Life Begins

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone." *-- Neale Donald Walsch "A friend is someone who you can tell your complaints; a good friend is someone you can tell your dreams."*-- Dale Dauten"Do not die without having lived. Give yourself the opportunity to show your true color and when you do go, go out in a blaze of glory."*-- Bernie S. Siegel

The Storm Within

"The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger,but for the deliverance from fear. It is the storm within thatendangers him, not the storm without." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could;some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon asyou can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and withtoo

Whom Gets The Farthest

"The person who gets the farthest is generally theone who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thingboat never gets far from shore."*-- Dale Carnegie"You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being, not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money, but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason."*-- Dr. Wayne Dyer "It is understanding

Leave The City Of Comfort

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wildernessof your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'lldiscover is yourself."*-- Alan Alda"If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act."*-- Lee Iacocca"Who looks outside,

Courage and Dignity

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life. --J. NehruLOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:The kinder and more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he/she can find in other people.--TolstoyLEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:Remember every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. --Anonymous

The Day's

"In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed."*-- Clare Booth Luce "Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible, it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession

Fences Are Made

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION: Fences are made for those who cannot fly. --Elbert HubbardLOVE/RELATIONSHIPS: Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made; remade all the time, made new. --Ursula K. LeGuin LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS: Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log. --Dr. Harvey Cushing

Goals Provide The Energy Source

"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy."*-- Denis Waitley {American Peak Performance Expert}"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."*-- Douglas

Sum Of His Actions

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION: A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do. Nothing else.--Mahatma GandhiLOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:There isn't any formula or method.You learn to love by loving.--Aldous Huxley LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS: Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. --Pearl S. Buck

Very Few People Are Ambitious

"Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specificimage of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are onlytoward the next run, the next increment of money."*-- Judith M. Bardwick"The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then

Advances Confidently

"If one advances confidently in the direction of hisdreams, and endeavors to live a life which he hasimagined, he will meet with a success unexpected incommon hours."*-- Henry David Thoreau "Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible tolearn something that can enrich our lives and the lives ofothers. No one's education is ever complete."*-- Sir John Templeton"Forget about your life

Shutting Out Life

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:Life truly lived is a risky business, and if one puts up too many fences against risk one ends by shutting out life itself. --Kenneth S. DavisHOPE. Without hope for the future, there is no power in the present. --Author Unknown LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS: Leadership is knowing when to use your power.

Bar To New Ideas

"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all."*-- Edward deBono "Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears." *-- Stedman Graham "First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, anobjective. Second, have

One Good Decision

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:One good wish changes nothing.One good decision changes everything. LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. --Euripides, OrestesLEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:In all things, be willing to listen to people around you. None of us is really smart enough to go it alone. --John Clendenin

Quiet The Mind

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:To gain access to the tremendousknowledge of your higher spirit,You must quiet the mind that thinks,and go to the part that knows.LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:You have your pencil. You have your colors. You paint paradise and live there.LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS: THE BEST PART OF LIFE is not just surviving, but thriving-With passion and compassionAnd humor and style,And generosity and

Most Important Things

"Every evening, write down the six most important things thatyou must do the next day. Then while you sleep yoursubconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplishthem. Your next day will go much more smoothly." *-- Tom Hopkins"The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your ownpersonal development. I used to say, 'If you will take care ofme, I will take care of you.' Now I say, 'I

Powers Inside of You

"There are powers inside of you which, if you could discoverand use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed orimagined you could become."*-- Orison Swett Marden {1850-1924 Founder of Success Magazine}"He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts bythe attraction of his own."*-- Henry Ward Beecher"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and

Lay a Firm Foundation

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."*-- David Brinkley "To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever."*-- Henry Drummond "Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them."*-- Ralph Gerard

Focusing On

"Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results."*-- Stephen Covey "Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artfulleadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice."*-- Max DePree "Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for

Cushion the Painful Effects

"Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle."*-- Norman Vincent Peale "I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others."*-- Henri Nouwen "You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they may be consecrated at the altar of

Leadership

"Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence."*-- Bernard Law Montgomery "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."*-- Marcel Proust "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."*-- Thoreau

Wisdom

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."*-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."*-- H. L. Mencken "Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial."*-- Ross Perot

Fears Are Tissue Paper

"Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a singlecourageous step would carry us clear through them."*-- Brendan Francis"Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible." *-- Norman Vincent Peale "The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use topaint the canvas

A Hero

"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle."*-- Norman Schwarzkopf "Fortune and love favor the brave."*-- Ovid "The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?"*-- Pablo Casals

Faith Means

"To me faith means not worrying."*-- John Dewey "We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."*-- Tom Robbins "Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."*-- Norman Schwarzkopf

The Art of Peace

"One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train."*-- Morihei Ueshiba"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."*-- Samuel Butler "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."*-- Thomas Jefferson

Can Never Be Retrieved

"Time is the one thing that can never be retrieved.The hours lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful purposes."*-- C. R. Lawton "Gratitude is the heart's money."*-- French proverb "Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."*-- Henry David Thoreau

About a Problem

"How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself -- so always think positively."*-- Norman Vincent Peale"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."*-- Clement Stone "Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully.

The Abundant Life

"The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber."*-- William Mather Lewis "Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace."*--