Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always makes
you less than you are
- Malcolm Forbes
When you know that youre capable of dealing with whatever comes you have the
only security the world has to offer
Harry Browne 1933-2006 Writer and Politician
You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never
be ableto repay you
- John Wooden
Freedom know this that every manwoman is free to choose his life and what hell
be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call
persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light in nameless ways be
good and kind but never force the human mind
~ William C Clegg
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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than
the one you are capable of living
~ Nelson Mandela to Marianne Williamson If it werent for the rocks in its bed the stream would have no song
-Carl Perkins
Whenever encountering a troublesome person do not identify him as being cruel
or stupid or rude or anything else like that Instead see him as a frightened
person
Vernon Howard 1918-1992 Author and Philosopher When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it
elsewhere
~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer) Live for the moment
If I have learnt anything it is that life forms no logical patterns It is haphazard
and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by for who knows whether any
of them will ever return
- Margo Fonteyn
Isnt it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings
and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of
tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a
stumbling block or stepping stone
~ Edgar Guest We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit
~ Aristotle
Whatever you can do or dream you can do begin it Boldness has genius power
and magic in it
~ Wolfgang von Goethe Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state Being in love shows a person who he should be ~ Anton Chekhov
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Follow the grain in your own wood
- Howard Thurman
It is said that if you are not living your dreams you are living your fears
~ Ghalil Professional Dreamer
―Dont ask what the world needs Ask what makes you come alive because what the
world needs is people who have come alive
- Harold Thurman
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing
do it with all your mind Put your whole soul to it Stamp it with your own
personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will
accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Essayist Philosopher and Poet
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)
For the most part fear is nothing but an illusion When you share it with someone
else it tends to disappear
- Marilyn C Barrick
The purpose of life is not to arrive safely at your death
- Robert Holden
When everything seems to be going against you remember that theairplane takes
off against the wind not with it
Henry Ford
There are two freedoms the false where a man is free to do what he likes the
true where he is free to do what he ought
~ Charles Kingsley Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one
could find fault with it
John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer)
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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
New ideas pass through three periods
It cant be done
It probably can be done but its not worth doing
I knew it was a good idea all along
-Arthur C Clarke A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you think creates your life all you have to do is ask yourself what you are
willing to accept into your life
~ Ghalil Author - Professional Dreamer
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and
deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your
place
~ Orison Swett Marden Well done is better than well said
~ Benjamin Franklin Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one
could find fault with it
John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer) If youre looking for perfection look in the mirror If you find it there expect it
elsewhere
Malcolm S Forbes (1919-1990 American publisher businessman) Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have
- H Jackson Brown Jr A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things
~ Chinese Proverb
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If we listened to our intellect wed never have a love affair Wed never have a
friendship Wed never go into business because wed be cynical Well thats
nonsense Youve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down
~ Ray Bradbury
Successful people decide how they are going to live they are not victims of
circumstance In good times or bad times they know where they are going and they
know that they are going to get there
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker
First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win
~ Mahatma Gandhi The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing
- Walt Disney 1901-1966 American Film ProducerDirectorAnimator
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas first make him your friend
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
Doubting everything or believing everything are two equally convenient solutions
both of which save us from thinking
-Jules Henri Poincareacute
Dont be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning Thats only the initial
impression The important thing is not to retreat you have to master yourself
Olga Korbut Olympic Gold Medallist Gymnast
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental
difference in someones life
- Sister Mary Rose McGeady All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future
task of the philosopher which is to solve the problem of value to determine the
true hierarchy of values
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him
~ Martin Luther King Dont concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal -
leave that completely to a power greater than yourself All you have to do is know
where youre going The answers will come to you of their own accord and at the
right time
Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Syndicated Radio Announcer and Author
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs
~ Gloria Steinem
Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today
and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American
dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are
created equal
~ Martin Luther King Jr
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you have imagined
David Thoreau Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do
that but the really great make you believe that you too can become great
~ Mark Twain Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure (values) and Ill tell
you their philosophy of life
~ Dale Carnegie To forgive is merely to remember ONLY the LOVING thoughts you gave in the
past and those that were given you ALL the rest must be forgotten
~ A Course In Miracles If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a
prophet
Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904-1991 Journalist and Writer
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us
~ Voltaire
We are all of us stars and we deserve to twinkle
~ Marilyn Monroe
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do
right
~ Nelson Mandela
It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope
is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they
both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society
~J Krishnamurti
Every situation properly perceived becomes an opportunity to heal
~ A Course in Miracles
The love that you withhold in life is the pain that you carry
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as
the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature
John D Rockefeller (1839-1937 American industrialist philanthropist founder Exxon)
All I ask is for an unfair advantage
~ WC Fields Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words Keep your
words positive because your words become your behaviors Keep your behaviors
positive because your behaviors become your habits Keep your habits positive
because your habits become your values Keep your values positive because your
values become your destiny
~Gandhi
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Your ego is creating obstacles Maya creating maya
~Babaji Step back Observe without judgment unconditional Watch now as obstacles
melt become no-thing Do this each time a block appears Step back and observe
without judgment
~Babaji
Everybody cannot be a painter a poet or a geniusthose are given qualities from
birth But everybody can be enlightened Enlightenment is the only thing the only
experience where everybody is equally capable And it does not depend on whether
you believe in God or not it depends only on one thingand that is a little taste (of
meditation) and suddenly you become confident that youre capable of it
~Osho There are no accidents or coincidences in this world Nothing is by chance
Everything you experience is a direct manifestation of where you focus your
attention and hold your vibration
~Jafree When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off
into the darkness of the unknown faith is knowing one of two things will happen
There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly
~ Barbara J Winter High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly make big decisions quickly and
move into action immediately Follow these principles and you can make your dreams
come true
Robert H Schuller Televangelist Pastor and Author
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you but seek out another to console and
you will find consolation
J C Macaulay
High Expectations are the key to everything
~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart
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Until you make peace with who you are youll never be content with what you
have
~ Doris Mortman You must constantly ask yourself these questions Who am I around What are
they doing to me What have they got me reading What have they got me saying
Where do they have me going What do they have me thinking And most
important what do they have me becoming Then ask yourself the big question Is
that okay Your life does not get better by chance it gets better by change
Jim Rohn 1930-2009 Author and Speaker
Believe it You CAN succeed at whatever you do as long as you simply take the
right ACTIONS
~ ER Haas CEO
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do The hard
part is doing it
~ General H Norman Schwarzkopf So let your deepest desires direct your aim Set your sights far above the
reasonable target The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire
that stirs the heart
Price Pritchett Author of You2
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1826-1977 British economist critic)
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or
better than themselves
~ Tryon Edwards
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high
and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it
~ Michelangelo Compared to what we ought to be we are only half awake We are making use of
only a small part of our physical and mental resources Stating the thing broadly
the human individual thus lives far within his limits He possesses power of various
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sorts which he habitually fails to use
William James (1842-1910 American psychologist professor author) People wait for opportunity to come along yet it is there every morning
~ Dennis the Menace A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow
~ George S Patton (1885-1945 American army general during World War II)
The last best fruit which comes to late perfection even in the kindliest soul is
tenderness toward the hard forbearance toward the unforbearing warmth toward
the cold philanthropy toward the misanthropic
~ Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825 German novelist)
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a
prophet
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991 Polish-born American journalist writer)
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than
by those given to us by others
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662 French scientist religious philosopher) Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty
~ John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)
Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect
abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human
laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought
of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will
bring it into being
~Eileen Caddy
Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we
believe And the only real wealth for any of us lies in our faith
~ Gordon B Hinckley
Desire is the Starting Point of All Achievement
~ - Napoleon Hill
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And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to
do the same
Nelson Mandela
The more we have the less we own
Meister Eckhart (1260-1326 German mystic)
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every
pebble in the road
Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887 Preacher and Abolitionist
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength Richard L Evans
The secret of Happiness is Freedom and the secret of Freedom Courage
~ Thucydides (Greek historian 460-404 BC)
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in
the mature than in the young
Paul McCartney SingerSongwriter I cant believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary
Lou Holtz (937- American football coach)
Dont let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he
was
~ Richard L Evans
To dream anything that you want to dream that is the beauty of the human mind
To do anything that you want to do that is the strength of the human will To trust
yourself to test your limits that is the courage to succeed
~ Bernard Edmonds
I find my greatest pleasure and so my reward in the work that precedes what the
world calls success
Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)
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It is good to act as if It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer
an act
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832 British sportsman writer)
Tell me what you want and Ill show you how to get it
~ Bob Proctor
One is very crazy when in love
~ Sigmund Freud
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed Always aim at
purifying your thoughts and everything will be well
Mahatma Gandhi
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything keep it
Mahatma Gandhi Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
Mahatma Gandhi
Hate the sin love the sinner
Mahatma Gandhi
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress
Mahatma Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress
Mahatma Gandhi
True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the
future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied
with what we have which is sufficient for he that is so wants nothing The great
blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach
~ Seneca 4 BC to 65 AD - Spanish Philosopher
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When you paint success pictures in your mind you initiate an inner process
whereby your attitudes hopes aspirations and enthusiasm are elevated in
response to an image of a more promising future Every person who aspires must
first sell themselves hope the promise of a better life
US Andersen 1917-1986 Author of The Magic In Your Mind
How far is far how high is high Well never know until we try
Song from the California Special Olympics If you take each challenge one step at a time with faith in every footstep your
strength and understanding will increase
~ James E Faust
What is your individual purpose What would you like to be able to say is your
legacy I believe that each of us wants to find our purpose in life our raison
detre or reason for being We need to have a motive to get out of bed in the
morning We want to feel alive and passionate about something Something that
makes a difference in the world We are not alone in this and yet many of us are
still searching for that purpose
~ Veronica Hay We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds
Warren Buffett (1930- American investment entrepreneur)
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy but its good too to
check up once in a while and make sure you havent lost the things money cant
buy
George Lorimer 1867-1937 Editor of Saturday Evening Post
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence Talent will not nothing is
more common than unsuccessful men with talent Genius will not unrewarded genius
is almost a proverb Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent
~ Calvin Coolidge
Desperation can be as powerful inspirer as genius
Benjamin Disraeli
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We read to know we are not alone
CS Lewis
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better
Albert Einstein The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the
road after you have shown him the way
Confucius
A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his
grandfather
Angie Papadakis
My father didnt tell me how to live he lived and let me watch him do it
Clarence B Kelland No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing
William Barclay
If you think youre lucky you are
Bobby Dodd
When youre safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when youre
having an adventure you wish you were safe at home
Thornton Wilder Obstacles dont have to stop you If you run into a wall dont turn around and give
up Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it
~ Michael Jordan In order to attain the impossible one must attempt the impossible
~ Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616 Spanish novelist dramatist poet)
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as
the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature
~ John D Rockefeller
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is
when men are afraid of the light
~ Plato
Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by action alone
Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 Philosopher and Author
Poverty is not a shame but the being ashamed of it is
English Proverb
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well
~ Unknown
We need to exert ourselves that much more and break out of the vicious cycle of
dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful those in command of
immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own
image
~ Nelson Mandela
High Expectations are the key to everything
~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart
Failures are expected by losers ignored by winners
~ Joe Gibbs Football Coach Most people live and die with their music still unplayed They never dare to try
Mary Kay Ash
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own
existence
Aristotle
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to
the eye
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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If A equals success then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z
with X being work Y play and Z keeping your mouth shut
~ Albert Einstein
Tomorrows battle is won during todays practice
Japanese Proverb
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days
What you can do or think you can do begin it For boldness has magic power and
genius in it
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Poet Novelist and Scientist
Forget about all the reasons why something may not work You only need to find
one good reason why it will
Dr Robert Anthony
No matter how busy you are you must take time to make the other person feel
important
Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001 American businesswoman founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)
I used to be a very serious not funny negative person Funny-cism Skepticism
Criticism and all Then I got introduced to the world of Positive Thinking Now Im
bipolar
~ Andy Dooley Spiritual Comedian and Professional Speaker
Your past is not your potential In any hour you can choose to liberate the future
Marilyn Ferguson (American writer) Everyone wants to be appreciated so if you appreciate someone dont keep it a
secret
~ Mary Kay Ash 1915-2001 Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds
and these magnets attract to us the forces the people the circumstances of life
which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts
~ Napoleon Hill
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You more often recognize your inadequacies rather than your strengths
~ James E Faust
I live by this credo Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness
instead of sadness Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations Even
in your darkest moment you usually can find something to laugh about if you try
hard enough
Red Skelton 1913-1997 Comedian
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth
George W Crane Some self-confronting questions
Where do I want to be at any given time
How am I going to get there
What do I have to do to get myself from where
I am to where I want to be
Whats the first small step I can take to get moving
~ George A Ford The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can
bribe the public with the publics money
- Alexis de Tocqueville The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race
~ Don Marquis At the height of laughter the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new
possibilities
-- Jean Houston Begin to weave and God will give you the thread
~ German Proverb If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who
are rich
John F Kennedy (1917-1963 35th American President)
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If you keep THINKING what you are thinking you will keep DOING what you are
doing and you will keep GETTING what you are getting
~ Dr Robert Anthony The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world
~ Lao-tzu Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to
let them know that you trust them
Booker T Washington 1856-1915 Educator and Writer ―Stress is the tax you pay for not taking 100 responsibility for your life
mdashDr Barnet Meltzer Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it
~ Irving Berlin It is by surmounting difficulties not by sinking under them that we discover our
fortitude
~ Hannah Webster Foster
Believing requires action
~ James E Faust
Dont do anything in practice that you wouldnt do in the game
George Halas (1895-1983 American football coach)
Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to reach for the
roof and land in the garbage
~ Savanna Skinner
Whatever you focus your intention on is what will show up in your life
Your consistent thoughts create your consistent results
~ Dr Robert Anthony
He who gains a victory over other men is strong but he who gains a victory over
himself is all powerful
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Lao-Tzu (BC 600- Chinese philosopher founder of Taoism) His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the
memory of a wrong
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great masters merit emulation not worship
-- Alan Cohen
Mirth is Gods medicine Everybody ought to bathe in it
-- Henry Ward Beecher
Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things but just look what they can do
when they stick together
~ anon
Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you
are and what you want
-- Alan Cohen
Life isnt about waiting for the storm to pass its about learning to dance in the
rain
~Anonymous
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call
failure is not the falling down but the staying down
Mary Pickford 1893-1979 Actress and Producer
Courage does not always roar Sometimes courage is that quiet voice at the end of
the day that saysI will try again tomorrow
-Mary Anne Radmacher
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act or thought or word that raises
us above ourselves
~ Arthur P Stanley
―You see things and say Whylsquo but I dream things and say Why notlsquo
- George Bernard Shaw
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―The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and
convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges
- Martin Luther King Jr
―Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do
that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great
- Mark Twain
―That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as
well
- Abraham Lincoln
―Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though
checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor
suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat
- Theodore Roosevelt
―Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm
- Winston Churchill
―I have not failed Ilsquove just found 10000 ways that wonlsquot work
- Thomas Edison If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun
--Katharine Hepburn
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees
problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems
~ Winston Churchill
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but
are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults
seem insignificant
Charles A Cerami Author
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If everyone on earth loved each other the earth would shine brighter than the
sun
-- Source unknown
As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again you are
merely a vague guest on a dark Earth
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So many worlds so much to do so little done such things to be
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy nothing can make a fool content
that is why most men are miserable
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer)
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live
~ Flora Whittemore 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 1880-1968 Author and Lecturer Where theres a will theres a way
English Proverb A manwoman without ambition is dead
A man with ambition but no love is dead
A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive
~Pearl Bailey We cant help everyone but everyone can help someone
~ Ronald Reagan
We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we
cannot
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
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Once you realize you dont need anything youre free to have whatever you want
- Ian Watson
Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy ~ Norman Vincent Peale Every goal every action every thought every feeling one experiences whether it
be consciously or unconsciously known is an attempt to increase ones level of
peace of mind
~ Sidney Madwed
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so For
remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind
Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Speaker and Author Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes
Chinese Proverb
―Focus your attention on your desire
not the situation that gave birth to your desire
mdashRich German Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone
and let your hand give in proportion to your purse
~ George Washington
Time I have only just a minute
Only sixty seconds in it
Forced upon me cant refuse it
Didnt seek it didnt choose it
But its up to me to use it
I must suffer if I lose it
Give account if I abuse it
Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it
~ Christine Warren
Do what you can with what you have where you are
~ Theodore Roosevelt
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With every adversity comes a seed of equal or greater opportunity
~ Napoleon Hill
Heart is merely another name for the Supreme Spirit because He is in all hearts
The entire Universe is condensed in the body and the entire body in the Heart
Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
―If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back then
you suffer Every moment is the most important moment of your life No future
time is better than now to let down your guard and love
~ David Deida
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for youll be criticized anyway Youll
be damned if you do and damned if you dont
~ Eleanor Roosevelt Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
~ John Wooden
One difference between successful people and all the rest is that successful
people take action
~ Bob Proctor Speaker and Author
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left Every
mans greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life
~ P W Litchfield ―There is a giant asleep within every man When the giant awakes miracles happen
~ Frederick Faust Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of
itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as
powerful as your desires unless you make them so
Marcia Wieder Author and Speaker
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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning by dreams that need
completion by pure love that needs expressing then we truly live life
~ Greg Anderson Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you
Never excuse yourself
~ Henry Ward Beecher There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge
- both poverty and riches are offspring of thought
~ Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich The person with a fixed goal a clear picture of his desire or an ideal always
before him causes it through repetition to be buried deeply in his subconscious
mind and is thus enabled thanks to its generative and sustaining power to realize
his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort Just pursue
the thought unceasingly Step by step you will achieve realization for all your
faculties and powers become directed to that end
~ Claude M Bristol Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake
~ Henry David Thoreau If opportunity doesnt knock build a door
~ Milton Berle Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am
not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise
not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our quality of life incidence
of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak It is born of strength and
understanding
-- Meher Baba Unworthiness is simply a case of mistaken identity
-- Alan Cohen
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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet
-- Mahatma Gandhi If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march
on
-- Stopford Brooke It is usually the imagination that is wounded first rather than the heart it being
much more sensitive
~ Henry David Thoreau You need not struggle for your good Your good flows to you naturally when you are
relaxed open and trusting
-- Alan Cohen If you dont love it you cant afford it
Alan Cohen
Ask for peace first and you will clearly see your next step
-- Alan Cohen I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited
and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts Namely the physical universe
-- Ken Jenkins Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional
~ Mark Sanborn Life isnt what you want it to be its what you make it become
~ Anthony Ryan
If you are very quiet you can hear the world applauding
--Source unknown
Do you remember how electrical currents and unseen waves were laughed at
The knowledge about man is still in its infancy
~ Albert Einstein
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Wherever you go go with all your heart
~ Confucius I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up Most people in this
business gave up and went on to other things If you simply didnt give up you
would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you
Harrison Ford Actor
The quality of your life is determined by the number of uncomfortable
conversations you are willing to have
~ Rich German
To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define
themselves As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate
influences of the culture and environment we grow up in we come to have beliefs
about the nature of being human These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of
our psychosomatic systems our minds and brains our nervous systems our
endocrine systems and even our blood and sinews We act speak and think
according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems
~ Jeremy W Hayward
A mans true wealth is the good he does in the world Mohammed (c570-c632
Mecca spiritual leader
Every man is the architect of his own fortune
~ Sallust
What is opportunity and when does it knock
It never knocks
You can wait a whole lifetime listening hoping and you will hear no knocking
None at all
You are opportunity and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny
You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity to pursue and seize opportunity as
you develop the strength of your personality and build a self-image with which you
are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing
~ Maxwell Maltz
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Today I would like to become the man my dog thinks I am
Jack Thomson Entrepreneur BE the change you want to see in the world
- Mahatma Gandhi
Leaders are made they are not born They are made by hard effort
which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile
~ Vince Lombardi To honor the spirit is to accept the opportunity for your healing and personal
evolution When you choose to assume radical personal responsibility knowing that
you are responsible for the effect external circumstances have on you you are
taking a stand for the power of your spiritual nature to run the show
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think Its really important that you feel good Because this feeling good is what goes
out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you So the
more you can feel good the more you will attract the things that help you feel
good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher
Joe Vitale Author and Speaker Just listen to the still voice within This is the mind to trust This is god
consciousness speaking not the ego that is seeking recognition
~Angela Walker
There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart If you pray it it will
change your life How does it begin
-- Matthew Anderson
For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin but there was
always some obstacle in the way Something had to be got through first some
unfinished business time still to be served a debt to be paid Then life would
begin At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life
~ Bette Howland
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power then the world will know
peace
Jimmy Hendrix There are two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the
credit Try to be in the first group there is less competition there
Indira Gandhi Its good to have money and all the things that money can buy but its good too to
make sure you havent lost the things that money cant buy George
Horace Lorimer When you take things for granted the things you are granted get taken
Phil Hennessy Self-confidence is a state of mind where you believe that you deserve the best
you are capable of achieving the best and furthermore you expect the best to
happen
--- Dr Barnet Meltzer Writing is good thinking is better Cleverness is good patience is better
~ Hermann Hesse
You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the
greatness you perceive in them is your own
-- Alan Cohen
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their
gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible
Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday If you do it right today
--Sheldon S Maye
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength
not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will
~ Vince Lombardi
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The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too
-- William Hutchinson Murray
Youve got to get up every morning with determination if youre going to
go to bed with satisfaction
-- George Horace Lorimer Faith is born of Definiteness of Purpose
Keep your mind on the things that you do want and off the things that you do not
want
~ Unknown You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals
George S Patton 1885-1945 American Army General
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have
thrown at him
~ David Brinkley
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough
~ Helen Keller
If what you did yesterday seems big you havent done anything
today
Lou Holtz
Dont wait for extraordinary opportunities Seize common occasions and make
them great Weak menwomen wait for opportunities strong menwomen make
them
~ Orison Swett Marden
The recognition you seek from others is really the recognition you seek from
yourself Give it to yourself and you wont need it from others
-- Alan Cohen Ninety percent of the population wish positive but think negative
~ Leslie Householder
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You are more likely to create success when you are relaxed about a result than
when you are uptight about it
-- Alan Cohen Embrace Change True success can be defined by your ability to adapt to
changing circumstances
-- Connie Sky Aim High The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for
what we could become
-- Charles Du Bos Dont ask for an easier life ask to be a stronger person
Shared by Kristen Goeser
Your consciousness is a powerful force for creating It determines the people you
are attracted to and the people who are attracted to you If you want to improve
your lot in life or the quality of your relationships choosing to accept personal
responsibility is the first and most important step
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise it is all
over Bolt up at once
-- Sir Walter Scott
You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you cant have it
- Dr Robert Anthony Live so that you wouldnt be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip
Will Rogers 1879-1935 Comedian and Actor
Everyone rides on the merry go round of life but very few ever take the chance
at the brass ring
-- Kevin Veitch
We gain internal freedom through external actions
- Ram Dass
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Everyone was born original but most people die copies
~ Unknown Without passion you dont have energy without energy you have nothing Nothing
great in the world has been accomplished without passion
~ Donald Trump When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened before us
~ Helen Keller
I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody
Bill Cosby Comedian Actor and Author Give up your identity as a seeker and become a finder Then everything you ever
sought will find you
-- Alan Cohen
The reason we put a lot of emphasis on action is because we do not understand the
power of our thought If you analyze it 90 percent of most peoples actions
are spent trying to compensate for inappropriate thought
~ Dr Robert Anthony Prosperity lets go the bridle
-- George Herbert
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered
heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed They won because they refused to
become discouraged by their defeats
Bertie Charles Forbes 1880-1954 Financial Journalist Author and Founder of Forbes Magazine He who jumps to conclusions falls to their death
-- Mark J Ottaviani Im not a believer in nor the advocate of miracles for the reason that I
have enough knowledge of nature to understand that nature never deviates from
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her established laws Her laws are simply so incomprehensible that they produce
what appears to be miracles
~ Napoleon Hill Learn to listen Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly
Frank Tyger
Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can as long as
ever you can
John Wesley Work like you dont need the money Love like youve never been hurt Dance like
nobody is watching
-- Mark Twain
You believe that a lover will bring you love but it is your love that will bring you a
lover
-- Alan Cohen
The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you
The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting The
more joyful you are the more Well-being flows to you
~Abraham-Hicks What nourishes you is not vitamins in food It is the joy you feel in eating it
-- Ramtha
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this
decide what you want
Ben Stein Attorney Author Actor and Commentator
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure to embrace
the new But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful There is
more security in the adventurous and exciting for in movement there is life and in
change there is power
mdashAlan Cohen
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Vision without action is a daydream Action without vision is a nightmare
-- Japanese Proverb
Success is the result of applying sound principles which align with universal laws
The Science of Success is a powerful road map to guarantee your personal
success
~ Brian Tracy
Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to
die
-- Alan Cohen
There are 3 things that are certain in life death taxes and change You cant
avoid change its mandatory progress however is optional
-- Bill R Good Jr
Surrender the illusion that anyone other than you has power or authority over
your life
Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either
openly before us or close to us
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You must be the change you want to see in the world
~ Gandhi
Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a
friendly level
~ Max L Forman
If you want your life to be a magnificent story then begin by realizing that you
are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page
-- Mark Houlahan
If you want to develop in profound and significant ways it is essential that you
build up a reservoir of spiritual and emotional conviction a source of boundless
freedom that will give you the energy to transcend the apparent limitations of
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your own emotional psychological and cultural experience By practicing
meditation with deadly seriousness you cultivate that freedom and conviction in
no-limitation as a reference point Thats the only reason to meditate in the
context of Evolutionary Enlightenment
mdash Andrew Cohen
If our actions stem from honesty kindness caring and vision then no matter
what the result of our efforts we have added something of value to our souls and
to the world
~ Joan Boysenko
Too often the opportunity knocks but by the time you push back the chain push
back the bolt unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm its too late
~ Rita Coolidge We are formed and molded by our thoughts
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them
~ Buddha
We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of the
soul
~ John OlsquoDonohue
No onelsquos past has to be a prison sentence Forgiveness provides the key to
acknowledge the past and move on When we can forgive we have less to be afraid
of
~ Dr Fred Luskin
Isnlsquot it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings
and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of
tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a
stumbling block or stepping stone
~ Edgar Guest
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly
~ Richard Bach
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I donlsquot wait for moods
You accomplish nothing if you do that Our mind must know it has got to get down
to work
~ Pearl S Buck
There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen
~ Fred Faust
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the
risk it took to bloom
~ Anais Nin
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear
~ Nelson Mandela
Itlsquos not about breaking the rules
It is about abandoning the concept of rules altogether
~ Paul Lemberg
Each moment of our life we either invoke or destroy our dreams
~ Stuart Wilde
Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts This is the
secret of success
Swami Sivananda
Whatever you do do it as totally as possible
Osho
I am not afraidhellipI was born to do this
~Joan of Arc
―There is nothing that you cannot be do or have
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
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―Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing
do it with all your might Put your whole soul into it Stamp it with your own
personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will
accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Success is never final Failure is never fatal It is courage that counts
~ Winston Churchill
What are you tolerating that would not be a part of your ideal day
-- Alan Cohen Trust yourself You know more than you think you do
-- Dr Benjamin Spock True friends and healers do not limit your options They expand them
-- Alan Cohen When it comes to staying young a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day
-- Marty Bucella Achievement seems to be connected with action Successful men and women keep
moving They make mistakes but they dont quit
Conrad Hilton 1887-1979 Founder of Hilton Hotels Successful people form the habit of doing what failures dont like to do They like
the results they get by doing what they dont necessarily enjoy
Earl Nightingale1921-1989 Author and Syndicated Radio Personality When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent
you are clear
Janet AttwoodAuthor of The Passion Test The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it
Chinese proverb
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by
changing the inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their
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lives
~ William James
Never look up to the people who have the painted-perfect lives because try as
they might they can never see beyond the canvas
~ Moira Hallsom
Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born
~ Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body
~ Pythagoras
If life gives you lemons make lemonade
~ Joan Collins
The only place where dreams are impossible is in your own mind
~ Emalie
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions But no man has
a right to be wrong in his facts
~ Bernard M Baruch
Begin to weave and God will give you the thread
~ German Proverb
No day in which you learn something is a complete loss
~ David Eddings
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we
are and what we can be igniting the circuits of our highest potential
-- Rusty Berkus
The optimist says we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears
this is true
-- Source Unknown
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If I had listened to the critics Id have died drunk in the gutter
-- Chekov
Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice It is not a thing to be
waited for it is a thing to be achieved
-- Jeremy Kitson
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental
difference in someones life
- Sister Mary Rose McGeady
One never knows what each day is going to bring The important thing is to be
open and ready for it
- Henry Moore
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in
the same individual
- Arthur Koestler
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it
- Lou Holtz Motivation is like food for the brain You cannot get enough in one sitting It needs continual and
regular top ups
~ Peter Davies
Dont tell me how hard you work
Tell me how much you get done
~ James Ling
Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures
dont like to do
~ Albert Gray
―There is a science of getting rich and it is an exact science like algebra or arithmetic There
are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches and once these laws are learned
and obeyed by anyone that person will get rich with mathematical certainty ~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
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―Everything you want should be yours the type of work you want the relationships you need
the social mental and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled the money
you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you and any requirement that you may (or
may not) have for achievement or service to others If you donlsquot aim for it all youlsquoll never get it
all To aim for it requires that you know what you want ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle ―Eliminate the word impossible from your thinking and speaking vocabularies Impossible is a
failure word The thought ―Itlsquos impossible sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove
youlsquore right ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in accomplishment Big in
income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right now to discover how to make your
thinking make magic for you Start out with this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli ―Life
is too short to be little ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―If you have a big problem in your life all that means is that you are being a small person ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind ―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo for success
nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make much of a difference ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you If God gives you a bucket of fish you
have to distribute those fish If you donlsquot theylsquore going to rot attract a bunch of flies and
start stinking up your soul ~ Russell Simmons from Do You ―In my experience therelsquos only one thing that will always steer you toward success Thatlsquos to
have a vision and to stick with ithellip Once I have a vision for a new venture Ilsquom going to ride that
vision until the wheels come off ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by changing the
inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their lives
~ William James
There is no courage without fear
~ Eddie Rickenbacher
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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make who would you call and what
would you say And why are you waiting
-- Stephen Levine
Remember we all stumble every one of us Thats why its a comfort to go hand in hand
~ Emily Kimbrough The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding
~ the Bible
The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives
~ Louise Hay
The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation
~ Comer Cotrell
Give it all youve got because you never know if theres going to be a next time
~ Danielle Ingrum
Dont try to force anything Let life be a deep let-go God opens millions of flowers everyday
without forcing their buds
~Osho
The definition of Insanity is Doing the Same Things Over and Over Again and Expecting Different
Results
~ Albert Einstein
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us This little treasure
has great great powers and I would say we only have learnt a very very small part of what it can
do
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work
~ John G Pollard
Vacation is a state of mind not an action
-- Alan Cohen
Whatever games are played with us we must play no games with ourselves
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Desperation does not recognize your power to choose
-- Alan Cohen
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When people talk listen completely Most people never listen
-- Ernest Hemingway
Heaven is gained or lost not by dramatic deeds but by the simple of acts of daily living
-- Alan Cohen
There is only one voice worth listening to
--Alan Cohen Reverie is not a mind vacuum It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul
--Gaston Bachelard
Why get rich quick when you can be rich now
-- Alan Cohen
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure
-- Joseph Campbell
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes
-- Henry Kaiser
Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of
another
Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister
When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent you are clear
Janet Attwood Author of The Passion Test
New peace harmony and power fill your relationships when you practice radical personal
responsibility Through it you enter a more refined sphere of relating that enhances your life and
accelerates the realization of your ultimate spiritual self Practicing radical personal responsibility
forever changes the way you approach and resolve conflict
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The Cure for the Common Upset (p 10)
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and
discomfort We spend enormous energy denying our insecurity fighting pain death and loss and
hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature
- Jack Kornfield A Path with Heart
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Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am not aware of
any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has
a greater impact on our quality of life incidence of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant they is a fuel in us which needs
to be ignited with sparks
Johann Gottfried Von Herder
Energy is the essence of life Every day you decide how youre going to use it by
knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal and by maintaining
focus
-Oprah Winfrey
The acquisition of wealth is no longer a driving force in the 24th century We
strive to better ourselves and the rest of humanity
-- From the movie Star Trek Insurrection
―You cannot exercise much power without gratitude for it is gratitude that keeps
you connected with Power
~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
―To do things in a way you want to do them you will have to acquire the ability to
think the way you want to think this is the first step toward getting rich
~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
―There are three crucial dimensions to your explanatory style permanence
pervasiveness and personalization
~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism
―Habits of thinking need not be forever One of the most significant findings in
psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they
think
~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism
―Action always beats inaction ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
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―Itlsquos not enough to be in the right place at the right time You have to be the right person in the
right place at the right time ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Every thought vibrates every thought radiates a signal and every thought
attracts a matching signal back We call that process the Law of Attraction The
Law of Attraction says That which is like unto itself is drawn And so you might
see the powerful Law of Attraction as a sort of Universal Manager that sees to it
that all thoughts that match one another line up
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
―It is our desire that you become one who is happy with that which you are and
with that which you havemdashwhile at the same time being eager for more That is the
optimal creative vantage point To stand on the brink of what is coming feeling
eager optimistic anticipationmdashwith no feelings of impatience doubt or
unworthiness hindering the receiving of itmdashthat is the Science of Deliberate
Creation at its best
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
―As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around you come to see that every
perceived problem appearing ―out there is really nothing more than a
misperception within your own thinking
~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is
―The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is
When the mind is perfectly clear what is is what we want
~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself You must be
able to sustain yourself against staggering blows There is no code of conduct to
help beginners That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner
drive go much further than people with vastly superior talent
Sophia Loren Actress
And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your
years
-- Abraham Lincoln
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Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by
holding grudges harboring resentments and nursing unhealed wounds It is
rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to
understand and accept other people and ourselves
~ Sidney and Suzanne Simon
Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity
Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Poet and Physiognomist People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do
things When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success
Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Speaker and Author Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to
believe in me
Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author
With love in you your only need is to extend it
-- A Course in Miracles
Just because it ended doesnt mean it failed
-- Alan Cohen
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find
it
-- George Moore
Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality
-- Alan Cohen
Our biggest problems cannot be resolved They must be outgrown
-- Carl Jung
True prayer penetrates beyond hope and establishes itself in knowing
-- Alan Cohen
So we see to play successfully the game of life we must train the imaging faculty
A person with an imaging faculty trained to image only good brings into his life
every righteous desire of his heart - health wealth love friends perfect self-
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expression his highest ideals
mdash Florence Scovel Shinn
Dont ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it
Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
mdashHoward Thurman
To the degree were not living our dreams our comfort zone has more control of
us than we have over ourselves
-- Peter McWilliams
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams
-- Doug Ivester (President of Coca Cola)
It is not length of life but depth of life
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them but
to reveal their own
-- Author Unknown
A free lunch is only found in mousetraps
-- John Capuzzi
If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you dont you
have achieved half your failure
-- David Ambrose
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesnt lie in not reaching your
goal The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach It isnt a calamity to die with
dreams unfulfilled but it is a calamity not to dream It is not a disaster to be
unable to capture your ideal but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture It is
not a disgrace not to reach the stars but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach
for Not failure but low aim is a sin
~ Benjamin E Mayes
True success is a state of mindThis mindset is the heart and soul of successful
entrepreneurial enterprise You cant get started without it and you cant make a
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business wildly profitable if you dont get it
~ Unknown
Traditional education will make you a living self-education will make you a
fortune
~ Jim Rohn One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests
~ John Stuart Mill
Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different Rather than wasting
time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we dont have what we
want we can start to pursue other ways to get it
~ Greg Anderson
When you confront a problem you begin to solve it
~ Rudy Guilliani ―Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential And to
do that I insist you throw caution at the wind ignore the pleas of parents
coaches spouses and bosses to be realisticlsquo Realistic people do not accomplish
extraordinary things because the odds of success stymie them The best
performers ignore the odds I will show that instead of limiting themselves to
whatlsquos probable the best will pursue the heart-pounding exciting really big
difference-making dreamsmdashso long as catching them might be possible
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―To be sure great performers are well trained experienced smart and in some
cases divinely talented But the way their brains work during a performance is a
lot more like a squirrellsquos than like Einsteinlsquos Like squirrels the best in every
business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilitiesmdashthey
flat out trust their skills which is why we call this high-performance state of mind
the ―Trusting Mindset Routine access to the Trusting Mindset is what separates
great performers from the rest of the pack
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―In every forest on every farm in every orchard on earth itlsquos whatlsquos under the
ground that creates whatlsquos above the ground Thatlsquos why placing your attention on
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the fruits that you have already grown is futile You cannot change the fruits that
are already hanging on the tree You can however change tomorrowlsquos fruits But to
do so you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Believe that you are the one who creates your success that you are the one who
creates your mediocrity and that you are the one creating your struggle around
money and success
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―8020 thinking requires and with practice enables us to spot the few really important things
that are happening and ignore the mass of unimportant things It teaches us to see the wood
for the trees ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle
―The few things that work fantastically well should be identified cultivated nurtured and
multiplied
~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle
―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a journey The
master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after year The master is the one
who is willing to try and fail and try again for as long as he or she lives ~ George Leonard from Mastery
―Whenever you feel shortlsquo or in needlsquo of something give what you want first and it will come
back in buckets That is true for money a smile love friendship I know it is often the last
thing a person may want to do but it has always worked for me I just trust that the principle
of reciprocity is true and I give what I want ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―One dad would sayThe love of money is the root of all evillsquo The other The lack of money is
the root of all evillsquo ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall every step we
take just gets us to the wrong place faster
Stephen Covey
Becoming a star may not be in your destiny but being the best
that you can be is a goal you can set for yourselves
Bryan Lindsay
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Be yourself Who else is better qualified
Frank J Giblin II
Do not learn from your mistakes learn from the mistakes of others
to that you do not make any
Sean Karsten
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower
Shigenori Kameoka
Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to believe in me
Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author
Upsets always contain the gift of learning except most people have never learned how to unwrap
the package
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is
causing anxiety
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970 British philosopher mathematician essayist) Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes
Chinese Proverb
We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we cannot
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
Dont measure yourself by what you have accomplished but by what you should have accomplished
with your ability
John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)
Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty
John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)
Something good is already happening Can you discover it
-- Alan Cohen
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if theyve got a second Give your
dreams all youve got and youll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you
William James 1842-1910 Philosopher and Author
Out of suffering comes creativity You cannot spell painting without pain
-- John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun
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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the
future are not as real but rather more real than the present
- Alan Watts
Boldness has genius power and magic in it Begin it now
~ Goethe
―In the heart of Emptiness there is a mysterious impulse mysterious because
there is actually nothing in the heart of Emptiness (for there is nothing in
Emptiness period) Yet there it is this mysterious impulse the impulse to hellip
create To sing to shine to radiate to send forth reach out and celebrate to
sing and shout and walk about to effervesce and bubble over this mysterious
exuberance in the heart of Emptiness
~ Ken Wilber from One Taste July 31
―Evolution goes beyond what went before but because it must embrace what went
before then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus it has an inherent
directionality a secret impulse toward increasing depth increasing intrinsic value
increasing consciousness In order for evolution to move at all it must move in
those directionsmdashtherelsquos no place else for it to go
~ Ken Wilber from A Brief History of Everything
The secret of being boring is to say everything
- Voltaire 1694-1778 French Writer and Philosopher
―Donlsquot let what you canlsquot do stop you from what you can do
- John Wooden
―You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the
shore
- Christopher Columbus
―Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
- Confucius
―A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed
- Henrik Ibsen
―It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities
- JK Rowling
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―If you are going through hell keep going
- Winston Churchill
―Yesterday is history Tomorrow is a mystery Today Today is a gift Thatlsquos why
we call it the present
- B Olatunji
―To live is the rarest thing in the world Most people exist thatlsquos all
- Oscar Wilde
―You donlsquot get to choose how you are going to die Or when You can only decide how
you are going to live Now
- Joan Baez
―When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us
- Helen Keller
―Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limited Imagination
encircles the world
- Albert Einstein
―If you want to be happy be
- Leo Tolstoy
―Always do right This will gratify some people and astonish the rest
- Mark Twain
―We must be the change we want to see
- Gandhi
―The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most I can better trust those
who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to
enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity
- Ulysses S Grant
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―Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting
- Elizabeth Bibesco
―The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort but
where he stands at times of conflict and controversy
- Martin Luther King Jr
―Begin doing what you want to do now We are not living in eternity We have only
this moment sparkling like a star in our hand ndash and melting like a snow flake
- MB Ray
―I shall pass through this life but once Any good therefore that I can do let me
do it now Let me not defer or neglect it For I shall never pass this way again
- Etienne de Grellet
―This above all To your own self be true
- William Shakespeare
―To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make
you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight
and never stop fighting
- EE Cummings
―In three words I can sum up what Ilsquove learned about life It goes on
- Robert Frost
―Imagine
- John Lennon
You can if you think you can
George Reeves
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile
achievement
Henry Ford 1863-1947 Industrialist
No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself
-- Conrado I Generoso
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When I am delivering my very best then that is when I feel successful
~ Art Fettig
The only limitations you will ever have are the ones you put on yourself
~ Kristinna Habashy
The secret of manwomans being is not only
to live but to have something to live for
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
To hell with circumstances I create opportunities
~ Bruce Lee
Simplicity is making the journey of this life
with just baggage enough
~ Charles Dudley Warner
I dont think theres any such thing as setting your goals too high The higher you
set your goals the more you are going to work If you dont reach them then its
okay just as long as you set it and then give 100 of yourself
~ Dan Jansen Speed Skater
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the circle of Creation
is completed inside us the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal
everything in sight
~ Michael Bridge
Youlsquore darn tootinlsquo Ilsquom going to bring out the best in you You are the best
― Maureen Coleman middle school teacher
Truth is rarely writ in ink It lives in nature
-- Martin H Fischer
Before planning where you want to go decide who you want to be
-- Alan Cohen
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day wisdom consists in not
exceeding the limit
-- Elbert Hubbard
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere
-- Alan Cohen
When the Japanese mend broken objects they fill the cracks with gold They
believe that when somethings suffered damage and has a history it becomes more
beautiful
-- Barbara Bloom
Efficiency without love is not really efficient
-- Alan Cohen
The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively
-- A Course in Miracles
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than
any other one thing
Laura Ingalls Wilder 1867-1957 Author
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as
few as there are any other great artists It might even be the greatest of the arts
since the medium is the human mind and spirit
John Steinbeck 1902-1968 Writer and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Be careful what you spend your day touching because it will shape your mind your
body and your heart
Sam Keen Speaker and Author
I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in
the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he has imagined he will
meet with success unexpected in common hours
Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Writer and Poet
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out
― Michael Burke
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Turn frustration into fascination
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
Money is not the source of life It is an expression or by-product of doing what
brings you life
-- Alan Cohen
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but
sand the angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are gone
- George Elliot
Proceed when clear
-- Alan Cohen
Slow down and enjoy life Its not only the scenery you miss by going too fast --
you also miss the sense of where you are going and why
Eddie Cantor
Life is here to enjoy The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness When it
appears otherwise you are off the path of destiny Look at your life and ask
What do I need to change to choose in favor of my passions
Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life Be happy now Dont wait for something
outside of yourself to make you happy in the future Think how really precious is
the time you have to spend whether its at work or with your family Every minute
should be enjoyed and savored
Earl Nightingale
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life It turns what we have into enough and
more It turns denial into acceptance chaos into order confusion into clarity It
turns problems into gifts failures into success the unexpected into perfect
timing and mistakes into important events Gratitude makes sense of our past
brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow
Melodie Beattie Writer
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Devotion is commitment at a deep cellular level When you are devoted the
universe will align itself to give you what you desire
Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion
Action breeds confidence and courage If you want to conquer fear do not sit
home and think about it Go out and get busy
~ Dale Carnegie
The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all
the world
~Ramana Maharshi
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be
~Daniel J Boorstin
The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively
from his own resources
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire
not things we fear
~ Brian Tracy
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game and no matter how
great your talent there is only one way to obtain it-work
~ Jack Nicklaus Golfer
A goal without a plan is merely a WISH without a HOPE
~ Unknown
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan in which we must
fervently believe and upon which we must vigorously act There is no other route
to success
~ Stephen A Brennan
Knowledge breeds doubt Wisdom births wonder
Alan Cohen
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When you decide what you want it has to manifestbut only at the level of your
belief
Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion
Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity
- John Dryden
It may make people feel more secure when everyone agrees with them but it
wont create a world made rich by the unique and diverse expressions of the human
soul
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
Choice is destinys soul mate
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Truth is a gem of many facets Each facet reflects the brilliance within and
without But the whole reveals a deeper more profound message than all the parts
by themselves
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
He who knows others is wise he who knows himself is enlightened
- Tao Te Ching
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to
our tasks
-- Helen Keller
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret
-- Ambrose Bierce
We must all suffer one of two things the pain of discipline or the pain of regret
or disappointment
-- Jim Rohn
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Many risks fail because they were not taken in time Too many risks are postponed
until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made This does not mean that one
should say Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead That is foolish and self-
destructive But dont sit back waiting for the perfect moment It almost never
comes
-- David Viscott Risking
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter
-- E E Cummings
Reflect upon your blessings of which every man has plenty not on your past
misfortunes of which all men have some
-- Charles Dickens
What the caterpillar calls the end the rest of the world calls a butterfly
-- Lao Tsu
Out of difficulties grow miracles
-- Jean De La Bruyere
Our patience will achieve more than our force
-- Edmund Burke
You must pay in the past to receive in the future
-- Taylor Simpson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what
lies within us
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why Why Not Why Not You Why Not Now
-- Aslan
To become a leader then you must become yourself become the maker of your
own life
--Warren G Bennis
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You have got to discover you what you do and trust it
Barbra Streisand
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the
circle of Creation is completed inside us the doors of our souls
fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight
Michael Bridge
Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean but the
ocean would be less without that missing drop
Mother Teresa
You dont just stumble into the future You create your own future
Roger Smith
Just dont give up on trying to do what you really want to do
Where there is love and inspiration I dont think you can go
wrong
Ella Fitzgerald
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot
do
Walter Bagehot
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser
John W Gardner
Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life
forever
Keri Russell
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while
so that we can see Life with a clearer view again
Alex Tan
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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine
inspiration
Marcus T Cicero
Youve got to follow your passion Youve got to figure out what
it is you love--who you really are And have the courage to do
that
Oprah Winfrey
Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love
mdashRich German
Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small
things brought together
- Vincent Van Gogh
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark The real tragedy is when
men are afraid of the light
-- Plato
If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being
most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of
persistence
Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway
Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right
stuff to turn our dreams into reality
~James Womack
No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn
-- Hal Borland
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge
of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams
- Les Brown
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on
We act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because
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of imagination
- Maxwell Maltz
There is a sleeping giant in you Release it Believe in yourself
~ Bob Proctor
Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste
neither time nor money but make the best use of both
-- Benjamin Franklin
When you talk to God thats prayer When God talks back its schizophrenia
-- Lily Tomlin
Work is not a substitute for love It is an avenue of loves expression
-- Alan Cohen
Look beyond peoplelsquos appearances
Look beyond the roles one plays and the mask they wear
Look deep into their eyes and peer into their soul
There you will find their true essence
There you will find your true essence
And that essence is love
mdashRich German
Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love
mdashRich German
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a
life spent doing nothing
George Bernard Shaw
Formula for success under promise and over deliver
Tom Peters
Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right things
Peter F Drucker
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Be the change that you want to see in the world
Mahatma Gandhi
Creating space is as important as filling it
-- Alan Cohen
Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words may guide you to the door of heaven but only silence opens it
-- Alan Cohen
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing
Bernard Shaw
Formula for success under promise and over deliver
Tom Peters
Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right
things
Peter F Drucker
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge
of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams
- Les Brown
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works onWe
act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because of
imagination
- Maxwell Maltz
No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn
-- Hal Borland
There is a sleeping giant in you
Release it Believe in yourself
~ Bob Proctor
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Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste
neither time nor money but make the best use of both
-- Benjamin Franklin
Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right
stuff to turn our dreams into reality
~James Womack
If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being
most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of
persistence
Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway
The best way to teach people is by telling a story
Jonathan Swift
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody else has thought
Kenneth Blanchard
All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it
-Samuel Butler
Happiness is like a cat If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you It will never
come
But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business youll find it rubbing
up against your legs and jumping into your lap
- William Bennett
The word impossible is only in the mind and not in the heart
- Sri Chinmoy
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another it is the only
means
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Physicist
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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone
And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone
Paul Tillich
Sometimes the cards we are dealt are not always fair However you must keep
smiling amp moving on
~ Tom Jackson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you
- Elbert Hubard
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends
with anyone else in the world
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Thus nature has no love for solitude and always leans as it were on some support
and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship
- Cicero
So it is life is actually made up of our choices We are the sum total of them and
if we hold to an attitude of love and thanksgiving for all the good things within our
grasp we may have what all ambitious people long for - success
Delma Neeley
Believe and your belief will create the fact
~ William James
The principle is competing against yourself
Its about self improvement about being better than you were the day before
~ Steve Young
All of us you your children your neighbors and their children are
everyday geniuses even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by
everyone Thats probably because school hasnt encouraged us to notice whats
hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself
~ Peter Kline
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If youll not settle for anything less than your best you will be amazed at what
you can accomplish in your lives
Vince Lombardi
Ya gotta put your behind in your past
Then youre ready for whatever comes next
~ Pumba The Lion King
Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become
~ James Allen
Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well what
causes sadness and what brings happiness what makes us suffer and what leads to
healing
~ Dean Ornish MD
Three components make an entrepreneur the person the ideaand the resources
to make it happen
~ Anita Roddick
What we can or cannot do what we consider possible or impossible is rarely a
function of our true capability It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who
we are
~ Anthony Robbins
Either Do or Do Not There is No Try
~ George Lucas
Theres a name for the magic that transforms lives connects dots moves
mountains and orchestrates coincidences that shock and astound Imagination
And theres a name for all that stops you in your tracks stirs fear spins wheels
and leaves one wondering Hey whats up with that Imagination
Careful where you point that thing
~ The Universe
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with
them
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is a passionate intuition
-William Wordsworth
Friendship is a sheltering tree
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision Vision is the perfume
of the mind
--Harriet Rubin
Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing
--Harriet Braiker
I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the
present can I act The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of
mental wellness
-Abraham Maslow 1908-1970 Psychologist
In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge
-Aristotle
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our
potential
Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister
The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you
settled for
Maureen Dowd Newspaper Columnist
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything
outside ourselves will affect us
Stephen R Covey Author and Speaker
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Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually
attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life
Christiane Northrup Medical Doctor and Author
We must learn to keep ourselves awake by an infinite expectation of the
dawn
-- Henry David Thoreau
You dont need to struggle to get your body to do or be what your spirit already is
-- Alan Cohen
One must steer not talk
-- Seneca
The more you quantify the less you qualify
-- Alan Cohen
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know Most are
born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly
-- Buckminster Fuller
Any act motivated by guilt does not assuage guilt but perpetuates it
-- Alan Cohen
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for
themselves
-- Peter McArthur
Be so good they cant ignore you
Steve Martin
Its kind of fun to do the impossible
Walt Disney
Its easy to make a buck Its a lot tougher to make a difference
Tom Brokaw
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When I hear somebody sigh Life is hard I am always tempted to
ask Compared to what
Sydney J Harris
In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing The worst
thing you can do is nothing
Sam Walton
I had to pick myself up and get on with it do it all over again only even better
this time
Theodore Roosevelt
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process
~ Jim Rohn
If you can imagine it you can achieve it If you can dream it you can become it
~ William Arthur Ward
There is much in the world to make us afraid There is much more in our faith to
make us unafraid
-- Cropp
Pray for essence rather than form and the form will be a perfect expression of
the essence
-- Alan Cohen
People who soar are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change
Charles R Swindoll Author and Pastor
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with
- Jim Rohn
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your
dreams
- Les Brown
Life is 10 of what happens to me and 90 of how I react to it
John Maxwell
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What you see depends on what youre looking for
Anon
Mind over matter If you dont mind it doesnt matter
-- Alan Cohen
When you are clear on want to how to shows up
-- Michael Neill
Quit struggling to make your body do or be what your spirit already is
-- Alan Cohen
Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation
-- Isaac Newton
Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Whatever you invest it
in will yield more of the same
-- Alan Cohen
When you find yourself stressed ask yourself one question Will this matter five
years from now If yes then do something about the situation If no then let it
go
Catherine Pulsifer Writer
Theres plenty of intelligence in the world but the courage to do things
differently is in short supply
Marilyn vos Savant Columnist Author and Lecturer
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced
by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas
a strong faith is strengthened by them
Viktor E Frankl 1905-1997 Holocaust Survivor and Author of Mans Search for
Meaning
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength
Richard L Evans
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You were not born a winner and you were not born a loser You are
what you make yourself be
Lou Holtz
Remember if you ever need a helping hand youll find one at the
end of your arm As you grow older you will discover that you
have two hands One for helping yourself the other for helping
others
Audrey Hepburn
Dont take life too seriously because youll never get out alive
Josh Shippe
Without hard work nothing grows but weeds
Gordon B Hinckley
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies
--Mother Teresa
Do what you can to show you care about other people and you will make our world
a better place
--Rosalynn Carter
Again and again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is
only a tough decision waiting to be made
--Robert H Schuller
If in our daily life we can smile if we can be peaceful and happy not only we but
everyone will profit from it This is the most basic kind of peace work
--Thich Nhat Hanh
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties
disappear and obstacles vanish into air
- John Quincy Adams
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win
~ GK Chesterton
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown for going
out I found was really going in
mdashJohn Muir 1913
To me itlsquos really so simple that life should be lived on the edge You
have to exercise rebellion To refuse to tape yourself to the rules
to refuse your own success to refuse to repeat yourself to see
every day every year every idea as a true challenge Then you will
live your life on the tightrope
mdashPhilippe Petit (star of the movie Man on Wire)
The first step to creating the lifestyle of your dreams is to simplify
your life
mdashRich German
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees
problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems
Winston Churchill
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you
have and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more
~ Robert Collier
Instead of waiting for someone to take you under their wing go out there and
find a good wing to climb under
~ Dave Thomas
If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself
~ Lord Chesterfield
The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable
competitive advantage
~ Arie de Geus
Human life is purely a matter of deciding whats important to you
-- Source unknown
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Determination and perseverance move the world thinking that others will do it
for you is a sure way to fail
Marva Collins Educator
All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them
~ Walt Disney
Everything that happens to you is self-created Whenever youre responding to
any situation whether its a sip of coffee or a traffic jam or a love note or
criticism from a boss or rainy weather youre in fact responding to a signal that
you generated within yourself
- Deepak Chopra
Relationships are not about intellect they are about feeling They require an
intelligence of the heart
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is
when adults are afraid of the light
- Plato
A good listener is someone who is curious open-minded and nonjudgmental A
good listener is not a know-it-all A good listener knows that truth often reveals
itself bit by bit much like putting together a jigsaw puzzle
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
Its the night that makes the dawning
Its the depths that make the heights
Its the roots that make the branches
Its the darkness that gives birth to Light
- Joel Heathcote
How you hear what someone says is determined by your interpretations and your
interpretations flow from your past This is very important to know especially if
you find that you overreact to what others say or habitually get your feelings hurt
Remember what someone said is not necessarily what you heard and what you
heard is not necessarily what they meant
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
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―Everything ndash a horse a vine ndash is created for some dutyhellipFor what task then
were you yourself created A manlsquos true delight is to do the things he was made
for
~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations
―Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts for the soul becomes dyed with the
color of its thoughts Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as for example
Where life is possible at all a right life is possible
~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations
―hellipEverything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of the human
freedomsmdashto choose onelsquos attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose
onelsquos own way
~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life
expected from us We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life and
instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by lifemdashdaily
and hourly Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation but in right
action and in right conduct Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to
find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly
sets for each individual
~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in lifehellip Therein he cannot be
replaced nor can his life be repeated Thus everyonelsquos task is as unique as is
his specific opportunity to implement it
~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―Ultimately man should not ask what the meaning of his life is but rather must
recognize that it is he who is asked In a word each man is questioned by life
and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life to life he can only
respond by being responsible
~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―History though shows us that the people who end up changing the world- the
great political social scientific technological artistic even sports
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revolutionaries- are always nuts until theylsquore right and then theylsquore geniuses
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement
―Great performers are by definition abnormal
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement
―We all aspire to mastery but the path is always long and sometimes rocky and
it promises no quick pay off So we look for other paths each of which attracts
a different person
~ George Leonard from Mastery
―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a
journey The master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after
year The master is the one who is willing to try and fail and try again for as
long as he or she lives
~ George Leonard from Mastery
At the heart of it mastery is practice Mastery is staying on the path
~ George Leonard from Mastery
―Comfort kills If your goal in life is to be comfortable I guarantee two things
First you will never be rich Second you will never be happy Happiness doesnlsquot
come from living a lukewarm life always wondering what could have been
Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up
to our fullest potential
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
―You can be a victim or you can be rich but you canlsquot be both Listen up Every
time and I mean every time you blame justify or complain you are slitting
your financial throat
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Herelsquos an equation I want you to remember for the rest of your life CZ = WZ
It means your ―comfort zone equals your ―wealth zone By expanding your
comfort zone you will expand the size of your income and wealth zone
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
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―We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we
wait forever before taking action
~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big
―Donlsquot put off until tomorrow what you can do today
~ Benjamin Franklin
―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in
accomplishment Big in income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right
now to discover how to make your thinking make magic for you Start out with
this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli Life is too short to be littlelsquo
~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big
―In the yogic tradition this principle of using intense effort to burn through
lifelsquos distractions is called Tapas Itlsquos another Sanskrit word roughly defined
as ―heat or ―essential energy The concept is that through a disciplined
approach to work and self-sacrifice Tapas will burn away the negativity that
separates us from God By working our hardest and happily enduring the
hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in
ourselves
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a ―hard
job That person will be eager to get started no matter what kind of work is in
front of her because she understands that shelsquos doing Godlsquos work And when
youlsquore working for God nothing is too hard
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo
for success nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make
much of a difference
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work
~ Vince Lombardi
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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than
your best
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The poor and the middle class work for money The rich have money work for
them
~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―We all have tremendous potential and we all are blessed with gifts Yet the
one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt It is not so
much the lack of technical information that holds us back but more the lack of
self-confidence
~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―Who will you have to become to achieve all you want
~ Tony Robbins
―You could say that I worked every minute of my life or you could say with
equal justice that I never worked a day I have always subscribed to the
expression ―Thank God itlsquos Friday because to me Friday means I can work for
the next two days without interruption
~ John Hope Franklin
―I do not believe that you should devote overly much effort to correcting your
weaknesses Rather I believe that the highest success in living and the deepest
emotional satisfaction comes from building and using your signature strengths
~ Martin Seligman from Authentic Happiness
When you begin to recognize that your own presence here in this world is part of
something infinitely bigger than yourself you feel a sense of obligation awakening
within youmdasha spiritually inspired soul-level moral imperative to evolve for the sake
of the future of the evolutionary process itself The way you respond to that
obligation and to that sense of cosmic responsibility is by demonstrating that the
process is profoundly positivemdashindeed the process is sacredmdashthrough your own
example through your own victory through your own tangible and unmistakable
higher development
~ Andrew Cohen
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Its the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief And once that belief
becomes a deep conviction things begin to happen
Claude M Bristol 1891-1951 Author of The Magic of Believing
We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in our
heads fear must be a head thing
Tom Payne Career Development Expert
I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody
Bill Cosby Actor and Comedian
If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year Today
should always be our most wonderful day
- Thomas Dreier Author
Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their
personnel If people believe in themselves its amazing
what they can accomplish
--Sam Walton
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the
aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker
--Helen Keller
Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either
advance or stay where you are
- Maxwell Maltz
Be curious not judgmental
-Walt Whitman
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it
-William James
All life is an experiment
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone
acknowledges who we are and what we can be igniting the circuits
of our highest potential
Rusty Berkus
Being considerate of others will take your children further in
life than any college degree
Marian Wright Edelman
It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit
it frankly and try another But above all try something
Franklin D Roosevelt
see without looking hear without listening breathe
without asking
W H Auden
Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways
you can as long as ever you can
John Wesley
Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to
reach for the roof and land in the garbage
Savanna Skinner
Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope
~ Josh Billings
Whats going on in the inside shows on the outside
~ Earl Nightingale
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life a good society
~ Confucius
Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have
just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together
into a life of action and purpose
~ Lance Armstrong
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions
~ Michael Josephson
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others
-- Cicero
Simplicity Purity Clarity
-- Alan Cohen
Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to God alone Laughs at
impossibilities And cries it shall be done
-- Charles Wesley
What is genius but the mind heart and art of God shining to the world through an
open window
-- Alan Cohen
Intuition tells you what not why
-- Source unknown
Changing the world is a natural result of inner peace not a substitute for it
-- Alan Cohen
Fortune sides with him who dares
~ Virgil
We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in
our heads fear must be a head thing
Tom Payne Career Development Expert
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you
mdashLewis Smedes Each of us has the power to make others more beautiful by our love
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst a transformer
in any situation any organization Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an
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entire loaf It requires vision initiative patience respect persistence courage
and faith to be a transforming leader
Stephen Covey
Courage is grace under pressure
~ Ernest Hemingway
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions All life is an experiment
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as Youre going o be thinking anyway Think BIG
~ Donald Trump
To win youve got to stay in the game
~ Claude M Bristol
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head
-- Source unknown
Affirm your value by going where you are valued
-- Alan Cohen
Life is too short to hold a grudge also too long
-- Robert Brault
You cannot borrow greatness from another You can only claim it from within
yourself
-- Alan Cohen
One today is worth two tomorrows never leave that till tomorrow which you can
do today
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 US Statesman Diplomat and Inventor
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs
the problem The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized
a problem and turned it into an opportunity
Joseph Sugarman Marketing Expert
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You wouldnt worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how
seldom they do
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady Author Speaker and Politician
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions
- John Randolph
Opportunities They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere
waiting for the observant eye to discover it
- Orison Swett Marden
Yesterday ended last night Every day is a new beginning Learn the skill of
forgetting And move on
--Norman Vincent Peale
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual it is
best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every
department
ndash Andrew Carnegie entrepreneur
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society The optimist invents the
airplane and the pessimist the parachute
Gil Stern
Strive for integrity - that means knowing your values in life and behaving in a way
that is consistent with these values
Unknown
The country clubs the cars the boats your assets may be ample But the best
inheritance you can leave your kids Is to be a good example
Barry Spilchuk
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the
goal
Henry Ford
It is never too late to be what you might have been
George Eliott
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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence the second listening the
third memory the fourth practice the fifth teaching others
Solomon Ibn Gabriol
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers You can tell whether a man is
wise by his questions
Naguib Mahfouz
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others
~ Erich Fromm
Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble
and grateful mind
~ Epictetus
Happiness is activity
~ Aristotle
Every action we take everything we do is either a victory or defeat in the
struggle to become what we want to be
~ Anne Byrhhe
In the absence of clearly defined goals we become strangely loyal to performing
daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it
Robert Heinlein Novelist
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the
consequences of any misfortune
William James 1842-1910 Psychologist and Author
To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle
-- Walt Whitman
God doesnt owe and neither do you
-- Alan Cohen
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Do what makes you smile
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
People who warn that everyone but members of their religion will go to hell dont
realize they are already there
-- Alan Cohen
The emotional frontier is truly the next frontier to conquer in human
understanding The opportunity we face now even before that frontier is fully
explored and settled is to develop our emotional potential and accelerate rather
dramatically into a new state of being
- Doc Childre and Howard Martin The HeartMath Solution
Real transformation requires that you have a beginners mind that you are willing
to say Whatever I think I know may be wrong
Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true
selves
- Carrol Pearson The Hero Within
If a man would move the world he
must first move himself
--Socrates
All sucessful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists They
believed that things went not by luck but by law
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
I skate to where the puck is going to be not where it is
-Wayne Gretzky
When given the choice between being right or being kind always choose kind
--Dr Wayne Dyer Never forget the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for
others
Sir John Templeton 1912-2008 Mutual Fund Pioneer and Philanthropist
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome
Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Essayist Biographer and Poet
Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on
-- Alan Cohen
Shallow men believe in luck Strong men believe in cause and effect
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Contraction is a sign that birth is imminent
-- Alan Cohen
Work is an extension of personality It is achievement It is one of the ways in
which a person defines himself measures his worth ndash and his humanity
ndash Peter Drucker author
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends
-- John Ruskin
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities
--Janos Arnay
The first time you accept good is the last time you will see excellence
John Ulmo Life is like an onion
You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep
~ Carl Sandburg
Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light
~ L P Jacks Just as iron rusts from disuse even so does inaction spoil the intellect
~ Leonardo Da Vinci
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men sayI JUST watch what they
do
~ Andrew Carnegie
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All Things are Difficult before they are Easy
~ John Norley
Everything has been figured out except how to live
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving
Dennis Waitley
Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out
Robert Collier
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude
Thomas Jefferson
They can because they think they can
Virgil
By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself
Menander
Years teach us more than books
Berthold Auerbach
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When you delightfully fantasize about something you want you set into motion a
wave of energy that calls that situation into reality
-- Alan Cohen
Hurt people hurt people
-- Source unknown
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Doing the right thing may be different than what you have been taught the right
thing is
-- Alan Cohen
The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes
it happen
-- Frank Lloyd Wright All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say no and said yes
Moss Hart 1904-1961 Playwright and Theatre Director
We are built to conquer environment solve problems achieve goals and we find no
real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to
achieve
Maxwell Maltz 1899-1975 Author of Psycho-Cybernetics
You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns
have roses
-- Ziggy
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug
~ Patricia Neal
My night has become a sunny dawn because of you
--Ibn Abbad
All mankind is divided into three classes those that are immovable those that are
movable and those that move
--Benjamin Franklin
Dont compete Create Find out what everyone else is doing and then dont do it
mdashJoel Weldon
Show a little faith therelsquos magic in the night
mdashfrom ―Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen
Music is to me proof of the existence of God
It is so extraordinarily full of magic and in tough times
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of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference
mdashKurt Vonnegut
Discontent is the source of all trouble but also of all progress
in individuals and nations
Berthold Auerbach
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself
Thomas Sprat
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves
to copy
Oliver Goldsmith
If at first you dont succeed try try again Then quit Theres
no use being a damn fool about it
WC Fields
Impatience never commanded success
Edwin H Chapin
In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are the safest
~ Livy
Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights
~ Henry David Thoreau
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense
insoluble They can never be solved but only outgrown
~ Carl Jung
Life Begins When you Do
Hugh Downs Vision Without Action is a Daydream
Action Without Vision is a Nightmare
~ Japanese Proverb
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Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one
can possibly want and hold
-- Judith Olney
The love affair you seek is with yourself
-- Alan Cohen
The greatest power requires the lightest touch
-- BasharDarryl Anka
You only live once -- but its forever
-- Alan Cohen
Get off the cross Somebody needs the wood
-- From the film Straight Talk
There are two ways to live your life One is as though nothing is a miracle The
other is as though everything is a miracle
~ Albert Einstein
In the long run men hit only what they aim at
~ Henry David Thoreau philosopher
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state
of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is
wounded trust impaired
~Erik H Erikson
Freedom know this that every manwoman is free To choose his life and what
hell be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call
persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light In nameless ways be
good and kind But never force the human mind
~ William C Clegg
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want and if they canlsquot find them make them
~ George Bernard Shaw
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Relationships are not things We dont have relationships we are in relationship
with one another
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Relationships are our primary teacher They are the context in which we either
grow into the consciousness of God or deny ourselves and others the opportunity
to do so
- Marianne Williamson
Listen deeply The greatest failure in any relationship is the failure to
participate
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Your future is created by what you do today not tomorrow
Robert Kiyosaki
No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a
reality
Napoleon Hill
If you are not planning today you are planning to fail tomorrow
Gopal
How you do anything is how you do everything
T Harv Eker
There is little difference in people but that little difference
makes a big difference The little difference is attitude The
big difference is whether it is positive or negative
W Clement Stone
The vision must be followed by the venture It is not enough to
stare up the steps - We must step up the stairs
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Vance Havner
Go for it nowThe future is promised to no one
Wayne Dyer
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are you would never
think a negative thought
Peace Pilgrim
Either you run the day or the day runs you
Jim Rohn
You must go after your wish As soon as you start to pursue a
dream your life wakes up and everything has meaning
Barbara Sher
To succeed you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe
and act on it with all of your heart
Christy Borgeld
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers
Anonymous
Let him that would move the world first move himself
Socrates
By the time a man realizes that maybe
his father was right he usually has a son
who thinks hes wrong
~ Charles Wadworth
Without Mistakes Perfection is an Illusion
~ Daniel Frankel
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Its not the hours you put in
but what you put into the hours
that counts
~ Jim Rohn
Be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath
~ James 119
Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory
~ Ingrid Bergman
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word
~ William Makepease Thackeray
Professionalism is knowing how
to do it when to do it and doing it
~ Frank Tyger
Intention is not something you do
but rather a force that exists in the universe
as an invisible field of energy
-a power that can carry us
~ Dr Wayne Dyer
I personally measure success in terms
of the contributions an individual makes
to her or his fellow human beings
~ Margaret Mead
Some of the worlds greatest feats
were accomplished by people not
smart enough to know they were
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impossible
~ Doug Larson
Life is a flower of which love is the honey
~ Victor Hugo
Personal integrity is important
not because it gets us what we want
but because it helps us be what we want
~ Michael Josephson
Goals need to be configured to stretch us
but not to break us
~ Kent Krive
Children are apt to live up
to what you believe of them
~ Lady Bird Johnson
Do your work with your whole heart
and you will succeed
- theres so little competition
~ Elbert Hubbard
Hi Karl
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible
objections must first be overcome
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--Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Author
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter
even the most victorious life The human
spirit is never finished when it is defeated
- it is finished when it surrenders
-- Ben Stein Professor and Writer
Love is the first ingredient in the relief
of suffering
-- Padre Pio
Happiness is a function of accepting what is
--Werner Erhard
There are no shortcuts to any place
worth going
- Beverly Sills
It has never been and never will be
easy work But the road that is built in
hope is more pleasant to the traveler
than the road built in despair even though
they both lead to the same destination
~Marion Zimmer Bradley
The reality of life is that your perceptions --
right or wrong -- influence everything else
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you do When you get a proper perspective
of your perceptions you may be surprised
how many other things fall into place
~ Roger Birkman
Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself
with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum
-- Baal Shem Tov
Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself
with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum
-- Baal Shem Tov
Trust yourself You know more than
you think you do
ndash Benjamin Spock doctor
When you play it too safe youre taking
the biggest risk of your life
Time is the only wealth were given
--Barbara Sher
Creativity is inventing experimenting
growing taking risks breaking rules
making mistakes and having fun
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--Mary Lou Cook
Life is playing a violin solo in public and
learning the instrument as one goes on
--Samuel Butler
Opportunities are usually disguised as
hard work so most people dont recognize
them
~ Ann Landers
It is literally true that you can succeed best
and quickest by helping others to succeed
- Napoleon Hill
God loves you and theres nothing you can do about it
-- Sign on church marquis
Give yourself what you would like to receive from others
-- Alan Cohen
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature
-- Emerson
The fewer your words the more compelling your statement
-- Alan Cohen
Pray devoutly hammer stoutly
-- English proverb
There are no blocks to creativity Only distractions
-- Alan Cohen
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If your rules are not working so well borrow someone elses
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
Inner peace is never more than one thought away
-- Alan Cohen
Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret
hiding God
-- Frederick William Robertson
Completion is an attitude not an event
-- Alan Cohen
Enjoy where you are and youll be where youre going
-- Bashar
Your spirit is wireless
-- Alan Cohen
All questions lead to divine knowing
-- Isaac Newton
You cannot import self-worth You can only recognize it
-- Alan Cohen
Enlightened conflict resolution can exist only in an atmosphere of equality
We may not be equal in intelligence or experience or status but we are equal
in our right to be treated with dignity and caring It is not assumed that one
person has more privilege than another that one person is entitled to more
respect or understanding than another nor that one persons feelings are
more important than anothers
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
To seek happiness outside of ourselves Is like trying to lasso a cloud
Happiness is not a thingIt is a state of mind
- Omar Khayyam
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The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us
well I am not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking
not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our
quality of life incidence of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy No man was ever wise by chance
~ Seneca
By thought the thing you want is brought to youby action you receive it
~ Wallace D Wattles
Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
~ Mohandas K Gandhi
Life isnt about finding yourselfLife is about creating yourself
George Bernard Shaw
Im trying to free your mind but I can only show you the doorYou are the one
that has to walk through it
~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]
A friend is a second self
~ Aristotle
Be great in act as you have been in thought
~ William Shakespeare
Character is higher than intellectA great soul will be strong to liveas well as to
think
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I never think of the futureIt comes soon enough
~ Albert Einstein
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fearnot absence of fear
~ Mark Twain
Age wrinkles the bodyQuitting wrinkles the soul
~ Douglas MacArthur
If real is what you can feel smell taste and see then real is simply electrical
signals interpreted by your brain
~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]
Money was never a big motivator for me except for keeping the scoreThe real
excitement is playing the game
~ Donald Trump
Dreams are extremely important You cant do it unless you dream it first
~ George Lucas
If you believe you can you probably can If you believe you wont you most
assuredly wont Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad
~ Denis Waitley
Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limitedImagination
encircles the world
~ Albert Einstein
Everything is always impossible before it works Thats what entrepreneurs are all
aboutDoing things that people have told them is impossible
~ R Hunt Greene
The truth is lived not taught
~ Hermann Hesse
Be of good cheer Do not think of todays failures but of the success that may
come tomorrow You have set yourself a difficult task but you will succeed if you
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persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles
Helen Keller 1880-1968 Blind and Deaf Educator
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something Its as simple
as that A lot of people have ideas but there are few who decide to do something
about them now Not tomorrow Not next week But today The true entrepreneur
is a doer
-Nolan Bushnell Founder of Atari
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision
Muhammad Ali Three-Time World Heavyweight Champion Boxer
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them
Walt Disney 1901-1966 Cartoon Artist and Filmmaker
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings turn routine jobs into
joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings
William Arthur Ward
1921-1994 Writer
If you want to achieve excellence you can get there today As of this second quit
doing less than excellent work
Thomas Watson 1874-1956 Founder of IBM
Ive always believed that a lot of the troubles in the world would disappear if we
were talking to each other instead of about each other
Ronald Reagan
1911-2004 40th President of the United States
The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another is in some way to
make that persons life a little bit better to live
John Assaraf Author and Speaker
Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm
Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any
occupation no matter how frightening or difficult a new meaning Without
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enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish
miracles
Og Mandino
Constant kindness can accomplish much As the sun makes ice melt kindness
causes misunderstanding mistrust and hostility to evaporate
Dr Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 Medical Missionary and Nobel Prize Winner
Dwell not on the past Use it to illustrate a point then leave it behind Nothing
really matters except what you do now in this instant of time From this moment
onwards you can be an entirely different person filled with love and understanding
ready with an outstretched hand uplifted and positive in every thought and deed
Eileen Caddy 1917-2006 Spiritual Teacher and Author
Heres the problem Most people are thinking about what they dont want and
theyre wondering why it shows up over and over again
John Assaraf Speaker and Author
Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
Thomas Edison 1847-1931 Inventor and Scientist
Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on
building the life you desire
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly
lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love
Henry Drummond 1851-1897 Scientist and Author
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Former First Lady Author and Speaker
If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least
responsible for those we admit and entertain
Charles Newcomb ScreenwriterDirector
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To grow you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your
past Your history is not your destiny
Alan Cohen
If you want a kinder world then behave with kindness if you want a peaceful
world make peace within
Dan Millman Writer and Speaker
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order
and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a
time
Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Writer
Believe it can be done When you believe something can be done really believe
your mind will find the ways to do it Believing a solution paves the way to solution
Dr David Schwartz Author of The Magic of Thinking Big
Close your eyes and form a realistic picture of what a post PC world might actually
look like Those who can envision a plausible future thats brighter than today will
earn the opportunity to lead
Ray Ozzie Former Chief Software Architect at Microsoft
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past worry
about the future or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely
and earnestly
- Buddha
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job tellem certainly I can - and get
busy and find out how to do it
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Dont tell me how hard you work Tell mehow much you get done
~ James Ling
Democracy arose from menlsquos thinking that if they are equal in any respect they
are equal absolutely
~ Aristotle
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The beginning is the most important part of the work
~ Plato
Bless those who choose to love and those who choose to hate that those who
choose to hate may choose to love before it is too late
--Esoligh (Underground Hip Hop Artist)
Security is mostly a superstition It does not exist in nature nor do the children
of man as a whole experience it Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than
outright exposure Life is either a daring adventure or nothing
--Helen Keller
Each new hour holds new chances for new beginings The horizon move forward
offering you space to place new steps of change
--Maya Angelou
When a man cares he is unafraid When he is fair he leaves enough for others
When he is humble he can grow
--Lao-Tzu TaoTeChung
Behold the turtle He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out
--James Bryant Conant - Educator and Diplomat
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it
but because they didnt stop to enjoy it
--William Feather
The light of awareness the light of consciousness arises out of a broken heart
the heart by breaking becomes an ocean accommodating all beings
-- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom
The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need according to the
nature of your thought Your environment and financial condition are the
perfect reflection of your habitual thinking
Thought rules the world
-- Dr Joseph Edward Murphy Surgeon
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The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new
courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness beauty and truth
ndash Albert Einstein physicist
Hope is the companion of power and mother of success for who so hopes strongly
has within him the gift of miracles
~ Samuel Smiles
Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those
things that failures dont like to do
~ Albert Gray
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the
link between belief and biology
- Deepak Chopra
Ive always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best
~ Akeem Olajuwon
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear
ndash Socrates philosopher
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the
most brilliant single mind but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains
and talents of his associates
~ W Alton Jones
The reason a dog has got so many friends is because its tail waggles and not its
tongue
-Anonymous
Dont fight a problem solve it
--Millard Fuller
If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation
by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in
which you are rendering it
--Roger Babson
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The starting point of all riches is the development of a prosperity consciousness
You must become a financial success in your thinking long before you achieve it in
your reality Both poverty and riches are the result of a state of mind and the
most important single step you ever take on the road to wealth and financial
independence is the decision to change your thinking to impress into your mind an
unshakable belief that you can and will achieve your financial goals This must
happen before anything else happens
-- Brian Tracy
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it
We must learn to see the world anew
- Albert Einstein
To forgive is the highest most beautiful form of love In return you will receive
untold peace and happiness
--Dr Robert Muller
Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind the stronger the
trees
--J Willard Marriott Founder of Marriott Hotels
Someday may never come So live each day better than the last That way youll
wake up with so much excitement and anticipation youlsquoll jump out of bed and shout
I cant wait
--Bob Perks
The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination and he is still at
large
-- Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885 Humorist
If you dont know where you are going any road will get you there
-- Anonymous
Ive noticed over many years of working with corporate teams that the more
dysfunctional the team the more resistant they are to the concept of love in
the workplace What baggage is it that we drag around behind us like Linus
and his blanket which causes us to be so wounded and pathological Why are
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we blind to the observable truth that those we lead are yearning for us to
open our hearts Why are we in denial about the truth that people--all
people at work and at home--are searching for signs of our approval and
love
- Lance Secretan Industry Week 11202000 We live on our own solitary islands of reality absorbed in and fascinated by
our own points of view Frequently we reach out to one another seeking to
understand or be understood The bridge between our separate realities is
communication To communicate is to relate
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air You
name them--work family health friends and spirit--and youre keeping all
of these in the air You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball If you
drop it it will bounce back But the other four balls-- family health
friends and spirit--are made of glass If you drop one of these they will be
irrevocably scuffed marked nicked damaged or even shattered They will
never be the same You must understand that and strive for balance in your
life
- Brian Dyson CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises from 1959-1994 If you cant be a loving witness to your own anger or rage or sadness or
fear you cant be in the presence of other peoples intense emotions without
your own emotional waters being churned up a bit But if you can learn to
feel safe and fully present to the broad spectrum of emotions within your own
nature you radiate an invisible web of safety that helps others to talk about
their feelings with you
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective
consciousness and if we want a new world each of us must start taking
responsibility for helping create it
- Rosemary Fillmore Rhea A New Heaven and New Earth Your relationships are actually mirrors of your consciousness When you learn
to see your own reflection in the quality of your relationships with others you
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catapult yourself on your path of personal growth and spiritual evolution
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think To put the world right in order we must first put the nation in order to put
the nation in order we must first put the family in order to put the family in
order we must first cultivate our personal life we must first set our hearts
right
- Confucious The sooner we can unburden ourselves of blame the more effective we can
be Blaming others only entrenches us in the role of the victim removing us
from our highest expression of personal power
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be
sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all
around It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others
we all want in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that
burden us These secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth
helps you get clarity on your real heart directives
- Sara Paddison The Hidden Power of the Heart Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time
ago
~ Warren Buffet
The only way to do great work is to love what you do If you havent found it yet
keep looking Dont settle As with all matters of the heart youll know when you
find it
~ Steve Jobs
If you love life do not waste time for time is what life is made up of
~ Bruce Lee
I cannot teach anybody anything I can only make them think
~ Socrates
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Change before you have to
~ Jack Welch
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm
~ Winston Churchill
A leader leads by example not by force
~ Sun Tzu
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour Sit with a
pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute You have just experienced
relativity
~ Albert Einstein
Live as if you were to die tomorrow Learn as if you were to live forever
~ Mohandas Gandhi
A clever person solves a problem A wise person avoids it
~ Albert Einstein
If I have seen a little further is by standing on the shoulders of Giants
~ Sir Isaac Newton
Despair says I cannot lift that weight Happiness says I do not have to
-- James Richardson
People who know they are powerful do not need to engage in power struggles
-- Alan Cohen
No man ever stated his troubles as lightly as he might
-- Emerson
What does your spirit most want you to know and do today
-- Alan Cohen
Its not how good you are Its how bad you want it
-- Author unknown
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The better I feel about myself the less I need you to be different
-- Alan Cohen
The best form of flattery is to master the art of listening
-- Chinese proverb
The only thing more valuable than a good source of news is source of good news
-- Alan Cohen
Disappointments are the hooks upon which God hangs his victories
-- Source unknown
It matters not what youve done with your life for better or worse What
matters is what you do with your life today
-- Alan Cohen
Everyone here is not all there
-- Source unknown
If you cant unify then at least harmonize
-- Alan Cohen
Everybody is a genius But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will
spend its whole life believing that it is stupid
-- Albert Einstein
Fear is excitement without breath
-- Fritz Perls
Dont leave yourself out of the equation
-- Alan Cohen
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles
-- Bernard Baruch
They can because they think they can
~ Virgil
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Exert your talents and distinguish yourself
and dont think of retiring from the world
until the world will be sorry that you retire
~ Samuel Johnson
Energy and persistence conquer all things
~ Benjamin Franklin
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom
~ Aristotle
Heaven never helps the man who will not act
~ Sophocles
The only real journey is the journey within
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new
~ Albert Einstein
Action is the food and drink
that will nourish your success
Action will destroy your procrastination
Act now for is all you have
~ Og Mandino
Computers are incredibly fast accurate and stupid
Humans are incredible slow inaccurate and brilliant
Together they are powerful beyond imagination
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~ Albert Einstein
Practice giving and you will discover how much life can give you
-- Alan Cohen
Oh for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they
ran out of money
-- Source unknown
The best way to heal a bad memory is to create a new and better one
-- Alan Cohen
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love
-- Hamilton Wright Mabie
Fear and resistance are the dragons that stand at the gate of the kingdom that
contains the jewel you seek
-- Alan Cohen
Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy forgiveness To an opponent
tolerance To a friend your heart To a customer service To all charity To
every child a good example To yourself respect
-- Oren Arnold
Affirm I always have enough time to do the things that Spirit would have me do
-- Alan Cohen
There are two obstacles to enlightenment 1 Thinking you know 2 Thinking you
dont know
-- Buddha
Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Take care how you pay
it
-- Alan Cohen
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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles
-- Bernard Baruch
Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation
-- Alan Cohen
Families are like fudge -- mostly sweet with a few nuts
-- Source unknown
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of
our treasures
-- Thornton Wilder
The universe does not require you to stress for good things
-- Alan Cohen
When you bless the good that befalls others it becomes yours as well
-- Alan Cohen
How many more idols must you find before your realize that you are the one you
have been searching for
-- Dan Fogelberg
All limits exist only in thought and that is where they are overcome
-- Alan Cohen
To understand unconditional love lock your wife or husband and your dog in the
trunk of your car for an hour When you open it notice to is happier to see you
-- Source unknown
Outrageous ideas are ultimately the most practical
-- Alan Cohen
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are
-- Kurt Cobain
How good can you let it get
-- Alan Cohen
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If we could look into the secret history of our enemies we should find in each
persons life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities
-- Longfellow
If you sense there must be more there is more
-- Alan Cohen
Do not wait the time will never be just right Start where you stand and work
with whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found
as you go along
Napoleon Hill
1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich
It doesnt matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes What
matters most is getting off You cannot make progress without making decisions
Jim Rohn
1930-2009 Speaker and Author
Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do Its
a decision about Who You Are When you see this when you understand it
everything changes You begin to see life in a new way All events occurrences and
situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do
Neale Donald Walsch
Author of Conversations With God
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached dont adjust the goals
adjust the action steps
Confucius
551-479 BC Philosopher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of
you
Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887 Clergyman Social Reformer and Abolitionist
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Lets choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we think others lead
by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives We can then offer the
universe the gift of our grateful hearts
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Author of Peace and Plenty
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite
impossible to foresee are ahead You can only see one thing clearly and that is your
goal Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin
Kathleen Norris
1880-1966 Novelist
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends
you choose for you will become like them
W Clement Stone
1902-2002 Businessman Philanthropist and Author
Laugh at yourself and at life Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity but
as a remedy a miracle drug that will ease your pain cure your depression and help
you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at
your predicaments thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that
is certain to come Never take yourself too seriously
Og Mandino
1923-1996 Author of The Choice
Asking is the beginning of receiving Make sure you dont go to the ocean with a
teaspoon At least take a bucket so the kids wont laugh at you
Jim Rohn
1930-2009 Author and Speaker
Happiness comes only when we push our
brains and hearts to the farthest reaches
of which we are capable
--Leo C Rosten
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Do not wait the time will never be just right
Start where you stand and work with whatever
tools you may have at your command and better
tools will be found as you go along
~ Napoleon Hill
I shall do less whenever I shall believe what
I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more
whenever I shall believe doing more will help the
cause I shall try to correct errors when shown to
be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as
they shall appear to be true views
ndash Abraham Lincoln 16th US president
If we become increasingly humble about how l
little we know we may be more eager to search
- Sir John Templeton
I dont think anyone can grow unless hes
loved exactly as he is now appreciated for
what he is rather than what he will be
Love and success always in that order Its
that simple and that difficult
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a
lifetimes work but its worth the effort
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Quoted From Lifes Journeys According
to Mister Rogers
When we do the best we can we never know
what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life
of another
ndash Helen Keller lecturer author
We are responsible for what we are and whatever
we wish ourselves to be we have the power to make
ourselves If what we are now has been the result of
our own past actions it certainly follows that whatever
we wish to be in future can be produced by our present
actions so we have to know how to act
~ Swami Vivekananda
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New Years Resolution To tolerate fools more gladly provided this does not
encourage them to take up more of my time
James Agate
New Years Day is every mans birthday
Charles Lamb
Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right
Oprah Winfrey
―It is never too late to be what you might have been
- TS Eliot
If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain
ndash Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 American Poet
Life is too short to waste Dreams are fulfilled only through action not through
endless planning to take action
David J Schwartz Trainer and Author
Its the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and
sweeps away all obstacles
Claude M Bristol
―The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means time
influence and educational advantages the question is what he will do with the
things he has The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of
opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face and resolves to change
them he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success
-Hamilton Wright Mabie
Just go out there and do what youve got to do
~ Martina Navratilova
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Now I experience the love in everyone I no longer am a person who judges others
for being overweight for being too young or too old for having their hair a certain
way or for how they dress When you judge others you dont define them you
define yourself as someone who needs to judge and compartmentalize people
-Wayne Dyer
The big secret in life is that there is no secret Whatever your goal you can get
there if you are willing to work It is called massive action Action is the gas in the
tank Without it the car will not run
Marcy Blochowiak Author of No Glass Ceiling An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory
-Friedrich Engels
Leaders arent born they are made And they are made just like anything else
through hard work And thats the price well have to pay to achieve that goal or
any goal
Vincent Lombardi
May your trails be crooked winding lonesome dangerous leading to the most
amazing view May your rivers flow without end meandering through pastoral
valleys tinkling with bells past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark
primeval forestdown into a desert of red rock blue mesas domes and pinnacles
and grottos of endless stone And down again into a deep vast ancient unknown
chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs where deer walk across the
white sand beaches where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high
crags until something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than
your deepest dreams waits for you just beyond the next turning of the canyon
walls
-Benedicto by Edward Abbey
An unwritten want is a wish a dream a never-happen The day you put your goal in
writing is the day it becomes a commitment that will change your life Are you
ready
Tom Hopkins Author and Speaker
―Where are you going Who are you looking for Your beloved is right herehellip Cease
looking for flowers there blooms a garden in your own home While you go looking
for trinkets your treasure house awaits you in your own being There is no need
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for suffering God is here
~Rumi Chance favors only the prepared mind
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895 French scientist who developed pasteurization)
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities
enough and if they do not find them they will make them
Samuel Smiles
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen but give us the
determination to make the right things happen
Peter Marshall
If the sky falls hold up your hands
Spanish Proverb
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous
Chinese Proverb
Knowing is not enough we must apply Willing is not enough we must do
Johann von Goethe
If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is he will not jump If he does
not know how wide it is he will jump and six times out of ten he will make it
Persian Proverb
As I grow to understand life less and less I learn to love it more and more
Jules Renard
The more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate
Oprah Winfrey (1954- American TV personality producer actress author)
Mind is all that counts You can be whatever you make up your mind to be
Robert Collier
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You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how
youre going to live Now
Joan Baez Singer Songwriter and Activist The average person goes to their grave with their music still in them
Oliver Wendell Holmes ―Everyone can be great because everyone can serve
- Martin Luther King ―Whatever you can conceive and believe you can achieve
Napoleon Hill We turn not older with years but newer every day
-Emily Dickinson
When reciting affirmations feel the words in your heart as you say them and
know that what you feel youll create
Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust
our old programs accordingly
Dr Ann Faraday
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to
get there Then never never never give up
Vincent Peale
We only think when we are confronted with problems
John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)
In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain
Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)
If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair Few things are
impossible to diligence and skill Great works are performed not by strength but
perseverance
Samuel Johnson
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Dont waste your life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you
well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best
preparation for the hours or ages that follow it
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Poet and Essayist Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change
the world today
Wil Rose
The good man acts for honors sake and the more so the better he is and acts for
his friends sake and sacrifices his own interest
-Aristotle
In order to excel you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport You
must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism
Without a total 100 percent dedication you wont be able to do this
Willie Mays
Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to
raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years
ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I
demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my
life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to
becoming
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert
Im a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of
it
Thomas Jefferson
Bring awareness to each act Walking on the road walk fully alert eating eat with
awareness Whatsoever you are doing dont let the past and the future interfere
Be in the present Thats what awareness is all about
~Osho
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There are two dimensions to life and we should be able to touch both
One is like a wave and we call it the historical dimension
The other is like the water and we call it the ultimate dimension or nirvana
We usually touch just the wave but when we discover how to touch the water
we receive the highest fruit that meditation can offer
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends
Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance
Jackson Brown
When you focus on whats wrong you get more of whats wrong Conversely when
you focus on whats right you get more of whats right
Gina Mollicone-Long Author of the newly released book Think Or Sink
All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave
behind is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into
another
Gail Sheehy (1937- American journalist author)
Anger is one letter away from danger
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Success means having the courage the determination and the will to become the
person you believe you were meant to be
George Sheehan 1918-1993 Physician and Author
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views
so fast as they shall appear to be new views
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)
―One ship sails East
And another West
By the self-same winds that blow
lsquoTis the set of the sails
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And not the gales
That tells the way we go
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity Our attitude
toward it Every opportunity has a difficulty and every difficulty has an
opportunity
J Sidlow Baxter 1903-1999 Author and Theologian
If you want to be successful you must either have a chance or take one
Author Unknown
It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit it frankly and try
another But above all try something
Franklin D Roosevelt
It was courage faith endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all
obstacles that built this bridge
~ John J Watson
Past Data should now be the basis of Present Truth Data from a prior time or
experience should always and only be the basis for new questions Always the
treasure should be in the questions not in the answer
-Neale Donald Walsch Even though you may want to move forward in your life you may have one foot on
the brakes In order to be free we must learn how to let go Release the hurt
Release the fear Refuse to entertain your old pain The energy it takes to hang
onto the past is holding you back from a new life What is it you would let go of
today
Mary Manin Morrissey Creator of The Miracle Mastery Conference
It is not what you are called but what you answer to
African Proverb
A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong
enough
John Christian Bovee
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If youre not part of a solution youre a part of the problem There is no middle
road I dont think we can destroy the Earth but I think the Earth can destroy
us
-Oh Shinnah
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will
accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop
Robert Hughes
Charity is the spice of riches
Jewish Proverb
If you dont like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and
waiting for you The snake sheds its skin with impunity relying on the same nature
which you rely on
Author Unknown
Its a very funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best
you very often get it
William Somerset Maugham
A leader once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one must
be undaunted when the going gets tough
Ronald Reagan
If I accept you as you are I will make you worse however if I treat you as
though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Author and Philosopher
Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket signifies in the final
sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed from those who are cold and
not clothed The world in arms is not spending money alone It is spending the
sweat of its laborers the genius of its scientists the hopes of its children
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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Service is nothing but love in work clothes
Author Unknown
A man can do all things if he but wills them
Leon Battista Alberti
A crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk just a
tinkling cymbal where there is not love
Francis Bacon 17th Century English Lord Chancellor philosopher and author
The only way to have a friend is to be one
Ralph Waldo Emerson 19th Century American author and poet
Its not what you do once in a while its what you do day in and day out that
makes the difference
Jenny Craig Diet Specialist
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on
the labors of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to
give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving
Albert Einstein (1879-1955 German-born American physicist)
A resolute determination is the truest wisdom
Napoleon I
Without consistency there is no moral strength
Author Unknown
See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained pursue it resolutely
William Shakespeare
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure
-Dale Carnegie
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself
William Penn (1644-1718 British religious leader founder of Pennsylvania)
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How we think shows through in how we act Attitudes are mirrors of the mind
They reflect thinking
David J Schwartz Trainer and Author
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but
to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill
Vision is freely given to those who ask to see
-Course in Miracles
Tough times never last but tough people do
Dr Robert Schuller
A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything
else
Bette Davis (1908-1989 American actress producer)
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything
Alexander Hamilton
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference He has
it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter
Norman Cousins (1915-1990 American editor humanitarian author)
The practice of medicine is an art not a trade a calling not a business a calling in
which your heart will be exercised equally with your head Often the best part of
your work will have nothing to do with powders or potions
-Sir William Osler
Strength does not come from physical capacity It comes from an indomitable
will
~ Mahatma Gandhi
―You dont love someone for their looks or their clothes or for their fancy car
but because they sing a song only you can hear
Anon
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―They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever
Oscar Wilde
―Love is like a friendship caught on fire In the beginning a flame very pretty
often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering As love grows older our
hearts mature and our love becomes as coals deep-burning and unquenchable
Bruce Lee
―Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty
John Finely
―It takes a lot of understanding time and trust to gain a close friendship with
someone As I approach a time of my life of complete uncertainty my friends are
my most precious asset
Anon
―Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process
Harold S Geneen People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest
- Hermann Hesse 1877-1962 Civilization is a method of living an attitude of equal respect for all men
- Jane Addams 1860-1935 The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next
- Matthew Arnold 1822-1888
Vacillating people seldom succeed Successful men and women are very careful in
reaching their decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter
~ L G Elliott
Those with goals tend to succeed because they are focused and know where they
are going while those without goals do not
Ted Karam Author from his new book Jumping On Water Awaken Your Joy - Empower Your Life
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Every time you go out on the ice there are slight flaws You can always think of
something you should have done better These are the things you must work on
Dorothy Hamill (1956- American figure skater)
Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it
fate
~ Carl Jung When you speak of someone or about someone you should speak as though they
were in the room with you The ears that you speak to today are attached to the
mouth that could relay the message tomorrow
William Biddy Allen 1903-2001 Bus Driver - Loving father of 7 children
It is no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might dream The failure is to
fall short of dreaming all that we might realize
-Dee Hock When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they
are regarded by others let them reflect how little they have contributed to the
happiness of others
Author Unknown
I have become my own version of an optimist If I cant make it through one door
Ill go through another door - or Ill make a door Something terrific will come no
matter how dark the present
~ Rabindranath Tagore
―The present moment
contains past and future
The secret of transformation
is in the way we handle this very moment
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 - present Vietnamese Buddhist monk)
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―Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it Do not believe in
anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many Do not believe in
anything simply because it is found written in your religious books Do not believe in
anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders Do not believe in
traditions because they have been handed down for many generations But after
observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is
conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it
Buddha (Founder of Buddhism 568 - 488 BC) I try to avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward
Charlotte Bronte
Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity
Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Theologian
There is only one duty only one safe course and that is to try to be right
Winston Churchill (1874-1965 British statesman Prime Minister)
We are born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of wine we
have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born Astrology
does not lay claim to anything more
-Carl Jung
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them One is more
delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is angrier for being told
one is angry
Katherine F Gerould
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread they can sure make something out
of you
~ Muhammed Ali Beware of the thoughts you keep because everything in reality manifests from
the mind
Justin Palmer Second Year College Student
Confess you were wrong yesterday it will show you are wise today
Author Unknown
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We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope
~ Martin Luther King Jr
In the beginning the Universe was created
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move
-Douglas Adams
Any individual can be in time what he earnestly desires to be if he but set his
face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear
upon its attainment
Herman J Randall
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world
~ Helen Keller Many of lifes failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up
~ Thomas Edison
When you give your undivided attention to something there is a softening and
opening in the listener that allows access to the meaning underneath the words
-Betty Burkes
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they
are about to change the world I am more awed by those who struggle to make one
small difference
Ellen Goodman Journalist
If you look into your own heart you find nothing wrong there what is there to
fear
Confucius (BC 551-479 Chinese ethical teacher philosopher) Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls
~ Mother Teresa What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-
conceit For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he
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already knows
- Epictetus 55 AD-135 AD
There are admirable potentialities in every human being Believe in your strength
and your youth Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself It all depends on me
- Andre Gide 1869-1951
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage
- Anais Nin 1903-1977 Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in
other areas But can it really True effectiveness requires balance
~ Stephen Covey
I dont pay good wages because I have a lot of money I have a lot of money
because I pay good wages
- Robert Bosch Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do
the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not it is
the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a mans training
begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly
Thomas H Huxley 1825-1895 Biologist
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have and to be able
to lose all desire for things beyond your reach
Yutang Lin (1895-1976 Chinese writer and philologist)
Men are failures not because they are stupid but because they are not
sufficiently impassioned
Struther Burt
If you look at what you have in life youll always have more If you look at what
you dont have in life youll never have enough
Oprah Winfrey Television Host Producer and Philanthropist
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Im trying not to look too far ahead All Im thinking is one shot at a time one hole
at a time and thats what I want to keep doing
Michelle McGann
I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in
which we face them that constitutes our comfort
-Elizabeth T King My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content
with your failure
~ Abraham Lincoln
―There is nothing but love and all else is illusion
- Dr John Demartini There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer no disease that enough
love will not heal no door that enough love will not open
- Emmet Fox
All my limitations are self-imposed and my liberation can only come from true self-
love
- Max C Robinson
We fail to see that we can control our own destiny make ourselves do whatever is
possible make ourselves become whatever we long to be
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine )
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will
~ Sugar Ray Robinson 1920-1989 Boxer
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
Confucius
Half the people you know are above average
-Steven Wright
Your close relationships are either a catalyst for manifesting what you really
want or theyre a hindrance to your manifestation If you truly value the power of
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love in your life you owe it to yourself to discover how to tap into the power of
your relationship as a force for manifestation
Drs Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up Even when they do it is not
perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888 American author )
One is not idle because one is absorbed There is both visible and invisible labor To
contemplate is to toil to think is to do The crossed arms work the clasped hands
act The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation
Victor Hugo (1802-1885 French poet dramatist novelist)
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of
greed in the headlines
-Charles Kuralt
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our
focus we never concentrate our power Most people dabble their way through life
never deciding to master anything in particular
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time
~ Anthony J DAngelo
Courage comes from wanting to do it well Security comes from knowing you can do
it well Confidence comes from having done it well
~ Author Unknown
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel
Napoleon Hill
There is a true genius in everyone But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a
tree it would never stop doubting itself
~ Einstein~
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People ask for criticism but they only want praise
- W Somerset Maugham 1874-1965 Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if
you let it pass the desire may never return and you may remain in ignorance
- William Wirt 1772-1834 Cynicism is not realistic and tough Its unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it
means you dont have to try
- Peggy Noonan 1950-present There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into
gear
David Mahoney Executive and Philanthropist You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences
W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965 British novelist playwright)
Dont ask yourself what the world needs Ask yourself what makes you come alive
and then go and do that Because what the world needs are people who have come
alive
~ Howard Thurman When a great moment knocks on the door of your life it is often no louder than
the beating of your heart and it is very easy to miss it -Boris Pasternak Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure
~ Thomas Alva Edison
To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in
your heart
- Thomas Watson Sr Begin challenging your own assumptions Your assumptions are your windows on the
world Scrub them off every once and a while or the light wont come in
Alan Alda Actor Writer and Director
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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most
argumentative
Giovani della Casa (1503-1556 Papal secretary of state)
Have you ever felt like you wanted to go but you felt like you wanted to stay
- Song Lyric Jimmy Durante
To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all
~ Oscar Wilde
Awareness is like a beam of light that shines endlessly into space We only
perceive that light when it is reflected off some object and consciousness is
producedAwareness is the light by which we see the worldWe mistake the clear
light of pure awareness for the shadows that it casts in consciousnessWe forget
that we are the light itself and imagine that we are the densities that reflect the
light back to us
-Stephen Levine Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal
Albert Camus (1913-1960 French existential writer) The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation
Mark Twain
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn Our rewards
will always be in exact proportion to our service
Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Author of The Strangest Secret
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he
knows where he is going
Napoleon Hill
Wisdom tells me I am nothing
Love tells me I am everything
And between the two my life flows
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
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No employer today is independent of those about him He cannot succeed alone no
matter how great his ability or capital Business today is more than ever a question
of cooperation
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars
Les Brown
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world
Joseph Addison (1672-1719 British essayist poet statesman)
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a
fate that falls on man unless they act
~ G K Chesterton
Find something positive to think about and dont let the conversation in your head
end with a negative comment Always end on a positive comment
Dr Tomi Bryan and Dr Jerry White From their latest release The 5 Keys To The Great Life
Whales do not sing because they have a message They sing because they have a
song
-Ashes and Snow
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life
- Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956
Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though
checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor
suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat
- Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting
- Stanislaw Leszczynski 1677-1766
There is no joy in getting by on your job - doing as little as you can There is a
LOT of pleasure in doing more than you have to And whosoever shall compel you
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to go a mile go with him twain says the Bible wisely
-Norman Carlisle
We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once
Calvin Coolidge
The starting point of all achievement is desire Keep this constantly in mind Weak
desires bring weak results just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich
I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me
instead of looking within myself to see what was there
Belle Livingstone
Rather than thinking if and when start doing take action stop talking about if
and when
~ Catherine Pulsifer
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity -
Ayn Rand
Being a man or indeed being human is not something for which one should
apologize but something to which one should aspire and with all the gusto he can
muster
-- David Cunningham
The question isnt who is going to let me its who is going to stop me
- Howard Roark The Fountainhead 1943
I am the Master of my Fate Captain of my Soul
-- W E Henley
Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it
Boldness has genius power and magic in it
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me
instead of looking within myself to see what was there
Belle Livingstone
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order
and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a
time
Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Novelist
The path to success is to take massive determined action
Anthony Robbins
All of the significant battles are waged within the self
Sheldon Kopp (1929- American psychologist)
Follow effective action with quiet reflection From the quiet reflection will come
even more effective action
~ Peter F Drucker
Dont be dismayed at good-byes
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again
And meeting again after moments or lifetimes
is certain for those who are friends
-Richard Bach
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual
sense of humor
Thomas W Higginson 1823-1911 Minister Abolitionist and Author
When performance exceeds ambition the overlap is called success
Cullen Hightower
Well done is better than well said
Benjamin Franklin
The first and the best victory is to conquer self
Plato (BC 427-347 Greek philosopher)
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Man is what he believes
-Anton Chekhov One half of life is luck the other half is discipline - and thats the important half
for without discipline you wouldnt know what to do with luck
Carl Zuckmeyer 1896-1977 Writer and Playwright
Try and fail but dont fail to try
~ Stephen Kaggwa
I believe that one of the greatest gifts we have been given is our imagination It
costs nothing to access is available 247 and is our doorway to freedom With
imagination we have inside of us the most amazing ability to change our state and
transform our life in a moment
~ Veronica Hay The world is full of abundance and opportunity but far too many people come to
the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a
steam shovel They expect little and as a result they get little
Ben Sweetland Author of I Will Blessed is the person who sees the need recognizes the responsibility and actively
becomes the answer
William A Ward
I am not a mechanism an assembly of various sections
And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly that I am ill
I am ill because of wounds to the soul to the deep emotional self
And the wounds to the soul take a long long time only time can help
And patience and a certain difficult repentance
Long difficult repentance realization on lifes mistake and the freeing of oneself
From the endless repetition of the mistake
Which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify
-D H Lawrence
Victory belongs to the most persevering
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Gratitude opens doors It paves the way to abundance and prosperity like nothing
else
It can line your pockets with gold and fill your bank account quicker than a New
York minute
Yet how many of you are living from a thankful heart each day
~Veronica Hay Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
Bruce Springsteen You gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we
really stop to look fear in the face You must do that which we think we cannot
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Social Activist and First Lady of the United States
Dont let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you Instead give to
yourself that which empowers you
Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)
―The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having
new eyes
~ Marcel Proust
―Then your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall spring up
quickly
~ Isaiah 588
―And your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music
from it or confused sounds
mdash Kahlil Gibran
In every life the most important change is self-change -- and in every situation
the principles are the same
- J Kingston Cowart
It takes courage to lead a life Any life
Erica Jong
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Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time
-Ken Wilber
Peoples tendency towards good is as waters tendency is to flow downhill
Mencius When I let go of what I am I become what I might be
~ Lao Tsu
The higher my rank the more humbly I behave The greater my power the less I
exercise it The richer my wealth the more I give away Thus I avoid respectively
envy and spite and misery
~ Sun Shu Ao
There is no greater happiness than freedom from worry and there is no greater
wealth than contentment
~Lao Tsu
Failure lies not in falling down Failure lies in not getting up
~ Chinese proverb
A meal however simple is a moment of intersection It is at once the most basic
the most fundamental of our lifes activities maintaining the life of our bodies
Shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion uniting people
deeply
~ Elise Boulding The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms
-- Socrates You are never going to get it all done - you just wont Rather you will find order
and peace in your workday if you accept it and then do one more thing Implement
a system that consistently shows you whats most critical at any moment what to
do after the critical and where to find everything else when you need to That
system is not hard - its quite simple to set up
Michael Linenberger From Master Your Workday Now Check out his book and bonuses
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Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have
just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together
into a life of action and purpose
Lance Armstrong 7-Time Winner of the Tour de France
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value
Albert Einstein
We have contributed each in the time allotted us our endeavors to render a
permanent blessing to our country
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826 Third American President)
If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost that is where they
should be Now put foundations under them
~ Henry David Thoreau
If you didnlsquot musterbate then you wouldnlsquot awfulize terribilize
catastrophize say ―I canlsquot stand it and put yourself down
If you only stuck with ―Ilsquod like very much to do well but I never
have to you wouldnlsquot then disturb yourself hellip musterbation is
evil and pernicious
- Albert Ellis
There are 2 theories to arguing with a womanneither works
-Will Rogers
Dont tell me that worry doesnt do any good said the over-worked executive I
know better The things I worry about never happen
-Cited in More ofThe Best of BITS amp PIECES
Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were
innocent Anger is natural Grief is appropriate Healing is mandatory Restoration
is possible
~ Jane Rubietta
Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can
~ Richard Bach
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Inspiration and genius--one and the same
~ Victor Hugo
It is important to acknowledge a mistake instantly correct it and learn from it
That literally turns a failure into a success Success is on the far side of failure
TJ Watson 1874-1956 Founder if IBM
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of
inspiration
~ George Eliot
Trust your hunches Theyre usually based on facts filed away just below the
conscious level
Dr Joyce Brothers Psychologist and Television Personality Every artist was first an amateur
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a
true master For this reason mastery demands all of a person
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Theoretical Physicist Philosopher and Author In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain
Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)
The more difficulties one has to encounter within and without the more
significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be
Horace Bushnell
If the sky falls hold up your hands
Spanish Proverb
Begin with the end in mind
Stephen Covey
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good try to use ordinary
situations
- Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825 German Novelist
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunities
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery it wouldnt seem so
wonderful
Michelangelo 1475-1564 Painter Sculptor and Architect
We only think when we are confronted with problems
John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)
Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can
~ Thomas Carlyle
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex It takes a touch of
genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction
~Albert Einstein
―Ecstasy is your very nature not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary
~Osho
The quieter you can become the more youre able to hear
~Chinese Proverb
The only real valuable thing is intuition
~ Albert Einstein
To be ecstatic is natural spontaneous It needs no effort to be ecstatic it needs
great effort to be miserable
~Osho
Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight
Anita DeFrantz Olympic Rower Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust
our old programs accordingly
Dr Ann Faraday
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I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world
I may not ever complete the last one
But I give myself to it
I have been circling for thousands of years
And I still dont know
Am I a falcon a storm or a great song
-Rilke
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to
make them come true
~ Leon J Suenes
Dont be a cynic and disconsolate preacher Dont bewail and moan Omit the
negative propositions Challenge us with incessant affirmatives Dont waste
yourself in rejection or bark against the bad but chant the beauty of the good
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once whether
youre ready or not to put it into action
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author
Fall seven times stand up eight
Japanese proverb
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars
or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven
to the human spirit
~ Helen Keller
Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends
Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet)
First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have
to do
Epictetus
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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to
make them come true
Leon J Suenes
If you would create something you must be something
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Stay together friends
Dont scatter and sleep
Our friendship is made
Of being awake
The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away weeping
That way it stays in the garden whereas another roundness rolls
through a dry riverbed looking for what it thinks it wants
Stay here quivering with each moment like a drop of mercury
-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives as parallel realities It is
always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend when we choose not
to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance
thats present love health family friends work the joys of nature and personal
pursuits that bring us pleasure the wasteland of illusion falls away and we
experience heaven on earth
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to
raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years
ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I
demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my
life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to
becoming
~ Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert) Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change
the world today
~ Wil Rose
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A bird doesnt sing because it has an answer it sings because it has a song
~ Maya Angelou
Great minds have purposes little minds have wishes Little minds are subdued by
misfortunes great minds rise above them
~ Washington Irving
Step by step I cant think of any other way of accomplishing anything
~ Michael Jordan
If you employed study thinking and planning time daily you could develop and use
the power that can change the course of your destiny
~ W Clement Stone
We are called to speak for the weak for the voiceless for victims of our nation
and for those it calls enemy for no document from human hands can make these
humans any less than our brothers
-Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Disposal of hazardous wastes is not the root problem Rather it is the root
symptom
-Hawken Paul There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the
things we do
Freya Stark
Try a little harder to be a little better
Gordon B Hinckley
If you love something and stick with it you will get phenomenal results
Bob Proctor
You can chain me you can torture me you can even destroy this body but you will
never imprison my mind
Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Political and Spiritual Leader
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Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and
triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead
Chinese Proverb Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs
Michael Levine
Nurture your mind with great thoughts To believe in the heroic makes heroes
Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881 British Prime Minister The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your
blueprint or plan Strategies are like recipes choose the right ingredients mix
them in the correct proportions and you will always produce the same predictable
results
~ Charles J Givens
More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our
lives that determine our destiny
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
Happy the manwoman who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his
wishes and his powers
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I hope that my achievements in life shall be these that I will have fought for what
was right and fair that I will have risked for that which mattered and that I will
have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better
place for what Ive done and who Ive been
~ C Hoppe
The vision that you glorify in your mind the ideal that you enthrone in your heart
this you will build your life by and this you will become
James Allen
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Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
Gandhi
There never was a time when in my opinion some way could not be found to
prevent the drawing of the sword
-General Grant To be a warrior
is to be genuine
in every moment of your life
-Chogyam Trungpa Im convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs
from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance
- Steve Jobs Regret for wasted time is more wasted time
Mason Cooley
Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow
Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)
More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our
lives that determine our destiny
Anthony Robbins Author and Speaker
Material possessions will rust away wear away or depreciate but your inner
resources character must never depreciate In seeking success you must also seek
fulfillment Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be
~ Elizabeth Dole Anything in life that we dont accept will simply make trouble for us until we make
peace with it
~ Shakti Gawain
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious
stupidity
-Dr Martin Luther King Jr
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Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobodys going to know
whether you did it or not
Oprah Winfrey Talk Show Host Producer and Philanthropist
If you must begin then go all the way because if you begin and quit the unfinished
business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time
Chogyam Trungpa
I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career I have lost almost 300 games
On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and I
missed I have failed over and over and over again in my life And thats precisely
why I succeedcc
~ Michael Jordan
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what
they most enjoy
~ Malcolm Forbes
Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future
Paul Boese Botanist
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons
determination
Tommy Lasorda (1927- American baseball manager) I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more
~ Dr Jonas Salk The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame
Rod Steiger
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul
~ Marcus Aurelius
The best way
to make your dreams come true
is to wake up
-Kabir
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You can do what you have to do and sometimes you can do it even better than you
think you can
Jimmy Carter (1924- American President (39th)) ―If you create an act you create a habit If you create a habit you create a
character If you create a character you create a destiny
ndash Andre Maurois They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them
feel
~ Carl W Buechner When you affirm big believe big and pray big putting faith into action big things
happen
Dr Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Preacher and Author You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are taken
out of your life
~ James G Bilkey
In every difficult situation is potential value Believe this then begin looking for it
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832 German poet dramatist novelist)
Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be
sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all around
It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want
in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us These
secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth helps you get clarity on
your real heart directives
-Sara Paddison
The best thing to spend on your children is your time
~ Louise Hart
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The best things come to those who wait
- Unknown
Ask five economists and youll get five different explanations six if one went to
Harvard
~ Edgar R Fiedler There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through
encouragement from someone else I dont care how great how famous or
successful a man or woman may be each hungers for applause
~ George M Adams Do not fear death fear the unlived life
Natalie Babbitt Leadership is no longer about your position Its now more about your passion for
excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title
Robin Sharma
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions have
all come back from defeat
Sam Snead (1912-2002 American golfer)
What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision
-Helen Keller The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement
Yet almost no one gets the encouragement they need
to grow to their full potential If everyone received the
encouragement they need to grow the genius in most
everyone would blossom and the world would produce
abundance beyond the wildest dreams We would have
more than one Einstein Edison Schweitzer Mother
Theresa Dr Salk and other great minds in a century
~Sidney Madwed
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Dont build your happiness on someone elses unhappiness
~ Richard Rose
―The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all
the world
~ Ramana Maharshi
Somewhere there is someone who dreams of your smile and finds in your presence
that life is worthwhile
So when you are lonely remember its true somebody somewhere is thinking of
you
~ Anon
If youre open to altering your plans a bit you might achieve even better results
than youd anticipated
Peggy McColl A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will
point out the means
William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)
Successful people dont do different things they just do things differently
- Unknown You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are
taken out of your life
James G Bilkey Author
Dreams do come true if we only wish hard enough You can have anything in life if
you will sacrifice everything else for it
James M Barrie (1860-1937 British playwright)
Seven blunders of the world
that lead to violence
wealth without work
pleasure without conscience
knowledge without character
commerce without morality
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science without humanity
worship without sacrifice
politics without principle
-Mahatma Gandhi
When people speak of prosperity they generally mean success and measure it in
terms of financial abundance There are books seminars and training sessions
designed to help individuals to be prosperous Clearly many are seeking the path to
prosperity Ironically when one is seeking prosperity the message they give to
themselves and the universe is that they do not have enough This is a scarcity
mentality and tends only to manifest more scarcity
~ Gwen Randall Young Money makes money and the money makes more money
~ Benjamin Franklin
BE the change you wish to see in the world
- Ghandhi The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched
They must be felt with the heart
~ Hellen Keller
Understanding does not cure evil but it is a definite help inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness
-Carl Jung
You are not powerless about anything
When you get a vision and then find
alignment with it you ARE powerful
And then amazing things begin to
happen around you
- Abraham-Hicks
Be kind whenever possible It is always possible
~ Dalai Lama
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A consistent soul believes in destiny a capricious one in chance
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881 British statesman Prime Minister)
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots
George Herbert (1593-1632 British metaphysical poet)
It is not the greatness of a mans means that makes him independent so much as
the smallness of his wants
William Cobbett (1762-1835 British journalist reformer)
If you desire many things many things will seem few
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American scientist publisher diplomat) Its the little things you do that can make a big difference What are you
attempting to accomplish What little thing can you do today that will make you
more effective You are probably only one step away from greatness
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker You may delay but time will not and lost time is never found again
~ Benjamin Franklin
Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction
~ Matthew Burton
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light
~ Helen Keller
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength
~ Sigmund Freud
Blessed are those that can give without remembering and take without
forgetting
~ Liz Bebesco Waiting is a trap There will always be reasons to wait
The truth is there are only two things in life reasons and results and reasons
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simply dont count
~ Dr Robert Anthony
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become
wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing The long
term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their
Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed
~ Srully Blotnick
If now there is something you
choose to experience in your life
do not want it -- choose it
Do you choose success in worldly
terms Do you choose more money
Good Then choose it Really
Fully Not half-heartedly
- Conversations with God Book 1
Its a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you
very often get it
-Somerset Maugham
A world of abundance surrounds you if only you will step up and claim it Make life
happen through you rather than letting it happen to you It will make all the
difference in the world
- Ralph Marston Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving
it
~ William Arthur Ward
We must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible
otherwise we would not continue to search
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Prosperity consciousness is the awareness that all of us have something of value
to offer and we all deserve to get paid for what we provide to others
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Peggy McColl Author of Viral Explosions Proven Techniques to Expand Explode or Ignite Your Business Or Brand Online Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying
~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it
- Lou Holtz Procrastination is opportunitys natural assassin
~ Victor Kiam Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough
- Og Mandino 1923-1996 American Motivational Author and Speaker When you judge others you do not define them you define yourself
~ Earl Nightingale
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly
~ Richard Bach
If you tell the truth you dont have to remember anything
-Mark Twain
The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity
belonging to them
William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions
have all come back from defeat
Sam Snead 1912-2002 Golfer Faith is the assurance of things hoped for
- Unknown
The mediocre teacher tells The good teacher explains The superior teacher
demonstrates The great teacher inspires
~ William A Ward
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Never complain and never explain
~ --Benjamin Disraeli
Bless a thing and it will bless you Curse it and it will curse you If you bless a
situation it has no power to hurt you
Emmet Fox 1886-1951 Spiritual Leader Man alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man
alone can dream and make his dreams come true
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970 American speaker author Think And Grow Rich) Without AMBITION one starts nothing Without WORK one finishes nothing
The prize will NOT be sent to you You have to WIN it
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please
everyone
- Bill Cosby What we leave behind is not engraved in stone monuments but woven into the lives
of others
~ Pericles The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of
being unwanted
~ Mother Teresa (1910-1997 Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)
Tough times never last Tough people do
-Robert Schuller
Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions
- Eric Butterworth
A fellow at one of my workshops confessed For years I was so miserable that I
prayed to God daily to let me wake up as happy as my dog I went home and
thought about it Am I as happy as my dog Hmmmm
~ Alan Cohen
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of
your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the
unknown
Denis Waitley Author and Speaker
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us
William Feather (1888-19 American writer businessman )
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow but only
empties today of its strength
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892 Preacher
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win by fearing to
attempt
William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British poet playwright actor)
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of
your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the
unknown
Denis Waitley (1933- American author speaker trainer peak performance expert)
Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as
it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong
is simply your own false imagination Thats all
~Robert Adams
How many ideas have there been in history that were unthinkable ten years
before they appeared
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Life in itself is an empty canvas it becomes whatsoever you paint on it You can
paint misery you can paint bliss This freedom is your glory
~Osho
―Cease trying to work everything out with your minds it will get you nowhere Live
instead by intuition and inspiration let your whole life become a revelation
~Eileen Caddy
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People should appreciate ugliness because if it wasnt for ugliness beautiful
things wouldnt look beautiful
~ Sam Lau
No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig If
you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time Let it first
blossom then bear fruit then ripen
~Epictetus
You are the Self that perfect immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else
ever existed Nothing else will ever exist There is only one Self and you are That
Rejoice
~Robert Adams
Part of being a champ is acting like a champ You have to learn how to win and not
run away when you lose Everyone has bad stretches and real successes Either way
you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident
~ Nancy Kerrigan
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision
~ Muhammad Ali
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents works his tail off to
develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals
~ Larry Bird
Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love a gift to that person a
beautiful thing
-Mother Teresa
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end Its not a day when you
lounge around doing nothing its when youve had everything to do and youve done
it
-Lord Acton
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
- Walter Bagehot
Only the weak are cruel Gentleness can only be expected from the strong
~ Leo Buscaglia
If you are too busy to spend time with your children then you are busier than God
intended you to be
~ Rabbi Mendel Epstein
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Procrastination is the fear of success People procrastinate because they are
afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now Because
success is heavy carries a responsibility with it it is much easier to procrastinate
and live on the someday Ill philosophy
~ Denis Waitley
Happiness cannot come from without It must come from within
~ Helen Keller
I make occasional visits to reality But Im not a full- time resident
-Ashleigh Brilliant
People are like sticks of dynamite The power is on the inside but nothing happens
until the fuse gets lit
Mac Anderson Author Are you disappointed discouraged and discontented with your present level of
success Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status Do you want to
become a better and more beautiful person than you are today Would you like to
be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine
humility Then start dreaming Itlsquos possible You can become the person you have
always wanted to be
Robert H Schuller (1926- American minister author social leader)
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You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant
aspiration
- James Allen 1864-1912 Author of As A Man Thinketh
The man who has done his best has done everything
~ Charles Schwab Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can start from now
and make a brand new ending
~ Carl Bard
When I get ready to talk to people I spend two thirds of the time thinking what
they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 16th President of the United States Discontent is the first necessity of progress
Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)
You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how
youre going to live - now
- Joan Baez Singer Songwriter
Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as
it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong
is simply your own false imagination Thats all You are the Self that perfect
immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else ever existed Nothing else will
ever exist There is only one Self and you are That Rejoice
~Robert Adams If your dream is a big dream and if you want your life to work on the high level
that you say you do theres no way around doing the work it takes to get you
there
~ Joyce Chapman We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an
imperfect person perfectly
~ Sam Keen
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―A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe a part limited in time
and space He experiences himself his thoughts and feeling as something
separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness This
delusion is a kind of prison for us restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest to us Our task must be to free ourselves from
this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and
the whole of nature in its beauty
-- Albert Einstein
―Each contact with a human being is so rare so precious one should preserve it
- Anais Nin
―Only connect That was the whole of her sermon Only connect the prose and the
passion and both will be exalted and human love will be seen at its height Live in
fragments no longer Only connect
-- EM Forster
―Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the
self And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our
connectedness to others
-- Harriet Goldhor Lerner
―And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to
do the same As we are liberated from our fear our presence automatically
liberates others
-- Marianne Williamson
No no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like
waters and righteousness like a mighty stream
Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968 American Civil Rights leader Nobel Prize winner 964)
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a
very long time
~ Andre Gide (1869-1951 French author)
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Write down the thoughts of the moment Those that come unsought for are
commonly the most valuable
Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Philosopher Statesman Scientist and Author
A woman should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to
accomplish it Even if she fails again and again to accomplish her purpose (as she
necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will
be the measure of her true success and this will form a new starting point for
future power and triumph
~ James Allen
To be blind is bad but worse is to have eyes and not see
~ Helen Keller
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning
to see an imperfect person perfectly
` Sam Keen
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can
start from now and make a brand new ending
` Carl Bard Always make a total effort even when the odds are against you
Arnold Palmer (1929- American golfer)
Learning is finding out what you already know Doing is demonstrating that you
know it Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you You are
all learners doers teachers
Richard Bach (1936- American author)
Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day
Jenner Bruce 1949- American track athlete author speaker
Doubt whom you will but never yourself
John Christian Bovee (1820-1904 American author lawyer)
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When you give someone a book you dont give him just paper ink and glue You
give him the possibility of a whole new life
Christopher Morley 1890-1957 Novelist Journalist and Poet
Dont be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality If you can dream
it you can make it so
Belva Davis Award-Winning Journalist
The secret of mans being is not only to live but to have something to live for
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose
Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity and high purpose by itself is
utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Watch your thoughts they become words
Watch your words they become actions
Watch your actions they become habits
Watch your habits they become character
Watch your character it becomes your destiny
~ Frank Outlaw
Take good care of your future because thats where youre going to spend the
rest of your life
~ Charles F Kettering
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams
John Barrymore
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground
Stephen Covey
Its never too late to be what you might have been
George Elliot
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Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder
than anything we can say
Wilfred Peterson
True peace is not merely the absence of some negative force - tension confusion
or war it is the presence of some positive force - justice good will and
brotherhood
-Martin Luther King Jr
The important thing in this world is not where we stand but in what direction we
move
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing Action always
generates inspiration Inspiration seldom generates action
-Frank Tibolt
The only way to eliminate waris to love our children more than we hate our enemies
-Golda Meir
It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope
is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they
both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your
years
~ Abraham Lincoln
Hold your head high stick your chest out You can make it It gets dark
sometimes but morning comes Keep hope alive
~ Jesse Jackson
Set your sights high the higher the better Expect the most wonderful things to
happen not in the future but right now Realize that nothing is too good Allow
absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way
Eileen Caddy Author
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To understand the heart and mind of a person look not at what he has already
achieved but at what he aspires to do
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931 Lebanese poet novelist )
Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality
Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is
transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible
~Osho
What is the best thing about being 100 years old Lack of peer pressure
-Michael Pritchard
The more credit you give away the more will come back to you The more you help
others the more they will want to help you
~ Brian Tracy
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact
~ William James
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes Chance nature
compulsions habit reason passion desire
~ Aristotle When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth think of Algebra
-Will Rogers
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say Yes Ive got
dreams of course Ive got dreams Then they put the box away and bring it out
once in a while to look in it and yep theyre still there These are great dreams
but they never even get out of the box It takes an uncommon amount of guts to
put your dreams on the line to hold them up and say How good or how bad am I
Thats where courage comes in
~ Erma Bombeck
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You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really
stop to look fear in the face You must do the thing which you think you cannot
do
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you love the money will follow
Marsha Sinetar (American author To Build The Life You Want Create The Work You Love)
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement we must choose freedom and the
responsibility this entails
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998 American expert on love lecturer author)
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of
itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as
powerful as your desires unless you make them so
Marcia Wieder (American speaker trainer author)
I work every day -- or at least I force myself into my office or room I may get
nothing done but you dont earn bonuses without putting in time Nothing may
come for three months but you dont earn the fourth without it
Mordecai Richler (1931- Canadian writer)
If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation
by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in
which you are rendering it
Roger Babson 1875-1967 Statistician and Columnist Its simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about
what the other fellow is going to do
- John R Amos
All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas
~ Hakuin
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly
or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man
~Chang Tzu
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The important thing is not to stop questioning Curiosity has its own reason for
existing One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of
eternity of life of the marvelous structure of reality It is enough if one tries
merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day Never lose a holy
curiosity
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect
abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human
laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought
of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will
bring it into being
~Eileen Caddy
Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality
Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is
transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible
~Osho
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who
keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road
Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961 Statesman and Secretary-General of UN
Life is one massive challenge after another for everyone So you cant feel sorry
for yourself One real measure of you as a person is how much you can handle
without whining
~ Mike Brescia Author
We are each of us angels with only one wing And we can only fly by embracing each
other
-Luciano de Crescenzo
He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he
would like to have
~ Socrates
Quite often we change jobs friends and spouses instead of ourselves
~ Akbarali H Jetha
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame
~ Benjamin Franklin
You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where
your thoughts take you
- James Allen
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will
embrace for that day We cannot change our past
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way We cannot change
the inevitable The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have and that
is our attitude
- Charles Swindoll author
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others
- Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC
If you want your life to be more rewarding you have to change the way you think
- Oprah Winfrey
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless
- Mother Teresa
By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible
- Italian Proverb
Enthusiasm is the all-essential human jet propeller It is the driving force which
elevates people to miracle workers and creates endless energy the source of all
accomplishment
-Norman Vincent Peale
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends
you choose for you will become like them-
- W Clement Stone
Ones philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one
makes In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves The process
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never ends until we die And the choices we make are ultimately our own
responsibility
- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something that were
supposed to do
~ Richard Rose I love the name of honor more than I fear death
~ Julius Caesar
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future making it predictable
and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible
Hannah Arendt 1906-1975 Political Theorist
Man has no greater enemy than himself
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374 Italian poet humanist)
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety
-Aesop
You cannot tailor make your situation in life but you can tailor make your
attitudes to fit those situations
- Zig Ziglar speaker and author Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you
and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in
line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not
get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker The only people who never fail are those who never try
Ilka Chase (1905-1978 American author actor)
In truth you are spirit The body has been projected by the mind which itself
originates from Spirit If the wrong identification ceases there will be peace and
permanent indescribable bliss
~Ramana Maharshi
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I flow with loving gratitude for all my blessings today
- Zoe Jarboe
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be
~ Abraham Lincoln You are wealthy now with an abundance of what you are thinking about The world
is a creative engine and will create whatever you are really thinking Every thought
in your mind is a prayer about you no matter who the subject seems to be
~ Brad Jensen
A man who works with his hands is a laborer a man who works with his hands and
his brain is a craftsman but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his
heart is an artist
-Louis Nizer
When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score
John Enoch Powell (1912-1998 British statesman)
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get credit Try if
you can to belong to the first class there is far less competition
~ Dwight Morrow 1873-1931 Businessman Politician and Diplomat
Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt
conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything
~ St Ignatius Loyola Action is the real measure of intelligence
~ Napoleon Hill
Take the first step and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid But the
first essential is that you begin Once the battle is started all that is within and
without you will come to your assistance
~ Robert Collier
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You are what you are today because of the decisions and the choices YOU made
yesterday
~ Wayne Goonie
I have never seen a man who could do real work except under the stimulus of
encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom he is
working
Charles M Schwab (1862-1939 American industrialist businessman)
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can
- Danny Kaye (1913-1987) Entertainer A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in
spite of overwhelming obstacles
~ Christopher Reeve A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always
with the same person
~ Mignon McLaughlin
We learn from failure much more than from success we often discover what we
will do by finding our what we will not do and probably he who never made a
mistake never made a discovery
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904 Scottish author)
I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)
Life has indeed many ills but the mind that views every object in its most
cheering aspect and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good bears
within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote
Lydia H Sigourney 1791-1865 Poet
The Next Step
The first step needs action to start it
The last requires patience to end
So we question which ones most important
When we realize our dreams our best friend
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Well the answer is neither theyre equal
But the one that will help you win through
And connect what you start to the finish
Is the next step thats waiting for you
Lifes dreamers are great Goal Achievers
Their faith and persistence just blends
Into one awesome cocktail of knowledge
That whatever they want they can get
You see they never visualize failure
Its success that they see shining through
Its essential to start and to finish
But the next step is what you must do
Alison Wilson
Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you
and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in
line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not
get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker
There is no such thing as natural touch Touch is something you create by hitting
millions of golf balls
~ Lee Trevino
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation We do not act rightly because
we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted
rightly We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit
~ Aristotle
The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement If everyone received the
encouragement they need to grow the genius in most everyone would blossom and
the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams
~ Unkwown
I do not believe in miracles at least not defined in the conventional religious
manner as divine disruptions of the natural order But if a miracle is defined as an
infinitely improbable phenomenon then our existence is a miracle which no theory
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natural or supernatural will ever explain
-John Horgan
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that with nine women
pregnant you can get a baby in a month
--Wernher von Braun
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never
find out
~ Frank A Clark
You are what you are today because of the decisions and the
choices YOU made yesterday
~ Revt Wayne Goonie
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do
a little
~ Edmund Burke
We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something
that were supposed to do
~ Richard Rose
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small
people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become
great
- Mark Twain
Rich and poor are first created in the mind
A poor man asks How much will it COST me
A rich man asks How much will it MAKE me
Which one are you
~ Bryan Kumar
If you think you can do something that you cannot the belief itself prevents you
from accomplishing the task either because you never try it in the first place or
because you have block yourself by your belief
-Deena Zalkind Spear
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)
Character is doing whats right when nobodys looking
- J C Watts Jr Politician
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people
always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great
Mark Twain 1835-1910 Humorist and Writer
We are all salesmen every day of our lives We are selling our ideas our plans our
enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact
~ Charles M Schwab It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition
- Vernon Howard Maturity begins when were content to feel were right about something without
feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong
Sydney J Harris 1917-1986 Syndicated Columnist
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum
- Frances Willard Educator
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given
~ Deepak Chopra Once power was considered a masculine attribute In fact power has no gender
~ Katherine Graham
An invasion of armies can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come
Victor Hugo
As the purse is emptied the heart is filled
Victor Hugo
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Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them
give way beneath her and yet sings knowing that she hath wings
Victor Hugo
Have no fear of robbers or murderers They are external dangers petty dangers
We should fear ourselves Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murders
The great dangers are within us Why worry about what threatens our heads or
purses Let us think instead of what threatens our souls
Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door closes a prison
Victor Hugo
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man
Victor Hugo Be all you can be and live a good life -- have fun with it
Tina Yothers
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace
Yes Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive inner peace does
not
-Eckhart Tolle
A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Physician and writer
The superior persons learning goes in his ear attaches to his heart expands to
the end of his limbs and is established in his actions
Even in his smallest word or slightest action he sets an example
~ Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) When I thought I couldnt go on I forced myself to keep going My success is
based on persistence not luck
Estee Lauder Entrepreneur
If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased
Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003 American actress writer)
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Make Your Mark Count A childs life is like a piece of paper on which every person
leaves a mark
- Chinese Proverb
Pain shared is lessened joy shared increased
~ Spider Robinson
The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits
~ Albert Einstein
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift let it be enthusiasm
Bruce Barton (1886-1967 American author advertising expert)
When you give your children knowledge you are telling them what you think That
is you are telling them what they are supposed to know what you want them to
understand is true
When you give your children wisdom you do not tell them what to know or what is
true but rather how to get to their own truth
-Neale Donald Walsch
I have found that if you love life life will love you back
- Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Musician
The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see
magic and beauty in them while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves
~ Kahlil Gibran
Practice is just as valuable as a sale The sale will make you a living the skill will
make you a fortune
~ Jim Rohn
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875 British author clergyman)
Dont cry because its over - smile because it happened
Author unknown
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Happiness is like a kiss You must share it to enjoy it
~ Bernard Meltzer Our life is what our thoughts make it
~ Marcus Aurelius The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best Therefore it tends to
become the best It takes the form or character of the best and will receive the
best
-- Wallace Wattles
Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings
-- Marianne Williamson
―And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present and can be none in
the future And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned
to beautiful results
mdash Walt Whitman When you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with your Self
When you lose touch with your Self you lose yourself in the world
Your innermost sense of Self of who you are is inseparable from stillness
This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form
Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks
With wisdom I see that I am nothing
With love I see that I am everything
Between these two my life turns
Nisargadatta Maharaj Man often becomes what he believes himself to be If I keep on saying to myself
that I cannot do a certain thing it is possible that I may end by really becoming
incapable of doing it On the contrary if I shall have the belief that I can do it I
shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the
beginning
Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Indian Nationalist Leader
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Strategies designed to avoid something eventually produce exactly the thing they
are trying to avoid
-Michael Greenwood and Peter Nunn
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but
are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults
seem insignificant
Charles A Cerami
If all you did was just look for things to appreciate you would live a joyous
spectacular life
~Abraham-Hicks
Three things in human life are important The first is to be kind The second is to
be kind And the third is to be kind
- Henry James (1843-1916) Writer The moment of enlightenment is when a persons dreams of possibilities become
images of probabilities
~ Vic Braden Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot
fly
~ Langston Hugues Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which
smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what win and
preserve the heart and secure comfort
Humphry Davy 1778-1829 Chemist
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900 German philosopher)
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 (1871-1940) Writer
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Some dream of doing great things while others stay awake and get on with it
~ Unknown With all your science can you tell how it is and whence it is that light comes into
the soul
-Hanry David Thoreau
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one but you wont come up
with a handful of mud either
- Leo Burnett (1891-1971) Advertising Executive
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the
only way we can leave the future open
Lillian Smith 1897-1966 Writer Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
~ Thomas A Edison Find something youre passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it
Julia Child (1912-2004 American gourmet cook author and television personality)
Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today
and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American
dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are
created equal
- Martin Luther King Jr ―Never let formal education get in the way of your learning
- Mark Twain
The path to success is to take massive determined action
~ Anthony Robbins For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the practice of tolerance ones enemy is the best teacher
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson When defeat comes accept it as a signal that
your plans are not sound rebuild those plans
and set sail once more toward your coveted goal
~ Napoleon Hill
We are all alike on the inside
Mark Twain (1835-1910 American humorist writer)
If you are going to do something carelessly it is better to give it up entirely
Russian Proverb
The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you
Smile and it smiles too
Herbert Samuels
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our
children
Charles R Swindoll
The important thing is not so much that every child should be
taught as that every child should be given the wish to learn
John Lubbock
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been
Mark Twain
It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere
Steve Goodier A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops
Henry Adams
It is only with the heart that one can see clearly for the most
essential things are invisible to the eye
~ Antoine de Sainte Exupery
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the
critical decisive hour Write it on your heart that every day is
the best day of the year
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier Be the living
expression of Gods kindness kindness in your face kindness in your eyes kindness
in your smile
- Mother Teresa
Its never too late to be who you might have been
- George EliotWriter
Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle
- Plato Philosopher
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition
- Vernon Howard
Ilsquove always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up
- Beverly Sills Opera Singer
Help others get ahead You will always stand taller with someone else on your
shoulders
- Bob Moawad Business Leader
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks
like work
Thomas Edison
Dream as if youll live forever
Live as if youll die tomorrow
~ James Dean
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 Author
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As we grow up we get sophisticated out of enchantment and become too smart
about the things that cause children to wonder
-Thomas Moore
People come out to see you perform and youve got to give them the best you have
within you The lives of most men are patchwork quilts Or at best one matching
outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations A lifetime of
training for just ten seconds
Jesse Owens (1913-1980 American Olympian)
Nothing is easy to the unwilling
- Nikki Giovanni Whatever course you have chosen for yourself it will not be a chore but an
adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving if your sights are set
far above the merely secure and mediocre
~David Sarnoff 1891-1971 Entrepreneur I dont know any other way to lead but by example
Don Shula (1930- American football coach) Flexible people never get bent out of shape
- Author Unknown The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record
of successful experiences behind you
~ William Jennings Bryan The important thing is this To be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we could become
~ Charles du Bois Success isnt permanent and failure isnt fatal
- Mike Ditka
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The different between us is that I count and you dont
-Huston Smith
I love strange choices Im always interested in people who depart from what is
expected of them and go into new territory
Cate Blanchett Actress Always do your best What you plant now you will harvest later
Og Mandino (1923-1996 American motivational author speaker wwogmandinocom ) Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the Universe is endlessly
bountiful Just put forth a clear enough request and everything that your heart
desires must come to you
~Shakti Gawain The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would
suffice to solve most of the worlds problems
~ Unknown The only real valuable thing is intuition
- Albert Einstein
Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve
lost a part of your life
~ Michael Leboeuf Fear is an insidious virus Given a breeding place in our minds it will eat away our
spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors
~ James F Bell
You cant base your life on other peoples expectations
Stevie Wonder Grammy Award Winning SingerSongwriter
An excuse is worse than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded
Alexander Pope (1688-1744 British poet critic translator)
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The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and
beginning the work of becoming yourself
- Anna Quindlen ―Exert your talents and distinguish yourself and donlsquot think of retiring from the
world until the world will be sorry that you retire
- Samuel Johnson Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of
the odds against them They make the impossible happen
~ Dr Robert Jarvik
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances
if there is any reaction both are transformed
-Carl Jung There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right between
fairly good and the best between mediocrity and superiority
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess
I wish you enough Hellos to get you through the final Goodbye
Bob Perks
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
~ William Shakespeare
It doesnt matter where you are coming from All that matters is where you are
going
~ Brian Tracy You need to be a somebody before you can be a nobody
-Brant Cortright
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old
Franz Kafka Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it
bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an
unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win and lose many
a battle
~ Annie Besant
I believe in taking a positive attitude toward the world My hope still is to leave
the world a little bit better than when I got here
Jim Henson 1936-1990 Muppets Creator Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life
Gita Bellin
Education is when you read the fine print Experience is what you get if you
dont
- Pete Seeger
Keep your thoughts positive because they become your words
Keep your words positive because they become your behaviors
Keep your behaviors positive because they become your habits
Keep your habits positive because they become your values
Keep your values positive because they become your destiny
-Gandhi
The challenge is not to manage time but to manage ourselves
Stephen Covey
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death It not only gives us
fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which
we hold our present being
~ William Hazlitt
Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith Having
faith in yourself in the process of change and in the new direction that change
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sets will reveal your own inner core of steel
Georgette Mosbacher Business Executive
Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life
Gita Bellin
Careful what you wish for Millions long for immortality who do not know what to
do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon
- Susan Ertz
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us What we have done for
others and the world remains and is immortal
Albert Pine
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us
We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant gorgeous talented fabulous Actually
who are you NOT to be You are a child of God Your playing small does not serve
the world There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont
feel insecure around you We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is
within us It is not just in some of us it is in everyone And as we let our own light
shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same As we are
liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others
~ Marianne Williamson
Focus on where we want to end up not on what we want to avoid
-Paula Underwood Spencer
A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact
that everything has happened for the best
Author Unknown
Change your thoughts and you change the world
- Harold R Mcalindon Today is yesterdays effect and tomorrows cause
~ Phillip Gribble
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find
he can do what he was afraid he couldnt do
~ Henry Ford
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist
- Paul Harvey
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes
up his mind to do We are all capable of greater things than we realize
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)
When everybody is looking for gold its a good time to be in the picks and shovels
business
~ Mark Twain
Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve
lost a part of your life
~ Michael Leboeuf
It is a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you
very often get it
~ W Somerset Maugham
Flatter me and I may not believe you Criticize me and I may not like you Ignore
me and I may not forgive you Encourage me and I will not forget you Love me and
I may be forced to love you
William Arthur Ward
―Trust yourself You know more than you think you do
Benjamin Spock
―A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise
after success
Anon
―Nine tenths of education is encouragement
Anatole Franc
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Maybe you cant change the whole world but if you have love in your heart you can
make small differences every day which really does change the world one life at a
time
Kristina Koncz Customer Experience Specialist
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 (American author The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness)
Truce is better than friction
- Charles Herguth
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them -- a desire a dream a vision
~ Muhammad Ali
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each mans
life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that
take our breath away
~ George Carlin
You can conquer almost any fear if you will make up your mind to do so For
remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind
Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Author and Speaker
Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others
They learn when they do which isnt often on their own the hard way
Robert Heinlein (1907-1988 American science fiction writer)
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the
expense of everybody else
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-Frederic Bastiat
Some think its holding on that makes one strong sometimes its letting go
- Sylvia Robinson We are responsible for what we are and whatever we wish ourselves to be we
have the power to make ourselves If what we are now has been the result of our
own past actions it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be
produced by our present actions so we have to know how to act
~ Swami Vivekananda
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and
make a new ending
~ Maria Robinson
We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves
Brian Tracy (1944- Canadian-born American trainer speaker author businessman)
Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow
- Slovakian Proverb
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know
peace
~Jimi Hendrix Do not wait the time will never be just right
Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your
command and better tools will be found as you go along
~ Napoleon Hill
When we lose the right to be different we lose the privilege to be free
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948 American jurist politician)
You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone which can become a
watered-down occasional hope that youll get to tomorrow Intention without
action is useless
Caroline Myss Author of Entering The Castle
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Plan ahead -- It wasnt raining when Noah built the ark
-Anononymous
Only you can be yourself
No one else is qualified for the job
- Shelby Collinge
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
~ Confucius
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom But in the last analysis our
only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves
~ Bernard M Baruch
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941 Indian poet philosopher)
Worry is the misuse of the imagination
- Dan Zadra
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded
Maya Angelou
Trust yourself Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your
life Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into
flames of achievement
~ Foster C McClellan There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal
experience has brought it home
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873 British philosopher economist)
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall
never sit in
-Greek proverb
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails
- Bertha Calloway
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Democracy arose from mens thinking that if they are equal in any respect they
are equal absolutely
~ Aristotle
Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can
~ Richard Bach
If the world seems cold to you kindle fires to warm it
~ Lucy Larcom All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their
gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible
Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer Physician Hotel Owner and founder of Success Magazine
A Friend is a treasure more precious than Gold For love shared is priceless and
never grows old
Author Unknown
Only that which cannot be taken away by death is real Everything else is unreal it
is made of the same stuff dreams are made of
~Osho
Personality can open doors but only character can keep them open
- Elmer G Leterman
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they
dont know when to quit Most men succeed because they are determined to
~ George Allen Coach
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what
lies within us
~ Walt Emerson Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by
employing it well Then youth will be happy old age without regret and life a
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beautiful success
Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 Novelist Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution
experience lifes deepest joy true fulfillment
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet enough trials to make you
strong enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy
-Anonymous
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the
things we do
- Freya Madeline Stark
We must become the change we want to see
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You know its not more knowledge its not more education its not more facts
that we need Its a better use of what we already have that we need to have You
have each and every one of you within your potential power right now to do a
wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be
respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure
Buddha (568-488 BC Indian born founder of Buddhism)
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change and all patterns alter
- Sharon Salzberg When we let freedom ring when we let it ring from every village and every
hamlet from every state and every city we will be able to speed up that day when
all of Gods children black men and white men Jews and Gentiles Protestants and
Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro
spiritual
Free at last Free at last
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Thank God Almighty we are free at last
~ Reverand Martin Luther King Jr All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them
~ Walt Disney Your own common sense should tell you that common sense alone is not enough
-Ashleigh Brilliant
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and
deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your
place
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
Know what counts
No matter what youve done for yourself or for humanity if you cant look back on
having given love and attention to your own family what have you really
accomplished
- Lee Iacocca
There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen
~ Frederick Faust There are those that look at things the way they are and ask why I dream of
things that never were and ask why not
~ Robert F Kennedy
There is nothing impossible to him who will try
~ Alexander the Great
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance Remember the greatest
failure is to not try Once you find something you love to do be the best at doing
it
Debbi Fields Founder of Mrs Fields Cookies
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left
undone
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars
~ Les Brown
Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been
told is what they cant do They dont know what they want because they dont
know whats available for them
~ Zig Ziglar
Accept that some days youre the pigeon and some days youre the statue
-Anonymous
Be life long or short its completeness depends on what it was lived for
- David Starr Jordan
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life
by altering his attitude
~ William James
It has never been and never will be easy work
But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road
built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
―No matter what anybody tells you words and ideas can change the world
~ John Keating (from the movie Dead Poets Society) hellip Every tomorrow has two handles We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887 American preacher orator writer) The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it
~ Chinese proverb
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Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
~ Thomas Edison
I am always doing things I cant do thats how I get to do them
~ Picasso When you maximize your talents youre on path on purpose on target When you
dont youre off path off purpose off target
Kevin Hall Author of Aspire
Comparisons of ones lot with others teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975 American novelist playwright)
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
While we have the gift of life it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of
us to die - whether it is our spirit our creativity or our glorious uniqueness
- Gilda Radner
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state
of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is
wounded trust impaired
~ Erik H Erikson
Dont go on discussing what a good person should be Just be one
Marcus Aurelius
Our wisdom comes from our experience and our experience comes from our
foolishness
Sacha Guitry
I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery than live in a
world so small that my mind could comprehend it
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Our first teacher is our own heart
Cheyenne proverb
Power coerces
Knowledge persuades
Love converts
Proverb
Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back but so they will kiss their
children and their childrens children
Noah Benshea
We read to know we are not alone
CS Lewis
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better
Albert Einstein
Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always makes
you less than you are
- Malcolm Forbes
When you know that youre capable of dealing with whatever comes you have the
only security the world has to offer
Harry Browne 1933-2006 Writer and Politician
You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never
be ableto repay you
- John Wooden
Freedom know this that every manwoman is free to choose his life and what hell
be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call
persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light in nameless ways be
good and kind but never force the human mind
~ William C Clegg
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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than
the one you are capable of living
~ Nelson Mandela to Marianne Williamson If it werent for the rocks in its bed the stream would have no song
-Carl Perkins
Whenever encountering a troublesome person do not identify him as being cruel
or stupid or rude or anything else like that Instead see him as a frightened
person
Vernon Howard 1918-1992 Author and Philosopher When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it
elsewhere
~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer) Live for the moment
If I have learnt anything it is that life forms no logical patterns It is haphazard
and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by for who knows whether any
of them will ever return
- Margo Fonteyn
Isnt it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings
and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of
tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a
stumbling block or stepping stone
~ Edgar Guest We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit
~ Aristotle
Whatever you can do or dream you can do begin it Boldness has genius power
and magic in it
~ Wolfgang von Goethe Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state Being in love shows a person who he should be ~ Anton Chekhov
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Follow the grain in your own wood
- Howard Thurman
It is said that if you are not living your dreams you are living your fears
~ Ghalil Professional Dreamer
―Dont ask what the world needs Ask what makes you come alive because what the
world needs is people who have come alive
- Harold Thurman
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing
do it with all your mind Put your whole soul to it Stamp it with your own
personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will
accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Essayist Philosopher and Poet
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)
For the most part fear is nothing but an illusion When you share it with someone
else it tends to disappear
- Marilyn C Barrick
The purpose of life is not to arrive safely at your death
- Robert Holden
When everything seems to be going against you remember that theairplane takes
off against the wind not with it
Henry Ford
There are two freedoms the false where a man is free to do what he likes the
true where he is free to do what he ought
~ Charles Kingsley Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one
could find fault with it
John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer)
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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
New ideas pass through three periods
It cant be done
It probably can be done but its not worth doing
I knew it was a good idea all along
-Arthur C Clarke A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you think creates your life all you have to do is ask yourself what you are
willing to accept into your life
~ Ghalil Author - Professional Dreamer
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and
deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your
place
~ Orison Swett Marden Well done is better than well said
~ Benjamin Franklin Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one
could find fault with it
John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer) If youre looking for perfection look in the mirror If you find it there expect it
elsewhere
Malcolm S Forbes (1919-1990 American publisher businessman) Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have
- H Jackson Brown Jr A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things
~ Chinese Proverb
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If we listened to our intellect wed never have a love affair Wed never have a
friendship Wed never go into business because wed be cynical Well thats
nonsense Youve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down
~ Ray Bradbury
Successful people decide how they are going to live they are not victims of
circumstance In good times or bad times they know where they are going and they
know that they are going to get there
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker
First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win
~ Mahatma Gandhi The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing
- Walt Disney 1901-1966 American Film ProducerDirectorAnimator
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas first make him your friend
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
Doubting everything or believing everything are two equally convenient solutions
both of which save us from thinking
-Jules Henri Poincareacute
Dont be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning Thats only the initial
impression The important thing is not to retreat you have to master yourself
Olga Korbut Olympic Gold Medallist Gymnast
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental
difference in someones life
- Sister Mary Rose McGeady All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future
task of the philosopher which is to solve the problem of value to determine the
true hierarchy of values
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him
~ Martin Luther King Dont concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal -
leave that completely to a power greater than yourself All you have to do is know
where youre going The answers will come to you of their own accord and at the
right time
Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Syndicated Radio Announcer and Author
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs
~ Gloria Steinem
Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today
and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American
dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are
created equal
~ Martin Luther King Jr
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you have imagined
David Thoreau Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do
that but the really great make you believe that you too can become great
~ Mark Twain Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure (values) and Ill tell
you their philosophy of life
~ Dale Carnegie To forgive is merely to remember ONLY the LOVING thoughts you gave in the
past and those that were given you ALL the rest must be forgotten
~ A Course In Miracles If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a
prophet
Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904-1991 Journalist and Writer
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us
~ Voltaire
We are all of us stars and we deserve to twinkle
~ Marilyn Monroe
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do
right
~ Nelson Mandela
It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope
is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they
both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society
~J Krishnamurti
Every situation properly perceived becomes an opportunity to heal
~ A Course in Miracles
The love that you withhold in life is the pain that you carry
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as
the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature
John D Rockefeller (1839-1937 American industrialist philanthropist founder Exxon)
All I ask is for an unfair advantage
~ WC Fields Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words Keep your
words positive because your words become your behaviors Keep your behaviors
positive because your behaviors become your habits Keep your habits positive
because your habits become your values Keep your values positive because your
values become your destiny
~Gandhi
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Your ego is creating obstacles Maya creating maya
~Babaji Step back Observe without judgment unconditional Watch now as obstacles
melt become no-thing Do this each time a block appears Step back and observe
without judgment
~Babaji
Everybody cannot be a painter a poet or a geniusthose are given qualities from
birth But everybody can be enlightened Enlightenment is the only thing the only
experience where everybody is equally capable And it does not depend on whether
you believe in God or not it depends only on one thingand that is a little taste (of
meditation) and suddenly you become confident that youre capable of it
~Osho There are no accidents or coincidences in this world Nothing is by chance
Everything you experience is a direct manifestation of where you focus your
attention and hold your vibration
~Jafree When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off
into the darkness of the unknown faith is knowing one of two things will happen
There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly
~ Barbara J Winter High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly make big decisions quickly and
move into action immediately Follow these principles and you can make your dreams
come true
Robert H Schuller Televangelist Pastor and Author
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you but seek out another to console and
you will find consolation
J C Macaulay
High Expectations are the key to everything
~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart
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Until you make peace with who you are youll never be content with what you
have
~ Doris Mortman You must constantly ask yourself these questions Who am I around What are
they doing to me What have they got me reading What have they got me saying
Where do they have me going What do they have me thinking And most
important what do they have me becoming Then ask yourself the big question Is
that okay Your life does not get better by chance it gets better by change
Jim Rohn 1930-2009 Author and Speaker
Believe it You CAN succeed at whatever you do as long as you simply take the
right ACTIONS
~ ER Haas CEO
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do The hard
part is doing it
~ General H Norman Schwarzkopf So let your deepest desires direct your aim Set your sights far above the
reasonable target The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire
that stirs the heart
Price Pritchett Author of You2
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1826-1977 British economist critic)
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or
better than themselves
~ Tryon Edwards
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high
and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it
~ Michelangelo Compared to what we ought to be we are only half awake We are making use of
only a small part of our physical and mental resources Stating the thing broadly
the human individual thus lives far within his limits He possesses power of various
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sorts which he habitually fails to use
William James (1842-1910 American psychologist professor author) People wait for opportunity to come along yet it is there every morning
~ Dennis the Menace A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow
~ George S Patton (1885-1945 American army general during World War II)
The last best fruit which comes to late perfection even in the kindliest soul is
tenderness toward the hard forbearance toward the unforbearing warmth toward
the cold philanthropy toward the misanthropic
~ Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825 German novelist)
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a
prophet
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991 Polish-born American journalist writer)
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than
by those given to us by others
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662 French scientist religious philosopher) Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty
~ John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)
Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect
abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human
laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought
of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will
bring it into being
~Eileen Caddy
Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we
believe And the only real wealth for any of us lies in our faith
~ Gordon B Hinckley
Desire is the Starting Point of All Achievement
~ - Napoleon Hill
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And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to
do the same
Nelson Mandela
The more we have the less we own
Meister Eckhart (1260-1326 German mystic)
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every
pebble in the road
Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887 Preacher and Abolitionist
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength Richard L Evans
The secret of Happiness is Freedom and the secret of Freedom Courage
~ Thucydides (Greek historian 460-404 BC)
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in
the mature than in the young
Paul McCartney SingerSongwriter I cant believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary
Lou Holtz (937- American football coach)
Dont let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he
was
~ Richard L Evans
To dream anything that you want to dream that is the beauty of the human mind
To do anything that you want to do that is the strength of the human will To trust
yourself to test your limits that is the courage to succeed
~ Bernard Edmonds
I find my greatest pleasure and so my reward in the work that precedes what the
world calls success
Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)
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It is good to act as if It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer
an act
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832 British sportsman writer)
Tell me what you want and Ill show you how to get it
~ Bob Proctor
One is very crazy when in love
~ Sigmund Freud
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed Always aim at
purifying your thoughts and everything will be well
Mahatma Gandhi
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything keep it
Mahatma Gandhi Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
Mahatma Gandhi
Hate the sin love the sinner
Mahatma Gandhi
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress
Mahatma Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress
Mahatma Gandhi
True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the
future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied
with what we have which is sufficient for he that is so wants nothing The great
blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach
~ Seneca 4 BC to 65 AD - Spanish Philosopher
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When you paint success pictures in your mind you initiate an inner process
whereby your attitudes hopes aspirations and enthusiasm are elevated in
response to an image of a more promising future Every person who aspires must
first sell themselves hope the promise of a better life
US Andersen 1917-1986 Author of The Magic In Your Mind
How far is far how high is high Well never know until we try
Song from the California Special Olympics If you take each challenge one step at a time with faith in every footstep your
strength and understanding will increase
~ James E Faust
What is your individual purpose What would you like to be able to say is your
legacy I believe that each of us wants to find our purpose in life our raison
detre or reason for being We need to have a motive to get out of bed in the
morning We want to feel alive and passionate about something Something that
makes a difference in the world We are not alone in this and yet many of us are
still searching for that purpose
~ Veronica Hay We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds
Warren Buffett (1930- American investment entrepreneur)
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy but its good too to
check up once in a while and make sure you havent lost the things money cant
buy
George Lorimer 1867-1937 Editor of Saturday Evening Post
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence Talent will not nothing is
more common than unsuccessful men with talent Genius will not unrewarded genius
is almost a proverb Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent
~ Calvin Coolidge
Desperation can be as powerful inspirer as genius
Benjamin Disraeli
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We read to know we are not alone
CS Lewis
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better
Albert Einstein The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the
road after you have shown him the way
Confucius
A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his
grandfather
Angie Papadakis
My father didnt tell me how to live he lived and let me watch him do it
Clarence B Kelland No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing
William Barclay
If you think youre lucky you are
Bobby Dodd
When youre safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when youre
having an adventure you wish you were safe at home
Thornton Wilder Obstacles dont have to stop you If you run into a wall dont turn around and give
up Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it
~ Michael Jordan In order to attain the impossible one must attempt the impossible
~ Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616 Spanish novelist dramatist poet)
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as
the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature
~ John D Rockefeller
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is
when men are afraid of the light
~ Plato
Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by action alone
Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 Philosopher and Author
Poverty is not a shame but the being ashamed of it is
English Proverb
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well
~ Unknown
We need to exert ourselves that much more and break out of the vicious cycle of
dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful those in command of
immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own
image
~ Nelson Mandela
High Expectations are the key to everything
~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart
Failures are expected by losers ignored by winners
~ Joe Gibbs Football Coach Most people live and die with their music still unplayed They never dare to try
Mary Kay Ash
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own
existence
Aristotle
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to
the eye
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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If A equals success then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z
with X being work Y play and Z keeping your mouth shut
~ Albert Einstein
Tomorrows battle is won during todays practice
Japanese Proverb
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days
What you can do or think you can do begin it For boldness has magic power and
genius in it
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Poet Novelist and Scientist
Forget about all the reasons why something may not work You only need to find
one good reason why it will
Dr Robert Anthony
No matter how busy you are you must take time to make the other person feel
important
Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001 American businesswoman founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)
I used to be a very serious not funny negative person Funny-cism Skepticism
Criticism and all Then I got introduced to the world of Positive Thinking Now Im
bipolar
~ Andy Dooley Spiritual Comedian and Professional Speaker
Your past is not your potential In any hour you can choose to liberate the future
Marilyn Ferguson (American writer) Everyone wants to be appreciated so if you appreciate someone dont keep it a
secret
~ Mary Kay Ash 1915-2001 Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds
and these magnets attract to us the forces the people the circumstances of life
which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts
~ Napoleon Hill
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You more often recognize your inadequacies rather than your strengths
~ James E Faust
I live by this credo Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness
instead of sadness Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations Even
in your darkest moment you usually can find something to laugh about if you try
hard enough
Red Skelton 1913-1997 Comedian
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth
George W Crane Some self-confronting questions
Where do I want to be at any given time
How am I going to get there
What do I have to do to get myself from where
I am to where I want to be
Whats the first small step I can take to get moving
~ George A Ford The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can
bribe the public with the publics money
- Alexis de Tocqueville The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race
~ Don Marquis At the height of laughter the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new
possibilities
-- Jean Houston Begin to weave and God will give you the thread
~ German Proverb If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who
are rich
John F Kennedy (1917-1963 35th American President)
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If you keep THINKING what you are thinking you will keep DOING what you are
doing and you will keep GETTING what you are getting
~ Dr Robert Anthony The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world
~ Lao-tzu Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to
let them know that you trust them
Booker T Washington 1856-1915 Educator and Writer ―Stress is the tax you pay for not taking 100 responsibility for your life
mdashDr Barnet Meltzer Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it
~ Irving Berlin It is by surmounting difficulties not by sinking under them that we discover our
fortitude
~ Hannah Webster Foster
Believing requires action
~ James E Faust
Dont do anything in practice that you wouldnt do in the game
George Halas (1895-1983 American football coach)
Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to reach for the
roof and land in the garbage
~ Savanna Skinner
Whatever you focus your intention on is what will show up in your life
Your consistent thoughts create your consistent results
~ Dr Robert Anthony
He who gains a victory over other men is strong but he who gains a victory over
himself is all powerful
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Lao-Tzu (BC 600- Chinese philosopher founder of Taoism) His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the
memory of a wrong
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great masters merit emulation not worship
-- Alan Cohen
Mirth is Gods medicine Everybody ought to bathe in it
-- Henry Ward Beecher
Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things but just look what they can do
when they stick together
~ anon
Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you
are and what you want
-- Alan Cohen
Life isnt about waiting for the storm to pass its about learning to dance in the
rain
~Anonymous
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call
failure is not the falling down but the staying down
Mary Pickford 1893-1979 Actress and Producer
Courage does not always roar Sometimes courage is that quiet voice at the end of
the day that saysI will try again tomorrow
-Mary Anne Radmacher
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act or thought or word that raises
us above ourselves
~ Arthur P Stanley
―You see things and say Whylsquo but I dream things and say Why notlsquo
- George Bernard Shaw
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―The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and
convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges
- Martin Luther King Jr
―Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do
that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great
- Mark Twain
―That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as
well
- Abraham Lincoln
―Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though
checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor
suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat
- Theodore Roosevelt
―Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm
- Winston Churchill
―I have not failed Ilsquove just found 10000 ways that wonlsquot work
- Thomas Edison If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun
--Katharine Hepburn
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees
problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems
~ Winston Churchill
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but
are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults
seem insignificant
Charles A Cerami Author
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If everyone on earth loved each other the earth would shine brighter than the
sun
-- Source unknown
As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again you are
merely a vague guest on a dark Earth
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So many worlds so much to do so little done such things to be
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy nothing can make a fool content
that is why most men are miserable
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer)
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live
~ Flora Whittemore 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 1880-1968 Author and Lecturer Where theres a will theres a way
English Proverb A manwoman without ambition is dead
A man with ambition but no love is dead
A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive
~Pearl Bailey We cant help everyone but everyone can help someone
~ Ronald Reagan
We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we
cannot
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
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Once you realize you dont need anything youre free to have whatever you want
- Ian Watson
Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy ~ Norman Vincent Peale Every goal every action every thought every feeling one experiences whether it
be consciously or unconsciously known is an attempt to increase ones level of
peace of mind
~ Sidney Madwed
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so For
remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind
Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Speaker and Author Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes
Chinese Proverb
―Focus your attention on your desire
not the situation that gave birth to your desire
mdashRich German Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone
and let your hand give in proportion to your purse
~ George Washington
Time I have only just a minute
Only sixty seconds in it
Forced upon me cant refuse it
Didnt seek it didnt choose it
But its up to me to use it
I must suffer if I lose it
Give account if I abuse it
Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it
~ Christine Warren
Do what you can with what you have where you are
~ Theodore Roosevelt
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With every adversity comes a seed of equal or greater opportunity
~ Napoleon Hill
Heart is merely another name for the Supreme Spirit because He is in all hearts
The entire Universe is condensed in the body and the entire body in the Heart
Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
―If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back then
you suffer Every moment is the most important moment of your life No future
time is better than now to let down your guard and love
~ David Deida
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for youll be criticized anyway Youll
be damned if you do and damned if you dont
~ Eleanor Roosevelt Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
~ John Wooden
One difference between successful people and all the rest is that successful
people take action
~ Bob Proctor Speaker and Author
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left Every
mans greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life
~ P W Litchfield ―There is a giant asleep within every man When the giant awakes miracles happen
~ Frederick Faust Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of
itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as
powerful as your desires unless you make them so
Marcia Wieder Author and Speaker
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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning by dreams that need
completion by pure love that needs expressing then we truly live life
~ Greg Anderson Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you
Never excuse yourself
~ Henry Ward Beecher There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge
- both poverty and riches are offspring of thought
~ Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich The person with a fixed goal a clear picture of his desire or an ideal always
before him causes it through repetition to be buried deeply in his subconscious
mind and is thus enabled thanks to its generative and sustaining power to realize
his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort Just pursue
the thought unceasingly Step by step you will achieve realization for all your
faculties and powers become directed to that end
~ Claude M Bristol Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake
~ Henry David Thoreau If opportunity doesnt knock build a door
~ Milton Berle Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am
not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise
not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our quality of life incidence
of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak It is born of strength and
understanding
-- Meher Baba Unworthiness is simply a case of mistaken identity
-- Alan Cohen
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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet
-- Mahatma Gandhi If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march
on
-- Stopford Brooke It is usually the imagination that is wounded first rather than the heart it being
much more sensitive
~ Henry David Thoreau You need not struggle for your good Your good flows to you naturally when you are
relaxed open and trusting
-- Alan Cohen If you dont love it you cant afford it
Alan Cohen
Ask for peace first and you will clearly see your next step
-- Alan Cohen I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited
and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts Namely the physical universe
-- Ken Jenkins Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional
~ Mark Sanborn Life isnt what you want it to be its what you make it become
~ Anthony Ryan
If you are very quiet you can hear the world applauding
--Source unknown
Do you remember how electrical currents and unseen waves were laughed at
The knowledge about man is still in its infancy
~ Albert Einstein
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Wherever you go go with all your heart
~ Confucius I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up Most people in this
business gave up and went on to other things If you simply didnt give up you
would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you
Harrison Ford Actor
The quality of your life is determined by the number of uncomfortable
conversations you are willing to have
~ Rich German
To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define
themselves As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate
influences of the culture and environment we grow up in we come to have beliefs
about the nature of being human These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of
our psychosomatic systems our minds and brains our nervous systems our
endocrine systems and even our blood and sinews We act speak and think
according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems
~ Jeremy W Hayward
A mans true wealth is the good he does in the world Mohammed (c570-c632
Mecca spiritual leader
Every man is the architect of his own fortune
~ Sallust
What is opportunity and when does it knock
It never knocks
You can wait a whole lifetime listening hoping and you will hear no knocking
None at all
You are opportunity and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny
You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity to pursue and seize opportunity as
you develop the strength of your personality and build a self-image with which you
are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing
~ Maxwell Maltz
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Today I would like to become the man my dog thinks I am
Jack Thomson Entrepreneur BE the change you want to see in the world
- Mahatma Gandhi
Leaders are made they are not born They are made by hard effort
which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile
~ Vince Lombardi To honor the spirit is to accept the opportunity for your healing and personal
evolution When you choose to assume radical personal responsibility knowing that
you are responsible for the effect external circumstances have on you you are
taking a stand for the power of your spiritual nature to run the show
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think Its really important that you feel good Because this feeling good is what goes
out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you So the
more you can feel good the more you will attract the things that help you feel
good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher
Joe Vitale Author and Speaker Just listen to the still voice within This is the mind to trust This is god
consciousness speaking not the ego that is seeking recognition
~Angela Walker
There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart If you pray it it will
change your life How does it begin
-- Matthew Anderson
For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin but there was
always some obstacle in the way Something had to be got through first some
unfinished business time still to be served a debt to be paid Then life would
begin At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life
~ Bette Howland
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power then the world will know
peace
Jimmy Hendrix There are two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the
credit Try to be in the first group there is less competition there
Indira Gandhi Its good to have money and all the things that money can buy but its good too to
make sure you havent lost the things that money cant buy George
Horace Lorimer When you take things for granted the things you are granted get taken
Phil Hennessy Self-confidence is a state of mind where you believe that you deserve the best
you are capable of achieving the best and furthermore you expect the best to
happen
--- Dr Barnet Meltzer Writing is good thinking is better Cleverness is good patience is better
~ Hermann Hesse
You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the
greatness you perceive in them is your own
-- Alan Cohen
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their
gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible
Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday If you do it right today
--Sheldon S Maye
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength
not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will
~ Vince Lombardi
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The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too
-- William Hutchinson Murray
Youve got to get up every morning with determination if youre going to
go to bed with satisfaction
-- George Horace Lorimer Faith is born of Definiteness of Purpose
Keep your mind on the things that you do want and off the things that you do not
want
~ Unknown You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals
George S Patton 1885-1945 American Army General
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have
thrown at him
~ David Brinkley
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough
~ Helen Keller
If what you did yesterday seems big you havent done anything
today
Lou Holtz
Dont wait for extraordinary opportunities Seize common occasions and make
them great Weak menwomen wait for opportunities strong menwomen make
them
~ Orison Swett Marden
The recognition you seek from others is really the recognition you seek from
yourself Give it to yourself and you wont need it from others
-- Alan Cohen Ninety percent of the population wish positive but think negative
~ Leslie Householder
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You are more likely to create success when you are relaxed about a result than
when you are uptight about it
-- Alan Cohen Embrace Change True success can be defined by your ability to adapt to
changing circumstances
-- Connie Sky Aim High The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for
what we could become
-- Charles Du Bos Dont ask for an easier life ask to be a stronger person
Shared by Kristen Goeser
Your consciousness is a powerful force for creating It determines the people you
are attracted to and the people who are attracted to you If you want to improve
your lot in life or the quality of your relationships choosing to accept personal
responsibility is the first and most important step
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise it is all
over Bolt up at once
-- Sir Walter Scott
You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you cant have it
- Dr Robert Anthony Live so that you wouldnt be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip
Will Rogers 1879-1935 Comedian and Actor
Everyone rides on the merry go round of life but very few ever take the chance
at the brass ring
-- Kevin Veitch
We gain internal freedom through external actions
- Ram Dass
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Everyone was born original but most people die copies
~ Unknown Without passion you dont have energy without energy you have nothing Nothing
great in the world has been accomplished without passion
~ Donald Trump When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened before us
~ Helen Keller
I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody
Bill Cosby Comedian Actor and Author Give up your identity as a seeker and become a finder Then everything you ever
sought will find you
-- Alan Cohen
The reason we put a lot of emphasis on action is because we do not understand the
power of our thought If you analyze it 90 percent of most peoples actions
are spent trying to compensate for inappropriate thought
~ Dr Robert Anthony Prosperity lets go the bridle
-- George Herbert
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered
heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed They won because they refused to
become discouraged by their defeats
Bertie Charles Forbes 1880-1954 Financial Journalist Author and Founder of Forbes Magazine He who jumps to conclusions falls to their death
-- Mark J Ottaviani Im not a believer in nor the advocate of miracles for the reason that I
have enough knowledge of nature to understand that nature never deviates from
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her established laws Her laws are simply so incomprehensible that they produce
what appears to be miracles
~ Napoleon Hill Learn to listen Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly
Frank Tyger
Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can as long as
ever you can
John Wesley Work like you dont need the money Love like youve never been hurt Dance like
nobody is watching
-- Mark Twain
You believe that a lover will bring you love but it is your love that will bring you a
lover
-- Alan Cohen
The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you
The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting The
more joyful you are the more Well-being flows to you
~Abraham-Hicks What nourishes you is not vitamins in food It is the joy you feel in eating it
-- Ramtha
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this
decide what you want
Ben Stein Attorney Author Actor and Commentator
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure to embrace
the new But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful There is
more security in the adventurous and exciting for in movement there is life and in
change there is power
mdashAlan Cohen
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Vision without action is a daydream Action without vision is a nightmare
-- Japanese Proverb
Success is the result of applying sound principles which align with universal laws
The Science of Success is a powerful road map to guarantee your personal
success
~ Brian Tracy
Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to
die
-- Alan Cohen
There are 3 things that are certain in life death taxes and change You cant
avoid change its mandatory progress however is optional
-- Bill R Good Jr
Surrender the illusion that anyone other than you has power or authority over
your life
Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either
openly before us or close to us
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You must be the change you want to see in the world
~ Gandhi
Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a
friendly level
~ Max L Forman
If you want your life to be a magnificent story then begin by realizing that you
are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page
-- Mark Houlahan
If you want to develop in profound and significant ways it is essential that you
build up a reservoir of spiritual and emotional conviction a source of boundless
freedom that will give you the energy to transcend the apparent limitations of
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your own emotional psychological and cultural experience By practicing
meditation with deadly seriousness you cultivate that freedom and conviction in
no-limitation as a reference point Thats the only reason to meditate in the
context of Evolutionary Enlightenment
mdash Andrew Cohen
If our actions stem from honesty kindness caring and vision then no matter
what the result of our efforts we have added something of value to our souls and
to the world
~ Joan Boysenko
Too often the opportunity knocks but by the time you push back the chain push
back the bolt unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm its too late
~ Rita Coolidge We are formed and molded by our thoughts
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them
~ Buddha
We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of the
soul
~ John OlsquoDonohue
No onelsquos past has to be a prison sentence Forgiveness provides the key to
acknowledge the past and move on When we can forgive we have less to be afraid
of
~ Dr Fred Luskin
Isnlsquot it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings
and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of
tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a
stumbling block or stepping stone
~ Edgar Guest
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly
~ Richard Bach
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I donlsquot wait for moods
You accomplish nothing if you do that Our mind must know it has got to get down
to work
~ Pearl S Buck
There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen
~ Fred Faust
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the
risk it took to bloom
~ Anais Nin
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear
~ Nelson Mandela
Itlsquos not about breaking the rules
It is about abandoning the concept of rules altogether
~ Paul Lemberg
Each moment of our life we either invoke or destroy our dreams
~ Stuart Wilde
Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts This is the
secret of success
Swami Sivananda
Whatever you do do it as totally as possible
Osho
I am not afraidhellipI was born to do this
~Joan of Arc
―There is nothing that you cannot be do or have
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
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―Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing
do it with all your might Put your whole soul into it Stamp it with your own
personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will
accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Success is never final Failure is never fatal It is courage that counts
~ Winston Churchill
What are you tolerating that would not be a part of your ideal day
-- Alan Cohen Trust yourself You know more than you think you do
-- Dr Benjamin Spock True friends and healers do not limit your options They expand them
-- Alan Cohen When it comes to staying young a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day
-- Marty Bucella Achievement seems to be connected with action Successful men and women keep
moving They make mistakes but they dont quit
Conrad Hilton 1887-1979 Founder of Hilton Hotels Successful people form the habit of doing what failures dont like to do They like
the results they get by doing what they dont necessarily enjoy
Earl Nightingale1921-1989 Author and Syndicated Radio Personality When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent
you are clear
Janet AttwoodAuthor of The Passion Test The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it
Chinese proverb
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by
changing the inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their
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lives
~ William James
Never look up to the people who have the painted-perfect lives because try as
they might they can never see beyond the canvas
~ Moira Hallsom
Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born
~ Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body
~ Pythagoras
If life gives you lemons make lemonade
~ Joan Collins
The only place where dreams are impossible is in your own mind
~ Emalie
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions But no man has
a right to be wrong in his facts
~ Bernard M Baruch
Begin to weave and God will give you the thread
~ German Proverb
No day in which you learn something is a complete loss
~ David Eddings
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we
are and what we can be igniting the circuits of our highest potential
-- Rusty Berkus
The optimist says we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears
this is true
-- Source Unknown
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If I had listened to the critics Id have died drunk in the gutter
-- Chekov
Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice It is not a thing to be
waited for it is a thing to be achieved
-- Jeremy Kitson
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental
difference in someones life
- Sister Mary Rose McGeady
One never knows what each day is going to bring The important thing is to be
open and ready for it
- Henry Moore
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in
the same individual
- Arthur Koestler
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it
- Lou Holtz Motivation is like food for the brain You cannot get enough in one sitting It needs continual and
regular top ups
~ Peter Davies
Dont tell me how hard you work
Tell me how much you get done
~ James Ling
Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures
dont like to do
~ Albert Gray
―There is a science of getting rich and it is an exact science like algebra or arithmetic There
are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches and once these laws are learned
and obeyed by anyone that person will get rich with mathematical certainty ~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
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―Everything you want should be yours the type of work you want the relationships you need
the social mental and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled the money
you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you and any requirement that you may (or
may not) have for achievement or service to others If you donlsquot aim for it all youlsquoll never get it
all To aim for it requires that you know what you want ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle ―Eliminate the word impossible from your thinking and speaking vocabularies Impossible is a
failure word The thought ―Itlsquos impossible sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove
youlsquore right ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in accomplishment Big in
income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right now to discover how to make your
thinking make magic for you Start out with this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli ―Life
is too short to be little ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―If you have a big problem in your life all that means is that you are being a small person ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind ―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo for success
nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make much of a difference ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you If God gives you a bucket of fish you
have to distribute those fish If you donlsquot theylsquore going to rot attract a bunch of flies and
start stinking up your soul ~ Russell Simmons from Do You ―In my experience therelsquos only one thing that will always steer you toward success Thatlsquos to
have a vision and to stick with ithellip Once I have a vision for a new venture Ilsquom going to ride that
vision until the wheels come off ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by changing the
inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their lives
~ William James
There is no courage without fear
~ Eddie Rickenbacher
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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make who would you call and what
would you say And why are you waiting
-- Stephen Levine
Remember we all stumble every one of us Thats why its a comfort to go hand in hand
~ Emily Kimbrough The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding
~ the Bible
The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives
~ Louise Hay
The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation
~ Comer Cotrell
Give it all youve got because you never know if theres going to be a next time
~ Danielle Ingrum
Dont try to force anything Let life be a deep let-go God opens millions of flowers everyday
without forcing their buds
~Osho
The definition of Insanity is Doing the Same Things Over and Over Again and Expecting Different
Results
~ Albert Einstein
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us This little treasure
has great great powers and I would say we only have learnt a very very small part of what it can
do
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work
~ John G Pollard
Vacation is a state of mind not an action
-- Alan Cohen
Whatever games are played with us we must play no games with ourselves
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Desperation does not recognize your power to choose
-- Alan Cohen
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When people talk listen completely Most people never listen
-- Ernest Hemingway
Heaven is gained or lost not by dramatic deeds but by the simple of acts of daily living
-- Alan Cohen
There is only one voice worth listening to
--Alan Cohen Reverie is not a mind vacuum It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul
--Gaston Bachelard
Why get rich quick when you can be rich now
-- Alan Cohen
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure
-- Joseph Campbell
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes
-- Henry Kaiser
Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of
another
Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister
When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent you are clear
Janet Attwood Author of The Passion Test
New peace harmony and power fill your relationships when you practice radical personal
responsibility Through it you enter a more refined sphere of relating that enhances your life and
accelerates the realization of your ultimate spiritual self Practicing radical personal responsibility
forever changes the way you approach and resolve conflict
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The Cure for the Common Upset (p 10)
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and
discomfort We spend enormous energy denying our insecurity fighting pain death and loss and
hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature
- Jack Kornfield A Path with Heart
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Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am not aware of
any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has
a greater impact on our quality of life incidence of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant they is a fuel in us which needs
to be ignited with sparks
Johann Gottfried Von Herder
Energy is the essence of life Every day you decide how youre going to use it by
knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal and by maintaining
focus
-Oprah Winfrey
The acquisition of wealth is no longer a driving force in the 24th century We
strive to better ourselves and the rest of humanity
-- From the movie Star Trek Insurrection
―You cannot exercise much power without gratitude for it is gratitude that keeps
you connected with Power
~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
―To do things in a way you want to do them you will have to acquire the ability to
think the way you want to think this is the first step toward getting rich
~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
―There are three crucial dimensions to your explanatory style permanence
pervasiveness and personalization
~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism
―Habits of thinking need not be forever One of the most significant findings in
psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they
think
~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism
―Action always beats inaction ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
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―Itlsquos not enough to be in the right place at the right time You have to be the right person in the
right place at the right time ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Every thought vibrates every thought radiates a signal and every thought
attracts a matching signal back We call that process the Law of Attraction The
Law of Attraction says That which is like unto itself is drawn And so you might
see the powerful Law of Attraction as a sort of Universal Manager that sees to it
that all thoughts that match one another line up
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
―It is our desire that you become one who is happy with that which you are and
with that which you havemdashwhile at the same time being eager for more That is the
optimal creative vantage point To stand on the brink of what is coming feeling
eager optimistic anticipationmdashwith no feelings of impatience doubt or
unworthiness hindering the receiving of itmdashthat is the Science of Deliberate
Creation at its best
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
―As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around you come to see that every
perceived problem appearing ―out there is really nothing more than a
misperception within your own thinking
~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is
―The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is
When the mind is perfectly clear what is is what we want
~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself You must be
able to sustain yourself against staggering blows There is no code of conduct to
help beginners That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner
drive go much further than people with vastly superior talent
Sophia Loren Actress
And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your
years
-- Abraham Lincoln
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Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by
holding grudges harboring resentments and nursing unhealed wounds It is
rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to
understand and accept other people and ourselves
~ Sidney and Suzanne Simon
Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity
Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Poet and Physiognomist People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do
things When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success
Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Speaker and Author Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to
believe in me
Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author
With love in you your only need is to extend it
-- A Course in Miracles
Just because it ended doesnt mean it failed
-- Alan Cohen
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find
it
-- George Moore
Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality
-- Alan Cohen
Our biggest problems cannot be resolved They must be outgrown
-- Carl Jung
True prayer penetrates beyond hope and establishes itself in knowing
-- Alan Cohen
So we see to play successfully the game of life we must train the imaging faculty
A person with an imaging faculty trained to image only good brings into his life
every righteous desire of his heart - health wealth love friends perfect self-
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expression his highest ideals
mdash Florence Scovel Shinn
Dont ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it
Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
mdashHoward Thurman
To the degree were not living our dreams our comfort zone has more control of
us than we have over ourselves
-- Peter McWilliams
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams
-- Doug Ivester (President of Coca Cola)
It is not length of life but depth of life
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them but
to reveal their own
-- Author Unknown
A free lunch is only found in mousetraps
-- John Capuzzi
If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you dont you
have achieved half your failure
-- David Ambrose
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesnt lie in not reaching your
goal The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach It isnt a calamity to die with
dreams unfulfilled but it is a calamity not to dream It is not a disaster to be
unable to capture your ideal but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture It is
not a disgrace not to reach the stars but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach
for Not failure but low aim is a sin
~ Benjamin E Mayes
True success is a state of mindThis mindset is the heart and soul of successful
entrepreneurial enterprise You cant get started without it and you cant make a
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business wildly profitable if you dont get it
~ Unknown
Traditional education will make you a living self-education will make you a
fortune
~ Jim Rohn One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests
~ John Stuart Mill
Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different Rather than wasting
time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we dont have what we
want we can start to pursue other ways to get it
~ Greg Anderson
When you confront a problem you begin to solve it
~ Rudy Guilliani ―Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential And to
do that I insist you throw caution at the wind ignore the pleas of parents
coaches spouses and bosses to be realisticlsquo Realistic people do not accomplish
extraordinary things because the odds of success stymie them The best
performers ignore the odds I will show that instead of limiting themselves to
whatlsquos probable the best will pursue the heart-pounding exciting really big
difference-making dreamsmdashso long as catching them might be possible
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―To be sure great performers are well trained experienced smart and in some
cases divinely talented But the way their brains work during a performance is a
lot more like a squirrellsquos than like Einsteinlsquos Like squirrels the best in every
business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilitiesmdashthey
flat out trust their skills which is why we call this high-performance state of mind
the ―Trusting Mindset Routine access to the Trusting Mindset is what separates
great performers from the rest of the pack
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―In every forest on every farm in every orchard on earth itlsquos whatlsquos under the
ground that creates whatlsquos above the ground Thatlsquos why placing your attention on
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the fruits that you have already grown is futile You cannot change the fruits that
are already hanging on the tree You can however change tomorrowlsquos fruits But to
do so you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Believe that you are the one who creates your success that you are the one who
creates your mediocrity and that you are the one creating your struggle around
money and success
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―8020 thinking requires and with practice enables us to spot the few really important things
that are happening and ignore the mass of unimportant things It teaches us to see the wood
for the trees ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle
―The few things that work fantastically well should be identified cultivated nurtured and
multiplied
~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle
―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a journey The
master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after year The master is the one
who is willing to try and fail and try again for as long as he or she lives ~ George Leonard from Mastery
―Whenever you feel shortlsquo or in needlsquo of something give what you want first and it will come
back in buckets That is true for money a smile love friendship I know it is often the last
thing a person may want to do but it has always worked for me I just trust that the principle
of reciprocity is true and I give what I want ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―One dad would sayThe love of money is the root of all evillsquo The other The lack of money is
the root of all evillsquo ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall every step we
take just gets us to the wrong place faster
Stephen Covey
Becoming a star may not be in your destiny but being the best
that you can be is a goal you can set for yourselves
Bryan Lindsay
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Be yourself Who else is better qualified
Frank J Giblin II
Do not learn from your mistakes learn from the mistakes of others
to that you do not make any
Sean Karsten
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower
Shigenori Kameoka
Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to believe in me
Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author
Upsets always contain the gift of learning except most people have never learned how to unwrap
the package
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is
causing anxiety
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970 British philosopher mathematician essayist) Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes
Chinese Proverb
We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we cannot
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
Dont measure yourself by what you have accomplished but by what you should have accomplished
with your ability
John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)
Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty
John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)
Something good is already happening Can you discover it
-- Alan Cohen
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if theyve got a second Give your
dreams all youve got and youll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you
William James 1842-1910 Philosopher and Author
Out of suffering comes creativity You cannot spell painting without pain
-- John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun
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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the
future are not as real but rather more real than the present
- Alan Watts
Boldness has genius power and magic in it Begin it now
~ Goethe
―In the heart of Emptiness there is a mysterious impulse mysterious because
there is actually nothing in the heart of Emptiness (for there is nothing in
Emptiness period) Yet there it is this mysterious impulse the impulse to hellip
create To sing to shine to radiate to send forth reach out and celebrate to
sing and shout and walk about to effervesce and bubble over this mysterious
exuberance in the heart of Emptiness
~ Ken Wilber from One Taste July 31
―Evolution goes beyond what went before but because it must embrace what went
before then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus it has an inherent
directionality a secret impulse toward increasing depth increasing intrinsic value
increasing consciousness In order for evolution to move at all it must move in
those directionsmdashtherelsquos no place else for it to go
~ Ken Wilber from A Brief History of Everything
The secret of being boring is to say everything
- Voltaire 1694-1778 French Writer and Philosopher
―Donlsquot let what you canlsquot do stop you from what you can do
- John Wooden
―You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the
shore
- Christopher Columbus
―Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
- Confucius
―A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed
- Henrik Ibsen
―It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities
- JK Rowling
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―If you are going through hell keep going
- Winston Churchill
―Yesterday is history Tomorrow is a mystery Today Today is a gift Thatlsquos why
we call it the present
- B Olatunji
―To live is the rarest thing in the world Most people exist thatlsquos all
- Oscar Wilde
―You donlsquot get to choose how you are going to die Or when You can only decide how
you are going to live Now
- Joan Baez
―When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us
- Helen Keller
―Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limited Imagination
encircles the world
- Albert Einstein
―If you want to be happy be
- Leo Tolstoy
―Always do right This will gratify some people and astonish the rest
- Mark Twain
―We must be the change we want to see
- Gandhi
―The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most I can better trust those
who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to
enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity
- Ulysses S Grant
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―Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting
- Elizabeth Bibesco
―The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort but
where he stands at times of conflict and controversy
- Martin Luther King Jr
―Begin doing what you want to do now We are not living in eternity We have only
this moment sparkling like a star in our hand ndash and melting like a snow flake
- MB Ray
―I shall pass through this life but once Any good therefore that I can do let me
do it now Let me not defer or neglect it For I shall never pass this way again
- Etienne de Grellet
―This above all To your own self be true
- William Shakespeare
―To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make
you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight
and never stop fighting
- EE Cummings
―In three words I can sum up what Ilsquove learned about life It goes on
- Robert Frost
―Imagine
- John Lennon
You can if you think you can
George Reeves
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile
achievement
Henry Ford 1863-1947 Industrialist
No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself
-- Conrado I Generoso
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When I am delivering my very best then that is when I feel successful
~ Art Fettig
The only limitations you will ever have are the ones you put on yourself
~ Kristinna Habashy
The secret of manwomans being is not only
to live but to have something to live for
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
To hell with circumstances I create opportunities
~ Bruce Lee
Simplicity is making the journey of this life
with just baggage enough
~ Charles Dudley Warner
I dont think theres any such thing as setting your goals too high The higher you
set your goals the more you are going to work If you dont reach them then its
okay just as long as you set it and then give 100 of yourself
~ Dan Jansen Speed Skater
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the circle of Creation
is completed inside us the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal
everything in sight
~ Michael Bridge
Youlsquore darn tootinlsquo Ilsquom going to bring out the best in you You are the best
― Maureen Coleman middle school teacher
Truth is rarely writ in ink It lives in nature
-- Martin H Fischer
Before planning where you want to go decide who you want to be
-- Alan Cohen
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day wisdom consists in not
exceeding the limit
-- Elbert Hubbard
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere
-- Alan Cohen
When the Japanese mend broken objects they fill the cracks with gold They
believe that when somethings suffered damage and has a history it becomes more
beautiful
-- Barbara Bloom
Efficiency without love is not really efficient
-- Alan Cohen
The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively
-- A Course in Miracles
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than
any other one thing
Laura Ingalls Wilder 1867-1957 Author
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as
few as there are any other great artists It might even be the greatest of the arts
since the medium is the human mind and spirit
John Steinbeck 1902-1968 Writer and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Be careful what you spend your day touching because it will shape your mind your
body and your heart
Sam Keen Speaker and Author
I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in
the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he has imagined he will
meet with success unexpected in common hours
Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Writer and Poet
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out
― Michael Burke
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Turn frustration into fascination
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
Money is not the source of life It is an expression or by-product of doing what
brings you life
-- Alan Cohen
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but
sand the angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are gone
- George Elliot
Proceed when clear
-- Alan Cohen
Slow down and enjoy life Its not only the scenery you miss by going too fast --
you also miss the sense of where you are going and why
Eddie Cantor
Life is here to enjoy The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness When it
appears otherwise you are off the path of destiny Look at your life and ask
What do I need to change to choose in favor of my passions
Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life Be happy now Dont wait for something
outside of yourself to make you happy in the future Think how really precious is
the time you have to spend whether its at work or with your family Every minute
should be enjoyed and savored
Earl Nightingale
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life It turns what we have into enough and
more It turns denial into acceptance chaos into order confusion into clarity It
turns problems into gifts failures into success the unexpected into perfect
timing and mistakes into important events Gratitude makes sense of our past
brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow
Melodie Beattie Writer
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Devotion is commitment at a deep cellular level When you are devoted the
universe will align itself to give you what you desire
Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion
Action breeds confidence and courage If you want to conquer fear do not sit
home and think about it Go out and get busy
~ Dale Carnegie
The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all
the world
~Ramana Maharshi
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be
~Daniel J Boorstin
The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively
from his own resources
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire
not things we fear
~ Brian Tracy
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game and no matter how
great your talent there is only one way to obtain it-work
~ Jack Nicklaus Golfer
A goal without a plan is merely a WISH without a HOPE
~ Unknown
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan in which we must
fervently believe and upon which we must vigorously act There is no other route
to success
~ Stephen A Brennan
Knowledge breeds doubt Wisdom births wonder
Alan Cohen
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When you decide what you want it has to manifestbut only at the level of your
belief
Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion
Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity
- John Dryden
It may make people feel more secure when everyone agrees with them but it
wont create a world made rich by the unique and diverse expressions of the human
soul
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
Choice is destinys soul mate
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Truth is a gem of many facets Each facet reflects the brilliance within and
without But the whole reveals a deeper more profound message than all the parts
by themselves
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
He who knows others is wise he who knows himself is enlightened
- Tao Te Ching
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to
our tasks
-- Helen Keller
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret
-- Ambrose Bierce
We must all suffer one of two things the pain of discipline or the pain of regret
or disappointment
-- Jim Rohn
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Many risks fail because they were not taken in time Too many risks are postponed
until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made This does not mean that one
should say Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead That is foolish and self-
destructive But dont sit back waiting for the perfect moment It almost never
comes
-- David Viscott Risking
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter
-- E E Cummings
Reflect upon your blessings of which every man has plenty not on your past
misfortunes of which all men have some
-- Charles Dickens
What the caterpillar calls the end the rest of the world calls a butterfly
-- Lao Tsu
Out of difficulties grow miracles
-- Jean De La Bruyere
Our patience will achieve more than our force
-- Edmund Burke
You must pay in the past to receive in the future
-- Taylor Simpson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what
lies within us
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why Why Not Why Not You Why Not Now
-- Aslan
To become a leader then you must become yourself become the maker of your
own life
--Warren G Bennis
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You have got to discover you what you do and trust it
Barbra Streisand
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the
circle of Creation is completed inside us the doors of our souls
fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight
Michael Bridge
Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean but the
ocean would be less without that missing drop
Mother Teresa
You dont just stumble into the future You create your own future
Roger Smith
Just dont give up on trying to do what you really want to do
Where there is love and inspiration I dont think you can go
wrong
Ella Fitzgerald
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot
do
Walter Bagehot
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser
John W Gardner
Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life
forever
Keri Russell
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while
so that we can see Life with a clearer view again
Alex Tan
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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine
inspiration
Marcus T Cicero
Youve got to follow your passion Youve got to figure out what
it is you love--who you really are And have the courage to do
that
Oprah Winfrey
Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love
mdashRich German
Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small
things brought together
- Vincent Van Gogh
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark The real tragedy is when
men are afraid of the light
-- Plato
If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being
most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of
persistence
Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway
Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right
stuff to turn our dreams into reality
~James Womack
No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn
-- Hal Borland
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge
of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams
- Les Brown
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on
We act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because
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of imagination
- Maxwell Maltz
There is a sleeping giant in you Release it Believe in yourself
~ Bob Proctor
Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste
neither time nor money but make the best use of both
-- Benjamin Franklin
When you talk to God thats prayer When God talks back its schizophrenia
-- Lily Tomlin
Work is not a substitute for love It is an avenue of loves expression
-- Alan Cohen
Look beyond peoplelsquos appearances
Look beyond the roles one plays and the mask they wear
Look deep into their eyes and peer into their soul
There you will find their true essence
There you will find your true essence
And that essence is love
mdashRich German
Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love
mdashRich German
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a
life spent doing nothing
George Bernard Shaw
Formula for success under promise and over deliver
Tom Peters
Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right things
Peter F Drucker
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Be the change that you want to see in the world
Mahatma Gandhi
Creating space is as important as filling it
-- Alan Cohen
Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words may guide you to the door of heaven but only silence opens it
-- Alan Cohen
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing
Bernard Shaw
Formula for success under promise and over deliver
Tom Peters
Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right
things
Peter F Drucker
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge
of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams
- Les Brown
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works onWe
act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because of
imagination
- Maxwell Maltz
No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn
-- Hal Borland
There is a sleeping giant in you
Release it Believe in yourself
~ Bob Proctor
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Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste
neither time nor money but make the best use of both
-- Benjamin Franklin
Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right
stuff to turn our dreams into reality
~James Womack
If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being
most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of
persistence
Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway
The best way to teach people is by telling a story
Jonathan Swift
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody else has thought
Kenneth Blanchard
All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it
-Samuel Butler
Happiness is like a cat If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you It will never
come
But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business youll find it rubbing
up against your legs and jumping into your lap
- William Bennett
The word impossible is only in the mind and not in the heart
- Sri Chinmoy
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another it is the only
means
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Physicist
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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone
And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone
Paul Tillich
Sometimes the cards we are dealt are not always fair However you must keep
smiling amp moving on
~ Tom Jackson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you
- Elbert Hubard
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends
with anyone else in the world
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Thus nature has no love for solitude and always leans as it were on some support
and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship
- Cicero
So it is life is actually made up of our choices We are the sum total of them and
if we hold to an attitude of love and thanksgiving for all the good things within our
grasp we may have what all ambitious people long for - success
Delma Neeley
Believe and your belief will create the fact
~ William James
The principle is competing against yourself
Its about self improvement about being better than you were the day before
~ Steve Young
All of us you your children your neighbors and their children are
everyday geniuses even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by
everyone Thats probably because school hasnt encouraged us to notice whats
hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself
~ Peter Kline
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If youll not settle for anything less than your best you will be amazed at what
you can accomplish in your lives
Vince Lombardi
Ya gotta put your behind in your past
Then youre ready for whatever comes next
~ Pumba The Lion King
Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become
~ James Allen
Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well what
causes sadness and what brings happiness what makes us suffer and what leads to
healing
~ Dean Ornish MD
Three components make an entrepreneur the person the ideaand the resources
to make it happen
~ Anita Roddick
What we can or cannot do what we consider possible or impossible is rarely a
function of our true capability It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who
we are
~ Anthony Robbins
Either Do or Do Not There is No Try
~ George Lucas
Theres a name for the magic that transforms lives connects dots moves
mountains and orchestrates coincidences that shock and astound Imagination
And theres a name for all that stops you in your tracks stirs fear spins wheels
and leaves one wondering Hey whats up with that Imagination
Careful where you point that thing
~ The Universe
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with
them
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is a passionate intuition
-William Wordsworth
Friendship is a sheltering tree
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision Vision is the perfume
of the mind
--Harriet Rubin
Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing
--Harriet Braiker
I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the
present can I act The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of
mental wellness
-Abraham Maslow 1908-1970 Psychologist
In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge
-Aristotle
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our
potential
Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister
The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you
settled for
Maureen Dowd Newspaper Columnist
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything
outside ourselves will affect us
Stephen R Covey Author and Speaker
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Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually
attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life
Christiane Northrup Medical Doctor and Author
We must learn to keep ourselves awake by an infinite expectation of the
dawn
-- Henry David Thoreau
You dont need to struggle to get your body to do or be what your spirit already is
-- Alan Cohen
One must steer not talk
-- Seneca
The more you quantify the less you qualify
-- Alan Cohen
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know Most are
born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly
-- Buckminster Fuller
Any act motivated by guilt does not assuage guilt but perpetuates it
-- Alan Cohen
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for
themselves
-- Peter McArthur
Be so good they cant ignore you
Steve Martin
Its kind of fun to do the impossible
Walt Disney
Its easy to make a buck Its a lot tougher to make a difference
Tom Brokaw
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When I hear somebody sigh Life is hard I am always tempted to
ask Compared to what
Sydney J Harris
In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing The worst
thing you can do is nothing
Sam Walton
I had to pick myself up and get on with it do it all over again only even better
this time
Theodore Roosevelt
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process
~ Jim Rohn
If you can imagine it you can achieve it If you can dream it you can become it
~ William Arthur Ward
There is much in the world to make us afraid There is much more in our faith to
make us unafraid
-- Cropp
Pray for essence rather than form and the form will be a perfect expression of
the essence
-- Alan Cohen
People who soar are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change
Charles R Swindoll Author and Pastor
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with
- Jim Rohn
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your
dreams
- Les Brown
Life is 10 of what happens to me and 90 of how I react to it
John Maxwell
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What you see depends on what youre looking for
Anon
Mind over matter If you dont mind it doesnt matter
-- Alan Cohen
When you are clear on want to how to shows up
-- Michael Neill
Quit struggling to make your body do or be what your spirit already is
-- Alan Cohen
Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation
-- Isaac Newton
Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Whatever you invest it
in will yield more of the same
-- Alan Cohen
When you find yourself stressed ask yourself one question Will this matter five
years from now If yes then do something about the situation If no then let it
go
Catherine Pulsifer Writer
Theres plenty of intelligence in the world but the courage to do things
differently is in short supply
Marilyn vos Savant Columnist Author and Lecturer
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced
by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas
a strong faith is strengthened by them
Viktor E Frankl 1905-1997 Holocaust Survivor and Author of Mans Search for
Meaning
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength
Richard L Evans
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You were not born a winner and you were not born a loser You are
what you make yourself be
Lou Holtz
Remember if you ever need a helping hand youll find one at the
end of your arm As you grow older you will discover that you
have two hands One for helping yourself the other for helping
others
Audrey Hepburn
Dont take life too seriously because youll never get out alive
Josh Shippe
Without hard work nothing grows but weeds
Gordon B Hinckley
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies
--Mother Teresa
Do what you can to show you care about other people and you will make our world
a better place
--Rosalynn Carter
Again and again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is
only a tough decision waiting to be made
--Robert H Schuller
If in our daily life we can smile if we can be peaceful and happy not only we but
everyone will profit from it This is the most basic kind of peace work
--Thich Nhat Hanh
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties
disappear and obstacles vanish into air
- John Quincy Adams
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win
~ GK Chesterton
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown for going
out I found was really going in
mdashJohn Muir 1913
To me itlsquos really so simple that life should be lived on the edge You
have to exercise rebellion To refuse to tape yourself to the rules
to refuse your own success to refuse to repeat yourself to see
every day every year every idea as a true challenge Then you will
live your life on the tightrope
mdashPhilippe Petit (star of the movie Man on Wire)
The first step to creating the lifestyle of your dreams is to simplify
your life
mdashRich German
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees
problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems
Winston Churchill
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you
have and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more
~ Robert Collier
Instead of waiting for someone to take you under their wing go out there and
find a good wing to climb under
~ Dave Thomas
If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself
~ Lord Chesterfield
The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable
competitive advantage
~ Arie de Geus
Human life is purely a matter of deciding whats important to you
-- Source unknown
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Determination and perseverance move the world thinking that others will do it
for you is a sure way to fail
Marva Collins Educator
All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them
~ Walt Disney
Everything that happens to you is self-created Whenever youre responding to
any situation whether its a sip of coffee or a traffic jam or a love note or
criticism from a boss or rainy weather youre in fact responding to a signal that
you generated within yourself
- Deepak Chopra
Relationships are not about intellect they are about feeling They require an
intelligence of the heart
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is
when adults are afraid of the light
- Plato
A good listener is someone who is curious open-minded and nonjudgmental A
good listener is not a know-it-all A good listener knows that truth often reveals
itself bit by bit much like putting together a jigsaw puzzle
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
Its the night that makes the dawning
Its the depths that make the heights
Its the roots that make the branches
Its the darkness that gives birth to Light
- Joel Heathcote
How you hear what someone says is determined by your interpretations and your
interpretations flow from your past This is very important to know especially if
you find that you overreact to what others say or habitually get your feelings hurt
Remember what someone said is not necessarily what you heard and what you
heard is not necessarily what they meant
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
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―Everything ndash a horse a vine ndash is created for some dutyhellipFor what task then
were you yourself created A manlsquos true delight is to do the things he was made
for
~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations
―Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts for the soul becomes dyed with the
color of its thoughts Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as for example
Where life is possible at all a right life is possible
~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations
―hellipEverything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of the human
freedomsmdashto choose onelsquos attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose
onelsquos own way
~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life
expected from us We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life and
instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by lifemdashdaily
and hourly Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation but in right
action and in right conduct Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to
find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly
sets for each individual
~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in lifehellip Therein he cannot be
replaced nor can his life be repeated Thus everyonelsquos task is as unique as is
his specific opportunity to implement it
~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―Ultimately man should not ask what the meaning of his life is but rather must
recognize that it is he who is asked In a word each man is questioned by life
and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life to life he can only
respond by being responsible
~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―History though shows us that the people who end up changing the world- the
great political social scientific technological artistic even sports
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revolutionaries- are always nuts until theylsquore right and then theylsquore geniuses
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement
―Great performers are by definition abnormal
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement
―We all aspire to mastery but the path is always long and sometimes rocky and
it promises no quick pay off So we look for other paths each of which attracts
a different person
~ George Leonard from Mastery
―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a
journey The master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after
year The master is the one who is willing to try and fail and try again for as
long as he or she lives
~ George Leonard from Mastery
At the heart of it mastery is practice Mastery is staying on the path
~ George Leonard from Mastery
―Comfort kills If your goal in life is to be comfortable I guarantee two things
First you will never be rich Second you will never be happy Happiness doesnlsquot
come from living a lukewarm life always wondering what could have been
Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up
to our fullest potential
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
―You can be a victim or you can be rich but you canlsquot be both Listen up Every
time and I mean every time you blame justify or complain you are slitting
your financial throat
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Herelsquos an equation I want you to remember for the rest of your life CZ = WZ
It means your ―comfort zone equals your ―wealth zone By expanding your
comfort zone you will expand the size of your income and wealth zone
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
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―We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we
wait forever before taking action
~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big
―Donlsquot put off until tomorrow what you can do today
~ Benjamin Franklin
―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in
accomplishment Big in income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right
now to discover how to make your thinking make magic for you Start out with
this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli Life is too short to be littlelsquo
~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big
―In the yogic tradition this principle of using intense effort to burn through
lifelsquos distractions is called Tapas Itlsquos another Sanskrit word roughly defined
as ―heat or ―essential energy The concept is that through a disciplined
approach to work and self-sacrifice Tapas will burn away the negativity that
separates us from God By working our hardest and happily enduring the
hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in
ourselves
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a ―hard
job That person will be eager to get started no matter what kind of work is in
front of her because she understands that shelsquos doing Godlsquos work And when
youlsquore working for God nothing is too hard
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo
for success nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make
much of a difference
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work
~ Vince Lombardi
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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than
your best
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The poor and the middle class work for money The rich have money work for
them
~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―We all have tremendous potential and we all are blessed with gifts Yet the
one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt It is not so
much the lack of technical information that holds us back but more the lack of
self-confidence
~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―Who will you have to become to achieve all you want
~ Tony Robbins
―You could say that I worked every minute of my life or you could say with
equal justice that I never worked a day I have always subscribed to the
expression ―Thank God itlsquos Friday because to me Friday means I can work for
the next two days without interruption
~ John Hope Franklin
―I do not believe that you should devote overly much effort to correcting your
weaknesses Rather I believe that the highest success in living and the deepest
emotional satisfaction comes from building and using your signature strengths
~ Martin Seligman from Authentic Happiness
When you begin to recognize that your own presence here in this world is part of
something infinitely bigger than yourself you feel a sense of obligation awakening
within youmdasha spiritually inspired soul-level moral imperative to evolve for the sake
of the future of the evolutionary process itself The way you respond to that
obligation and to that sense of cosmic responsibility is by demonstrating that the
process is profoundly positivemdashindeed the process is sacredmdashthrough your own
example through your own victory through your own tangible and unmistakable
higher development
~ Andrew Cohen
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Its the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief And once that belief
becomes a deep conviction things begin to happen
Claude M Bristol 1891-1951 Author of The Magic of Believing
We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in our
heads fear must be a head thing
Tom Payne Career Development Expert
I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody
Bill Cosby Actor and Comedian
If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year Today
should always be our most wonderful day
- Thomas Dreier Author
Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their
personnel If people believe in themselves its amazing
what they can accomplish
--Sam Walton
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the
aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker
--Helen Keller
Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either
advance or stay where you are
- Maxwell Maltz
Be curious not judgmental
-Walt Whitman
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it
-William James
All life is an experiment
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone
acknowledges who we are and what we can be igniting the circuits
of our highest potential
Rusty Berkus
Being considerate of others will take your children further in
life than any college degree
Marian Wright Edelman
It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit
it frankly and try another But above all try something
Franklin D Roosevelt
see without looking hear without listening breathe
without asking
W H Auden
Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways
you can as long as ever you can
John Wesley
Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to
reach for the roof and land in the garbage
Savanna Skinner
Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope
~ Josh Billings
Whats going on in the inside shows on the outside
~ Earl Nightingale
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life a good society
~ Confucius
Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have
just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together
into a life of action and purpose
~ Lance Armstrong
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions
~ Michael Josephson
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others
-- Cicero
Simplicity Purity Clarity
-- Alan Cohen
Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to God alone Laughs at
impossibilities And cries it shall be done
-- Charles Wesley
What is genius but the mind heart and art of God shining to the world through an
open window
-- Alan Cohen
Intuition tells you what not why
-- Source unknown
Changing the world is a natural result of inner peace not a substitute for it
-- Alan Cohen
Fortune sides with him who dares
~ Virgil
We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in
our heads fear must be a head thing
Tom Payne Career Development Expert
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you
mdashLewis Smedes Each of us has the power to make others more beautiful by our love
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst a transformer
in any situation any organization Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an
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entire loaf It requires vision initiative patience respect persistence courage
and faith to be a transforming leader
Stephen Covey
Courage is grace under pressure
~ Ernest Hemingway
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions All life is an experiment
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as Youre going o be thinking anyway Think BIG
~ Donald Trump
To win youve got to stay in the game
~ Claude M Bristol
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head
-- Source unknown
Affirm your value by going where you are valued
-- Alan Cohen
Life is too short to hold a grudge also too long
-- Robert Brault
You cannot borrow greatness from another You can only claim it from within
yourself
-- Alan Cohen
One today is worth two tomorrows never leave that till tomorrow which you can
do today
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 US Statesman Diplomat and Inventor
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs
the problem The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized
a problem and turned it into an opportunity
Joseph Sugarman Marketing Expert
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You wouldnt worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how
seldom they do
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady Author Speaker and Politician
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions
- John Randolph
Opportunities They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere
waiting for the observant eye to discover it
- Orison Swett Marden
Yesterday ended last night Every day is a new beginning Learn the skill of
forgetting And move on
--Norman Vincent Peale
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual it is
best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every
department
ndash Andrew Carnegie entrepreneur
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society The optimist invents the
airplane and the pessimist the parachute
Gil Stern
Strive for integrity - that means knowing your values in life and behaving in a way
that is consistent with these values
Unknown
The country clubs the cars the boats your assets may be ample But the best
inheritance you can leave your kids Is to be a good example
Barry Spilchuk
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the
goal
Henry Ford
It is never too late to be what you might have been
George Eliott
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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence the second listening the
third memory the fourth practice the fifth teaching others
Solomon Ibn Gabriol
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers You can tell whether a man is
wise by his questions
Naguib Mahfouz
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others
~ Erich Fromm
Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble
and grateful mind
~ Epictetus
Happiness is activity
~ Aristotle
Every action we take everything we do is either a victory or defeat in the
struggle to become what we want to be
~ Anne Byrhhe
In the absence of clearly defined goals we become strangely loyal to performing
daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it
Robert Heinlein Novelist
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the
consequences of any misfortune
William James 1842-1910 Psychologist and Author
To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle
-- Walt Whitman
God doesnt owe and neither do you
-- Alan Cohen
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Do what makes you smile
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
People who warn that everyone but members of their religion will go to hell dont
realize they are already there
-- Alan Cohen
The emotional frontier is truly the next frontier to conquer in human
understanding The opportunity we face now even before that frontier is fully
explored and settled is to develop our emotional potential and accelerate rather
dramatically into a new state of being
- Doc Childre and Howard Martin The HeartMath Solution
Real transformation requires that you have a beginners mind that you are willing
to say Whatever I think I know may be wrong
Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true
selves
- Carrol Pearson The Hero Within
If a man would move the world he
must first move himself
--Socrates
All sucessful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists They
believed that things went not by luck but by law
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
I skate to where the puck is going to be not where it is
-Wayne Gretzky
When given the choice between being right or being kind always choose kind
--Dr Wayne Dyer Never forget the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for
others
Sir John Templeton 1912-2008 Mutual Fund Pioneer and Philanthropist
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome
Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Essayist Biographer and Poet
Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on
-- Alan Cohen
Shallow men believe in luck Strong men believe in cause and effect
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Contraction is a sign that birth is imminent
-- Alan Cohen
Work is an extension of personality It is achievement It is one of the ways in
which a person defines himself measures his worth ndash and his humanity
ndash Peter Drucker author
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends
-- John Ruskin
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities
--Janos Arnay
The first time you accept good is the last time you will see excellence
John Ulmo Life is like an onion
You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep
~ Carl Sandburg
Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light
~ L P Jacks Just as iron rusts from disuse even so does inaction spoil the intellect
~ Leonardo Da Vinci
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men sayI JUST watch what they
do
~ Andrew Carnegie
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All Things are Difficult before they are Easy
~ John Norley
Everything has been figured out except how to live
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving
Dennis Waitley
Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out
Robert Collier
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude
Thomas Jefferson
They can because they think they can
Virgil
By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself
Menander
Years teach us more than books
Berthold Auerbach
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When you delightfully fantasize about something you want you set into motion a
wave of energy that calls that situation into reality
-- Alan Cohen
Hurt people hurt people
-- Source unknown
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Doing the right thing may be different than what you have been taught the right
thing is
-- Alan Cohen
The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes
it happen
-- Frank Lloyd Wright All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say no and said yes
Moss Hart 1904-1961 Playwright and Theatre Director
We are built to conquer environment solve problems achieve goals and we find no
real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to
achieve
Maxwell Maltz 1899-1975 Author of Psycho-Cybernetics
You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns
have roses
-- Ziggy
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug
~ Patricia Neal
My night has become a sunny dawn because of you
--Ibn Abbad
All mankind is divided into three classes those that are immovable those that are
movable and those that move
--Benjamin Franklin
Dont compete Create Find out what everyone else is doing and then dont do it
mdashJoel Weldon
Show a little faith therelsquos magic in the night
mdashfrom ―Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen
Music is to me proof of the existence of God
It is so extraordinarily full of magic and in tough times
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of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference
mdashKurt Vonnegut
Discontent is the source of all trouble but also of all progress
in individuals and nations
Berthold Auerbach
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself
Thomas Sprat
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves
to copy
Oliver Goldsmith
If at first you dont succeed try try again Then quit Theres
no use being a damn fool about it
WC Fields
Impatience never commanded success
Edwin H Chapin
In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are the safest
~ Livy
Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights
~ Henry David Thoreau
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense
insoluble They can never be solved but only outgrown
~ Carl Jung
Life Begins When you Do
Hugh Downs Vision Without Action is a Daydream
Action Without Vision is a Nightmare
~ Japanese Proverb
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Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one
can possibly want and hold
-- Judith Olney
The love affair you seek is with yourself
-- Alan Cohen
The greatest power requires the lightest touch
-- BasharDarryl Anka
You only live once -- but its forever
-- Alan Cohen
Get off the cross Somebody needs the wood
-- From the film Straight Talk
There are two ways to live your life One is as though nothing is a miracle The
other is as though everything is a miracle
~ Albert Einstein
In the long run men hit only what they aim at
~ Henry David Thoreau philosopher
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state
of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is
wounded trust impaired
~Erik H Erikson
Freedom know this that every manwoman is free To choose his life and what
hell be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call
persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light In nameless ways be
good and kind But never force the human mind
~ William C Clegg
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want and if they canlsquot find them make them
~ George Bernard Shaw
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Relationships are not things We dont have relationships we are in relationship
with one another
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Relationships are our primary teacher They are the context in which we either
grow into the consciousness of God or deny ourselves and others the opportunity
to do so
- Marianne Williamson
Listen deeply The greatest failure in any relationship is the failure to
participate
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Your future is created by what you do today not tomorrow
Robert Kiyosaki
No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a
reality
Napoleon Hill
If you are not planning today you are planning to fail tomorrow
Gopal
How you do anything is how you do everything
T Harv Eker
There is little difference in people but that little difference
makes a big difference The little difference is attitude The
big difference is whether it is positive or negative
W Clement Stone
The vision must be followed by the venture It is not enough to
stare up the steps - We must step up the stairs
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Vance Havner
Go for it nowThe future is promised to no one
Wayne Dyer
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are you would never
think a negative thought
Peace Pilgrim
Either you run the day or the day runs you
Jim Rohn
You must go after your wish As soon as you start to pursue a
dream your life wakes up and everything has meaning
Barbara Sher
To succeed you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe
and act on it with all of your heart
Christy Borgeld
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers
Anonymous
Let him that would move the world first move himself
Socrates
By the time a man realizes that maybe
his father was right he usually has a son
who thinks hes wrong
~ Charles Wadworth
Without Mistakes Perfection is an Illusion
~ Daniel Frankel
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Its not the hours you put in
but what you put into the hours
that counts
~ Jim Rohn
Be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath
~ James 119
Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory
~ Ingrid Bergman
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word
~ William Makepease Thackeray
Professionalism is knowing how
to do it when to do it and doing it
~ Frank Tyger
Intention is not something you do
but rather a force that exists in the universe
as an invisible field of energy
-a power that can carry us
~ Dr Wayne Dyer
I personally measure success in terms
of the contributions an individual makes
to her or his fellow human beings
~ Margaret Mead
Some of the worlds greatest feats
were accomplished by people not
smart enough to know they were
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impossible
~ Doug Larson
Life is a flower of which love is the honey
~ Victor Hugo
Personal integrity is important
not because it gets us what we want
but because it helps us be what we want
~ Michael Josephson
Goals need to be configured to stretch us
but not to break us
~ Kent Krive
Children are apt to live up
to what you believe of them
~ Lady Bird Johnson
Do your work with your whole heart
and you will succeed
- theres so little competition
~ Elbert Hubbard
Hi Karl
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible
objections must first be overcome
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--Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Author
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter
even the most victorious life The human
spirit is never finished when it is defeated
- it is finished when it surrenders
-- Ben Stein Professor and Writer
Love is the first ingredient in the relief
of suffering
-- Padre Pio
Happiness is a function of accepting what is
--Werner Erhard
There are no shortcuts to any place
worth going
- Beverly Sills
It has never been and never will be
easy work But the road that is built in
hope is more pleasant to the traveler
than the road built in despair even though
they both lead to the same destination
~Marion Zimmer Bradley
The reality of life is that your perceptions --
right or wrong -- influence everything else
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you do When you get a proper perspective
of your perceptions you may be surprised
how many other things fall into place
~ Roger Birkman
Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself
with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum
-- Baal Shem Tov
Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself
with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum
-- Baal Shem Tov
Trust yourself You know more than
you think you do
ndash Benjamin Spock doctor
When you play it too safe youre taking
the biggest risk of your life
Time is the only wealth were given
--Barbara Sher
Creativity is inventing experimenting
growing taking risks breaking rules
making mistakes and having fun
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--Mary Lou Cook
Life is playing a violin solo in public and
learning the instrument as one goes on
--Samuel Butler
Opportunities are usually disguised as
hard work so most people dont recognize
them
~ Ann Landers
It is literally true that you can succeed best
and quickest by helping others to succeed
- Napoleon Hill
God loves you and theres nothing you can do about it
-- Sign on church marquis
Give yourself what you would like to receive from others
-- Alan Cohen
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature
-- Emerson
The fewer your words the more compelling your statement
-- Alan Cohen
Pray devoutly hammer stoutly
-- English proverb
There are no blocks to creativity Only distractions
-- Alan Cohen
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If your rules are not working so well borrow someone elses
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
Inner peace is never more than one thought away
-- Alan Cohen
Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret
hiding God
-- Frederick William Robertson
Completion is an attitude not an event
-- Alan Cohen
Enjoy where you are and youll be where youre going
-- Bashar
Your spirit is wireless
-- Alan Cohen
All questions lead to divine knowing
-- Isaac Newton
You cannot import self-worth You can only recognize it
-- Alan Cohen
Enlightened conflict resolution can exist only in an atmosphere of equality
We may not be equal in intelligence or experience or status but we are equal
in our right to be treated with dignity and caring It is not assumed that one
person has more privilege than another that one person is entitled to more
respect or understanding than another nor that one persons feelings are
more important than anothers
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
To seek happiness outside of ourselves Is like trying to lasso a cloud
Happiness is not a thingIt is a state of mind
- Omar Khayyam
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The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us
well I am not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking
not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our
quality of life incidence of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy No man was ever wise by chance
~ Seneca
By thought the thing you want is brought to youby action you receive it
~ Wallace D Wattles
Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
~ Mohandas K Gandhi
Life isnt about finding yourselfLife is about creating yourself
George Bernard Shaw
Im trying to free your mind but I can only show you the doorYou are the one
that has to walk through it
~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]
A friend is a second self
~ Aristotle
Be great in act as you have been in thought
~ William Shakespeare
Character is higher than intellectA great soul will be strong to liveas well as to
think
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I never think of the futureIt comes soon enough
~ Albert Einstein
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fearnot absence of fear
~ Mark Twain
Age wrinkles the bodyQuitting wrinkles the soul
~ Douglas MacArthur
If real is what you can feel smell taste and see then real is simply electrical
signals interpreted by your brain
~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]
Money was never a big motivator for me except for keeping the scoreThe real
excitement is playing the game
~ Donald Trump
Dreams are extremely important You cant do it unless you dream it first
~ George Lucas
If you believe you can you probably can If you believe you wont you most
assuredly wont Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad
~ Denis Waitley
Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limitedImagination
encircles the world
~ Albert Einstein
Everything is always impossible before it works Thats what entrepreneurs are all
aboutDoing things that people have told them is impossible
~ R Hunt Greene
The truth is lived not taught
~ Hermann Hesse
Be of good cheer Do not think of todays failures but of the success that may
come tomorrow You have set yourself a difficult task but you will succeed if you
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persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles
Helen Keller 1880-1968 Blind and Deaf Educator
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something Its as simple
as that A lot of people have ideas but there are few who decide to do something
about them now Not tomorrow Not next week But today The true entrepreneur
is a doer
-Nolan Bushnell Founder of Atari
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision
Muhammad Ali Three-Time World Heavyweight Champion Boxer
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them
Walt Disney 1901-1966 Cartoon Artist and Filmmaker
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings turn routine jobs into
joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings
William Arthur Ward
1921-1994 Writer
If you want to achieve excellence you can get there today As of this second quit
doing less than excellent work
Thomas Watson 1874-1956 Founder of IBM
Ive always believed that a lot of the troubles in the world would disappear if we
were talking to each other instead of about each other
Ronald Reagan
1911-2004 40th President of the United States
The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another is in some way to
make that persons life a little bit better to live
John Assaraf Author and Speaker
Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm
Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any
occupation no matter how frightening or difficult a new meaning Without
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enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish
miracles
Og Mandino
Constant kindness can accomplish much As the sun makes ice melt kindness
causes misunderstanding mistrust and hostility to evaporate
Dr Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 Medical Missionary and Nobel Prize Winner
Dwell not on the past Use it to illustrate a point then leave it behind Nothing
really matters except what you do now in this instant of time From this moment
onwards you can be an entirely different person filled with love and understanding
ready with an outstretched hand uplifted and positive in every thought and deed
Eileen Caddy 1917-2006 Spiritual Teacher and Author
Heres the problem Most people are thinking about what they dont want and
theyre wondering why it shows up over and over again
John Assaraf Speaker and Author
Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
Thomas Edison 1847-1931 Inventor and Scientist
Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on
building the life you desire
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly
lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love
Henry Drummond 1851-1897 Scientist and Author
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Former First Lady Author and Speaker
If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least
responsible for those we admit and entertain
Charles Newcomb ScreenwriterDirector
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To grow you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your
past Your history is not your destiny
Alan Cohen
If you want a kinder world then behave with kindness if you want a peaceful
world make peace within
Dan Millman Writer and Speaker
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order
and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a
time
Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Writer
Believe it can be done When you believe something can be done really believe
your mind will find the ways to do it Believing a solution paves the way to solution
Dr David Schwartz Author of The Magic of Thinking Big
Close your eyes and form a realistic picture of what a post PC world might actually
look like Those who can envision a plausible future thats brighter than today will
earn the opportunity to lead
Ray Ozzie Former Chief Software Architect at Microsoft
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past worry
about the future or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely
and earnestly
- Buddha
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job tellem certainly I can - and get
busy and find out how to do it
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Dont tell me how hard you work Tell mehow much you get done
~ James Ling
Democracy arose from menlsquos thinking that if they are equal in any respect they
are equal absolutely
~ Aristotle
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The beginning is the most important part of the work
~ Plato
Bless those who choose to love and those who choose to hate that those who
choose to hate may choose to love before it is too late
--Esoligh (Underground Hip Hop Artist)
Security is mostly a superstition It does not exist in nature nor do the children
of man as a whole experience it Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than
outright exposure Life is either a daring adventure or nothing
--Helen Keller
Each new hour holds new chances for new beginings The horizon move forward
offering you space to place new steps of change
--Maya Angelou
When a man cares he is unafraid When he is fair he leaves enough for others
When he is humble he can grow
--Lao-Tzu TaoTeChung
Behold the turtle He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out
--James Bryant Conant - Educator and Diplomat
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it
but because they didnt stop to enjoy it
--William Feather
The light of awareness the light of consciousness arises out of a broken heart
the heart by breaking becomes an ocean accommodating all beings
-- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom
The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need according to the
nature of your thought Your environment and financial condition are the
perfect reflection of your habitual thinking
Thought rules the world
-- Dr Joseph Edward Murphy Surgeon
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The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new
courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness beauty and truth
ndash Albert Einstein physicist
Hope is the companion of power and mother of success for who so hopes strongly
has within him the gift of miracles
~ Samuel Smiles
Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those
things that failures dont like to do
~ Albert Gray
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the
link between belief and biology
- Deepak Chopra
Ive always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best
~ Akeem Olajuwon
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear
ndash Socrates philosopher
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the
most brilliant single mind but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains
and talents of his associates
~ W Alton Jones
The reason a dog has got so many friends is because its tail waggles and not its
tongue
-Anonymous
Dont fight a problem solve it
--Millard Fuller
If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation
by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in
which you are rendering it
--Roger Babson
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The starting point of all riches is the development of a prosperity consciousness
You must become a financial success in your thinking long before you achieve it in
your reality Both poverty and riches are the result of a state of mind and the
most important single step you ever take on the road to wealth and financial
independence is the decision to change your thinking to impress into your mind an
unshakable belief that you can and will achieve your financial goals This must
happen before anything else happens
-- Brian Tracy
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it
We must learn to see the world anew
- Albert Einstein
To forgive is the highest most beautiful form of love In return you will receive
untold peace and happiness
--Dr Robert Muller
Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind the stronger the
trees
--J Willard Marriott Founder of Marriott Hotels
Someday may never come So live each day better than the last That way youll
wake up with so much excitement and anticipation youlsquoll jump out of bed and shout
I cant wait
--Bob Perks
The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination and he is still at
large
-- Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885 Humorist
If you dont know where you are going any road will get you there
-- Anonymous
Ive noticed over many years of working with corporate teams that the more
dysfunctional the team the more resistant they are to the concept of love in
the workplace What baggage is it that we drag around behind us like Linus
and his blanket which causes us to be so wounded and pathological Why are
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we blind to the observable truth that those we lead are yearning for us to
open our hearts Why are we in denial about the truth that people--all
people at work and at home--are searching for signs of our approval and
love
- Lance Secretan Industry Week 11202000 We live on our own solitary islands of reality absorbed in and fascinated by
our own points of view Frequently we reach out to one another seeking to
understand or be understood The bridge between our separate realities is
communication To communicate is to relate
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air You
name them--work family health friends and spirit--and youre keeping all
of these in the air You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball If you
drop it it will bounce back But the other four balls-- family health
friends and spirit--are made of glass If you drop one of these they will be
irrevocably scuffed marked nicked damaged or even shattered They will
never be the same You must understand that and strive for balance in your
life
- Brian Dyson CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises from 1959-1994 If you cant be a loving witness to your own anger or rage or sadness or
fear you cant be in the presence of other peoples intense emotions without
your own emotional waters being churned up a bit But if you can learn to
feel safe and fully present to the broad spectrum of emotions within your own
nature you radiate an invisible web of safety that helps others to talk about
their feelings with you
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective
consciousness and if we want a new world each of us must start taking
responsibility for helping create it
- Rosemary Fillmore Rhea A New Heaven and New Earth Your relationships are actually mirrors of your consciousness When you learn
to see your own reflection in the quality of your relationships with others you
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catapult yourself on your path of personal growth and spiritual evolution
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think To put the world right in order we must first put the nation in order to put
the nation in order we must first put the family in order to put the family in
order we must first cultivate our personal life we must first set our hearts
right
- Confucious The sooner we can unburden ourselves of blame the more effective we can
be Blaming others only entrenches us in the role of the victim removing us
from our highest expression of personal power
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be
sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all
around It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others
we all want in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that
burden us These secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth
helps you get clarity on your real heart directives
- Sara Paddison The Hidden Power of the Heart Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time
ago
~ Warren Buffet
The only way to do great work is to love what you do If you havent found it yet
keep looking Dont settle As with all matters of the heart youll know when you
find it
~ Steve Jobs
If you love life do not waste time for time is what life is made up of
~ Bruce Lee
I cannot teach anybody anything I can only make them think
~ Socrates
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Change before you have to
~ Jack Welch
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm
~ Winston Churchill
A leader leads by example not by force
~ Sun Tzu
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour Sit with a
pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute You have just experienced
relativity
~ Albert Einstein
Live as if you were to die tomorrow Learn as if you were to live forever
~ Mohandas Gandhi
A clever person solves a problem A wise person avoids it
~ Albert Einstein
If I have seen a little further is by standing on the shoulders of Giants
~ Sir Isaac Newton
Despair says I cannot lift that weight Happiness says I do not have to
-- James Richardson
People who know they are powerful do not need to engage in power struggles
-- Alan Cohen
No man ever stated his troubles as lightly as he might
-- Emerson
What does your spirit most want you to know and do today
-- Alan Cohen
Its not how good you are Its how bad you want it
-- Author unknown
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The better I feel about myself the less I need you to be different
-- Alan Cohen
The best form of flattery is to master the art of listening
-- Chinese proverb
The only thing more valuable than a good source of news is source of good news
-- Alan Cohen
Disappointments are the hooks upon which God hangs his victories
-- Source unknown
It matters not what youve done with your life for better or worse What
matters is what you do with your life today
-- Alan Cohen
Everyone here is not all there
-- Source unknown
If you cant unify then at least harmonize
-- Alan Cohen
Everybody is a genius But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will
spend its whole life believing that it is stupid
-- Albert Einstein
Fear is excitement without breath
-- Fritz Perls
Dont leave yourself out of the equation
-- Alan Cohen
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles
-- Bernard Baruch
They can because they think they can
~ Virgil
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Exert your talents and distinguish yourself
and dont think of retiring from the world
until the world will be sorry that you retire
~ Samuel Johnson
Energy and persistence conquer all things
~ Benjamin Franklin
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom
~ Aristotle
Heaven never helps the man who will not act
~ Sophocles
The only real journey is the journey within
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new
~ Albert Einstein
Action is the food and drink
that will nourish your success
Action will destroy your procrastination
Act now for is all you have
~ Og Mandino
Computers are incredibly fast accurate and stupid
Humans are incredible slow inaccurate and brilliant
Together they are powerful beyond imagination
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~ Albert Einstein
Practice giving and you will discover how much life can give you
-- Alan Cohen
Oh for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they
ran out of money
-- Source unknown
The best way to heal a bad memory is to create a new and better one
-- Alan Cohen
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love
-- Hamilton Wright Mabie
Fear and resistance are the dragons that stand at the gate of the kingdom that
contains the jewel you seek
-- Alan Cohen
Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy forgiveness To an opponent
tolerance To a friend your heart To a customer service To all charity To
every child a good example To yourself respect
-- Oren Arnold
Affirm I always have enough time to do the things that Spirit would have me do
-- Alan Cohen
There are two obstacles to enlightenment 1 Thinking you know 2 Thinking you
dont know
-- Buddha
Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Take care how you pay
it
-- Alan Cohen
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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles
-- Bernard Baruch
Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation
-- Alan Cohen
Families are like fudge -- mostly sweet with a few nuts
-- Source unknown
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of
our treasures
-- Thornton Wilder
The universe does not require you to stress for good things
-- Alan Cohen
When you bless the good that befalls others it becomes yours as well
-- Alan Cohen
How many more idols must you find before your realize that you are the one you
have been searching for
-- Dan Fogelberg
All limits exist only in thought and that is where they are overcome
-- Alan Cohen
To understand unconditional love lock your wife or husband and your dog in the
trunk of your car for an hour When you open it notice to is happier to see you
-- Source unknown
Outrageous ideas are ultimately the most practical
-- Alan Cohen
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are
-- Kurt Cobain
How good can you let it get
-- Alan Cohen
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If we could look into the secret history of our enemies we should find in each
persons life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities
-- Longfellow
If you sense there must be more there is more
-- Alan Cohen
Do not wait the time will never be just right Start where you stand and work
with whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found
as you go along
Napoleon Hill
1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich
It doesnt matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes What
matters most is getting off You cannot make progress without making decisions
Jim Rohn
1930-2009 Speaker and Author
Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do Its
a decision about Who You Are When you see this when you understand it
everything changes You begin to see life in a new way All events occurrences and
situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do
Neale Donald Walsch
Author of Conversations With God
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached dont adjust the goals
adjust the action steps
Confucius
551-479 BC Philosopher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of
you
Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887 Clergyman Social Reformer and Abolitionist
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Lets choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we think others lead
by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives We can then offer the
universe the gift of our grateful hearts
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Author of Peace and Plenty
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite
impossible to foresee are ahead You can only see one thing clearly and that is your
goal Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin
Kathleen Norris
1880-1966 Novelist
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends
you choose for you will become like them
W Clement Stone
1902-2002 Businessman Philanthropist and Author
Laugh at yourself and at life Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity but
as a remedy a miracle drug that will ease your pain cure your depression and help
you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at
your predicaments thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that
is certain to come Never take yourself too seriously
Og Mandino
1923-1996 Author of The Choice
Asking is the beginning of receiving Make sure you dont go to the ocean with a
teaspoon At least take a bucket so the kids wont laugh at you
Jim Rohn
1930-2009 Author and Speaker
Happiness comes only when we push our
brains and hearts to the farthest reaches
of which we are capable
--Leo C Rosten
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Do not wait the time will never be just right
Start where you stand and work with whatever
tools you may have at your command and better
tools will be found as you go along
~ Napoleon Hill
I shall do less whenever I shall believe what
I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more
whenever I shall believe doing more will help the
cause I shall try to correct errors when shown to
be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as
they shall appear to be true views
ndash Abraham Lincoln 16th US president
If we become increasingly humble about how l
little we know we may be more eager to search
- Sir John Templeton
I dont think anyone can grow unless hes
loved exactly as he is now appreciated for
what he is rather than what he will be
Love and success always in that order Its
that simple and that difficult
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a
lifetimes work but its worth the effort
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Quoted From Lifes Journeys According
to Mister Rogers
When we do the best we can we never know
what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life
of another
ndash Helen Keller lecturer author
We are responsible for what we are and whatever
we wish ourselves to be we have the power to make
ourselves If what we are now has been the result of
our own past actions it certainly follows that whatever
we wish to be in future can be produced by our present
actions so we have to know how to act
~ Swami Vivekananda
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Now I experience the love in everyone I no longer am a person who judges others
for being overweight for being too young or too old for having their hair a certain
way or for how they dress When you judge others you dont define them you
define yourself as someone who needs to judge and compartmentalize people
-Wayne Dyer
The big secret in life is that there is no secret Whatever your goal you can get
there if you are willing to work It is called massive action Action is the gas in the
tank Without it the car will not run
Marcy Blochowiak Author of No Glass Ceiling An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory
-Friedrich Engels
Leaders arent born they are made And they are made just like anything else
through hard work And thats the price well have to pay to achieve that goal or
any goal
Vincent Lombardi
May your trails be crooked winding lonesome dangerous leading to the most
amazing view May your rivers flow without end meandering through pastoral
valleys tinkling with bells past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark
primeval forestdown into a desert of red rock blue mesas domes and pinnacles
and grottos of endless stone And down again into a deep vast ancient unknown
chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs where deer walk across the
white sand beaches where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high
crags until something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than
your deepest dreams waits for you just beyond the next turning of the canyon
walls
-Benedicto by Edward Abbey
An unwritten want is a wish a dream a never-happen The day you put your goal in
writing is the day it becomes a commitment that will change your life Are you
ready
Tom Hopkins Author and Speaker
―Where are you going Who are you looking for Your beloved is right herehellip Cease
looking for flowers there blooms a garden in your own home While you go looking
for trinkets your treasure house awaits you in your own being There is no need
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for suffering God is here
~Rumi Chance favors only the prepared mind
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895 French scientist who developed pasteurization)
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities
enough and if they do not find them they will make them
Samuel Smiles
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen but give us the
determination to make the right things happen
Peter Marshall
If the sky falls hold up your hands
Spanish Proverb
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous
Chinese Proverb
Knowing is not enough we must apply Willing is not enough we must do
Johann von Goethe
If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is he will not jump If he does
not know how wide it is he will jump and six times out of ten he will make it
Persian Proverb
As I grow to understand life less and less I learn to love it more and more
Jules Renard
The more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate
Oprah Winfrey (1954- American TV personality producer actress author)
Mind is all that counts You can be whatever you make up your mind to be
Robert Collier
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You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how
youre going to live Now
Joan Baez Singer Songwriter and Activist The average person goes to their grave with their music still in them
Oliver Wendell Holmes ―Everyone can be great because everyone can serve
- Martin Luther King ―Whatever you can conceive and believe you can achieve
Napoleon Hill We turn not older with years but newer every day
-Emily Dickinson
When reciting affirmations feel the words in your heart as you say them and
know that what you feel youll create
Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust
our old programs accordingly
Dr Ann Faraday
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to
get there Then never never never give up
Vincent Peale
We only think when we are confronted with problems
John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)
In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain
Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)
If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair Few things are
impossible to diligence and skill Great works are performed not by strength but
perseverance
Samuel Johnson
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Dont waste your life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you
well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best
preparation for the hours or ages that follow it
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Poet and Essayist Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change
the world today
Wil Rose
The good man acts for honors sake and the more so the better he is and acts for
his friends sake and sacrifices his own interest
-Aristotle
In order to excel you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport You
must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism
Without a total 100 percent dedication you wont be able to do this
Willie Mays
Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to
raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years
ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I
demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my
life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to
becoming
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert
Im a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of
it
Thomas Jefferson
Bring awareness to each act Walking on the road walk fully alert eating eat with
awareness Whatsoever you are doing dont let the past and the future interfere
Be in the present Thats what awareness is all about
~Osho
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There are two dimensions to life and we should be able to touch both
One is like a wave and we call it the historical dimension
The other is like the water and we call it the ultimate dimension or nirvana
We usually touch just the wave but when we discover how to touch the water
we receive the highest fruit that meditation can offer
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends
Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance
Jackson Brown
When you focus on whats wrong you get more of whats wrong Conversely when
you focus on whats right you get more of whats right
Gina Mollicone-Long Author of the newly released book Think Or Sink
All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave
behind is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into
another
Gail Sheehy (1937- American journalist author)
Anger is one letter away from danger
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Success means having the courage the determination and the will to become the
person you believe you were meant to be
George Sheehan 1918-1993 Physician and Author
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views
so fast as they shall appear to be new views
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)
―One ship sails East
And another West
By the self-same winds that blow
lsquoTis the set of the sails
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And not the gales
That tells the way we go
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity Our attitude
toward it Every opportunity has a difficulty and every difficulty has an
opportunity
J Sidlow Baxter 1903-1999 Author and Theologian
If you want to be successful you must either have a chance or take one
Author Unknown
It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit it frankly and try
another But above all try something
Franklin D Roosevelt
It was courage faith endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all
obstacles that built this bridge
~ John J Watson
Past Data should now be the basis of Present Truth Data from a prior time or
experience should always and only be the basis for new questions Always the
treasure should be in the questions not in the answer
-Neale Donald Walsch Even though you may want to move forward in your life you may have one foot on
the brakes In order to be free we must learn how to let go Release the hurt
Release the fear Refuse to entertain your old pain The energy it takes to hang
onto the past is holding you back from a new life What is it you would let go of
today
Mary Manin Morrissey Creator of The Miracle Mastery Conference
It is not what you are called but what you answer to
African Proverb
A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong
enough
John Christian Bovee
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If youre not part of a solution youre a part of the problem There is no middle
road I dont think we can destroy the Earth but I think the Earth can destroy
us
-Oh Shinnah
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will
accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop
Robert Hughes
Charity is the spice of riches
Jewish Proverb
If you dont like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and
waiting for you The snake sheds its skin with impunity relying on the same nature
which you rely on
Author Unknown
Its a very funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best
you very often get it
William Somerset Maugham
A leader once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one must
be undaunted when the going gets tough
Ronald Reagan
If I accept you as you are I will make you worse however if I treat you as
though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Author and Philosopher
Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket signifies in the final
sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed from those who are cold and
not clothed The world in arms is not spending money alone It is spending the
sweat of its laborers the genius of its scientists the hopes of its children
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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Service is nothing but love in work clothes
Author Unknown
A man can do all things if he but wills them
Leon Battista Alberti
A crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk just a
tinkling cymbal where there is not love
Francis Bacon 17th Century English Lord Chancellor philosopher and author
The only way to have a friend is to be one
Ralph Waldo Emerson 19th Century American author and poet
Its not what you do once in a while its what you do day in and day out that
makes the difference
Jenny Craig Diet Specialist
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on
the labors of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to
give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving
Albert Einstein (1879-1955 German-born American physicist)
A resolute determination is the truest wisdom
Napoleon I
Without consistency there is no moral strength
Author Unknown
See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained pursue it resolutely
William Shakespeare
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure
-Dale Carnegie
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself
William Penn (1644-1718 British religious leader founder of Pennsylvania)
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How we think shows through in how we act Attitudes are mirrors of the mind
They reflect thinking
David J Schwartz Trainer and Author
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but
to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill
Vision is freely given to those who ask to see
-Course in Miracles
Tough times never last but tough people do
Dr Robert Schuller
A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything
else
Bette Davis (1908-1989 American actress producer)
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything
Alexander Hamilton
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference He has
it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter
Norman Cousins (1915-1990 American editor humanitarian author)
The practice of medicine is an art not a trade a calling not a business a calling in
which your heart will be exercised equally with your head Often the best part of
your work will have nothing to do with powders or potions
-Sir William Osler
Strength does not come from physical capacity It comes from an indomitable
will
~ Mahatma Gandhi
―You dont love someone for their looks or their clothes or for their fancy car
but because they sing a song only you can hear
Anon
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―They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever
Oscar Wilde
―Love is like a friendship caught on fire In the beginning a flame very pretty
often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering As love grows older our
hearts mature and our love becomes as coals deep-burning and unquenchable
Bruce Lee
―Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty
John Finely
―It takes a lot of understanding time and trust to gain a close friendship with
someone As I approach a time of my life of complete uncertainty my friends are
my most precious asset
Anon
―Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process
Harold S Geneen People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest
- Hermann Hesse 1877-1962 Civilization is a method of living an attitude of equal respect for all men
- Jane Addams 1860-1935 The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next
- Matthew Arnold 1822-1888
Vacillating people seldom succeed Successful men and women are very careful in
reaching their decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter
~ L G Elliott
Those with goals tend to succeed because they are focused and know where they
are going while those without goals do not
Ted Karam Author from his new book Jumping On Water Awaken Your Joy - Empower Your Life
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Every time you go out on the ice there are slight flaws You can always think of
something you should have done better These are the things you must work on
Dorothy Hamill (1956- American figure skater)
Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it
fate
~ Carl Jung When you speak of someone or about someone you should speak as though they
were in the room with you The ears that you speak to today are attached to the
mouth that could relay the message tomorrow
William Biddy Allen 1903-2001 Bus Driver - Loving father of 7 children
It is no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might dream The failure is to
fall short of dreaming all that we might realize
-Dee Hock When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they
are regarded by others let them reflect how little they have contributed to the
happiness of others
Author Unknown
I have become my own version of an optimist If I cant make it through one door
Ill go through another door - or Ill make a door Something terrific will come no
matter how dark the present
~ Rabindranath Tagore
―The present moment
contains past and future
The secret of transformation
is in the way we handle this very moment
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 - present Vietnamese Buddhist monk)
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―Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it Do not believe in
anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many Do not believe in
anything simply because it is found written in your religious books Do not believe in
anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders Do not believe in
traditions because they have been handed down for many generations But after
observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is
conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it
Buddha (Founder of Buddhism 568 - 488 BC) I try to avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward
Charlotte Bronte
Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity
Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Theologian
There is only one duty only one safe course and that is to try to be right
Winston Churchill (1874-1965 British statesman Prime Minister)
We are born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of wine we
have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born Astrology
does not lay claim to anything more
-Carl Jung
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them One is more
delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is angrier for being told
one is angry
Katherine F Gerould
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread they can sure make something out
of you
~ Muhammed Ali Beware of the thoughts you keep because everything in reality manifests from
the mind
Justin Palmer Second Year College Student
Confess you were wrong yesterday it will show you are wise today
Author Unknown
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We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope
~ Martin Luther King Jr
In the beginning the Universe was created
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move
-Douglas Adams
Any individual can be in time what he earnestly desires to be if he but set his
face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear
upon its attainment
Herman J Randall
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world
~ Helen Keller Many of lifes failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up
~ Thomas Edison
When you give your undivided attention to something there is a softening and
opening in the listener that allows access to the meaning underneath the words
-Betty Burkes
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they
are about to change the world I am more awed by those who struggle to make one
small difference
Ellen Goodman Journalist
If you look into your own heart you find nothing wrong there what is there to
fear
Confucius (BC 551-479 Chinese ethical teacher philosopher) Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls
~ Mother Teresa What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-
conceit For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he
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already knows
- Epictetus 55 AD-135 AD
There are admirable potentialities in every human being Believe in your strength
and your youth Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself It all depends on me
- Andre Gide 1869-1951
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage
- Anais Nin 1903-1977 Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in
other areas But can it really True effectiveness requires balance
~ Stephen Covey
I dont pay good wages because I have a lot of money I have a lot of money
because I pay good wages
- Robert Bosch Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do
the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not it is
the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a mans training
begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly
Thomas H Huxley 1825-1895 Biologist
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have and to be able
to lose all desire for things beyond your reach
Yutang Lin (1895-1976 Chinese writer and philologist)
Men are failures not because they are stupid but because they are not
sufficiently impassioned
Struther Burt
If you look at what you have in life youll always have more If you look at what
you dont have in life youll never have enough
Oprah Winfrey Television Host Producer and Philanthropist
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Im trying not to look too far ahead All Im thinking is one shot at a time one hole
at a time and thats what I want to keep doing
Michelle McGann
I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in
which we face them that constitutes our comfort
-Elizabeth T King My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content
with your failure
~ Abraham Lincoln
―There is nothing but love and all else is illusion
- Dr John Demartini There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer no disease that enough
love will not heal no door that enough love will not open
- Emmet Fox
All my limitations are self-imposed and my liberation can only come from true self-
love
- Max C Robinson
We fail to see that we can control our own destiny make ourselves do whatever is
possible make ourselves become whatever we long to be
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine )
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will
~ Sugar Ray Robinson 1920-1989 Boxer
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
Confucius
Half the people you know are above average
-Steven Wright
Your close relationships are either a catalyst for manifesting what you really
want or theyre a hindrance to your manifestation If you truly value the power of
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love in your life you owe it to yourself to discover how to tap into the power of
your relationship as a force for manifestation
Drs Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up Even when they do it is not
perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888 American author )
One is not idle because one is absorbed There is both visible and invisible labor To
contemplate is to toil to think is to do The crossed arms work the clasped hands
act The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation
Victor Hugo (1802-1885 French poet dramatist novelist)
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of
greed in the headlines
-Charles Kuralt
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our
focus we never concentrate our power Most people dabble their way through life
never deciding to master anything in particular
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time
~ Anthony J DAngelo
Courage comes from wanting to do it well Security comes from knowing you can do
it well Confidence comes from having done it well
~ Author Unknown
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel
Napoleon Hill
There is a true genius in everyone But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a
tree it would never stop doubting itself
~ Einstein~
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People ask for criticism but they only want praise
- W Somerset Maugham 1874-1965 Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if
you let it pass the desire may never return and you may remain in ignorance
- William Wirt 1772-1834 Cynicism is not realistic and tough Its unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it
means you dont have to try
- Peggy Noonan 1950-present There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into
gear
David Mahoney Executive and Philanthropist You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences
W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965 British novelist playwright)
Dont ask yourself what the world needs Ask yourself what makes you come alive
and then go and do that Because what the world needs are people who have come
alive
~ Howard Thurman When a great moment knocks on the door of your life it is often no louder than
the beating of your heart and it is very easy to miss it -Boris Pasternak Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure
~ Thomas Alva Edison
To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in
your heart
- Thomas Watson Sr Begin challenging your own assumptions Your assumptions are your windows on the
world Scrub them off every once and a while or the light wont come in
Alan Alda Actor Writer and Director
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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most
argumentative
Giovani della Casa (1503-1556 Papal secretary of state)
Have you ever felt like you wanted to go but you felt like you wanted to stay
- Song Lyric Jimmy Durante
To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all
~ Oscar Wilde
Awareness is like a beam of light that shines endlessly into space We only
perceive that light when it is reflected off some object and consciousness is
producedAwareness is the light by which we see the worldWe mistake the clear
light of pure awareness for the shadows that it casts in consciousnessWe forget
that we are the light itself and imagine that we are the densities that reflect the
light back to us
-Stephen Levine Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal
Albert Camus (1913-1960 French existential writer) The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation
Mark Twain
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn Our rewards
will always be in exact proportion to our service
Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Author of The Strangest Secret
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he
knows where he is going
Napoleon Hill
Wisdom tells me I am nothing
Love tells me I am everything
And between the two my life flows
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
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No employer today is independent of those about him He cannot succeed alone no
matter how great his ability or capital Business today is more than ever a question
of cooperation
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars
Les Brown
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world
Joseph Addison (1672-1719 British essayist poet statesman)
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a
fate that falls on man unless they act
~ G K Chesterton
Find something positive to think about and dont let the conversation in your head
end with a negative comment Always end on a positive comment
Dr Tomi Bryan and Dr Jerry White From their latest release The 5 Keys To The Great Life
Whales do not sing because they have a message They sing because they have a
song
-Ashes and Snow
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life
- Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956
Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though
checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor
suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat
- Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting
- Stanislaw Leszczynski 1677-1766
There is no joy in getting by on your job - doing as little as you can There is a
LOT of pleasure in doing more than you have to And whosoever shall compel you
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to go a mile go with him twain says the Bible wisely
-Norman Carlisle
We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once
Calvin Coolidge
The starting point of all achievement is desire Keep this constantly in mind Weak
desires bring weak results just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich
I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me
instead of looking within myself to see what was there
Belle Livingstone
Rather than thinking if and when start doing take action stop talking about if
and when
~ Catherine Pulsifer
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity -
Ayn Rand
Being a man or indeed being human is not something for which one should
apologize but something to which one should aspire and with all the gusto he can
muster
-- David Cunningham
The question isnt who is going to let me its who is going to stop me
- Howard Roark The Fountainhead 1943
I am the Master of my Fate Captain of my Soul
-- W E Henley
Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it
Boldness has genius power and magic in it
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me
instead of looking within myself to see what was there
Belle Livingstone
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order
and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a
time
Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Novelist
The path to success is to take massive determined action
Anthony Robbins
All of the significant battles are waged within the self
Sheldon Kopp (1929- American psychologist)
Follow effective action with quiet reflection From the quiet reflection will come
even more effective action
~ Peter F Drucker
Dont be dismayed at good-byes
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again
And meeting again after moments or lifetimes
is certain for those who are friends
-Richard Bach
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual
sense of humor
Thomas W Higginson 1823-1911 Minister Abolitionist and Author
When performance exceeds ambition the overlap is called success
Cullen Hightower
Well done is better than well said
Benjamin Franklin
The first and the best victory is to conquer self
Plato (BC 427-347 Greek philosopher)
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Man is what he believes
-Anton Chekhov One half of life is luck the other half is discipline - and thats the important half
for without discipline you wouldnt know what to do with luck
Carl Zuckmeyer 1896-1977 Writer and Playwright
Try and fail but dont fail to try
~ Stephen Kaggwa
I believe that one of the greatest gifts we have been given is our imagination It
costs nothing to access is available 247 and is our doorway to freedom With
imagination we have inside of us the most amazing ability to change our state and
transform our life in a moment
~ Veronica Hay The world is full of abundance and opportunity but far too many people come to
the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a
steam shovel They expect little and as a result they get little
Ben Sweetland Author of I Will Blessed is the person who sees the need recognizes the responsibility and actively
becomes the answer
William A Ward
I am not a mechanism an assembly of various sections
And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly that I am ill
I am ill because of wounds to the soul to the deep emotional self
And the wounds to the soul take a long long time only time can help
And patience and a certain difficult repentance
Long difficult repentance realization on lifes mistake and the freeing of oneself
From the endless repetition of the mistake
Which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify
-D H Lawrence
Victory belongs to the most persevering
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Gratitude opens doors It paves the way to abundance and prosperity like nothing
else
It can line your pockets with gold and fill your bank account quicker than a New
York minute
Yet how many of you are living from a thankful heart each day
~Veronica Hay Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
Bruce Springsteen You gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we
really stop to look fear in the face You must do that which we think we cannot
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Social Activist and First Lady of the United States
Dont let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you Instead give to
yourself that which empowers you
Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)
―The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having
new eyes
~ Marcel Proust
―Then your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall spring up
quickly
~ Isaiah 588
―And your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music
from it or confused sounds
mdash Kahlil Gibran
In every life the most important change is self-change -- and in every situation
the principles are the same
- J Kingston Cowart
It takes courage to lead a life Any life
Erica Jong
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Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time
-Ken Wilber
Peoples tendency towards good is as waters tendency is to flow downhill
Mencius When I let go of what I am I become what I might be
~ Lao Tsu
The higher my rank the more humbly I behave The greater my power the less I
exercise it The richer my wealth the more I give away Thus I avoid respectively
envy and spite and misery
~ Sun Shu Ao
There is no greater happiness than freedom from worry and there is no greater
wealth than contentment
~Lao Tsu
Failure lies not in falling down Failure lies in not getting up
~ Chinese proverb
A meal however simple is a moment of intersection It is at once the most basic
the most fundamental of our lifes activities maintaining the life of our bodies
Shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion uniting people
deeply
~ Elise Boulding The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms
-- Socrates You are never going to get it all done - you just wont Rather you will find order
and peace in your workday if you accept it and then do one more thing Implement
a system that consistently shows you whats most critical at any moment what to
do after the critical and where to find everything else when you need to That
system is not hard - its quite simple to set up
Michael Linenberger From Master Your Workday Now Check out his book and bonuses
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Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have
just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together
into a life of action and purpose
Lance Armstrong 7-Time Winner of the Tour de France
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value
Albert Einstein
We have contributed each in the time allotted us our endeavors to render a
permanent blessing to our country
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826 Third American President)
If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost that is where they
should be Now put foundations under them
~ Henry David Thoreau
If you didnlsquot musterbate then you wouldnlsquot awfulize terribilize
catastrophize say ―I canlsquot stand it and put yourself down
If you only stuck with ―Ilsquod like very much to do well but I never
have to you wouldnlsquot then disturb yourself hellip musterbation is
evil and pernicious
- Albert Ellis
There are 2 theories to arguing with a womanneither works
-Will Rogers
Dont tell me that worry doesnt do any good said the over-worked executive I
know better The things I worry about never happen
-Cited in More ofThe Best of BITS amp PIECES
Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were
innocent Anger is natural Grief is appropriate Healing is mandatory Restoration
is possible
~ Jane Rubietta
Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can
~ Richard Bach
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Inspiration and genius--one and the same
~ Victor Hugo
It is important to acknowledge a mistake instantly correct it and learn from it
That literally turns a failure into a success Success is on the far side of failure
TJ Watson 1874-1956 Founder if IBM
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of
inspiration
~ George Eliot
Trust your hunches Theyre usually based on facts filed away just below the
conscious level
Dr Joyce Brothers Psychologist and Television Personality Every artist was first an amateur
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a
true master For this reason mastery demands all of a person
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Theoretical Physicist Philosopher and Author In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain
Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)
The more difficulties one has to encounter within and without the more
significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be
Horace Bushnell
If the sky falls hold up your hands
Spanish Proverb
Begin with the end in mind
Stephen Covey
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good try to use ordinary
situations
- Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825 German Novelist
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunities
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery it wouldnt seem so
wonderful
Michelangelo 1475-1564 Painter Sculptor and Architect
We only think when we are confronted with problems
John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)
Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can
~ Thomas Carlyle
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex It takes a touch of
genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction
~Albert Einstein
―Ecstasy is your very nature not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary
~Osho
The quieter you can become the more youre able to hear
~Chinese Proverb
The only real valuable thing is intuition
~ Albert Einstein
To be ecstatic is natural spontaneous It needs no effort to be ecstatic it needs
great effort to be miserable
~Osho
Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight
Anita DeFrantz Olympic Rower Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust
our old programs accordingly
Dr Ann Faraday
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I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world
I may not ever complete the last one
But I give myself to it
I have been circling for thousands of years
And I still dont know
Am I a falcon a storm or a great song
-Rilke
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to
make them come true
~ Leon J Suenes
Dont be a cynic and disconsolate preacher Dont bewail and moan Omit the
negative propositions Challenge us with incessant affirmatives Dont waste
yourself in rejection or bark against the bad but chant the beauty of the good
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once whether
youre ready or not to put it into action
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author
Fall seven times stand up eight
Japanese proverb
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars
or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven
to the human spirit
~ Helen Keller
Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends
Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet)
First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have
to do
Epictetus
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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to
make them come true
Leon J Suenes
If you would create something you must be something
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Stay together friends
Dont scatter and sleep
Our friendship is made
Of being awake
The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away weeping
That way it stays in the garden whereas another roundness rolls
through a dry riverbed looking for what it thinks it wants
Stay here quivering with each moment like a drop of mercury
-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives as parallel realities It is
always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend when we choose not
to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance
thats present love health family friends work the joys of nature and personal
pursuits that bring us pleasure the wasteland of illusion falls away and we
experience heaven on earth
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to
raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years
ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I
demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my
life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to
becoming
~ Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert) Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change
the world today
~ Wil Rose
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A bird doesnt sing because it has an answer it sings because it has a song
~ Maya Angelou
Great minds have purposes little minds have wishes Little minds are subdued by
misfortunes great minds rise above them
~ Washington Irving
Step by step I cant think of any other way of accomplishing anything
~ Michael Jordan
If you employed study thinking and planning time daily you could develop and use
the power that can change the course of your destiny
~ W Clement Stone
We are called to speak for the weak for the voiceless for victims of our nation
and for those it calls enemy for no document from human hands can make these
humans any less than our brothers
-Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Disposal of hazardous wastes is not the root problem Rather it is the root
symptom
-Hawken Paul There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the
things we do
Freya Stark
Try a little harder to be a little better
Gordon B Hinckley
If you love something and stick with it you will get phenomenal results
Bob Proctor
You can chain me you can torture me you can even destroy this body but you will
never imprison my mind
Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Political and Spiritual Leader
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Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and
triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead
Chinese Proverb Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs
Michael Levine
Nurture your mind with great thoughts To believe in the heroic makes heroes
Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881 British Prime Minister The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your
blueprint or plan Strategies are like recipes choose the right ingredients mix
them in the correct proportions and you will always produce the same predictable
results
~ Charles J Givens
More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our
lives that determine our destiny
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
Happy the manwoman who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his
wishes and his powers
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I hope that my achievements in life shall be these that I will have fought for what
was right and fair that I will have risked for that which mattered and that I will
have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better
place for what Ive done and who Ive been
~ C Hoppe
The vision that you glorify in your mind the ideal that you enthrone in your heart
this you will build your life by and this you will become
James Allen
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Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
Gandhi
There never was a time when in my opinion some way could not be found to
prevent the drawing of the sword
-General Grant To be a warrior
is to be genuine
in every moment of your life
-Chogyam Trungpa Im convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs
from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance
- Steve Jobs Regret for wasted time is more wasted time
Mason Cooley
Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow
Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)
More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our
lives that determine our destiny
Anthony Robbins Author and Speaker
Material possessions will rust away wear away or depreciate but your inner
resources character must never depreciate In seeking success you must also seek
fulfillment Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be
~ Elizabeth Dole Anything in life that we dont accept will simply make trouble for us until we make
peace with it
~ Shakti Gawain
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious
stupidity
-Dr Martin Luther King Jr
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Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobodys going to know
whether you did it or not
Oprah Winfrey Talk Show Host Producer and Philanthropist
If you must begin then go all the way because if you begin and quit the unfinished
business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time
Chogyam Trungpa
I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career I have lost almost 300 games
On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and I
missed I have failed over and over and over again in my life And thats precisely
why I succeedcc
~ Michael Jordan
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what
they most enjoy
~ Malcolm Forbes
Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future
Paul Boese Botanist
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons
determination
Tommy Lasorda (1927- American baseball manager) I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more
~ Dr Jonas Salk The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame
Rod Steiger
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul
~ Marcus Aurelius
The best way
to make your dreams come true
is to wake up
-Kabir
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You can do what you have to do and sometimes you can do it even better than you
think you can
Jimmy Carter (1924- American President (39th)) ―If you create an act you create a habit If you create a habit you create a
character If you create a character you create a destiny
ndash Andre Maurois They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them
feel
~ Carl W Buechner When you affirm big believe big and pray big putting faith into action big things
happen
Dr Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Preacher and Author You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are taken
out of your life
~ James G Bilkey
In every difficult situation is potential value Believe this then begin looking for it
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832 German poet dramatist novelist)
Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be
sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all around
It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want
in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us These
secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth helps you get clarity on
your real heart directives
-Sara Paddison
The best thing to spend on your children is your time
~ Louise Hart
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The best things come to those who wait
- Unknown
Ask five economists and youll get five different explanations six if one went to
Harvard
~ Edgar R Fiedler There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through
encouragement from someone else I dont care how great how famous or
successful a man or woman may be each hungers for applause
~ George M Adams Do not fear death fear the unlived life
Natalie Babbitt Leadership is no longer about your position Its now more about your passion for
excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title
Robin Sharma
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions have
all come back from defeat
Sam Snead (1912-2002 American golfer)
What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision
-Helen Keller The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement
Yet almost no one gets the encouragement they need
to grow to their full potential If everyone received the
encouragement they need to grow the genius in most
everyone would blossom and the world would produce
abundance beyond the wildest dreams We would have
more than one Einstein Edison Schweitzer Mother
Theresa Dr Salk and other great minds in a century
~Sidney Madwed
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Dont build your happiness on someone elses unhappiness
~ Richard Rose
―The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all
the world
~ Ramana Maharshi
Somewhere there is someone who dreams of your smile and finds in your presence
that life is worthwhile
So when you are lonely remember its true somebody somewhere is thinking of
you
~ Anon
If youre open to altering your plans a bit you might achieve even better results
than youd anticipated
Peggy McColl A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will
point out the means
William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)
Successful people dont do different things they just do things differently
- Unknown You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are
taken out of your life
James G Bilkey Author
Dreams do come true if we only wish hard enough You can have anything in life if
you will sacrifice everything else for it
James M Barrie (1860-1937 British playwright)
Seven blunders of the world
that lead to violence
wealth without work
pleasure without conscience
knowledge without character
commerce without morality
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science without humanity
worship without sacrifice
politics without principle
-Mahatma Gandhi
When people speak of prosperity they generally mean success and measure it in
terms of financial abundance There are books seminars and training sessions
designed to help individuals to be prosperous Clearly many are seeking the path to
prosperity Ironically when one is seeking prosperity the message they give to
themselves and the universe is that they do not have enough This is a scarcity
mentality and tends only to manifest more scarcity
~ Gwen Randall Young Money makes money and the money makes more money
~ Benjamin Franklin
BE the change you wish to see in the world
- Ghandhi The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched
They must be felt with the heart
~ Hellen Keller
Understanding does not cure evil but it is a definite help inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness
-Carl Jung
You are not powerless about anything
When you get a vision and then find
alignment with it you ARE powerful
And then amazing things begin to
happen around you
- Abraham-Hicks
Be kind whenever possible It is always possible
~ Dalai Lama
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A consistent soul believes in destiny a capricious one in chance
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881 British statesman Prime Minister)
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots
George Herbert (1593-1632 British metaphysical poet)
It is not the greatness of a mans means that makes him independent so much as
the smallness of his wants
William Cobbett (1762-1835 British journalist reformer)
If you desire many things many things will seem few
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American scientist publisher diplomat) Its the little things you do that can make a big difference What are you
attempting to accomplish What little thing can you do today that will make you
more effective You are probably only one step away from greatness
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker You may delay but time will not and lost time is never found again
~ Benjamin Franklin
Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction
~ Matthew Burton
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light
~ Helen Keller
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength
~ Sigmund Freud
Blessed are those that can give without remembering and take without
forgetting
~ Liz Bebesco Waiting is a trap There will always be reasons to wait
The truth is there are only two things in life reasons and results and reasons
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simply dont count
~ Dr Robert Anthony
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become
wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing The long
term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their
Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed
~ Srully Blotnick
If now there is something you
choose to experience in your life
do not want it -- choose it
Do you choose success in worldly
terms Do you choose more money
Good Then choose it Really
Fully Not half-heartedly
- Conversations with God Book 1
Its a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you
very often get it
-Somerset Maugham
A world of abundance surrounds you if only you will step up and claim it Make life
happen through you rather than letting it happen to you It will make all the
difference in the world
- Ralph Marston Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving
it
~ William Arthur Ward
We must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible
otherwise we would not continue to search
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Prosperity consciousness is the awareness that all of us have something of value
to offer and we all deserve to get paid for what we provide to others
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Peggy McColl Author of Viral Explosions Proven Techniques to Expand Explode or Ignite Your Business Or Brand Online Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying
~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it
- Lou Holtz Procrastination is opportunitys natural assassin
~ Victor Kiam Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough
- Og Mandino 1923-1996 American Motivational Author and Speaker When you judge others you do not define them you define yourself
~ Earl Nightingale
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly
~ Richard Bach
If you tell the truth you dont have to remember anything
-Mark Twain
The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity
belonging to them
William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions
have all come back from defeat
Sam Snead 1912-2002 Golfer Faith is the assurance of things hoped for
- Unknown
The mediocre teacher tells The good teacher explains The superior teacher
demonstrates The great teacher inspires
~ William A Ward
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Never complain and never explain
~ --Benjamin Disraeli
Bless a thing and it will bless you Curse it and it will curse you If you bless a
situation it has no power to hurt you
Emmet Fox 1886-1951 Spiritual Leader Man alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man
alone can dream and make his dreams come true
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970 American speaker author Think And Grow Rich) Without AMBITION one starts nothing Without WORK one finishes nothing
The prize will NOT be sent to you You have to WIN it
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please
everyone
- Bill Cosby What we leave behind is not engraved in stone monuments but woven into the lives
of others
~ Pericles The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of
being unwanted
~ Mother Teresa (1910-1997 Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)
Tough times never last Tough people do
-Robert Schuller
Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions
- Eric Butterworth
A fellow at one of my workshops confessed For years I was so miserable that I
prayed to God daily to let me wake up as happy as my dog I went home and
thought about it Am I as happy as my dog Hmmmm
~ Alan Cohen
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of
your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the
unknown
Denis Waitley Author and Speaker
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us
William Feather (1888-19 American writer businessman )
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow but only
empties today of its strength
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892 Preacher
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win by fearing to
attempt
William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British poet playwright actor)
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of
your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the
unknown
Denis Waitley (1933- American author speaker trainer peak performance expert)
Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as
it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong
is simply your own false imagination Thats all
~Robert Adams
How many ideas have there been in history that were unthinkable ten years
before they appeared
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Life in itself is an empty canvas it becomes whatsoever you paint on it You can
paint misery you can paint bliss This freedom is your glory
~Osho
―Cease trying to work everything out with your minds it will get you nowhere Live
instead by intuition and inspiration let your whole life become a revelation
~Eileen Caddy
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People should appreciate ugliness because if it wasnt for ugliness beautiful
things wouldnt look beautiful
~ Sam Lau
No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig If
you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time Let it first
blossom then bear fruit then ripen
~Epictetus
You are the Self that perfect immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else
ever existed Nothing else will ever exist There is only one Self and you are That
Rejoice
~Robert Adams
Part of being a champ is acting like a champ You have to learn how to win and not
run away when you lose Everyone has bad stretches and real successes Either way
you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident
~ Nancy Kerrigan
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision
~ Muhammad Ali
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents works his tail off to
develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals
~ Larry Bird
Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love a gift to that person a
beautiful thing
-Mother Teresa
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end Its not a day when you
lounge around doing nothing its when youve had everything to do and youve done
it
-Lord Acton
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
- Walter Bagehot
Only the weak are cruel Gentleness can only be expected from the strong
~ Leo Buscaglia
If you are too busy to spend time with your children then you are busier than God
intended you to be
~ Rabbi Mendel Epstein
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Procrastination is the fear of success People procrastinate because they are
afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now Because
success is heavy carries a responsibility with it it is much easier to procrastinate
and live on the someday Ill philosophy
~ Denis Waitley
Happiness cannot come from without It must come from within
~ Helen Keller
I make occasional visits to reality But Im not a full- time resident
-Ashleigh Brilliant
People are like sticks of dynamite The power is on the inside but nothing happens
until the fuse gets lit
Mac Anderson Author Are you disappointed discouraged and discontented with your present level of
success Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status Do you want to
become a better and more beautiful person than you are today Would you like to
be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine
humility Then start dreaming Itlsquos possible You can become the person you have
always wanted to be
Robert H Schuller (1926- American minister author social leader)
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You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant
aspiration
- James Allen 1864-1912 Author of As A Man Thinketh
The man who has done his best has done everything
~ Charles Schwab Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can start from now
and make a brand new ending
~ Carl Bard
When I get ready to talk to people I spend two thirds of the time thinking what
they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 16th President of the United States Discontent is the first necessity of progress
Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)
You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how
youre going to live - now
- Joan Baez Singer Songwriter
Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as
it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong
is simply your own false imagination Thats all You are the Self that perfect
immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else ever existed Nothing else will
ever exist There is only one Self and you are That Rejoice
~Robert Adams If your dream is a big dream and if you want your life to work on the high level
that you say you do theres no way around doing the work it takes to get you
there
~ Joyce Chapman We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an
imperfect person perfectly
~ Sam Keen
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―A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe a part limited in time
and space He experiences himself his thoughts and feeling as something
separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness This
delusion is a kind of prison for us restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest to us Our task must be to free ourselves from
this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and
the whole of nature in its beauty
-- Albert Einstein
―Each contact with a human being is so rare so precious one should preserve it
- Anais Nin
―Only connect That was the whole of her sermon Only connect the prose and the
passion and both will be exalted and human love will be seen at its height Live in
fragments no longer Only connect
-- EM Forster
―Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the
self And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our
connectedness to others
-- Harriet Goldhor Lerner
―And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to
do the same As we are liberated from our fear our presence automatically
liberates others
-- Marianne Williamson
No no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like
waters and righteousness like a mighty stream
Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968 American Civil Rights leader Nobel Prize winner 964)
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a
very long time
~ Andre Gide (1869-1951 French author)
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Write down the thoughts of the moment Those that come unsought for are
commonly the most valuable
Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Philosopher Statesman Scientist and Author
A woman should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to
accomplish it Even if she fails again and again to accomplish her purpose (as she
necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will
be the measure of her true success and this will form a new starting point for
future power and triumph
~ James Allen
To be blind is bad but worse is to have eyes and not see
~ Helen Keller
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning
to see an imperfect person perfectly
` Sam Keen
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can
start from now and make a brand new ending
` Carl Bard Always make a total effort even when the odds are against you
Arnold Palmer (1929- American golfer)
Learning is finding out what you already know Doing is demonstrating that you
know it Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you You are
all learners doers teachers
Richard Bach (1936- American author)
Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day
Jenner Bruce 1949- American track athlete author speaker
Doubt whom you will but never yourself
John Christian Bovee (1820-1904 American author lawyer)
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When you give someone a book you dont give him just paper ink and glue You
give him the possibility of a whole new life
Christopher Morley 1890-1957 Novelist Journalist and Poet
Dont be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality If you can dream
it you can make it so
Belva Davis Award-Winning Journalist
The secret of mans being is not only to live but to have something to live for
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose
Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity and high purpose by itself is
utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Watch your thoughts they become words
Watch your words they become actions
Watch your actions they become habits
Watch your habits they become character
Watch your character it becomes your destiny
~ Frank Outlaw
Take good care of your future because thats where youre going to spend the
rest of your life
~ Charles F Kettering
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams
John Barrymore
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground
Stephen Covey
Its never too late to be what you might have been
George Elliot
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Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder
than anything we can say
Wilfred Peterson
True peace is not merely the absence of some negative force - tension confusion
or war it is the presence of some positive force - justice good will and
brotherhood
-Martin Luther King Jr
The important thing in this world is not where we stand but in what direction we
move
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing Action always
generates inspiration Inspiration seldom generates action
-Frank Tibolt
The only way to eliminate waris to love our children more than we hate our enemies
-Golda Meir
It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope
is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they
both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your
years
~ Abraham Lincoln
Hold your head high stick your chest out You can make it It gets dark
sometimes but morning comes Keep hope alive
~ Jesse Jackson
Set your sights high the higher the better Expect the most wonderful things to
happen not in the future but right now Realize that nothing is too good Allow
absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way
Eileen Caddy Author
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To understand the heart and mind of a person look not at what he has already
achieved but at what he aspires to do
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931 Lebanese poet novelist )
Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality
Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is
transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible
~Osho
What is the best thing about being 100 years old Lack of peer pressure
-Michael Pritchard
The more credit you give away the more will come back to you The more you help
others the more they will want to help you
~ Brian Tracy
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact
~ William James
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes Chance nature
compulsions habit reason passion desire
~ Aristotle When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth think of Algebra
-Will Rogers
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say Yes Ive got
dreams of course Ive got dreams Then they put the box away and bring it out
once in a while to look in it and yep theyre still there These are great dreams
but they never even get out of the box It takes an uncommon amount of guts to
put your dreams on the line to hold them up and say How good or how bad am I
Thats where courage comes in
~ Erma Bombeck
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You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really
stop to look fear in the face You must do the thing which you think you cannot
do
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you love the money will follow
Marsha Sinetar (American author To Build The Life You Want Create The Work You Love)
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement we must choose freedom and the
responsibility this entails
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998 American expert on love lecturer author)
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of
itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as
powerful as your desires unless you make them so
Marcia Wieder (American speaker trainer author)
I work every day -- or at least I force myself into my office or room I may get
nothing done but you dont earn bonuses without putting in time Nothing may
come for three months but you dont earn the fourth without it
Mordecai Richler (1931- Canadian writer)
If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation
by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in
which you are rendering it
Roger Babson 1875-1967 Statistician and Columnist Its simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about
what the other fellow is going to do
- John R Amos
All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas
~ Hakuin
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly
or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man
~Chang Tzu
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The important thing is not to stop questioning Curiosity has its own reason for
existing One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of
eternity of life of the marvelous structure of reality It is enough if one tries
merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day Never lose a holy
curiosity
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect
abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human
laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought
of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will
bring it into being
~Eileen Caddy
Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality
Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is
transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible
~Osho
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who
keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road
Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961 Statesman and Secretary-General of UN
Life is one massive challenge after another for everyone So you cant feel sorry
for yourself One real measure of you as a person is how much you can handle
without whining
~ Mike Brescia Author
We are each of us angels with only one wing And we can only fly by embracing each
other
-Luciano de Crescenzo
He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he
would like to have
~ Socrates
Quite often we change jobs friends and spouses instead of ourselves
~ Akbarali H Jetha
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame
~ Benjamin Franklin
You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where
your thoughts take you
- James Allen
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will
embrace for that day We cannot change our past
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way We cannot change
the inevitable The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have and that
is our attitude
- Charles Swindoll author
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others
- Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC
If you want your life to be more rewarding you have to change the way you think
- Oprah Winfrey
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless
- Mother Teresa
By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible
- Italian Proverb
Enthusiasm is the all-essential human jet propeller It is the driving force which
elevates people to miracle workers and creates endless energy the source of all
accomplishment
-Norman Vincent Peale
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends
you choose for you will become like them-
- W Clement Stone
Ones philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one
makes In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves The process
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never ends until we die And the choices we make are ultimately our own
responsibility
- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something that were
supposed to do
~ Richard Rose I love the name of honor more than I fear death
~ Julius Caesar
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future making it predictable
and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible
Hannah Arendt 1906-1975 Political Theorist
Man has no greater enemy than himself
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374 Italian poet humanist)
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety
-Aesop
You cannot tailor make your situation in life but you can tailor make your
attitudes to fit those situations
- Zig Ziglar speaker and author Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you
and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in
line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not
get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker The only people who never fail are those who never try
Ilka Chase (1905-1978 American author actor)
In truth you are spirit The body has been projected by the mind which itself
originates from Spirit If the wrong identification ceases there will be peace and
permanent indescribable bliss
~Ramana Maharshi
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I flow with loving gratitude for all my blessings today
- Zoe Jarboe
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be
~ Abraham Lincoln You are wealthy now with an abundance of what you are thinking about The world
is a creative engine and will create whatever you are really thinking Every thought
in your mind is a prayer about you no matter who the subject seems to be
~ Brad Jensen
A man who works with his hands is a laborer a man who works with his hands and
his brain is a craftsman but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his
heart is an artist
-Louis Nizer
When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score
John Enoch Powell (1912-1998 British statesman)
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get credit Try if
you can to belong to the first class there is far less competition
~ Dwight Morrow 1873-1931 Businessman Politician and Diplomat
Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt
conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything
~ St Ignatius Loyola Action is the real measure of intelligence
~ Napoleon Hill
Take the first step and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid But the
first essential is that you begin Once the battle is started all that is within and
without you will come to your assistance
~ Robert Collier
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You are what you are today because of the decisions and the choices YOU made
yesterday
~ Wayne Goonie
I have never seen a man who could do real work except under the stimulus of
encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom he is
working
Charles M Schwab (1862-1939 American industrialist businessman)
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can
- Danny Kaye (1913-1987) Entertainer A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in
spite of overwhelming obstacles
~ Christopher Reeve A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always
with the same person
~ Mignon McLaughlin
We learn from failure much more than from success we often discover what we
will do by finding our what we will not do and probably he who never made a
mistake never made a discovery
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904 Scottish author)
I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)
Life has indeed many ills but the mind that views every object in its most
cheering aspect and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good bears
within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote
Lydia H Sigourney 1791-1865 Poet
The Next Step
The first step needs action to start it
The last requires patience to end
So we question which ones most important
When we realize our dreams our best friend
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Well the answer is neither theyre equal
But the one that will help you win through
And connect what you start to the finish
Is the next step thats waiting for you
Lifes dreamers are great Goal Achievers
Their faith and persistence just blends
Into one awesome cocktail of knowledge
That whatever they want they can get
You see they never visualize failure
Its success that they see shining through
Its essential to start and to finish
But the next step is what you must do
Alison Wilson
Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you
and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in
line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not
get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker
There is no such thing as natural touch Touch is something you create by hitting
millions of golf balls
~ Lee Trevino
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation We do not act rightly because
we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted
rightly We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit
~ Aristotle
The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement If everyone received the
encouragement they need to grow the genius in most everyone would blossom and
the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams
~ Unkwown
I do not believe in miracles at least not defined in the conventional religious
manner as divine disruptions of the natural order But if a miracle is defined as an
infinitely improbable phenomenon then our existence is a miracle which no theory
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natural or supernatural will ever explain
-John Horgan
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that with nine women
pregnant you can get a baby in a month
--Wernher von Braun
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never
find out
~ Frank A Clark
You are what you are today because of the decisions and the
choices YOU made yesterday
~ Revt Wayne Goonie
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do
a little
~ Edmund Burke
We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something
that were supposed to do
~ Richard Rose
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small
people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become
great
- Mark Twain
Rich and poor are first created in the mind
A poor man asks How much will it COST me
A rich man asks How much will it MAKE me
Which one are you
~ Bryan Kumar
If you think you can do something that you cannot the belief itself prevents you
from accomplishing the task either because you never try it in the first place or
because you have block yourself by your belief
-Deena Zalkind Spear
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)
Character is doing whats right when nobodys looking
- J C Watts Jr Politician
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people
always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great
Mark Twain 1835-1910 Humorist and Writer
We are all salesmen every day of our lives We are selling our ideas our plans our
enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact
~ Charles M Schwab It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition
- Vernon Howard Maturity begins when were content to feel were right about something without
feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong
Sydney J Harris 1917-1986 Syndicated Columnist
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum
- Frances Willard Educator
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given
~ Deepak Chopra Once power was considered a masculine attribute In fact power has no gender
~ Katherine Graham
An invasion of armies can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come
Victor Hugo
As the purse is emptied the heart is filled
Victor Hugo
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Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them
give way beneath her and yet sings knowing that she hath wings
Victor Hugo
Have no fear of robbers or murderers They are external dangers petty dangers
We should fear ourselves Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murders
The great dangers are within us Why worry about what threatens our heads or
purses Let us think instead of what threatens our souls
Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door closes a prison
Victor Hugo
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man
Victor Hugo Be all you can be and live a good life -- have fun with it
Tina Yothers
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace
Yes Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive inner peace does
not
-Eckhart Tolle
A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Physician and writer
The superior persons learning goes in his ear attaches to his heart expands to
the end of his limbs and is established in his actions
Even in his smallest word or slightest action he sets an example
~ Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) When I thought I couldnt go on I forced myself to keep going My success is
based on persistence not luck
Estee Lauder Entrepreneur
If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased
Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003 American actress writer)
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Make Your Mark Count A childs life is like a piece of paper on which every person
leaves a mark
- Chinese Proverb
Pain shared is lessened joy shared increased
~ Spider Robinson
The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits
~ Albert Einstein
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift let it be enthusiasm
Bruce Barton (1886-1967 American author advertising expert)
When you give your children knowledge you are telling them what you think That
is you are telling them what they are supposed to know what you want them to
understand is true
When you give your children wisdom you do not tell them what to know or what is
true but rather how to get to their own truth
-Neale Donald Walsch
I have found that if you love life life will love you back
- Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Musician
The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see
magic and beauty in them while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves
~ Kahlil Gibran
Practice is just as valuable as a sale The sale will make you a living the skill will
make you a fortune
~ Jim Rohn
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875 British author clergyman)
Dont cry because its over - smile because it happened
Author unknown
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Happiness is like a kiss You must share it to enjoy it
~ Bernard Meltzer Our life is what our thoughts make it
~ Marcus Aurelius The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best Therefore it tends to
become the best It takes the form or character of the best and will receive the
best
-- Wallace Wattles
Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings
-- Marianne Williamson
―And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present and can be none in
the future And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned
to beautiful results
mdash Walt Whitman When you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with your Self
When you lose touch with your Self you lose yourself in the world
Your innermost sense of Self of who you are is inseparable from stillness
This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form
Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks
With wisdom I see that I am nothing
With love I see that I am everything
Between these two my life turns
Nisargadatta Maharaj Man often becomes what he believes himself to be If I keep on saying to myself
that I cannot do a certain thing it is possible that I may end by really becoming
incapable of doing it On the contrary if I shall have the belief that I can do it I
shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the
beginning
Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Indian Nationalist Leader
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Strategies designed to avoid something eventually produce exactly the thing they
are trying to avoid
-Michael Greenwood and Peter Nunn
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but
are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults
seem insignificant
Charles A Cerami
If all you did was just look for things to appreciate you would live a joyous
spectacular life
~Abraham-Hicks
Three things in human life are important The first is to be kind The second is to
be kind And the third is to be kind
- Henry James (1843-1916) Writer The moment of enlightenment is when a persons dreams of possibilities become
images of probabilities
~ Vic Braden Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot
fly
~ Langston Hugues Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which
smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what win and
preserve the heart and secure comfort
Humphry Davy 1778-1829 Chemist
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900 German philosopher)
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 (1871-1940) Writer
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Some dream of doing great things while others stay awake and get on with it
~ Unknown With all your science can you tell how it is and whence it is that light comes into
the soul
-Hanry David Thoreau
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one but you wont come up
with a handful of mud either
- Leo Burnett (1891-1971) Advertising Executive
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the
only way we can leave the future open
Lillian Smith 1897-1966 Writer Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
~ Thomas A Edison Find something youre passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it
Julia Child (1912-2004 American gourmet cook author and television personality)
Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today
and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American
dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are
created equal
- Martin Luther King Jr ―Never let formal education get in the way of your learning
- Mark Twain
The path to success is to take massive determined action
~ Anthony Robbins For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the practice of tolerance ones enemy is the best teacher
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson When defeat comes accept it as a signal that
your plans are not sound rebuild those plans
and set sail once more toward your coveted goal
~ Napoleon Hill
We are all alike on the inside
Mark Twain (1835-1910 American humorist writer)
If you are going to do something carelessly it is better to give it up entirely
Russian Proverb
The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you
Smile and it smiles too
Herbert Samuels
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our
children
Charles R Swindoll
The important thing is not so much that every child should be
taught as that every child should be given the wish to learn
John Lubbock
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been
Mark Twain
It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere
Steve Goodier A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops
Henry Adams
It is only with the heart that one can see clearly for the most
essential things are invisible to the eye
~ Antoine de Sainte Exupery
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the
critical decisive hour Write it on your heart that every day is
the best day of the year
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier Be the living
expression of Gods kindness kindness in your face kindness in your eyes kindness
in your smile
- Mother Teresa
Its never too late to be who you might have been
- George EliotWriter
Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle
- Plato Philosopher
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition
- Vernon Howard
Ilsquove always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up
- Beverly Sills Opera Singer
Help others get ahead You will always stand taller with someone else on your
shoulders
- Bob Moawad Business Leader
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks
like work
Thomas Edison
Dream as if youll live forever
Live as if youll die tomorrow
~ James Dean
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 Author
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As we grow up we get sophisticated out of enchantment and become too smart
about the things that cause children to wonder
-Thomas Moore
People come out to see you perform and youve got to give them the best you have
within you The lives of most men are patchwork quilts Or at best one matching
outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations A lifetime of
training for just ten seconds
Jesse Owens (1913-1980 American Olympian)
Nothing is easy to the unwilling
- Nikki Giovanni Whatever course you have chosen for yourself it will not be a chore but an
adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving if your sights are set
far above the merely secure and mediocre
~David Sarnoff 1891-1971 Entrepreneur I dont know any other way to lead but by example
Don Shula (1930- American football coach) Flexible people never get bent out of shape
- Author Unknown The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record
of successful experiences behind you
~ William Jennings Bryan The important thing is this To be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we could become
~ Charles du Bois Success isnt permanent and failure isnt fatal
- Mike Ditka
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The different between us is that I count and you dont
-Huston Smith
I love strange choices Im always interested in people who depart from what is
expected of them and go into new territory
Cate Blanchett Actress Always do your best What you plant now you will harvest later
Og Mandino (1923-1996 American motivational author speaker wwogmandinocom ) Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the Universe is endlessly
bountiful Just put forth a clear enough request and everything that your heart
desires must come to you
~Shakti Gawain The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would
suffice to solve most of the worlds problems
~ Unknown The only real valuable thing is intuition
- Albert Einstein
Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve
lost a part of your life
~ Michael Leboeuf Fear is an insidious virus Given a breeding place in our minds it will eat away our
spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors
~ James F Bell
You cant base your life on other peoples expectations
Stevie Wonder Grammy Award Winning SingerSongwriter
An excuse is worse than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded
Alexander Pope (1688-1744 British poet critic translator)
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The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and
beginning the work of becoming yourself
- Anna Quindlen ―Exert your talents and distinguish yourself and donlsquot think of retiring from the
world until the world will be sorry that you retire
- Samuel Johnson Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of
the odds against them They make the impossible happen
~ Dr Robert Jarvik
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances
if there is any reaction both are transformed
-Carl Jung There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right between
fairly good and the best between mediocrity and superiority
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess
I wish you enough Hellos to get you through the final Goodbye
Bob Perks
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
~ William Shakespeare
It doesnt matter where you are coming from All that matters is where you are
going
~ Brian Tracy You need to be a somebody before you can be a nobody
-Brant Cortright
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old
Franz Kafka Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it
bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an
unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win and lose many
a battle
~ Annie Besant
I believe in taking a positive attitude toward the world My hope still is to leave
the world a little bit better than when I got here
Jim Henson 1936-1990 Muppets Creator Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life
Gita Bellin
Education is when you read the fine print Experience is what you get if you
dont
- Pete Seeger
Keep your thoughts positive because they become your words
Keep your words positive because they become your behaviors
Keep your behaviors positive because they become your habits
Keep your habits positive because they become your values
Keep your values positive because they become your destiny
-Gandhi
The challenge is not to manage time but to manage ourselves
Stephen Covey
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death It not only gives us
fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which
we hold our present being
~ William Hazlitt
Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith Having
faith in yourself in the process of change and in the new direction that change
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sets will reveal your own inner core of steel
Georgette Mosbacher Business Executive
Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life
Gita Bellin
Careful what you wish for Millions long for immortality who do not know what to
do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon
- Susan Ertz
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us What we have done for
others and the world remains and is immortal
Albert Pine
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us
We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant gorgeous talented fabulous Actually
who are you NOT to be You are a child of God Your playing small does not serve
the world There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont
feel insecure around you We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is
within us It is not just in some of us it is in everyone And as we let our own light
shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same As we are
liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others
~ Marianne Williamson
Focus on where we want to end up not on what we want to avoid
-Paula Underwood Spencer
A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact
that everything has happened for the best
Author Unknown
Change your thoughts and you change the world
- Harold R Mcalindon Today is yesterdays effect and tomorrows cause
~ Phillip Gribble
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find
he can do what he was afraid he couldnt do
~ Henry Ford
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist
- Paul Harvey
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes
up his mind to do We are all capable of greater things than we realize
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)
When everybody is looking for gold its a good time to be in the picks and shovels
business
~ Mark Twain
Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve
lost a part of your life
~ Michael Leboeuf
It is a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you
very often get it
~ W Somerset Maugham
Flatter me and I may not believe you Criticize me and I may not like you Ignore
me and I may not forgive you Encourage me and I will not forget you Love me and
I may be forced to love you
William Arthur Ward
―Trust yourself You know more than you think you do
Benjamin Spock
―A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise
after success
Anon
―Nine tenths of education is encouragement
Anatole Franc
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Maybe you cant change the whole world but if you have love in your heart you can
make small differences every day which really does change the world one life at a
time
Kristina Koncz Customer Experience Specialist
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 (American author The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness)
Truce is better than friction
- Charles Herguth
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them -- a desire a dream a vision
~ Muhammad Ali
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each mans
life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that
take our breath away
~ George Carlin
You can conquer almost any fear if you will make up your mind to do so For
remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind
Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Author and Speaker
Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others
They learn when they do which isnt often on their own the hard way
Robert Heinlein (1907-1988 American science fiction writer)
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the
expense of everybody else
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-Frederic Bastiat
Some think its holding on that makes one strong sometimes its letting go
- Sylvia Robinson We are responsible for what we are and whatever we wish ourselves to be we
have the power to make ourselves If what we are now has been the result of our
own past actions it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be
produced by our present actions so we have to know how to act
~ Swami Vivekananda
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and
make a new ending
~ Maria Robinson
We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves
Brian Tracy (1944- Canadian-born American trainer speaker author businessman)
Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow
- Slovakian Proverb
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know
peace
~Jimi Hendrix Do not wait the time will never be just right
Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your
command and better tools will be found as you go along
~ Napoleon Hill
When we lose the right to be different we lose the privilege to be free
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948 American jurist politician)
You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone which can become a
watered-down occasional hope that youll get to tomorrow Intention without
action is useless
Caroline Myss Author of Entering The Castle
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Plan ahead -- It wasnt raining when Noah built the ark
-Anononymous
Only you can be yourself
No one else is qualified for the job
- Shelby Collinge
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
~ Confucius
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom But in the last analysis our
only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves
~ Bernard M Baruch
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941 Indian poet philosopher)
Worry is the misuse of the imagination
- Dan Zadra
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded
Maya Angelou
Trust yourself Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your
life Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into
flames of achievement
~ Foster C McClellan There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal
experience has brought it home
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873 British philosopher economist)
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall
never sit in
-Greek proverb
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails
- Bertha Calloway
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Democracy arose from mens thinking that if they are equal in any respect they
are equal absolutely
~ Aristotle
Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can
~ Richard Bach
If the world seems cold to you kindle fires to warm it
~ Lucy Larcom All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their
gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible
Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer Physician Hotel Owner and founder of Success Magazine
A Friend is a treasure more precious than Gold For love shared is priceless and
never grows old
Author Unknown
Only that which cannot be taken away by death is real Everything else is unreal it
is made of the same stuff dreams are made of
~Osho
Personality can open doors but only character can keep them open
- Elmer G Leterman
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they
dont know when to quit Most men succeed because they are determined to
~ George Allen Coach
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what
lies within us
~ Walt Emerson Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by
employing it well Then youth will be happy old age without regret and life a
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beautiful success
Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 Novelist Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution
experience lifes deepest joy true fulfillment
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet enough trials to make you
strong enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy
-Anonymous
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the
things we do
- Freya Madeline Stark
We must become the change we want to see
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You know its not more knowledge its not more education its not more facts
that we need Its a better use of what we already have that we need to have You
have each and every one of you within your potential power right now to do a
wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be
respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure
Buddha (568-488 BC Indian born founder of Buddhism)
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change and all patterns alter
- Sharon Salzberg When we let freedom ring when we let it ring from every village and every
hamlet from every state and every city we will be able to speed up that day when
all of Gods children black men and white men Jews and Gentiles Protestants and
Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro
spiritual
Free at last Free at last
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Thank God Almighty we are free at last
~ Reverand Martin Luther King Jr All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them
~ Walt Disney Your own common sense should tell you that common sense alone is not enough
-Ashleigh Brilliant
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and
deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your
place
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
Know what counts
No matter what youve done for yourself or for humanity if you cant look back on
having given love and attention to your own family what have you really
accomplished
- Lee Iacocca
There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen
~ Frederick Faust There are those that look at things the way they are and ask why I dream of
things that never were and ask why not
~ Robert F Kennedy
There is nothing impossible to him who will try
~ Alexander the Great
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance Remember the greatest
failure is to not try Once you find something you love to do be the best at doing
it
Debbi Fields Founder of Mrs Fields Cookies
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left
undone
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars
~ Les Brown
Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been
told is what they cant do They dont know what they want because they dont
know whats available for them
~ Zig Ziglar
Accept that some days youre the pigeon and some days youre the statue
-Anonymous
Be life long or short its completeness depends on what it was lived for
- David Starr Jordan
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life
by altering his attitude
~ William James
It has never been and never will be easy work
But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road
built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
―No matter what anybody tells you words and ideas can change the world
~ John Keating (from the movie Dead Poets Society) hellip Every tomorrow has two handles We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887 American preacher orator writer) The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it
~ Chinese proverb
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Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
~ Thomas Edison
I am always doing things I cant do thats how I get to do them
~ Picasso When you maximize your talents youre on path on purpose on target When you
dont youre off path off purpose off target
Kevin Hall Author of Aspire
Comparisons of ones lot with others teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975 American novelist playwright)
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
While we have the gift of life it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of
us to die - whether it is our spirit our creativity or our glorious uniqueness
- Gilda Radner
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state
of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is
wounded trust impaired
~ Erik H Erikson
Dont go on discussing what a good person should be Just be one
Marcus Aurelius
Our wisdom comes from our experience and our experience comes from our
foolishness
Sacha Guitry
I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery than live in a
world so small that my mind could comprehend it
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Our first teacher is our own heart
Cheyenne proverb
Power coerces
Knowledge persuades
Love converts
Proverb
Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back but so they will kiss their
children and their childrens children
Noah Benshea
We read to know we are not alone
CS Lewis
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better
Albert Einstein
Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always makes
you less than you are
- Malcolm Forbes
When you know that youre capable of dealing with whatever comes you have the
only security the world has to offer
Harry Browne 1933-2006 Writer and Politician
You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never
be ableto repay you
- John Wooden
Freedom know this that every manwoman is free to choose his life and what hell
be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call
persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light in nameless ways be
good and kind but never force the human mind
~ William C Clegg
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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than
the one you are capable of living
~ Nelson Mandela to Marianne Williamson If it werent for the rocks in its bed the stream would have no song
-Carl Perkins
Whenever encountering a troublesome person do not identify him as being cruel
or stupid or rude or anything else like that Instead see him as a frightened
person
Vernon Howard 1918-1992 Author and Philosopher When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it
elsewhere
~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer) Live for the moment
If I have learnt anything it is that life forms no logical patterns It is haphazard
and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by for who knows whether any
of them will ever return
- Margo Fonteyn
Isnt it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings
and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of
tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a
stumbling block or stepping stone
~ Edgar Guest We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit
~ Aristotle
Whatever you can do or dream you can do begin it Boldness has genius power
and magic in it
~ Wolfgang von Goethe Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state Being in love shows a person who he should be ~ Anton Chekhov
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Follow the grain in your own wood
- Howard Thurman
It is said that if you are not living your dreams you are living your fears
~ Ghalil Professional Dreamer
―Dont ask what the world needs Ask what makes you come alive because what the
world needs is people who have come alive
- Harold Thurman
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing
do it with all your mind Put your whole soul to it Stamp it with your own
personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will
accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Essayist Philosopher and Poet
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)
For the most part fear is nothing but an illusion When you share it with someone
else it tends to disappear
- Marilyn C Barrick
The purpose of life is not to arrive safely at your death
- Robert Holden
When everything seems to be going against you remember that theairplane takes
off against the wind not with it
Henry Ford
There are two freedoms the false where a man is free to do what he likes the
true where he is free to do what he ought
~ Charles Kingsley Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one
could find fault with it
John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer)
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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
New ideas pass through three periods
It cant be done
It probably can be done but its not worth doing
I knew it was a good idea all along
-Arthur C Clarke A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you think creates your life all you have to do is ask yourself what you are
willing to accept into your life
~ Ghalil Author - Professional Dreamer
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and
deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your
place
~ Orison Swett Marden Well done is better than well said
~ Benjamin Franklin Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one
could find fault with it
John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer) If youre looking for perfection look in the mirror If you find it there expect it
elsewhere
Malcolm S Forbes (1919-1990 American publisher businessman) Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have
- H Jackson Brown Jr A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things
~ Chinese Proverb
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If we listened to our intellect wed never have a love affair Wed never have a
friendship Wed never go into business because wed be cynical Well thats
nonsense Youve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down
~ Ray Bradbury
Successful people decide how they are going to live they are not victims of
circumstance In good times or bad times they know where they are going and they
know that they are going to get there
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker
First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win
~ Mahatma Gandhi The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing
- Walt Disney 1901-1966 American Film ProducerDirectorAnimator
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas first make him your friend
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
Doubting everything or believing everything are two equally convenient solutions
both of which save us from thinking
-Jules Henri Poincareacute
Dont be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning Thats only the initial
impression The important thing is not to retreat you have to master yourself
Olga Korbut Olympic Gold Medallist Gymnast
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental
difference in someones life
- Sister Mary Rose McGeady All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future
task of the philosopher which is to solve the problem of value to determine the
true hierarchy of values
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him
~ Martin Luther King Dont concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal -
leave that completely to a power greater than yourself All you have to do is know
where youre going The answers will come to you of their own accord and at the
right time
Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Syndicated Radio Announcer and Author
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs
~ Gloria Steinem
Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today
and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American
dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are
created equal
~ Martin Luther King Jr
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you have imagined
David Thoreau Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do
that but the really great make you believe that you too can become great
~ Mark Twain Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure (values) and Ill tell
you their philosophy of life
~ Dale Carnegie To forgive is merely to remember ONLY the LOVING thoughts you gave in the
past and those that were given you ALL the rest must be forgotten
~ A Course In Miracles If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a
prophet
Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904-1991 Journalist and Writer
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us
~ Voltaire
We are all of us stars and we deserve to twinkle
~ Marilyn Monroe
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do
right
~ Nelson Mandela
It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope
is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they
both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society
~J Krishnamurti
Every situation properly perceived becomes an opportunity to heal
~ A Course in Miracles
The love that you withhold in life is the pain that you carry
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as
the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature
John D Rockefeller (1839-1937 American industrialist philanthropist founder Exxon)
All I ask is for an unfair advantage
~ WC Fields Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words Keep your
words positive because your words become your behaviors Keep your behaviors
positive because your behaviors become your habits Keep your habits positive
because your habits become your values Keep your values positive because your
values become your destiny
~Gandhi
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Your ego is creating obstacles Maya creating maya
~Babaji Step back Observe without judgment unconditional Watch now as obstacles
melt become no-thing Do this each time a block appears Step back and observe
without judgment
~Babaji
Everybody cannot be a painter a poet or a geniusthose are given qualities from
birth But everybody can be enlightened Enlightenment is the only thing the only
experience where everybody is equally capable And it does not depend on whether
you believe in God or not it depends only on one thingand that is a little taste (of
meditation) and suddenly you become confident that youre capable of it
~Osho There are no accidents or coincidences in this world Nothing is by chance
Everything you experience is a direct manifestation of where you focus your
attention and hold your vibration
~Jafree When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off
into the darkness of the unknown faith is knowing one of two things will happen
There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly
~ Barbara J Winter High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly make big decisions quickly and
move into action immediately Follow these principles and you can make your dreams
come true
Robert H Schuller Televangelist Pastor and Author
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you but seek out another to console and
you will find consolation
J C Macaulay
High Expectations are the key to everything
~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart
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Until you make peace with who you are youll never be content with what you
have
~ Doris Mortman You must constantly ask yourself these questions Who am I around What are
they doing to me What have they got me reading What have they got me saying
Where do they have me going What do they have me thinking And most
important what do they have me becoming Then ask yourself the big question Is
that okay Your life does not get better by chance it gets better by change
Jim Rohn 1930-2009 Author and Speaker
Believe it You CAN succeed at whatever you do as long as you simply take the
right ACTIONS
~ ER Haas CEO
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do The hard
part is doing it
~ General H Norman Schwarzkopf So let your deepest desires direct your aim Set your sights far above the
reasonable target The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire
that stirs the heart
Price Pritchett Author of You2
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1826-1977 British economist critic)
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or
better than themselves
~ Tryon Edwards
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high
and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it
~ Michelangelo Compared to what we ought to be we are only half awake We are making use of
only a small part of our physical and mental resources Stating the thing broadly
the human individual thus lives far within his limits He possesses power of various
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sorts which he habitually fails to use
William James (1842-1910 American psychologist professor author) People wait for opportunity to come along yet it is there every morning
~ Dennis the Menace A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow
~ George S Patton (1885-1945 American army general during World War II)
The last best fruit which comes to late perfection even in the kindliest soul is
tenderness toward the hard forbearance toward the unforbearing warmth toward
the cold philanthropy toward the misanthropic
~ Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825 German novelist)
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a
prophet
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991 Polish-born American journalist writer)
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than
by those given to us by others
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662 French scientist religious philosopher) Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty
~ John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)
Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect
abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human
laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought
of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will
bring it into being
~Eileen Caddy
Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we
believe And the only real wealth for any of us lies in our faith
~ Gordon B Hinckley
Desire is the Starting Point of All Achievement
~ - Napoleon Hill
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And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to
do the same
Nelson Mandela
The more we have the less we own
Meister Eckhart (1260-1326 German mystic)
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every
pebble in the road
Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887 Preacher and Abolitionist
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength Richard L Evans
The secret of Happiness is Freedom and the secret of Freedom Courage
~ Thucydides (Greek historian 460-404 BC)
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in
the mature than in the young
Paul McCartney SingerSongwriter I cant believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary
Lou Holtz (937- American football coach)
Dont let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he
was
~ Richard L Evans
To dream anything that you want to dream that is the beauty of the human mind
To do anything that you want to do that is the strength of the human will To trust
yourself to test your limits that is the courage to succeed
~ Bernard Edmonds
I find my greatest pleasure and so my reward in the work that precedes what the
world calls success
Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)
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It is good to act as if It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer
an act
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832 British sportsman writer)
Tell me what you want and Ill show you how to get it
~ Bob Proctor
One is very crazy when in love
~ Sigmund Freud
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed Always aim at
purifying your thoughts and everything will be well
Mahatma Gandhi
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything keep it
Mahatma Gandhi Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
Mahatma Gandhi
Hate the sin love the sinner
Mahatma Gandhi
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress
Mahatma Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress
Mahatma Gandhi
True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the
future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied
with what we have which is sufficient for he that is so wants nothing The great
blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach
~ Seneca 4 BC to 65 AD - Spanish Philosopher
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When you paint success pictures in your mind you initiate an inner process
whereby your attitudes hopes aspirations and enthusiasm are elevated in
response to an image of a more promising future Every person who aspires must
first sell themselves hope the promise of a better life
US Andersen 1917-1986 Author of The Magic In Your Mind
How far is far how high is high Well never know until we try
Song from the California Special Olympics If you take each challenge one step at a time with faith in every footstep your
strength and understanding will increase
~ James E Faust
What is your individual purpose What would you like to be able to say is your
legacy I believe that each of us wants to find our purpose in life our raison
detre or reason for being We need to have a motive to get out of bed in the
morning We want to feel alive and passionate about something Something that
makes a difference in the world We are not alone in this and yet many of us are
still searching for that purpose
~ Veronica Hay We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds
Warren Buffett (1930- American investment entrepreneur)
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy but its good too to
check up once in a while and make sure you havent lost the things money cant
buy
George Lorimer 1867-1937 Editor of Saturday Evening Post
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence Talent will not nothing is
more common than unsuccessful men with talent Genius will not unrewarded genius
is almost a proverb Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent
~ Calvin Coolidge
Desperation can be as powerful inspirer as genius
Benjamin Disraeli
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We read to know we are not alone
CS Lewis
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better
Albert Einstein The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the
road after you have shown him the way
Confucius
A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his
grandfather
Angie Papadakis
My father didnt tell me how to live he lived and let me watch him do it
Clarence B Kelland No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing
William Barclay
If you think youre lucky you are
Bobby Dodd
When youre safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when youre
having an adventure you wish you were safe at home
Thornton Wilder Obstacles dont have to stop you If you run into a wall dont turn around and give
up Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it
~ Michael Jordan In order to attain the impossible one must attempt the impossible
~ Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616 Spanish novelist dramatist poet)
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as
the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature
~ John D Rockefeller
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is
when men are afraid of the light
~ Plato
Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by action alone
Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 Philosopher and Author
Poverty is not a shame but the being ashamed of it is
English Proverb
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well
~ Unknown
We need to exert ourselves that much more and break out of the vicious cycle of
dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful those in command of
immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own
image
~ Nelson Mandela
High Expectations are the key to everything
~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart
Failures are expected by losers ignored by winners
~ Joe Gibbs Football Coach Most people live and die with their music still unplayed They never dare to try
Mary Kay Ash
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own
existence
Aristotle
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to
the eye
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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If A equals success then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z
with X being work Y play and Z keeping your mouth shut
~ Albert Einstein
Tomorrows battle is won during todays practice
Japanese Proverb
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days
What you can do or think you can do begin it For boldness has magic power and
genius in it
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Poet Novelist and Scientist
Forget about all the reasons why something may not work You only need to find
one good reason why it will
Dr Robert Anthony
No matter how busy you are you must take time to make the other person feel
important
Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001 American businesswoman founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)
I used to be a very serious not funny negative person Funny-cism Skepticism
Criticism and all Then I got introduced to the world of Positive Thinking Now Im
bipolar
~ Andy Dooley Spiritual Comedian and Professional Speaker
Your past is not your potential In any hour you can choose to liberate the future
Marilyn Ferguson (American writer) Everyone wants to be appreciated so if you appreciate someone dont keep it a
secret
~ Mary Kay Ash 1915-2001 Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds
and these magnets attract to us the forces the people the circumstances of life
which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts
~ Napoleon Hill
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You more often recognize your inadequacies rather than your strengths
~ James E Faust
I live by this credo Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness
instead of sadness Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations Even
in your darkest moment you usually can find something to laugh about if you try
hard enough
Red Skelton 1913-1997 Comedian
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth
George W Crane Some self-confronting questions
Where do I want to be at any given time
How am I going to get there
What do I have to do to get myself from where
I am to where I want to be
Whats the first small step I can take to get moving
~ George A Ford The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can
bribe the public with the publics money
- Alexis de Tocqueville The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race
~ Don Marquis At the height of laughter the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new
possibilities
-- Jean Houston Begin to weave and God will give you the thread
~ German Proverb If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who
are rich
John F Kennedy (1917-1963 35th American President)
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If you keep THINKING what you are thinking you will keep DOING what you are
doing and you will keep GETTING what you are getting
~ Dr Robert Anthony The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world
~ Lao-tzu Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to
let them know that you trust them
Booker T Washington 1856-1915 Educator and Writer ―Stress is the tax you pay for not taking 100 responsibility for your life
mdashDr Barnet Meltzer Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it
~ Irving Berlin It is by surmounting difficulties not by sinking under them that we discover our
fortitude
~ Hannah Webster Foster
Believing requires action
~ James E Faust
Dont do anything in practice that you wouldnt do in the game
George Halas (1895-1983 American football coach)
Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to reach for the
roof and land in the garbage
~ Savanna Skinner
Whatever you focus your intention on is what will show up in your life
Your consistent thoughts create your consistent results
~ Dr Robert Anthony
He who gains a victory over other men is strong but he who gains a victory over
himself is all powerful
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Lao-Tzu (BC 600- Chinese philosopher founder of Taoism) His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the
memory of a wrong
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great masters merit emulation not worship
-- Alan Cohen
Mirth is Gods medicine Everybody ought to bathe in it
-- Henry Ward Beecher
Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things but just look what they can do
when they stick together
~ anon
Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you
are and what you want
-- Alan Cohen
Life isnt about waiting for the storm to pass its about learning to dance in the
rain
~Anonymous
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call
failure is not the falling down but the staying down
Mary Pickford 1893-1979 Actress and Producer
Courage does not always roar Sometimes courage is that quiet voice at the end of
the day that saysI will try again tomorrow
-Mary Anne Radmacher
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act or thought or word that raises
us above ourselves
~ Arthur P Stanley
―You see things and say Whylsquo but I dream things and say Why notlsquo
- George Bernard Shaw
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―The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and
convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges
- Martin Luther King Jr
―Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do
that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great
- Mark Twain
―That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as
well
- Abraham Lincoln
―Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though
checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor
suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat
- Theodore Roosevelt
―Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm
- Winston Churchill
―I have not failed Ilsquove just found 10000 ways that wonlsquot work
- Thomas Edison If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun
--Katharine Hepburn
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees
problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems
~ Winston Churchill
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but
are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults
seem insignificant
Charles A Cerami Author
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If everyone on earth loved each other the earth would shine brighter than the
sun
-- Source unknown
As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again you are
merely a vague guest on a dark Earth
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So many worlds so much to do so little done such things to be
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy nothing can make a fool content
that is why most men are miserable
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer)
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live
~ Flora Whittemore 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 1880-1968 Author and Lecturer Where theres a will theres a way
English Proverb A manwoman without ambition is dead
A man with ambition but no love is dead
A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive
~Pearl Bailey We cant help everyone but everyone can help someone
~ Ronald Reagan
We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we
cannot
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
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Once you realize you dont need anything youre free to have whatever you want
- Ian Watson
Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy ~ Norman Vincent Peale Every goal every action every thought every feeling one experiences whether it
be consciously or unconsciously known is an attempt to increase ones level of
peace of mind
~ Sidney Madwed
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so For
remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind
Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Speaker and Author Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes
Chinese Proverb
―Focus your attention on your desire
not the situation that gave birth to your desire
mdashRich German Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone
and let your hand give in proportion to your purse
~ George Washington
Time I have only just a minute
Only sixty seconds in it
Forced upon me cant refuse it
Didnt seek it didnt choose it
But its up to me to use it
I must suffer if I lose it
Give account if I abuse it
Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it
~ Christine Warren
Do what you can with what you have where you are
~ Theodore Roosevelt
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With every adversity comes a seed of equal or greater opportunity
~ Napoleon Hill
Heart is merely another name for the Supreme Spirit because He is in all hearts
The entire Universe is condensed in the body and the entire body in the Heart
Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
―If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back then
you suffer Every moment is the most important moment of your life No future
time is better than now to let down your guard and love
~ David Deida
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for youll be criticized anyway Youll
be damned if you do and damned if you dont
~ Eleanor Roosevelt Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
~ John Wooden
One difference between successful people and all the rest is that successful
people take action
~ Bob Proctor Speaker and Author
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left Every
mans greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life
~ P W Litchfield ―There is a giant asleep within every man When the giant awakes miracles happen
~ Frederick Faust Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of
itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as
powerful as your desires unless you make them so
Marcia Wieder Author and Speaker
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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning by dreams that need
completion by pure love that needs expressing then we truly live life
~ Greg Anderson Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you
Never excuse yourself
~ Henry Ward Beecher There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge
- both poverty and riches are offspring of thought
~ Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich The person with a fixed goal a clear picture of his desire or an ideal always
before him causes it through repetition to be buried deeply in his subconscious
mind and is thus enabled thanks to its generative and sustaining power to realize
his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort Just pursue
the thought unceasingly Step by step you will achieve realization for all your
faculties and powers become directed to that end
~ Claude M Bristol Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake
~ Henry David Thoreau If opportunity doesnt knock build a door
~ Milton Berle Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am
not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise
not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our quality of life incidence
of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak It is born of strength and
understanding
-- Meher Baba Unworthiness is simply a case of mistaken identity
-- Alan Cohen
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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet
-- Mahatma Gandhi If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march
on
-- Stopford Brooke It is usually the imagination that is wounded first rather than the heart it being
much more sensitive
~ Henry David Thoreau You need not struggle for your good Your good flows to you naturally when you are
relaxed open and trusting
-- Alan Cohen If you dont love it you cant afford it
Alan Cohen
Ask for peace first and you will clearly see your next step
-- Alan Cohen I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited
and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts Namely the physical universe
-- Ken Jenkins Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional
~ Mark Sanborn Life isnt what you want it to be its what you make it become
~ Anthony Ryan
If you are very quiet you can hear the world applauding
--Source unknown
Do you remember how electrical currents and unseen waves were laughed at
The knowledge about man is still in its infancy
~ Albert Einstein
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Wherever you go go with all your heart
~ Confucius I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up Most people in this
business gave up and went on to other things If you simply didnt give up you
would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you
Harrison Ford Actor
The quality of your life is determined by the number of uncomfortable
conversations you are willing to have
~ Rich German
To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define
themselves As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate
influences of the culture and environment we grow up in we come to have beliefs
about the nature of being human These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of
our psychosomatic systems our minds and brains our nervous systems our
endocrine systems and even our blood and sinews We act speak and think
according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems
~ Jeremy W Hayward
A mans true wealth is the good he does in the world Mohammed (c570-c632
Mecca spiritual leader
Every man is the architect of his own fortune
~ Sallust
What is opportunity and when does it knock
It never knocks
You can wait a whole lifetime listening hoping and you will hear no knocking
None at all
You are opportunity and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny
You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity to pursue and seize opportunity as
you develop the strength of your personality and build a self-image with which you
are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing
~ Maxwell Maltz
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Today I would like to become the man my dog thinks I am
Jack Thomson Entrepreneur BE the change you want to see in the world
- Mahatma Gandhi
Leaders are made they are not born They are made by hard effort
which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile
~ Vince Lombardi To honor the spirit is to accept the opportunity for your healing and personal
evolution When you choose to assume radical personal responsibility knowing that
you are responsible for the effect external circumstances have on you you are
taking a stand for the power of your spiritual nature to run the show
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think Its really important that you feel good Because this feeling good is what goes
out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you So the
more you can feel good the more you will attract the things that help you feel
good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher
Joe Vitale Author and Speaker Just listen to the still voice within This is the mind to trust This is god
consciousness speaking not the ego that is seeking recognition
~Angela Walker
There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart If you pray it it will
change your life How does it begin
-- Matthew Anderson
For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin but there was
always some obstacle in the way Something had to be got through first some
unfinished business time still to be served a debt to be paid Then life would
begin At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life
~ Bette Howland
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power then the world will know
peace
Jimmy Hendrix There are two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the
credit Try to be in the first group there is less competition there
Indira Gandhi Its good to have money and all the things that money can buy but its good too to
make sure you havent lost the things that money cant buy George
Horace Lorimer When you take things for granted the things you are granted get taken
Phil Hennessy Self-confidence is a state of mind where you believe that you deserve the best
you are capable of achieving the best and furthermore you expect the best to
happen
--- Dr Barnet Meltzer Writing is good thinking is better Cleverness is good patience is better
~ Hermann Hesse
You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the
greatness you perceive in them is your own
-- Alan Cohen
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their
gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible
Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday If you do it right today
--Sheldon S Maye
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength
not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will
~ Vince Lombardi
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The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too
-- William Hutchinson Murray
Youve got to get up every morning with determination if youre going to
go to bed with satisfaction
-- George Horace Lorimer Faith is born of Definiteness of Purpose
Keep your mind on the things that you do want and off the things that you do not
want
~ Unknown You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals
George S Patton 1885-1945 American Army General
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have
thrown at him
~ David Brinkley
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough
~ Helen Keller
If what you did yesterday seems big you havent done anything
today
Lou Holtz
Dont wait for extraordinary opportunities Seize common occasions and make
them great Weak menwomen wait for opportunities strong menwomen make
them
~ Orison Swett Marden
The recognition you seek from others is really the recognition you seek from
yourself Give it to yourself and you wont need it from others
-- Alan Cohen Ninety percent of the population wish positive but think negative
~ Leslie Householder
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You are more likely to create success when you are relaxed about a result than
when you are uptight about it
-- Alan Cohen Embrace Change True success can be defined by your ability to adapt to
changing circumstances
-- Connie Sky Aim High The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for
what we could become
-- Charles Du Bos Dont ask for an easier life ask to be a stronger person
Shared by Kristen Goeser
Your consciousness is a powerful force for creating It determines the people you
are attracted to and the people who are attracted to you If you want to improve
your lot in life or the quality of your relationships choosing to accept personal
responsibility is the first and most important step
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise it is all
over Bolt up at once
-- Sir Walter Scott
You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you cant have it
- Dr Robert Anthony Live so that you wouldnt be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip
Will Rogers 1879-1935 Comedian and Actor
Everyone rides on the merry go round of life but very few ever take the chance
at the brass ring
-- Kevin Veitch
We gain internal freedom through external actions
- Ram Dass
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Everyone was born original but most people die copies
~ Unknown Without passion you dont have energy without energy you have nothing Nothing
great in the world has been accomplished without passion
~ Donald Trump When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened before us
~ Helen Keller
I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody
Bill Cosby Comedian Actor and Author Give up your identity as a seeker and become a finder Then everything you ever
sought will find you
-- Alan Cohen
The reason we put a lot of emphasis on action is because we do not understand the
power of our thought If you analyze it 90 percent of most peoples actions
are spent trying to compensate for inappropriate thought
~ Dr Robert Anthony Prosperity lets go the bridle
-- George Herbert
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered
heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed They won because they refused to
become discouraged by their defeats
Bertie Charles Forbes 1880-1954 Financial Journalist Author and Founder of Forbes Magazine He who jumps to conclusions falls to their death
-- Mark J Ottaviani Im not a believer in nor the advocate of miracles for the reason that I
have enough knowledge of nature to understand that nature never deviates from
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her established laws Her laws are simply so incomprehensible that they produce
what appears to be miracles
~ Napoleon Hill Learn to listen Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly
Frank Tyger
Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can as long as
ever you can
John Wesley Work like you dont need the money Love like youve never been hurt Dance like
nobody is watching
-- Mark Twain
You believe that a lover will bring you love but it is your love that will bring you a
lover
-- Alan Cohen
The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you
The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting The
more joyful you are the more Well-being flows to you
~Abraham-Hicks What nourishes you is not vitamins in food It is the joy you feel in eating it
-- Ramtha
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this
decide what you want
Ben Stein Attorney Author Actor and Commentator
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure to embrace
the new But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful There is
more security in the adventurous and exciting for in movement there is life and in
change there is power
mdashAlan Cohen
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Vision without action is a daydream Action without vision is a nightmare
-- Japanese Proverb
Success is the result of applying sound principles which align with universal laws
The Science of Success is a powerful road map to guarantee your personal
success
~ Brian Tracy
Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to
die
-- Alan Cohen
There are 3 things that are certain in life death taxes and change You cant
avoid change its mandatory progress however is optional
-- Bill R Good Jr
Surrender the illusion that anyone other than you has power or authority over
your life
Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either
openly before us or close to us
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You must be the change you want to see in the world
~ Gandhi
Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a
friendly level
~ Max L Forman
If you want your life to be a magnificent story then begin by realizing that you
are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page
-- Mark Houlahan
If you want to develop in profound and significant ways it is essential that you
build up a reservoir of spiritual and emotional conviction a source of boundless
freedom that will give you the energy to transcend the apparent limitations of
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your own emotional psychological and cultural experience By practicing
meditation with deadly seriousness you cultivate that freedom and conviction in
no-limitation as a reference point Thats the only reason to meditate in the
context of Evolutionary Enlightenment
mdash Andrew Cohen
If our actions stem from honesty kindness caring and vision then no matter
what the result of our efforts we have added something of value to our souls and
to the world
~ Joan Boysenko
Too often the opportunity knocks but by the time you push back the chain push
back the bolt unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm its too late
~ Rita Coolidge We are formed and molded by our thoughts
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them
~ Buddha
We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of the
soul
~ John OlsquoDonohue
No onelsquos past has to be a prison sentence Forgiveness provides the key to
acknowledge the past and move on When we can forgive we have less to be afraid
of
~ Dr Fred Luskin
Isnlsquot it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings
and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of
tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a
stumbling block or stepping stone
~ Edgar Guest
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly
~ Richard Bach
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I donlsquot wait for moods
You accomplish nothing if you do that Our mind must know it has got to get down
to work
~ Pearl S Buck
There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen
~ Fred Faust
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the
risk it took to bloom
~ Anais Nin
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear
~ Nelson Mandela
Itlsquos not about breaking the rules
It is about abandoning the concept of rules altogether
~ Paul Lemberg
Each moment of our life we either invoke or destroy our dreams
~ Stuart Wilde
Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts This is the
secret of success
Swami Sivananda
Whatever you do do it as totally as possible
Osho
I am not afraidhellipI was born to do this
~Joan of Arc
―There is nothing that you cannot be do or have
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
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―Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing
do it with all your might Put your whole soul into it Stamp it with your own
personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will
accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Success is never final Failure is never fatal It is courage that counts
~ Winston Churchill
What are you tolerating that would not be a part of your ideal day
-- Alan Cohen Trust yourself You know more than you think you do
-- Dr Benjamin Spock True friends and healers do not limit your options They expand them
-- Alan Cohen When it comes to staying young a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day
-- Marty Bucella Achievement seems to be connected with action Successful men and women keep
moving They make mistakes but they dont quit
Conrad Hilton 1887-1979 Founder of Hilton Hotels Successful people form the habit of doing what failures dont like to do They like
the results they get by doing what they dont necessarily enjoy
Earl Nightingale1921-1989 Author and Syndicated Radio Personality When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent
you are clear
Janet AttwoodAuthor of The Passion Test The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it
Chinese proverb
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by
changing the inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their
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lives
~ William James
Never look up to the people who have the painted-perfect lives because try as
they might they can never see beyond the canvas
~ Moira Hallsom
Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born
~ Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body
~ Pythagoras
If life gives you lemons make lemonade
~ Joan Collins
The only place where dreams are impossible is in your own mind
~ Emalie
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions But no man has
a right to be wrong in his facts
~ Bernard M Baruch
Begin to weave and God will give you the thread
~ German Proverb
No day in which you learn something is a complete loss
~ David Eddings
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we
are and what we can be igniting the circuits of our highest potential
-- Rusty Berkus
The optimist says we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears
this is true
-- Source Unknown
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If I had listened to the critics Id have died drunk in the gutter
-- Chekov
Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice It is not a thing to be
waited for it is a thing to be achieved
-- Jeremy Kitson
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental
difference in someones life
- Sister Mary Rose McGeady
One never knows what each day is going to bring The important thing is to be
open and ready for it
- Henry Moore
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in
the same individual
- Arthur Koestler
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it
- Lou Holtz Motivation is like food for the brain You cannot get enough in one sitting It needs continual and
regular top ups
~ Peter Davies
Dont tell me how hard you work
Tell me how much you get done
~ James Ling
Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures
dont like to do
~ Albert Gray
―There is a science of getting rich and it is an exact science like algebra or arithmetic There
are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches and once these laws are learned
and obeyed by anyone that person will get rich with mathematical certainty ~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
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―Everything you want should be yours the type of work you want the relationships you need
the social mental and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled the money
you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you and any requirement that you may (or
may not) have for achievement or service to others If you donlsquot aim for it all youlsquoll never get it
all To aim for it requires that you know what you want ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle ―Eliminate the word impossible from your thinking and speaking vocabularies Impossible is a
failure word The thought ―Itlsquos impossible sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove
youlsquore right ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in accomplishment Big in
income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right now to discover how to make your
thinking make magic for you Start out with this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli ―Life
is too short to be little ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―If you have a big problem in your life all that means is that you are being a small person ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind ―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo for success
nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make much of a difference ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you If God gives you a bucket of fish you
have to distribute those fish If you donlsquot theylsquore going to rot attract a bunch of flies and
start stinking up your soul ~ Russell Simmons from Do You ―In my experience therelsquos only one thing that will always steer you toward success Thatlsquos to
have a vision and to stick with ithellip Once I have a vision for a new venture Ilsquom going to ride that
vision until the wheels come off ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by changing the
inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their lives
~ William James
There is no courage without fear
~ Eddie Rickenbacher
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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make who would you call and what
would you say And why are you waiting
-- Stephen Levine
Remember we all stumble every one of us Thats why its a comfort to go hand in hand
~ Emily Kimbrough The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding
~ the Bible
The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives
~ Louise Hay
The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation
~ Comer Cotrell
Give it all youve got because you never know if theres going to be a next time
~ Danielle Ingrum
Dont try to force anything Let life be a deep let-go God opens millions of flowers everyday
without forcing their buds
~Osho
The definition of Insanity is Doing the Same Things Over and Over Again and Expecting Different
Results
~ Albert Einstein
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us This little treasure
has great great powers and I would say we only have learnt a very very small part of what it can
do
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work
~ John G Pollard
Vacation is a state of mind not an action
-- Alan Cohen
Whatever games are played with us we must play no games with ourselves
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Desperation does not recognize your power to choose
-- Alan Cohen
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When people talk listen completely Most people never listen
-- Ernest Hemingway
Heaven is gained or lost not by dramatic deeds but by the simple of acts of daily living
-- Alan Cohen
There is only one voice worth listening to
--Alan Cohen Reverie is not a mind vacuum It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul
--Gaston Bachelard
Why get rich quick when you can be rich now
-- Alan Cohen
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure
-- Joseph Campbell
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes
-- Henry Kaiser
Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of
another
Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister
When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent you are clear
Janet Attwood Author of The Passion Test
New peace harmony and power fill your relationships when you practice radical personal
responsibility Through it you enter a more refined sphere of relating that enhances your life and
accelerates the realization of your ultimate spiritual self Practicing radical personal responsibility
forever changes the way you approach and resolve conflict
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The Cure for the Common Upset (p 10)
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and
discomfort We spend enormous energy denying our insecurity fighting pain death and loss and
hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature
- Jack Kornfield A Path with Heart
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Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am not aware of
any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has
a greater impact on our quality of life incidence of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant they is a fuel in us which needs
to be ignited with sparks
Johann Gottfried Von Herder
Energy is the essence of life Every day you decide how youre going to use it by
knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal and by maintaining
focus
-Oprah Winfrey
The acquisition of wealth is no longer a driving force in the 24th century We
strive to better ourselves and the rest of humanity
-- From the movie Star Trek Insurrection
―You cannot exercise much power without gratitude for it is gratitude that keeps
you connected with Power
~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
―To do things in a way you want to do them you will have to acquire the ability to
think the way you want to think this is the first step toward getting rich
~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
―There are three crucial dimensions to your explanatory style permanence
pervasiveness and personalization
~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism
―Habits of thinking need not be forever One of the most significant findings in
psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they
think
~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism
―Action always beats inaction ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
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―Itlsquos not enough to be in the right place at the right time You have to be the right person in the
right place at the right time ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Every thought vibrates every thought radiates a signal and every thought
attracts a matching signal back We call that process the Law of Attraction The
Law of Attraction says That which is like unto itself is drawn And so you might
see the powerful Law of Attraction as a sort of Universal Manager that sees to it
that all thoughts that match one another line up
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
―It is our desire that you become one who is happy with that which you are and
with that which you havemdashwhile at the same time being eager for more That is the
optimal creative vantage point To stand on the brink of what is coming feeling
eager optimistic anticipationmdashwith no feelings of impatience doubt or
unworthiness hindering the receiving of itmdashthat is the Science of Deliberate
Creation at its best
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
―As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around you come to see that every
perceived problem appearing ―out there is really nothing more than a
misperception within your own thinking
~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is
―The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is
When the mind is perfectly clear what is is what we want
~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself You must be
able to sustain yourself against staggering blows There is no code of conduct to
help beginners That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner
drive go much further than people with vastly superior talent
Sophia Loren Actress
And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your
years
-- Abraham Lincoln
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Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by
holding grudges harboring resentments and nursing unhealed wounds It is
rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to
understand and accept other people and ourselves
~ Sidney and Suzanne Simon
Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity
Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Poet and Physiognomist People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do
things When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success
Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Speaker and Author Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to
believe in me
Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author
With love in you your only need is to extend it
-- A Course in Miracles
Just because it ended doesnt mean it failed
-- Alan Cohen
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find
it
-- George Moore
Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality
-- Alan Cohen
Our biggest problems cannot be resolved They must be outgrown
-- Carl Jung
True prayer penetrates beyond hope and establishes itself in knowing
-- Alan Cohen
So we see to play successfully the game of life we must train the imaging faculty
A person with an imaging faculty trained to image only good brings into his life
every righteous desire of his heart - health wealth love friends perfect self-
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expression his highest ideals
mdash Florence Scovel Shinn
Dont ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it
Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
mdashHoward Thurman
To the degree were not living our dreams our comfort zone has more control of
us than we have over ourselves
-- Peter McWilliams
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams
-- Doug Ivester (President of Coca Cola)
It is not length of life but depth of life
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them but
to reveal their own
-- Author Unknown
A free lunch is only found in mousetraps
-- John Capuzzi
If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you dont you
have achieved half your failure
-- David Ambrose
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesnt lie in not reaching your
goal The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach It isnt a calamity to die with
dreams unfulfilled but it is a calamity not to dream It is not a disaster to be
unable to capture your ideal but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture It is
not a disgrace not to reach the stars but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach
for Not failure but low aim is a sin
~ Benjamin E Mayes
True success is a state of mindThis mindset is the heart and soul of successful
entrepreneurial enterprise You cant get started without it and you cant make a
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business wildly profitable if you dont get it
~ Unknown
Traditional education will make you a living self-education will make you a
fortune
~ Jim Rohn One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests
~ John Stuart Mill
Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different Rather than wasting
time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we dont have what we
want we can start to pursue other ways to get it
~ Greg Anderson
When you confront a problem you begin to solve it
~ Rudy Guilliani ―Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential And to
do that I insist you throw caution at the wind ignore the pleas of parents
coaches spouses and bosses to be realisticlsquo Realistic people do not accomplish
extraordinary things because the odds of success stymie them The best
performers ignore the odds I will show that instead of limiting themselves to
whatlsquos probable the best will pursue the heart-pounding exciting really big
difference-making dreamsmdashso long as catching them might be possible
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―To be sure great performers are well trained experienced smart and in some
cases divinely talented But the way their brains work during a performance is a
lot more like a squirrellsquos than like Einsteinlsquos Like squirrels the best in every
business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilitiesmdashthey
flat out trust their skills which is why we call this high-performance state of mind
the ―Trusting Mindset Routine access to the Trusting Mindset is what separates
great performers from the rest of the pack
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―In every forest on every farm in every orchard on earth itlsquos whatlsquos under the
ground that creates whatlsquos above the ground Thatlsquos why placing your attention on
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the fruits that you have already grown is futile You cannot change the fruits that
are already hanging on the tree You can however change tomorrowlsquos fruits But to
do so you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Believe that you are the one who creates your success that you are the one who
creates your mediocrity and that you are the one creating your struggle around
money and success
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―8020 thinking requires and with practice enables us to spot the few really important things
that are happening and ignore the mass of unimportant things It teaches us to see the wood
for the trees ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle
―The few things that work fantastically well should be identified cultivated nurtured and
multiplied
~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle
―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a journey The
master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after year The master is the one
who is willing to try and fail and try again for as long as he or she lives ~ George Leonard from Mastery
―Whenever you feel shortlsquo or in needlsquo of something give what you want first and it will come
back in buckets That is true for money a smile love friendship I know it is often the last
thing a person may want to do but it has always worked for me I just trust that the principle
of reciprocity is true and I give what I want ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―One dad would sayThe love of money is the root of all evillsquo The other The lack of money is
the root of all evillsquo ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall every step we
take just gets us to the wrong place faster
Stephen Covey
Becoming a star may not be in your destiny but being the best
that you can be is a goal you can set for yourselves
Bryan Lindsay
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Be yourself Who else is better qualified
Frank J Giblin II
Do not learn from your mistakes learn from the mistakes of others
to that you do not make any
Sean Karsten
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower
Shigenori Kameoka
Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to believe in me
Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author
Upsets always contain the gift of learning except most people have never learned how to unwrap
the package
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is
causing anxiety
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970 British philosopher mathematician essayist) Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes
Chinese Proverb
We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we cannot
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
Dont measure yourself by what you have accomplished but by what you should have accomplished
with your ability
John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)
Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty
John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)
Something good is already happening Can you discover it
-- Alan Cohen
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if theyve got a second Give your
dreams all youve got and youll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you
William James 1842-1910 Philosopher and Author
Out of suffering comes creativity You cannot spell painting without pain
-- John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun
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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the
future are not as real but rather more real than the present
- Alan Watts
Boldness has genius power and magic in it Begin it now
~ Goethe
―In the heart of Emptiness there is a mysterious impulse mysterious because
there is actually nothing in the heart of Emptiness (for there is nothing in
Emptiness period) Yet there it is this mysterious impulse the impulse to hellip
create To sing to shine to radiate to send forth reach out and celebrate to
sing and shout and walk about to effervesce and bubble over this mysterious
exuberance in the heart of Emptiness
~ Ken Wilber from One Taste July 31
―Evolution goes beyond what went before but because it must embrace what went
before then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus it has an inherent
directionality a secret impulse toward increasing depth increasing intrinsic value
increasing consciousness In order for evolution to move at all it must move in
those directionsmdashtherelsquos no place else for it to go
~ Ken Wilber from A Brief History of Everything
The secret of being boring is to say everything
- Voltaire 1694-1778 French Writer and Philosopher
―Donlsquot let what you canlsquot do stop you from what you can do
- John Wooden
―You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the
shore
- Christopher Columbus
―Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
- Confucius
―A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed
- Henrik Ibsen
―It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities
- JK Rowling
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―If you are going through hell keep going
- Winston Churchill
―Yesterday is history Tomorrow is a mystery Today Today is a gift Thatlsquos why
we call it the present
- B Olatunji
―To live is the rarest thing in the world Most people exist thatlsquos all
- Oscar Wilde
―You donlsquot get to choose how you are going to die Or when You can only decide how
you are going to live Now
- Joan Baez
―When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us
- Helen Keller
―Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limited Imagination
encircles the world
- Albert Einstein
―If you want to be happy be
- Leo Tolstoy
―Always do right This will gratify some people and astonish the rest
- Mark Twain
―We must be the change we want to see
- Gandhi
―The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most I can better trust those
who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to
enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity
- Ulysses S Grant
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―Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting
- Elizabeth Bibesco
―The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort but
where he stands at times of conflict and controversy
- Martin Luther King Jr
―Begin doing what you want to do now We are not living in eternity We have only
this moment sparkling like a star in our hand ndash and melting like a snow flake
- MB Ray
―I shall pass through this life but once Any good therefore that I can do let me
do it now Let me not defer or neglect it For I shall never pass this way again
- Etienne de Grellet
―This above all To your own self be true
- William Shakespeare
―To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make
you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight
and never stop fighting
- EE Cummings
―In three words I can sum up what Ilsquove learned about life It goes on
- Robert Frost
―Imagine
- John Lennon
You can if you think you can
George Reeves
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile
achievement
Henry Ford 1863-1947 Industrialist
No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself
-- Conrado I Generoso
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When I am delivering my very best then that is when I feel successful
~ Art Fettig
The only limitations you will ever have are the ones you put on yourself
~ Kristinna Habashy
The secret of manwomans being is not only
to live but to have something to live for
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
To hell with circumstances I create opportunities
~ Bruce Lee
Simplicity is making the journey of this life
with just baggage enough
~ Charles Dudley Warner
I dont think theres any such thing as setting your goals too high The higher you
set your goals the more you are going to work If you dont reach them then its
okay just as long as you set it and then give 100 of yourself
~ Dan Jansen Speed Skater
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the circle of Creation
is completed inside us the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal
everything in sight
~ Michael Bridge
Youlsquore darn tootinlsquo Ilsquom going to bring out the best in you You are the best
― Maureen Coleman middle school teacher
Truth is rarely writ in ink It lives in nature
-- Martin H Fischer
Before planning where you want to go decide who you want to be
-- Alan Cohen
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day wisdom consists in not
exceeding the limit
-- Elbert Hubbard
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere
-- Alan Cohen
When the Japanese mend broken objects they fill the cracks with gold They
believe that when somethings suffered damage and has a history it becomes more
beautiful
-- Barbara Bloom
Efficiency without love is not really efficient
-- Alan Cohen
The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively
-- A Course in Miracles
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than
any other one thing
Laura Ingalls Wilder 1867-1957 Author
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as
few as there are any other great artists It might even be the greatest of the arts
since the medium is the human mind and spirit
John Steinbeck 1902-1968 Writer and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Be careful what you spend your day touching because it will shape your mind your
body and your heart
Sam Keen Speaker and Author
I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in
the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he has imagined he will
meet with success unexpected in common hours
Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Writer and Poet
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out
― Michael Burke
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Turn frustration into fascination
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
Money is not the source of life It is an expression or by-product of doing what
brings you life
-- Alan Cohen
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but
sand the angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are gone
- George Elliot
Proceed when clear
-- Alan Cohen
Slow down and enjoy life Its not only the scenery you miss by going too fast --
you also miss the sense of where you are going and why
Eddie Cantor
Life is here to enjoy The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness When it
appears otherwise you are off the path of destiny Look at your life and ask
What do I need to change to choose in favor of my passions
Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life Be happy now Dont wait for something
outside of yourself to make you happy in the future Think how really precious is
the time you have to spend whether its at work or with your family Every minute
should be enjoyed and savored
Earl Nightingale
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life It turns what we have into enough and
more It turns denial into acceptance chaos into order confusion into clarity It
turns problems into gifts failures into success the unexpected into perfect
timing and mistakes into important events Gratitude makes sense of our past
brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow
Melodie Beattie Writer
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Devotion is commitment at a deep cellular level When you are devoted the
universe will align itself to give you what you desire
Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion
Action breeds confidence and courage If you want to conquer fear do not sit
home and think about it Go out and get busy
~ Dale Carnegie
The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all
the world
~Ramana Maharshi
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be
~Daniel J Boorstin
The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively
from his own resources
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire
not things we fear
~ Brian Tracy
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game and no matter how
great your talent there is only one way to obtain it-work
~ Jack Nicklaus Golfer
A goal without a plan is merely a WISH without a HOPE
~ Unknown
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan in which we must
fervently believe and upon which we must vigorously act There is no other route
to success
~ Stephen A Brennan
Knowledge breeds doubt Wisdom births wonder
Alan Cohen
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When you decide what you want it has to manifestbut only at the level of your
belief
Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion
Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity
- John Dryden
It may make people feel more secure when everyone agrees with them but it
wont create a world made rich by the unique and diverse expressions of the human
soul
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
Choice is destinys soul mate
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Truth is a gem of many facets Each facet reflects the brilliance within and
without But the whole reveals a deeper more profound message than all the parts
by themselves
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
He who knows others is wise he who knows himself is enlightened
- Tao Te Ching
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to
our tasks
-- Helen Keller
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret
-- Ambrose Bierce
We must all suffer one of two things the pain of discipline or the pain of regret
or disappointment
-- Jim Rohn
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Many risks fail because they were not taken in time Too many risks are postponed
until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made This does not mean that one
should say Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead That is foolish and self-
destructive But dont sit back waiting for the perfect moment It almost never
comes
-- David Viscott Risking
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter
-- E E Cummings
Reflect upon your blessings of which every man has plenty not on your past
misfortunes of which all men have some
-- Charles Dickens
What the caterpillar calls the end the rest of the world calls a butterfly
-- Lao Tsu
Out of difficulties grow miracles
-- Jean De La Bruyere
Our patience will achieve more than our force
-- Edmund Burke
You must pay in the past to receive in the future
-- Taylor Simpson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what
lies within us
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why Why Not Why Not You Why Not Now
-- Aslan
To become a leader then you must become yourself become the maker of your
own life
--Warren G Bennis
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You have got to discover you what you do and trust it
Barbra Streisand
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the
circle of Creation is completed inside us the doors of our souls
fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight
Michael Bridge
Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean but the
ocean would be less without that missing drop
Mother Teresa
You dont just stumble into the future You create your own future
Roger Smith
Just dont give up on trying to do what you really want to do
Where there is love and inspiration I dont think you can go
wrong
Ella Fitzgerald
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot
do
Walter Bagehot
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser
John W Gardner
Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life
forever
Keri Russell
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while
so that we can see Life with a clearer view again
Alex Tan
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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine
inspiration
Marcus T Cicero
Youve got to follow your passion Youve got to figure out what
it is you love--who you really are And have the courage to do
that
Oprah Winfrey
Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love
mdashRich German
Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small
things brought together
- Vincent Van Gogh
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark The real tragedy is when
men are afraid of the light
-- Plato
If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being
most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of
persistence
Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway
Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right
stuff to turn our dreams into reality
~James Womack
No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn
-- Hal Borland
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge
of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams
- Les Brown
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on
We act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because
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of imagination
- Maxwell Maltz
There is a sleeping giant in you Release it Believe in yourself
~ Bob Proctor
Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste
neither time nor money but make the best use of both
-- Benjamin Franklin
When you talk to God thats prayer When God talks back its schizophrenia
-- Lily Tomlin
Work is not a substitute for love It is an avenue of loves expression
-- Alan Cohen
Look beyond peoplelsquos appearances
Look beyond the roles one plays and the mask they wear
Look deep into their eyes and peer into their soul
There you will find their true essence
There you will find your true essence
And that essence is love
mdashRich German
Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love
mdashRich German
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a
life spent doing nothing
George Bernard Shaw
Formula for success under promise and over deliver
Tom Peters
Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right things
Peter F Drucker
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Be the change that you want to see in the world
Mahatma Gandhi
Creating space is as important as filling it
-- Alan Cohen
Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words may guide you to the door of heaven but only silence opens it
-- Alan Cohen
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing
Bernard Shaw
Formula for success under promise and over deliver
Tom Peters
Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right
things
Peter F Drucker
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge
of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams
- Les Brown
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works onWe
act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because of
imagination
- Maxwell Maltz
No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn
-- Hal Borland
There is a sleeping giant in you
Release it Believe in yourself
~ Bob Proctor
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Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste
neither time nor money but make the best use of both
-- Benjamin Franklin
Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right
stuff to turn our dreams into reality
~James Womack
If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being
most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of
persistence
Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway
The best way to teach people is by telling a story
Jonathan Swift
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody else has thought
Kenneth Blanchard
All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it
-Samuel Butler
Happiness is like a cat If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you It will never
come
But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business youll find it rubbing
up against your legs and jumping into your lap
- William Bennett
The word impossible is only in the mind and not in the heart
- Sri Chinmoy
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another it is the only
means
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Physicist
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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone
And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone
Paul Tillich
Sometimes the cards we are dealt are not always fair However you must keep
smiling amp moving on
~ Tom Jackson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you
- Elbert Hubard
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends
with anyone else in the world
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Thus nature has no love for solitude and always leans as it were on some support
and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship
- Cicero
So it is life is actually made up of our choices We are the sum total of them and
if we hold to an attitude of love and thanksgiving for all the good things within our
grasp we may have what all ambitious people long for - success
Delma Neeley
Believe and your belief will create the fact
~ William James
The principle is competing against yourself
Its about self improvement about being better than you were the day before
~ Steve Young
All of us you your children your neighbors and their children are
everyday geniuses even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by
everyone Thats probably because school hasnt encouraged us to notice whats
hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself
~ Peter Kline
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If youll not settle for anything less than your best you will be amazed at what
you can accomplish in your lives
Vince Lombardi
Ya gotta put your behind in your past
Then youre ready for whatever comes next
~ Pumba The Lion King
Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become
~ James Allen
Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well what
causes sadness and what brings happiness what makes us suffer and what leads to
healing
~ Dean Ornish MD
Three components make an entrepreneur the person the ideaand the resources
to make it happen
~ Anita Roddick
What we can or cannot do what we consider possible or impossible is rarely a
function of our true capability It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who
we are
~ Anthony Robbins
Either Do or Do Not There is No Try
~ George Lucas
Theres a name for the magic that transforms lives connects dots moves
mountains and orchestrates coincidences that shock and astound Imagination
And theres a name for all that stops you in your tracks stirs fear spins wheels
and leaves one wondering Hey whats up with that Imagination
Careful where you point that thing
~ The Universe
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with
them
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is a passionate intuition
-William Wordsworth
Friendship is a sheltering tree
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision Vision is the perfume
of the mind
--Harriet Rubin
Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing
--Harriet Braiker
I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the
present can I act The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of
mental wellness
-Abraham Maslow 1908-1970 Psychologist
In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge
-Aristotle
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our
potential
Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister
The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you
settled for
Maureen Dowd Newspaper Columnist
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything
outside ourselves will affect us
Stephen R Covey Author and Speaker
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Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually
attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life
Christiane Northrup Medical Doctor and Author
We must learn to keep ourselves awake by an infinite expectation of the
dawn
-- Henry David Thoreau
You dont need to struggle to get your body to do or be what your spirit already is
-- Alan Cohen
One must steer not talk
-- Seneca
The more you quantify the less you qualify
-- Alan Cohen
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know Most are
born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly
-- Buckminster Fuller
Any act motivated by guilt does not assuage guilt but perpetuates it
-- Alan Cohen
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for
themselves
-- Peter McArthur
Be so good they cant ignore you
Steve Martin
Its kind of fun to do the impossible
Walt Disney
Its easy to make a buck Its a lot tougher to make a difference
Tom Brokaw
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When I hear somebody sigh Life is hard I am always tempted to
ask Compared to what
Sydney J Harris
In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing The worst
thing you can do is nothing
Sam Walton
I had to pick myself up and get on with it do it all over again only even better
this time
Theodore Roosevelt
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process
~ Jim Rohn
If you can imagine it you can achieve it If you can dream it you can become it
~ William Arthur Ward
There is much in the world to make us afraid There is much more in our faith to
make us unafraid
-- Cropp
Pray for essence rather than form and the form will be a perfect expression of
the essence
-- Alan Cohen
People who soar are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change
Charles R Swindoll Author and Pastor
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with
- Jim Rohn
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your
dreams
- Les Brown
Life is 10 of what happens to me and 90 of how I react to it
John Maxwell
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What you see depends on what youre looking for
Anon
Mind over matter If you dont mind it doesnt matter
-- Alan Cohen
When you are clear on want to how to shows up
-- Michael Neill
Quit struggling to make your body do or be what your spirit already is
-- Alan Cohen
Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation
-- Isaac Newton
Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Whatever you invest it
in will yield more of the same
-- Alan Cohen
When you find yourself stressed ask yourself one question Will this matter five
years from now If yes then do something about the situation If no then let it
go
Catherine Pulsifer Writer
Theres plenty of intelligence in the world but the courage to do things
differently is in short supply
Marilyn vos Savant Columnist Author and Lecturer
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced
by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas
a strong faith is strengthened by them
Viktor E Frankl 1905-1997 Holocaust Survivor and Author of Mans Search for
Meaning
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength
Richard L Evans
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You were not born a winner and you were not born a loser You are
what you make yourself be
Lou Holtz
Remember if you ever need a helping hand youll find one at the
end of your arm As you grow older you will discover that you
have two hands One for helping yourself the other for helping
others
Audrey Hepburn
Dont take life too seriously because youll never get out alive
Josh Shippe
Without hard work nothing grows but weeds
Gordon B Hinckley
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies
--Mother Teresa
Do what you can to show you care about other people and you will make our world
a better place
--Rosalynn Carter
Again and again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is
only a tough decision waiting to be made
--Robert H Schuller
If in our daily life we can smile if we can be peaceful and happy not only we but
everyone will profit from it This is the most basic kind of peace work
--Thich Nhat Hanh
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties
disappear and obstacles vanish into air
- John Quincy Adams
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win
~ GK Chesterton
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown for going
out I found was really going in
mdashJohn Muir 1913
To me itlsquos really so simple that life should be lived on the edge You
have to exercise rebellion To refuse to tape yourself to the rules
to refuse your own success to refuse to repeat yourself to see
every day every year every idea as a true challenge Then you will
live your life on the tightrope
mdashPhilippe Petit (star of the movie Man on Wire)
The first step to creating the lifestyle of your dreams is to simplify
your life
mdashRich German
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees
problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems
Winston Churchill
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you
have and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more
~ Robert Collier
Instead of waiting for someone to take you under their wing go out there and
find a good wing to climb under
~ Dave Thomas
If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself
~ Lord Chesterfield
The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable
competitive advantage
~ Arie de Geus
Human life is purely a matter of deciding whats important to you
-- Source unknown
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Determination and perseverance move the world thinking that others will do it
for you is a sure way to fail
Marva Collins Educator
All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them
~ Walt Disney
Everything that happens to you is self-created Whenever youre responding to
any situation whether its a sip of coffee or a traffic jam or a love note or
criticism from a boss or rainy weather youre in fact responding to a signal that
you generated within yourself
- Deepak Chopra
Relationships are not about intellect they are about feeling They require an
intelligence of the heart
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is
when adults are afraid of the light
- Plato
A good listener is someone who is curious open-minded and nonjudgmental A
good listener is not a know-it-all A good listener knows that truth often reveals
itself bit by bit much like putting together a jigsaw puzzle
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
Its the night that makes the dawning
Its the depths that make the heights
Its the roots that make the branches
Its the darkness that gives birth to Light
- Joel Heathcote
How you hear what someone says is determined by your interpretations and your
interpretations flow from your past This is very important to know especially if
you find that you overreact to what others say or habitually get your feelings hurt
Remember what someone said is not necessarily what you heard and what you
heard is not necessarily what they meant
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
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―Everything ndash a horse a vine ndash is created for some dutyhellipFor what task then
were you yourself created A manlsquos true delight is to do the things he was made
for
~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations
―Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts for the soul becomes dyed with the
color of its thoughts Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as for example
Where life is possible at all a right life is possible
~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations
―hellipEverything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of the human
freedomsmdashto choose onelsquos attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose
onelsquos own way
~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life
expected from us We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life and
instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by lifemdashdaily
and hourly Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation but in right
action and in right conduct Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to
find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly
sets for each individual
~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in lifehellip Therein he cannot be
replaced nor can his life be repeated Thus everyonelsquos task is as unique as is
his specific opportunity to implement it
~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―Ultimately man should not ask what the meaning of his life is but rather must
recognize that it is he who is asked In a word each man is questioned by life
and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life to life he can only
respond by being responsible
~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―History though shows us that the people who end up changing the world- the
great political social scientific technological artistic even sports
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revolutionaries- are always nuts until theylsquore right and then theylsquore geniuses
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement
―Great performers are by definition abnormal
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement
―We all aspire to mastery but the path is always long and sometimes rocky and
it promises no quick pay off So we look for other paths each of which attracts
a different person
~ George Leonard from Mastery
―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a
journey The master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after
year The master is the one who is willing to try and fail and try again for as
long as he or she lives
~ George Leonard from Mastery
At the heart of it mastery is practice Mastery is staying on the path
~ George Leonard from Mastery
―Comfort kills If your goal in life is to be comfortable I guarantee two things
First you will never be rich Second you will never be happy Happiness doesnlsquot
come from living a lukewarm life always wondering what could have been
Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up
to our fullest potential
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
―You can be a victim or you can be rich but you canlsquot be both Listen up Every
time and I mean every time you blame justify or complain you are slitting
your financial throat
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Herelsquos an equation I want you to remember for the rest of your life CZ = WZ
It means your ―comfort zone equals your ―wealth zone By expanding your
comfort zone you will expand the size of your income and wealth zone
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
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―We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we
wait forever before taking action
~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big
―Donlsquot put off until tomorrow what you can do today
~ Benjamin Franklin
―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in
accomplishment Big in income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right
now to discover how to make your thinking make magic for you Start out with
this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli Life is too short to be littlelsquo
~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big
―In the yogic tradition this principle of using intense effort to burn through
lifelsquos distractions is called Tapas Itlsquos another Sanskrit word roughly defined
as ―heat or ―essential energy The concept is that through a disciplined
approach to work and self-sacrifice Tapas will burn away the negativity that
separates us from God By working our hardest and happily enduring the
hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in
ourselves
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a ―hard
job That person will be eager to get started no matter what kind of work is in
front of her because she understands that shelsquos doing Godlsquos work And when
youlsquore working for God nothing is too hard
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo
for success nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make
much of a difference
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work
~ Vince Lombardi
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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than
your best
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The poor and the middle class work for money The rich have money work for
them
~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―We all have tremendous potential and we all are blessed with gifts Yet the
one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt It is not so
much the lack of technical information that holds us back but more the lack of
self-confidence
~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―Who will you have to become to achieve all you want
~ Tony Robbins
―You could say that I worked every minute of my life or you could say with
equal justice that I never worked a day I have always subscribed to the
expression ―Thank God itlsquos Friday because to me Friday means I can work for
the next two days without interruption
~ John Hope Franklin
―I do not believe that you should devote overly much effort to correcting your
weaknesses Rather I believe that the highest success in living and the deepest
emotional satisfaction comes from building and using your signature strengths
~ Martin Seligman from Authentic Happiness
When you begin to recognize that your own presence here in this world is part of
something infinitely bigger than yourself you feel a sense of obligation awakening
within youmdasha spiritually inspired soul-level moral imperative to evolve for the sake
of the future of the evolutionary process itself The way you respond to that
obligation and to that sense of cosmic responsibility is by demonstrating that the
process is profoundly positivemdashindeed the process is sacredmdashthrough your own
example through your own victory through your own tangible and unmistakable
higher development
~ Andrew Cohen
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Its the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief And once that belief
becomes a deep conviction things begin to happen
Claude M Bristol 1891-1951 Author of The Magic of Believing
We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in our
heads fear must be a head thing
Tom Payne Career Development Expert
I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody
Bill Cosby Actor and Comedian
If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year Today
should always be our most wonderful day
- Thomas Dreier Author
Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their
personnel If people believe in themselves its amazing
what they can accomplish
--Sam Walton
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the
aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker
--Helen Keller
Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either
advance or stay where you are
- Maxwell Maltz
Be curious not judgmental
-Walt Whitman
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it
-William James
All life is an experiment
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone
acknowledges who we are and what we can be igniting the circuits
of our highest potential
Rusty Berkus
Being considerate of others will take your children further in
life than any college degree
Marian Wright Edelman
It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit
it frankly and try another But above all try something
Franklin D Roosevelt
see without looking hear without listening breathe
without asking
W H Auden
Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways
you can as long as ever you can
John Wesley
Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to
reach for the roof and land in the garbage
Savanna Skinner
Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope
~ Josh Billings
Whats going on in the inside shows on the outside
~ Earl Nightingale
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life a good society
~ Confucius
Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have
just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together
into a life of action and purpose
~ Lance Armstrong
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions
~ Michael Josephson
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others
-- Cicero
Simplicity Purity Clarity
-- Alan Cohen
Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to God alone Laughs at
impossibilities And cries it shall be done
-- Charles Wesley
What is genius but the mind heart and art of God shining to the world through an
open window
-- Alan Cohen
Intuition tells you what not why
-- Source unknown
Changing the world is a natural result of inner peace not a substitute for it
-- Alan Cohen
Fortune sides with him who dares
~ Virgil
We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in
our heads fear must be a head thing
Tom Payne Career Development Expert
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you
mdashLewis Smedes Each of us has the power to make others more beautiful by our love
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst a transformer
in any situation any organization Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an
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entire loaf It requires vision initiative patience respect persistence courage
and faith to be a transforming leader
Stephen Covey
Courage is grace under pressure
~ Ernest Hemingway
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions All life is an experiment
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as Youre going o be thinking anyway Think BIG
~ Donald Trump
To win youve got to stay in the game
~ Claude M Bristol
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head
-- Source unknown
Affirm your value by going where you are valued
-- Alan Cohen
Life is too short to hold a grudge also too long
-- Robert Brault
You cannot borrow greatness from another You can only claim it from within
yourself
-- Alan Cohen
One today is worth two tomorrows never leave that till tomorrow which you can
do today
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 US Statesman Diplomat and Inventor
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs
the problem The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized
a problem and turned it into an opportunity
Joseph Sugarman Marketing Expert
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You wouldnt worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how
seldom they do
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady Author Speaker and Politician
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions
- John Randolph
Opportunities They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere
waiting for the observant eye to discover it
- Orison Swett Marden
Yesterday ended last night Every day is a new beginning Learn the skill of
forgetting And move on
--Norman Vincent Peale
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual it is
best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every
department
ndash Andrew Carnegie entrepreneur
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society The optimist invents the
airplane and the pessimist the parachute
Gil Stern
Strive for integrity - that means knowing your values in life and behaving in a way
that is consistent with these values
Unknown
The country clubs the cars the boats your assets may be ample But the best
inheritance you can leave your kids Is to be a good example
Barry Spilchuk
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the
goal
Henry Ford
It is never too late to be what you might have been
George Eliott
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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence the second listening the
third memory the fourth practice the fifth teaching others
Solomon Ibn Gabriol
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers You can tell whether a man is
wise by his questions
Naguib Mahfouz
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others
~ Erich Fromm
Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble
and grateful mind
~ Epictetus
Happiness is activity
~ Aristotle
Every action we take everything we do is either a victory or defeat in the
struggle to become what we want to be
~ Anne Byrhhe
In the absence of clearly defined goals we become strangely loyal to performing
daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it
Robert Heinlein Novelist
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the
consequences of any misfortune
William James 1842-1910 Psychologist and Author
To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle
-- Walt Whitman
God doesnt owe and neither do you
-- Alan Cohen
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Do what makes you smile
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
People who warn that everyone but members of their religion will go to hell dont
realize they are already there
-- Alan Cohen
The emotional frontier is truly the next frontier to conquer in human
understanding The opportunity we face now even before that frontier is fully
explored and settled is to develop our emotional potential and accelerate rather
dramatically into a new state of being
- Doc Childre and Howard Martin The HeartMath Solution
Real transformation requires that you have a beginners mind that you are willing
to say Whatever I think I know may be wrong
Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true
selves
- Carrol Pearson The Hero Within
If a man would move the world he
must first move himself
--Socrates
All sucessful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists They
believed that things went not by luck but by law
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
I skate to where the puck is going to be not where it is
-Wayne Gretzky
When given the choice between being right or being kind always choose kind
--Dr Wayne Dyer Never forget the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for
others
Sir John Templeton 1912-2008 Mutual Fund Pioneer and Philanthropist
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome
Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Essayist Biographer and Poet
Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on
-- Alan Cohen
Shallow men believe in luck Strong men believe in cause and effect
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Contraction is a sign that birth is imminent
-- Alan Cohen
Work is an extension of personality It is achievement It is one of the ways in
which a person defines himself measures his worth ndash and his humanity
ndash Peter Drucker author
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends
-- John Ruskin
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities
--Janos Arnay
The first time you accept good is the last time you will see excellence
John Ulmo Life is like an onion
You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep
~ Carl Sandburg
Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light
~ L P Jacks Just as iron rusts from disuse even so does inaction spoil the intellect
~ Leonardo Da Vinci
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men sayI JUST watch what they
do
~ Andrew Carnegie
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All Things are Difficult before they are Easy
~ John Norley
Everything has been figured out except how to live
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving
Dennis Waitley
Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out
Robert Collier
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude
Thomas Jefferson
They can because they think they can
Virgil
By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself
Menander
Years teach us more than books
Berthold Auerbach
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When you delightfully fantasize about something you want you set into motion a
wave of energy that calls that situation into reality
-- Alan Cohen
Hurt people hurt people
-- Source unknown
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Doing the right thing may be different than what you have been taught the right
thing is
-- Alan Cohen
The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes
it happen
-- Frank Lloyd Wright All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say no and said yes
Moss Hart 1904-1961 Playwright and Theatre Director
We are built to conquer environment solve problems achieve goals and we find no
real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to
achieve
Maxwell Maltz 1899-1975 Author of Psycho-Cybernetics
You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns
have roses
-- Ziggy
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug
~ Patricia Neal
My night has become a sunny dawn because of you
--Ibn Abbad
All mankind is divided into three classes those that are immovable those that are
movable and those that move
--Benjamin Franklin
Dont compete Create Find out what everyone else is doing and then dont do it
mdashJoel Weldon
Show a little faith therelsquos magic in the night
mdashfrom ―Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen
Music is to me proof of the existence of God
It is so extraordinarily full of magic and in tough times
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of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference
mdashKurt Vonnegut
Discontent is the source of all trouble but also of all progress
in individuals and nations
Berthold Auerbach
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself
Thomas Sprat
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves
to copy
Oliver Goldsmith
If at first you dont succeed try try again Then quit Theres
no use being a damn fool about it
WC Fields
Impatience never commanded success
Edwin H Chapin
In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are the safest
~ Livy
Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights
~ Henry David Thoreau
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense
insoluble They can never be solved but only outgrown
~ Carl Jung
Life Begins When you Do
Hugh Downs Vision Without Action is a Daydream
Action Without Vision is a Nightmare
~ Japanese Proverb
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Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one
can possibly want and hold
-- Judith Olney
The love affair you seek is with yourself
-- Alan Cohen
The greatest power requires the lightest touch
-- BasharDarryl Anka
You only live once -- but its forever
-- Alan Cohen
Get off the cross Somebody needs the wood
-- From the film Straight Talk
There are two ways to live your life One is as though nothing is a miracle The
other is as though everything is a miracle
~ Albert Einstein
In the long run men hit only what they aim at
~ Henry David Thoreau philosopher
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state
of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is
wounded trust impaired
~Erik H Erikson
Freedom know this that every manwoman is free To choose his life and what
hell be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call
persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light In nameless ways be
good and kind But never force the human mind
~ William C Clegg
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want and if they canlsquot find them make them
~ George Bernard Shaw
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Relationships are not things We dont have relationships we are in relationship
with one another
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Relationships are our primary teacher They are the context in which we either
grow into the consciousness of God or deny ourselves and others the opportunity
to do so
- Marianne Williamson
Listen deeply The greatest failure in any relationship is the failure to
participate
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Your future is created by what you do today not tomorrow
Robert Kiyosaki
No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a
reality
Napoleon Hill
If you are not planning today you are planning to fail tomorrow
Gopal
How you do anything is how you do everything
T Harv Eker
There is little difference in people but that little difference
makes a big difference The little difference is attitude The
big difference is whether it is positive or negative
W Clement Stone
The vision must be followed by the venture It is not enough to
stare up the steps - We must step up the stairs
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Vance Havner
Go for it nowThe future is promised to no one
Wayne Dyer
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are you would never
think a negative thought
Peace Pilgrim
Either you run the day or the day runs you
Jim Rohn
You must go after your wish As soon as you start to pursue a
dream your life wakes up and everything has meaning
Barbara Sher
To succeed you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe
and act on it with all of your heart
Christy Borgeld
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers
Anonymous
Let him that would move the world first move himself
Socrates
By the time a man realizes that maybe
his father was right he usually has a son
who thinks hes wrong
~ Charles Wadworth
Without Mistakes Perfection is an Illusion
~ Daniel Frankel
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Its not the hours you put in
but what you put into the hours
that counts
~ Jim Rohn
Be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath
~ James 119
Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory
~ Ingrid Bergman
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word
~ William Makepease Thackeray
Professionalism is knowing how
to do it when to do it and doing it
~ Frank Tyger
Intention is not something you do
but rather a force that exists in the universe
as an invisible field of energy
-a power that can carry us
~ Dr Wayne Dyer
I personally measure success in terms
of the contributions an individual makes
to her or his fellow human beings
~ Margaret Mead
Some of the worlds greatest feats
were accomplished by people not
smart enough to know they were
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impossible
~ Doug Larson
Life is a flower of which love is the honey
~ Victor Hugo
Personal integrity is important
not because it gets us what we want
but because it helps us be what we want
~ Michael Josephson
Goals need to be configured to stretch us
but not to break us
~ Kent Krive
Children are apt to live up
to what you believe of them
~ Lady Bird Johnson
Do your work with your whole heart
and you will succeed
- theres so little competition
~ Elbert Hubbard
Hi Karl
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible
objections must first be overcome
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--Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Author
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter
even the most victorious life The human
spirit is never finished when it is defeated
- it is finished when it surrenders
-- Ben Stein Professor and Writer
Love is the first ingredient in the relief
of suffering
-- Padre Pio
Happiness is a function of accepting what is
--Werner Erhard
There are no shortcuts to any place
worth going
- Beverly Sills
It has never been and never will be
easy work But the road that is built in
hope is more pleasant to the traveler
than the road built in despair even though
they both lead to the same destination
~Marion Zimmer Bradley
The reality of life is that your perceptions --
right or wrong -- influence everything else
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you do When you get a proper perspective
of your perceptions you may be surprised
how many other things fall into place
~ Roger Birkman
Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself
with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum
-- Baal Shem Tov
Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself
with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum
-- Baal Shem Tov
Trust yourself You know more than
you think you do
ndash Benjamin Spock doctor
When you play it too safe youre taking
the biggest risk of your life
Time is the only wealth were given
--Barbara Sher
Creativity is inventing experimenting
growing taking risks breaking rules
making mistakes and having fun
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--Mary Lou Cook
Life is playing a violin solo in public and
learning the instrument as one goes on
--Samuel Butler
Opportunities are usually disguised as
hard work so most people dont recognize
them
~ Ann Landers
It is literally true that you can succeed best
and quickest by helping others to succeed
- Napoleon Hill
God loves you and theres nothing you can do about it
-- Sign on church marquis
Give yourself what you would like to receive from others
-- Alan Cohen
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature
-- Emerson
The fewer your words the more compelling your statement
-- Alan Cohen
Pray devoutly hammer stoutly
-- English proverb
There are no blocks to creativity Only distractions
-- Alan Cohen
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If your rules are not working so well borrow someone elses
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
Inner peace is never more than one thought away
-- Alan Cohen
Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret
hiding God
-- Frederick William Robertson
Completion is an attitude not an event
-- Alan Cohen
Enjoy where you are and youll be where youre going
-- Bashar
Your spirit is wireless
-- Alan Cohen
All questions lead to divine knowing
-- Isaac Newton
You cannot import self-worth You can only recognize it
-- Alan Cohen
Enlightened conflict resolution can exist only in an atmosphere of equality
We may not be equal in intelligence or experience or status but we are equal
in our right to be treated with dignity and caring It is not assumed that one
person has more privilege than another that one person is entitled to more
respect or understanding than another nor that one persons feelings are
more important than anothers
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
To seek happiness outside of ourselves Is like trying to lasso a cloud
Happiness is not a thingIt is a state of mind
- Omar Khayyam
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The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us
well I am not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking
not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our
quality of life incidence of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy No man was ever wise by chance
~ Seneca
By thought the thing you want is brought to youby action you receive it
~ Wallace D Wattles
Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
~ Mohandas K Gandhi
Life isnt about finding yourselfLife is about creating yourself
George Bernard Shaw
Im trying to free your mind but I can only show you the doorYou are the one
that has to walk through it
~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]
A friend is a second self
~ Aristotle
Be great in act as you have been in thought
~ William Shakespeare
Character is higher than intellectA great soul will be strong to liveas well as to
think
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I never think of the futureIt comes soon enough
~ Albert Einstein
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fearnot absence of fear
~ Mark Twain
Age wrinkles the bodyQuitting wrinkles the soul
~ Douglas MacArthur
If real is what you can feel smell taste and see then real is simply electrical
signals interpreted by your brain
~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]
Money was never a big motivator for me except for keeping the scoreThe real
excitement is playing the game
~ Donald Trump
Dreams are extremely important You cant do it unless you dream it first
~ George Lucas
If you believe you can you probably can If you believe you wont you most
assuredly wont Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad
~ Denis Waitley
Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limitedImagination
encircles the world
~ Albert Einstein
Everything is always impossible before it works Thats what entrepreneurs are all
aboutDoing things that people have told them is impossible
~ R Hunt Greene
The truth is lived not taught
~ Hermann Hesse
Be of good cheer Do not think of todays failures but of the success that may
come tomorrow You have set yourself a difficult task but you will succeed if you
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persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles
Helen Keller 1880-1968 Blind and Deaf Educator
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something Its as simple
as that A lot of people have ideas but there are few who decide to do something
about them now Not tomorrow Not next week But today The true entrepreneur
is a doer
-Nolan Bushnell Founder of Atari
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision
Muhammad Ali Three-Time World Heavyweight Champion Boxer
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them
Walt Disney 1901-1966 Cartoon Artist and Filmmaker
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings turn routine jobs into
joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings
William Arthur Ward
1921-1994 Writer
If you want to achieve excellence you can get there today As of this second quit
doing less than excellent work
Thomas Watson 1874-1956 Founder of IBM
Ive always believed that a lot of the troubles in the world would disappear if we
were talking to each other instead of about each other
Ronald Reagan
1911-2004 40th President of the United States
The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another is in some way to
make that persons life a little bit better to live
John Assaraf Author and Speaker
Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm
Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any
occupation no matter how frightening or difficult a new meaning Without
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enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish
miracles
Og Mandino
Constant kindness can accomplish much As the sun makes ice melt kindness
causes misunderstanding mistrust and hostility to evaporate
Dr Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 Medical Missionary and Nobel Prize Winner
Dwell not on the past Use it to illustrate a point then leave it behind Nothing
really matters except what you do now in this instant of time From this moment
onwards you can be an entirely different person filled with love and understanding
ready with an outstretched hand uplifted and positive in every thought and deed
Eileen Caddy 1917-2006 Spiritual Teacher and Author
Heres the problem Most people are thinking about what they dont want and
theyre wondering why it shows up over and over again
John Assaraf Speaker and Author
Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
Thomas Edison 1847-1931 Inventor and Scientist
Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on
building the life you desire
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly
lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love
Henry Drummond 1851-1897 Scientist and Author
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Former First Lady Author and Speaker
If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least
responsible for those we admit and entertain
Charles Newcomb ScreenwriterDirector
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To grow you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your
past Your history is not your destiny
Alan Cohen
If you want a kinder world then behave with kindness if you want a peaceful
world make peace within
Dan Millman Writer and Speaker
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order
and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a
time
Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Writer
Believe it can be done When you believe something can be done really believe
your mind will find the ways to do it Believing a solution paves the way to solution
Dr David Schwartz Author of The Magic of Thinking Big
Close your eyes and form a realistic picture of what a post PC world might actually
look like Those who can envision a plausible future thats brighter than today will
earn the opportunity to lead
Ray Ozzie Former Chief Software Architect at Microsoft
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past worry
about the future or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely
and earnestly
- Buddha
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job tellem certainly I can - and get
busy and find out how to do it
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Dont tell me how hard you work Tell mehow much you get done
~ James Ling
Democracy arose from menlsquos thinking that if they are equal in any respect they
are equal absolutely
~ Aristotle
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The beginning is the most important part of the work
~ Plato
Bless those who choose to love and those who choose to hate that those who
choose to hate may choose to love before it is too late
--Esoligh (Underground Hip Hop Artist)
Security is mostly a superstition It does not exist in nature nor do the children
of man as a whole experience it Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than
outright exposure Life is either a daring adventure or nothing
--Helen Keller
Each new hour holds new chances for new beginings The horizon move forward
offering you space to place new steps of change
--Maya Angelou
When a man cares he is unafraid When he is fair he leaves enough for others
When he is humble he can grow
--Lao-Tzu TaoTeChung
Behold the turtle He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out
--James Bryant Conant - Educator and Diplomat
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it
but because they didnt stop to enjoy it
--William Feather
The light of awareness the light of consciousness arises out of a broken heart
the heart by breaking becomes an ocean accommodating all beings
-- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom
The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need according to the
nature of your thought Your environment and financial condition are the
perfect reflection of your habitual thinking
Thought rules the world
-- Dr Joseph Edward Murphy Surgeon
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The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new
courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness beauty and truth
ndash Albert Einstein physicist
Hope is the companion of power and mother of success for who so hopes strongly
has within him the gift of miracles
~ Samuel Smiles
Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those
things that failures dont like to do
~ Albert Gray
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the
link between belief and biology
- Deepak Chopra
Ive always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best
~ Akeem Olajuwon
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear
ndash Socrates philosopher
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the
most brilliant single mind but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains
and talents of his associates
~ W Alton Jones
The reason a dog has got so many friends is because its tail waggles and not its
tongue
-Anonymous
Dont fight a problem solve it
--Millard Fuller
If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation
by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in
which you are rendering it
--Roger Babson
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The starting point of all riches is the development of a prosperity consciousness
You must become a financial success in your thinking long before you achieve it in
your reality Both poverty and riches are the result of a state of mind and the
most important single step you ever take on the road to wealth and financial
independence is the decision to change your thinking to impress into your mind an
unshakable belief that you can and will achieve your financial goals This must
happen before anything else happens
-- Brian Tracy
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it
We must learn to see the world anew
- Albert Einstein
To forgive is the highest most beautiful form of love In return you will receive
untold peace and happiness
--Dr Robert Muller
Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind the stronger the
trees
--J Willard Marriott Founder of Marriott Hotels
Someday may never come So live each day better than the last That way youll
wake up with so much excitement and anticipation youlsquoll jump out of bed and shout
I cant wait
--Bob Perks
The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination and he is still at
large
-- Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885 Humorist
If you dont know where you are going any road will get you there
-- Anonymous
Ive noticed over many years of working with corporate teams that the more
dysfunctional the team the more resistant they are to the concept of love in
the workplace What baggage is it that we drag around behind us like Linus
and his blanket which causes us to be so wounded and pathological Why are
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we blind to the observable truth that those we lead are yearning for us to
open our hearts Why are we in denial about the truth that people--all
people at work and at home--are searching for signs of our approval and
love
- Lance Secretan Industry Week 11202000 We live on our own solitary islands of reality absorbed in and fascinated by
our own points of view Frequently we reach out to one another seeking to
understand or be understood The bridge between our separate realities is
communication To communicate is to relate
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air You
name them--work family health friends and spirit--and youre keeping all
of these in the air You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball If you
drop it it will bounce back But the other four balls-- family health
friends and spirit--are made of glass If you drop one of these they will be
irrevocably scuffed marked nicked damaged or even shattered They will
never be the same You must understand that and strive for balance in your
life
- Brian Dyson CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises from 1959-1994 If you cant be a loving witness to your own anger or rage or sadness or
fear you cant be in the presence of other peoples intense emotions without
your own emotional waters being churned up a bit But if you can learn to
feel safe and fully present to the broad spectrum of emotions within your own
nature you radiate an invisible web of safety that helps others to talk about
their feelings with you
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective
consciousness and if we want a new world each of us must start taking
responsibility for helping create it
- Rosemary Fillmore Rhea A New Heaven and New Earth Your relationships are actually mirrors of your consciousness When you learn
to see your own reflection in the quality of your relationships with others you
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catapult yourself on your path of personal growth and spiritual evolution
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think To put the world right in order we must first put the nation in order to put
the nation in order we must first put the family in order to put the family in
order we must first cultivate our personal life we must first set our hearts
right
- Confucious The sooner we can unburden ourselves of blame the more effective we can
be Blaming others only entrenches us in the role of the victim removing us
from our highest expression of personal power
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be
sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all
around It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others
we all want in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that
burden us These secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth
helps you get clarity on your real heart directives
- Sara Paddison The Hidden Power of the Heart Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time
ago
~ Warren Buffet
The only way to do great work is to love what you do If you havent found it yet
keep looking Dont settle As with all matters of the heart youll know when you
find it
~ Steve Jobs
If you love life do not waste time for time is what life is made up of
~ Bruce Lee
I cannot teach anybody anything I can only make them think
~ Socrates
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Change before you have to
~ Jack Welch
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm
~ Winston Churchill
A leader leads by example not by force
~ Sun Tzu
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour Sit with a
pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute You have just experienced
relativity
~ Albert Einstein
Live as if you were to die tomorrow Learn as if you were to live forever
~ Mohandas Gandhi
A clever person solves a problem A wise person avoids it
~ Albert Einstein
If I have seen a little further is by standing on the shoulders of Giants
~ Sir Isaac Newton
Despair says I cannot lift that weight Happiness says I do not have to
-- James Richardson
People who know they are powerful do not need to engage in power struggles
-- Alan Cohen
No man ever stated his troubles as lightly as he might
-- Emerson
What does your spirit most want you to know and do today
-- Alan Cohen
Its not how good you are Its how bad you want it
-- Author unknown
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The better I feel about myself the less I need you to be different
-- Alan Cohen
The best form of flattery is to master the art of listening
-- Chinese proverb
The only thing more valuable than a good source of news is source of good news
-- Alan Cohen
Disappointments are the hooks upon which God hangs his victories
-- Source unknown
It matters not what youve done with your life for better or worse What
matters is what you do with your life today
-- Alan Cohen
Everyone here is not all there
-- Source unknown
If you cant unify then at least harmonize
-- Alan Cohen
Everybody is a genius But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will
spend its whole life believing that it is stupid
-- Albert Einstein
Fear is excitement without breath
-- Fritz Perls
Dont leave yourself out of the equation
-- Alan Cohen
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles
-- Bernard Baruch
They can because they think they can
~ Virgil
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Exert your talents and distinguish yourself
and dont think of retiring from the world
until the world will be sorry that you retire
~ Samuel Johnson
Energy and persistence conquer all things
~ Benjamin Franklin
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom
~ Aristotle
Heaven never helps the man who will not act
~ Sophocles
The only real journey is the journey within
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new
~ Albert Einstein
Action is the food and drink
that will nourish your success
Action will destroy your procrastination
Act now for is all you have
~ Og Mandino
Computers are incredibly fast accurate and stupid
Humans are incredible slow inaccurate and brilliant
Together they are powerful beyond imagination
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~ Albert Einstein
Practice giving and you will discover how much life can give you
-- Alan Cohen
Oh for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they
ran out of money
-- Source unknown
The best way to heal a bad memory is to create a new and better one
-- Alan Cohen
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love
-- Hamilton Wright Mabie
Fear and resistance are the dragons that stand at the gate of the kingdom that
contains the jewel you seek
-- Alan Cohen
Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy forgiveness To an opponent
tolerance To a friend your heart To a customer service To all charity To
every child a good example To yourself respect
-- Oren Arnold
Affirm I always have enough time to do the things that Spirit would have me do
-- Alan Cohen
There are two obstacles to enlightenment 1 Thinking you know 2 Thinking you
dont know
-- Buddha
Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Take care how you pay
it
-- Alan Cohen
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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles
-- Bernard Baruch
Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation
-- Alan Cohen
Families are like fudge -- mostly sweet with a few nuts
-- Source unknown
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of
our treasures
-- Thornton Wilder
The universe does not require you to stress for good things
-- Alan Cohen
When you bless the good that befalls others it becomes yours as well
-- Alan Cohen
How many more idols must you find before your realize that you are the one you
have been searching for
-- Dan Fogelberg
All limits exist only in thought and that is where they are overcome
-- Alan Cohen
To understand unconditional love lock your wife or husband and your dog in the
trunk of your car for an hour When you open it notice to is happier to see you
-- Source unknown
Outrageous ideas are ultimately the most practical
-- Alan Cohen
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are
-- Kurt Cobain
How good can you let it get
-- Alan Cohen
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If we could look into the secret history of our enemies we should find in each
persons life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities
-- Longfellow
If you sense there must be more there is more
-- Alan Cohen
Do not wait the time will never be just right Start where you stand and work
with whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found
as you go along
Napoleon Hill
1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich
It doesnt matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes What
matters most is getting off You cannot make progress without making decisions
Jim Rohn
1930-2009 Speaker and Author
Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do Its
a decision about Who You Are When you see this when you understand it
everything changes You begin to see life in a new way All events occurrences and
situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do
Neale Donald Walsch
Author of Conversations With God
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached dont adjust the goals
adjust the action steps
Confucius
551-479 BC Philosopher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of
you
Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887 Clergyman Social Reformer and Abolitionist
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Lets choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we think others lead
by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives We can then offer the
universe the gift of our grateful hearts
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Author of Peace and Plenty
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite
impossible to foresee are ahead You can only see one thing clearly and that is your
goal Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin
Kathleen Norris
1880-1966 Novelist
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends
you choose for you will become like them
W Clement Stone
1902-2002 Businessman Philanthropist and Author
Laugh at yourself and at life Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity but
as a remedy a miracle drug that will ease your pain cure your depression and help
you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at
your predicaments thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that
is certain to come Never take yourself too seriously
Og Mandino
1923-1996 Author of The Choice
Asking is the beginning of receiving Make sure you dont go to the ocean with a
teaspoon At least take a bucket so the kids wont laugh at you
Jim Rohn
1930-2009 Author and Speaker
Happiness comes only when we push our
brains and hearts to the farthest reaches
of which we are capable
--Leo C Rosten
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Do not wait the time will never be just right
Start where you stand and work with whatever
tools you may have at your command and better
tools will be found as you go along
~ Napoleon Hill
I shall do less whenever I shall believe what
I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more
whenever I shall believe doing more will help the
cause I shall try to correct errors when shown to
be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as
they shall appear to be true views
ndash Abraham Lincoln 16th US president
If we become increasingly humble about how l
little we know we may be more eager to search
- Sir John Templeton
I dont think anyone can grow unless hes
loved exactly as he is now appreciated for
what he is rather than what he will be
Love and success always in that order Its
that simple and that difficult
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a
lifetimes work but its worth the effort
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Quoted From Lifes Journeys According
to Mister Rogers
When we do the best we can we never know
what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life
of another
ndash Helen Keller lecturer author
We are responsible for what we are and whatever
we wish ourselves to be we have the power to make
ourselves If what we are now has been the result of
our own past actions it certainly follows that whatever
we wish to be in future can be produced by our present
actions so we have to know how to act
~ Swami Vivekananda
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for suffering God is here
~Rumi Chance favors only the prepared mind
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895 French scientist who developed pasteurization)
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities
enough and if they do not find them they will make them
Samuel Smiles
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen but give us the
determination to make the right things happen
Peter Marshall
If the sky falls hold up your hands
Spanish Proverb
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous
Chinese Proverb
Knowing is not enough we must apply Willing is not enough we must do
Johann von Goethe
If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is he will not jump If he does
not know how wide it is he will jump and six times out of ten he will make it
Persian Proverb
As I grow to understand life less and less I learn to love it more and more
Jules Renard
The more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate
Oprah Winfrey (1954- American TV personality producer actress author)
Mind is all that counts You can be whatever you make up your mind to be
Robert Collier
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You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how
youre going to live Now
Joan Baez Singer Songwriter and Activist The average person goes to their grave with their music still in them
Oliver Wendell Holmes ―Everyone can be great because everyone can serve
- Martin Luther King ―Whatever you can conceive and believe you can achieve
Napoleon Hill We turn not older with years but newer every day
-Emily Dickinson
When reciting affirmations feel the words in your heart as you say them and
know that what you feel youll create
Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust
our old programs accordingly
Dr Ann Faraday
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to
get there Then never never never give up
Vincent Peale
We only think when we are confronted with problems
John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)
In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain
Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)
If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair Few things are
impossible to diligence and skill Great works are performed not by strength but
perseverance
Samuel Johnson
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Dont waste your life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you
well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best
preparation for the hours or ages that follow it
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Poet and Essayist Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change
the world today
Wil Rose
The good man acts for honors sake and the more so the better he is and acts for
his friends sake and sacrifices his own interest
-Aristotle
In order to excel you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport You
must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism
Without a total 100 percent dedication you wont be able to do this
Willie Mays
Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to
raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years
ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I
demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my
life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to
becoming
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert
Im a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of
it
Thomas Jefferson
Bring awareness to each act Walking on the road walk fully alert eating eat with
awareness Whatsoever you are doing dont let the past and the future interfere
Be in the present Thats what awareness is all about
~Osho
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There are two dimensions to life and we should be able to touch both
One is like a wave and we call it the historical dimension
The other is like the water and we call it the ultimate dimension or nirvana
We usually touch just the wave but when we discover how to touch the water
we receive the highest fruit that meditation can offer
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends
Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance
Jackson Brown
When you focus on whats wrong you get more of whats wrong Conversely when
you focus on whats right you get more of whats right
Gina Mollicone-Long Author of the newly released book Think Or Sink
All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave
behind is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into
another
Gail Sheehy (1937- American journalist author)
Anger is one letter away from danger
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Success means having the courage the determination and the will to become the
person you believe you were meant to be
George Sheehan 1918-1993 Physician and Author
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views
so fast as they shall appear to be new views
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)
―One ship sails East
And another West
By the self-same winds that blow
lsquoTis the set of the sails
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And not the gales
That tells the way we go
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity Our attitude
toward it Every opportunity has a difficulty and every difficulty has an
opportunity
J Sidlow Baxter 1903-1999 Author and Theologian
If you want to be successful you must either have a chance or take one
Author Unknown
It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit it frankly and try
another But above all try something
Franklin D Roosevelt
It was courage faith endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all
obstacles that built this bridge
~ John J Watson
Past Data should now be the basis of Present Truth Data from a prior time or
experience should always and only be the basis for new questions Always the
treasure should be in the questions not in the answer
-Neale Donald Walsch Even though you may want to move forward in your life you may have one foot on
the brakes In order to be free we must learn how to let go Release the hurt
Release the fear Refuse to entertain your old pain The energy it takes to hang
onto the past is holding you back from a new life What is it you would let go of
today
Mary Manin Morrissey Creator of The Miracle Mastery Conference
It is not what you are called but what you answer to
African Proverb
A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong
enough
John Christian Bovee
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If youre not part of a solution youre a part of the problem There is no middle
road I dont think we can destroy the Earth but I think the Earth can destroy
us
-Oh Shinnah
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will
accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop
Robert Hughes
Charity is the spice of riches
Jewish Proverb
If you dont like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and
waiting for you The snake sheds its skin with impunity relying on the same nature
which you rely on
Author Unknown
Its a very funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best
you very often get it
William Somerset Maugham
A leader once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one must
be undaunted when the going gets tough
Ronald Reagan
If I accept you as you are I will make you worse however if I treat you as
though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Author and Philosopher
Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket signifies in the final
sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed from those who are cold and
not clothed The world in arms is not spending money alone It is spending the
sweat of its laborers the genius of its scientists the hopes of its children
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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Service is nothing but love in work clothes
Author Unknown
A man can do all things if he but wills them
Leon Battista Alberti
A crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk just a
tinkling cymbal where there is not love
Francis Bacon 17th Century English Lord Chancellor philosopher and author
The only way to have a friend is to be one
Ralph Waldo Emerson 19th Century American author and poet
Its not what you do once in a while its what you do day in and day out that
makes the difference
Jenny Craig Diet Specialist
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on
the labors of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to
give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving
Albert Einstein (1879-1955 German-born American physicist)
A resolute determination is the truest wisdom
Napoleon I
Without consistency there is no moral strength
Author Unknown
See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained pursue it resolutely
William Shakespeare
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure
-Dale Carnegie
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself
William Penn (1644-1718 British religious leader founder of Pennsylvania)
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How we think shows through in how we act Attitudes are mirrors of the mind
They reflect thinking
David J Schwartz Trainer and Author
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but
to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill
Vision is freely given to those who ask to see
-Course in Miracles
Tough times never last but tough people do
Dr Robert Schuller
A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything
else
Bette Davis (1908-1989 American actress producer)
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything
Alexander Hamilton
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference He has
it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter
Norman Cousins (1915-1990 American editor humanitarian author)
The practice of medicine is an art not a trade a calling not a business a calling in
which your heart will be exercised equally with your head Often the best part of
your work will have nothing to do with powders or potions
-Sir William Osler
Strength does not come from physical capacity It comes from an indomitable
will
~ Mahatma Gandhi
―You dont love someone for their looks or their clothes or for their fancy car
but because they sing a song only you can hear
Anon
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―They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever
Oscar Wilde
―Love is like a friendship caught on fire In the beginning a flame very pretty
often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering As love grows older our
hearts mature and our love becomes as coals deep-burning and unquenchable
Bruce Lee
―Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty
John Finely
―It takes a lot of understanding time and trust to gain a close friendship with
someone As I approach a time of my life of complete uncertainty my friends are
my most precious asset
Anon
―Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process
Harold S Geneen People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest
- Hermann Hesse 1877-1962 Civilization is a method of living an attitude of equal respect for all men
- Jane Addams 1860-1935 The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next
- Matthew Arnold 1822-1888
Vacillating people seldom succeed Successful men and women are very careful in
reaching their decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter
~ L G Elliott
Those with goals tend to succeed because they are focused and know where they
are going while those without goals do not
Ted Karam Author from his new book Jumping On Water Awaken Your Joy - Empower Your Life
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Every time you go out on the ice there are slight flaws You can always think of
something you should have done better These are the things you must work on
Dorothy Hamill (1956- American figure skater)
Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it
fate
~ Carl Jung When you speak of someone or about someone you should speak as though they
were in the room with you The ears that you speak to today are attached to the
mouth that could relay the message tomorrow
William Biddy Allen 1903-2001 Bus Driver - Loving father of 7 children
It is no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might dream The failure is to
fall short of dreaming all that we might realize
-Dee Hock When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they
are regarded by others let them reflect how little they have contributed to the
happiness of others
Author Unknown
I have become my own version of an optimist If I cant make it through one door
Ill go through another door - or Ill make a door Something terrific will come no
matter how dark the present
~ Rabindranath Tagore
―The present moment
contains past and future
The secret of transformation
is in the way we handle this very moment
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 - present Vietnamese Buddhist monk)
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―Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it Do not believe in
anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many Do not believe in
anything simply because it is found written in your religious books Do not believe in
anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders Do not believe in
traditions because they have been handed down for many generations But after
observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is
conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it
Buddha (Founder of Buddhism 568 - 488 BC) I try to avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward
Charlotte Bronte
Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity
Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Theologian
There is only one duty only one safe course and that is to try to be right
Winston Churchill (1874-1965 British statesman Prime Minister)
We are born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of wine we
have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born Astrology
does not lay claim to anything more
-Carl Jung
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them One is more
delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is angrier for being told
one is angry
Katherine F Gerould
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread they can sure make something out
of you
~ Muhammed Ali Beware of the thoughts you keep because everything in reality manifests from
the mind
Justin Palmer Second Year College Student
Confess you were wrong yesterday it will show you are wise today
Author Unknown
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We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope
~ Martin Luther King Jr
In the beginning the Universe was created
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move
-Douglas Adams
Any individual can be in time what he earnestly desires to be if he but set his
face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear
upon its attainment
Herman J Randall
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world
~ Helen Keller Many of lifes failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up
~ Thomas Edison
When you give your undivided attention to something there is a softening and
opening in the listener that allows access to the meaning underneath the words
-Betty Burkes
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they
are about to change the world I am more awed by those who struggle to make one
small difference
Ellen Goodman Journalist
If you look into your own heart you find nothing wrong there what is there to
fear
Confucius (BC 551-479 Chinese ethical teacher philosopher) Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls
~ Mother Teresa What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-
conceit For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he
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already knows
- Epictetus 55 AD-135 AD
There are admirable potentialities in every human being Believe in your strength
and your youth Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself It all depends on me
- Andre Gide 1869-1951
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage
- Anais Nin 1903-1977 Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in
other areas But can it really True effectiveness requires balance
~ Stephen Covey
I dont pay good wages because I have a lot of money I have a lot of money
because I pay good wages
- Robert Bosch Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do
the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not it is
the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a mans training
begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly
Thomas H Huxley 1825-1895 Biologist
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have and to be able
to lose all desire for things beyond your reach
Yutang Lin (1895-1976 Chinese writer and philologist)
Men are failures not because they are stupid but because they are not
sufficiently impassioned
Struther Burt
If you look at what you have in life youll always have more If you look at what
you dont have in life youll never have enough
Oprah Winfrey Television Host Producer and Philanthropist
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Im trying not to look too far ahead All Im thinking is one shot at a time one hole
at a time and thats what I want to keep doing
Michelle McGann
I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in
which we face them that constitutes our comfort
-Elizabeth T King My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content
with your failure
~ Abraham Lincoln
―There is nothing but love and all else is illusion
- Dr John Demartini There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer no disease that enough
love will not heal no door that enough love will not open
- Emmet Fox
All my limitations are self-imposed and my liberation can only come from true self-
love
- Max C Robinson
We fail to see that we can control our own destiny make ourselves do whatever is
possible make ourselves become whatever we long to be
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine )
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will
~ Sugar Ray Robinson 1920-1989 Boxer
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
Confucius
Half the people you know are above average
-Steven Wright
Your close relationships are either a catalyst for manifesting what you really
want or theyre a hindrance to your manifestation If you truly value the power of
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love in your life you owe it to yourself to discover how to tap into the power of
your relationship as a force for manifestation
Drs Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up Even when they do it is not
perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888 American author )
One is not idle because one is absorbed There is both visible and invisible labor To
contemplate is to toil to think is to do The crossed arms work the clasped hands
act The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation
Victor Hugo (1802-1885 French poet dramatist novelist)
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of
greed in the headlines
-Charles Kuralt
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our
focus we never concentrate our power Most people dabble their way through life
never deciding to master anything in particular
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time
~ Anthony J DAngelo
Courage comes from wanting to do it well Security comes from knowing you can do
it well Confidence comes from having done it well
~ Author Unknown
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel
Napoleon Hill
There is a true genius in everyone But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a
tree it would never stop doubting itself
~ Einstein~
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People ask for criticism but they only want praise
- W Somerset Maugham 1874-1965 Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if
you let it pass the desire may never return and you may remain in ignorance
- William Wirt 1772-1834 Cynicism is not realistic and tough Its unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it
means you dont have to try
- Peggy Noonan 1950-present There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into
gear
David Mahoney Executive and Philanthropist You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences
W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965 British novelist playwright)
Dont ask yourself what the world needs Ask yourself what makes you come alive
and then go and do that Because what the world needs are people who have come
alive
~ Howard Thurman When a great moment knocks on the door of your life it is often no louder than
the beating of your heart and it is very easy to miss it -Boris Pasternak Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure
~ Thomas Alva Edison
To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in
your heart
- Thomas Watson Sr Begin challenging your own assumptions Your assumptions are your windows on the
world Scrub them off every once and a while or the light wont come in
Alan Alda Actor Writer and Director
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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most
argumentative
Giovani della Casa (1503-1556 Papal secretary of state)
Have you ever felt like you wanted to go but you felt like you wanted to stay
- Song Lyric Jimmy Durante
To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all
~ Oscar Wilde
Awareness is like a beam of light that shines endlessly into space We only
perceive that light when it is reflected off some object and consciousness is
producedAwareness is the light by which we see the worldWe mistake the clear
light of pure awareness for the shadows that it casts in consciousnessWe forget
that we are the light itself and imagine that we are the densities that reflect the
light back to us
-Stephen Levine Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal
Albert Camus (1913-1960 French existential writer) The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation
Mark Twain
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn Our rewards
will always be in exact proportion to our service
Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Author of The Strangest Secret
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he
knows where he is going
Napoleon Hill
Wisdom tells me I am nothing
Love tells me I am everything
And between the two my life flows
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
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No employer today is independent of those about him He cannot succeed alone no
matter how great his ability or capital Business today is more than ever a question
of cooperation
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars
Les Brown
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world
Joseph Addison (1672-1719 British essayist poet statesman)
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a
fate that falls on man unless they act
~ G K Chesterton
Find something positive to think about and dont let the conversation in your head
end with a negative comment Always end on a positive comment
Dr Tomi Bryan and Dr Jerry White From their latest release The 5 Keys To The Great Life
Whales do not sing because they have a message They sing because they have a
song
-Ashes and Snow
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life
- Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956
Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though
checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor
suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat
- Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting
- Stanislaw Leszczynski 1677-1766
There is no joy in getting by on your job - doing as little as you can There is a
LOT of pleasure in doing more than you have to And whosoever shall compel you
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to go a mile go with him twain says the Bible wisely
-Norman Carlisle
We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once
Calvin Coolidge
The starting point of all achievement is desire Keep this constantly in mind Weak
desires bring weak results just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich
I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me
instead of looking within myself to see what was there
Belle Livingstone
Rather than thinking if and when start doing take action stop talking about if
and when
~ Catherine Pulsifer
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity -
Ayn Rand
Being a man or indeed being human is not something for which one should
apologize but something to which one should aspire and with all the gusto he can
muster
-- David Cunningham
The question isnt who is going to let me its who is going to stop me
- Howard Roark The Fountainhead 1943
I am the Master of my Fate Captain of my Soul
-- W E Henley
Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it
Boldness has genius power and magic in it
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me
instead of looking within myself to see what was there
Belle Livingstone
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order
and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a
time
Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Novelist
The path to success is to take massive determined action
Anthony Robbins
All of the significant battles are waged within the self
Sheldon Kopp (1929- American psychologist)
Follow effective action with quiet reflection From the quiet reflection will come
even more effective action
~ Peter F Drucker
Dont be dismayed at good-byes
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again
And meeting again after moments or lifetimes
is certain for those who are friends
-Richard Bach
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual
sense of humor
Thomas W Higginson 1823-1911 Minister Abolitionist and Author
When performance exceeds ambition the overlap is called success
Cullen Hightower
Well done is better than well said
Benjamin Franklin
The first and the best victory is to conquer self
Plato (BC 427-347 Greek philosopher)
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Man is what he believes
-Anton Chekhov One half of life is luck the other half is discipline - and thats the important half
for without discipline you wouldnt know what to do with luck
Carl Zuckmeyer 1896-1977 Writer and Playwright
Try and fail but dont fail to try
~ Stephen Kaggwa
I believe that one of the greatest gifts we have been given is our imagination It
costs nothing to access is available 247 and is our doorway to freedom With
imagination we have inside of us the most amazing ability to change our state and
transform our life in a moment
~ Veronica Hay The world is full of abundance and opportunity but far too many people come to
the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a
steam shovel They expect little and as a result they get little
Ben Sweetland Author of I Will Blessed is the person who sees the need recognizes the responsibility and actively
becomes the answer
William A Ward
I am not a mechanism an assembly of various sections
And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly that I am ill
I am ill because of wounds to the soul to the deep emotional self
And the wounds to the soul take a long long time only time can help
And patience and a certain difficult repentance
Long difficult repentance realization on lifes mistake and the freeing of oneself
From the endless repetition of the mistake
Which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify
-D H Lawrence
Victory belongs to the most persevering
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Gratitude opens doors It paves the way to abundance and prosperity like nothing
else
It can line your pockets with gold and fill your bank account quicker than a New
York minute
Yet how many of you are living from a thankful heart each day
~Veronica Hay Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
Bruce Springsteen You gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we
really stop to look fear in the face You must do that which we think we cannot
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Social Activist and First Lady of the United States
Dont let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you Instead give to
yourself that which empowers you
Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)
―The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having
new eyes
~ Marcel Proust
―Then your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall spring up
quickly
~ Isaiah 588
―And your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music
from it or confused sounds
mdash Kahlil Gibran
In every life the most important change is self-change -- and in every situation
the principles are the same
- J Kingston Cowart
It takes courage to lead a life Any life
Erica Jong
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Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time
-Ken Wilber
Peoples tendency towards good is as waters tendency is to flow downhill
Mencius When I let go of what I am I become what I might be
~ Lao Tsu
The higher my rank the more humbly I behave The greater my power the less I
exercise it The richer my wealth the more I give away Thus I avoid respectively
envy and spite and misery
~ Sun Shu Ao
There is no greater happiness than freedom from worry and there is no greater
wealth than contentment
~Lao Tsu
Failure lies not in falling down Failure lies in not getting up
~ Chinese proverb
A meal however simple is a moment of intersection It is at once the most basic
the most fundamental of our lifes activities maintaining the life of our bodies
Shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion uniting people
deeply
~ Elise Boulding The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms
-- Socrates You are never going to get it all done - you just wont Rather you will find order
and peace in your workday if you accept it and then do one more thing Implement
a system that consistently shows you whats most critical at any moment what to
do after the critical and where to find everything else when you need to That
system is not hard - its quite simple to set up
Michael Linenberger From Master Your Workday Now Check out his book and bonuses
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Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have
just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together
into a life of action and purpose
Lance Armstrong 7-Time Winner of the Tour de France
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value
Albert Einstein
We have contributed each in the time allotted us our endeavors to render a
permanent blessing to our country
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826 Third American President)
If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost that is where they
should be Now put foundations under them
~ Henry David Thoreau
If you didnlsquot musterbate then you wouldnlsquot awfulize terribilize
catastrophize say ―I canlsquot stand it and put yourself down
If you only stuck with ―Ilsquod like very much to do well but I never
have to you wouldnlsquot then disturb yourself hellip musterbation is
evil and pernicious
- Albert Ellis
There are 2 theories to arguing with a womanneither works
-Will Rogers
Dont tell me that worry doesnt do any good said the over-worked executive I
know better The things I worry about never happen
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Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were
innocent Anger is natural Grief is appropriate Healing is mandatory Restoration
is possible
~ Jane Rubietta
Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can
~ Richard Bach
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Inspiration and genius--one and the same
~ Victor Hugo
It is important to acknowledge a mistake instantly correct it and learn from it
That literally turns a failure into a success Success is on the far side of failure
TJ Watson 1874-1956 Founder if IBM
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of
inspiration
~ George Eliot
Trust your hunches Theyre usually based on facts filed away just below the
conscious level
Dr Joyce Brothers Psychologist and Television Personality Every artist was first an amateur
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a
true master For this reason mastery demands all of a person
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Theoretical Physicist Philosopher and Author In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain
Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)
The more difficulties one has to encounter within and without the more
significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be
Horace Bushnell
If the sky falls hold up your hands
Spanish Proverb
Begin with the end in mind
Stephen Covey
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good try to use ordinary
situations
- Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825 German Novelist
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunities
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery it wouldnt seem so
wonderful
Michelangelo 1475-1564 Painter Sculptor and Architect
We only think when we are confronted with problems
John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)
Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can
~ Thomas Carlyle
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex It takes a touch of
genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction
~Albert Einstein
―Ecstasy is your very nature not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary
~Osho
The quieter you can become the more youre able to hear
~Chinese Proverb
The only real valuable thing is intuition
~ Albert Einstein
To be ecstatic is natural spontaneous It needs no effort to be ecstatic it needs
great effort to be miserable
~Osho
Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight
Anita DeFrantz Olympic Rower Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust
our old programs accordingly
Dr Ann Faraday
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I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world
I may not ever complete the last one
But I give myself to it
I have been circling for thousands of years
And I still dont know
Am I a falcon a storm or a great song
-Rilke
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to
make them come true
~ Leon J Suenes
Dont be a cynic and disconsolate preacher Dont bewail and moan Omit the
negative propositions Challenge us with incessant affirmatives Dont waste
yourself in rejection or bark against the bad but chant the beauty of the good
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once whether
youre ready or not to put it into action
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author
Fall seven times stand up eight
Japanese proverb
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars
or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven
to the human spirit
~ Helen Keller
Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends
Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet)
First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have
to do
Epictetus
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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to
make them come true
Leon J Suenes
If you would create something you must be something
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Stay together friends
Dont scatter and sleep
Our friendship is made
Of being awake
The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away weeping
That way it stays in the garden whereas another roundness rolls
through a dry riverbed looking for what it thinks it wants
Stay here quivering with each moment like a drop of mercury
-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives as parallel realities It is
always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend when we choose not
to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance
thats present love health family friends work the joys of nature and personal
pursuits that bring us pleasure the wasteland of illusion falls away and we
experience heaven on earth
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to
raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years
ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I
demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my
life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to
becoming
~ Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert) Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change
the world today
~ Wil Rose
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A bird doesnt sing because it has an answer it sings because it has a song
~ Maya Angelou
Great minds have purposes little minds have wishes Little minds are subdued by
misfortunes great minds rise above them
~ Washington Irving
Step by step I cant think of any other way of accomplishing anything
~ Michael Jordan
If you employed study thinking and planning time daily you could develop and use
the power that can change the course of your destiny
~ W Clement Stone
We are called to speak for the weak for the voiceless for victims of our nation
and for those it calls enemy for no document from human hands can make these
humans any less than our brothers
-Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Disposal of hazardous wastes is not the root problem Rather it is the root
symptom
-Hawken Paul There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the
things we do
Freya Stark
Try a little harder to be a little better
Gordon B Hinckley
If you love something and stick with it you will get phenomenal results
Bob Proctor
You can chain me you can torture me you can even destroy this body but you will
never imprison my mind
Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Political and Spiritual Leader
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Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and
triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead
Chinese Proverb Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs
Michael Levine
Nurture your mind with great thoughts To believe in the heroic makes heroes
Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881 British Prime Minister The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your
blueprint or plan Strategies are like recipes choose the right ingredients mix
them in the correct proportions and you will always produce the same predictable
results
~ Charles J Givens
More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our
lives that determine our destiny
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
Happy the manwoman who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his
wishes and his powers
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I hope that my achievements in life shall be these that I will have fought for what
was right and fair that I will have risked for that which mattered and that I will
have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better
place for what Ive done and who Ive been
~ C Hoppe
The vision that you glorify in your mind the ideal that you enthrone in your heart
this you will build your life by and this you will become
James Allen
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Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
Gandhi
There never was a time when in my opinion some way could not be found to
prevent the drawing of the sword
-General Grant To be a warrior
is to be genuine
in every moment of your life
-Chogyam Trungpa Im convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs
from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance
- Steve Jobs Regret for wasted time is more wasted time
Mason Cooley
Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow
Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)
More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our
lives that determine our destiny
Anthony Robbins Author and Speaker
Material possessions will rust away wear away or depreciate but your inner
resources character must never depreciate In seeking success you must also seek
fulfillment Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be
~ Elizabeth Dole Anything in life that we dont accept will simply make trouble for us until we make
peace with it
~ Shakti Gawain
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious
stupidity
-Dr Martin Luther King Jr
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Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobodys going to know
whether you did it or not
Oprah Winfrey Talk Show Host Producer and Philanthropist
If you must begin then go all the way because if you begin and quit the unfinished
business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time
Chogyam Trungpa
I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career I have lost almost 300 games
On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and I
missed I have failed over and over and over again in my life And thats precisely
why I succeedcc
~ Michael Jordan
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what
they most enjoy
~ Malcolm Forbes
Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future
Paul Boese Botanist
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons
determination
Tommy Lasorda (1927- American baseball manager) I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more
~ Dr Jonas Salk The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame
Rod Steiger
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul
~ Marcus Aurelius
The best way
to make your dreams come true
is to wake up
-Kabir
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You can do what you have to do and sometimes you can do it even better than you
think you can
Jimmy Carter (1924- American President (39th)) ―If you create an act you create a habit If you create a habit you create a
character If you create a character you create a destiny
ndash Andre Maurois They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them
feel
~ Carl W Buechner When you affirm big believe big and pray big putting faith into action big things
happen
Dr Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Preacher and Author You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are taken
out of your life
~ James G Bilkey
In every difficult situation is potential value Believe this then begin looking for it
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832 German poet dramatist novelist)
Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be
sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all around
It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want
in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us These
secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth helps you get clarity on
your real heart directives
-Sara Paddison
The best thing to spend on your children is your time
~ Louise Hart
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The best things come to those who wait
- Unknown
Ask five economists and youll get five different explanations six if one went to
Harvard
~ Edgar R Fiedler There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through
encouragement from someone else I dont care how great how famous or
successful a man or woman may be each hungers for applause
~ George M Adams Do not fear death fear the unlived life
Natalie Babbitt Leadership is no longer about your position Its now more about your passion for
excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title
Robin Sharma
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions have
all come back from defeat
Sam Snead (1912-2002 American golfer)
What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision
-Helen Keller The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement
Yet almost no one gets the encouragement they need
to grow to their full potential If everyone received the
encouragement they need to grow the genius in most
everyone would blossom and the world would produce
abundance beyond the wildest dreams We would have
more than one Einstein Edison Schweitzer Mother
Theresa Dr Salk and other great minds in a century
~Sidney Madwed
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Dont build your happiness on someone elses unhappiness
~ Richard Rose
―The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all
the world
~ Ramana Maharshi
Somewhere there is someone who dreams of your smile and finds in your presence
that life is worthwhile
So when you are lonely remember its true somebody somewhere is thinking of
you
~ Anon
If youre open to altering your plans a bit you might achieve even better results
than youd anticipated
Peggy McColl A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will
point out the means
William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)
Successful people dont do different things they just do things differently
- Unknown You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are
taken out of your life
James G Bilkey Author
Dreams do come true if we only wish hard enough You can have anything in life if
you will sacrifice everything else for it
James M Barrie (1860-1937 British playwright)
Seven blunders of the world
that lead to violence
wealth without work
pleasure without conscience
knowledge without character
commerce without morality
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science without humanity
worship without sacrifice
politics without principle
-Mahatma Gandhi
When people speak of prosperity they generally mean success and measure it in
terms of financial abundance There are books seminars and training sessions
designed to help individuals to be prosperous Clearly many are seeking the path to
prosperity Ironically when one is seeking prosperity the message they give to
themselves and the universe is that they do not have enough This is a scarcity
mentality and tends only to manifest more scarcity
~ Gwen Randall Young Money makes money and the money makes more money
~ Benjamin Franklin
BE the change you wish to see in the world
- Ghandhi The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched
They must be felt with the heart
~ Hellen Keller
Understanding does not cure evil but it is a definite help inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness
-Carl Jung
You are not powerless about anything
When you get a vision and then find
alignment with it you ARE powerful
And then amazing things begin to
happen around you
- Abraham-Hicks
Be kind whenever possible It is always possible
~ Dalai Lama
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A consistent soul believes in destiny a capricious one in chance
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881 British statesman Prime Minister)
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots
George Herbert (1593-1632 British metaphysical poet)
It is not the greatness of a mans means that makes him independent so much as
the smallness of his wants
William Cobbett (1762-1835 British journalist reformer)
If you desire many things many things will seem few
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American scientist publisher diplomat) Its the little things you do that can make a big difference What are you
attempting to accomplish What little thing can you do today that will make you
more effective You are probably only one step away from greatness
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker You may delay but time will not and lost time is never found again
~ Benjamin Franklin
Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction
~ Matthew Burton
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light
~ Helen Keller
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength
~ Sigmund Freud
Blessed are those that can give without remembering and take without
forgetting
~ Liz Bebesco Waiting is a trap There will always be reasons to wait
The truth is there are only two things in life reasons and results and reasons
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simply dont count
~ Dr Robert Anthony
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become
wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing The long
term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their
Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed
~ Srully Blotnick
If now there is something you
choose to experience in your life
do not want it -- choose it
Do you choose success in worldly
terms Do you choose more money
Good Then choose it Really
Fully Not half-heartedly
- Conversations with God Book 1
Its a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you
very often get it
-Somerset Maugham
A world of abundance surrounds you if only you will step up and claim it Make life
happen through you rather than letting it happen to you It will make all the
difference in the world
- Ralph Marston Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving
it
~ William Arthur Ward
We must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible
otherwise we would not continue to search
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Prosperity consciousness is the awareness that all of us have something of value
to offer and we all deserve to get paid for what we provide to others
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Peggy McColl Author of Viral Explosions Proven Techniques to Expand Explode or Ignite Your Business Or Brand Online Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying
~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it
- Lou Holtz Procrastination is opportunitys natural assassin
~ Victor Kiam Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough
- Og Mandino 1923-1996 American Motivational Author and Speaker When you judge others you do not define them you define yourself
~ Earl Nightingale
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly
~ Richard Bach
If you tell the truth you dont have to remember anything
-Mark Twain
The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity
belonging to them
William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions
have all come back from defeat
Sam Snead 1912-2002 Golfer Faith is the assurance of things hoped for
- Unknown
The mediocre teacher tells The good teacher explains The superior teacher
demonstrates The great teacher inspires
~ William A Ward
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Never complain and never explain
~ --Benjamin Disraeli
Bless a thing and it will bless you Curse it and it will curse you If you bless a
situation it has no power to hurt you
Emmet Fox 1886-1951 Spiritual Leader Man alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man
alone can dream and make his dreams come true
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970 American speaker author Think And Grow Rich) Without AMBITION one starts nothing Without WORK one finishes nothing
The prize will NOT be sent to you You have to WIN it
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please
everyone
- Bill Cosby What we leave behind is not engraved in stone monuments but woven into the lives
of others
~ Pericles The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of
being unwanted
~ Mother Teresa (1910-1997 Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)
Tough times never last Tough people do
-Robert Schuller
Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions
- Eric Butterworth
A fellow at one of my workshops confessed For years I was so miserable that I
prayed to God daily to let me wake up as happy as my dog I went home and
thought about it Am I as happy as my dog Hmmmm
~ Alan Cohen
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of
your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the
unknown
Denis Waitley Author and Speaker
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us
William Feather (1888-19 American writer businessman )
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow but only
empties today of its strength
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892 Preacher
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win by fearing to
attempt
William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British poet playwright actor)
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of
your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the
unknown
Denis Waitley (1933- American author speaker trainer peak performance expert)
Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as
it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong
is simply your own false imagination Thats all
~Robert Adams
How many ideas have there been in history that were unthinkable ten years
before they appeared
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Life in itself is an empty canvas it becomes whatsoever you paint on it You can
paint misery you can paint bliss This freedom is your glory
~Osho
―Cease trying to work everything out with your minds it will get you nowhere Live
instead by intuition and inspiration let your whole life become a revelation
~Eileen Caddy
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People should appreciate ugliness because if it wasnt for ugliness beautiful
things wouldnt look beautiful
~ Sam Lau
No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig If
you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time Let it first
blossom then bear fruit then ripen
~Epictetus
You are the Self that perfect immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else
ever existed Nothing else will ever exist There is only one Self and you are That
Rejoice
~Robert Adams
Part of being a champ is acting like a champ You have to learn how to win and not
run away when you lose Everyone has bad stretches and real successes Either way
you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident
~ Nancy Kerrigan
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision
~ Muhammad Ali
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents works his tail off to
develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals
~ Larry Bird
Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love a gift to that person a
beautiful thing
-Mother Teresa
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end Its not a day when you
lounge around doing nothing its when youve had everything to do and youve done
it
-Lord Acton
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
- Walter Bagehot
Only the weak are cruel Gentleness can only be expected from the strong
~ Leo Buscaglia
If you are too busy to spend time with your children then you are busier than God
intended you to be
~ Rabbi Mendel Epstein
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Procrastination is the fear of success People procrastinate because they are
afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now Because
success is heavy carries a responsibility with it it is much easier to procrastinate
and live on the someday Ill philosophy
~ Denis Waitley
Happiness cannot come from without It must come from within
~ Helen Keller
I make occasional visits to reality But Im not a full- time resident
-Ashleigh Brilliant
People are like sticks of dynamite The power is on the inside but nothing happens
until the fuse gets lit
Mac Anderson Author Are you disappointed discouraged and discontented with your present level of
success Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status Do you want to
become a better and more beautiful person than you are today Would you like to
be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine
humility Then start dreaming Itlsquos possible You can become the person you have
always wanted to be
Robert H Schuller (1926- American minister author social leader)
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You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant
aspiration
- James Allen 1864-1912 Author of As A Man Thinketh
The man who has done his best has done everything
~ Charles Schwab Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can start from now
and make a brand new ending
~ Carl Bard
When I get ready to talk to people I spend two thirds of the time thinking what
they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 16th President of the United States Discontent is the first necessity of progress
Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)
You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how
youre going to live - now
- Joan Baez Singer Songwriter
Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as
it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong
is simply your own false imagination Thats all You are the Self that perfect
immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else ever existed Nothing else will
ever exist There is only one Self and you are That Rejoice
~Robert Adams If your dream is a big dream and if you want your life to work on the high level
that you say you do theres no way around doing the work it takes to get you
there
~ Joyce Chapman We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an
imperfect person perfectly
~ Sam Keen
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―A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe a part limited in time
and space He experiences himself his thoughts and feeling as something
separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness This
delusion is a kind of prison for us restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest to us Our task must be to free ourselves from
this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and
the whole of nature in its beauty
-- Albert Einstein
―Each contact with a human being is so rare so precious one should preserve it
- Anais Nin
―Only connect That was the whole of her sermon Only connect the prose and the
passion and both will be exalted and human love will be seen at its height Live in
fragments no longer Only connect
-- EM Forster
―Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the
self And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our
connectedness to others
-- Harriet Goldhor Lerner
―And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to
do the same As we are liberated from our fear our presence automatically
liberates others
-- Marianne Williamson
No no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like
waters and righteousness like a mighty stream
Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968 American Civil Rights leader Nobel Prize winner 964)
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a
very long time
~ Andre Gide (1869-1951 French author)
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Write down the thoughts of the moment Those that come unsought for are
commonly the most valuable
Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Philosopher Statesman Scientist and Author
A woman should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to
accomplish it Even if she fails again and again to accomplish her purpose (as she
necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will
be the measure of her true success and this will form a new starting point for
future power and triumph
~ James Allen
To be blind is bad but worse is to have eyes and not see
~ Helen Keller
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning
to see an imperfect person perfectly
` Sam Keen
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can
start from now and make a brand new ending
` Carl Bard Always make a total effort even when the odds are against you
Arnold Palmer (1929- American golfer)
Learning is finding out what you already know Doing is demonstrating that you
know it Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you You are
all learners doers teachers
Richard Bach (1936- American author)
Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day
Jenner Bruce 1949- American track athlete author speaker
Doubt whom you will but never yourself
John Christian Bovee (1820-1904 American author lawyer)
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When you give someone a book you dont give him just paper ink and glue You
give him the possibility of a whole new life
Christopher Morley 1890-1957 Novelist Journalist and Poet
Dont be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality If you can dream
it you can make it so
Belva Davis Award-Winning Journalist
The secret of mans being is not only to live but to have something to live for
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose
Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity and high purpose by itself is
utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Watch your thoughts they become words
Watch your words they become actions
Watch your actions they become habits
Watch your habits they become character
Watch your character it becomes your destiny
~ Frank Outlaw
Take good care of your future because thats where youre going to spend the
rest of your life
~ Charles F Kettering
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams
John Barrymore
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground
Stephen Covey
Its never too late to be what you might have been
George Elliot
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Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder
than anything we can say
Wilfred Peterson
True peace is not merely the absence of some negative force - tension confusion
or war it is the presence of some positive force - justice good will and
brotherhood
-Martin Luther King Jr
The important thing in this world is not where we stand but in what direction we
move
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing Action always
generates inspiration Inspiration seldom generates action
-Frank Tibolt
The only way to eliminate waris to love our children more than we hate our enemies
-Golda Meir
It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope
is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they
both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your
years
~ Abraham Lincoln
Hold your head high stick your chest out You can make it It gets dark
sometimes but morning comes Keep hope alive
~ Jesse Jackson
Set your sights high the higher the better Expect the most wonderful things to
happen not in the future but right now Realize that nothing is too good Allow
absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way
Eileen Caddy Author
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To understand the heart and mind of a person look not at what he has already
achieved but at what he aspires to do
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931 Lebanese poet novelist )
Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality
Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is
transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible
~Osho
What is the best thing about being 100 years old Lack of peer pressure
-Michael Pritchard
The more credit you give away the more will come back to you The more you help
others the more they will want to help you
~ Brian Tracy
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact
~ William James
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes Chance nature
compulsions habit reason passion desire
~ Aristotle When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth think of Algebra
-Will Rogers
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say Yes Ive got
dreams of course Ive got dreams Then they put the box away and bring it out
once in a while to look in it and yep theyre still there These are great dreams
but they never even get out of the box It takes an uncommon amount of guts to
put your dreams on the line to hold them up and say How good or how bad am I
Thats where courage comes in
~ Erma Bombeck
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You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really
stop to look fear in the face You must do the thing which you think you cannot
do
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you love the money will follow
Marsha Sinetar (American author To Build The Life You Want Create The Work You Love)
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement we must choose freedom and the
responsibility this entails
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998 American expert on love lecturer author)
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of
itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as
powerful as your desires unless you make them so
Marcia Wieder (American speaker trainer author)
I work every day -- or at least I force myself into my office or room I may get
nothing done but you dont earn bonuses without putting in time Nothing may
come for three months but you dont earn the fourth without it
Mordecai Richler (1931- Canadian writer)
If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation
by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in
which you are rendering it
Roger Babson 1875-1967 Statistician and Columnist Its simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about
what the other fellow is going to do
- John R Amos
All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas
~ Hakuin
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly
or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man
~Chang Tzu
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The important thing is not to stop questioning Curiosity has its own reason for
existing One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of
eternity of life of the marvelous structure of reality It is enough if one tries
merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day Never lose a holy
curiosity
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect
abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human
laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought
of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will
bring it into being
~Eileen Caddy
Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality
Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is
transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible
~Osho
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who
keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road
Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961 Statesman and Secretary-General of UN
Life is one massive challenge after another for everyone So you cant feel sorry
for yourself One real measure of you as a person is how much you can handle
without whining
~ Mike Brescia Author
We are each of us angels with only one wing And we can only fly by embracing each
other
-Luciano de Crescenzo
He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he
would like to have
~ Socrates
Quite often we change jobs friends and spouses instead of ourselves
~ Akbarali H Jetha
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame
~ Benjamin Franklin
You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where
your thoughts take you
- James Allen
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will
embrace for that day We cannot change our past
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way We cannot change
the inevitable The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have and that
is our attitude
- Charles Swindoll author
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others
- Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC
If you want your life to be more rewarding you have to change the way you think
- Oprah Winfrey
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless
- Mother Teresa
By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible
- Italian Proverb
Enthusiasm is the all-essential human jet propeller It is the driving force which
elevates people to miracle workers and creates endless energy the source of all
accomplishment
-Norman Vincent Peale
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends
you choose for you will become like them-
- W Clement Stone
Ones philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one
makes In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves The process
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never ends until we die And the choices we make are ultimately our own
responsibility
- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something that were
supposed to do
~ Richard Rose I love the name of honor more than I fear death
~ Julius Caesar
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future making it predictable
and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible
Hannah Arendt 1906-1975 Political Theorist
Man has no greater enemy than himself
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374 Italian poet humanist)
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety
-Aesop
You cannot tailor make your situation in life but you can tailor make your
attitudes to fit those situations
- Zig Ziglar speaker and author Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you
and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in
line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not
get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker The only people who never fail are those who never try
Ilka Chase (1905-1978 American author actor)
In truth you are spirit The body has been projected by the mind which itself
originates from Spirit If the wrong identification ceases there will be peace and
permanent indescribable bliss
~Ramana Maharshi
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I flow with loving gratitude for all my blessings today
- Zoe Jarboe
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be
~ Abraham Lincoln You are wealthy now with an abundance of what you are thinking about The world
is a creative engine and will create whatever you are really thinking Every thought
in your mind is a prayer about you no matter who the subject seems to be
~ Brad Jensen
A man who works with his hands is a laborer a man who works with his hands and
his brain is a craftsman but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his
heart is an artist
-Louis Nizer
When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score
John Enoch Powell (1912-1998 British statesman)
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get credit Try if
you can to belong to the first class there is far less competition
~ Dwight Morrow 1873-1931 Businessman Politician and Diplomat
Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt
conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything
~ St Ignatius Loyola Action is the real measure of intelligence
~ Napoleon Hill
Take the first step and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid But the
first essential is that you begin Once the battle is started all that is within and
without you will come to your assistance
~ Robert Collier
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You are what you are today because of the decisions and the choices YOU made
yesterday
~ Wayne Goonie
I have never seen a man who could do real work except under the stimulus of
encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom he is
working
Charles M Schwab (1862-1939 American industrialist businessman)
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can
- Danny Kaye (1913-1987) Entertainer A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in
spite of overwhelming obstacles
~ Christopher Reeve A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always
with the same person
~ Mignon McLaughlin
We learn from failure much more than from success we often discover what we
will do by finding our what we will not do and probably he who never made a
mistake never made a discovery
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904 Scottish author)
I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)
Life has indeed many ills but the mind that views every object in its most
cheering aspect and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good bears
within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote
Lydia H Sigourney 1791-1865 Poet
The Next Step
The first step needs action to start it
The last requires patience to end
So we question which ones most important
When we realize our dreams our best friend
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Well the answer is neither theyre equal
But the one that will help you win through
And connect what you start to the finish
Is the next step thats waiting for you
Lifes dreamers are great Goal Achievers
Their faith and persistence just blends
Into one awesome cocktail of knowledge
That whatever they want they can get
You see they never visualize failure
Its success that they see shining through
Its essential to start and to finish
But the next step is what you must do
Alison Wilson
Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you
and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in
line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not
get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker
There is no such thing as natural touch Touch is something you create by hitting
millions of golf balls
~ Lee Trevino
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation We do not act rightly because
we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted
rightly We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit
~ Aristotle
The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement If everyone received the
encouragement they need to grow the genius in most everyone would blossom and
the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams
~ Unkwown
I do not believe in miracles at least not defined in the conventional religious
manner as divine disruptions of the natural order But if a miracle is defined as an
infinitely improbable phenomenon then our existence is a miracle which no theory
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natural or supernatural will ever explain
-John Horgan
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that with nine women
pregnant you can get a baby in a month
--Wernher von Braun
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never
find out
~ Frank A Clark
You are what you are today because of the decisions and the
choices YOU made yesterday
~ Revt Wayne Goonie
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do
a little
~ Edmund Burke
We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something
that were supposed to do
~ Richard Rose
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small
people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become
great
- Mark Twain
Rich and poor are first created in the mind
A poor man asks How much will it COST me
A rich man asks How much will it MAKE me
Which one are you
~ Bryan Kumar
If you think you can do something that you cannot the belief itself prevents you
from accomplishing the task either because you never try it in the first place or
because you have block yourself by your belief
-Deena Zalkind Spear
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)
Character is doing whats right when nobodys looking
- J C Watts Jr Politician
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people
always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great
Mark Twain 1835-1910 Humorist and Writer
We are all salesmen every day of our lives We are selling our ideas our plans our
enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact
~ Charles M Schwab It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition
- Vernon Howard Maturity begins when were content to feel were right about something without
feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong
Sydney J Harris 1917-1986 Syndicated Columnist
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum
- Frances Willard Educator
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given
~ Deepak Chopra Once power was considered a masculine attribute In fact power has no gender
~ Katherine Graham
An invasion of armies can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come
Victor Hugo
As the purse is emptied the heart is filled
Victor Hugo
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Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them
give way beneath her and yet sings knowing that she hath wings
Victor Hugo
Have no fear of robbers or murderers They are external dangers petty dangers
We should fear ourselves Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murders
The great dangers are within us Why worry about what threatens our heads or
purses Let us think instead of what threatens our souls
Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door closes a prison
Victor Hugo
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man
Victor Hugo Be all you can be and live a good life -- have fun with it
Tina Yothers
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace
Yes Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive inner peace does
not
-Eckhart Tolle
A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Physician and writer
The superior persons learning goes in his ear attaches to his heart expands to
the end of his limbs and is established in his actions
Even in his smallest word or slightest action he sets an example
~ Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) When I thought I couldnt go on I forced myself to keep going My success is
based on persistence not luck
Estee Lauder Entrepreneur
If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased
Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003 American actress writer)
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Make Your Mark Count A childs life is like a piece of paper on which every person
leaves a mark
- Chinese Proverb
Pain shared is lessened joy shared increased
~ Spider Robinson
The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits
~ Albert Einstein
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift let it be enthusiasm
Bruce Barton (1886-1967 American author advertising expert)
When you give your children knowledge you are telling them what you think That
is you are telling them what they are supposed to know what you want them to
understand is true
When you give your children wisdom you do not tell them what to know or what is
true but rather how to get to their own truth
-Neale Donald Walsch
I have found that if you love life life will love you back
- Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Musician
The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see
magic and beauty in them while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves
~ Kahlil Gibran
Practice is just as valuable as a sale The sale will make you a living the skill will
make you a fortune
~ Jim Rohn
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875 British author clergyman)
Dont cry because its over - smile because it happened
Author unknown
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Happiness is like a kiss You must share it to enjoy it
~ Bernard Meltzer Our life is what our thoughts make it
~ Marcus Aurelius The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best Therefore it tends to
become the best It takes the form or character of the best and will receive the
best
-- Wallace Wattles
Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings
-- Marianne Williamson
―And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present and can be none in
the future And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned
to beautiful results
mdash Walt Whitman When you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with your Self
When you lose touch with your Self you lose yourself in the world
Your innermost sense of Self of who you are is inseparable from stillness
This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form
Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks
With wisdom I see that I am nothing
With love I see that I am everything
Between these two my life turns
Nisargadatta Maharaj Man often becomes what he believes himself to be If I keep on saying to myself
that I cannot do a certain thing it is possible that I may end by really becoming
incapable of doing it On the contrary if I shall have the belief that I can do it I
shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the
beginning
Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Indian Nationalist Leader
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Strategies designed to avoid something eventually produce exactly the thing they
are trying to avoid
-Michael Greenwood and Peter Nunn
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but
are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults
seem insignificant
Charles A Cerami
If all you did was just look for things to appreciate you would live a joyous
spectacular life
~Abraham-Hicks
Three things in human life are important The first is to be kind The second is to
be kind And the third is to be kind
- Henry James (1843-1916) Writer The moment of enlightenment is when a persons dreams of possibilities become
images of probabilities
~ Vic Braden Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot
fly
~ Langston Hugues Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which
smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what win and
preserve the heart and secure comfort
Humphry Davy 1778-1829 Chemist
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900 German philosopher)
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 (1871-1940) Writer
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Some dream of doing great things while others stay awake and get on with it
~ Unknown With all your science can you tell how it is and whence it is that light comes into
the soul
-Hanry David Thoreau
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one but you wont come up
with a handful of mud either
- Leo Burnett (1891-1971) Advertising Executive
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the
only way we can leave the future open
Lillian Smith 1897-1966 Writer Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
~ Thomas A Edison Find something youre passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it
Julia Child (1912-2004 American gourmet cook author and television personality)
Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today
and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American
dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are
created equal
- Martin Luther King Jr ―Never let formal education get in the way of your learning
- Mark Twain
The path to success is to take massive determined action
~ Anthony Robbins For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the practice of tolerance ones enemy is the best teacher
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson When defeat comes accept it as a signal that
your plans are not sound rebuild those plans
and set sail once more toward your coveted goal
~ Napoleon Hill
We are all alike on the inside
Mark Twain (1835-1910 American humorist writer)
If you are going to do something carelessly it is better to give it up entirely
Russian Proverb
The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you
Smile and it smiles too
Herbert Samuels
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our
children
Charles R Swindoll
The important thing is not so much that every child should be
taught as that every child should be given the wish to learn
John Lubbock
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been
Mark Twain
It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere
Steve Goodier A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops
Henry Adams
It is only with the heart that one can see clearly for the most
essential things are invisible to the eye
~ Antoine de Sainte Exupery
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the
critical decisive hour Write it on your heart that every day is
the best day of the year
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier Be the living
expression of Gods kindness kindness in your face kindness in your eyes kindness
in your smile
- Mother Teresa
Its never too late to be who you might have been
- George EliotWriter
Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle
- Plato Philosopher
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition
- Vernon Howard
Ilsquove always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up
- Beverly Sills Opera Singer
Help others get ahead You will always stand taller with someone else on your
shoulders
- Bob Moawad Business Leader
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks
like work
Thomas Edison
Dream as if youll live forever
Live as if youll die tomorrow
~ James Dean
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 Author
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As we grow up we get sophisticated out of enchantment and become too smart
about the things that cause children to wonder
-Thomas Moore
People come out to see you perform and youve got to give them the best you have
within you The lives of most men are patchwork quilts Or at best one matching
outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations A lifetime of
training for just ten seconds
Jesse Owens (1913-1980 American Olympian)
Nothing is easy to the unwilling
- Nikki Giovanni Whatever course you have chosen for yourself it will not be a chore but an
adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving if your sights are set
far above the merely secure and mediocre
~David Sarnoff 1891-1971 Entrepreneur I dont know any other way to lead but by example
Don Shula (1930- American football coach) Flexible people never get bent out of shape
- Author Unknown The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record
of successful experiences behind you
~ William Jennings Bryan The important thing is this To be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we could become
~ Charles du Bois Success isnt permanent and failure isnt fatal
- Mike Ditka
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The different between us is that I count and you dont
-Huston Smith
I love strange choices Im always interested in people who depart from what is
expected of them and go into new territory
Cate Blanchett Actress Always do your best What you plant now you will harvest later
Og Mandino (1923-1996 American motivational author speaker wwogmandinocom ) Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the Universe is endlessly
bountiful Just put forth a clear enough request and everything that your heart
desires must come to you
~Shakti Gawain The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would
suffice to solve most of the worlds problems
~ Unknown The only real valuable thing is intuition
- Albert Einstein
Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve
lost a part of your life
~ Michael Leboeuf Fear is an insidious virus Given a breeding place in our minds it will eat away our
spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors
~ James F Bell
You cant base your life on other peoples expectations
Stevie Wonder Grammy Award Winning SingerSongwriter
An excuse is worse than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded
Alexander Pope (1688-1744 British poet critic translator)
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The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and
beginning the work of becoming yourself
- Anna Quindlen ―Exert your talents and distinguish yourself and donlsquot think of retiring from the
world until the world will be sorry that you retire
- Samuel Johnson Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of
the odds against them They make the impossible happen
~ Dr Robert Jarvik
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances
if there is any reaction both are transformed
-Carl Jung There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right between
fairly good and the best between mediocrity and superiority
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess
I wish you enough Hellos to get you through the final Goodbye
Bob Perks
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
~ William Shakespeare
It doesnt matter where you are coming from All that matters is where you are
going
~ Brian Tracy You need to be a somebody before you can be a nobody
-Brant Cortright
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old
Franz Kafka Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it
bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an
unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win and lose many
a battle
~ Annie Besant
I believe in taking a positive attitude toward the world My hope still is to leave
the world a little bit better than when I got here
Jim Henson 1936-1990 Muppets Creator Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life
Gita Bellin
Education is when you read the fine print Experience is what you get if you
dont
- Pete Seeger
Keep your thoughts positive because they become your words
Keep your words positive because they become your behaviors
Keep your behaviors positive because they become your habits
Keep your habits positive because they become your values
Keep your values positive because they become your destiny
-Gandhi
The challenge is not to manage time but to manage ourselves
Stephen Covey
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death It not only gives us
fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which
we hold our present being
~ William Hazlitt
Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith Having
faith in yourself in the process of change and in the new direction that change
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sets will reveal your own inner core of steel
Georgette Mosbacher Business Executive
Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life
Gita Bellin
Careful what you wish for Millions long for immortality who do not know what to
do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon
- Susan Ertz
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us What we have done for
others and the world remains and is immortal
Albert Pine
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us
We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant gorgeous talented fabulous Actually
who are you NOT to be You are a child of God Your playing small does not serve
the world There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont
feel insecure around you We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is
within us It is not just in some of us it is in everyone And as we let our own light
shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same As we are
liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others
~ Marianne Williamson
Focus on where we want to end up not on what we want to avoid
-Paula Underwood Spencer
A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact
that everything has happened for the best
Author Unknown
Change your thoughts and you change the world
- Harold R Mcalindon Today is yesterdays effect and tomorrows cause
~ Phillip Gribble
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find
he can do what he was afraid he couldnt do
~ Henry Ford
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist
- Paul Harvey
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes
up his mind to do We are all capable of greater things than we realize
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)
When everybody is looking for gold its a good time to be in the picks and shovels
business
~ Mark Twain
Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve
lost a part of your life
~ Michael Leboeuf
It is a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you
very often get it
~ W Somerset Maugham
Flatter me and I may not believe you Criticize me and I may not like you Ignore
me and I may not forgive you Encourage me and I will not forget you Love me and
I may be forced to love you
William Arthur Ward
―Trust yourself You know more than you think you do
Benjamin Spock
―A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise
after success
Anon
―Nine tenths of education is encouragement
Anatole Franc
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Maybe you cant change the whole world but if you have love in your heart you can
make small differences every day which really does change the world one life at a
time
Kristina Koncz Customer Experience Specialist
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 (American author The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness)
Truce is better than friction
- Charles Herguth
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them -- a desire a dream a vision
~ Muhammad Ali
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each mans
life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that
take our breath away
~ George Carlin
You can conquer almost any fear if you will make up your mind to do so For
remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind
Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Author and Speaker
Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others
They learn when they do which isnt often on their own the hard way
Robert Heinlein (1907-1988 American science fiction writer)
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the
expense of everybody else
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-Frederic Bastiat
Some think its holding on that makes one strong sometimes its letting go
- Sylvia Robinson We are responsible for what we are and whatever we wish ourselves to be we
have the power to make ourselves If what we are now has been the result of our
own past actions it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be
produced by our present actions so we have to know how to act
~ Swami Vivekananda
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and
make a new ending
~ Maria Robinson
We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves
Brian Tracy (1944- Canadian-born American trainer speaker author businessman)
Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow
- Slovakian Proverb
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know
peace
~Jimi Hendrix Do not wait the time will never be just right
Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your
command and better tools will be found as you go along
~ Napoleon Hill
When we lose the right to be different we lose the privilege to be free
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948 American jurist politician)
You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone which can become a
watered-down occasional hope that youll get to tomorrow Intention without
action is useless
Caroline Myss Author of Entering The Castle
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Plan ahead -- It wasnt raining when Noah built the ark
-Anononymous
Only you can be yourself
No one else is qualified for the job
- Shelby Collinge
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
~ Confucius
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom But in the last analysis our
only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves
~ Bernard M Baruch
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941 Indian poet philosopher)
Worry is the misuse of the imagination
- Dan Zadra
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded
Maya Angelou
Trust yourself Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your
life Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into
flames of achievement
~ Foster C McClellan There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal
experience has brought it home
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873 British philosopher economist)
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall
never sit in
-Greek proverb
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails
- Bertha Calloway
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Democracy arose from mens thinking that if they are equal in any respect they
are equal absolutely
~ Aristotle
Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can
~ Richard Bach
If the world seems cold to you kindle fires to warm it
~ Lucy Larcom All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their
gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible
Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer Physician Hotel Owner and founder of Success Magazine
A Friend is a treasure more precious than Gold For love shared is priceless and
never grows old
Author Unknown
Only that which cannot be taken away by death is real Everything else is unreal it
is made of the same stuff dreams are made of
~Osho
Personality can open doors but only character can keep them open
- Elmer G Leterman
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they
dont know when to quit Most men succeed because they are determined to
~ George Allen Coach
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what
lies within us
~ Walt Emerson Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by
employing it well Then youth will be happy old age without regret and life a
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beautiful success
Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 Novelist Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution
experience lifes deepest joy true fulfillment
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet enough trials to make you
strong enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy
-Anonymous
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the
things we do
- Freya Madeline Stark
We must become the change we want to see
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You know its not more knowledge its not more education its not more facts
that we need Its a better use of what we already have that we need to have You
have each and every one of you within your potential power right now to do a
wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be
respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure
Buddha (568-488 BC Indian born founder of Buddhism)
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change and all patterns alter
- Sharon Salzberg When we let freedom ring when we let it ring from every village and every
hamlet from every state and every city we will be able to speed up that day when
all of Gods children black men and white men Jews and Gentiles Protestants and
Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro
spiritual
Free at last Free at last
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Thank God Almighty we are free at last
~ Reverand Martin Luther King Jr All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them
~ Walt Disney Your own common sense should tell you that common sense alone is not enough
-Ashleigh Brilliant
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and
deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your
place
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
Know what counts
No matter what youve done for yourself or for humanity if you cant look back on
having given love and attention to your own family what have you really
accomplished
- Lee Iacocca
There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen
~ Frederick Faust There are those that look at things the way they are and ask why I dream of
things that never were and ask why not
~ Robert F Kennedy
There is nothing impossible to him who will try
~ Alexander the Great
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance Remember the greatest
failure is to not try Once you find something you love to do be the best at doing
it
Debbi Fields Founder of Mrs Fields Cookies
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left
undone
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars
~ Les Brown
Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been
told is what they cant do They dont know what they want because they dont
know whats available for them
~ Zig Ziglar
Accept that some days youre the pigeon and some days youre the statue
-Anonymous
Be life long or short its completeness depends on what it was lived for
- David Starr Jordan
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life
by altering his attitude
~ William James
It has never been and never will be easy work
But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road
built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
―No matter what anybody tells you words and ideas can change the world
~ John Keating (from the movie Dead Poets Society) hellip Every tomorrow has two handles We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887 American preacher orator writer) The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it
~ Chinese proverb
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Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
~ Thomas Edison
I am always doing things I cant do thats how I get to do them
~ Picasso When you maximize your talents youre on path on purpose on target When you
dont youre off path off purpose off target
Kevin Hall Author of Aspire
Comparisons of ones lot with others teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975 American novelist playwright)
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
While we have the gift of life it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of
us to die - whether it is our spirit our creativity or our glorious uniqueness
- Gilda Radner
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state
of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is
wounded trust impaired
~ Erik H Erikson
Dont go on discussing what a good person should be Just be one
Marcus Aurelius
Our wisdom comes from our experience and our experience comes from our
foolishness
Sacha Guitry
I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery than live in a
world so small that my mind could comprehend it
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Our first teacher is our own heart
Cheyenne proverb
Power coerces
Knowledge persuades
Love converts
Proverb
Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back but so they will kiss their
children and their childrens children
Noah Benshea
We read to know we are not alone
CS Lewis
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better
Albert Einstein
Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always makes
you less than you are
- Malcolm Forbes
When you know that youre capable of dealing with whatever comes you have the
only security the world has to offer
Harry Browne 1933-2006 Writer and Politician
You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never
be ableto repay you
- John Wooden
Freedom know this that every manwoman is free to choose his life and what hell
be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call
persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light in nameless ways be
good and kind but never force the human mind
~ William C Clegg
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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than
the one you are capable of living
~ Nelson Mandela to Marianne Williamson If it werent for the rocks in its bed the stream would have no song
-Carl Perkins
Whenever encountering a troublesome person do not identify him as being cruel
or stupid or rude or anything else like that Instead see him as a frightened
person
Vernon Howard 1918-1992 Author and Philosopher When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it
elsewhere
~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer) Live for the moment
If I have learnt anything it is that life forms no logical patterns It is haphazard
and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by for who knows whether any
of them will ever return
- Margo Fonteyn
Isnt it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings
and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of
tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a
stumbling block or stepping stone
~ Edgar Guest We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit
~ Aristotle
Whatever you can do or dream you can do begin it Boldness has genius power
and magic in it
~ Wolfgang von Goethe Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state Being in love shows a person who he should be ~ Anton Chekhov
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Follow the grain in your own wood
- Howard Thurman
It is said that if you are not living your dreams you are living your fears
~ Ghalil Professional Dreamer
―Dont ask what the world needs Ask what makes you come alive because what the
world needs is people who have come alive
- Harold Thurman
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing
do it with all your mind Put your whole soul to it Stamp it with your own
personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will
accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Essayist Philosopher and Poet
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)
For the most part fear is nothing but an illusion When you share it with someone
else it tends to disappear
- Marilyn C Barrick
The purpose of life is not to arrive safely at your death
- Robert Holden
When everything seems to be going against you remember that theairplane takes
off against the wind not with it
Henry Ford
There are two freedoms the false where a man is free to do what he likes the
true where he is free to do what he ought
~ Charles Kingsley Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one
could find fault with it
John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer)
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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
New ideas pass through three periods
It cant be done
It probably can be done but its not worth doing
I knew it was a good idea all along
-Arthur C Clarke A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you think creates your life all you have to do is ask yourself what you are
willing to accept into your life
~ Ghalil Author - Professional Dreamer
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and
deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your
place
~ Orison Swett Marden Well done is better than well said
~ Benjamin Franklin Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one
could find fault with it
John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer) If youre looking for perfection look in the mirror If you find it there expect it
elsewhere
Malcolm S Forbes (1919-1990 American publisher businessman) Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have
- H Jackson Brown Jr A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things
~ Chinese Proverb
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If we listened to our intellect wed never have a love affair Wed never have a
friendship Wed never go into business because wed be cynical Well thats
nonsense Youve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down
~ Ray Bradbury
Successful people decide how they are going to live they are not victims of
circumstance In good times or bad times they know where they are going and they
know that they are going to get there
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker
First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win
~ Mahatma Gandhi The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing
- Walt Disney 1901-1966 American Film ProducerDirectorAnimator
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas first make him your friend
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
Doubting everything or believing everything are two equally convenient solutions
both of which save us from thinking
-Jules Henri Poincareacute
Dont be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning Thats only the initial
impression The important thing is not to retreat you have to master yourself
Olga Korbut Olympic Gold Medallist Gymnast
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental
difference in someones life
- Sister Mary Rose McGeady All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future
task of the philosopher which is to solve the problem of value to determine the
true hierarchy of values
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him
~ Martin Luther King Dont concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal -
leave that completely to a power greater than yourself All you have to do is know
where youre going The answers will come to you of their own accord and at the
right time
Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Syndicated Radio Announcer and Author
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs
~ Gloria Steinem
Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today
and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American
dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are
created equal
~ Martin Luther King Jr
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you have imagined
David Thoreau Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do
that but the really great make you believe that you too can become great
~ Mark Twain Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure (values) and Ill tell
you their philosophy of life
~ Dale Carnegie To forgive is merely to remember ONLY the LOVING thoughts you gave in the
past and those that were given you ALL the rest must be forgotten
~ A Course In Miracles If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a
prophet
Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904-1991 Journalist and Writer
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us
~ Voltaire
We are all of us stars and we deserve to twinkle
~ Marilyn Monroe
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do
right
~ Nelson Mandela
It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope
is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they
both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society
~J Krishnamurti
Every situation properly perceived becomes an opportunity to heal
~ A Course in Miracles
The love that you withhold in life is the pain that you carry
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as
the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature
John D Rockefeller (1839-1937 American industrialist philanthropist founder Exxon)
All I ask is for an unfair advantage
~ WC Fields Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words Keep your
words positive because your words become your behaviors Keep your behaviors
positive because your behaviors become your habits Keep your habits positive
because your habits become your values Keep your values positive because your
values become your destiny
~Gandhi
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Your ego is creating obstacles Maya creating maya
~Babaji Step back Observe without judgment unconditional Watch now as obstacles
melt become no-thing Do this each time a block appears Step back and observe
without judgment
~Babaji
Everybody cannot be a painter a poet or a geniusthose are given qualities from
birth But everybody can be enlightened Enlightenment is the only thing the only
experience where everybody is equally capable And it does not depend on whether
you believe in God or not it depends only on one thingand that is a little taste (of
meditation) and suddenly you become confident that youre capable of it
~Osho There are no accidents or coincidences in this world Nothing is by chance
Everything you experience is a direct manifestation of where you focus your
attention and hold your vibration
~Jafree When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off
into the darkness of the unknown faith is knowing one of two things will happen
There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly
~ Barbara J Winter High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly make big decisions quickly and
move into action immediately Follow these principles and you can make your dreams
come true
Robert H Schuller Televangelist Pastor and Author
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you but seek out another to console and
you will find consolation
J C Macaulay
High Expectations are the key to everything
~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart
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Until you make peace with who you are youll never be content with what you
have
~ Doris Mortman You must constantly ask yourself these questions Who am I around What are
they doing to me What have they got me reading What have they got me saying
Where do they have me going What do they have me thinking And most
important what do they have me becoming Then ask yourself the big question Is
that okay Your life does not get better by chance it gets better by change
Jim Rohn 1930-2009 Author and Speaker
Believe it You CAN succeed at whatever you do as long as you simply take the
right ACTIONS
~ ER Haas CEO
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do The hard
part is doing it
~ General H Norman Schwarzkopf So let your deepest desires direct your aim Set your sights far above the
reasonable target The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire
that stirs the heart
Price Pritchett Author of You2
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1826-1977 British economist critic)
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or
better than themselves
~ Tryon Edwards
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high
and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it
~ Michelangelo Compared to what we ought to be we are only half awake We are making use of
only a small part of our physical and mental resources Stating the thing broadly
the human individual thus lives far within his limits He possesses power of various
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sorts which he habitually fails to use
William James (1842-1910 American psychologist professor author) People wait for opportunity to come along yet it is there every morning
~ Dennis the Menace A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow
~ George S Patton (1885-1945 American army general during World War II)
The last best fruit which comes to late perfection even in the kindliest soul is
tenderness toward the hard forbearance toward the unforbearing warmth toward
the cold philanthropy toward the misanthropic
~ Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825 German novelist)
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a
prophet
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991 Polish-born American journalist writer)
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than
by those given to us by others
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662 French scientist religious philosopher) Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty
~ John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)
Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect
abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human
laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought
of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will
bring it into being
~Eileen Caddy
Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we
believe And the only real wealth for any of us lies in our faith
~ Gordon B Hinckley
Desire is the Starting Point of All Achievement
~ - Napoleon Hill
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And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to
do the same
Nelson Mandela
The more we have the less we own
Meister Eckhart (1260-1326 German mystic)
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every
pebble in the road
Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887 Preacher and Abolitionist
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength Richard L Evans
The secret of Happiness is Freedom and the secret of Freedom Courage
~ Thucydides (Greek historian 460-404 BC)
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in
the mature than in the young
Paul McCartney SingerSongwriter I cant believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary
Lou Holtz (937- American football coach)
Dont let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he
was
~ Richard L Evans
To dream anything that you want to dream that is the beauty of the human mind
To do anything that you want to do that is the strength of the human will To trust
yourself to test your limits that is the courage to succeed
~ Bernard Edmonds
I find my greatest pleasure and so my reward in the work that precedes what the
world calls success
Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)
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It is good to act as if It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer
an act
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832 British sportsman writer)
Tell me what you want and Ill show you how to get it
~ Bob Proctor
One is very crazy when in love
~ Sigmund Freud
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed Always aim at
purifying your thoughts and everything will be well
Mahatma Gandhi
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything keep it
Mahatma Gandhi Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
Mahatma Gandhi
Hate the sin love the sinner
Mahatma Gandhi
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress
Mahatma Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress
Mahatma Gandhi
True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the
future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied
with what we have which is sufficient for he that is so wants nothing The great
blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach
~ Seneca 4 BC to 65 AD - Spanish Philosopher
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When you paint success pictures in your mind you initiate an inner process
whereby your attitudes hopes aspirations and enthusiasm are elevated in
response to an image of a more promising future Every person who aspires must
first sell themselves hope the promise of a better life
US Andersen 1917-1986 Author of The Magic In Your Mind
How far is far how high is high Well never know until we try
Song from the California Special Olympics If you take each challenge one step at a time with faith in every footstep your
strength and understanding will increase
~ James E Faust
What is your individual purpose What would you like to be able to say is your
legacy I believe that each of us wants to find our purpose in life our raison
detre or reason for being We need to have a motive to get out of bed in the
morning We want to feel alive and passionate about something Something that
makes a difference in the world We are not alone in this and yet many of us are
still searching for that purpose
~ Veronica Hay We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds
Warren Buffett (1930- American investment entrepreneur)
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy but its good too to
check up once in a while and make sure you havent lost the things money cant
buy
George Lorimer 1867-1937 Editor of Saturday Evening Post
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence Talent will not nothing is
more common than unsuccessful men with talent Genius will not unrewarded genius
is almost a proverb Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent
~ Calvin Coolidge
Desperation can be as powerful inspirer as genius
Benjamin Disraeli
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We read to know we are not alone
CS Lewis
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better
Albert Einstein The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the
road after you have shown him the way
Confucius
A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his
grandfather
Angie Papadakis
My father didnt tell me how to live he lived and let me watch him do it
Clarence B Kelland No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing
William Barclay
If you think youre lucky you are
Bobby Dodd
When youre safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when youre
having an adventure you wish you were safe at home
Thornton Wilder Obstacles dont have to stop you If you run into a wall dont turn around and give
up Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it
~ Michael Jordan In order to attain the impossible one must attempt the impossible
~ Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616 Spanish novelist dramatist poet)
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as
the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature
~ John D Rockefeller
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is
when men are afraid of the light
~ Plato
Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by action alone
Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 Philosopher and Author
Poverty is not a shame but the being ashamed of it is
English Proverb
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well
~ Unknown
We need to exert ourselves that much more and break out of the vicious cycle of
dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful those in command of
immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own
image
~ Nelson Mandela
High Expectations are the key to everything
~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart
Failures are expected by losers ignored by winners
~ Joe Gibbs Football Coach Most people live and die with their music still unplayed They never dare to try
Mary Kay Ash
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own
existence
Aristotle
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to
the eye
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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If A equals success then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z
with X being work Y play and Z keeping your mouth shut
~ Albert Einstein
Tomorrows battle is won during todays practice
Japanese Proverb
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days
What you can do or think you can do begin it For boldness has magic power and
genius in it
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Poet Novelist and Scientist
Forget about all the reasons why something may not work You only need to find
one good reason why it will
Dr Robert Anthony
No matter how busy you are you must take time to make the other person feel
important
Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001 American businesswoman founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)
I used to be a very serious not funny negative person Funny-cism Skepticism
Criticism and all Then I got introduced to the world of Positive Thinking Now Im
bipolar
~ Andy Dooley Spiritual Comedian and Professional Speaker
Your past is not your potential In any hour you can choose to liberate the future
Marilyn Ferguson (American writer) Everyone wants to be appreciated so if you appreciate someone dont keep it a
secret
~ Mary Kay Ash 1915-2001 Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds
and these magnets attract to us the forces the people the circumstances of life
which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts
~ Napoleon Hill
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You more often recognize your inadequacies rather than your strengths
~ James E Faust
I live by this credo Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness
instead of sadness Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations Even
in your darkest moment you usually can find something to laugh about if you try
hard enough
Red Skelton 1913-1997 Comedian
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth
George W Crane Some self-confronting questions
Where do I want to be at any given time
How am I going to get there
What do I have to do to get myself from where
I am to where I want to be
Whats the first small step I can take to get moving
~ George A Ford The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can
bribe the public with the publics money
- Alexis de Tocqueville The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race
~ Don Marquis At the height of laughter the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new
possibilities
-- Jean Houston Begin to weave and God will give you the thread
~ German Proverb If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who
are rich
John F Kennedy (1917-1963 35th American President)
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If you keep THINKING what you are thinking you will keep DOING what you are
doing and you will keep GETTING what you are getting
~ Dr Robert Anthony The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world
~ Lao-tzu Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to
let them know that you trust them
Booker T Washington 1856-1915 Educator and Writer ―Stress is the tax you pay for not taking 100 responsibility for your life
mdashDr Barnet Meltzer Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it
~ Irving Berlin It is by surmounting difficulties not by sinking under them that we discover our
fortitude
~ Hannah Webster Foster
Believing requires action
~ James E Faust
Dont do anything in practice that you wouldnt do in the game
George Halas (1895-1983 American football coach)
Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to reach for the
roof and land in the garbage
~ Savanna Skinner
Whatever you focus your intention on is what will show up in your life
Your consistent thoughts create your consistent results
~ Dr Robert Anthony
He who gains a victory over other men is strong but he who gains a victory over
himself is all powerful
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Lao-Tzu (BC 600- Chinese philosopher founder of Taoism) His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the
memory of a wrong
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great masters merit emulation not worship
-- Alan Cohen
Mirth is Gods medicine Everybody ought to bathe in it
-- Henry Ward Beecher
Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things but just look what they can do
when they stick together
~ anon
Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you
are and what you want
-- Alan Cohen
Life isnt about waiting for the storm to pass its about learning to dance in the
rain
~Anonymous
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call
failure is not the falling down but the staying down
Mary Pickford 1893-1979 Actress and Producer
Courage does not always roar Sometimes courage is that quiet voice at the end of
the day that saysI will try again tomorrow
-Mary Anne Radmacher
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act or thought or word that raises
us above ourselves
~ Arthur P Stanley
―You see things and say Whylsquo but I dream things and say Why notlsquo
- George Bernard Shaw
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―The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and
convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges
- Martin Luther King Jr
―Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do
that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great
- Mark Twain
―That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as
well
- Abraham Lincoln
―Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though
checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor
suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat
- Theodore Roosevelt
―Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm
- Winston Churchill
―I have not failed Ilsquove just found 10000 ways that wonlsquot work
- Thomas Edison If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun
--Katharine Hepburn
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees
problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems
~ Winston Churchill
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but
are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults
seem insignificant
Charles A Cerami Author
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If everyone on earth loved each other the earth would shine brighter than the
sun
-- Source unknown
As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again you are
merely a vague guest on a dark Earth
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So many worlds so much to do so little done such things to be
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy nothing can make a fool content
that is why most men are miserable
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer)
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live
~ Flora Whittemore 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 1880-1968 Author and Lecturer Where theres a will theres a way
English Proverb A manwoman without ambition is dead
A man with ambition but no love is dead
A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive
~Pearl Bailey We cant help everyone but everyone can help someone
~ Ronald Reagan
We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we
cannot
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
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Once you realize you dont need anything youre free to have whatever you want
- Ian Watson
Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy ~ Norman Vincent Peale Every goal every action every thought every feeling one experiences whether it
be consciously or unconsciously known is an attempt to increase ones level of
peace of mind
~ Sidney Madwed
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so For
remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind
Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Speaker and Author Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes
Chinese Proverb
―Focus your attention on your desire
not the situation that gave birth to your desire
mdashRich German Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone
and let your hand give in proportion to your purse
~ George Washington
Time I have only just a minute
Only sixty seconds in it
Forced upon me cant refuse it
Didnt seek it didnt choose it
But its up to me to use it
I must suffer if I lose it
Give account if I abuse it
Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it
~ Christine Warren
Do what you can with what you have where you are
~ Theodore Roosevelt
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With every adversity comes a seed of equal or greater opportunity
~ Napoleon Hill
Heart is merely another name for the Supreme Spirit because He is in all hearts
The entire Universe is condensed in the body and the entire body in the Heart
Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
―If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back then
you suffer Every moment is the most important moment of your life No future
time is better than now to let down your guard and love
~ David Deida
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for youll be criticized anyway Youll
be damned if you do and damned if you dont
~ Eleanor Roosevelt Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
~ John Wooden
One difference between successful people and all the rest is that successful
people take action
~ Bob Proctor Speaker and Author
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left Every
mans greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life
~ P W Litchfield ―There is a giant asleep within every man When the giant awakes miracles happen
~ Frederick Faust Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of
itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as
powerful as your desires unless you make them so
Marcia Wieder Author and Speaker
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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning by dreams that need
completion by pure love that needs expressing then we truly live life
~ Greg Anderson Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you
Never excuse yourself
~ Henry Ward Beecher There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge
- both poverty and riches are offspring of thought
~ Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich The person with a fixed goal a clear picture of his desire or an ideal always
before him causes it through repetition to be buried deeply in his subconscious
mind and is thus enabled thanks to its generative and sustaining power to realize
his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort Just pursue
the thought unceasingly Step by step you will achieve realization for all your
faculties and powers become directed to that end
~ Claude M Bristol Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake
~ Henry David Thoreau If opportunity doesnt knock build a door
~ Milton Berle Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am
not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise
not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our quality of life incidence
of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak It is born of strength and
understanding
-- Meher Baba Unworthiness is simply a case of mistaken identity
-- Alan Cohen
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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet
-- Mahatma Gandhi If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march
on
-- Stopford Brooke It is usually the imagination that is wounded first rather than the heart it being
much more sensitive
~ Henry David Thoreau You need not struggle for your good Your good flows to you naturally when you are
relaxed open and trusting
-- Alan Cohen If you dont love it you cant afford it
Alan Cohen
Ask for peace first and you will clearly see your next step
-- Alan Cohen I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited
and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts Namely the physical universe
-- Ken Jenkins Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional
~ Mark Sanborn Life isnt what you want it to be its what you make it become
~ Anthony Ryan
If you are very quiet you can hear the world applauding
--Source unknown
Do you remember how electrical currents and unseen waves were laughed at
The knowledge about man is still in its infancy
~ Albert Einstein
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Wherever you go go with all your heart
~ Confucius I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up Most people in this
business gave up and went on to other things If you simply didnt give up you
would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you
Harrison Ford Actor
The quality of your life is determined by the number of uncomfortable
conversations you are willing to have
~ Rich German
To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define
themselves As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate
influences of the culture and environment we grow up in we come to have beliefs
about the nature of being human These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of
our psychosomatic systems our minds and brains our nervous systems our
endocrine systems and even our blood and sinews We act speak and think
according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems
~ Jeremy W Hayward
A mans true wealth is the good he does in the world Mohammed (c570-c632
Mecca spiritual leader
Every man is the architect of his own fortune
~ Sallust
What is opportunity and when does it knock
It never knocks
You can wait a whole lifetime listening hoping and you will hear no knocking
None at all
You are opportunity and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny
You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity to pursue and seize opportunity as
you develop the strength of your personality and build a self-image with which you
are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing
~ Maxwell Maltz
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Today I would like to become the man my dog thinks I am
Jack Thomson Entrepreneur BE the change you want to see in the world
- Mahatma Gandhi
Leaders are made they are not born They are made by hard effort
which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile
~ Vince Lombardi To honor the spirit is to accept the opportunity for your healing and personal
evolution When you choose to assume radical personal responsibility knowing that
you are responsible for the effect external circumstances have on you you are
taking a stand for the power of your spiritual nature to run the show
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think Its really important that you feel good Because this feeling good is what goes
out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you So the
more you can feel good the more you will attract the things that help you feel
good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher
Joe Vitale Author and Speaker Just listen to the still voice within This is the mind to trust This is god
consciousness speaking not the ego that is seeking recognition
~Angela Walker
There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart If you pray it it will
change your life How does it begin
-- Matthew Anderson
For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin but there was
always some obstacle in the way Something had to be got through first some
unfinished business time still to be served a debt to be paid Then life would
begin At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life
~ Bette Howland
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power then the world will know
peace
Jimmy Hendrix There are two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the
credit Try to be in the first group there is less competition there
Indira Gandhi Its good to have money and all the things that money can buy but its good too to
make sure you havent lost the things that money cant buy George
Horace Lorimer When you take things for granted the things you are granted get taken
Phil Hennessy Self-confidence is a state of mind where you believe that you deserve the best
you are capable of achieving the best and furthermore you expect the best to
happen
--- Dr Barnet Meltzer Writing is good thinking is better Cleverness is good patience is better
~ Hermann Hesse
You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the
greatness you perceive in them is your own
-- Alan Cohen
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their
gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible
Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday If you do it right today
--Sheldon S Maye
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength
not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will
~ Vince Lombardi
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The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too
-- William Hutchinson Murray
Youve got to get up every morning with determination if youre going to
go to bed with satisfaction
-- George Horace Lorimer Faith is born of Definiteness of Purpose
Keep your mind on the things that you do want and off the things that you do not
want
~ Unknown You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals
George S Patton 1885-1945 American Army General
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have
thrown at him
~ David Brinkley
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough
~ Helen Keller
If what you did yesterday seems big you havent done anything
today
Lou Holtz
Dont wait for extraordinary opportunities Seize common occasions and make
them great Weak menwomen wait for opportunities strong menwomen make
them
~ Orison Swett Marden
The recognition you seek from others is really the recognition you seek from
yourself Give it to yourself and you wont need it from others
-- Alan Cohen Ninety percent of the population wish positive but think negative
~ Leslie Householder
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You are more likely to create success when you are relaxed about a result than
when you are uptight about it
-- Alan Cohen Embrace Change True success can be defined by your ability to adapt to
changing circumstances
-- Connie Sky Aim High The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for
what we could become
-- Charles Du Bos Dont ask for an easier life ask to be a stronger person
Shared by Kristen Goeser
Your consciousness is a powerful force for creating It determines the people you
are attracted to and the people who are attracted to you If you want to improve
your lot in life or the quality of your relationships choosing to accept personal
responsibility is the first and most important step
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise it is all
over Bolt up at once
-- Sir Walter Scott
You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you cant have it
- Dr Robert Anthony Live so that you wouldnt be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip
Will Rogers 1879-1935 Comedian and Actor
Everyone rides on the merry go round of life but very few ever take the chance
at the brass ring
-- Kevin Veitch
We gain internal freedom through external actions
- Ram Dass
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Everyone was born original but most people die copies
~ Unknown Without passion you dont have energy without energy you have nothing Nothing
great in the world has been accomplished without passion
~ Donald Trump When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened before us
~ Helen Keller
I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody
Bill Cosby Comedian Actor and Author Give up your identity as a seeker and become a finder Then everything you ever
sought will find you
-- Alan Cohen
The reason we put a lot of emphasis on action is because we do not understand the
power of our thought If you analyze it 90 percent of most peoples actions
are spent trying to compensate for inappropriate thought
~ Dr Robert Anthony Prosperity lets go the bridle
-- George Herbert
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered
heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed They won because they refused to
become discouraged by their defeats
Bertie Charles Forbes 1880-1954 Financial Journalist Author and Founder of Forbes Magazine He who jumps to conclusions falls to their death
-- Mark J Ottaviani Im not a believer in nor the advocate of miracles for the reason that I
have enough knowledge of nature to understand that nature never deviates from
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her established laws Her laws are simply so incomprehensible that they produce
what appears to be miracles
~ Napoleon Hill Learn to listen Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly
Frank Tyger
Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can as long as
ever you can
John Wesley Work like you dont need the money Love like youve never been hurt Dance like
nobody is watching
-- Mark Twain
You believe that a lover will bring you love but it is your love that will bring you a
lover
-- Alan Cohen
The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you
The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting The
more joyful you are the more Well-being flows to you
~Abraham-Hicks What nourishes you is not vitamins in food It is the joy you feel in eating it
-- Ramtha
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this
decide what you want
Ben Stein Attorney Author Actor and Commentator
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure to embrace
the new But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful There is
more security in the adventurous and exciting for in movement there is life and in
change there is power
mdashAlan Cohen
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Vision without action is a daydream Action without vision is a nightmare
-- Japanese Proverb
Success is the result of applying sound principles which align with universal laws
The Science of Success is a powerful road map to guarantee your personal
success
~ Brian Tracy
Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to
die
-- Alan Cohen
There are 3 things that are certain in life death taxes and change You cant
avoid change its mandatory progress however is optional
-- Bill R Good Jr
Surrender the illusion that anyone other than you has power or authority over
your life
Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either
openly before us or close to us
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You must be the change you want to see in the world
~ Gandhi
Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a
friendly level
~ Max L Forman
If you want your life to be a magnificent story then begin by realizing that you
are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page
-- Mark Houlahan
If you want to develop in profound and significant ways it is essential that you
build up a reservoir of spiritual and emotional conviction a source of boundless
freedom that will give you the energy to transcend the apparent limitations of
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your own emotional psychological and cultural experience By practicing
meditation with deadly seriousness you cultivate that freedom and conviction in
no-limitation as a reference point Thats the only reason to meditate in the
context of Evolutionary Enlightenment
mdash Andrew Cohen
If our actions stem from honesty kindness caring and vision then no matter
what the result of our efforts we have added something of value to our souls and
to the world
~ Joan Boysenko
Too often the opportunity knocks but by the time you push back the chain push
back the bolt unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm its too late
~ Rita Coolidge We are formed and molded by our thoughts
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them
~ Buddha
We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of the
soul
~ John OlsquoDonohue
No onelsquos past has to be a prison sentence Forgiveness provides the key to
acknowledge the past and move on When we can forgive we have less to be afraid
of
~ Dr Fred Luskin
Isnlsquot it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings
and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of
tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a
stumbling block or stepping stone
~ Edgar Guest
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly
~ Richard Bach
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I donlsquot wait for moods
You accomplish nothing if you do that Our mind must know it has got to get down
to work
~ Pearl S Buck
There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen
~ Fred Faust
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the
risk it took to bloom
~ Anais Nin
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear
~ Nelson Mandela
Itlsquos not about breaking the rules
It is about abandoning the concept of rules altogether
~ Paul Lemberg
Each moment of our life we either invoke or destroy our dreams
~ Stuart Wilde
Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts This is the
secret of success
Swami Sivananda
Whatever you do do it as totally as possible
Osho
I am not afraidhellipI was born to do this
~Joan of Arc
―There is nothing that you cannot be do or have
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
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―Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing
do it with all your might Put your whole soul into it Stamp it with your own
personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will
accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Success is never final Failure is never fatal It is courage that counts
~ Winston Churchill
What are you tolerating that would not be a part of your ideal day
-- Alan Cohen Trust yourself You know more than you think you do
-- Dr Benjamin Spock True friends and healers do not limit your options They expand them
-- Alan Cohen When it comes to staying young a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day
-- Marty Bucella Achievement seems to be connected with action Successful men and women keep
moving They make mistakes but they dont quit
Conrad Hilton 1887-1979 Founder of Hilton Hotels Successful people form the habit of doing what failures dont like to do They like
the results they get by doing what they dont necessarily enjoy
Earl Nightingale1921-1989 Author and Syndicated Radio Personality When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent
you are clear
Janet AttwoodAuthor of The Passion Test The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it
Chinese proverb
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by
changing the inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their
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lives
~ William James
Never look up to the people who have the painted-perfect lives because try as
they might they can never see beyond the canvas
~ Moira Hallsom
Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born
~ Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body
~ Pythagoras
If life gives you lemons make lemonade
~ Joan Collins
The only place where dreams are impossible is in your own mind
~ Emalie
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions But no man has
a right to be wrong in his facts
~ Bernard M Baruch
Begin to weave and God will give you the thread
~ German Proverb
No day in which you learn something is a complete loss
~ David Eddings
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we
are and what we can be igniting the circuits of our highest potential
-- Rusty Berkus
The optimist says we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears
this is true
-- Source Unknown
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If I had listened to the critics Id have died drunk in the gutter
-- Chekov
Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice It is not a thing to be
waited for it is a thing to be achieved
-- Jeremy Kitson
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental
difference in someones life
- Sister Mary Rose McGeady
One never knows what each day is going to bring The important thing is to be
open and ready for it
- Henry Moore
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in
the same individual
- Arthur Koestler
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it
- Lou Holtz Motivation is like food for the brain You cannot get enough in one sitting It needs continual and
regular top ups
~ Peter Davies
Dont tell me how hard you work
Tell me how much you get done
~ James Ling
Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures
dont like to do
~ Albert Gray
―There is a science of getting rich and it is an exact science like algebra or arithmetic There
are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches and once these laws are learned
and obeyed by anyone that person will get rich with mathematical certainty ~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
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―Everything you want should be yours the type of work you want the relationships you need
the social mental and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled the money
you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you and any requirement that you may (or
may not) have for achievement or service to others If you donlsquot aim for it all youlsquoll never get it
all To aim for it requires that you know what you want ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle ―Eliminate the word impossible from your thinking and speaking vocabularies Impossible is a
failure word The thought ―Itlsquos impossible sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove
youlsquore right ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in accomplishment Big in
income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right now to discover how to make your
thinking make magic for you Start out with this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli ―Life
is too short to be little ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―If you have a big problem in your life all that means is that you are being a small person ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind ―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo for success
nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make much of a difference ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you If God gives you a bucket of fish you
have to distribute those fish If you donlsquot theylsquore going to rot attract a bunch of flies and
start stinking up your soul ~ Russell Simmons from Do You ―In my experience therelsquos only one thing that will always steer you toward success Thatlsquos to
have a vision and to stick with ithellip Once I have a vision for a new venture Ilsquom going to ride that
vision until the wheels come off ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by changing the
inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their lives
~ William James
There is no courage without fear
~ Eddie Rickenbacher
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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make who would you call and what
would you say And why are you waiting
-- Stephen Levine
Remember we all stumble every one of us Thats why its a comfort to go hand in hand
~ Emily Kimbrough The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding
~ the Bible
The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives
~ Louise Hay
The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation
~ Comer Cotrell
Give it all youve got because you never know if theres going to be a next time
~ Danielle Ingrum
Dont try to force anything Let life be a deep let-go God opens millions of flowers everyday
without forcing their buds
~Osho
The definition of Insanity is Doing the Same Things Over and Over Again and Expecting Different
Results
~ Albert Einstein
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us This little treasure
has great great powers and I would say we only have learnt a very very small part of what it can
do
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work
~ John G Pollard
Vacation is a state of mind not an action
-- Alan Cohen
Whatever games are played with us we must play no games with ourselves
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Desperation does not recognize your power to choose
-- Alan Cohen
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When people talk listen completely Most people never listen
-- Ernest Hemingway
Heaven is gained or lost not by dramatic deeds but by the simple of acts of daily living
-- Alan Cohen
There is only one voice worth listening to
--Alan Cohen Reverie is not a mind vacuum It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul
--Gaston Bachelard
Why get rich quick when you can be rich now
-- Alan Cohen
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure
-- Joseph Campbell
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes
-- Henry Kaiser
Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of
another
Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister
When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent you are clear
Janet Attwood Author of The Passion Test
New peace harmony and power fill your relationships when you practice radical personal
responsibility Through it you enter a more refined sphere of relating that enhances your life and
accelerates the realization of your ultimate spiritual self Practicing radical personal responsibility
forever changes the way you approach and resolve conflict
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The Cure for the Common Upset (p 10)
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and
discomfort We spend enormous energy denying our insecurity fighting pain death and loss and
hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature
- Jack Kornfield A Path with Heart
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Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am not aware of
any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has
a greater impact on our quality of life incidence of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant they is a fuel in us which needs
to be ignited with sparks
Johann Gottfried Von Herder
Energy is the essence of life Every day you decide how youre going to use it by
knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal and by maintaining
focus
-Oprah Winfrey
The acquisition of wealth is no longer a driving force in the 24th century We
strive to better ourselves and the rest of humanity
-- From the movie Star Trek Insurrection
―You cannot exercise much power without gratitude for it is gratitude that keeps
you connected with Power
~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
―To do things in a way you want to do them you will have to acquire the ability to
think the way you want to think this is the first step toward getting rich
~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
―There are three crucial dimensions to your explanatory style permanence
pervasiveness and personalization
~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism
―Habits of thinking need not be forever One of the most significant findings in
psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they
think
~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism
―Action always beats inaction ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
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―Itlsquos not enough to be in the right place at the right time You have to be the right person in the
right place at the right time ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Every thought vibrates every thought radiates a signal and every thought
attracts a matching signal back We call that process the Law of Attraction The
Law of Attraction says That which is like unto itself is drawn And so you might
see the powerful Law of Attraction as a sort of Universal Manager that sees to it
that all thoughts that match one another line up
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
―It is our desire that you become one who is happy with that which you are and
with that which you havemdashwhile at the same time being eager for more That is the
optimal creative vantage point To stand on the brink of what is coming feeling
eager optimistic anticipationmdashwith no feelings of impatience doubt or
unworthiness hindering the receiving of itmdashthat is the Science of Deliberate
Creation at its best
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
―As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around you come to see that every
perceived problem appearing ―out there is really nothing more than a
misperception within your own thinking
~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is
―The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is
When the mind is perfectly clear what is is what we want
~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself You must be
able to sustain yourself against staggering blows There is no code of conduct to
help beginners That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner
drive go much further than people with vastly superior talent
Sophia Loren Actress
And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your
years
-- Abraham Lincoln
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Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by
holding grudges harboring resentments and nursing unhealed wounds It is
rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to
understand and accept other people and ourselves
~ Sidney and Suzanne Simon
Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity
Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Poet and Physiognomist People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do
things When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success
Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Speaker and Author Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to
believe in me
Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author
With love in you your only need is to extend it
-- A Course in Miracles
Just because it ended doesnt mean it failed
-- Alan Cohen
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find
it
-- George Moore
Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality
-- Alan Cohen
Our biggest problems cannot be resolved They must be outgrown
-- Carl Jung
True prayer penetrates beyond hope and establishes itself in knowing
-- Alan Cohen
So we see to play successfully the game of life we must train the imaging faculty
A person with an imaging faculty trained to image only good brings into his life
every righteous desire of his heart - health wealth love friends perfect self-
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expression his highest ideals
mdash Florence Scovel Shinn
Dont ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it
Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
mdashHoward Thurman
To the degree were not living our dreams our comfort zone has more control of
us than we have over ourselves
-- Peter McWilliams
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams
-- Doug Ivester (President of Coca Cola)
It is not length of life but depth of life
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them but
to reveal their own
-- Author Unknown
A free lunch is only found in mousetraps
-- John Capuzzi
If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you dont you
have achieved half your failure
-- David Ambrose
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesnt lie in not reaching your
goal The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach It isnt a calamity to die with
dreams unfulfilled but it is a calamity not to dream It is not a disaster to be
unable to capture your ideal but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture It is
not a disgrace not to reach the stars but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach
for Not failure but low aim is a sin
~ Benjamin E Mayes
True success is a state of mindThis mindset is the heart and soul of successful
entrepreneurial enterprise You cant get started without it and you cant make a
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business wildly profitable if you dont get it
~ Unknown
Traditional education will make you a living self-education will make you a
fortune
~ Jim Rohn One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests
~ John Stuart Mill
Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different Rather than wasting
time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we dont have what we
want we can start to pursue other ways to get it
~ Greg Anderson
When you confront a problem you begin to solve it
~ Rudy Guilliani ―Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential And to
do that I insist you throw caution at the wind ignore the pleas of parents
coaches spouses and bosses to be realisticlsquo Realistic people do not accomplish
extraordinary things because the odds of success stymie them The best
performers ignore the odds I will show that instead of limiting themselves to
whatlsquos probable the best will pursue the heart-pounding exciting really big
difference-making dreamsmdashso long as catching them might be possible
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―To be sure great performers are well trained experienced smart and in some
cases divinely talented But the way their brains work during a performance is a
lot more like a squirrellsquos than like Einsteinlsquos Like squirrels the best in every
business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilitiesmdashthey
flat out trust their skills which is why we call this high-performance state of mind
the ―Trusting Mindset Routine access to the Trusting Mindset is what separates
great performers from the rest of the pack
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―In every forest on every farm in every orchard on earth itlsquos whatlsquos under the
ground that creates whatlsquos above the ground Thatlsquos why placing your attention on
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the fruits that you have already grown is futile You cannot change the fruits that
are already hanging on the tree You can however change tomorrowlsquos fruits But to
do so you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Believe that you are the one who creates your success that you are the one who
creates your mediocrity and that you are the one creating your struggle around
money and success
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―8020 thinking requires and with practice enables us to spot the few really important things
that are happening and ignore the mass of unimportant things It teaches us to see the wood
for the trees ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle
―The few things that work fantastically well should be identified cultivated nurtured and
multiplied
~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle
―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a journey The
master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after year The master is the one
who is willing to try and fail and try again for as long as he or she lives ~ George Leonard from Mastery
―Whenever you feel shortlsquo or in needlsquo of something give what you want first and it will come
back in buckets That is true for money a smile love friendship I know it is often the last
thing a person may want to do but it has always worked for me I just trust that the principle
of reciprocity is true and I give what I want ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―One dad would sayThe love of money is the root of all evillsquo The other The lack of money is
the root of all evillsquo ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall every step we
take just gets us to the wrong place faster
Stephen Covey
Becoming a star may not be in your destiny but being the best
that you can be is a goal you can set for yourselves
Bryan Lindsay
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Be yourself Who else is better qualified
Frank J Giblin II
Do not learn from your mistakes learn from the mistakes of others
to that you do not make any
Sean Karsten
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower
Shigenori Kameoka
Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to believe in me
Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author
Upsets always contain the gift of learning except most people have never learned how to unwrap
the package
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is
causing anxiety
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970 British philosopher mathematician essayist) Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes
Chinese Proverb
We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we cannot
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
Dont measure yourself by what you have accomplished but by what you should have accomplished
with your ability
John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)
Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty
John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)
Something good is already happening Can you discover it
-- Alan Cohen
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if theyve got a second Give your
dreams all youve got and youll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you
William James 1842-1910 Philosopher and Author
Out of suffering comes creativity You cannot spell painting without pain
-- John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun
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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the
future are not as real but rather more real than the present
- Alan Watts
Boldness has genius power and magic in it Begin it now
~ Goethe
―In the heart of Emptiness there is a mysterious impulse mysterious because
there is actually nothing in the heart of Emptiness (for there is nothing in
Emptiness period) Yet there it is this mysterious impulse the impulse to hellip
create To sing to shine to radiate to send forth reach out and celebrate to
sing and shout and walk about to effervesce and bubble over this mysterious
exuberance in the heart of Emptiness
~ Ken Wilber from One Taste July 31
―Evolution goes beyond what went before but because it must embrace what went
before then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus it has an inherent
directionality a secret impulse toward increasing depth increasing intrinsic value
increasing consciousness In order for evolution to move at all it must move in
those directionsmdashtherelsquos no place else for it to go
~ Ken Wilber from A Brief History of Everything
The secret of being boring is to say everything
- Voltaire 1694-1778 French Writer and Philosopher
―Donlsquot let what you canlsquot do stop you from what you can do
- John Wooden
―You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the
shore
- Christopher Columbus
―Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
- Confucius
―A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed
- Henrik Ibsen
―It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities
- JK Rowling
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―If you are going through hell keep going
- Winston Churchill
―Yesterday is history Tomorrow is a mystery Today Today is a gift Thatlsquos why
we call it the present
- B Olatunji
―To live is the rarest thing in the world Most people exist thatlsquos all
- Oscar Wilde
―You donlsquot get to choose how you are going to die Or when You can only decide how
you are going to live Now
- Joan Baez
―When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us
- Helen Keller
―Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limited Imagination
encircles the world
- Albert Einstein
―If you want to be happy be
- Leo Tolstoy
―Always do right This will gratify some people and astonish the rest
- Mark Twain
―We must be the change we want to see
- Gandhi
―The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most I can better trust those
who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to
enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity
- Ulysses S Grant
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―Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting
- Elizabeth Bibesco
―The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort but
where he stands at times of conflict and controversy
- Martin Luther King Jr
―Begin doing what you want to do now We are not living in eternity We have only
this moment sparkling like a star in our hand ndash and melting like a snow flake
- MB Ray
―I shall pass through this life but once Any good therefore that I can do let me
do it now Let me not defer or neglect it For I shall never pass this way again
- Etienne de Grellet
―This above all To your own self be true
- William Shakespeare
―To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make
you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight
and never stop fighting
- EE Cummings
―In three words I can sum up what Ilsquove learned about life It goes on
- Robert Frost
―Imagine
- John Lennon
You can if you think you can
George Reeves
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile
achievement
Henry Ford 1863-1947 Industrialist
No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself
-- Conrado I Generoso
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When I am delivering my very best then that is when I feel successful
~ Art Fettig
The only limitations you will ever have are the ones you put on yourself
~ Kristinna Habashy
The secret of manwomans being is not only
to live but to have something to live for
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
To hell with circumstances I create opportunities
~ Bruce Lee
Simplicity is making the journey of this life
with just baggage enough
~ Charles Dudley Warner
I dont think theres any such thing as setting your goals too high The higher you
set your goals the more you are going to work If you dont reach them then its
okay just as long as you set it and then give 100 of yourself
~ Dan Jansen Speed Skater
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the circle of Creation
is completed inside us the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal
everything in sight
~ Michael Bridge
Youlsquore darn tootinlsquo Ilsquom going to bring out the best in you You are the best
― Maureen Coleman middle school teacher
Truth is rarely writ in ink It lives in nature
-- Martin H Fischer
Before planning where you want to go decide who you want to be
-- Alan Cohen
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day wisdom consists in not
exceeding the limit
-- Elbert Hubbard
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere
-- Alan Cohen
When the Japanese mend broken objects they fill the cracks with gold They
believe that when somethings suffered damage and has a history it becomes more
beautiful
-- Barbara Bloom
Efficiency without love is not really efficient
-- Alan Cohen
The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively
-- A Course in Miracles
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than
any other one thing
Laura Ingalls Wilder 1867-1957 Author
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as
few as there are any other great artists It might even be the greatest of the arts
since the medium is the human mind and spirit
John Steinbeck 1902-1968 Writer and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Be careful what you spend your day touching because it will shape your mind your
body and your heart
Sam Keen Speaker and Author
I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in
the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he has imagined he will
meet with success unexpected in common hours
Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Writer and Poet
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out
― Michael Burke
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Turn frustration into fascination
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
Money is not the source of life It is an expression or by-product of doing what
brings you life
-- Alan Cohen
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but
sand the angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are gone
- George Elliot
Proceed when clear
-- Alan Cohen
Slow down and enjoy life Its not only the scenery you miss by going too fast --
you also miss the sense of where you are going and why
Eddie Cantor
Life is here to enjoy The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness When it
appears otherwise you are off the path of destiny Look at your life and ask
What do I need to change to choose in favor of my passions
Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life Be happy now Dont wait for something
outside of yourself to make you happy in the future Think how really precious is
the time you have to spend whether its at work or with your family Every minute
should be enjoyed and savored
Earl Nightingale
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life It turns what we have into enough and
more It turns denial into acceptance chaos into order confusion into clarity It
turns problems into gifts failures into success the unexpected into perfect
timing and mistakes into important events Gratitude makes sense of our past
brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow
Melodie Beattie Writer
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Devotion is commitment at a deep cellular level When you are devoted the
universe will align itself to give you what you desire
Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion
Action breeds confidence and courage If you want to conquer fear do not sit
home and think about it Go out and get busy
~ Dale Carnegie
The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all
the world
~Ramana Maharshi
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be
~Daniel J Boorstin
The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively
from his own resources
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire
not things we fear
~ Brian Tracy
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game and no matter how
great your talent there is only one way to obtain it-work
~ Jack Nicklaus Golfer
A goal without a plan is merely a WISH without a HOPE
~ Unknown
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan in which we must
fervently believe and upon which we must vigorously act There is no other route
to success
~ Stephen A Brennan
Knowledge breeds doubt Wisdom births wonder
Alan Cohen
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When you decide what you want it has to manifestbut only at the level of your
belief
Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion
Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity
- John Dryden
It may make people feel more secure when everyone agrees with them but it
wont create a world made rich by the unique and diverse expressions of the human
soul
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
Choice is destinys soul mate
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Truth is a gem of many facets Each facet reflects the brilliance within and
without But the whole reveals a deeper more profound message than all the parts
by themselves
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
He who knows others is wise he who knows himself is enlightened
- Tao Te Ching
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to
our tasks
-- Helen Keller
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret
-- Ambrose Bierce
We must all suffer one of two things the pain of discipline or the pain of regret
or disappointment
-- Jim Rohn
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Many risks fail because they were not taken in time Too many risks are postponed
until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made This does not mean that one
should say Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead That is foolish and self-
destructive But dont sit back waiting for the perfect moment It almost never
comes
-- David Viscott Risking
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter
-- E E Cummings
Reflect upon your blessings of which every man has plenty not on your past
misfortunes of which all men have some
-- Charles Dickens
What the caterpillar calls the end the rest of the world calls a butterfly
-- Lao Tsu
Out of difficulties grow miracles
-- Jean De La Bruyere
Our patience will achieve more than our force
-- Edmund Burke
You must pay in the past to receive in the future
-- Taylor Simpson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what
lies within us
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why Why Not Why Not You Why Not Now
-- Aslan
To become a leader then you must become yourself become the maker of your
own life
--Warren G Bennis
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You have got to discover you what you do and trust it
Barbra Streisand
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the
circle of Creation is completed inside us the doors of our souls
fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight
Michael Bridge
Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean but the
ocean would be less without that missing drop
Mother Teresa
You dont just stumble into the future You create your own future
Roger Smith
Just dont give up on trying to do what you really want to do
Where there is love and inspiration I dont think you can go
wrong
Ella Fitzgerald
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot
do
Walter Bagehot
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser
John W Gardner
Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life
forever
Keri Russell
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while
so that we can see Life with a clearer view again
Alex Tan
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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine
inspiration
Marcus T Cicero
Youve got to follow your passion Youve got to figure out what
it is you love--who you really are And have the courage to do
that
Oprah Winfrey
Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love
mdashRich German
Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small
things brought together
- Vincent Van Gogh
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark The real tragedy is when
men are afraid of the light
-- Plato
If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being
most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of
persistence
Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway
Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right
stuff to turn our dreams into reality
~James Womack
No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn
-- Hal Borland
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge
of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams
- Les Brown
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on
We act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because
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of imagination
- Maxwell Maltz
There is a sleeping giant in you Release it Believe in yourself
~ Bob Proctor
Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste
neither time nor money but make the best use of both
-- Benjamin Franklin
When you talk to God thats prayer When God talks back its schizophrenia
-- Lily Tomlin
Work is not a substitute for love It is an avenue of loves expression
-- Alan Cohen
Look beyond peoplelsquos appearances
Look beyond the roles one plays and the mask they wear
Look deep into their eyes and peer into their soul
There you will find their true essence
There you will find your true essence
And that essence is love
mdashRich German
Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love
mdashRich German
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a
life spent doing nothing
George Bernard Shaw
Formula for success under promise and over deliver
Tom Peters
Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right things
Peter F Drucker
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Be the change that you want to see in the world
Mahatma Gandhi
Creating space is as important as filling it
-- Alan Cohen
Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words may guide you to the door of heaven but only silence opens it
-- Alan Cohen
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing
Bernard Shaw
Formula for success under promise and over deliver
Tom Peters
Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right
things
Peter F Drucker
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge
of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams
- Les Brown
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works onWe
act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because of
imagination
- Maxwell Maltz
No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn
-- Hal Borland
There is a sleeping giant in you
Release it Believe in yourself
~ Bob Proctor
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Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste
neither time nor money but make the best use of both
-- Benjamin Franklin
Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right
stuff to turn our dreams into reality
~James Womack
If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being
most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of
persistence
Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway
The best way to teach people is by telling a story
Jonathan Swift
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody else has thought
Kenneth Blanchard
All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it
-Samuel Butler
Happiness is like a cat If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you It will never
come
But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business youll find it rubbing
up against your legs and jumping into your lap
- William Bennett
The word impossible is only in the mind and not in the heart
- Sri Chinmoy
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another it is the only
means
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Physicist
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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone
And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone
Paul Tillich
Sometimes the cards we are dealt are not always fair However you must keep
smiling amp moving on
~ Tom Jackson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you
- Elbert Hubard
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends
with anyone else in the world
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Thus nature has no love for solitude and always leans as it were on some support
and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship
- Cicero
So it is life is actually made up of our choices We are the sum total of them and
if we hold to an attitude of love and thanksgiving for all the good things within our
grasp we may have what all ambitious people long for - success
Delma Neeley
Believe and your belief will create the fact
~ William James
The principle is competing against yourself
Its about self improvement about being better than you were the day before
~ Steve Young
All of us you your children your neighbors and their children are
everyday geniuses even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by
everyone Thats probably because school hasnt encouraged us to notice whats
hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself
~ Peter Kline
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If youll not settle for anything less than your best you will be amazed at what
you can accomplish in your lives
Vince Lombardi
Ya gotta put your behind in your past
Then youre ready for whatever comes next
~ Pumba The Lion King
Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become
~ James Allen
Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well what
causes sadness and what brings happiness what makes us suffer and what leads to
healing
~ Dean Ornish MD
Three components make an entrepreneur the person the ideaand the resources
to make it happen
~ Anita Roddick
What we can or cannot do what we consider possible or impossible is rarely a
function of our true capability It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who
we are
~ Anthony Robbins
Either Do or Do Not There is No Try
~ George Lucas
Theres a name for the magic that transforms lives connects dots moves
mountains and orchestrates coincidences that shock and astound Imagination
And theres a name for all that stops you in your tracks stirs fear spins wheels
and leaves one wondering Hey whats up with that Imagination
Careful where you point that thing
~ The Universe
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with
them
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is a passionate intuition
-William Wordsworth
Friendship is a sheltering tree
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision Vision is the perfume
of the mind
--Harriet Rubin
Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing
--Harriet Braiker
I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the
present can I act The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of
mental wellness
-Abraham Maslow 1908-1970 Psychologist
In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge
-Aristotle
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our
potential
Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister
The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you
settled for
Maureen Dowd Newspaper Columnist
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything
outside ourselves will affect us
Stephen R Covey Author and Speaker
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Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually
attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life
Christiane Northrup Medical Doctor and Author
We must learn to keep ourselves awake by an infinite expectation of the
dawn
-- Henry David Thoreau
You dont need to struggle to get your body to do or be what your spirit already is
-- Alan Cohen
One must steer not talk
-- Seneca
The more you quantify the less you qualify
-- Alan Cohen
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know Most are
born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly
-- Buckminster Fuller
Any act motivated by guilt does not assuage guilt but perpetuates it
-- Alan Cohen
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for
themselves
-- Peter McArthur
Be so good they cant ignore you
Steve Martin
Its kind of fun to do the impossible
Walt Disney
Its easy to make a buck Its a lot tougher to make a difference
Tom Brokaw
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When I hear somebody sigh Life is hard I am always tempted to
ask Compared to what
Sydney J Harris
In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing The worst
thing you can do is nothing
Sam Walton
I had to pick myself up and get on with it do it all over again only even better
this time
Theodore Roosevelt
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process
~ Jim Rohn
If you can imagine it you can achieve it If you can dream it you can become it
~ William Arthur Ward
There is much in the world to make us afraid There is much more in our faith to
make us unafraid
-- Cropp
Pray for essence rather than form and the form will be a perfect expression of
the essence
-- Alan Cohen
People who soar are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change
Charles R Swindoll Author and Pastor
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with
- Jim Rohn
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your
dreams
- Les Brown
Life is 10 of what happens to me and 90 of how I react to it
John Maxwell
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What you see depends on what youre looking for
Anon
Mind over matter If you dont mind it doesnt matter
-- Alan Cohen
When you are clear on want to how to shows up
-- Michael Neill
Quit struggling to make your body do or be what your spirit already is
-- Alan Cohen
Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation
-- Isaac Newton
Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Whatever you invest it
in will yield more of the same
-- Alan Cohen
When you find yourself stressed ask yourself one question Will this matter five
years from now If yes then do something about the situation If no then let it
go
Catherine Pulsifer Writer
Theres plenty of intelligence in the world but the courage to do things
differently is in short supply
Marilyn vos Savant Columnist Author and Lecturer
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced
by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas
a strong faith is strengthened by them
Viktor E Frankl 1905-1997 Holocaust Survivor and Author of Mans Search for
Meaning
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength
Richard L Evans
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You were not born a winner and you were not born a loser You are
what you make yourself be
Lou Holtz
Remember if you ever need a helping hand youll find one at the
end of your arm As you grow older you will discover that you
have two hands One for helping yourself the other for helping
others
Audrey Hepburn
Dont take life too seriously because youll never get out alive
Josh Shippe
Without hard work nothing grows but weeds
Gordon B Hinckley
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies
--Mother Teresa
Do what you can to show you care about other people and you will make our world
a better place
--Rosalynn Carter
Again and again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is
only a tough decision waiting to be made
--Robert H Schuller
If in our daily life we can smile if we can be peaceful and happy not only we but
everyone will profit from it This is the most basic kind of peace work
--Thich Nhat Hanh
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties
disappear and obstacles vanish into air
- John Quincy Adams
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win
~ GK Chesterton
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown for going
out I found was really going in
mdashJohn Muir 1913
To me itlsquos really so simple that life should be lived on the edge You
have to exercise rebellion To refuse to tape yourself to the rules
to refuse your own success to refuse to repeat yourself to see
every day every year every idea as a true challenge Then you will
live your life on the tightrope
mdashPhilippe Petit (star of the movie Man on Wire)
The first step to creating the lifestyle of your dreams is to simplify
your life
mdashRich German
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees
problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems
Winston Churchill
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you
have and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more
~ Robert Collier
Instead of waiting for someone to take you under their wing go out there and
find a good wing to climb under
~ Dave Thomas
If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself
~ Lord Chesterfield
The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable
competitive advantage
~ Arie de Geus
Human life is purely a matter of deciding whats important to you
-- Source unknown
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Determination and perseverance move the world thinking that others will do it
for you is a sure way to fail
Marva Collins Educator
All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them
~ Walt Disney
Everything that happens to you is self-created Whenever youre responding to
any situation whether its a sip of coffee or a traffic jam or a love note or
criticism from a boss or rainy weather youre in fact responding to a signal that
you generated within yourself
- Deepak Chopra
Relationships are not about intellect they are about feeling They require an
intelligence of the heart
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is
when adults are afraid of the light
- Plato
A good listener is someone who is curious open-minded and nonjudgmental A
good listener is not a know-it-all A good listener knows that truth often reveals
itself bit by bit much like putting together a jigsaw puzzle
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
Its the night that makes the dawning
Its the depths that make the heights
Its the roots that make the branches
Its the darkness that gives birth to Light
- Joel Heathcote
How you hear what someone says is determined by your interpretations and your
interpretations flow from your past This is very important to know especially if
you find that you overreact to what others say or habitually get your feelings hurt
Remember what someone said is not necessarily what you heard and what you
heard is not necessarily what they meant
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
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―Everything ndash a horse a vine ndash is created for some dutyhellipFor what task then
were you yourself created A manlsquos true delight is to do the things he was made
for
~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations
―Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts for the soul becomes dyed with the
color of its thoughts Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as for example
Where life is possible at all a right life is possible
~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations
―hellipEverything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of the human
freedomsmdashto choose onelsquos attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose
onelsquos own way
~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life
expected from us We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life and
instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by lifemdashdaily
and hourly Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation but in right
action and in right conduct Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to
find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly
sets for each individual
~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in lifehellip Therein he cannot be
replaced nor can his life be repeated Thus everyonelsquos task is as unique as is
his specific opportunity to implement it
~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―Ultimately man should not ask what the meaning of his life is but rather must
recognize that it is he who is asked In a word each man is questioned by life
and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life to life he can only
respond by being responsible
~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―History though shows us that the people who end up changing the world- the
great political social scientific technological artistic even sports
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revolutionaries- are always nuts until theylsquore right and then theylsquore geniuses
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement
―Great performers are by definition abnormal
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement
―We all aspire to mastery but the path is always long and sometimes rocky and
it promises no quick pay off So we look for other paths each of which attracts
a different person
~ George Leonard from Mastery
―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a
journey The master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after
year The master is the one who is willing to try and fail and try again for as
long as he or she lives
~ George Leonard from Mastery
At the heart of it mastery is practice Mastery is staying on the path
~ George Leonard from Mastery
―Comfort kills If your goal in life is to be comfortable I guarantee two things
First you will never be rich Second you will never be happy Happiness doesnlsquot
come from living a lukewarm life always wondering what could have been
Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up
to our fullest potential
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
―You can be a victim or you can be rich but you canlsquot be both Listen up Every
time and I mean every time you blame justify or complain you are slitting
your financial throat
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Herelsquos an equation I want you to remember for the rest of your life CZ = WZ
It means your ―comfort zone equals your ―wealth zone By expanding your
comfort zone you will expand the size of your income and wealth zone
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
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―We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we
wait forever before taking action
~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big
―Donlsquot put off until tomorrow what you can do today
~ Benjamin Franklin
―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in
accomplishment Big in income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right
now to discover how to make your thinking make magic for you Start out with
this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli Life is too short to be littlelsquo
~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big
―In the yogic tradition this principle of using intense effort to burn through
lifelsquos distractions is called Tapas Itlsquos another Sanskrit word roughly defined
as ―heat or ―essential energy The concept is that through a disciplined
approach to work and self-sacrifice Tapas will burn away the negativity that
separates us from God By working our hardest and happily enduring the
hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in
ourselves
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a ―hard
job That person will be eager to get started no matter what kind of work is in
front of her because she understands that shelsquos doing Godlsquos work And when
youlsquore working for God nothing is too hard
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo
for success nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make
much of a difference
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work
~ Vince Lombardi
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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than
your best
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The poor and the middle class work for money The rich have money work for
them
~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―We all have tremendous potential and we all are blessed with gifts Yet the
one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt It is not so
much the lack of technical information that holds us back but more the lack of
self-confidence
~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―Who will you have to become to achieve all you want
~ Tony Robbins
―You could say that I worked every minute of my life or you could say with
equal justice that I never worked a day I have always subscribed to the
expression ―Thank God itlsquos Friday because to me Friday means I can work for
the next two days without interruption
~ John Hope Franklin
―I do not believe that you should devote overly much effort to correcting your
weaknesses Rather I believe that the highest success in living and the deepest
emotional satisfaction comes from building and using your signature strengths
~ Martin Seligman from Authentic Happiness
When you begin to recognize that your own presence here in this world is part of
something infinitely bigger than yourself you feel a sense of obligation awakening
within youmdasha spiritually inspired soul-level moral imperative to evolve for the sake
of the future of the evolutionary process itself The way you respond to that
obligation and to that sense of cosmic responsibility is by demonstrating that the
process is profoundly positivemdashindeed the process is sacredmdashthrough your own
example through your own victory through your own tangible and unmistakable
higher development
~ Andrew Cohen
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Its the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief And once that belief
becomes a deep conviction things begin to happen
Claude M Bristol 1891-1951 Author of The Magic of Believing
We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in our
heads fear must be a head thing
Tom Payne Career Development Expert
I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody
Bill Cosby Actor and Comedian
If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year Today
should always be our most wonderful day
- Thomas Dreier Author
Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their
personnel If people believe in themselves its amazing
what they can accomplish
--Sam Walton
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the
aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker
--Helen Keller
Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either
advance or stay where you are
- Maxwell Maltz
Be curious not judgmental
-Walt Whitman
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it
-William James
All life is an experiment
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone
acknowledges who we are and what we can be igniting the circuits
of our highest potential
Rusty Berkus
Being considerate of others will take your children further in
life than any college degree
Marian Wright Edelman
It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit
it frankly and try another But above all try something
Franklin D Roosevelt
see without looking hear without listening breathe
without asking
W H Auden
Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways
you can as long as ever you can
John Wesley
Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to
reach for the roof and land in the garbage
Savanna Skinner
Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope
~ Josh Billings
Whats going on in the inside shows on the outside
~ Earl Nightingale
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life a good society
~ Confucius
Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have
just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together
into a life of action and purpose
~ Lance Armstrong
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions
~ Michael Josephson
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others
-- Cicero
Simplicity Purity Clarity
-- Alan Cohen
Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to God alone Laughs at
impossibilities And cries it shall be done
-- Charles Wesley
What is genius but the mind heart and art of God shining to the world through an
open window
-- Alan Cohen
Intuition tells you what not why
-- Source unknown
Changing the world is a natural result of inner peace not a substitute for it
-- Alan Cohen
Fortune sides with him who dares
~ Virgil
We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in
our heads fear must be a head thing
Tom Payne Career Development Expert
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you
mdashLewis Smedes Each of us has the power to make others more beautiful by our love
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst a transformer
in any situation any organization Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an
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entire loaf It requires vision initiative patience respect persistence courage
and faith to be a transforming leader
Stephen Covey
Courage is grace under pressure
~ Ernest Hemingway
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions All life is an experiment
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as Youre going o be thinking anyway Think BIG
~ Donald Trump
To win youve got to stay in the game
~ Claude M Bristol
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head
-- Source unknown
Affirm your value by going where you are valued
-- Alan Cohen
Life is too short to hold a grudge also too long
-- Robert Brault
You cannot borrow greatness from another You can only claim it from within
yourself
-- Alan Cohen
One today is worth two tomorrows never leave that till tomorrow which you can
do today
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 US Statesman Diplomat and Inventor
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs
the problem The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized
a problem and turned it into an opportunity
Joseph Sugarman Marketing Expert
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You wouldnt worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how
seldom they do
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady Author Speaker and Politician
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions
- John Randolph
Opportunities They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere
waiting for the observant eye to discover it
- Orison Swett Marden
Yesterday ended last night Every day is a new beginning Learn the skill of
forgetting And move on
--Norman Vincent Peale
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual it is
best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every
department
ndash Andrew Carnegie entrepreneur
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society The optimist invents the
airplane and the pessimist the parachute
Gil Stern
Strive for integrity - that means knowing your values in life and behaving in a way
that is consistent with these values
Unknown
The country clubs the cars the boats your assets may be ample But the best
inheritance you can leave your kids Is to be a good example
Barry Spilchuk
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the
goal
Henry Ford
It is never too late to be what you might have been
George Eliott
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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence the second listening the
third memory the fourth practice the fifth teaching others
Solomon Ibn Gabriol
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers You can tell whether a man is
wise by his questions
Naguib Mahfouz
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others
~ Erich Fromm
Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble
and grateful mind
~ Epictetus
Happiness is activity
~ Aristotle
Every action we take everything we do is either a victory or defeat in the
struggle to become what we want to be
~ Anne Byrhhe
In the absence of clearly defined goals we become strangely loyal to performing
daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it
Robert Heinlein Novelist
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the
consequences of any misfortune
William James 1842-1910 Psychologist and Author
To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle
-- Walt Whitman
God doesnt owe and neither do you
-- Alan Cohen
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Do what makes you smile
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
People who warn that everyone but members of their religion will go to hell dont
realize they are already there
-- Alan Cohen
The emotional frontier is truly the next frontier to conquer in human
understanding The opportunity we face now even before that frontier is fully
explored and settled is to develop our emotional potential and accelerate rather
dramatically into a new state of being
- Doc Childre and Howard Martin The HeartMath Solution
Real transformation requires that you have a beginners mind that you are willing
to say Whatever I think I know may be wrong
Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true
selves
- Carrol Pearson The Hero Within
If a man would move the world he
must first move himself
--Socrates
All sucessful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists They
believed that things went not by luck but by law
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
I skate to where the puck is going to be not where it is
-Wayne Gretzky
When given the choice between being right or being kind always choose kind
--Dr Wayne Dyer Never forget the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for
others
Sir John Templeton 1912-2008 Mutual Fund Pioneer and Philanthropist
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome
Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Essayist Biographer and Poet
Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on
-- Alan Cohen
Shallow men believe in luck Strong men believe in cause and effect
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Contraction is a sign that birth is imminent
-- Alan Cohen
Work is an extension of personality It is achievement It is one of the ways in
which a person defines himself measures his worth ndash and his humanity
ndash Peter Drucker author
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends
-- John Ruskin
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities
--Janos Arnay
The first time you accept good is the last time you will see excellence
John Ulmo Life is like an onion
You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep
~ Carl Sandburg
Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light
~ L P Jacks Just as iron rusts from disuse even so does inaction spoil the intellect
~ Leonardo Da Vinci
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men sayI JUST watch what they
do
~ Andrew Carnegie
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All Things are Difficult before they are Easy
~ John Norley
Everything has been figured out except how to live
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving
Dennis Waitley
Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out
Robert Collier
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude
Thomas Jefferson
They can because they think they can
Virgil
By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself
Menander
Years teach us more than books
Berthold Auerbach
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When you delightfully fantasize about something you want you set into motion a
wave of energy that calls that situation into reality
-- Alan Cohen
Hurt people hurt people
-- Source unknown
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Doing the right thing may be different than what you have been taught the right
thing is
-- Alan Cohen
The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes
it happen
-- Frank Lloyd Wright All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say no and said yes
Moss Hart 1904-1961 Playwright and Theatre Director
We are built to conquer environment solve problems achieve goals and we find no
real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to
achieve
Maxwell Maltz 1899-1975 Author of Psycho-Cybernetics
You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns
have roses
-- Ziggy
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug
~ Patricia Neal
My night has become a sunny dawn because of you
--Ibn Abbad
All mankind is divided into three classes those that are immovable those that are
movable and those that move
--Benjamin Franklin
Dont compete Create Find out what everyone else is doing and then dont do it
mdashJoel Weldon
Show a little faith therelsquos magic in the night
mdashfrom ―Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen
Music is to me proof of the existence of God
It is so extraordinarily full of magic and in tough times
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of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference
mdashKurt Vonnegut
Discontent is the source of all trouble but also of all progress
in individuals and nations
Berthold Auerbach
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself
Thomas Sprat
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves
to copy
Oliver Goldsmith
If at first you dont succeed try try again Then quit Theres
no use being a damn fool about it
WC Fields
Impatience never commanded success
Edwin H Chapin
In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are the safest
~ Livy
Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights
~ Henry David Thoreau
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense
insoluble They can never be solved but only outgrown
~ Carl Jung
Life Begins When you Do
Hugh Downs Vision Without Action is a Daydream
Action Without Vision is a Nightmare
~ Japanese Proverb
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Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one
can possibly want and hold
-- Judith Olney
The love affair you seek is with yourself
-- Alan Cohen
The greatest power requires the lightest touch
-- BasharDarryl Anka
You only live once -- but its forever
-- Alan Cohen
Get off the cross Somebody needs the wood
-- From the film Straight Talk
There are two ways to live your life One is as though nothing is a miracle The
other is as though everything is a miracle
~ Albert Einstein
In the long run men hit only what they aim at
~ Henry David Thoreau philosopher
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state
of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is
wounded trust impaired
~Erik H Erikson
Freedom know this that every manwoman is free To choose his life and what
hell be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call
persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light In nameless ways be
good and kind But never force the human mind
~ William C Clegg
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want and if they canlsquot find them make them
~ George Bernard Shaw
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Relationships are not things We dont have relationships we are in relationship
with one another
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Relationships are our primary teacher They are the context in which we either
grow into the consciousness of God or deny ourselves and others the opportunity
to do so
- Marianne Williamson
Listen deeply The greatest failure in any relationship is the failure to
participate
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Your future is created by what you do today not tomorrow
Robert Kiyosaki
No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a
reality
Napoleon Hill
If you are not planning today you are planning to fail tomorrow
Gopal
How you do anything is how you do everything
T Harv Eker
There is little difference in people but that little difference
makes a big difference The little difference is attitude The
big difference is whether it is positive or negative
W Clement Stone
The vision must be followed by the venture It is not enough to
stare up the steps - We must step up the stairs
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Vance Havner
Go for it nowThe future is promised to no one
Wayne Dyer
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are you would never
think a negative thought
Peace Pilgrim
Either you run the day or the day runs you
Jim Rohn
You must go after your wish As soon as you start to pursue a
dream your life wakes up and everything has meaning
Barbara Sher
To succeed you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe
and act on it with all of your heart
Christy Borgeld
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers
Anonymous
Let him that would move the world first move himself
Socrates
By the time a man realizes that maybe
his father was right he usually has a son
who thinks hes wrong
~ Charles Wadworth
Without Mistakes Perfection is an Illusion
~ Daniel Frankel
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Its not the hours you put in
but what you put into the hours
that counts
~ Jim Rohn
Be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath
~ James 119
Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory
~ Ingrid Bergman
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word
~ William Makepease Thackeray
Professionalism is knowing how
to do it when to do it and doing it
~ Frank Tyger
Intention is not something you do
but rather a force that exists in the universe
as an invisible field of energy
-a power that can carry us
~ Dr Wayne Dyer
I personally measure success in terms
of the contributions an individual makes
to her or his fellow human beings
~ Margaret Mead
Some of the worlds greatest feats
were accomplished by people not
smart enough to know they were
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impossible
~ Doug Larson
Life is a flower of which love is the honey
~ Victor Hugo
Personal integrity is important
not because it gets us what we want
but because it helps us be what we want
~ Michael Josephson
Goals need to be configured to stretch us
but not to break us
~ Kent Krive
Children are apt to live up
to what you believe of them
~ Lady Bird Johnson
Do your work with your whole heart
and you will succeed
- theres so little competition
~ Elbert Hubbard
Hi Karl
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible
objections must first be overcome
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--Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Author
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter
even the most victorious life The human
spirit is never finished when it is defeated
- it is finished when it surrenders
-- Ben Stein Professor and Writer
Love is the first ingredient in the relief
of suffering
-- Padre Pio
Happiness is a function of accepting what is
--Werner Erhard
There are no shortcuts to any place
worth going
- Beverly Sills
It has never been and never will be
easy work But the road that is built in
hope is more pleasant to the traveler
than the road built in despair even though
they both lead to the same destination
~Marion Zimmer Bradley
The reality of life is that your perceptions --
right or wrong -- influence everything else
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you do When you get a proper perspective
of your perceptions you may be surprised
how many other things fall into place
~ Roger Birkman
Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself
with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum
-- Baal Shem Tov
Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself
with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum
-- Baal Shem Tov
Trust yourself You know more than
you think you do
ndash Benjamin Spock doctor
When you play it too safe youre taking
the biggest risk of your life
Time is the only wealth were given
--Barbara Sher
Creativity is inventing experimenting
growing taking risks breaking rules
making mistakes and having fun
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--Mary Lou Cook
Life is playing a violin solo in public and
learning the instrument as one goes on
--Samuel Butler
Opportunities are usually disguised as
hard work so most people dont recognize
them
~ Ann Landers
It is literally true that you can succeed best
and quickest by helping others to succeed
- Napoleon Hill
God loves you and theres nothing you can do about it
-- Sign on church marquis
Give yourself what you would like to receive from others
-- Alan Cohen
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature
-- Emerson
The fewer your words the more compelling your statement
-- Alan Cohen
Pray devoutly hammer stoutly
-- English proverb
There are no blocks to creativity Only distractions
-- Alan Cohen
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If your rules are not working so well borrow someone elses
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
Inner peace is never more than one thought away
-- Alan Cohen
Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret
hiding God
-- Frederick William Robertson
Completion is an attitude not an event
-- Alan Cohen
Enjoy where you are and youll be where youre going
-- Bashar
Your spirit is wireless
-- Alan Cohen
All questions lead to divine knowing
-- Isaac Newton
You cannot import self-worth You can only recognize it
-- Alan Cohen
Enlightened conflict resolution can exist only in an atmosphere of equality
We may not be equal in intelligence or experience or status but we are equal
in our right to be treated with dignity and caring It is not assumed that one
person has more privilege than another that one person is entitled to more
respect or understanding than another nor that one persons feelings are
more important than anothers
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
To seek happiness outside of ourselves Is like trying to lasso a cloud
Happiness is not a thingIt is a state of mind
- Omar Khayyam
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The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us
well I am not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking
not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our
quality of life incidence of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy No man was ever wise by chance
~ Seneca
By thought the thing you want is brought to youby action you receive it
~ Wallace D Wattles
Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
~ Mohandas K Gandhi
Life isnt about finding yourselfLife is about creating yourself
George Bernard Shaw
Im trying to free your mind but I can only show you the doorYou are the one
that has to walk through it
~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]
A friend is a second self
~ Aristotle
Be great in act as you have been in thought
~ William Shakespeare
Character is higher than intellectA great soul will be strong to liveas well as to
think
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I never think of the futureIt comes soon enough
~ Albert Einstein
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fearnot absence of fear
~ Mark Twain
Age wrinkles the bodyQuitting wrinkles the soul
~ Douglas MacArthur
If real is what you can feel smell taste and see then real is simply electrical
signals interpreted by your brain
~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]
Money was never a big motivator for me except for keeping the scoreThe real
excitement is playing the game
~ Donald Trump
Dreams are extremely important You cant do it unless you dream it first
~ George Lucas
If you believe you can you probably can If you believe you wont you most
assuredly wont Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad
~ Denis Waitley
Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limitedImagination
encircles the world
~ Albert Einstein
Everything is always impossible before it works Thats what entrepreneurs are all
aboutDoing things that people have told them is impossible
~ R Hunt Greene
The truth is lived not taught
~ Hermann Hesse
Be of good cheer Do not think of todays failures but of the success that may
come tomorrow You have set yourself a difficult task but you will succeed if you
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persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles
Helen Keller 1880-1968 Blind and Deaf Educator
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something Its as simple
as that A lot of people have ideas but there are few who decide to do something
about them now Not tomorrow Not next week But today The true entrepreneur
is a doer
-Nolan Bushnell Founder of Atari
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision
Muhammad Ali Three-Time World Heavyweight Champion Boxer
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them
Walt Disney 1901-1966 Cartoon Artist and Filmmaker
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings turn routine jobs into
joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings
William Arthur Ward
1921-1994 Writer
If you want to achieve excellence you can get there today As of this second quit
doing less than excellent work
Thomas Watson 1874-1956 Founder of IBM
Ive always believed that a lot of the troubles in the world would disappear if we
were talking to each other instead of about each other
Ronald Reagan
1911-2004 40th President of the United States
The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another is in some way to
make that persons life a little bit better to live
John Assaraf Author and Speaker
Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm
Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any
occupation no matter how frightening or difficult a new meaning Without
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enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish
miracles
Og Mandino
Constant kindness can accomplish much As the sun makes ice melt kindness
causes misunderstanding mistrust and hostility to evaporate
Dr Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 Medical Missionary and Nobel Prize Winner
Dwell not on the past Use it to illustrate a point then leave it behind Nothing
really matters except what you do now in this instant of time From this moment
onwards you can be an entirely different person filled with love and understanding
ready with an outstretched hand uplifted and positive in every thought and deed
Eileen Caddy 1917-2006 Spiritual Teacher and Author
Heres the problem Most people are thinking about what they dont want and
theyre wondering why it shows up over and over again
John Assaraf Speaker and Author
Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
Thomas Edison 1847-1931 Inventor and Scientist
Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on
building the life you desire
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly
lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love
Henry Drummond 1851-1897 Scientist and Author
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Former First Lady Author and Speaker
If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least
responsible for those we admit and entertain
Charles Newcomb ScreenwriterDirector
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To grow you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your
past Your history is not your destiny
Alan Cohen
If you want a kinder world then behave with kindness if you want a peaceful
world make peace within
Dan Millman Writer and Speaker
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order
and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a
time
Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Writer
Believe it can be done When you believe something can be done really believe
your mind will find the ways to do it Believing a solution paves the way to solution
Dr David Schwartz Author of The Magic of Thinking Big
Close your eyes and form a realistic picture of what a post PC world might actually
look like Those who can envision a plausible future thats brighter than today will
earn the opportunity to lead
Ray Ozzie Former Chief Software Architect at Microsoft
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past worry
about the future or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely
and earnestly
- Buddha
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job tellem certainly I can - and get
busy and find out how to do it
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Dont tell me how hard you work Tell mehow much you get done
~ James Ling
Democracy arose from menlsquos thinking that if they are equal in any respect they
are equal absolutely
~ Aristotle
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The beginning is the most important part of the work
~ Plato
Bless those who choose to love and those who choose to hate that those who
choose to hate may choose to love before it is too late
--Esoligh (Underground Hip Hop Artist)
Security is mostly a superstition It does not exist in nature nor do the children
of man as a whole experience it Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than
outright exposure Life is either a daring adventure or nothing
--Helen Keller
Each new hour holds new chances for new beginings The horizon move forward
offering you space to place new steps of change
--Maya Angelou
When a man cares he is unafraid When he is fair he leaves enough for others
When he is humble he can grow
--Lao-Tzu TaoTeChung
Behold the turtle He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out
--James Bryant Conant - Educator and Diplomat
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it
but because they didnt stop to enjoy it
--William Feather
The light of awareness the light of consciousness arises out of a broken heart
the heart by breaking becomes an ocean accommodating all beings
-- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom
The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need according to the
nature of your thought Your environment and financial condition are the
perfect reflection of your habitual thinking
Thought rules the world
-- Dr Joseph Edward Murphy Surgeon
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The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new
courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness beauty and truth
ndash Albert Einstein physicist
Hope is the companion of power and mother of success for who so hopes strongly
has within him the gift of miracles
~ Samuel Smiles
Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those
things that failures dont like to do
~ Albert Gray
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the
link between belief and biology
- Deepak Chopra
Ive always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best
~ Akeem Olajuwon
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear
ndash Socrates philosopher
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the
most brilliant single mind but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains
and talents of his associates
~ W Alton Jones
The reason a dog has got so many friends is because its tail waggles and not its
tongue
-Anonymous
Dont fight a problem solve it
--Millard Fuller
If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation
by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in
which you are rendering it
--Roger Babson
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The starting point of all riches is the development of a prosperity consciousness
You must become a financial success in your thinking long before you achieve it in
your reality Both poverty and riches are the result of a state of mind and the
most important single step you ever take on the road to wealth and financial
independence is the decision to change your thinking to impress into your mind an
unshakable belief that you can and will achieve your financial goals This must
happen before anything else happens
-- Brian Tracy
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it
We must learn to see the world anew
- Albert Einstein
To forgive is the highest most beautiful form of love In return you will receive
untold peace and happiness
--Dr Robert Muller
Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind the stronger the
trees
--J Willard Marriott Founder of Marriott Hotels
Someday may never come So live each day better than the last That way youll
wake up with so much excitement and anticipation youlsquoll jump out of bed and shout
I cant wait
--Bob Perks
The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination and he is still at
large
-- Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885 Humorist
If you dont know where you are going any road will get you there
-- Anonymous
Ive noticed over many years of working with corporate teams that the more
dysfunctional the team the more resistant they are to the concept of love in
the workplace What baggage is it that we drag around behind us like Linus
and his blanket which causes us to be so wounded and pathological Why are
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we blind to the observable truth that those we lead are yearning for us to
open our hearts Why are we in denial about the truth that people--all
people at work and at home--are searching for signs of our approval and
love
- Lance Secretan Industry Week 11202000 We live on our own solitary islands of reality absorbed in and fascinated by
our own points of view Frequently we reach out to one another seeking to
understand or be understood The bridge between our separate realities is
communication To communicate is to relate
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air You
name them--work family health friends and spirit--and youre keeping all
of these in the air You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball If you
drop it it will bounce back But the other four balls-- family health
friends and spirit--are made of glass If you drop one of these they will be
irrevocably scuffed marked nicked damaged or even shattered They will
never be the same You must understand that and strive for balance in your
life
- Brian Dyson CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises from 1959-1994 If you cant be a loving witness to your own anger or rage or sadness or
fear you cant be in the presence of other peoples intense emotions without
your own emotional waters being churned up a bit But if you can learn to
feel safe and fully present to the broad spectrum of emotions within your own
nature you radiate an invisible web of safety that helps others to talk about
their feelings with you
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective
consciousness and if we want a new world each of us must start taking
responsibility for helping create it
- Rosemary Fillmore Rhea A New Heaven and New Earth Your relationships are actually mirrors of your consciousness When you learn
to see your own reflection in the quality of your relationships with others you
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catapult yourself on your path of personal growth and spiritual evolution
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think To put the world right in order we must first put the nation in order to put
the nation in order we must first put the family in order to put the family in
order we must first cultivate our personal life we must first set our hearts
right
- Confucious The sooner we can unburden ourselves of blame the more effective we can
be Blaming others only entrenches us in the role of the victim removing us
from our highest expression of personal power
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be
sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all
around It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others
we all want in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that
burden us These secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth
helps you get clarity on your real heart directives
- Sara Paddison The Hidden Power of the Heart Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time
ago
~ Warren Buffet
The only way to do great work is to love what you do If you havent found it yet
keep looking Dont settle As with all matters of the heart youll know when you
find it
~ Steve Jobs
If you love life do not waste time for time is what life is made up of
~ Bruce Lee
I cannot teach anybody anything I can only make them think
~ Socrates
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Change before you have to
~ Jack Welch
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm
~ Winston Churchill
A leader leads by example not by force
~ Sun Tzu
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour Sit with a
pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute You have just experienced
relativity
~ Albert Einstein
Live as if you were to die tomorrow Learn as if you were to live forever
~ Mohandas Gandhi
A clever person solves a problem A wise person avoids it
~ Albert Einstein
If I have seen a little further is by standing on the shoulders of Giants
~ Sir Isaac Newton
Despair says I cannot lift that weight Happiness says I do not have to
-- James Richardson
People who know they are powerful do not need to engage in power struggles
-- Alan Cohen
No man ever stated his troubles as lightly as he might
-- Emerson
What does your spirit most want you to know and do today
-- Alan Cohen
Its not how good you are Its how bad you want it
-- Author unknown
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The better I feel about myself the less I need you to be different
-- Alan Cohen
The best form of flattery is to master the art of listening
-- Chinese proverb
The only thing more valuable than a good source of news is source of good news
-- Alan Cohen
Disappointments are the hooks upon which God hangs his victories
-- Source unknown
It matters not what youve done with your life for better or worse What
matters is what you do with your life today
-- Alan Cohen
Everyone here is not all there
-- Source unknown
If you cant unify then at least harmonize
-- Alan Cohen
Everybody is a genius But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will
spend its whole life believing that it is stupid
-- Albert Einstein
Fear is excitement without breath
-- Fritz Perls
Dont leave yourself out of the equation
-- Alan Cohen
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles
-- Bernard Baruch
They can because they think they can
~ Virgil
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Exert your talents and distinguish yourself
and dont think of retiring from the world
until the world will be sorry that you retire
~ Samuel Johnson
Energy and persistence conquer all things
~ Benjamin Franklin
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom
~ Aristotle
Heaven never helps the man who will not act
~ Sophocles
The only real journey is the journey within
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new
~ Albert Einstein
Action is the food and drink
that will nourish your success
Action will destroy your procrastination
Act now for is all you have
~ Og Mandino
Computers are incredibly fast accurate and stupid
Humans are incredible slow inaccurate and brilliant
Together they are powerful beyond imagination
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~ Albert Einstein
Practice giving and you will discover how much life can give you
-- Alan Cohen
Oh for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they
ran out of money
-- Source unknown
The best way to heal a bad memory is to create a new and better one
-- Alan Cohen
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love
-- Hamilton Wright Mabie
Fear and resistance are the dragons that stand at the gate of the kingdom that
contains the jewel you seek
-- Alan Cohen
Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy forgiveness To an opponent
tolerance To a friend your heart To a customer service To all charity To
every child a good example To yourself respect
-- Oren Arnold
Affirm I always have enough time to do the things that Spirit would have me do
-- Alan Cohen
There are two obstacles to enlightenment 1 Thinking you know 2 Thinking you
dont know
-- Buddha
Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Take care how you pay
it
-- Alan Cohen
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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles
-- Bernard Baruch
Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation
-- Alan Cohen
Families are like fudge -- mostly sweet with a few nuts
-- Source unknown
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of
our treasures
-- Thornton Wilder
The universe does not require you to stress for good things
-- Alan Cohen
When you bless the good that befalls others it becomes yours as well
-- Alan Cohen
How many more idols must you find before your realize that you are the one you
have been searching for
-- Dan Fogelberg
All limits exist only in thought and that is where they are overcome
-- Alan Cohen
To understand unconditional love lock your wife or husband and your dog in the
trunk of your car for an hour When you open it notice to is happier to see you
-- Source unknown
Outrageous ideas are ultimately the most practical
-- Alan Cohen
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are
-- Kurt Cobain
How good can you let it get
-- Alan Cohen
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If we could look into the secret history of our enemies we should find in each
persons life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities
-- Longfellow
If you sense there must be more there is more
-- Alan Cohen
Do not wait the time will never be just right Start where you stand and work
with whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found
as you go along
Napoleon Hill
1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich
It doesnt matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes What
matters most is getting off You cannot make progress without making decisions
Jim Rohn
1930-2009 Speaker and Author
Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do Its
a decision about Who You Are When you see this when you understand it
everything changes You begin to see life in a new way All events occurrences and
situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do
Neale Donald Walsch
Author of Conversations With God
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached dont adjust the goals
adjust the action steps
Confucius
551-479 BC Philosopher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of
you
Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887 Clergyman Social Reformer and Abolitionist
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Lets choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we think others lead
by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives We can then offer the
universe the gift of our grateful hearts
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Author of Peace and Plenty
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite
impossible to foresee are ahead You can only see one thing clearly and that is your
goal Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin
Kathleen Norris
1880-1966 Novelist
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends
you choose for you will become like them
W Clement Stone
1902-2002 Businessman Philanthropist and Author
Laugh at yourself and at life Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity but
as a remedy a miracle drug that will ease your pain cure your depression and help
you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at
your predicaments thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that
is certain to come Never take yourself too seriously
Og Mandino
1923-1996 Author of The Choice
Asking is the beginning of receiving Make sure you dont go to the ocean with a
teaspoon At least take a bucket so the kids wont laugh at you
Jim Rohn
1930-2009 Author and Speaker
Happiness comes only when we push our
brains and hearts to the farthest reaches
of which we are capable
--Leo C Rosten
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Do not wait the time will never be just right
Start where you stand and work with whatever
tools you may have at your command and better
tools will be found as you go along
~ Napoleon Hill
I shall do less whenever I shall believe what
I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more
whenever I shall believe doing more will help the
cause I shall try to correct errors when shown to
be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as
they shall appear to be true views
ndash Abraham Lincoln 16th US president
If we become increasingly humble about how l
little we know we may be more eager to search
- Sir John Templeton
I dont think anyone can grow unless hes
loved exactly as he is now appreciated for
what he is rather than what he will be
Love and success always in that order Its
that simple and that difficult
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a
lifetimes work but its worth the effort
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Quoted From Lifes Journeys According
to Mister Rogers
When we do the best we can we never know
what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life
of another
ndash Helen Keller lecturer author
We are responsible for what we are and whatever
we wish ourselves to be we have the power to make
ourselves If what we are now has been the result of
our own past actions it certainly follows that whatever
we wish to be in future can be produced by our present
actions so we have to know how to act
~ Swami Vivekananda
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You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how
youre going to live Now
Joan Baez Singer Songwriter and Activist The average person goes to their grave with their music still in them
Oliver Wendell Holmes ―Everyone can be great because everyone can serve
- Martin Luther King ―Whatever you can conceive and believe you can achieve
Napoleon Hill We turn not older with years but newer every day
-Emily Dickinson
When reciting affirmations feel the words in your heart as you say them and
know that what you feel youll create
Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust
our old programs accordingly
Dr Ann Faraday
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to
get there Then never never never give up
Vincent Peale
We only think when we are confronted with problems
John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)
In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain
Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)
If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair Few things are
impossible to diligence and skill Great works are performed not by strength but
perseverance
Samuel Johnson
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Dont waste your life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you
well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best
preparation for the hours or ages that follow it
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Poet and Essayist Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change
the world today
Wil Rose
The good man acts for honors sake and the more so the better he is and acts for
his friends sake and sacrifices his own interest
-Aristotle
In order to excel you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport You
must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism
Without a total 100 percent dedication you wont be able to do this
Willie Mays
Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to
raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years
ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I
demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my
life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to
becoming
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert
Im a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of
it
Thomas Jefferson
Bring awareness to each act Walking on the road walk fully alert eating eat with
awareness Whatsoever you are doing dont let the past and the future interfere
Be in the present Thats what awareness is all about
~Osho
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There are two dimensions to life and we should be able to touch both
One is like a wave and we call it the historical dimension
The other is like the water and we call it the ultimate dimension or nirvana
We usually touch just the wave but when we discover how to touch the water
we receive the highest fruit that meditation can offer
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends
Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance
Jackson Brown
When you focus on whats wrong you get more of whats wrong Conversely when
you focus on whats right you get more of whats right
Gina Mollicone-Long Author of the newly released book Think Or Sink
All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave
behind is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into
another
Gail Sheehy (1937- American journalist author)
Anger is one letter away from danger
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Success means having the courage the determination and the will to become the
person you believe you were meant to be
George Sheehan 1918-1993 Physician and Author
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views
so fast as they shall appear to be new views
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)
―One ship sails East
And another West
By the self-same winds that blow
lsquoTis the set of the sails
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And not the gales
That tells the way we go
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity Our attitude
toward it Every opportunity has a difficulty and every difficulty has an
opportunity
J Sidlow Baxter 1903-1999 Author and Theologian
If you want to be successful you must either have a chance or take one
Author Unknown
It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit it frankly and try
another But above all try something
Franklin D Roosevelt
It was courage faith endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all
obstacles that built this bridge
~ John J Watson
Past Data should now be the basis of Present Truth Data from a prior time or
experience should always and only be the basis for new questions Always the
treasure should be in the questions not in the answer
-Neale Donald Walsch Even though you may want to move forward in your life you may have one foot on
the brakes In order to be free we must learn how to let go Release the hurt
Release the fear Refuse to entertain your old pain The energy it takes to hang
onto the past is holding you back from a new life What is it you would let go of
today
Mary Manin Morrissey Creator of The Miracle Mastery Conference
It is not what you are called but what you answer to
African Proverb
A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong
enough
John Christian Bovee
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If youre not part of a solution youre a part of the problem There is no middle
road I dont think we can destroy the Earth but I think the Earth can destroy
us
-Oh Shinnah
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will
accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop
Robert Hughes
Charity is the spice of riches
Jewish Proverb
If you dont like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and
waiting for you The snake sheds its skin with impunity relying on the same nature
which you rely on
Author Unknown
Its a very funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best
you very often get it
William Somerset Maugham
A leader once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one must
be undaunted when the going gets tough
Ronald Reagan
If I accept you as you are I will make you worse however if I treat you as
though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Author and Philosopher
Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket signifies in the final
sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed from those who are cold and
not clothed The world in arms is not spending money alone It is spending the
sweat of its laborers the genius of its scientists the hopes of its children
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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Service is nothing but love in work clothes
Author Unknown
A man can do all things if he but wills them
Leon Battista Alberti
A crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk just a
tinkling cymbal where there is not love
Francis Bacon 17th Century English Lord Chancellor philosopher and author
The only way to have a friend is to be one
Ralph Waldo Emerson 19th Century American author and poet
Its not what you do once in a while its what you do day in and day out that
makes the difference
Jenny Craig Diet Specialist
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on
the labors of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to
give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving
Albert Einstein (1879-1955 German-born American physicist)
A resolute determination is the truest wisdom
Napoleon I
Without consistency there is no moral strength
Author Unknown
See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained pursue it resolutely
William Shakespeare
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure
-Dale Carnegie
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself
William Penn (1644-1718 British religious leader founder of Pennsylvania)
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How we think shows through in how we act Attitudes are mirrors of the mind
They reflect thinking
David J Schwartz Trainer and Author
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but
to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill
Vision is freely given to those who ask to see
-Course in Miracles
Tough times never last but tough people do
Dr Robert Schuller
A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything
else
Bette Davis (1908-1989 American actress producer)
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything
Alexander Hamilton
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference He has
it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter
Norman Cousins (1915-1990 American editor humanitarian author)
The practice of medicine is an art not a trade a calling not a business a calling in
which your heart will be exercised equally with your head Often the best part of
your work will have nothing to do with powders or potions
-Sir William Osler
Strength does not come from physical capacity It comes from an indomitable
will
~ Mahatma Gandhi
―You dont love someone for their looks or their clothes or for their fancy car
but because they sing a song only you can hear
Anon
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―They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever
Oscar Wilde
―Love is like a friendship caught on fire In the beginning a flame very pretty
often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering As love grows older our
hearts mature and our love becomes as coals deep-burning and unquenchable
Bruce Lee
―Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty
John Finely
―It takes a lot of understanding time and trust to gain a close friendship with
someone As I approach a time of my life of complete uncertainty my friends are
my most precious asset
Anon
―Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process
Harold S Geneen People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest
- Hermann Hesse 1877-1962 Civilization is a method of living an attitude of equal respect for all men
- Jane Addams 1860-1935 The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next
- Matthew Arnold 1822-1888
Vacillating people seldom succeed Successful men and women are very careful in
reaching their decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter
~ L G Elliott
Those with goals tend to succeed because they are focused and know where they
are going while those without goals do not
Ted Karam Author from his new book Jumping On Water Awaken Your Joy - Empower Your Life
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Every time you go out on the ice there are slight flaws You can always think of
something you should have done better These are the things you must work on
Dorothy Hamill (1956- American figure skater)
Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it
fate
~ Carl Jung When you speak of someone or about someone you should speak as though they
were in the room with you The ears that you speak to today are attached to the
mouth that could relay the message tomorrow
William Biddy Allen 1903-2001 Bus Driver - Loving father of 7 children
It is no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might dream The failure is to
fall short of dreaming all that we might realize
-Dee Hock When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they
are regarded by others let them reflect how little they have contributed to the
happiness of others
Author Unknown
I have become my own version of an optimist If I cant make it through one door
Ill go through another door - or Ill make a door Something terrific will come no
matter how dark the present
~ Rabindranath Tagore
―The present moment
contains past and future
The secret of transformation
is in the way we handle this very moment
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 - present Vietnamese Buddhist monk)
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―Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it Do not believe in
anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many Do not believe in
anything simply because it is found written in your religious books Do not believe in
anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders Do not believe in
traditions because they have been handed down for many generations But after
observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is
conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it
Buddha (Founder of Buddhism 568 - 488 BC) I try to avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward
Charlotte Bronte
Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity
Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Theologian
There is only one duty only one safe course and that is to try to be right
Winston Churchill (1874-1965 British statesman Prime Minister)
We are born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of wine we
have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born Astrology
does not lay claim to anything more
-Carl Jung
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them One is more
delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is angrier for being told
one is angry
Katherine F Gerould
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread they can sure make something out
of you
~ Muhammed Ali Beware of the thoughts you keep because everything in reality manifests from
the mind
Justin Palmer Second Year College Student
Confess you were wrong yesterday it will show you are wise today
Author Unknown
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We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope
~ Martin Luther King Jr
In the beginning the Universe was created
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move
-Douglas Adams
Any individual can be in time what he earnestly desires to be if he but set his
face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear
upon its attainment
Herman J Randall
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world
~ Helen Keller Many of lifes failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up
~ Thomas Edison
When you give your undivided attention to something there is a softening and
opening in the listener that allows access to the meaning underneath the words
-Betty Burkes
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they
are about to change the world I am more awed by those who struggle to make one
small difference
Ellen Goodman Journalist
If you look into your own heart you find nothing wrong there what is there to
fear
Confucius (BC 551-479 Chinese ethical teacher philosopher) Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls
~ Mother Teresa What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-
conceit For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he
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already knows
- Epictetus 55 AD-135 AD
There are admirable potentialities in every human being Believe in your strength
and your youth Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself It all depends on me
- Andre Gide 1869-1951
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage
- Anais Nin 1903-1977 Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in
other areas But can it really True effectiveness requires balance
~ Stephen Covey
I dont pay good wages because I have a lot of money I have a lot of money
because I pay good wages
- Robert Bosch Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do
the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not it is
the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a mans training
begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly
Thomas H Huxley 1825-1895 Biologist
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have and to be able
to lose all desire for things beyond your reach
Yutang Lin (1895-1976 Chinese writer and philologist)
Men are failures not because they are stupid but because they are not
sufficiently impassioned
Struther Burt
If you look at what you have in life youll always have more If you look at what
you dont have in life youll never have enough
Oprah Winfrey Television Host Producer and Philanthropist
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Im trying not to look too far ahead All Im thinking is one shot at a time one hole
at a time and thats what I want to keep doing
Michelle McGann
I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in
which we face them that constitutes our comfort
-Elizabeth T King My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content
with your failure
~ Abraham Lincoln
―There is nothing but love and all else is illusion
- Dr John Demartini There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer no disease that enough
love will not heal no door that enough love will not open
- Emmet Fox
All my limitations are self-imposed and my liberation can only come from true self-
love
- Max C Robinson
We fail to see that we can control our own destiny make ourselves do whatever is
possible make ourselves become whatever we long to be
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine )
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will
~ Sugar Ray Robinson 1920-1989 Boxer
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
Confucius
Half the people you know are above average
-Steven Wright
Your close relationships are either a catalyst for manifesting what you really
want or theyre a hindrance to your manifestation If you truly value the power of
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love in your life you owe it to yourself to discover how to tap into the power of
your relationship as a force for manifestation
Drs Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up Even when they do it is not
perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888 American author )
One is not idle because one is absorbed There is both visible and invisible labor To
contemplate is to toil to think is to do The crossed arms work the clasped hands
act The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation
Victor Hugo (1802-1885 French poet dramatist novelist)
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of
greed in the headlines
-Charles Kuralt
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our
focus we never concentrate our power Most people dabble their way through life
never deciding to master anything in particular
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time
~ Anthony J DAngelo
Courage comes from wanting to do it well Security comes from knowing you can do
it well Confidence comes from having done it well
~ Author Unknown
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel
Napoleon Hill
There is a true genius in everyone But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a
tree it would never stop doubting itself
~ Einstein~
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People ask for criticism but they only want praise
- W Somerset Maugham 1874-1965 Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if
you let it pass the desire may never return and you may remain in ignorance
- William Wirt 1772-1834 Cynicism is not realistic and tough Its unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it
means you dont have to try
- Peggy Noonan 1950-present There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into
gear
David Mahoney Executive and Philanthropist You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences
W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965 British novelist playwright)
Dont ask yourself what the world needs Ask yourself what makes you come alive
and then go and do that Because what the world needs are people who have come
alive
~ Howard Thurman When a great moment knocks on the door of your life it is often no louder than
the beating of your heart and it is very easy to miss it -Boris Pasternak Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure
~ Thomas Alva Edison
To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in
your heart
- Thomas Watson Sr Begin challenging your own assumptions Your assumptions are your windows on the
world Scrub them off every once and a while or the light wont come in
Alan Alda Actor Writer and Director
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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most
argumentative
Giovani della Casa (1503-1556 Papal secretary of state)
Have you ever felt like you wanted to go but you felt like you wanted to stay
- Song Lyric Jimmy Durante
To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all
~ Oscar Wilde
Awareness is like a beam of light that shines endlessly into space We only
perceive that light when it is reflected off some object and consciousness is
producedAwareness is the light by which we see the worldWe mistake the clear
light of pure awareness for the shadows that it casts in consciousnessWe forget
that we are the light itself and imagine that we are the densities that reflect the
light back to us
-Stephen Levine Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal
Albert Camus (1913-1960 French existential writer) The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation
Mark Twain
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn Our rewards
will always be in exact proportion to our service
Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Author of The Strangest Secret
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he
knows where he is going
Napoleon Hill
Wisdom tells me I am nothing
Love tells me I am everything
And between the two my life flows
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
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No employer today is independent of those about him He cannot succeed alone no
matter how great his ability or capital Business today is more than ever a question
of cooperation
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars
Les Brown
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world
Joseph Addison (1672-1719 British essayist poet statesman)
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a
fate that falls on man unless they act
~ G K Chesterton
Find something positive to think about and dont let the conversation in your head
end with a negative comment Always end on a positive comment
Dr Tomi Bryan and Dr Jerry White From their latest release The 5 Keys To The Great Life
Whales do not sing because they have a message They sing because they have a
song
-Ashes and Snow
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life
- Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956
Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though
checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor
suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat
- Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting
- Stanislaw Leszczynski 1677-1766
There is no joy in getting by on your job - doing as little as you can There is a
LOT of pleasure in doing more than you have to And whosoever shall compel you
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to go a mile go with him twain says the Bible wisely
-Norman Carlisle
We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once
Calvin Coolidge
The starting point of all achievement is desire Keep this constantly in mind Weak
desires bring weak results just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich
I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me
instead of looking within myself to see what was there
Belle Livingstone
Rather than thinking if and when start doing take action stop talking about if
and when
~ Catherine Pulsifer
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity -
Ayn Rand
Being a man or indeed being human is not something for which one should
apologize but something to which one should aspire and with all the gusto he can
muster
-- David Cunningham
The question isnt who is going to let me its who is going to stop me
- Howard Roark The Fountainhead 1943
I am the Master of my Fate Captain of my Soul
-- W E Henley
Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it
Boldness has genius power and magic in it
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me
instead of looking within myself to see what was there
Belle Livingstone
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order
and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a
time
Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Novelist
The path to success is to take massive determined action
Anthony Robbins
All of the significant battles are waged within the self
Sheldon Kopp (1929- American psychologist)
Follow effective action with quiet reflection From the quiet reflection will come
even more effective action
~ Peter F Drucker
Dont be dismayed at good-byes
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again
And meeting again after moments or lifetimes
is certain for those who are friends
-Richard Bach
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual
sense of humor
Thomas W Higginson 1823-1911 Minister Abolitionist and Author
When performance exceeds ambition the overlap is called success
Cullen Hightower
Well done is better than well said
Benjamin Franklin
The first and the best victory is to conquer self
Plato (BC 427-347 Greek philosopher)
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Man is what he believes
-Anton Chekhov One half of life is luck the other half is discipline - and thats the important half
for without discipline you wouldnt know what to do with luck
Carl Zuckmeyer 1896-1977 Writer and Playwright
Try and fail but dont fail to try
~ Stephen Kaggwa
I believe that one of the greatest gifts we have been given is our imagination It
costs nothing to access is available 247 and is our doorway to freedom With
imagination we have inside of us the most amazing ability to change our state and
transform our life in a moment
~ Veronica Hay The world is full of abundance and opportunity but far too many people come to
the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a
steam shovel They expect little and as a result they get little
Ben Sweetland Author of I Will Blessed is the person who sees the need recognizes the responsibility and actively
becomes the answer
William A Ward
I am not a mechanism an assembly of various sections
And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly that I am ill
I am ill because of wounds to the soul to the deep emotional self
And the wounds to the soul take a long long time only time can help
And patience and a certain difficult repentance
Long difficult repentance realization on lifes mistake and the freeing of oneself
From the endless repetition of the mistake
Which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify
-D H Lawrence
Victory belongs to the most persevering
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Gratitude opens doors It paves the way to abundance and prosperity like nothing
else
It can line your pockets with gold and fill your bank account quicker than a New
York minute
Yet how many of you are living from a thankful heart each day
~Veronica Hay Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
Bruce Springsteen You gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we
really stop to look fear in the face You must do that which we think we cannot
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Social Activist and First Lady of the United States
Dont let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you Instead give to
yourself that which empowers you
Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)
―The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having
new eyes
~ Marcel Proust
―Then your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall spring up
quickly
~ Isaiah 588
―And your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music
from it or confused sounds
mdash Kahlil Gibran
In every life the most important change is self-change -- and in every situation
the principles are the same
- J Kingston Cowart
It takes courage to lead a life Any life
Erica Jong
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Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time
-Ken Wilber
Peoples tendency towards good is as waters tendency is to flow downhill
Mencius When I let go of what I am I become what I might be
~ Lao Tsu
The higher my rank the more humbly I behave The greater my power the less I
exercise it The richer my wealth the more I give away Thus I avoid respectively
envy and spite and misery
~ Sun Shu Ao
There is no greater happiness than freedom from worry and there is no greater
wealth than contentment
~Lao Tsu
Failure lies not in falling down Failure lies in not getting up
~ Chinese proverb
A meal however simple is a moment of intersection It is at once the most basic
the most fundamental of our lifes activities maintaining the life of our bodies
Shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion uniting people
deeply
~ Elise Boulding The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms
-- Socrates You are never going to get it all done - you just wont Rather you will find order
and peace in your workday if you accept it and then do one more thing Implement
a system that consistently shows you whats most critical at any moment what to
do after the critical and where to find everything else when you need to That
system is not hard - its quite simple to set up
Michael Linenberger From Master Your Workday Now Check out his book and bonuses
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Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have
just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together
into a life of action and purpose
Lance Armstrong 7-Time Winner of the Tour de France
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value
Albert Einstein
We have contributed each in the time allotted us our endeavors to render a
permanent blessing to our country
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826 Third American President)
If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost that is where they
should be Now put foundations under them
~ Henry David Thoreau
If you didnlsquot musterbate then you wouldnlsquot awfulize terribilize
catastrophize say ―I canlsquot stand it and put yourself down
If you only stuck with ―Ilsquod like very much to do well but I never
have to you wouldnlsquot then disturb yourself hellip musterbation is
evil and pernicious
- Albert Ellis
There are 2 theories to arguing with a womanneither works
-Will Rogers
Dont tell me that worry doesnt do any good said the over-worked executive I
know better The things I worry about never happen
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Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were
innocent Anger is natural Grief is appropriate Healing is mandatory Restoration
is possible
~ Jane Rubietta
Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can
~ Richard Bach
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Inspiration and genius--one and the same
~ Victor Hugo
It is important to acknowledge a mistake instantly correct it and learn from it
That literally turns a failure into a success Success is on the far side of failure
TJ Watson 1874-1956 Founder if IBM
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of
inspiration
~ George Eliot
Trust your hunches Theyre usually based on facts filed away just below the
conscious level
Dr Joyce Brothers Psychologist and Television Personality Every artist was first an amateur
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a
true master For this reason mastery demands all of a person
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Theoretical Physicist Philosopher and Author In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain
Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)
The more difficulties one has to encounter within and without the more
significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be
Horace Bushnell
If the sky falls hold up your hands
Spanish Proverb
Begin with the end in mind
Stephen Covey
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good try to use ordinary
situations
- Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825 German Novelist
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunities
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery it wouldnt seem so
wonderful
Michelangelo 1475-1564 Painter Sculptor and Architect
We only think when we are confronted with problems
John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)
Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can
~ Thomas Carlyle
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex It takes a touch of
genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction
~Albert Einstein
―Ecstasy is your very nature not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary
~Osho
The quieter you can become the more youre able to hear
~Chinese Proverb
The only real valuable thing is intuition
~ Albert Einstein
To be ecstatic is natural spontaneous It needs no effort to be ecstatic it needs
great effort to be miserable
~Osho
Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight
Anita DeFrantz Olympic Rower Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust
our old programs accordingly
Dr Ann Faraday
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I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world
I may not ever complete the last one
But I give myself to it
I have been circling for thousands of years
And I still dont know
Am I a falcon a storm or a great song
-Rilke
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to
make them come true
~ Leon J Suenes
Dont be a cynic and disconsolate preacher Dont bewail and moan Omit the
negative propositions Challenge us with incessant affirmatives Dont waste
yourself in rejection or bark against the bad but chant the beauty of the good
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once whether
youre ready or not to put it into action
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author
Fall seven times stand up eight
Japanese proverb
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars
or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven
to the human spirit
~ Helen Keller
Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends
Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet)
First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have
to do
Epictetus
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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to
make them come true
Leon J Suenes
If you would create something you must be something
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Stay together friends
Dont scatter and sleep
Our friendship is made
Of being awake
The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away weeping
That way it stays in the garden whereas another roundness rolls
through a dry riverbed looking for what it thinks it wants
Stay here quivering with each moment like a drop of mercury
-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives as parallel realities It is
always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend when we choose not
to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance
thats present love health family friends work the joys of nature and personal
pursuits that bring us pleasure the wasteland of illusion falls away and we
experience heaven on earth
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to
raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years
ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I
demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my
life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to
becoming
~ Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert) Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change
the world today
~ Wil Rose
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A bird doesnt sing because it has an answer it sings because it has a song
~ Maya Angelou
Great minds have purposes little minds have wishes Little minds are subdued by
misfortunes great minds rise above them
~ Washington Irving
Step by step I cant think of any other way of accomplishing anything
~ Michael Jordan
If you employed study thinking and planning time daily you could develop and use
the power that can change the course of your destiny
~ W Clement Stone
We are called to speak for the weak for the voiceless for victims of our nation
and for those it calls enemy for no document from human hands can make these
humans any less than our brothers
-Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Disposal of hazardous wastes is not the root problem Rather it is the root
symptom
-Hawken Paul There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the
things we do
Freya Stark
Try a little harder to be a little better
Gordon B Hinckley
If you love something and stick with it you will get phenomenal results
Bob Proctor
You can chain me you can torture me you can even destroy this body but you will
never imprison my mind
Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Political and Spiritual Leader
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Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and
triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead
Chinese Proverb Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs
Michael Levine
Nurture your mind with great thoughts To believe in the heroic makes heroes
Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881 British Prime Minister The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your
blueprint or plan Strategies are like recipes choose the right ingredients mix
them in the correct proportions and you will always produce the same predictable
results
~ Charles J Givens
More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our
lives that determine our destiny
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
Happy the manwoman who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his
wishes and his powers
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I hope that my achievements in life shall be these that I will have fought for what
was right and fair that I will have risked for that which mattered and that I will
have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better
place for what Ive done and who Ive been
~ C Hoppe
The vision that you glorify in your mind the ideal that you enthrone in your heart
this you will build your life by and this you will become
James Allen
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Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
Gandhi
There never was a time when in my opinion some way could not be found to
prevent the drawing of the sword
-General Grant To be a warrior
is to be genuine
in every moment of your life
-Chogyam Trungpa Im convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs
from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance
- Steve Jobs Regret for wasted time is more wasted time
Mason Cooley
Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow
Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)
More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our
lives that determine our destiny
Anthony Robbins Author and Speaker
Material possessions will rust away wear away or depreciate but your inner
resources character must never depreciate In seeking success you must also seek
fulfillment Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be
~ Elizabeth Dole Anything in life that we dont accept will simply make trouble for us until we make
peace with it
~ Shakti Gawain
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious
stupidity
-Dr Martin Luther King Jr
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Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobodys going to know
whether you did it or not
Oprah Winfrey Talk Show Host Producer and Philanthropist
If you must begin then go all the way because if you begin and quit the unfinished
business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time
Chogyam Trungpa
I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career I have lost almost 300 games
On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and I
missed I have failed over and over and over again in my life And thats precisely
why I succeedcc
~ Michael Jordan
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what
they most enjoy
~ Malcolm Forbes
Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future
Paul Boese Botanist
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons
determination
Tommy Lasorda (1927- American baseball manager) I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more
~ Dr Jonas Salk The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame
Rod Steiger
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul
~ Marcus Aurelius
The best way
to make your dreams come true
is to wake up
-Kabir
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You can do what you have to do and sometimes you can do it even better than you
think you can
Jimmy Carter (1924- American President (39th)) ―If you create an act you create a habit If you create a habit you create a
character If you create a character you create a destiny
ndash Andre Maurois They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them
feel
~ Carl W Buechner When you affirm big believe big and pray big putting faith into action big things
happen
Dr Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Preacher and Author You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are taken
out of your life
~ James G Bilkey
In every difficult situation is potential value Believe this then begin looking for it
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832 German poet dramatist novelist)
Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be
sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all around
It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want
in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us These
secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth helps you get clarity on
your real heart directives
-Sara Paddison
The best thing to spend on your children is your time
~ Louise Hart
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The best things come to those who wait
- Unknown
Ask five economists and youll get five different explanations six if one went to
Harvard
~ Edgar R Fiedler There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through
encouragement from someone else I dont care how great how famous or
successful a man or woman may be each hungers for applause
~ George M Adams Do not fear death fear the unlived life
Natalie Babbitt Leadership is no longer about your position Its now more about your passion for
excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title
Robin Sharma
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions have
all come back from defeat
Sam Snead (1912-2002 American golfer)
What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision
-Helen Keller The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement
Yet almost no one gets the encouragement they need
to grow to their full potential If everyone received the
encouragement they need to grow the genius in most
everyone would blossom and the world would produce
abundance beyond the wildest dreams We would have
more than one Einstein Edison Schweitzer Mother
Theresa Dr Salk and other great minds in a century
~Sidney Madwed
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Dont build your happiness on someone elses unhappiness
~ Richard Rose
―The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all
the world
~ Ramana Maharshi
Somewhere there is someone who dreams of your smile and finds in your presence
that life is worthwhile
So when you are lonely remember its true somebody somewhere is thinking of
you
~ Anon
If youre open to altering your plans a bit you might achieve even better results
than youd anticipated
Peggy McColl A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will
point out the means
William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)
Successful people dont do different things they just do things differently
- Unknown You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are
taken out of your life
James G Bilkey Author
Dreams do come true if we only wish hard enough You can have anything in life if
you will sacrifice everything else for it
James M Barrie (1860-1937 British playwright)
Seven blunders of the world
that lead to violence
wealth without work
pleasure without conscience
knowledge without character
commerce without morality
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science without humanity
worship without sacrifice
politics without principle
-Mahatma Gandhi
When people speak of prosperity they generally mean success and measure it in
terms of financial abundance There are books seminars and training sessions
designed to help individuals to be prosperous Clearly many are seeking the path to
prosperity Ironically when one is seeking prosperity the message they give to
themselves and the universe is that they do not have enough This is a scarcity
mentality and tends only to manifest more scarcity
~ Gwen Randall Young Money makes money and the money makes more money
~ Benjamin Franklin
BE the change you wish to see in the world
- Ghandhi The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched
They must be felt with the heart
~ Hellen Keller
Understanding does not cure evil but it is a definite help inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness
-Carl Jung
You are not powerless about anything
When you get a vision and then find
alignment with it you ARE powerful
And then amazing things begin to
happen around you
- Abraham-Hicks
Be kind whenever possible It is always possible
~ Dalai Lama
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A consistent soul believes in destiny a capricious one in chance
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881 British statesman Prime Minister)
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots
George Herbert (1593-1632 British metaphysical poet)
It is not the greatness of a mans means that makes him independent so much as
the smallness of his wants
William Cobbett (1762-1835 British journalist reformer)
If you desire many things many things will seem few
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American scientist publisher diplomat) Its the little things you do that can make a big difference What are you
attempting to accomplish What little thing can you do today that will make you
more effective You are probably only one step away from greatness
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker You may delay but time will not and lost time is never found again
~ Benjamin Franklin
Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction
~ Matthew Burton
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light
~ Helen Keller
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength
~ Sigmund Freud
Blessed are those that can give without remembering and take without
forgetting
~ Liz Bebesco Waiting is a trap There will always be reasons to wait
The truth is there are only two things in life reasons and results and reasons
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simply dont count
~ Dr Robert Anthony
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become
wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing The long
term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their
Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed
~ Srully Blotnick
If now there is something you
choose to experience in your life
do not want it -- choose it
Do you choose success in worldly
terms Do you choose more money
Good Then choose it Really
Fully Not half-heartedly
- Conversations with God Book 1
Its a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you
very often get it
-Somerset Maugham
A world of abundance surrounds you if only you will step up and claim it Make life
happen through you rather than letting it happen to you It will make all the
difference in the world
- Ralph Marston Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving
it
~ William Arthur Ward
We must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible
otherwise we would not continue to search
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Prosperity consciousness is the awareness that all of us have something of value
to offer and we all deserve to get paid for what we provide to others
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Peggy McColl Author of Viral Explosions Proven Techniques to Expand Explode or Ignite Your Business Or Brand Online Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying
~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it
- Lou Holtz Procrastination is opportunitys natural assassin
~ Victor Kiam Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough
- Og Mandino 1923-1996 American Motivational Author and Speaker When you judge others you do not define them you define yourself
~ Earl Nightingale
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly
~ Richard Bach
If you tell the truth you dont have to remember anything
-Mark Twain
The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity
belonging to them
William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions
have all come back from defeat
Sam Snead 1912-2002 Golfer Faith is the assurance of things hoped for
- Unknown
The mediocre teacher tells The good teacher explains The superior teacher
demonstrates The great teacher inspires
~ William A Ward
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Never complain and never explain
~ --Benjamin Disraeli
Bless a thing and it will bless you Curse it and it will curse you If you bless a
situation it has no power to hurt you
Emmet Fox 1886-1951 Spiritual Leader Man alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man
alone can dream and make his dreams come true
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970 American speaker author Think And Grow Rich) Without AMBITION one starts nothing Without WORK one finishes nothing
The prize will NOT be sent to you You have to WIN it
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please
everyone
- Bill Cosby What we leave behind is not engraved in stone monuments but woven into the lives
of others
~ Pericles The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of
being unwanted
~ Mother Teresa (1910-1997 Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)
Tough times never last Tough people do
-Robert Schuller
Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions
- Eric Butterworth
A fellow at one of my workshops confessed For years I was so miserable that I
prayed to God daily to let me wake up as happy as my dog I went home and
thought about it Am I as happy as my dog Hmmmm
~ Alan Cohen
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of
your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the
unknown
Denis Waitley Author and Speaker
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us
William Feather (1888-19 American writer businessman )
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow but only
empties today of its strength
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892 Preacher
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win by fearing to
attempt
William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British poet playwright actor)
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of
your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the
unknown
Denis Waitley (1933- American author speaker trainer peak performance expert)
Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as
it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong
is simply your own false imagination Thats all
~Robert Adams
How many ideas have there been in history that were unthinkable ten years
before they appeared
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Life in itself is an empty canvas it becomes whatsoever you paint on it You can
paint misery you can paint bliss This freedom is your glory
~Osho
―Cease trying to work everything out with your minds it will get you nowhere Live
instead by intuition and inspiration let your whole life become a revelation
~Eileen Caddy
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People should appreciate ugliness because if it wasnt for ugliness beautiful
things wouldnt look beautiful
~ Sam Lau
No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig If
you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time Let it first
blossom then bear fruit then ripen
~Epictetus
You are the Self that perfect immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else
ever existed Nothing else will ever exist There is only one Self and you are That
Rejoice
~Robert Adams
Part of being a champ is acting like a champ You have to learn how to win and not
run away when you lose Everyone has bad stretches and real successes Either way
you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident
~ Nancy Kerrigan
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision
~ Muhammad Ali
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents works his tail off to
develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals
~ Larry Bird
Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love a gift to that person a
beautiful thing
-Mother Teresa
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end Its not a day when you
lounge around doing nothing its when youve had everything to do and youve done
it
-Lord Acton
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
- Walter Bagehot
Only the weak are cruel Gentleness can only be expected from the strong
~ Leo Buscaglia
If you are too busy to spend time with your children then you are busier than God
intended you to be
~ Rabbi Mendel Epstein
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Procrastination is the fear of success People procrastinate because they are
afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now Because
success is heavy carries a responsibility with it it is much easier to procrastinate
and live on the someday Ill philosophy
~ Denis Waitley
Happiness cannot come from without It must come from within
~ Helen Keller
I make occasional visits to reality But Im not a full- time resident
-Ashleigh Brilliant
People are like sticks of dynamite The power is on the inside but nothing happens
until the fuse gets lit
Mac Anderson Author Are you disappointed discouraged and discontented with your present level of
success Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status Do you want to
become a better and more beautiful person than you are today Would you like to
be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine
humility Then start dreaming Itlsquos possible You can become the person you have
always wanted to be
Robert H Schuller (1926- American minister author social leader)
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You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant
aspiration
- James Allen 1864-1912 Author of As A Man Thinketh
The man who has done his best has done everything
~ Charles Schwab Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can start from now
and make a brand new ending
~ Carl Bard
When I get ready to talk to people I spend two thirds of the time thinking what
they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 16th President of the United States Discontent is the first necessity of progress
Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)
You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how
youre going to live - now
- Joan Baez Singer Songwriter
Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as
it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong
is simply your own false imagination Thats all You are the Self that perfect
immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else ever existed Nothing else will
ever exist There is only one Self and you are That Rejoice
~Robert Adams If your dream is a big dream and if you want your life to work on the high level
that you say you do theres no way around doing the work it takes to get you
there
~ Joyce Chapman We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an
imperfect person perfectly
~ Sam Keen
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―A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe a part limited in time
and space He experiences himself his thoughts and feeling as something
separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness This
delusion is a kind of prison for us restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest to us Our task must be to free ourselves from
this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and
the whole of nature in its beauty
-- Albert Einstein
―Each contact with a human being is so rare so precious one should preserve it
- Anais Nin
―Only connect That was the whole of her sermon Only connect the prose and the
passion and both will be exalted and human love will be seen at its height Live in
fragments no longer Only connect
-- EM Forster
―Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the
self And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our
connectedness to others
-- Harriet Goldhor Lerner
―And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to
do the same As we are liberated from our fear our presence automatically
liberates others
-- Marianne Williamson
No no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like
waters and righteousness like a mighty stream
Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968 American Civil Rights leader Nobel Prize winner 964)
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a
very long time
~ Andre Gide (1869-1951 French author)
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Write down the thoughts of the moment Those that come unsought for are
commonly the most valuable
Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Philosopher Statesman Scientist and Author
A woman should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to
accomplish it Even if she fails again and again to accomplish her purpose (as she
necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will
be the measure of her true success and this will form a new starting point for
future power and triumph
~ James Allen
To be blind is bad but worse is to have eyes and not see
~ Helen Keller
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning
to see an imperfect person perfectly
` Sam Keen
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can
start from now and make a brand new ending
` Carl Bard Always make a total effort even when the odds are against you
Arnold Palmer (1929- American golfer)
Learning is finding out what you already know Doing is demonstrating that you
know it Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you You are
all learners doers teachers
Richard Bach (1936- American author)
Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day
Jenner Bruce 1949- American track athlete author speaker
Doubt whom you will but never yourself
John Christian Bovee (1820-1904 American author lawyer)
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When you give someone a book you dont give him just paper ink and glue You
give him the possibility of a whole new life
Christopher Morley 1890-1957 Novelist Journalist and Poet
Dont be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality If you can dream
it you can make it so
Belva Davis Award-Winning Journalist
The secret of mans being is not only to live but to have something to live for
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose
Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity and high purpose by itself is
utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Watch your thoughts they become words
Watch your words they become actions
Watch your actions they become habits
Watch your habits they become character
Watch your character it becomes your destiny
~ Frank Outlaw
Take good care of your future because thats where youre going to spend the
rest of your life
~ Charles F Kettering
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams
John Barrymore
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground
Stephen Covey
Its never too late to be what you might have been
George Elliot
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Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder
than anything we can say
Wilfred Peterson
True peace is not merely the absence of some negative force - tension confusion
or war it is the presence of some positive force - justice good will and
brotherhood
-Martin Luther King Jr
The important thing in this world is not where we stand but in what direction we
move
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing Action always
generates inspiration Inspiration seldom generates action
-Frank Tibolt
The only way to eliminate waris to love our children more than we hate our enemies
-Golda Meir
It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope
is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they
both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your
years
~ Abraham Lincoln
Hold your head high stick your chest out You can make it It gets dark
sometimes but morning comes Keep hope alive
~ Jesse Jackson
Set your sights high the higher the better Expect the most wonderful things to
happen not in the future but right now Realize that nothing is too good Allow
absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way
Eileen Caddy Author
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To understand the heart and mind of a person look not at what he has already
achieved but at what he aspires to do
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931 Lebanese poet novelist )
Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality
Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is
transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible
~Osho
What is the best thing about being 100 years old Lack of peer pressure
-Michael Pritchard
The more credit you give away the more will come back to you The more you help
others the more they will want to help you
~ Brian Tracy
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact
~ William James
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes Chance nature
compulsions habit reason passion desire
~ Aristotle When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth think of Algebra
-Will Rogers
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say Yes Ive got
dreams of course Ive got dreams Then they put the box away and bring it out
once in a while to look in it and yep theyre still there These are great dreams
but they never even get out of the box It takes an uncommon amount of guts to
put your dreams on the line to hold them up and say How good or how bad am I
Thats where courage comes in
~ Erma Bombeck
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You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really
stop to look fear in the face You must do the thing which you think you cannot
do
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you love the money will follow
Marsha Sinetar (American author To Build The Life You Want Create The Work You Love)
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement we must choose freedom and the
responsibility this entails
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998 American expert on love lecturer author)
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of
itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as
powerful as your desires unless you make them so
Marcia Wieder (American speaker trainer author)
I work every day -- or at least I force myself into my office or room I may get
nothing done but you dont earn bonuses without putting in time Nothing may
come for three months but you dont earn the fourth without it
Mordecai Richler (1931- Canadian writer)
If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation
by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in
which you are rendering it
Roger Babson 1875-1967 Statistician and Columnist Its simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about
what the other fellow is going to do
- John R Amos
All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas
~ Hakuin
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly
or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man
~Chang Tzu
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The important thing is not to stop questioning Curiosity has its own reason for
existing One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of
eternity of life of the marvelous structure of reality It is enough if one tries
merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day Never lose a holy
curiosity
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect
abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human
laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought
of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will
bring it into being
~Eileen Caddy
Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality
Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is
transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible
~Osho
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who
keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road
Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961 Statesman and Secretary-General of UN
Life is one massive challenge after another for everyone So you cant feel sorry
for yourself One real measure of you as a person is how much you can handle
without whining
~ Mike Brescia Author
We are each of us angels with only one wing And we can only fly by embracing each
other
-Luciano de Crescenzo
He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he
would like to have
~ Socrates
Quite often we change jobs friends and spouses instead of ourselves
~ Akbarali H Jetha
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame
~ Benjamin Franklin
You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where
your thoughts take you
- James Allen
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will
embrace for that day We cannot change our past
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way We cannot change
the inevitable The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have and that
is our attitude
- Charles Swindoll author
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others
- Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC
If you want your life to be more rewarding you have to change the way you think
- Oprah Winfrey
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless
- Mother Teresa
By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible
- Italian Proverb
Enthusiasm is the all-essential human jet propeller It is the driving force which
elevates people to miracle workers and creates endless energy the source of all
accomplishment
-Norman Vincent Peale
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends
you choose for you will become like them-
- W Clement Stone
Ones philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one
makes In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves The process
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never ends until we die And the choices we make are ultimately our own
responsibility
- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something that were
supposed to do
~ Richard Rose I love the name of honor more than I fear death
~ Julius Caesar
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future making it predictable
and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible
Hannah Arendt 1906-1975 Political Theorist
Man has no greater enemy than himself
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374 Italian poet humanist)
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety
-Aesop
You cannot tailor make your situation in life but you can tailor make your
attitudes to fit those situations
- Zig Ziglar speaker and author Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you
and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in
line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not
get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker The only people who never fail are those who never try
Ilka Chase (1905-1978 American author actor)
In truth you are spirit The body has been projected by the mind which itself
originates from Spirit If the wrong identification ceases there will be peace and
permanent indescribable bliss
~Ramana Maharshi
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I flow with loving gratitude for all my blessings today
- Zoe Jarboe
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be
~ Abraham Lincoln You are wealthy now with an abundance of what you are thinking about The world
is a creative engine and will create whatever you are really thinking Every thought
in your mind is a prayer about you no matter who the subject seems to be
~ Brad Jensen
A man who works with his hands is a laborer a man who works with his hands and
his brain is a craftsman but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his
heart is an artist
-Louis Nizer
When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score
John Enoch Powell (1912-1998 British statesman)
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get credit Try if
you can to belong to the first class there is far less competition
~ Dwight Morrow 1873-1931 Businessman Politician and Diplomat
Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt
conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything
~ St Ignatius Loyola Action is the real measure of intelligence
~ Napoleon Hill
Take the first step and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid But the
first essential is that you begin Once the battle is started all that is within and
without you will come to your assistance
~ Robert Collier
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You are what you are today because of the decisions and the choices YOU made
yesterday
~ Wayne Goonie
I have never seen a man who could do real work except under the stimulus of
encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom he is
working
Charles M Schwab (1862-1939 American industrialist businessman)
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can
- Danny Kaye (1913-1987) Entertainer A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in
spite of overwhelming obstacles
~ Christopher Reeve A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always
with the same person
~ Mignon McLaughlin
We learn from failure much more than from success we often discover what we
will do by finding our what we will not do and probably he who never made a
mistake never made a discovery
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904 Scottish author)
I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)
Life has indeed many ills but the mind that views every object in its most
cheering aspect and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good bears
within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote
Lydia H Sigourney 1791-1865 Poet
The Next Step
The first step needs action to start it
The last requires patience to end
So we question which ones most important
When we realize our dreams our best friend
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Well the answer is neither theyre equal
But the one that will help you win through
And connect what you start to the finish
Is the next step thats waiting for you
Lifes dreamers are great Goal Achievers
Their faith and persistence just blends
Into one awesome cocktail of knowledge
That whatever they want they can get
You see they never visualize failure
Its success that they see shining through
Its essential to start and to finish
But the next step is what you must do
Alison Wilson
Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you
and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in
line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not
get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker
There is no such thing as natural touch Touch is something you create by hitting
millions of golf balls
~ Lee Trevino
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation We do not act rightly because
we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted
rightly We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit
~ Aristotle
The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement If everyone received the
encouragement they need to grow the genius in most everyone would blossom and
the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams
~ Unkwown
I do not believe in miracles at least not defined in the conventional religious
manner as divine disruptions of the natural order But if a miracle is defined as an
infinitely improbable phenomenon then our existence is a miracle which no theory
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natural or supernatural will ever explain
-John Horgan
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that with nine women
pregnant you can get a baby in a month
--Wernher von Braun
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never
find out
~ Frank A Clark
You are what you are today because of the decisions and the
choices YOU made yesterday
~ Revt Wayne Goonie
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do
a little
~ Edmund Burke
We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something
that were supposed to do
~ Richard Rose
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small
people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become
great
- Mark Twain
Rich and poor are first created in the mind
A poor man asks How much will it COST me
A rich man asks How much will it MAKE me
Which one are you
~ Bryan Kumar
If you think you can do something that you cannot the belief itself prevents you
from accomplishing the task either because you never try it in the first place or
because you have block yourself by your belief
-Deena Zalkind Spear
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)
Character is doing whats right when nobodys looking
- J C Watts Jr Politician
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people
always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great
Mark Twain 1835-1910 Humorist and Writer
We are all salesmen every day of our lives We are selling our ideas our plans our
enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact
~ Charles M Schwab It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition
- Vernon Howard Maturity begins when were content to feel were right about something without
feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong
Sydney J Harris 1917-1986 Syndicated Columnist
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum
- Frances Willard Educator
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given
~ Deepak Chopra Once power was considered a masculine attribute In fact power has no gender
~ Katherine Graham
An invasion of armies can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come
Victor Hugo
As the purse is emptied the heart is filled
Victor Hugo
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Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them
give way beneath her and yet sings knowing that she hath wings
Victor Hugo
Have no fear of robbers or murderers They are external dangers petty dangers
We should fear ourselves Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murders
The great dangers are within us Why worry about what threatens our heads or
purses Let us think instead of what threatens our souls
Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door closes a prison
Victor Hugo
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man
Victor Hugo Be all you can be and live a good life -- have fun with it
Tina Yothers
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace
Yes Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive inner peace does
not
-Eckhart Tolle
A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Physician and writer
The superior persons learning goes in his ear attaches to his heart expands to
the end of his limbs and is established in his actions
Even in his smallest word or slightest action he sets an example
~ Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) When I thought I couldnt go on I forced myself to keep going My success is
based on persistence not luck
Estee Lauder Entrepreneur
If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased
Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003 American actress writer)
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Make Your Mark Count A childs life is like a piece of paper on which every person
leaves a mark
- Chinese Proverb
Pain shared is lessened joy shared increased
~ Spider Robinson
The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits
~ Albert Einstein
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift let it be enthusiasm
Bruce Barton (1886-1967 American author advertising expert)
When you give your children knowledge you are telling them what you think That
is you are telling them what they are supposed to know what you want them to
understand is true
When you give your children wisdom you do not tell them what to know or what is
true but rather how to get to their own truth
-Neale Donald Walsch
I have found that if you love life life will love you back
- Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Musician
The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see
magic and beauty in them while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves
~ Kahlil Gibran
Practice is just as valuable as a sale The sale will make you a living the skill will
make you a fortune
~ Jim Rohn
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875 British author clergyman)
Dont cry because its over - smile because it happened
Author unknown
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Happiness is like a kiss You must share it to enjoy it
~ Bernard Meltzer Our life is what our thoughts make it
~ Marcus Aurelius The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best Therefore it tends to
become the best It takes the form or character of the best and will receive the
best
-- Wallace Wattles
Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings
-- Marianne Williamson
―And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present and can be none in
the future And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned
to beautiful results
mdash Walt Whitman When you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with your Self
When you lose touch with your Self you lose yourself in the world
Your innermost sense of Self of who you are is inseparable from stillness
This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form
Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks
With wisdom I see that I am nothing
With love I see that I am everything
Between these two my life turns
Nisargadatta Maharaj Man often becomes what he believes himself to be If I keep on saying to myself
that I cannot do a certain thing it is possible that I may end by really becoming
incapable of doing it On the contrary if I shall have the belief that I can do it I
shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the
beginning
Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Indian Nationalist Leader
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Strategies designed to avoid something eventually produce exactly the thing they
are trying to avoid
-Michael Greenwood and Peter Nunn
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but
are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults
seem insignificant
Charles A Cerami
If all you did was just look for things to appreciate you would live a joyous
spectacular life
~Abraham-Hicks
Three things in human life are important The first is to be kind The second is to
be kind And the third is to be kind
- Henry James (1843-1916) Writer The moment of enlightenment is when a persons dreams of possibilities become
images of probabilities
~ Vic Braden Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot
fly
~ Langston Hugues Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which
smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what win and
preserve the heart and secure comfort
Humphry Davy 1778-1829 Chemist
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900 German philosopher)
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 (1871-1940) Writer
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Some dream of doing great things while others stay awake and get on with it
~ Unknown With all your science can you tell how it is and whence it is that light comes into
the soul
-Hanry David Thoreau
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one but you wont come up
with a handful of mud either
- Leo Burnett (1891-1971) Advertising Executive
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the
only way we can leave the future open
Lillian Smith 1897-1966 Writer Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
~ Thomas A Edison Find something youre passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it
Julia Child (1912-2004 American gourmet cook author and television personality)
Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today
and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American
dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are
created equal
- Martin Luther King Jr ―Never let formal education get in the way of your learning
- Mark Twain
The path to success is to take massive determined action
~ Anthony Robbins For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the practice of tolerance ones enemy is the best teacher
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson When defeat comes accept it as a signal that
your plans are not sound rebuild those plans
and set sail once more toward your coveted goal
~ Napoleon Hill
We are all alike on the inside
Mark Twain (1835-1910 American humorist writer)
If you are going to do something carelessly it is better to give it up entirely
Russian Proverb
The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you
Smile and it smiles too
Herbert Samuels
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our
children
Charles R Swindoll
The important thing is not so much that every child should be
taught as that every child should be given the wish to learn
John Lubbock
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been
Mark Twain
It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere
Steve Goodier A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops
Henry Adams
It is only with the heart that one can see clearly for the most
essential things are invisible to the eye
~ Antoine de Sainte Exupery
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the
critical decisive hour Write it on your heart that every day is
the best day of the year
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier Be the living
expression of Gods kindness kindness in your face kindness in your eyes kindness
in your smile
- Mother Teresa
Its never too late to be who you might have been
- George EliotWriter
Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle
- Plato Philosopher
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition
- Vernon Howard
Ilsquove always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up
- Beverly Sills Opera Singer
Help others get ahead You will always stand taller with someone else on your
shoulders
- Bob Moawad Business Leader
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks
like work
Thomas Edison
Dream as if youll live forever
Live as if youll die tomorrow
~ James Dean
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 Author
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As we grow up we get sophisticated out of enchantment and become too smart
about the things that cause children to wonder
-Thomas Moore
People come out to see you perform and youve got to give them the best you have
within you The lives of most men are patchwork quilts Or at best one matching
outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations A lifetime of
training for just ten seconds
Jesse Owens (1913-1980 American Olympian)
Nothing is easy to the unwilling
- Nikki Giovanni Whatever course you have chosen for yourself it will not be a chore but an
adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving if your sights are set
far above the merely secure and mediocre
~David Sarnoff 1891-1971 Entrepreneur I dont know any other way to lead but by example
Don Shula (1930- American football coach) Flexible people never get bent out of shape
- Author Unknown The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record
of successful experiences behind you
~ William Jennings Bryan The important thing is this To be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we could become
~ Charles du Bois Success isnt permanent and failure isnt fatal
- Mike Ditka
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The different between us is that I count and you dont
-Huston Smith
I love strange choices Im always interested in people who depart from what is
expected of them and go into new territory
Cate Blanchett Actress Always do your best What you plant now you will harvest later
Og Mandino (1923-1996 American motivational author speaker wwogmandinocom ) Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the Universe is endlessly
bountiful Just put forth a clear enough request and everything that your heart
desires must come to you
~Shakti Gawain The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would
suffice to solve most of the worlds problems
~ Unknown The only real valuable thing is intuition
- Albert Einstein
Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve
lost a part of your life
~ Michael Leboeuf Fear is an insidious virus Given a breeding place in our minds it will eat away our
spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors
~ James F Bell
You cant base your life on other peoples expectations
Stevie Wonder Grammy Award Winning SingerSongwriter
An excuse is worse than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded
Alexander Pope (1688-1744 British poet critic translator)
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The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and
beginning the work of becoming yourself
- Anna Quindlen ―Exert your talents and distinguish yourself and donlsquot think of retiring from the
world until the world will be sorry that you retire
- Samuel Johnson Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of
the odds against them They make the impossible happen
~ Dr Robert Jarvik
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances
if there is any reaction both are transformed
-Carl Jung There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right between
fairly good and the best between mediocrity and superiority
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess
I wish you enough Hellos to get you through the final Goodbye
Bob Perks
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
~ William Shakespeare
It doesnt matter where you are coming from All that matters is where you are
going
~ Brian Tracy You need to be a somebody before you can be a nobody
-Brant Cortright
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old
Franz Kafka Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it
bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an
unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win and lose many
a battle
~ Annie Besant
I believe in taking a positive attitude toward the world My hope still is to leave
the world a little bit better than when I got here
Jim Henson 1936-1990 Muppets Creator Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life
Gita Bellin
Education is when you read the fine print Experience is what you get if you
dont
- Pete Seeger
Keep your thoughts positive because they become your words
Keep your words positive because they become your behaviors
Keep your behaviors positive because they become your habits
Keep your habits positive because they become your values
Keep your values positive because they become your destiny
-Gandhi
The challenge is not to manage time but to manage ourselves
Stephen Covey
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death It not only gives us
fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which
we hold our present being
~ William Hazlitt
Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith Having
faith in yourself in the process of change and in the new direction that change
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sets will reveal your own inner core of steel
Georgette Mosbacher Business Executive
Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life
Gita Bellin
Careful what you wish for Millions long for immortality who do not know what to
do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon
- Susan Ertz
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us What we have done for
others and the world remains and is immortal
Albert Pine
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us
We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant gorgeous talented fabulous Actually
who are you NOT to be You are a child of God Your playing small does not serve
the world There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont
feel insecure around you We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is
within us It is not just in some of us it is in everyone And as we let our own light
shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same As we are
liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others
~ Marianne Williamson
Focus on where we want to end up not on what we want to avoid
-Paula Underwood Spencer
A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact
that everything has happened for the best
Author Unknown
Change your thoughts and you change the world
- Harold R Mcalindon Today is yesterdays effect and tomorrows cause
~ Phillip Gribble
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find
he can do what he was afraid he couldnt do
~ Henry Ford
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist
- Paul Harvey
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes
up his mind to do We are all capable of greater things than we realize
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)
When everybody is looking for gold its a good time to be in the picks and shovels
business
~ Mark Twain
Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve
lost a part of your life
~ Michael Leboeuf
It is a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you
very often get it
~ W Somerset Maugham
Flatter me and I may not believe you Criticize me and I may not like you Ignore
me and I may not forgive you Encourage me and I will not forget you Love me and
I may be forced to love you
William Arthur Ward
―Trust yourself You know more than you think you do
Benjamin Spock
―A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise
after success
Anon
―Nine tenths of education is encouragement
Anatole Franc
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Maybe you cant change the whole world but if you have love in your heart you can
make small differences every day which really does change the world one life at a
time
Kristina Koncz Customer Experience Specialist
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 (American author The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness)
Truce is better than friction
- Charles Herguth
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them -- a desire a dream a vision
~ Muhammad Ali
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each mans
life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that
take our breath away
~ George Carlin
You can conquer almost any fear if you will make up your mind to do so For
remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind
Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Author and Speaker
Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others
They learn when they do which isnt often on their own the hard way
Robert Heinlein (1907-1988 American science fiction writer)
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the
expense of everybody else
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-Frederic Bastiat
Some think its holding on that makes one strong sometimes its letting go
- Sylvia Robinson We are responsible for what we are and whatever we wish ourselves to be we
have the power to make ourselves If what we are now has been the result of our
own past actions it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be
produced by our present actions so we have to know how to act
~ Swami Vivekananda
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and
make a new ending
~ Maria Robinson
We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves
Brian Tracy (1944- Canadian-born American trainer speaker author businessman)
Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow
- Slovakian Proverb
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know
peace
~Jimi Hendrix Do not wait the time will never be just right
Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your
command and better tools will be found as you go along
~ Napoleon Hill
When we lose the right to be different we lose the privilege to be free
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948 American jurist politician)
You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone which can become a
watered-down occasional hope that youll get to tomorrow Intention without
action is useless
Caroline Myss Author of Entering The Castle
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Plan ahead -- It wasnt raining when Noah built the ark
-Anononymous
Only you can be yourself
No one else is qualified for the job
- Shelby Collinge
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
~ Confucius
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom But in the last analysis our
only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves
~ Bernard M Baruch
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941 Indian poet philosopher)
Worry is the misuse of the imagination
- Dan Zadra
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded
Maya Angelou
Trust yourself Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your
life Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into
flames of achievement
~ Foster C McClellan There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal
experience has brought it home
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873 British philosopher economist)
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall
never sit in
-Greek proverb
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails
- Bertha Calloway
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Democracy arose from mens thinking that if they are equal in any respect they
are equal absolutely
~ Aristotle
Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can
~ Richard Bach
If the world seems cold to you kindle fires to warm it
~ Lucy Larcom All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their
gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible
Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer Physician Hotel Owner and founder of Success Magazine
A Friend is a treasure more precious than Gold For love shared is priceless and
never grows old
Author Unknown
Only that which cannot be taken away by death is real Everything else is unreal it
is made of the same stuff dreams are made of
~Osho
Personality can open doors but only character can keep them open
- Elmer G Leterman
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they
dont know when to quit Most men succeed because they are determined to
~ George Allen Coach
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what
lies within us
~ Walt Emerson Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by
employing it well Then youth will be happy old age without regret and life a
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beautiful success
Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 Novelist Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution
experience lifes deepest joy true fulfillment
Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet enough trials to make you
strong enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy
-Anonymous
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the
things we do
- Freya Madeline Stark
We must become the change we want to see
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You know its not more knowledge its not more education its not more facts
that we need Its a better use of what we already have that we need to have You
have each and every one of you within your potential power right now to do a
wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be
respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure
Buddha (568-488 BC Indian born founder of Buddhism)
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change and all patterns alter
- Sharon Salzberg When we let freedom ring when we let it ring from every village and every
hamlet from every state and every city we will be able to speed up that day when
all of Gods children black men and white men Jews and Gentiles Protestants and
Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro
spiritual
Free at last Free at last
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Thank God Almighty we are free at last
~ Reverand Martin Luther King Jr All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them
~ Walt Disney Your own common sense should tell you that common sense alone is not enough
-Ashleigh Brilliant
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and
deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your
place
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)
Know what counts
No matter what youve done for yourself or for humanity if you cant look back on
having given love and attention to your own family what have you really
accomplished
- Lee Iacocca
There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen
~ Frederick Faust There are those that look at things the way they are and ask why I dream of
things that never were and ask why not
~ Robert F Kennedy
There is nothing impossible to him who will try
~ Alexander the Great
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance Remember the greatest
failure is to not try Once you find something you love to do be the best at doing
it
Debbi Fields Founder of Mrs Fields Cookies
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left
undone
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars
~ Les Brown
Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been
told is what they cant do They dont know what they want because they dont
know whats available for them
~ Zig Ziglar
Accept that some days youre the pigeon and some days youre the statue
-Anonymous
Be life long or short its completeness depends on what it was lived for
- David Starr Jordan
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life
by altering his attitude
~ William James
It has never been and never will be easy work
But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road
built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
―No matter what anybody tells you words and ideas can change the world
~ John Keating (from the movie Dead Poets Society) hellip Every tomorrow has two handles We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887 American preacher orator writer) The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it
~ Chinese proverb
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Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
~ Thomas Edison
I am always doing things I cant do thats how I get to do them
~ Picasso When you maximize your talents youre on path on purpose on target When you
dont youre off path off purpose off target
Kevin Hall Author of Aspire
Comparisons of ones lot with others teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975 American novelist playwright)
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
While we have the gift of life it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of
us to die - whether it is our spirit our creativity or our glorious uniqueness
- Gilda Radner
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state
of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is
wounded trust impaired
~ Erik H Erikson
Dont go on discussing what a good person should be Just be one
Marcus Aurelius
Our wisdom comes from our experience and our experience comes from our
foolishness
Sacha Guitry
I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery than live in a
world so small that my mind could comprehend it
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Our first teacher is our own heart
Cheyenne proverb
Power coerces
Knowledge persuades
Love converts
Proverb
Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back but so they will kiss their
children and their childrens children
Noah Benshea
We read to know we are not alone
CS Lewis
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better
Albert Einstein
Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always makes
you less than you are
- Malcolm Forbes
When you know that youre capable of dealing with whatever comes you have the
only security the world has to offer
Harry Browne 1933-2006 Writer and Politician
You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never
be ableto repay you
- John Wooden
Freedom know this that every manwoman is free to choose his life and what hell
be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call
persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light in nameless ways be
good and kind but never force the human mind
~ William C Clegg
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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than
the one you are capable of living
~ Nelson Mandela to Marianne Williamson If it werent for the rocks in its bed the stream would have no song
-Carl Perkins
Whenever encountering a troublesome person do not identify him as being cruel
or stupid or rude or anything else like that Instead see him as a frightened
person
Vernon Howard 1918-1992 Author and Philosopher When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it
elsewhere
~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer) Live for the moment
If I have learnt anything it is that life forms no logical patterns It is haphazard
and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by for who knows whether any
of them will ever return
- Margo Fonteyn
Isnt it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings
and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of
tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a
stumbling block or stepping stone
~ Edgar Guest We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit
~ Aristotle
Whatever you can do or dream you can do begin it Boldness has genius power
and magic in it
~ Wolfgang von Goethe Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state Being in love shows a person who he should be ~ Anton Chekhov
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Follow the grain in your own wood
- Howard Thurman
It is said that if you are not living your dreams you are living your fears
~ Ghalil Professional Dreamer
―Dont ask what the world needs Ask what makes you come alive because what the
world needs is people who have come alive
- Harold Thurman
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing
do it with all your mind Put your whole soul to it Stamp it with your own
personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will
accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Essayist Philosopher and Poet
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)
For the most part fear is nothing but an illusion When you share it with someone
else it tends to disappear
- Marilyn C Barrick
The purpose of life is not to arrive safely at your death
- Robert Holden
When everything seems to be going against you remember that theairplane takes
off against the wind not with it
Henry Ford
There are two freedoms the false where a man is free to do what he likes the
true where he is free to do what he ought
~ Charles Kingsley Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one
could find fault with it
John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer)
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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
New ideas pass through three periods
It cant be done
It probably can be done but its not worth doing
I knew it was a good idea all along
-Arthur C Clarke A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you think creates your life all you have to do is ask yourself what you are
willing to accept into your life
~ Ghalil Author - Professional Dreamer
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and
deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your
place
~ Orison Swett Marden Well done is better than well said
~ Benjamin Franklin Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one
could find fault with it
John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer) If youre looking for perfection look in the mirror If you find it there expect it
elsewhere
Malcolm S Forbes (1919-1990 American publisher businessman) Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have
- H Jackson Brown Jr A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things
~ Chinese Proverb
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If we listened to our intellect wed never have a love affair Wed never have a
friendship Wed never go into business because wed be cynical Well thats
nonsense Youve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down
~ Ray Bradbury
Successful people decide how they are going to live they are not victims of
circumstance In good times or bad times they know where they are going and they
know that they are going to get there
Bob Proctor Author and Speaker
First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win
~ Mahatma Gandhi The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing
- Walt Disney 1901-1966 American Film ProducerDirectorAnimator
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas first make him your friend
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
Doubting everything or believing everything are two equally convenient solutions
both of which save us from thinking
-Jules Henri Poincareacute
Dont be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning Thats only the initial
impression The important thing is not to retreat you have to master yourself
Olga Korbut Olympic Gold Medallist Gymnast
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental
difference in someones life
- Sister Mary Rose McGeady All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future
task of the philosopher which is to solve the problem of value to determine the
true hierarchy of values
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him
~ Martin Luther King Dont concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal -
leave that completely to a power greater than yourself All you have to do is know
where youre going The answers will come to you of their own accord and at the
right time
Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Syndicated Radio Announcer and Author
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs
~ Gloria Steinem
Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today
and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American
dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are
created equal
~ Martin Luther King Jr
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you have imagined
David Thoreau Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do
that but the really great make you believe that you too can become great
~ Mark Twain Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure (values) and Ill tell
you their philosophy of life
~ Dale Carnegie To forgive is merely to remember ONLY the LOVING thoughts you gave in the
past and those that were given you ALL the rest must be forgotten
~ A Course In Miracles If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a
prophet
Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904-1991 Journalist and Writer
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us
~ Voltaire
We are all of us stars and we deserve to twinkle
~ Marilyn Monroe
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do
right
~ Nelson Mandela
It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope
is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they
both lead to the same destination
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society
~J Krishnamurti
Every situation properly perceived becomes an opportunity to heal
~ A Course in Miracles
The love that you withhold in life is the pain that you carry
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as
the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature
John D Rockefeller (1839-1937 American industrialist philanthropist founder Exxon)
All I ask is for an unfair advantage
~ WC Fields Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words Keep your
words positive because your words become your behaviors Keep your behaviors
positive because your behaviors become your habits Keep your habits positive
because your habits become your values Keep your values positive because your
values become your destiny
~Gandhi
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Your ego is creating obstacles Maya creating maya
~Babaji Step back Observe without judgment unconditional Watch now as obstacles
melt become no-thing Do this each time a block appears Step back and observe
without judgment
~Babaji
Everybody cannot be a painter a poet or a geniusthose are given qualities from
birth But everybody can be enlightened Enlightenment is the only thing the only
experience where everybody is equally capable And it does not depend on whether
you believe in God or not it depends only on one thingand that is a little taste (of
meditation) and suddenly you become confident that youre capable of it
~Osho There are no accidents or coincidences in this world Nothing is by chance
Everything you experience is a direct manifestation of where you focus your
attention and hold your vibration
~Jafree When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off
into the darkness of the unknown faith is knowing one of two things will happen
There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly
~ Barbara J Winter High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly make big decisions quickly and
move into action immediately Follow these principles and you can make your dreams
come true
Robert H Schuller Televangelist Pastor and Author
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you but seek out another to console and
you will find consolation
J C Macaulay
High Expectations are the key to everything
~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart
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Until you make peace with who you are youll never be content with what you
have
~ Doris Mortman You must constantly ask yourself these questions Who am I around What are
they doing to me What have they got me reading What have they got me saying
Where do they have me going What do they have me thinking And most
important what do they have me becoming Then ask yourself the big question Is
that okay Your life does not get better by chance it gets better by change
Jim Rohn 1930-2009 Author and Speaker
Believe it You CAN succeed at whatever you do as long as you simply take the
right ACTIONS
~ ER Haas CEO
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do The hard
part is doing it
~ General H Norman Schwarzkopf So let your deepest desires direct your aim Set your sights far above the
reasonable target The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire
that stirs the heart
Price Pritchett Author of You2
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1826-1977 British economist critic)
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or
better than themselves
~ Tryon Edwards
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high
and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it
~ Michelangelo Compared to what we ought to be we are only half awake We are making use of
only a small part of our physical and mental resources Stating the thing broadly
the human individual thus lives far within his limits He possesses power of various
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sorts which he habitually fails to use
William James (1842-1910 American psychologist professor author) People wait for opportunity to come along yet it is there every morning
~ Dennis the Menace A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow
~ George S Patton (1885-1945 American army general during World War II)
The last best fruit which comes to late perfection even in the kindliest soul is
tenderness toward the hard forbearance toward the unforbearing warmth toward
the cold philanthropy toward the misanthropic
~ Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825 German novelist)
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a
prophet
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991 Polish-born American journalist writer)
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than
by those given to us by others
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662 French scientist religious philosopher) Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty
~ John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)
Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect
abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human
laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought
of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will
bring it into being
~Eileen Caddy
Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we
believe And the only real wealth for any of us lies in our faith
~ Gordon B Hinckley
Desire is the Starting Point of All Achievement
~ - Napoleon Hill
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And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to
do the same
Nelson Mandela
The more we have the less we own
Meister Eckhart (1260-1326 German mystic)
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every
pebble in the road
Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887 Preacher and Abolitionist
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength Richard L Evans
The secret of Happiness is Freedom and the secret of Freedom Courage
~ Thucydides (Greek historian 460-404 BC)
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in
the mature than in the young
Paul McCartney SingerSongwriter I cant believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary
Lou Holtz (937- American football coach)
Dont let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he
was
~ Richard L Evans
To dream anything that you want to dream that is the beauty of the human mind
To do anything that you want to do that is the strength of the human will To trust
yourself to test your limits that is the courage to succeed
~ Bernard Edmonds
I find my greatest pleasure and so my reward in the work that precedes what the
world calls success
Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)
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It is good to act as if It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer
an act
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832 British sportsman writer)
Tell me what you want and Ill show you how to get it
~ Bob Proctor
One is very crazy when in love
~ Sigmund Freud
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed Always aim at
purifying your thoughts and everything will be well
Mahatma Gandhi
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything keep it
Mahatma Gandhi Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
Mahatma Gandhi
Hate the sin love the sinner
Mahatma Gandhi
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress
Mahatma Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress
Mahatma Gandhi
True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the
future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied
with what we have which is sufficient for he that is so wants nothing The great
blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach
~ Seneca 4 BC to 65 AD - Spanish Philosopher
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When you paint success pictures in your mind you initiate an inner process
whereby your attitudes hopes aspirations and enthusiasm are elevated in
response to an image of a more promising future Every person who aspires must
first sell themselves hope the promise of a better life
US Andersen 1917-1986 Author of The Magic In Your Mind
How far is far how high is high Well never know until we try
Song from the California Special Olympics If you take each challenge one step at a time with faith in every footstep your
strength and understanding will increase
~ James E Faust
What is your individual purpose What would you like to be able to say is your
legacy I believe that each of us wants to find our purpose in life our raison
detre or reason for being We need to have a motive to get out of bed in the
morning We want to feel alive and passionate about something Something that
makes a difference in the world We are not alone in this and yet many of us are
still searching for that purpose
~ Veronica Hay We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds
Warren Buffett (1930- American investment entrepreneur)
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy but its good too to
check up once in a while and make sure you havent lost the things money cant
buy
George Lorimer 1867-1937 Editor of Saturday Evening Post
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence Talent will not nothing is
more common than unsuccessful men with talent Genius will not unrewarded genius
is almost a proverb Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent
~ Calvin Coolidge
Desperation can be as powerful inspirer as genius
Benjamin Disraeli
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We read to know we are not alone
CS Lewis
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better
Albert Einstein The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the
road after you have shown him the way
Confucius
A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his
grandfather
Angie Papadakis
My father didnt tell me how to live he lived and let me watch him do it
Clarence B Kelland No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing
William Barclay
If you think youre lucky you are
Bobby Dodd
When youre safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when youre
having an adventure you wish you were safe at home
Thornton Wilder Obstacles dont have to stop you If you run into a wall dont turn around and give
up Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it
~ Michael Jordan In order to attain the impossible one must attempt the impossible
~ Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616 Spanish novelist dramatist poet)
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as
the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature
~ John D Rockefeller
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is
when men are afraid of the light
~ Plato
Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by action alone
Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 Philosopher and Author
Poverty is not a shame but the being ashamed of it is
English Proverb
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well
~ Unknown
We need to exert ourselves that much more and break out of the vicious cycle of
dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful those in command of
immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own
image
~ Nelson Mandela
High Expectations are the key to everything
~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart
Failures are expected by losers ignored by winners
~ Joe Gibbs Football Coach Most people live and die with their music still unplayed They never dare to try
Mary Kay Ash
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own
existence
Aristotle
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to
the eye
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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If A equals success then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z
with X being work Y play and Z keeping your mouth shut
~ Albert Einstein
Tomorrows battle is won during todays practice
Japanese Proverb
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days
What you can do or think you can do begin it For boldness has magic power and
genius in it
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Poet Novelist and Scientist
Forget about all the reasons why something may not work You only need to find
one good reason why it will
Dr Robert Anthony
No matter how busy you are you must take time to make the other person feel
important
Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001 American businesswoman founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)
I used to be a very serious not funny negative person Funny-cism Skepticism
Criticism and all Then I got introduced to the world of Positive Thinking Now Im
bipolar
~ Andy Dooley Spiritual Comedian and Professional Speaker
Your past is not your potential In any hour you can choose to liberate the future
Marilyn Ferguson (American writer) Everyone wants to be appreciated so if you appreciate someone dont keep it a
secret
~ Mary Kay Ash 1915-2001 Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds
and these magnets attract to us the forces the people the circumstances of life
which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts
~ Napoleon Hill
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You more often recognize your inadequacies rather than your strengths
~ James E Faust
I live by this credo Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness
instead of sadness Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations Even
in your darkest moment you usually can find something to laugh about if you try
hard enough
Red Skelton 1913-1997 Comedian
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth
George W Crane Some self-confronting questions
Where do I want to be at any given time
How am I going to get there
What do I have to do to get myself from where
I am to where I want to be
Whats the first small step I can take to get moving
~ George A Ford The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can
bribe the public with the publics money
- Alexis de Tocqueville The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race
~ Don Marquis At the height of laughter the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new
possibilities
-- Jean Houston Begin to weave and God will give you the thread
~ German Proverb If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who
are rich
John F Kennedy (1917-1963 35th American President)
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If you keep THINKING what you are thinking you will keep DOING what you are
doing and you will keep GETTING what you are getting
~ Dr Robert Anthony The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world
~ Lao-tzu Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to
let them know that you trust them
Booker T Washington 1856-1915 Educator and Writer ―Stress is the tax you pay for not taking 100 responsibility for your life
mdashDr Barnet Meltzer Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it
~ Irving Berlin It is by surmounting difficulties not by sinking under them that we discover our
fortitude
~ Hannah Webster Foster
Believing requires action
~ James E Faust
Dont do anything in practice that you wouldnt do in the game
George Halas (1895-1983 American football coach)
Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to reach for the
roof and land in the garbage
~ Savanna Skinner
Whatever you focus your intention on is what will show up in your life
Your consistent thoughts create your consistent results
~ Dr Robert Anthony
He who gains a victory over other men is strong but he who gains a victory over
himself is all powerful
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Lao-Tzu (BC 600- Chinese philosopher founder of Taoism) His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the
memory of a wrong
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great masters merit emulation not worship
-- Alan Cohen
Mirth is Gods medicine Everybody ought to bathe in it
-- Henry Ward Beecher
Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things but just look what they can do
when they stick together
~ anon
Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you
are and what you want
-- Alan Cohen
Life isnt about waiting for the storm to pass its about learning to dance in the
rain
~Anonymous
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call
failure is not the falling down but the staying down
Mary Pickford 1893-1979 Actress and Producer
Courage does not always roar Sometimes courage is that quiet voice at the end of
the day that saysI will try again tomorrow
-Mary Anne Radmacher
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act or thought or word that raises
us above ourselves
~ Arthur P Stanley
―You see things and say Whylsquo but I dream things and say Why notlsquo
- George Bernard Shaw
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―The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and
convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges
- Martin Luther King Jr
―Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do
that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great
- Mark Twain
―That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as
well
- Abraham Lincoln
―Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though
checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor
suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat
- Theodore Roosevelt
―Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm
- Winston Churchill
―I have not failed Ilsquove just found 10000 ways that wonlsquot work
- Thomas Edison If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun
--Katharine Hepburn
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees
problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems
~ Winston Churchill
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but
are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults
seem insignificant
Charles A Cerami Author
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If everyone on earth loved each other the earth would shine brighter than the
sun
-- Source unknown
As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again you are
merely a vague guest on a dark Earth
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So many worlds so much to do so little done such things to be
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy nothing can make a fool content
that is why most men are miserable
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer)
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live
~ Flora Whittemore 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 1880-1968 Author and Lecturer Where theres a will theres a way
English Proverb A manwoman without ambition is dead
A man with ambition but no love is dead
A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive
~Pearl Bailey We cant help everyone but everyone can help someone
~ Ronald Reagan
We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we
cannot
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
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Once you realize you dont need anything youre free to have whatever you want
- Ian Watson
Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy ~ Norman Vincent Peale Every goal every action every thought every feeling one experiences whether it
be consciously or unconsciously known is an attempt to increase ones level of
peace of mind
~ Sidney Madwed
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so For
remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind
Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Speaker and Author Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes
Chinese Proverb
―Focus your attention on your desire
not the situation that gave birth to your desire
mdashRich German Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone
and let your hand give in proportion to your purse
~ George Washington
Time I have only just a minute
Only sixty seconds in it
Forced upon me cant refuse it
Didnt seek it didnt choose it
But its up to me to use it
I must suffer if I lose it
Give account if I abuse it
Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it
~ Christine Warren
Do what you can with what you have where you are
~ Theodore Roosevelt
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With every adversity comes a seed of equal or greater opportunity
~ Napoleon Hill
Heart is merely another name for the Supreme Spirit because He is in all hearts
The entire Universe is condensed in the body and the entire body in the Heart
Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
―If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back then
you suffer Every moment is the most important moment of your life No future
time is better than now to let down your guard and love
~ David Deida
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for youll be criticized anyway Youll
be damned if you do and damned if you dont
~ Eleanor Roosevelt Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
~ John Wooden
One difference between successful people and all the rest is that successful
people take action
~ Bob Proctor Speaker and Author
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left Every
mans greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life
~ P W Litchfield ―There is a giant asleep within every man When the giant awakes miracles happen
~ Frederick Faust Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of
itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as
powerful as your desires unless you make them so
Marcia Wieder Author and Speaker
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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning by dreams that need
completion by pure love that needs expressing then we truly live life
~ Greg Anderson Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you
Never excuse yourself
~ Henry Ward Beecher There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge
- both poverty and riches are offspring of thought
~ Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich The person with a fixed goal a clear picture of his desire or an ideal always
before him causes it through repetition to be buried deeply in his subconscious
mind and is thus enabled thanks to its generative and sustaining power to realize
his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort Just pursue
the thought unceasingly Step by step you will achieve realization for all your
faculties and powers become directed to that end
~ Claude M Bristol Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake
~ Henry David Thoreau If opportunity doesnt knock build a door
~ Milton Berle Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am
not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise
not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our quality of life incidence
of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak It is born of strength and
understanding
-- Meher Baba Unworthiness is simply a case of mistaken identity
-- Alan Cohen
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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet
-- Mahatma Gandhi If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march
on
-- Stopford Brooke It is usually the imagination that is wounded first rather than the heart it being
much more sensitive
~ Henry David Thoreau You need not struggle for your good Your good flows to you naturally when you are
relaxed open and trusting
-- Alan Cohen If you dont love it you cant afford it
Alan Cohen
Ask for peace first and you will clearly see your next step
-- Alan Cohen I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited
and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts Namely the physical universe
-- Ken Jenkins Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional
~ Mark Sanborn Life isnt what you want it to be its what you make it become
~ Anthony Ryan
If you are very quiet you can hear the world applauding
--Source unknown
Do you remember how electrical currents and unseen waves were laughed at
The knowledge about man is still in its infancy
~ Albert Einstein
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Wherever you go go with all your heart
~ Confucius I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up Most people in this
business gave up and went on to other things If you simply didnt give up you
would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you
Harrison Ford Actor
The quality of your life is determined by the number of uncomfortable
conversations you are willing to have
~ Rich German
To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define
themselves As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate
influences of the culture and environment we grow up in we come to have beliefs
about the nature of being human These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of
our psychosomatic systems our minds and brains our nervous systems our
endocrine systems and even our blood and sinews We act speak and think
according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems
~ Jeremy W Hayward
A mans true wealth is the good he does in the world Mohammed (c570-c632
Mecca spiritual leader
Every man is the architect of his own fortune
~ Sallust
What is opportunity and when does it knock
It never knocks
You can wait a whole lifetime listening hoping and you will hear no knocking
None at all
You are opportunity and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny
You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity to pursue and seize opportunity as
you develop the strength of your personality and build a self-image with which you
are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing
~ Maxwell Maltz
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Today I would like to become the man my dog thinks I am
Jack Thomson Entrepreneur BE the change you want to see in the world
- Mahatma Gandhi
Leaders are made they are not born They are made by hard effort
which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile
~ Vince Lombardi To honor the spirit is to accept the opportunity for your healing and personal
evolution When you choose to assume radical personal responsibility knowing that
you are responsible for the effect external circumstances have on you you are
taking a stand for the power of your spiritual nature to run the show
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think Its really important that you feel good Because this feeling good is what goes
out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you So the
more you can feel good the more you will attract the things that help you feel
good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher
Joe Vitale Author and Speaker Just listen to the still voice within This is the mind to trust This is god
consciousness speaking not the ego that is seeking recognition
~Angela Walker
There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart If you pray it it will
change your life How does it begin
-- Matthew Anderson
For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin but there was
always some obstacle in the way Something had to be got through first some
unfinished business time still to be served a debt to be paid Then life would
begin At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life
~ Bette Howland
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power then the world will know
peace
Jimmy Hendrix There are two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the
credit Try to be in the first group there is less competition there
Indira Gandhi Its good to have money and all the things that money can buy but its good too to
make sure you havent lost the things that money cant buy George
Horace Lorimer When you take things for granted the things you are granted get taken
Phil Hennessy Self-confidence is a state of mind where you believe that you deserve the best
you are capable of achieving the best and furthermore you expect the best to
happen
--- Dr Barnet Meltzer Writing is good thinking is better Cleverness is good patience is better
~ Hermann Hesse
You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the
greatness you perceive in them is your own
-- Alan Cohen
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their
gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible
Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday If you do it right today
--Sheldon S Maye
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength
not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will
~ Vince Lombardi
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The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too
-- William Hutchinson Murray
Youve got to get up every morning with determination if youre going to
go to bed with satisfaction
-- George Horace Lorimer Faith is born of Definiteness of Purpose
Keep your mind on the things that you do want and off the things that you do not
want
~ Unknown You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals
George S Patton 1885-1945 American Army General
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have
thrown at him
~ David Brinkley
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough
~ Helen Keller
If what you did yesterday seems big you havent done anything
today
Lou Holtz
Dont wait for extraordinary opportunities Seize common occasions and make
them great Weak menwomen wait for opportunities strong menwomen make
them
~ Orison Swett Marden
The recognition you seek from others is really the recognition you seek from
yourself Give it to yourself and you wont need it from others
-- Alan Cohen Ninety percent of the population wish positive but think negative
~ Leslie Householder
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You are more likely to create success when you are relaxed about a result than
when you are uptight about it
-- Alan Cohen Embrace Change True success can be defined by your ability to adapt to
changing circumstances
-- Connie Sky Aim High The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for
what we could become
-- Charles Du Bos Dont ask for an easier life ask to be a stronger person
Shared by Kristen Goeser
Your consciousness is a powerful force for creating It determines the people you
are attracted to and the people who are attracted to you If you want to improve
your lot in life or the quality of your relationships choosing to accept personal
responsibility is the first and most important step
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise it is all
over Bolt up at once
-- Sir Walter Scott
You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you cant have it
- Dr Robert Anthony Live so that you wouldnt be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip
Will Rogers 1879-1935 Comedian and Actor
Everyone rides on the merry go round of life but very few ever take the chance
at the brass ring
-- Kevin Veitch
We gain internal freedom through external actions
- Ram Dass
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Everyone was born original but most people die copies
~ Unknown Without passion you dont have energy without energy you have nothing Nothing
great in the world has been accomplished without passion
~ Donald Trump When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened before us
~ Helen Keller
I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody
Bill Cosby Comedian Actor and Author Give up your identity as a seeker and become a finder Then everything you ever
sought will find you
-- Alan Cohen
The reason we put a lot of emphasis on action is because we do not understand the
power of our thought If you analyze it 90 percent of most peoples actions
are spent trying to compensate for inappropriate thought
~ Dr Robert Anthony Prosperity lets go the bridle
-- George Herbert
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered
heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed They won because they refused to
become discouraged by their defeats
Bertie Charles Forbes 1880-1954 Financial Journalist Author and Founder of Forbes Magazine He who jumps to conclusions falls to their death
-- Mark J Ottaviani Im not a believer in nor the advocate of miracles for the reason that I
have enough knowledge of nature to understand that nature never deviates from
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her established laws Her laws are simply so incomprehensible that they produce
what appears to be miracles
~ Napoleon Hill Learn to listen Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly
Frank Tyger
Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can as long as
ever you can
John Wesley Work like you dont need the money Love like youve never been hurt Dance like
nobody is watching
-- Mark Twain
You believe that a lover will bring you love but it is your love that will bring you a
lover
-- Alan Cohen
The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you
The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting The
more joyful you are the more Well-being flows to you
~Abraham-Hicks What nourishes you is not vitamins in food It is the joy you feel in eating it
-- Ramtha
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this
decide what you want
Ben Stein Attorney Author Actor and Commentator
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure to embrace
the new But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful There is
more security in the adventurous and exciting for in movement there is life and in
change there is power
mdashAlan Cohen
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Vision without action is a daydream Action without vision is a nightmare
-- Japanese Proverb
Success is the result of applying sound principles which align with universal laws
The Science of Success is a powerful road map to guarantee your personal
success
~ Brian Tracy
Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to
die
-- Alan Cohen
There are 3 things that are certain in life death taxes and change You cant
avoid change its mandatory progress however is optional
-- Bill R Good Jr
Surrender the illusion that anyone other than you has power or authority over
your life
Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either
openly before us or close to us
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You must be the change you want to see in the world
~ Gandhi
Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a
friendly level
~ Max L Forman
If you want your life to be a magnificent story then begin by realizing that you
are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page
-- Mark Houlahan
If you want to develop in profound and significant ways it is essential that you
build up a reservoir of spiritual and emotional conviction a source of boundless
freedom that will give you the energy to transcend the apparent limitations of
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your own emotional psychological and cultural experience By practicing
meditation with deadly seriousness you cultivate that freedom and conviction in
no-limitation as a reference point Thats the only reason to meditate in the
context of Evolutionary Enlightenment
mdash Andrew Cohen
If our actions stem from honesty kindness caring and vision then no matter
what the result of our efforts we have added something of value to our souls and
to the world
~ Joan Boysenko
Too often the opportunity knocks but by the time you push back the chain push
back the bolt unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm its too late
~ Rita Coolidge We are formed and molded by our thoughts
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them
~ Buddha
We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of the
soul
~ John OlsquoDonohue
No onelsquos past has to be a prison sentence Forgiveness provides the key to
acknowledge the past and move on When we can forgive we have less to be afraid
of
~ Dr Fred Luskin
Isnlsquot it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings
and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of
tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a
stumbling block or stepping stone
~ Edgar Guest
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly
~ Richard Bach
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I donlsquot wait for moods
You accomplish nothing if you do that Our mind must know it has got to get down
to work
~ Pearl S Buck
There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen
~ Fred Faust
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the
risk it took to bloom
~ Anais Nin
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear
~ Nelson Mandela
Itlsquos not about breaking the rules
It is about abandoning the concept of rules altogether
~ Paul Lemberg
Each moment of our life we either invoke or destroy our dreams
~ Stuart Wilde
Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts This is the
secret of success
Swami Sivananda
Whatever you do do it as totally as possible
Osho
I am not afraidhellipI was born to do this
~Joan of Arc
―There is nothing that you cannot be do or have
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
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―Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing
do it with all your might Put your whole soul into it Stamp it with your own
personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will
accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Success is never final Failure is never fatal It is courage that counts
~ Winston Churchill
What are you tolerating that would not be a part of your ideal day
-- Alan Cohen Trust yourself You know more than you think you do
-- Dr Benjamin Spock True friends and healers do not limit your options They expand them
-- Alan Cohen When it comes to staying young a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day
-- Marty Bucella Achievement seems to be connected with action Successful men and women keep
moving They make mistakes but they dont quit
Conrad Hilton 1887-1979 Founder of Hilton Hotels Successful people form the habit of doing what failures dont like to do They like
the results they get by doing what they dont necessarily enjoy
Earl Nightingale1921-1989 Author and Syndicated Radio Personality When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent
you are clear
Janet AttwoodAuthor of The Passion Test The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it
Chinese proverb
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by
changing the inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their
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lives
~ William James
Never look up to the people who have the painted-perfect lives because try as
they might they can never see beyond the canvas
~ Moira Hallsom
Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born
~ Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body
~ Pythagoras
If life gives you lemons make lemonade
~ Joan Collins
The only place where dreams are impossible is in your own mind
~ Emalie
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions But no man has
a right to be wrong in his facts
~ Bernard M Baruch
Begin to weave and God will give you the thread
~ German Proverb
No day in which you learn something is a complete loss
~ David Eddings
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we
are and what we can be igniting the circuits of our highest potential
-- Rusty Berkus
The optimist says we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears
this is true
-- Source Unknown
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If I had listened to the critics Id have died drunk in the gutter
-- Chekov
Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice It is not a thing to be
waited for it is a thing to be achieved
-- Jeremy Kitson
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental
difference in someones life
- Sister Mary Rose McGeady
One never knows what each day is going to bring The important thing is to be
open and ready for it
- Henry Moore
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in
the same individual
- Arthur Koestler
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it
- Lou Holtz Motivation is like food for the brain You cannot get enough in one sitting It needs continual and
regular top ups
~ Peter Davies
Dont tell me how hard you work
Tell me how much you get done
~ James Ling
Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures
dont like to do
~ Albert Gray
―There is a science of getting rich and it is an exact science like algebra or arithmetic There
are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches and once these laws are learned
and obeyed by anyone that person will get rich with mathematical certainty ~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
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―Everything you want should be yours the type of work you want the relationships you need
the social mental and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled the money
you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you and any requirement that you may (or
may not) have for achievement or service to others If you donlsquot aim for it all youlsquoll never get it
all To aim for it requires that you know what you want ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle ―Eliminate the word impossible from your thinking and speaking vocabularies Impossible is a
failure word The thought ―Itlsquos impossible sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove
youlsquore right ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in accomplishment Big in
income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right now to discover how to make your
thinking make magic for you Start out with this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli ―Life
is too short to be little ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―If you have a big problem in your life all that means is that you are being a small person ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind ―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo for success
nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make much of a difference ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you If God gives you a bucket of fish you
have to distribute those fish If you donlsquot theylsquore going to rot attract a bunch of flies and
start stinking up your soul ~ Russell Simmons from Do You ―In my experience therelsquos only one thing that will always steer you toward success Thatlsquos to
have a vision and to stick with ithellip Once I have a vision for a new venture Ilsquom going to ride that
vision until the wheels come off ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by changing the
inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their lives
~ William James
There is no courage without fear
~ Eddie Rickenbacher
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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make who would you call and what
would you say And why are you waiting
-- Stephen Levine
Remember we all stumble every one of us Thats why its a comfort to go hand in hand
~ Emily Kimbrough The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding
~ the Bible
The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives
~ Louise Hay
The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation
~ Comer Cotrell
Give it all youve got because you never know if theres going to be a next time
~ Danielle Ingrum
Dont try to force anything Let life be a deep let-go God opens millions of flowers everyday
without forcing their buds
~Osho
The definition of Insanity is Doing the Same Things Over and Over Again and Expecting Different
Results
~ Albert Einstein
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us This little treasure
has great great powers and I would say we only have learnt a very very small part of what it can
do
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work
~ John G Pollard
Vacation is a state of mind not an action
-- Alan Cohen
Whatever games are played with us we must play no games with ourselves
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Desperation does not recognize your power to choose
-- Alan Cohen
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When people talk listen completely Most people never listen
-- Ernest Hemingway
Heaven is gained or lost not by dramatic deeds but by the simple of acts of daily living
-- Alan Cohen
There is only one voice worth listening to
--Alan Cohen Reverie is not a mind vacuum It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul
--Gaston Bachelard
Why get rich quick when you can be rich now
-- Alan Cohen
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure
-- Joseph Campbell
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes
-- Henry Kaiser
Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of
another
Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister
When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent you are clear
Janet Attwood Author of The Passion Test
New peace harmony and power fill your relationships when you practice radical personal
responsibility Through it you enter a more refined sphere of relating that enhances your life and
accelerates the realization of your ultimate spiritual self Practicing radical personal responsibility
forever changes the way you approach and resolve conflict
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The Cure for the Common Upset (p 10)
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and
discomfort We spend enormous energy denying our insecurity fighting pain death and loss and
hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature
- Jack Kornfield A Path with Heart
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Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am not aware of
any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has
a greater impact on our quality of life incidence of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant they is a fuel in us which needs
to be ignited with sparks
Johann Gottfried Von Herder
Energy is the essence of life Every day you decide how youre going to use it by
knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal and by maintaining
focus
-Oprah Winfrey
The acquisition of wealth is no longer a driving force in the 24th century We
strive to better ourselves and the rest of humanity
-- From the movie Star Trek Insurrection
―You cannot exercise much power without gratitude for it is gratitude that keeps
you connected with Power
~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
―To do things in a way you want to do them you will have to acquire the ability to
think the way you want to think this is the first step toward getting rich
~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich
―There are three crucial dimensions to your explanatory style permanence
pervasiveness and personalization
~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism
―Habits of thinking need not be forever One of the most significant findings in
psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they
think
~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism
―Action always beats inaction ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
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―Itlsquos not enough to be in the right place at the right time You have to be the right person in the
right place at the right time ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Every thought vibrates every thought radiates a signal and every thought
attracts a matching signal back We call that process the Law of Attraction The
Law of Attraction says That which is like unto itself is drawn And so you might
see the powerful Law of Attraction as a sort of Universal Manager that sees to it
that all thoughts that match one another line up
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
―It is our desire that you become one who is happy with that which you are and
with that which you havemdashwhile at the same time being eager for more That is the
optimal creative vantage point To stand on the brink of what is coming feeling
eager optimistic anticipationmdashwith no feelings of impatience doubt or
unworthiness hindering the receiving of itmdashthat is the Science of Deliberate
Creation at its best
~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given
―As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around you come to see that every
perceived problem appearing ―out there is really nothing more than a
misperception within your own thinking
~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is
―The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is
When the mind is perfectly clear what is is what we want
~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself You must be
able to sustain yourself against staggering blows There is no code of conduct to
help beginners That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner
drive go much further than people with vastly superior talent
Sophia Loren Actress
And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your
years
-- Abraham Lincoln
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Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by
holding grudges harboring resentments and nursing unhealed wounds It is
rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to
understand and accept other people and ourselves
~ Sidney and Suzanne Simon
Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity
Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Poet and Physiognomist People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do
things When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success
Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Speaker and Author Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to
believe in me
Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author
With love in you your only need is to extend it
-- A Course in Miracles
Just because it ended doesnt mean it failed
-- Alan Cohen
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find
it
-- George Moore
Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality
-- Alan Cohen
Our biggest problems cannot be resolved They must be outgrown
-- Carl Jung
True prayer penetrates beyond hope and establishes itself in knowing
-- Alan Cohen
So we see to play successfully the game of life we must train the imaging faculty
A person with an imaging faculty trained to image only good brings into his life
every righteous desire of his heart - health wealth love friends perfect self-
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expression his highest ideals
mdash Florence Scovel Shinn
Dont ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it
Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
mdashHoward Thurman
To the degree were not living our dreams our comfort zone has more control of
us than we have over ourselves
-- Peter McWilliams
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams
-- Doug Ivester (President of Coca Cola)
It is not length of life but depth of life
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them but
to reveal their own
-- Author Unknown
A free lunch is only found in mousetraps
-- John Capuzzi
If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you dont you
have achieved half your failure
-- David Ambrose
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesnt lie in not reaching your
goal The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach It isnt a calamity to die with
dreams unfulfilled but it is a calamity not to dream It is not a disaster to be
unable to capture your ideal but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture It is
not a disgrace not to reach the stars but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach
for Not failure but low aim is a sin
~ Benjamin E Mayes
True success is a state of mindThis mindset is the heart and soul of successful
entrepreneurial enterprise You cant get started without it and you cant make a
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business wildly profitable if you dont get it
~ Unknown
Traditional education will make you a living self-education will make you a
fortune
~ Jim Rohn One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests
~ John Stuart Mill
Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different Rather than wasting
time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we dont have what we
want we can start to pursue other ways to get it
~ Greg Anderson
When you confront a problem you begin to solve it
~ Rudy Guilliani ―Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential And to
do that I insist you throw caution at the wind ignore the pleas of parents
coaches spouses and bosses to be realisticlsquo Realistic people do not accomplish
extraordinary things because the odds of success stymie them The best
performers ignore the odds I will show that instead of limiting themselves to
whatlsquos probable the best will pursue the heart-pounding exciting really big
difference-making dreamsmdashso long as catching them might be possible
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―To be sure great performers are well trained experienced smart and in some
cases divinely talented But the way their brains work during a performance is a
lot more like a squirrellsquos than like Einsteinlsquos Like squirrels the best in every
business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilitiesmdashthey
flat out trust their skills which is why we call this high-performance state of mind
the ―Trusting Mindset Routine access to the Trusting Mindset is what separates
great performers from the rest of the pack
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―In every forest on every farm in every orchard on earth itlsquos whatlsquos under the
ground that creates whatlsquos above the ground Thatlsquos why placing your attention on
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the fruits that you have already grown is futile You cannot change the fruits that
are already hanging on the tree You can however change tomorrowlsquos fruits But to
do so you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Believe that you are the one who creates your success that you are the one who
creates your mediocrity and that you are the one creating your struggle around
money and success
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―8020 thinking requires and with practice enables us to spot the few really important things
that are happening and ignore the mass of unimportant things It teaches us to see the wood
for the trees ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle
―The few things that work fantastically well should be identified cultivated nurtured and
multiplied
~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle
―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a journey The
master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after year The master is the one
who is willing to try and fail and try again for as long as he or she lives ~ George Leonard from Mastery
―Whenever you feel shortlsquo or in needlsquo of something give what you want first and it will come
back in buckets That is true for money a smile love friendship I know it is often the last
thing a person may want to do but it has always worked for me I just trust that the principle
of reciprocity is true and I give what I want ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―One dad would sayThe love of money is the root of all evillsquo The other The lack of money is
the root of all evillsquo ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall every step we
take just gets us to the wrong place faster
Stephen Covey
Becoming a star may not be in your destiny but being the best
that you can be is a goal you can set for yourselves
Bryan Lindsay
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Be yourself Who else is better qualified
Frank J Giblin II
Do not learn from your mistakes learn from the mistakes of others
to that you do not make any
Sean Karsten
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower
Shigenori Kameoka
Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to believe in me
Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author
Upsets always contain the gift of learning except most people have never learned how to unwrap
the package
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is
causing anxiety
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970 British philosopher mathematician essayist) Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes
Chinese Proverb
We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we cannot
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))
Dont measure yourself by what you have accomplished but by what you should have accomplished
with your ability
John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)
Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty
John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)
Something good is already happening Can you discover it
-- Alan Cohen
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if theyve got a second Give your
dreams all youve got and youll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you
William James 1842-1910 Philosopher and Author
Out of suffering comes creativity You cannot spell painting without pain
-- John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun
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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the
future are not as real but rather more real than the present
- Alan Watts
Boldness has genius power and magic in it Begin it now
~ Goethe
―In the heart of Emptiness there is a mysterious impulse mysterious because
there is actually nothing in the heart of Emptiness (for there is nothing in
Emptiness period) Yet there it is this mysterious impulse the impulse to hellip
create To sing to shine to radiate to send forth reach out and celebrate to
sing and shout and walk about to effervesce and bubble over this mysterious
exuberance in the heart of Emptiness
~ Ken Wilber from One Taste July 31
―Evolution goes beyond what went before but because it must embrace what went
before then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus it has an inherent
directionality a secret impulse toward increasing depth increasing intrinsic value
increasing consciousness In order for evolution to move at all it must move in
those directionsmdashtherelsquos no place else for it to go
~ Ken Wilber from A Brief History of Everything
The secret of being boring is to say everything
- Voltaire 1694-1778 French Writer and Philosopher
―Donlsquot let what you canlsquot do stop you from what you can do
- John Wooden
―You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the
shore
- Christopher Columbus
―Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
- Confucius
―A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed
- Henrik Ibsen
―It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities
- JK Rowling
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―If you are going through hell keep going
- Winston Churchill
―Yesterday is history Tomorrow is a mystery Today Today is a gift Thatlsquos why
we call it the present
- B Olatunji
―To live is the rarest thing in the world Most people exist thatlsquos all
- Oscar Wilde
―You donlsquot get to choose how you are going to die Or when You can only decide how
you are going to live Now
- Joan Baez
―When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us
- Helen Keller
―Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limited Imagination
encircles the world
- Albert Einstein
―If you want to be happy be
- Leo Tolstoy
―Always do right This will gratify some people and astonish the rest
- Mark Twain
―We must be the change we want to see
- Gandhi
―The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most I can better trust those
who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to
enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity
- Ulysses S Grant
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―Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting
- Elizabeth Bibesco
―The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort but
where he stands at times of conflict and controversy
- Martin Luther King Jr
―Begin doing what you want to do now We are not living in eternity We have only
this moment sparkling like a star in our hand ndash and melting like a snow flake
- MB Ray
―I shall pass through this life but once Any good therefore that I can do let me
do it now Let me not defer or neglect it For I shall never pass this way again
- Etienne de Grellet
―This above all To your own self be true
- William Shakespeare
―To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make
you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight
and never stop fighting
- EE Cummings
―In three words I can sum up what Ilsquove learned about life It goes on
- Robert Frost
―Imagine
- John Lennon
You can if you think you can
George Reeves
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile
achievement
Henry Ford 1863-1947 Industrialist
No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself
-- Conrado I Generoso
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When I am delivering my very best then that is when I feel successful
~ Art Fettig
The only limitations you will ever have are the ones you put on yourself
~ Kristinna Habashy
The secret of manwomans being is not only
to live but to have something to live for
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
To hell with circumstances I create opportunities
~ Bruce Lee
Simplicity is making the journey of this life
with just baggage enough
~ Charles Dudley Warner
I dont think theres any such thing as setting your goals too high The higher you
set your goals the more you are going to work If you dont reach them then its
okay just as long as you set it and then give 100 of yourself
~ Dan Jansen Speed Skater
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the circle of Creation
is completed inside us the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal
everything in sight
~ Michael Bridge
Youlsquore darn tootinlsquo Ilsquom going to bring out the best in you You are the best
― Maureen Coleman middle school teacher
Truth is rarely writ in ink It lives in nature
-- Martin H Fischer
Before planning where you want to go decide who you want to be
-- Alan Cohen
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day wisdom consists in not
exceeding the limit
-- Elbert Hubbard
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere
-- Alan Cohen
When the Japanese mend broken objects they fill the cracks with gold They
believe that when somethings suffered damage and has a history it becomes more
beautiful
-- Barbara Bloom
Efficiency without love is not really efficient
-- Alan Cohen
The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively
-- A Course in Miracles
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than
any other one thing
Laura Ingalls Wilder 1867-1957 Author
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as
few as there are any other great artists It might even be the greatest of the arts
since the medium is the human mind and spirit
John Steinbeck 1902-1968 Writer and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Be careful what you spend your day touching because it will shape your mind your
body and your heart
Sam Keen Speaker and Author
I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in
the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he has imagined he will
meet with success unexpected in common hours
Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Writer and Poet
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out
― Michael Burke
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Turn frustration into fascination
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
Money is not the source of life It is an expression or by-product of doing what
brings you life
-- Alan Cohen
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but
sand the angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are gone
- George Elliot
Proceed when clear
-- Alan Cohen
Slow down and enjoy life Its not only the scenery you miss by going too fast --
you also miss the sense of where you are going and why
Eddie Cantor
Life is here to enjoy The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness When it
appears otherwise you are off the path of destiny Look at your life and ask
What do I need to change to choose in favor of my passions
Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life Be happy now Dont wait for something
outside of yourself to make you happy in the future Think how really precious is
the time you have to spend whether its at work or with your family Every minute
should be enjoyed and savored
Earl Nightingale
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life It turns what we have into enough and
more It turns denial into acceptance chaos into order confusion into clarity It
turns problems into gifts failures into success the unexpected into perfect
timing and mistakes into important events Gratitude makes sense of our past
brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow
Melodie Beattie Writer
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Devotion is commitment at a deep cellular level When you are devoted the
universe will align itself to give you what you desire
Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion
Action breeds confidence and courage If you want to conquer fear do not sit
home and think about it Go out and get busy
~ Dale Carnegie
The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all
the world
~Ramana Maharshi
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be
~Daniel J Boorstin
The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively
from his own resources
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire
not things we fear
~ Brian Tracy
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game and no matter how
great your talent there is only one way to obtain it-work
~ Jack Nicklaus Golfer
A goal without a plan is merely a WISH without a HOPE
~ Unknown
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan in which we must
fervently believe and upon which we must vigorously act There is no other route
to success
~ Stephen A Brennan
Knowledge breeds doubt Wisdom births wonder
Alan Cohen
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When you decide what you want it has to manifestbut only at the level of your
belief
Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion
Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity
- John Dryden
It may make people feel more secure when everyone agrees with them but it
wont create a world made rich by the unique and diverse expressions of the human
soul
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
Choice is destinys soul mate
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Truth is a gem of many facets Each facet reflects the brilliance within and
without But the whole reveals a deeper more profound message than all the parts
by themselves
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
He who knows others is wise he who knows himself is enlightened
- Tao Te Ching
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to
our tasks
-- Helen Keller
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret
-- Ambrose Bierce
We must all suffer one of two things the pain of discipline or the pain of regret
or disappointment
-- Jim Rohn
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Many risks fail because they were not taken in time Too many risks are postponed
until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made This does not mean that one
should say Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead That is foolish and self-
destructive But dont sit back waiting for the perfect moment It almost never
comes
-- David Viscott Risking
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter
-- E E Cummings
Reflect upon your blessings of which every man has plenty not on your past
misfortunes of which all men have some
-- Charles Dickens
What the caterpillar calls the end the rest of the world calls a butterfly
-- Lao Tsu
Out of difficulties grow miracles
-- Jean De La Bruyere
Our patience will achieve more than our force
-- Edmund Burke
You must pay in the past to receive in the future
-- Taylor Simpson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what
lies within us
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why Why Not Why Not You Why Not Now
-- Aslan
To become a leader then you must become yourself become the maker of your
own life
--Warren G Bennis
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You have got to discover you what you do and trust it
Barbra Streisand
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the
circle of Creation is completed inside us the doors of our souls
fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight
Michael Bridge
Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean but the
ocean would be less without that missing drop
Mother Teresa
You dont just stumble into the future You create your own future
Roger Smith
Just dont give up on trying to do what you really want to do
Where there is love and inspiration I dont think you can go
wrong
Ella Fitzgerald
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot
do
Walter Bagehot
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser
John W Gardner
Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life
forever
Keri Russell
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while
so that we can see Life with a clearer view again
Alex Tan
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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine
inspiration
Marcus T Cicero
Youve got to follow your passion Youve got to figure out what
it is you love--who you really are And have the courage to do
that
Oprah Winfrey
Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love
mdashRich German
Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small
things brought together
- Vincent Van Gogh
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark The real tragedy is when
men are afraid of the light
-- Plato
If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being
most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of
persistence
Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway
Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right
stuff to turn our dreams into reality
~James Womack
No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn
-- Hal Borland
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge
of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams
- Les Brown
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on
We act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because
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of imagination
- Maxwell Maltz
There is a sleeping giant in you Release it Believe in yourself
~ Bob Proctor
Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste
neither time nor money but make the best use of both
-- Benjamin Franklin
When you talk to God thats prayer When God talks back its schizophrenia
-- Lily Tomlin
Work is not a substitute for love It is an avenue of loves expression
-- Alan Cohen
Look beyond peoplelsquos appearances
Look beyond the roles one plays and the mask they wear
Look deep into their eyes and peer into their soul
There you will find their true essence
There you will find your true essence
And that essence is love
mdashRich German
Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love
mdashRich German
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a
life spent doing nothing
George Bernard Shaw
Formula for success under promise and over deliver
Tom Peters
Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right things
Peter F Drucker
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Be the change that you want to see in the world
Mahatma Gandhi
Creating space is as important as filling it
-- Alan Cohen
Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words may guide you to the door of heaven but only silence opens it
-- Alan Cohen
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing
Bernard Shaw
Formula for success under promise and over deliver
Tom Peters
Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right
things
Peter F Drucker
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge
of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams
- Les Brown
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works onWe
act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because of
imagination
- Maxwell Maltz
No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn
-- Hal Borland
There is a sleeping giant in you
Release it Believe in yourself
~ Bob Proctor
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Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste
neither time nor money but make the best use of both
-- Benjamin Franklin
Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right
stuff to turn our dreams into reality
~James Womack
If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being
most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of
persistence
Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway
The best way to teach people is by telling a story
Jonathan Swift
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody else has thought
Kenneth Blanchard
All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it
-Samuel Butler
Happiness is like a cat If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you It will never
come
But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business youll find it rubbing
up against your legs and jumping into your lap
- William Bennett
The word impossible is only in the mind and not in the heart
- Sri Chinmoy
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another it is the only
means
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Physicist
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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone
And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone
Paul Tillich
Sometimes the cards we are dealt are not always fair However you must keep
smiling amp moving on
~ Tom Jackson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you
- Elbert Hubard
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends
with anyone else in the world
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Thus nature has no love for solitude and always leans as it were on some support
and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship
- Cicero
So it is life is actually made up of our choices We are the sum total of them and
if we hold to an attitude of love and thanksgiving for all the good things within our
grasp we may have what all ambitious people long for - success
Delma Neeley
Believe and your belief will create the fact
~ William James
The principle is competing against yourself
Its about self improvement about being better than you were the day before
~ Steve Young
All of us you your children your neighbors and their children are
everyday geniuses even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by
everyone Thats probably because school hasnt encouraged us to notice whats
hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself
~ Peter Kline
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If youll not settle for anything less than your best you will be amazed at what
you can accomplish in your lives
Vince Lombardi
Ya gotta put your behind in your past
Then youre ready for whatever comes next
~ Pumba The Lion King
Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become
~ James Allen
Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well what
causes sadness and what brings happiness what makes us suffer and what leads to
healing
~ Dean Ornish MD
Three components make an entrepreneur the person the ideaand the resources
to make it happen
~ Anita Roddick
What we can or cannot do what we consider possible or impossible is rarely a
function of our true capability It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who
we are
~ Anthony Robbins
Either Do or Do Not There is No Try
~ George Lucas
Theres a name for the magic that transforms lives connects dots moves
mountains and orchestrates coincidences that shock and astound Imagination
And theres a name for all that stops you in your tracks stirs fear spins wheels
and leaves one wondering Hey whats up with that Imagination
Careful where you point that thing
~ The Universe
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with
them
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is a passionate intuition
-William Wordsworth
Friendship is a sheltering tree
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision Vision is the perfume
of the mind
--Harriet Rubin
Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing
--Harriet Braiker
I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the
present can I act The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of
mental wellness
-Abraham Maslow 1908-1970 Psychologist
In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge
-Aristotle
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our
potential
Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister
The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you
settled for
Maureen Dowd Newspaper Columnist
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything
outside ourselves will affect us
Stephen R Covey Author and Speaker
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Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually
attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life
Christiane Northrup Medical Doctor and Author
We must learn to keep ourselves awake by an infinite expectation of the
dawn
-- Henry David Thoreau
You dont need to struggle to get your body to do or be what your spirit already is
-- Alan Cohen
One must steer not talk
-- Seneca
The more you quantify the less you qualify
-- Alan Cohen
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know Most are
born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly
-- Buckminster Fuller
Any act motivated by guilt does not assuage guilt but perpetuates it
-- Alan Cohen
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for
themselves
-- Peter McArthur
Be so good they cant ignore you
Steve Martin
Its kind of fun to do the impossible
Walt Disney
Its easy to make a buck Its a lot tougher to make a difference
Tom Brokaw
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When I hear somebody sigh Life is hard I am always tempted to
ask Compared to what
Sydney J Harris
In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing The worst
thing you can do is nothing
Sam Walton
I had to pick myself up and get on with it do it all over again only even better
this time
Theodore Roosevelt
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process
~ Jim Rohn
If you can imagine it you can achieve it If you can dream it you can become it
~ William Arthur Ward
There is much in the world to make us afraid There is much more in our faith to
make us unafraid
-- Cropp
Pray for essence rather than form and the form will be a perfect expression of
the essence
-- Alan Cohen
People who soar are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change
Charles R Swindoll Author and Pastor
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with
- Jim Rohn
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your
dreams
- Les Brown
Life is 10 of what happens to me and 90 of how I react to it
John Maxwell
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What you see depends on what youre looking for
Anon
Mind over matter If you dont mind it doesnt matter
-- Alan Cohen
When you are clear on want to how to shows up
-- Michael Neill
Quit struggling to make your body do or be what your spirit already is
-- Alan Cohen
Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation
-- Isaac Newton
Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Whatever you invest it
in will yield more of the same
-- Alan Cohen
When you find yourself stressed ask yourself one question Will this matter five
years from now If yes then do something about the situation If no then let it
go
Catherine Pulsifer Writer
Theres plenty of intelligence in the world but the courage to do things
differently is in short supply
Marilyn vos Savant Columnist Author and Lecturer
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced
by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas
a strong faith is strengthened by them
Viktor E Frankl 1905-1997 Holocaust Survivor and Author of Mans Search for
Meaning
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength
Richard L Evans
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You were not born a winner and you were not born a loser You are
what you make yourself be
Lou Holtz
Remember if you ever need a helping hand youll find one at the
end of your arm As you grow older you will discover that you
have two hands One for helping yourself the other for helping
others
Audrey Hepburn
Dont take life too seriously because youll never get out alive
Josh Shippe
Without hard work nothing grows but weeds
Gordon B Hinckley
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies
--Mother Teresa
Do what you can to show you care about other people and you will make our world
a better place
--Rosalynn Carter
Again and again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is
only a tough decision waiting to be made
--Robert H Schuller
If in our daily life we can smile if we can be peaceful and happy not only we but
everyone will profit from it This is the most basic kind of peace work
--Thich Nhat Hanh
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties
disappear and obstacles vanish into air
- John Quincy Adams
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win
~ GK Chesterton
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown for going
out I found was really going in
mdashJohn Muir 1913
To me itlsquos really so simple that life should be lived on the edge You
have to exercise rebellion To refuse to tape yourself to the rules
to refuse your own success to refuse to repeat yourself to see
every day every year every idea as a true challenge Then you will
live your life on the tightrope
mdashPhilippe Petit (star of the movie Man on Wire)
The first step to creating the lifestyle of your dreams is to simplify
your life
mdashRich German
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees
problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems
Winston Churchill
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you
have and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more
~ Robert Collier
Instead of waiting for someone to take you under their wing go out there and
find a good wing to climb under
~ Dave Thomas
If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself
~ Lord Chesterfield
The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable
competitive advantage
~ Arie de Geus
Human life is purely a matter of deciding whats important to you
-- Source unknown
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Determination and perseverance move the world thinking that others will do it
for you is a sure way to fail
Marva Collins Educator
All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them
~ Walt Disney
Everything that happens to you is self-created Whenever youre responding to
any situation whether its a sip of coffee or a traffic jam or a love note or
criticism from a boss or rainy weather youre in fact responding to a signal that
you generated within yourself
- Deepak Chopra
Relationships are not about intellect they are about feeling They require an
intelligence of the heart
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is
when adults are afraid of the light
- Plato
A good listener is someone who is curious open-minded and nonjudgmental A
good listener is not a know-it-all A good listener knows that truth often reveals
itself bit by bit much like putting together a jigsaw puzzle
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
Its the night that makes the dawning
Its the depths that make the heights
Its the roots that make the branches
Its the darkness that gives birth to Light
- Joel Heathcote
How you hear what someone says is determined by your interpretations and your
interpretations flow from your past This is very important to know especially if
you find that you overreact to what others say or habitually get your feelings hurt
Remember what someone said is not necessarily what you heard and what you
heard is not necessarily what they meant
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart
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―Everything ndash a horse a vine ndash is created for some dutyhellipFor what task then
were you yourself created A manlsquos true delight is to do the things he was made
for
~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations
―Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts for the soul becomes dyed with the
color of its thoughts Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as for example
Where life is possible at all a right life is possible
~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations
―hellipEverything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of the human
freedomsmdashto choose onelsquos attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose
onelsquos own way
~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life
expected from us We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life and
instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by lifemdashdaily
and hourly Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation but in right
action and in right conduct Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to
find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly
sets for each individual
~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in lifehellip Therein he cannot be
replaced nor can his life be repeated Thus everyonelsquos task is as unique as is
his specific opportunity to implement it
~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―Ultimately man should not ask what the meaning of his life is but rather must
recognize that it is he who is asked In a word each man is questioned by life
and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life to life he can only
respond by being responsible
~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning
―History though shows us that the people who end up changing the world- the
great political social scientific technological artistic even sports
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revolutionaries- are always nuts until theylsquore right and then theylsquore geniuses
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement
―Great performers are by definition abnormal
~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement
―We all aspire to mastery but the path is always long and sometimes rocky and
it promises no quick pay off So we look for other paths each of which attracts
a different person
~ George Leonard from Mastery
―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a
journey The master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after
year The master is the one who is willing to try and fail and try again for as
long as he or she lives
~ George Leonard from Mastery
At the heart of it mastery is practice Mastery is staying on the path
~ George Leonard from Mastery
―Comfort kills If your goal in life is to be comfortable I guarantee two things
First you will never be rich Second you will never be happy Happiness doesnlsquot
come from living a lukewarm life always wondering what could have been
Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up
to our fullest potential
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
―You can be a victim or you can be rich but you canlsquot be both Listen up Every
time and I mean every time you blame justify or complain you are slitting
your financial throat
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
―Herelsquos an equation I want you to remember for the rest of your life CZ = WZ
It means your ―comfort zone equals your ―wealth zone By expanding your
comfort zone you will expand the size of your income and wealth zone
~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
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―We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we
wait forever before taking action
~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big
―Donlsquot put off until tomorrow what you can do today
~ Benjamin Franklin
―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in
accomplishment Big in income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right
now to discover how to make your thinking make magic for you Start out with
this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli Life is too short to be littlelsquo
~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big
―In the yogic tradition this principle of using intense effort to burn through
lifelsquos distractions is called Tapas Itlsquos another Sanskrit word roughly defined
as ―heat or ―essential energy The concept is that through a disciplined
approach to work and self-sacrifice Tapas will burn away the negativity that
separates us from God By working our hardest and happily enduring the
hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in
ourselves
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a ―hard
job That person will be eager to get started no matter what kind of work is in
front of her because she understands that shelsquos doing Godlsquos work And when
youlsquore working for God nothing is too hard
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo
for success nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make
much of a difference
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work
~ Vince Lombardi
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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than
your best
~ Russell Simmons from Do You
―The poor and the middle class work for money The rich have money work for
them
~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―We all have tremendous potential and we all are blessed with gifts Yet the
one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt It is not so
much the lack of technical information that holds us back but more the lack of
self-confidence
~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad
―Who will you have to become to achieve all you want
~ Tony Robbins
―You could say that I worked every minute of my life or you could say with
equal justice that I never worked a day I have always subscribed to the
expression ―Thank God itlsquos Friday because to me Friday means I can work for
the next two days without interruption
~ John Hope Franklin
―I do not believe that you should devote overly much effort to correcting your
weaknesses Rather I believe that the highest success in living and the deepest
emotional satisfaction comes from building and using your signature strengths
~ Martin Seligman from Authentic Happiness
When you begin to recognize that your own presence here in this world is part of
something infinitely bigger than yourself you feel a sense of obligation awakening
within youmdasha spiritually inspired soul-level moral imperative to evolve for the sake
of the future of the evolutionary process itself The way you respond to that
obligation and to that sense of cosmic responsibility is by demonstrating that the
process is profoundly positivemdashindeed the process is sacredmdashthrough your own
example through your own victory through your own tangible and unmistakable
higher development
~ Andrew Cohen
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Its the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief And once that belief
becomes a deep conviction things begin to happen
Claude M Bristol 1891-1951 Author of The Magic of Believing
We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in our
heads fear must be a head thing
Tom Payne Career Development Expert
I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody
Bill Cosby Actor and Comedian
If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year Today
should always be our most wonderful day
- Thomas Dreier Author
Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their
personnel If people believe in themselves its amazing
what they can accomplish
--Sam Walton
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the
aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker
--Helen Keller
Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either
advance or stay where you are
- Maxwell Maltz
Be curious not judgmental
-Walt Whitman
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it
-William James
All life is an experiment
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone
acknowledges who we are and what we can be igniting the circuits
of our highest potential
Rusty Berkus
Being considerate of others will take your children further in
life than any college degree
Marian Wright Edelman
It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit
it frankly and try another But above all try something
Franklin D Roosevelt
see without looking hear without listening breathe
without asking
W H Auden
Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways
you can as long as ever you can
John Wesley
Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to
reach for the roof and land in the garbage
Savanna Skinner
Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope
~ Josh Billings
Whats going on in the inside shows on the outside
~ Earl Nightingale
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life a good society
~ Confucius
Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have
just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together
into a life of action and purpose
~ Lance Armstrong
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions
~ Michael Josephson
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others
-- Cicero
Simplicity Purity Clarity
-- Alan Cohen
Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to God alone Laughs at
impossibilities And cries it shall be done
-- Charles Wesley
What is genius but the mind heart and art of God shining to the world through an
open window
-- Alan Cohen
Intuition tells you what not why
-- Source unknown
Changing the world is a natural result of inner peace not a substitute for it
-- Alan Cohen
Fortune sides with him who dares
~ Virgil
We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in
our heads fear must be a head thing
Tom Payne Career Development Expert
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you
mdashLewis Smedes Each of us has the power to make others more beautiful by our love
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst a transformer
in any situation any organization Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an
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entire loaf It requires vision initiative patience respect persistence courage
and faith to be a transforming leader
Stephen Covey
Courage is grace under pressure
~ Ernest Hemingway
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions All life is an experiment
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as Youre going o be thinking anyway Think BIG
~ Donald Trump
To win youve got to stay in the game
~ Claude M Bristol
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head
-- Source unknown
Affirm your value by going where you are valued
-- Alan Cohen
Life is too short to hold a grudge also too long
-- Robert Brault
You cannot borrow greatness from another You can only claim it from within
yourself
-- Alan Cohen
One today is worth two tomorrows never leave that till tomorrow which you can
do today
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 US Statesman Diplomat and Inventor
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs
the problem The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized
a problem and turned it into an opportunity
Joseph Sugarman Marketing Expert
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You wouldnt worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how
seldom they do
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady Author Speaker and Politician
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions
- John Randolph
Opportunities They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere
waiting for the observant eye to discover it
- Orison Swett Marden
Yesterday ended last night Every day is a new beginning Learn the skill of
forgetting And move on
--Norman Vincent Peale
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual it is
best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every
department
ndash Andrew Carnegie entrepreneur
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society The optimist invents the
airplane and the pessimist the parachute
Gil Stern
Strive for integrity - that means knowing your values in life and behaving in a way
that is consistent with these values
Unknown
The country clubs the cars the boats your assets may be ample But the best
inheritance you can leave your kids Is to be a good example
Barry Spilchuk
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the
goal
Henry Ford
It is never too late to be what you might have been
George Eliott
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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence the second listening the
third memory the fourth practice the fifth teaching others
Solomon Ibn Gabriol
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers You can tell whether a man is
wise by his questions
Naguib Mahfouz
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others
~ Erich Fromm
Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble
and grateful mind
~ Epictetus
Happiness is activity
~ Aristotle
Every action we take everything we do is either a victory or defeat in the
struggle to become what we want to be
~ Anne Byrhhe
In the absence of clearly defined goals we become strangely loyal to performing
daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it
Robert Heinlein Novelist
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the
consequences of any misfortune
William James 1842-1910 Psychologist and Author
To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle
-- Walt Whitman
God doesnt owe and neither do you
-- Alan Cohen
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Do what makes you smile
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
People who warn that everyone but members of their religion will go to hell dont
realize they are already there
-- Alan Cohen
The emotional frontier is truly the next frontier to conquer in human
understanding The opportunity we face now even before that frontier is fully
explored and settled is to develop our emotional potential and accelerate rather
dramatically into a new state of being
- Doc Childre and Howard Martin The HeartMath Solution
Real transformation requires that you have a beginners mind that you are willing
to say Whatever I think I know may be wrong
Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true
selves
- Carrol Pearson The Hero Within
If a man would move the world he
must first move himself
--Socrates
All sucessful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists They
believed that things went not by luck but by law
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
I skate to where the puck is going to be not where it is
-Wayne Gretzky
When given the choice between being right or being kind always choose kind
--Dr Wayne Dyer Never forget the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for
others
Sir John Templeton 1912-2008 Mutual Fund Pioneer and Philanthropist
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome
Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Essayist Biographer and Poet
Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on
-- Alan Cohen
Shallow men believe in luck Strong men believe in cause and effect
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Contraction is a sign that birth is imminent
-- Alan Cohen
Work is an extension of personality It is achievement It is one of the ways in
which a person defines himself measures his worth ndash and his humanity
ndash Peter Drucker author
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends
-- John Ruskin
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities
--Janos Arnay
The first time you accept good is the last time you will see excellence
John Ulmo Life is like an onion
You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep
~ Carl Sandburg
Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light
~ L P Jacks Just as iron rusts from disuse even so does inaction spoil the intellect
~ Leonardo Da Vinci
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men sayI JUST watch what they
do
~ Andrew Carnegie
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All Things are Difficult before they are Easy
~ John Norley
Everything has been figured out except how to live
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving
Dennis Waitley
Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out
Robert Collier
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude
Thomas Jefferson
They can because they think they can
Virgil
By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself
Menander
Years teach us more than books
Berthold Auerbach
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When you delightfully fantasize about something you want you set into motion a
wave of energy that calls that situation into reality
-- Alan Cohen
Hurt people hurt people
-- Source unknown
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Doing the right thing may be different than what you have been taught the right
thing is
-- Alan Cohen
The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes
it happen
-- Frank Lloyd Wright All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say no and said yes
Moss Hart 1904-1961 Playwright and Theatre Director
We are built to conquer environment solve problems achieve goals and we find no
real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to
achieve
Maxwell Maltz 1899-1975 Author of Psycho-Cybernetics
You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns
have roses
-- Ziggy
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug
~ Patricia Neal
My night has become a sunny dawn because of you
--Ibn Abbad
All mankind is divided into three classes those that are immovable those that are
movable and those that move
--Benjamin Franklin
Dont compete Create Find out what everyone else is doing and then dont do it
mdashJoel Weldon
Show a little faith therelsquos magic in the night
mdashfrom ―Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen
Music is to me proof of the existence of God
It is so extraordinarily full of magic and in tough times
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of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference
mdashKurt Vonnegut
Discontent is the source of all trouble but also of all progress
in individuals and nations
Berthold Auerbach
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself
Thomas Sprat
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves
to copy
Oliver Goldsmith
If at first you dont succeed try try again Then quit Theres
no use being a damn fool about it
WC Fields
Impatience never commanded success
Edwin H Chapin
In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are the safest
~ Livy
Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights
~ Henry David Thoreau
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense
insoluble They can never be solved but only outgrown
~ Carl Jung
Life Begins When you Do
Hugh Downs Vision Without Action is a Daydream
Action Without Vision is a Nightmare
~ Japanese Proverb
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Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one
can possibly want and hold
-- Judith Olney
The love affair you seek is with yourself
-- Alan Cohen
The greatest power requires the lightest touch
-- BasharDarryl Anka
You only live once -- but its forever
-- Alan Cohen
Get off the cross Somebody needs the wood
-- From the film Straight Talk
There are two ways to live your life One is as though nothing is a miracle The
other is as though everything is a miracle
~ Albert Einstein
In the long run men hit only what they aim at
~ Henry David Thoreau philosopher
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state
of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is
wounded trust impaired
~Erik H Erikson
Freedom know this that every manwoman is free To choose his life and what
hell be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call
persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light In nameless ways be
good and kind But never force the human mind
~ William C Clegg
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want and if they canlsquot find them make them
~ George Bernard Shaw
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Relationships are not things We dont have relationships we are in relationship
with one another
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Relationships are our primary teacher They are the context in which we either
grow into the consciousness of God or deny ourselves and others the opportunity
to do so
- Marianne Williamson
Listen deeply The greatest failure in any relationship is the failure to
participate
- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships
Your future is created by what you do today not tomorrow
Robert Kiyosaki
No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a
reality
Napoleon Hill
If you are not planning today you are planning to fail tomorrow
Gopal
How you do anything is how you do everything
T Harv Eker
There is little difference in people but that little difference
makes a big difference The little difference is attitude The
big difference is whether it is positive or negative
W Clement Stone
The vision must be followed by the venture It is not enough to
stare up the steps - We must step up the stairs
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Vance Havner
Go for it nowThe future is promised to no one
Wayne Dyer
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are you would never
think a negative thought
Peace Pilgrim
Either you run the day or the day runs you
Jim Rohn
You must go after your wish As soon as you start to pursue a
dream your life wakes up and everything has meaning
Barbara Sher
To succeed you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe
and act on it with all of your heart
Christy Borgeld
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers
Anonymous
Let him that would move the world first move himself
Socrates
By the time a man realizes that maybe
his father was right he usually has a son
who thinks hes wrong
~ Charles Wadworth
Without Mistakes Perfection is an Illusion
~ Daniel Frankel
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Its not the hours you put in
but what you put into the hours
that counts
~ Jim Rohn
Be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath
~ James 119
Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory
~ Ingrid Bergman
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word
~ William Makepease Thackeray
Professionalism is knowing how
to do it when to do it and doing it
~ Frank Tyger
Intention is not something you do
but rather a force that exists in the universe
as an invisible field of energy
-a power that can carry us
~ Dr Wayne Dyer
I personally measure success in terms
of the contributions an individual makes
to her or his fellow human beings
~ Margaret Mead
Some of the worlds greatest feats
were accomplished by people not
smart enough to know they were
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impossible
~ Doug Larson
Life is a flower of which love is the honey
~ Victor Hugo
Personal integrity is important
not because it gets us what we want
but because it helps us be what we want
~ Michael Josephson
Goals need to be configured to stretch us
but not to break us
~ Kent Krive
Children are apt to live up
to what you believe of them
~ Lady Bird Johnson
Do your work with your whole heart
and you will succeed
- theres so little competition
~ Elbert Hubbard
Hi Karl
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible
objections must first be overcome
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--Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Author
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter
even the most victorious life The human
spirit is never finished when it is defeated
- it is finished when it surrenders
-- Ben Stein Professor and Writer
Love is the first ingredient in the relief
of suffering
-- Padre Pio
Happiness is a function of accepting what is
--Werner Erhard
There are no shortcuts to any place
worth going
- Beverly Sills
It has never been and never will be
easy work But the road that is built in
hope is more pleasant to the traveler
than the road built in despair even though
they both lead to the same destination
~Marion Zimmer Bradley
The reality of life is that your perceptions --
right or wrong -- influence everything else
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you do When you get a proper perspective
of your perceptions you may be surprised
how many other things fall into place
~ Roger Birkman
Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself
with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum
-- Baal Shem Tov
Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself
with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum
-- Baal Shem Tov
Trust yourself You know more than
you think you do
ndash Benjamin Spock doctor
When you play it too safe youre taking
the biggest risk of your life
Time is the only wealth were given
--Barbara Sher
Creativity is inventing experimenting
growing taking risks breaking rules
making mistakes and having fun
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--Mary Lou Cook
Life is playing a violin solo in public and
learning the instrument as one goes on
--Samuel Butler
Opportunities are usually disguised as
hard work so most people dont recognize
them
~ Ann Landers
It is literally true that you can succeed best
and quickest by helping others to succeed
- Napoleon Hill
God loves you and theres nothing you can do about it
-- Sign on church marquis
Give yourself what you would like to receive from others
-- Alan Cohen
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature
-- Emerson
The fewer your words the more compelling your statement
-- Alan Cohen
Pray devoutly hammer stoutly
-- English proverb
There are no blocks to creativity Only distractions
-- Alan Cohen
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If your rules are not working so well borrow someone elses
-- Dr Richard Bartlett
Inner peace is never more than one thought away
-- Alan Cohen
Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret
hiding God
-- Frederick William Robertson
Completion is an attitude not an event
-- Alan Cohen
Enjoy where you are and youll be where youre going
-- Bashar
Your spirit is wireless
-- Alan Cohen
All questions lead to divine knowing
-- Isaac Newton
You cannot import self-worth You can only recognize it
-- Alan Cohen
Enlightened conflict resolution can exist only in an atmosphere of equality
We may not be equal in intelligence or experience or status but we are equal
in our right to be treated with dignity and caring It is not assumed that one
person has more privilege than another that one person is entitled to more
respect or understanding than another nor that one persons feelings are
more important than anothers
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
To seek happiness outside of ourselves Is like trying to lasso a cloud
Happiness is not a thingIt is a state of mind
- Omar Khayyam
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The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us
well I am not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking
not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our
quality of life incidence of illness and premature death
- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy No man was ever wise by chance
~ Seneca
By thought the thing you want is brought to youby action you receive it
~ Wallace D Wattles
Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony
~ Mohandas K Gandhi
Life isnt about finding yourselfLife is about creating yourself
George Bernard Shaw
Im trying to free your mind but I can only show you the doorYou are the one
that has to walk through it
~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]
A friend is a second self
~ Aristotle
Be great in act as you have been in thought
~ William Shakespeare
Character is higher than intellectA great soul will be strong to liveas well as to
think
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I never think of the futureIt comes soon enough
~ Albert Einstein
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fearnot absence of fear
~ Mark Twain
Age wrinkles the bodyQuitting wrinkles the soul
~ Douglas MacArthur
If real is what you can feel smell taste and see then real is simply electrical
signals interpreted by your brain
~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]
Money was never a big motivator for me except for keeping the scoreThe real
excitement is playing the game
~ Donald Trump
Dreams are extremely important You cant do it unless you dream it first
~ George Lucas
If you believe you can you probably can If you believe you wont you most
assuredly wont Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad
~ Denis Waitley
Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limitedImagination
encircles the world
~ Albert Einstein
Everything is always impossible before it works Thats what entrepreneurs are all
aboutDoing things that people have told them is impossible
~ R Hunt Greene
The truth is lived not taught
~ Hermann Hesse
Be of good cheer Do not think of todays failures but of the success that may
come tomorrow You have set yourself a difficult task but you will succeed if you
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persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles
Helen Keller 1880-1968 Blind and Deaf Educator
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something Its as simple
as that A lot of people have ideas but there are few who decide to do something
about them now Not tomorrow Not next week But today The true entrepreneur
is a doer
-Nolan Bushnell Founder of Atari
Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision
Muhammad Ali Three-Time World Heavyweight Champion Boxer
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them
Walt Disney 1901-1966 Cartoon Artist and Filmmaker
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings turn routine jobs into
joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings
William Arthur Ward
1921-1994 Writer
If you want to achieve excellence you can get there today As of this second quit
doing less than excellent work
Thomas Watson 1874-1956 Founder of IBM
Ive always believed that a lot of the troubles in the world would disappear if we
were talking to each other instead of about each other
Ronald Reagan
1911-2004 40th President of the United States
The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another is in some way to
make that persons life a little bit better to live
John Assaraf Author and Speaker
Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm
Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any
occupation no matter how frightening or difficult a new meaning Without
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enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish
miracles
Og Mandino
Constant kindness can accomplish much As the sun makes ice melt kindness
causes misunderstanding mistrust and hostility to evaporate
Dr Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 Medical Missionary and Nobel Prize Winner
Dwell not on the past Use it to illustrate a point then leave it behind Nothing
really matters except what you do now in this instant of time From this moment
onwards you can be an entirely different person filled with love and understanding
ready with an outstretched hand uplifted and positive in every thought and deed
Eileen Caddy 1917-2006 Spiritual Teacher and Author
Heres the problem Most people are thinking about what they dont want and
theyre wondering why it shows up over and over again
John Assaraf Speaker and Author
Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up
Thomas Edison 1847-1931 Inventor and Scientist
Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on
building the life you desire
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly
lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love
Henry Drummond 1851-1897 Scientist and Author
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Former First Lady Author and Speaker
If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least
responsible for those we admit and entertain
Charles Newcomb ScreenwriterDirector
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To grow you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your
past Your history is not your destiny
Alan Cohen
If you want a kinder world then behave with kindness if you want a peaceful
world make peace within
Dan Millman Writer and Speaker
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order
and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a
time
Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Writer
Believe it can be done When you believe something can be done really believe
your mind will find the ways to do it Believing a solution paves the way to solution
Dr David Schwartz Author of The Magic of Thinking Big
Close your eyes and form a realistic picture of what a post PC world might actually
look like Those who can envision a plausible future thats brighter than today will
earn the opportunity to lead
Ray Ozzie Former Chief Software Architect at Microsoft
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past worry
about the future or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely
and earnestly
- Buddha
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job tellem certainly I can - and get
busy and find out how to do it
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Dont tell me how hard you work Tell mehow much you get done
~ James Ling
Democracy arose from menlsquos thinking that if they are equal in any respect they
are equal absolutely
~ Aristotle
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The beginning is the most important part of the work
~ Plato
Bless those who choose to love and those who choose to hate that those who
choose to hate may choose to love before it is too late
--Esoligh (Underground Hip Hop Artist)
Security is mostly a superstition It does not exist in nature nor do the children
of man as a whole experience it Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than
outright exposure Life is either a daring adventure or nothing
--Helen Keller
Each new hour holds new chances for new beginings The horizon move forward
offering you space to place new steps of change
--Maya Angelou
When a man cares he is unafraid When he is fair he leaves enough for others
When he is humble he can grow
--Lao-Tzu TaoTeChung
Behold the turtle He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out
--James Bryant Conant - Educator and Diplomat
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it
but because they didnt stop to enjoy it
--William Feather
The light of awareness the light of consciousness arises out of a broken heart
the heart by breaking becomes an ocean accommodating all beings
-- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom
The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need according to the
nature of your thought Your environment and financial condition are the
perfect reflection of your habitual thinking
Thought rules the world
-- Dr Joseph Edward Murphy Surgeon
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The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new
courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness beauty and truth
ndash Albert Einstein physicist
Hope is the companion of power and mother of success for who so hopes strongly
has within him the gift of miracles
~ Samuel Smiles
Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those
things that failures dont like to do
~ Albert Gray
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the
link between belief and biology
- Deepak Chopra
Ive always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best
~ Akeem Olajuwon
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear
ndash Socrates philosopher
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the
most brilliant single mind but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains
and talents of his associates
~ W Alton Jones
The reason a dog has got so many friends is because its tail waggles and not its
tongue
-Anonymous
Dont fight a problem solve it
--Millard Fuller
If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation
by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in
which you are rendering it
--Roger Babson
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The starting point of all riches is the development of a prosperity consciousness
You must become a financial success in your thinking long before you achieve it in
your reality Both poverty and riches are the result of a state of mind and the
most important single step you ever take on the road to wealth and financial
independence is the decision to change your thinking to impress into your mind an
unshakable belief that you can and will achieve your financial goals This must
happen before anything else happens
-- Brian Tracy
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it
We must learn to see the world anew
- Albert Einstein
To forgive is the highest most beautiful form of love In return you will receive
untold peace and happiness
--Dr Robert Muller
Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind the stronger the
trees
--J Willard Marriott Founder of Marriott Hotels
Someday may never come So live each day better than the last That way youll
wake up with so much excitement and anticipation youlsquoll jump out of bed and shout
I cant wait
--Bob Perks
The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination and he is still at
large
-- Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885 Humorist
If you dont know where you are going any road will get you there
-- Anonymous
Ive noticed over many years of working with corporate teams that the more
dysfunctional the team the more resistant they are to the concept of love in
the workplace What baggage is it that we drag around behind us like Linus
and his blanket which causes us to be so wounded and pathological Why are
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we blind to the observable truth that those we lead are yearning for us to
open our hearts Why are we in denial about the truth that people--all
people at work and at home--are searching for signs of our approval and
love
- Lance Secretan Industry Week 11202000 We live on our own solitary islands of reality absorbed in and fascinated by
our own points of view Frequently we reach out to one another seeking to
understand or be understood The bridge between our separate realities is
communication To communicate is to relate
- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air You
name them--work family health friends and spirit--and youre keeping all
of these in the air You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball If you
drop it it will bounce back But the other four balls-- family health
friends and spirit--are made of glass If you drop one of these they will be
irrevocably scuffed marked nicked damaged or even shattered They will
never be the same You must understand that and strive for balance in your
life
- Brian Dyson CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises from 1959-1994 If you cant be a loving witness to your own anger or rage or sadness or
fear you cant be in the presence of other peoples intense emotions without
your own emotional waters being churned up a bit But if you can learn to
feel safe and fully present to the broad spectrum of emotions within your own
nature you radiate an invisible web of safety that helps others to talk about
their feelings with you
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective
consciousness and if we want a new world each of us must start taking
responsibility for helping create it
- Rosemary Fillmore Rhea A New Heaven and New Earth Your relationships are actually mirrors of your consciousness When you learn
to see your own reflection in the quality of your relationships with others you
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catapult yourself on your path of personal growth and spiritual evolution
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think To put the world right in order we must first put the nation in order to put
the nation in order we must first put the family in order to put the family in
order we must first cultivate our personal life we must first set our hearts
right
- Confucious The sooner we can unburden ourselves of blame the more effective we can
be Blaming others only entrenches us in the role of the victim removing us
from our highest expression of personal power
- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think
Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be
sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all
around It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others
we all want in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that
burden us These secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth
helps you get clarity on your real heart directives
- Sara Paddison The Hidden Power of the Heart Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time
ago
~ Warren Buffet
The only way to do great work is to love what you do If you havent found it yet
keep looking Dont settle As with all matters of the heart youll know when you
find it
~ Steve Jobs
If you love life do not waste time for time is what life is made up of
~ Bruce Lee
I cannot teach anybody anything I can only make them think
~ Socrates
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Change before you have to
~ Jack Welch
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm
~ Winston Churchill
A leader leads by example not by force
~ Sun Tzu
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour Sit with a
pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute You have just experienced
relativity
~ Albert Einstein
Live as if you were to die tomorrow Learn as if you were to live forever
~ Mohandas Gandhi
A clever person solves a problem A wise person avoids it
~ Albert Einstein
If I have seen a little further is by standing on the shoulders of Giants
~ Sir Isaac Newton
Despair says I cannot lift that weight Happiness says I do not have to
-- James Richardson
People who know they are powerful do not need to engage in power struggles
-- Alan Cohen
No man ever stated his troubles as lightly as he might
-- Emerson
What does your spirit most want you to know and do today
-- Alan Cohen
Its not how good you are Its how bad you want it
-- Author unknown
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The better I feel about myself the less I need you to be different
-- Alan Cohen
The best form of flattery is to master the art of listening
-- Chinese proverb
The only thing more valuable than a good source of news is source of good news
-- Alan Cohen
Disappointments are the hooks upon which God hangs his victories
-- Source unknown
It matters not what youve done with your life for better or worse What
matters is what you do with your life today
-- Alan Cohen
Everyone here is not all there
-- Source unknown
If you cant unify then at least harmonize
-- Alan Cohen
Everybody is a genius But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will
spend its whole life believing that it is stupid
-- Albert Einstein
Fear is excitement without breath
-- Fritz Perls
Dont leave yourself out of the equation
-- Alan Cohen
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles
-- Bernard Baruch
They can because they think they can
~ Virgil
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Exert your talents and distinguish yourself
and dont think of retiring from the world
until the world will be sorry that you retire
~ Samuel Johnson
Energy and persistence conquer all things
~ Benjamin Franklin
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom
~ Aristotle
Heaven never helps the man who will not act
~ Sophocles
The only real journey is the journey within
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new
~ Albert Einstein
Action is the food and drink
that will nourish your success
Action will destroy your procrastination
Act now for is all you have
~ Og Mandino
Computers are incredibly fast accurate and stupid
Humans are incredible slow inaccurate and brilliant
Together they are powerful beyond imagination
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~ Albert Einstein
Practice giving and you will discover how much life can give you
-- Alan Cohen
Oh for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they
ran out of money
-- Source unknown
The best way to heal a bad memory is to create a new and better one
-- Alan Cohen
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love
-- Hamilton Wright Mabie
Fear and resistance are the dragons that stand at the gate of the kingdom that
contains the jewel you seek
-- Alan Cohen
Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy forgiveness To an opponent
tolerance To a friend your heart To a customer service To all charity To
every child a good example To yourself respect
-- Oren Arnold
Affirm I always have enough time to do the things that Spirit would have me do
-- Alan Cohen
There are two obstacles to enlightenment 1 Thinking you know 2 Thinking you
dont know
-- Buddha
Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Take care how you pay
it
-- Alan Cohen
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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles
-- Bernard Baruch
Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation
-- Alan Cohen
Families are like fudge -- mostly sweet with a few nuts
-- Source unknown
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of
our treasures
-- Thornton Wilder
The universe does not require you to stress for good things
-- Alan Cohen
When you bless the good that befalls others it becomes yours as well
-- Alan Cohen
How many more idols must you find before your realize that you are the one you
have been searching for
-- Dan Fogelberg
All limits exist only in thought and that is where they are overcome
-- Alan Cohen
To understand unconditional love lock your wife or husband and your dog in the
trunk of your car for an hour When you open it notice to is happier to see you
-- Source unknown
Outrageous ideas are ultimately the most practical
-- Alan Cohen
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are
-- Kurt Cobain
How good can you let it get
-- Alan Cohen
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If we could look into the secret history of our enemies we should find in each
persons life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities
-- Longfellow
If you sense there must be more there is more
-- Alan Cohen
Do not wait the time will never be just right Start where you stand and work
with whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found
as you go along
Napoleon Hill
1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich
It doesnt matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes What
matters most is getting off You cannot make progress without making decisions
Jim Rohn
1930-2009 Speaker and Author
Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do Its
a decision about Who You Are When you see this when you understand it
everything changes You begin to see life in a new way All events occurrences and
situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do
Neale Donald Walsch
Author of Conversations With God
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached dont adjust the goals
adjust the action steps
Confucius
551-479 BC Philosopher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of
you
Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887 Clergyman Social Reformer and Abolitionist
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Lets choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we think others lead
by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives We can then offer the
universe the gift of our grateful hearts
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Author of Peace and Plenty
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite
impossible to foresee are ahead You can only see one thing clearly and that is your
goal Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin
Kathleen Norris
1880-1966 Novelist
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends
you choose for you will become like them
W Clement Stone
1902-2002 Businessman Philanthropist and Author
Laugh at yourself and at life Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity but
as a remedy a miracle drug that will ease your pain cure your depression and help
you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at
your predicaments thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that
is certain to come Never take yourself too seriously
Og Mandino
1923-1996 Author of The Choice
Asking is the beginning of receiving Make sure you dont go to the ocean with a
teaspoon At least take a bucket so the kids wont laugh at you
Jim Rohn
1930-2009 Author and Speaker
Happiness comes only when we push our
brains and hearts to the farthest reaches
of which we are capable
--Leo C Rosten
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Do not wait the time will never be just right
Start where you stand and work with whatever
tools you may have at your command and better
tools will be found as you go along
~ Napoleon Hill
I shall do less whenever I shall believe what
I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more
whenever I shall believe doing more will help the
cause I shall try to correct errors when shown to
be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as
they shall appear to be true views
ndash Abraham Lincoln 16th US president
If we become increasingly humble about how l
little we know we may be more eager to search
- Sir John Templeton
I dont think anyone can grow unless hes
loved exactly as he is now appreciated for
what he is rather than what he will be
Love and success always in that order Its
that simple and that difficult
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a
lifetimes work but its worth the effort
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Quoted From Lifes Journeys According
to Mister Rogers
When we do the best we can we never know
what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life
of another
ndash Helen Keller lecturer author
We are responsible for what we are and whatever
we wish ourselves to be we have the power to make
ourselves If what we are now has been the result of
our own past actions it certainly follows that whatever
we wish to be in future can be produced by our present
actions so we have to know how to act
~ Swami Vivekananda
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