One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his
great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he
couldn't do.
Henry Ford
"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much
stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to
take care of themselves."
- Dale Carnegie
"Forget about the consequences of
failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for
your next success." Denis Waitley
"Life is not always bright, but if the sun can shine after the darkest
storm, so can we". Lynn Gerald
"My formula for success is, rise early, work later, and strike
oil." John Paul Getty
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use,
would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could
become." Orison Swett Marden
Rudyard Kipling once wrote:
"People say that what we're all seeking is the meaning of life...I think
that what we're really seeking is the experience of being alive."
The only way out is to go through
- Robert Frost
"The nice thing about egotists is that
they don't talk about other people."
- Lucille S. Harper
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.If you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward
"You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him to find it within himself." Galileo
Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least"
- Goethe
"No one is liable to make more mistakes than the man who
acts only on reflection."
-- Vauvenargues
"Beware of your habits. The better
they are the more surely they will be your undoing." -Holbrook
Jackson
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts
can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Habit is either the best of servants
or the worst of masters." - Nathaniel Emmons
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." -
Norman Vincent Peale
"The old law about 'an eye for an
eye' leaves everybody blind." - Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
- Sun Tzu
"Though we travel the world over to
find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As John F. Kennedy once said...
"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the
discomfort of thought."
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen
twice as much as we speak." - Epictetus
"Giving never moves in a straight line - it always
travels in circles." - Dr. Robert Schuller
"One of the most difficult things to give away is
kindness, for it is usually returned." - Mark Ortman
"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a
life."
- Arthur Ashe
"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"It matters if you just don't give up."
- Stephen Hawking
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
- Anais Nin
"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully
upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us."
- Alexander Graham Bell
"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are
still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born."
- Dr. Dale Turner
"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'"
- Brian Tracy
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they
sought."
- Baslo
"Feelings of inferiority and superiority are the same. They both come
from fear."
- Dr. Robert Anthony
"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by
little at a truth we find bitter."
- Denis Diderot
"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves
up and hurry off as if nothing happened." ~ Winston Churchill
"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple,
really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of
success, but it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure - or you can
learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because
remember, that's where you'll find success." ~Thomas J. Watson
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an
uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." ~Helen Keller
"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes." ~Abigail Van Buren
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit
there." ~Will Rogers
-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,
American Businessman
-Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its
attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a
crusader. ~Paul J. Meyer, American Businessman, Author, Motivator
To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate
cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. ~William Londen
Inspiration comes from watching others. Motivation comes from
within. ~Author Unknown
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't
do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the
safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~Mark
Twain
-The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the
determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves
to the task at hand. ~Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American Football Coach
-Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not
lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. ~Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French
Existential Writer
-The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. ~Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955,
American Author, Trainer
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." ~-- Alan Kay
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his
great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he
couldn't do. ~Henry Ford
It is ridiculous to lay the blame of our wrong actions upon
external causes, rather than on the facility with which we
ourselves are caught by such causes.~ Aristotle
"You can bring into
your life more power, more wealth, more health, more happiness, and more
joy by learning to contact and release the hidden power of your
subconscious mind"~
Dr. Joseph Murphy D.R.S., P.H.D., D.D., L.L.D.(Author of The Power of Your
Subconscious Mind)
"One can never consent to creep when one
feels the urge to soar." ~ Helen Keller
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is
invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"What the mind can
conceive and believe it can achieve." ~Napoleon Hill (Author of Think and Grow Rich)
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. --
David Feherty
"If you are unhappy
with your world and want to change it, the place to start is with
yourself" ~Napoleon Hill & W.Clement Stone (Authors of Success Through a
Positive Mental Attitude
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. --
Frederick Langbridge
Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it. -- Irving
Berlin
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that
determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you
before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you
think you are.-- Norman Vincent Peale
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist
sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! -- Mclandburgh Wilson
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. --
Golnik Eric
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.--
Robert H. Schuller
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most
assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching
pad.--Denis Waitley
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. -- Thaddeus
Golas
"In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I
am his pupil."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside
of us.-- Parks Cousins
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working
twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we
know how to harness and control this great force. -- Tom Blandi
"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a
hydrant beside it. -- Changing Times
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. --
Thomas Dewar
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own
expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.-- Denis
Waitley
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget
about the failures and the negatives in our lives.-- Denis Waitley
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it
seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that
were somehow absent before the change.-- Earl Nightingale
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn
out.-- John Wooden
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart
that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Success is just a matter of attitude. --
Darcy E. Gibbons
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are
not. -- Andre Gide
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.--William Arthur Ward
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies,
jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. -- Glenn Clark
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big
accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of
your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than
your tennis life. -- Chris Evert
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you
need.-- Kahlil Gibran
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking
will.-- Zig Ziglar
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me. --
Zina Garrison
Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.-- Max Lucade
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take
it. -- Ellen Glasgow
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their
lives by altering their attitudes of mind.-- William James
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This
is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light. -- Raymond
Holliwell
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. --
Lena Horne
High expectations are the key to everything.--
Sam Walton
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful
men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it
becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and
you will be amazed at the positive results. -- Dupree Jordan
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your
attention.-- Jim Rohn
The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
-- Vince Lombardi
I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any
of life's endeavors. Your attitude--your perspective, your outlook, how you feel
about yourself, how you feel about other people--determines your priorities,
your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other
people and how you interact with yourself.-- Carolyn Warner
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as
impossible. -- Chretien Malesherbes
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him. --
Louis L. Mann
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every
experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and
happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be. -- John R. Miller
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.--
Booker
T. Washington
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have
things I am not able to appreciate.-- Elbert Hubbard
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us. -- Earl
Nightingale
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can
think negative. -- Sugar Ray Robinson
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them
that's important. -- Ruth Ross
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist
always run to blow it out? -- Michel De Saint-Pierre
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you
might as well laugh about it now.-- Marie Osmond
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.--
Helen
Keller
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.--
Will Rogers
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. --
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of
wealth -- in short, materialism -- does not fit into this world, because it
contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it
is placed is strictly limited. -- E. F. Schumacher
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by
their attitudes. -- Charles Prestwich Scott
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big
difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it
is positive or negative. -- W. Clement Stone
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough
people to make it worth the effort.-- Herm Albright
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than
circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance,
giftedness, or skill. -- Charles Swindoll
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.--
Richard
Bach
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a
certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play
on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. -- Charles Swindoll
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. -- Amy Tan
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to
ask, "Compared to what?"-- Sydney J. Harris
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a
carrier. -- Source Unknown
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its
strength.-- Corrie Ten Boom
Whether a glass is half full or half empty depends on the attitude of the
person looking at it. -- Source Unknown
God gave us two ends. One to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on
which one you use; head you win--tails, you lose.-- Anonymous
What you hold in your imagination about yourself, you will become. -- Unknown
Conceit is the quicksand of success. -- Arnold Glasow
Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought
together. -- Vincent Van Gogh
"The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem
bigger than it really is."-- Kahlil Gibran
Accursed is the man who does the
work of the Lord deceitfully.-Martin Luther
"Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less
and wanting more." Jim Rohn
