Life Ten and Ninety Percent

"Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it." -- Ben Franklin"We determine whether something will be a blessing or a curse by the way we choose to see it."-- Kate Nowak"Doubt can only be removed by action."-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill."-- Christopher Parker

Happy & Colourful New Year 2011

Wish You And Your Family Happy & Colourful New Year 2011 Change The Changeable-Accept The UnachangeableRemove Yourself From The Unacceptable Everything Will Be Okay In The End. If It Not OkayThen It Is Not The End With Best Wishes

Learning About Life

"I’ve learned that life is like a carnival with all its sights and sounds; sometimes you need to skip the rides and just hang out with the clowns!"--Linda Ellis"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." -- Danny Kaye"The most important thing in life is to stop saying "I wish" and start saying "I will." Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as

Where You Stands At Time of Challenge

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."-- Martin Luther King Jr."It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are different." -- Seneca"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."-- Alexander the Great "Don't read a book and

Listen To Your Inner Voice

"I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us...if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do."-- Christopher Reeve"We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe." -- Jane Goodall"The fear is worse than the pain."-- Shannon Bahr"Faith is

Start With The First Step

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -- Chinese Proverb"Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows." -- Helen Keller"Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you plan to stop peddling."-- Claude Pepper"Laugh loud, and laugh often. It’ll keep you happy, keep you healthy, and keep your attitude headed in a positive direction."-- Mac Anderson

Courage Is Needed For Success

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are some difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave soul to win them."-- Ralph Waldo

Life Greatest Mistake

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."-- Elbert Hubbard "Life is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while standing still."-- Linda Brakeall "Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." -- Ben Franklin"Without question, the art of listening

Merry Christmas for Year 2010

"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"What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and

Your Mind Is Your Only Limitations

"Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you."-- Og Mandino "You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution."-- Bob Proctor"The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about."-- Evan Esar"Insanity doesn't run in my family. It gallops." -- Cary

Try Something New To Learn and Grow

"How can you learn and grow when you never step out and try something new and exciting? There is never a lack of resources, only a lack of ideas. Without risk, there can be no progress. All of us only have so much sand left in the hourglass, and one day our sand will run out. The time to risk is now and the great ones know it."-- Steve Siebold"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly

The Root of Joy

"The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful."-- Brother David Steindl-Rast "The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."-- Joan Didion "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -- Aristotle"Committing to excellence means sharing the

Learn To Forgive

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." -- Paul Boese"When anger rises, think of the consequences."-- Confusious"Our Dash moves with lightning speed. It feels like yesterday that I graduated from college...and now thirty-eight years have passed. Although I'm very proud of my business accomplishments, in the end my life comes back to loving and being loved."-- Mac

Life's Challenges

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they're supposed to help you discover who you are." -- Bernice Johnson Reagon"Women who feel unworthy will often find ways to sabotage their own success at work, in romantic relationships and with money....There are myriad ways in which unworthiness shows up in our lives. And in the end, it doesn't really matter how we got this way - the only

Being Happy Does Not Require Permission

"You don't need anyone else's permission to be happy. Your life is magnificent not because someone says it is, but because you choose to see it as such."-- Ralph Marston "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 "The willingness to do creates

Don't Wait, The World Is Never Perfect

"Our world will never be perfect. The rain will come, despite my best efforts to prevent it. Life is what you choose to make of it. State of mind is everything. If you cannot change what happens, then for your happiness, you must change your mindset."-- Michelle Sedas"Life does not happen to us, it happens from us."-- Mike Wickett "I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to

Set Big Goal and Achieve It

"You should not permit your present situation to influence your thinking or your decision making that regardless of your present situation you should proceed immediately to set a goal to achieve something so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time."-- Bob Proctor"Our baggage includes everything from once valid beliefs and practices that have outlived their

Be A Real Winners In Life

"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 "People need to decide to be happy." -- Marty Martinson"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."-- Charles Kingsley "In one or

Say I Can Do It

"Every time you repeat the words, 'I can do it!' with conviction, you cancel or override your fear and increase your confidence. By repeating this affirmation over and over, you can eventually build your courage and confidence to the point where you are unafraid."-- Brian Tracy"Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend." -- Winston Churchill"Today I

Climb Over That Road Block

"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."-- Michael Jordan"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." -- Hannah More"Paradise is always where love

Power Up Your Enthusiasm

"Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life."-- Edward B. Butler"If you're not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." -- Vince Lombardi"You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It

Speak Gratitude

"You teach gratitude to others by living it - every moment, every hour, every day. Others will see the happiness that gratitude brings, and soon, they too will be grateful. And before you know it, you have started an epidemic of gratitude - what could be more wonderful!"-- BJ Gallagher"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is

The Creator

"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do."-- Orison Swett Marden"Friends are like stars, you don't always see them, but you know they're always there."-- Vannii Arcri"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."-- Elbert Hubbard"Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."--

Refused To Become Discouraged

"History has noted that the most notable winners usually encounter heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. If it really hurts that bad, go ahead and cry -- you'll feel better."-- B. C. Forbes"Need a good cleanse on the inside? Find a funny friend. Have dinner with someone who makes you laugh out loud. See a movie that

When You Are In Balance

"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance." -- Brian Tracy"Notice throughout the week relationships that cross your path, decisions you have to make, challenges you have to face, empty tasks that drain you, and

Acquire Knowledge and Apply It

"It is your prime responsibility to acquire useful knowledge from others and to apply it appropriately. You don't have to reinvent the wheel, but you do have to learn from those who did."-- Gary Ryan Blair"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." -- Epictetus"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life."--

Let Child Experience Consequences

"It is often an unpleasant experience for a parent, but a child must be allowed to experience the consequences for his actions and decisions. Whenever you intervene, you rob him of taking personal responsibility for his life, and you hinder the shaping of his personality."-- Mac Anderson and Lance Wubbels"There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done

Clear Well Written Goals Have Effect

"Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor."-- Brian Tracy"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now." -- Alan Lakein"The time to begin most things is ten

Our Teacher Call Failure

"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is
delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is
something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being
nothing.
"-- Denis Waitley"Worry gives a small thing a big shadow."-- Swedish Proverb "Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible."-- George

Fruits of Life

"The fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them."-- Earl Tupper "Few people will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all these acts will be written the history of this generation."-- Robert F. Kennedy"A year from now you may wish you had started today."-- Karen Lamb"One of

Little Things Make Big Things

"It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class."-- J. Willard Marriott"Many small trifles make perfection, but perfection is no small trifle." -- Michelangelo"Procrastination is the thief of time."-- Edward Young "Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."--

The Happy Human

"Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future."-- Arnold H. Glasgow "Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."-- Oprah Winfrey "Trust, not technology, is the issue of the decade." -- Tom Peters"If employees feel you don't trust them to do their jobs

Persistence and Energy

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."-- Benjamin Franklin"To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to give content to your own lot: to mitigate another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own."-- Arthur Wang"You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution."--Robert F. Kennedy"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day."-- Sally Koch

Being Rich Isn't About Money

Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game. -- Harvey Mackay"Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push."-- Joann Thomas"Success is not to be

Mind Exercising via Reading

"Reading is like exercising - mental and physical benefits flourish with regular practice. Reading improves language skills, vocabulary, and spelling skills; it introduces new ideas, perspectives, and information; it staves off the effects of aging by keeping your mind active; it provides a vehicle for mental escape and creativity; and it relaxes, entertains, and inspires your soul."-- Matthew

Important Thing About Goals

"The most important thing about goals is having one..." -- Geoffrey Abert"He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others."-- William Hazlitt "The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed."-- Martina Navratilova"Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others."--

Earn Money After Success

"Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service. Most people have this law backwards. They believe that you're successful if you earn a lot of money. The truth is that you can only earn money after you're successful."-- Earl Nightingale"Stop thinking of all the reasons why you cannot be successful, and

The Greatest Possession

"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy."-- Lao Tzu "Great thoughts come from the heart."-- Luc de Clapiers"Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them."-- Alfred Whitefield"It's not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts."-- Adlai Stevenson

Optimism is the Faith

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."-- Helen Keller"Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time."-- Dale Dauten"Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of."-- Geri Weitzman"The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another

Try Thing Haven't Done 3 Times

"Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not."-- Virgil Garnett Thomson "Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."-- Jean Anouilh"People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your

Land of Opportunity

"The Land of Opportunity is an attitude. It is an openness to new ideas,a willingness to listen,an eagerness to learn,a desire to grow,and the flexibility to change."-- BJ Gallagher and Warren H. Schmidt"Above all else, they knew the joy of just being themselves." -- BJ Gallagher and Warren H. Schmidt"There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart."-- Celia Thaxter

Know and Apply

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"He who moves not forward, goes backward."-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The healthy team recognizes that people are people. We have off days. We make mistakes. We have doubts. We assume too much. We differ. This is where great teams distinguish themselves from all the rest. They see these

Have Hope and Confidence

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."-- Helen Keller"Things do not change; we change."-- Henry David Thoreau"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "By knowing one reaches belief. By doing one gains conviction. When you know, dare."-- Egyptian proverb

Knowledge Is Potential Power

"'Knowledge is power!' Is this a true statement? Does knowledge really give us power? The answer may surprise you. Even though we have heard the statement over and over again, it is not true. Knowledge is only powerful when you use it!"-- Barry Gottlieb"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." -- Babe Ruth"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."-- Franklin D.

There is a Time for Everything

"When observing the behavior of most mammals, it soon becomes obvious that waiting is an essential part of their lives. There is a time for everything...a time to feed, a time to rest, a time to wait, and a time to move swiftly."-- Ken Jenkins"Feeling and experiencing is of the heart. Projecting and expecting of the mind."-- Author Unknown "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." --

Don't Waste Time Living Someone Life

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."--

Two Kinds of Power

"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment."-- Mahatma Gandhi"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."-- Lao Tzu "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." -- Thomas Jefferson

Look Into Present Actions To See Future

"If you want to know your past -- look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future -- look into your present actions."-- Chinese Proverb "There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."-- George Sand"The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it."-- Elaine Agather"When we wake up in the morning,

True Measure of Character

"The true measure of your character is what you would do if you were sure no one would ever find out." -- John Maxwell"Forgiveness does not equal forgetting. It is about healing the memory of the harm, not erasing it."-- Ken Hart"Leaders take risks. That's not to say that they are reckless, because good leaders aren't. But they don't always take the safest route. Rarely can a person break ground

You Have Permisson To Be Happy

"You don't need anyone else's permission to be happy. Your life is magnificent not because someone says it is, but because you choose to see it as such."-- Ralph Marston "You can give away yet still feel filled up. Working for free can be more significant than working for money. To consume less doesn't mean that we live without. Satisfying someone else's needs can be a great source of

People Who Grow Old

"Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair."-- Douglas MacArthur"Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push." -- Joann Thomas"Too many of us are not living our dreams

Patience Has Limits

"Patience has its limits - take it too far and its cowardice."-- George Jackson "When you are ready to learn a teacher will appear." "It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.""Sitting quietly, doing nothing, springs come and grass grows by itself."Arthur Wang

Life Greatest Risk

"The greatest risk in life is...never taking one."-- Arthur Wang"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."-- Edwin Elliot"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."-- Herman Cain"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can

Hope Will Reappear

"Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear."-- Monroe Forester "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"The older I get, the less I pay attention to what people say or think or hope. I notice what they do, how they Live, and what

Be Aware of Opportunities

"How many opportunities have you missed because you were not aware of the possibilities that would occur if you applied a small amount of effort beyond what you normally do?"-- Mac Anderson and Sam Parker"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." -- General George S. Patton"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."-- Buddha

Difficulties, Challenges and Problems

"We all have difficulties, challenges, problems to bear. We can't ask someone else to take them from us, for they already have their own. But we can ask them to help us - to share our burdens and trials. And we, in turn, can do the same for them."-- BJ Gallagher"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it." --

The Choices We Make

"By the choices we make, by the attitudes we exhibit, we are influencing lives every day in positive or negative ways...our family, our peers, our friends, and even strangers we've never met before and will never meet again. So when you brush your teeth every morning, look in the mirror and ask yourself...'Are there things I'd like to change?'"-- Mac Anderson"Treat each other with respectand more

Move Forward with Your Belief

"Sometimes there is no evidence that this is the right time to pursue your dream. But by believing in it and acting on that belief, you make your dream possible. Moving forward on what you believe is paramount and creating a new belief is the first step in changing it."-- Marcia Wieder"Life is full of obstacle illusions." -- Grant Frazier"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how

Ability, Motivation and Attitude

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." -- Lou Holtz"Luck is not chance, it's toil. Fortune's expensive smile is earned."-- Emily Dickinson "One of the most fascinating things about leadership is that sometimes a person you least expect will step up and emerge as a leader. It can happen at any time, but it has been my

Have Confidence in Yourself

"If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."-- Rosalynn Carter "When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."-- Helen Keller"People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great

Have Flaming Enthusiasm

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."--Dale Carnegie"All of us need to grow continuously in our lives."--Les Brown"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."-- Les Brown"One often hears the remark "He talks too much." But when did anyone last hear the criticism "He listens too much?""--

Be An Active Force In Life

"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"Can miles truly separate you from friends...If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"-- Richard Bach "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."-- Les Brown"A good

When You Look Closely

"It's no accident, that when you look closely into the eyes of another, the very first thing you see, is yourself."-- Paul"A bend in the road is not the end of the road ... unless you fail to make the turn."-- A Wise Person"Many a one has succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat, he would never have known any great victory."-- Orison Sweet

Treat Possibilites as Probabilites

"The most important think in life is to stop saying "I wish" and start saying "I will." Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilites as probabilites."-- David Copperfield "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -- Albert Einstein"There are many different problem-solving models, all following the same basic rational

Letting Go of Yourself

"It's all right letting yourself go, As long as you can get yourself back."-- Mick Jagger "Love begins on the inside."-- Jason"To lead a symphony, You must turn your back on the crowd."-- Reddy "We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted

Observe a Really Happy Person

"If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator."-- W. Beran Wolfe"We touch the lives of others in ways we often never know. People sometimes come into our personal world for fleeting moments and

Persevere and Finish Strong

"Ben Hogan overcame a dark childhood memory, early failure at the game of golf and a debilitating car crash to become one of the legends of the game....Throughout his life, there were many reasons for Ben Hogan to have simply been finished; instead he chose to persevere, to fight and to ultimately finish strong."-- Dan Green"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once."--

Ask What Makes You Alive

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makesyou come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the worldneeds is people who have come alive."-- Harold Thurman Whitman"Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. "-- Rose Wilder Lane "As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so asingle thought will not

View Life As Continuous Learning

"Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience."-- Denis Waitley "When we believe how things should or shouldn't be, rather than how they are, we are living an illusion. The more we focus on illusions, the more we block out reality. Likewise, when we focus on problems, we block out solutions."-- Michael McMillan"People asking

Yes, You Can Break Harmful Habits

"Harmful habits can be broken. You can break a bad habit of thought, just as you can break a bad habit of action. And you can develop new habits that are more helpful and healthful for you."-- Dr. Arthur Freeman and Rose Dewolf"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."-- Benjamin Franklin"If you watch how nature deals with

The Coin of Your Life - Spend Well

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."-- Carl Sandburg"That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end."-- Lise Hand "Success is

Focus on What You Already Have

"Focusing on what we already have and are grateful for right now is one of the most powerful things we can do to alter our life in a positive way. "-- Mike Robbins "Procedures are written in blood." -- The Blue Angels"Successful teams address the 'what ifs' before they occur and are prepared to take proper action should a problem arise. Clear procedures improve productivity, increase efficiency,

The Deeper One Roots

"The deeper one roots downward, the more strength one has to withstand life's hits and to stay on a winner's course from the ground upward." -- Lt. Gen. Hal Moore"America is full of great examples of how one person changed a negative situation or improved a situation. I challenge each of you to think about your family, workplace, and how you might help to advance the public trust in your

Life Difficulties

"Difficulties in life are intended to make us better not bitter. "-- Dan Reeves "In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."-- Janos Arnay"Techniques don't produce quality products or pick up the garbage on time; people do, people who care, people who are treated as creatively contributing adults."-- Tom Peters"If a man would move the world, he must first move himself."-- Socrates

What Courage Teaches Us

"Courage teaches us what should be feared and what ought not to be feared. Only by taking action do we gain that knowledge. And from that knowledge comes an inner strength that inspires us to persevere in the face of great adversity - and inspires others to follow. In the most difficult of times, courage is what makes someone a leader."-- John C. Maxwell"Some men succeed by what they know; some

The Sum Of Choices

"Life is the sum of all your choices. "-- Albert Camus "Great customer service has to come from the inside out. You cannot mandate it. You can't threaten, reward, or coerce people to care. You can only awaken the desire and then give them the permission and encouragement to make it come alive in their work."-- Barbara Glanz"Aim for service and success will follow." -- Albert Schweitzer

Set Goal That Don't Compromise Your Success

"Not all goals are equal, but all goals contain the same foundational elements. When it comes to setting goals, we often don't know what we don't know. And, what you don't know can - and most likely will - hurt you by limiting or compromising your success."-- Gary Ryan Blair"Some give up their dreams when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by

Know and Must Do

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. "-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe "Because most people prefer safe, predictable results, 'proven' maps are usually handed out and followed closely. They are considered objective, therefore making them easier to teach and establish a standard against which to measure. Without realizing it, you're thinking inside-the-box."--

You Have The Power To Transform Thoughts

"Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true."-- Napoleon Hill"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery"It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits."-- Charles A. Jaffe "Adventure is not outside man; it is within. "-- David Grayson

Leave The Rest To God

"Live Simply. Love Generously. Care Deeply. Speak Kindly. Leave the Rest to God."-- A Kind Human"My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all."-- Gloria Estefan"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better."-- Bill Bradley"Time is within your control."-- Luanne Oakes, Ph.D.

Becoming a Possibilitarian

"Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilites - always see them, for they're always there."-- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale "Have you ever watched a fly bouncing off a window pane, even with an open door a few feet away? Many times the fly keeps crashing into the glass until it finally dies. There are many companies in today's

Get Inside Our Own Heads

"Our emotions are powerful motivators, and more than almost anything else in our lives they will drive our behavior. Sometimes our greatest challenge is to get inside our own heads to understand what makes us tick. Why do we feel and behave the way we do?"-- Mac Anderson"To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." -- Anatole France"A part of

Action and Theory

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."-- Freidrich Engels"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."-- Lao Tzu"Live out of your imagination, not your history."-- Stephen Covey"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."-- Pablo Picasso

Be Committed

"There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results. "-- Ken Blanchard "Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -- Eleanor Roosevelt"It is easy to choose a path in life that has been well traveled by many before you and

You Are Not A Loser

"You're never a loser until you quit trying." -- Mike Ditka"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens."-- Thaddeus Golas"Success is not measured by what a person accomplishes, but by the opposition they have encountered, and the courage with which they have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."-- Orison Swett Marden

Success Needs Concentration

"The first law of success is concentration - to bend allthe energies to one point, and to go directly to thatpoint, looking neither to the right nor to the left."-- William Mathews"Nothing can add more power to your life than concentratingall of your energies on a limited set of targets."-- Nido Qubein"When every physical and mental resource is focused, one'spower to solve a problem multiplies

You Seldom Luck Into Things

"You don't just luck into things... You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."-- Barbara Bush"I have learned that some of the nicest people you'll ever meet are those who have suffered a traumatic event or loss. I admire them for their strength, but most especially for their life gratitude - a gift often taken for granted by the average person in society."-- Sasha

Faced The Problem

"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. "-- James Baldwin "Once you choose hope, anything's possible."-- Christopher Reeve"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."-- John Powell"Joy is not in things; it is in us."-- Richard Wagner

Be Sensitive To Time

"Middle-class performers operate like there is an endless amount of time in a day, week, month, year and life. The world class is extremely sensitive to time. The great ones have a sense of urgency because they are operating at a level of awareness that constantly reminds them the present moment is all any of us really have. The world class is on a mission to fulfill a dream, and they know the

How To Live

"Live like there is no tomorrow, and live tomorrow like there was no yesterday."-- Lindsay Matheus "Many things in life will catch your eye, few will catch your heart. Pursue those!"-- Jenny Soon"You get the best efforts from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within them." -- Bob Nelson

To Succeed In Anything

"To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or anyprofession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as anaim, and then study to make all effort toward it play or recreation. "The moment it becomes hard work, we are not advancing."-- Prentice Mulford"We must stop planning, plotting and scheming, and let InfiniteIntelligence solve the problem in its own way."-- Florence Shinn"One

Making Life Enjoyable

"Life should be enjoyable; too often we think it's about achievement. The truth is that making life enjoyable is an achievement in itself."-- John "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak...because in your life you will have been all of these."-- George Washington Carver"Inch by inch,

What True Success Meant

"True success is not necessarily about being the best at all cost. It's about DOING your best at all times. If you do that long enough, who knows, you might just end up being the best."-- Tope Popoola"Give people a fact or an idea and you enlighten their minds; tell them a story and you touch their souls." -- Hasidic Proverb"Kids communicate with no inhibitions. They speak from the heart.

Think So of Yourself

"Nobody will think you're somebody if you don't think so yourself."-- African proverb "Children reflect the light of their parents long before they acknowledge they have their own light."-- Forrest Carter"Never turn your back on enthusiasm!"-- Buddy Ebsen"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

What You Most Need To Learn

"Instead of asking, 'Why am I having to deal with all of this?' ask yourself what you most need to learn from your experiences. View the situation much like the butterfly must see its cocoon... as a barrier you must break through to become the extraordinary creature you were designed to be."-- Betty Mahalik"Never stop doing your best just because one person doesn't give you credit."-- Author

The Key To Happiness

"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."-- John Dewey "The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models."-- Zig Ziglar"In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to

Risk, Care, Dream and Expect More

"Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible."-- Cadet Maxim "Conflict cannot survive without your participation."-- Wayne Dyer"Nothing will work unless you do."-- Maya Angelou "Always remember that the future comes one day at a time."-- Dean Acheson

When We Accept Complete Responsisibility

"William Henley said, 'I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.' Once you believe this (I mean, really believe it,) nothing will hold you back. Something unexplainable happens when we accept complete responsibility for our behavior and our results. But it's not an easy thing to do."-- Mac Anderson"Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?"-- Matthew 6:27 "What lies

Your Chances of Success

"Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself."-- Robert Collier "If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments." -- Flip Wilson"I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose."-- George Carlin

Control What Goes Inside

"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside."-- Wayne Dyer "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."--Theodore Roosevelt "The impossible is often untried."Jenny Soon "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."-- Henry David Thoreau

Your Placed On This Earth

"We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life."-- James Van Praagh "It's not easy being a Teacher...and this Heart takes a beating each daySometimes it breaks for a hurting childand a piece is given away.But there's strength in the Heart of a Teacherand a special vision to seethe difference you make in the heart

A Dream or A Goal

"A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline."-- Harvey Mackay "Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans: it's lovely to be silly at the right moment."-- Horace"The best inheritance you can leave your kids is an example of how to live a full and meaningful life."-- Dan Zadra"You can never plan the future by the past."-- Edmund Burke

The World Owes Us Nothing

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."-- Mark Twain "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."-- Mother Teresa "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."-- Mother Teresa "Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at

Relationship Needs Responsibility

"Taking full responsibility for a relationship...it's so simple that we will miss it if we don't pay careful attention. Its simple truth is accompanied, for most of us, by some difficulty since carrying it out requires counterintuitive thinking and action. It requires that you and I treat other people with dignity and respect even when we think they don't deserve it, and even when people around

Life Most Precious Resources

"If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say book, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand is nature. Nature we have always with us, an inexhaustible storehouse of that which moves the heart, appeals to the mind, and fires the imagination; health to the body, a stimulus to the intellect, and joy to the soul."--

How Short Life Really Is

"We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven't told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it."-- Hal Sutton "Ownership is a key ingredient of finding fulfillment in our work and in our lives. When we don't create an attitude of ownership, we leave ourselves open to the whims and ways of circumstance and the

Believe Life Worth Living

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."-- William James"Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it."-- Josh Billings "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."-- George S. Patton "Nothing will work unless you do."-- John Wooden (1910 - 2010)

Find a Job You Like

"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr."A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."-- Henri B. Stendhal"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."-- Paul Valery "It's not where you're from; it's where you're going. It's not what you drive; it's what drives you. It's not what's on you; it's what's in you. It's

You Got To Believe In Yourself First

"If your sunshine wants far outstrip your cold morning desire, have a talk with yourself. Then have a lot more talks with yourself. Convince number one that you can succeed--and you will succeed. If you don't believe in you, why should anyone else?"-- Tom Hopkins "Imagine it. Try it. Prove it. Do it!" -- BJ Gallagher and Warren H. Schmidt"While executives and managers say that they want new

Find Whatever Is Good

"If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul."-- Rabbi Harold Kushner"In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them."-- Dr. Joyce Brothers "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't

Two Kind of Worries

"There are two kinds of worries - those you CAN do something about and those you CAN'T. Don't spend any time on the latter." -- Duke Ellington"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 opened for us."-- Helen Keller "To do twice as much in half the time, you can't approach your goals haphazardly. A

Determination Against Roadblocks

"Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you."-- Denis Waitley"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling." -- Lucretius"Many times, when I was having a hard time with one of my children, God would always remind me that He was having a harder time with me than I was with them."-- Charlie "Tremendous" Jones

Greatest Danger in Life

"Our greatest danger in life is in permitting the urgent things to crowd out the important." -- Charles E. Hummel"Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use."-- Charles Schultz"A wide ocean of possibilities lies before your child, but there is nothing simple about the journey to adulthood. Will you be there to guide and protect your child from the dangers along the way? It

Show Your Love

"When in love show it, whether it be a kiss or a smile. Just a hello, or opening a door. Being honestly caring to someone. Kindness & compassion is the ultimate sign of love."-- Gerald R. Lemos "What are you most grateful for? No matter what you are struggling with, what can you cherish, right now?"-- Michael Bernard Beckwith"In order to live happily and free, you may have to sacrifice boredom.

Just Believe Its Possible

"Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will."-- Norman Vincent Peale "Those things that hurt, instruct."-- Ben Franklin "I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."-- Aldous Huxley "He who has great power should use it lightly."--Seneca

Appreciate Life Now

"It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now - this day - this hour." -- Charles Macomb Flandrau"None of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up from our own bootstraps. We got here because somebody bent down and helped us."-- Thurgood Marshall "Think of special ways you can appreciate others that will touch their lives in a

Preparation of The Will

"The will to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare." *-- Thane Yost"Advance planning is like taking the deep breath before the plunge. It's the calm before the storm. And that's when it's time to prepare, while it's calm, to ensure success no matter what unexpected storms might come up. Advance planning is the first step to exceeding expectations."*-- Robin Crow"You never will

Life Is a Mystery

"Life is not a problem to be solved, nor a question to be answered. Life is a mystery to be experienced."-- Alan Watts "There once was a very cautious man,Who never laughed or cried, He never cared, he never dared, He never dreamed or tried.And when one day he passed away,His insurance was denied. For since he never really lived, They claimed he never died."-- Tom Mathews"People are like sticks

Procrastination Like Credit Card

"Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill."-- Christopher Parker"So say to people whom you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being."--

You Have The Power

"If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now."--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."-- Charles Dudley Warner "Courage is fear that has said its prayers."-- Dorothy Bernard"The best preparation for good work tomorrow

Human Success or Failure

"Nature gave us two ends: one to sit on and one to think with.
 Ever since then, man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
"-- Robert Albert Bloch"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."-- Alexander Smith"I buy when other people are selling."-- J. Paul Getty "Wisdom outweighs any wealth."-- Sophocles

Opportunity Disguised

"Opportunity is something more people would recognize if it didn't come disguised as hard work."-- Napoleon Hill "Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."-- Oprah Winfrey"To be sure, none of us is perfect. And that needs to be seen for exactly what it is: a fact . . . a condition, not an excuse. Compensating for our imperfections and

The Mind is Like a Garden

"Your mind is like a garden. If you plant seeds of love, compassion, truth and integrity, then you reap the rewards. If you choose not to plant anything, then weeds will overrun your garden; the weeds of hate, anger, negative thoughts and actions."-- Barry Gottlieb"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."-- Robert Louis Stevenson"You never know when a moment and

Real Secret To Success

"Have you ever wondered why so many people work so hard and honestly without ever achieving anything in particular, and others don't seem to work hard, yet seem to get everything? They seem to have the magic touch. You've heard people say, 'Everything he touches turns to gold.' And have you ever noticed that a person who becomes successful tends to continue to become more successful - and, on the

Your Bank Account Does Not Matter

"A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove but, the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.""I've never known anyone who, on their deathbed said.I wish I had spent more time at the office.""Tomorrow never comes and yesterday never comes back, so live today to it's fullest so that

Why You Never Win

"You will never win if you never begin."-- Robert Schuller "With each decision, we should be convinced that we're doing the best we can under the circumstances -- best for ourselves, best for our family, best for our loved ones, and, possibly, best for society as well."-- Alexandra Stoddard "One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where

Ask What You Can Do Instead

"Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?"-- David Kaufman"Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending."-- Barbara Holland"Life is too short and too hard and too serious not to be humorous about it. We look for attitudes, people with a sense of humor who don’t take themselves

Life is to Grow

"Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead."--Morihei Ueshiba "Faith makes all things possible. Love makes them easy."-- Betty "I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet--each of us in our own way."-- Bernie Siegel, MD "The only difference between a thought and physical reality is time, passion (love or hate), and physical activity."

Those Who Dares Nothing

"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."-- Friedrich Schiller "My FriendDon't walk in front of me, I may not follow.Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.Just walk beside me and be my friend."-- Albert Camus"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."-- Johnson "One can never pay in gratitude; one can

When Taken Out of Your Life

"You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life."-- James G. Bilkey"Friends are treasures."-- Horace Burns "The search for someone to blame is always successful."--Robert Half "You may search my time-worn face, You'll find a merry eye that twinkles. I am NOT an old lady, Just a little girl with wrinkles!"-- Edythe E. Bregnard

Our Biggest Enemies

"The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger."-- Brian Tracy"It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, "What are we busy about"?"-- Henry David Thoreau"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."-- Theodore Roosevelt"There are

Our Thoughts, Beliefs and Words

"Habits are those actions that get us through our day without a whole lot of conscious thought on our part. It's our habits, those actions that flow from our thoughts, beliefs and words that distinguish winners from everyone else."-- Vince Lombardi Jr."Confidence is contagious and so is lack of confidence, and a customer will recognize both."-- Vince Lombardi"I always wanted a happy ending... Now

Life An Experiment

"All life is an experiment."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson"Be curious, not judgmental."-- Walt Whitman"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."-- William James"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."-- Eric Hoffer

Secret To Succeeding

"The secret of our success is that we never, never give up."-- Wilma Mankiller (1945 - 2010)"People with a negative attitude brighten the whole room when they leave."-- Jason"Wolves do not aimlessly run around their intended victims, yipping and yapping. They have a strategic plan and execute it through constant communication. When the moment of truth arrives, each understands his role and

Have Hope and Confidence

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."-- Helen Keller"Things do not change; we change."-- Henry David Thoreau"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life."-- S.D. Gordon

Dreams Take Determination

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."-- Jesse Owens "Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."-- David Starr Jordan "I am not as good as I ought to be. I am not as good as I want to be. I am not as good as I'm going to be. But I am thankful that I am better than I used to

Valuable Important Person

"The more you see yourself as a valuable and important person, the more positive and optimistic you will be. When you consider yourself to be important, you will treat other people as if they are important as well."-- Brian Tracy"Circumstances do not make the man; they merely reveal him to himself."-- Epictetus"If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart."--

Reconnect With Your Soul

"I highly recommend setting aside pockets of time during each day for solitude. You might have only five or ten minutes, but be alone and uninterrupted. And then sometime each week devote an extended time - at least one hour - to reconnect with your soul. How and when you do it is a very personal thing, but plan it because solitude doesn't happen on its own. Make it a priority in your life."--

The Courage

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."-- Dorothy Bernard "The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."-- Charles Dudley Warner"If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to

Purposes and Wishes

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."-- Washington Irving"The patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop."-- Quentin Regestein"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic

Consistency of Purpose

"The secret of success is consistency of purpose."-- Benjamin Disraeli"In the long run, all judging others really does is bring pain and block us from our ability to offer love. We were born to give, to bless, and to be a blessing, but when we are sitting in judgment, we can't."-- Kate Nowak"The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use."-- Washington Irving"When we are judging others,

Poem of Life

"Life is like a mirror, you need to constantly reflect.Life is like a suitcase, you need to know when to hold on and when to let go.Life is like a book, you need to take note of your good and bad doing.Life is like a candle, you need to always shine for others.Life is like a clock, you need to treasure every second."-- Doris Phua"Sikit sikit, lama lama jadi bukit. It means : Little by little

Negatives or Positives Are Perception

"Negatives and positives are most always based on perception and tend to rent space in our minds and largely dictate our reaction to situations."-- M. Raymond Sheppard"Values don't just happen. It takes time. It takes dialogue. It takes commitment. It will cost you, but it is a wise investment. It is good business."-- John G. Blumberg"Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the

An Uninspired Mind

"An uninspired mind is a handicap we all can do something about."-- James R. Ball "The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."-- Henry David Thoreau"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."-- Indira Gandhi "The only factor becoming scarce in a world of

Goals Capture Imagination

"Having a simple, clearly defined goal can capture the imagination and enthusiasm of your people. It can cut through the night like a beacon. It can bring an idea to life."--Mac Anderson"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."-- Sir John Lubbock "Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."-- Henry Van Dyke"Things that

Meaning of The Word Success

"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through."-- F. W. Nichol"When I'm making a decision that might involve risk (and as a life-long entrepreneur, I've made a few) it's comforting to know that if I fail, I'll learn something and move forward. Without question, my willingness to take calculated risks that I believe in

Appreciate Yourself

"I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be."-- Mister Rogers"Love and success, always in that order. It's that simple and that difficult."-- Mister Rogers"It's not what you do once in a while; it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference."-- Jenny Craig "Discovering the truth about ourselves is a

Your True Friendship

"A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities."-- William Arthur Ward "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."-- Walt Disney"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who

The Highest Appreciation

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."--John F. Kennedy"Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends."-- Courtland Milloy "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."-- Lao Tzu"At times our own light goes out and

Take Regular Action

"When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going."-- Brian Tracy"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should

Great Accomplishment

"For most of the champions, their great accomplishment was not the end of their greatness; rather it was the beginning of greater things to come. Each used their moment in time to propel them forward in life."-- Dan Green"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."-- T.S. Eliot"We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier."-- Walter Savage Landor

Be Responsible

"I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the

Have a Plan B

"The most successful people are those who are good at plan B."-- James Yorke"For fast-acting relief, try slowing down."-- Lily Tomlin "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."-- Charles Dickens "I've learned to become adaptable to the coming of each season for every leaf that changes color, changes for a reason."-- Linda Ellis

See with Eyes of a Child

"Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder."-- Joseph Cornell"Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips, and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, it is the freshness of the deep springs of life."-- Samuel Ullman"The

Don't Hold Onto Anger

"Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned."-- Gautama Buddha "Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process."-- Salma Hayek "

Life of Mistakes

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."-- George Bernard Shaw "Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement. Put them to work today."-- Wilfred A. Peterson"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the

Let Go of Yesterday Dead Dream

"If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today." -- Joyce Chapman"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."-- Albert Camus"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of

Live For Today

"Tomorrow never comes and yesterday never comes back, so live today to it's fullest so that your yesterdays will be remembered with happiness and your tomorrows will be full of brightness and hope."-- Nick Smith"The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work."-- William"Never make a permanent solution to a temporary problem."--

Have a Dreams

"Life without dreams is no life at all. When our existence gets reduced to a list of problems to solve or things to check off, passion dries up. Imagine a different list, one comprised of projects and activities that are the expression of your heart and soul. Reconnect to what makes you happy. Do you know what that is?"-- Marcia Wieder"It's all about dreams. If I had to attribute my success in

Impossible to Possible

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."-- Christopher Reeve "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."-- James A. Baldwin "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in

Grow Great By Your Dreams

"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light, which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true."-- Woodrow T.

The Will To Try

"The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is [the will to try it] and the faith to believe it is possible."-- Rich DeVos"One's objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out, and get it over. You see, your problem won't improve with age."-- Warren Buffett"We all have doubts, fears and disappointments in our lives. It’s only part of being human. However

Best Thing To Hold In Life

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."-- Audrey Hepburn"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."-- Carl Jung "Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form."-- Andre Maurois"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."-- John Berry

Ask Yourself Busy Doing What

"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"-- Henry David Thoreau"Beginners and outsiders are open to possibilities and don’t make assumptions. By extension, they’re often better at finding solutions the experts have stopped seeing."-- Michael McMillan"Perceptual blindness sheds much light on why we miss obvious solutions. By focusing on one thing (a

You Need Little To Be Happy

"Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."-- Marcus Aurelius"Energy, mental clarity, and positive regard for others are the three most important benchmarks of well-being."-- Jeanne Segal Ph.D"Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some."-- Robert Fulghum"Who you are is

The Ocean Needs That Drop

"We sometimes feel that what we do is just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."-- Mother Teresa"I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way."-- Leo Buscaglia"Everything Counts!"-- Gary Ryan Blair"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you

Key To Failure

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."-- Bill Cosby"There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures."-- William Penn "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."-- Helen Keller"To admit you were

Let People Contribute To You

"Who do you turn to when the burden is too much to carry alone? A family member, a spiritual advisor, a trusted friend, a close confidante . . . or all of these? In asking for help, you are giving people the opportunity to contribute to you. In so doing, you honor them as well."-- BJ GallagherIn prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."-- John Churton Collins"If you obey

Like Is What You Make It

"Life is what I make it, always has been, always will be."-- Grandma Moses "Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again."-- Sarah Ban Breathnach "Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time."-- Marion Edelman"People

Don't Wait For Inspiration

"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."-- Frank Tibolt "Treasure your relationships, not your possessions."-- Anthony J. D'Angelo"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."-- Ella Fitzgerald "Our ultimate

Grow Out of That Comfort Zone

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."-- Brian Tracy "People look at an event like the Olympics and think that the Gold Medal is the ultimate goal, but it's not. The process of getting there is far more important."-- Scott Hamilton"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."--

Just Be Thankful

- We must be thankful for the offer and willingness to help, not the outcome. - We must be thankful for the challenges, not just the successes, - We must be thankful for the spirited debate, not just the resolution, - We must be thankful for the child that tries to cheer us up when we are down and the child that tries to help another child, not just the child that does his/her chores, - We must

Until You Are Happy

"Happiness is not a when or a where; it can be a here and a now. But until you are happy with who you are you will never be happy because of what you have."-- Zig Ziglar"Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority."-- William Arthur Ward "There is an advantage in every disadvantage and a gift in every problem."-- John Johnson

Take Care of The Moments

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."-- Maria Edgeworth "Who wishes perfect and complete happiness will never be completely happy; who conforms with relative happiness will be much happier!"-- Sharon"Do the right thing...especially when no one's watching."-- Cherie Carter-Scott Ph.D."The Universe rearranges itself to fit your perception of reality."-- Johnny

You Are Special People

"There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people."-- Jan Ashford"Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as

What You Leave Behind

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."-- Pericles"Love is metaphysical gravity."-- Buckminster Fuller"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."-- Mark Twain"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."--

Give Your Best

"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give."-- Eleanor Roosevelt "It's not the things you get but the hearts you touch that will determine your joy in life."-- Jenny"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."-- Helen Keller"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are."-- Tobias Wolff

Intention Without Actions is Useless

"You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless."-- Caroline Myss"Many of us who are great team members at work take off our teamwork hats when we walk in the door at home. We do not seem to realize that our spouse and children are not nearly as interested in our job

Magnet of Unselfishness

"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you."-- Paramahansa Yogananda "I learned that when you rid your business of the wrong clients, you have time to take care of the right ones--and then they take care of you."-- Todd Duncan"Your customers should share your

Great People Learn Their Mistakes

"Amateur performers habitually play not to lose and procrastinate because they fear making a mistake. The great ones know mistakes will be made and can be corrected."-- Steve Siebold"As we've said before, most individuals really are well meaning. With few exceptions, all people intend to keep their word. But good intentions alone won't carry the day."-- Eric Harvey and Steve Ventura"The final

Burning Desire To Do

"Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power--a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment."-- Marsha Sinetar"Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken."-- Dr. Karl Menninger "It is never too late to give up our prejudices."-- Henry David Thoreau "No great performance ever

Successful People Overcome Obstacles

"Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days, bad days. But the successful person will overcome those obstacles and constantly move forward."-- Bruce Jenner, American Olympian"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."-- Robert Frost"An economist

Success Depend on Your Belief

"Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. You can succeed if nobody else believes it; but you will never succeed if you don’t believe in yourself."-- William J.H. Boetcker"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else."-- Judy Garland"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence

Do Those You Can Excel

"You should always focus your best energies and abilities on starting and completing those key tasks that your unique talents and abilities enable you to do well and that make a significant contribution. You cannot do everything, but you can do those few things in which you excel, the few things that can really make a difference."-- Brian Tracy"It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer,

When Effort Fully Release

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."-- Napoleon Hill"The life and love we create is the life and love we live."-- Leo Buscaglia"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."-- Paul Boese "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."-- Zig Ziglar

Great People

"Great men are they who see that spiritual thought is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."-- James A. Baldwin"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"--Robert Kennedy"Growing old

Not Falling Down But Getting UP

"Failure lies not in falling down. Failure lies in not getting up."-- Chinese proverb "If you develop the habits of success, you will make success a habit."-- Michael E. Angier"I've learned that maturity comes only from many years of give and take . . . not from the total number of candles on your last birthday cake."-- Linda Ellis"To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able

Price and Life

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."-- Henry David Thoreau"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."-- William James"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."-- Harvey Fierstein"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change

Dare To Make More Mistakes

"If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time."-- Nadine Stair "Success comes from taking the initiative and following up ... persisting ... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?"-- Anthony Robbins "Whether signing the Declaration of Independence, leading a platoon

The Way To Happiness

"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."-- Robert G. Ingersoll "The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."-- Anais Nin"Eighty-five percent of the city was underwater. People had been evacuated to other parts of the country. But the organization and the city decided to rebuild together and that's what

Decide on One Big Dream

"But now is the time . . . the only time you have. Stop 'majoring in minors' and get busy pursuing the big stuff. Decide what one big dream you want to accomplish this year and create a plan for accomplishing it. Then set the wheels in motion. You'll not only start playing a bigger game, you'll become a bigger person in the process."-- Betty Mahalik"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give

How You View Both Worlds

"You can live each day in a world filled with 'problems,' or rise each morning and embrace a world filled with unseen solutions...eager for you to find them. The decision is yours...both worlds exist. The one you choose is the one you will create."-- Michael McMillan"For every problem, there exists a solution...and at the very least...an opportunity."-- Michael McMillan"You must give some time to

Taking Purposeful Action

"Be seduced by the attractiveness of your goal. Inaction leads to impotence. Taking purposeful action immunizes you from 'Goal Parkinson's,' a long, slow goodbye to your dreams, talents and destiny."-- Gary Ryan Blair"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."-- Epictetus"What will your children remember? Moments spent listening, talking, playing and sharing

Experience Breakthrough

"I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment."-- Stedman Graham"Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought only spent."-- Gary Jennings"Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find."-- Wayne Dyer "I am influenced by every

Love is Like

"Love is like the perfect Rubix Cube. There are countless number of wrong twists and turns, but when you get it right, it looks perfect no matter what way you look at it."-- Brian Cramer "The cost of regret far exceeds the price of discipline."-- Dan Green"If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back."-- Lois McMaster Bujold"Through the years, choosing to

Land of Opportunity

"The Land of Opportunity is a new way of dealing with each other. It becomes a reality when we stop judging each other by superficial criteria and begin to see and appreciate everyone as uniquely talented, capable, and valuable."-- BJ Gallagher and Warren H. Schmidt"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really know what perect love is until they have been

The Only Real Limits

"Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities."-- Orison Swett Marden"Love is love's reward."-- John Dryden"Action is the foundational key to all success."-- Pablo Picasso "Turn your wounds into wisdom."-- Oprah Winfrey

Future Belongs To Risk Takers

"The future belongs to the risk takers, not the security seekers. The more you seek security, the less of it you will have and the more you pursue opportunity, the more security you will achieve."-- Brian Tracy"Love is the reason all of us are here now."-- James 'Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.'-- Jody'I never failed; I just discovered 1,000 ways in

Dumb Questions or Dumb Mistakes

"Don’t be afraid to ask dumb questions. They’re more easily handled than dumb mistakes."-- William Wister Haines"Why is asking questions such an important part of life? We simply cannot make clear distinctions without the use of questions! No distinctions! No decisions! No actions! No wonder questions are such a powerful force. Without questions, we would not could not take any action!"-- Bobb

What Optimist and Pessimist Saw

"An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity."-- Winston Churchill"Dancing in the rain isn't something that most of us are born knowing how to do. We learn it. We learn it from others; we learn it from Life. The more we dance, the better we get at it."-- BJ Gallagher"It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts

One More Act of Kindness

"A person struggles. You help. A door needs to be opened. You open it. A piece of trash is in your path. You pick it up and throw it away. A child needs some extra attention. You give it. A job needs to be completed. You do it."One more act of kindness a week will add 52 moments of inspiration to your year. Push it to two a week and you add more than 100. Imagine the possibilities."-- Sam Parker

First Step with Faith

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."-- Martin Luther King"We may not be able to do any great thing, but if each of us will do something, however small it may be, a good deal will be accomplished."-- D.L. Moody"If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."-- Maya Angelou

Foundation of Success

"Action is the foundational key to all success."-- Pablo Picasso"I've learned the phrase, 'less is more'is absolutely true . . .with too much of what you don't need,it's hard to find the things you do!"-- Linda Ellis"On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean."-- Aldous Huxley"The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials

Have Clear Values

"When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier."-- Roy Disney"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."-- Charles DuBois"Without filters we wander aimlessly through life. We wonder why we feel empty on our life journey or in our work. We find ourselves addicted to the whims of our wants and the tasks of our work.

Don't Avoid Problems

"Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them."-- Richard Bach "Don't be dismayed by 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"If you treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be, and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."--

Prosperity and Poverty

"Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things."-- Eric Butterworth"The price of leadership is responsibility."-- Winston Churchill"Because I'm the founder of Successories ©, some people think that this guy probably never has a negative thought. How wrong they would be! Like every human

Good At One of Two Things

"We must get good at one of two things: planting in the spring or begging in the fall."-- Jim Rohn"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness."-- Richard Bach"I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service."-- Richard Bach "I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?"-- Richard Bach

How You React To Adversity

"Even with goals, passion, and purpose in our lives, we're all faced with adversity . . . and how we react to adversity will dictate our success or failure."-- Mac Anderson"Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and best."-- R. Turnbull "It is difficult to know what counts in the world. Most of us count credits, honor, dollars. But at

The Friends

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."-- Richard Bach"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails"-- Pioneer Girls Leaders' Handbook"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."-- Richard Bach "What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a

Getting Feedback

"Feedback is the breakfast of champions."-- Rich Tate"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people."-- Chinese proverb"Some people have a difficult time handling constructive criticism. As an entrepreneur, I've always welcomed honest feedback and disagreement from anyone on my team. In fact, another one

Where Happiness Grows

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."-- Douglas Jerrould"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."-- Martin Luther King, Jr."Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."-- Martin Luther King, Jr."Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?"-- Martin

Your Goal In Life is Health

"Your goal in life should be to enjoy the highest levels of health and energy possible. This requires that you eat the right foods and fewer of them. It requires you to get regular exercise and move every joint of your body daily. To enjoy superb physical health, you must get lots of rest and recreation. Above all, you maintain a positive mental attitude, looking for the good in every situation,

The Death of Fear

"Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson"The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way."-- African Proverb"Courage is not limited to the battlefield. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like enduring pain when the room is empty or standing alone when you're misunderstood."-- Charles Swindoll

Characters Becomes Destiny

"Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become actions. Understand your actions, for they become habits. Study your habits, for they will become your character. Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny."-- Jenny"Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows."-- Helen Keller"I was always looking outside myself for strength and

Success Unexpected in Common Hours

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours."-- Henry David Thoreau"One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."-- Honore de Balzac"No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed."--

What Lives Within Us

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."-- June"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."—- Mark Twain "Treasure every moment that you have! And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time. And

Can't Have It All At Once

"You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once."-- Oprah"In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you."-- Warren Buffet"Without shared values, peak performance isn't possible."-- Scott Beare and Michael McMillan"Shared values serve to build an effective team, establish its

Strong Lives Dynamic Purposes

"Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes."-- Kenneth Hildebrand"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."-- Victor Hugo "We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."-- Stevie Wonder"The most powerful element in advertising is the truth." -- William Bernbach

Yes, You Can Be Great

"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive, and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done."-- Vince Lombardi"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the

Link Between Habit and Motivation

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."-- Jim Ryun"We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions."-- Gerald J. Simmons"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that."-- Michael Leunig "It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."-- Elbert Hubbard

Be Miserable or Not is Your Choice

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."-- Wayne Dyer"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."-- Theodore M. Hesburgh "We aim above the mark to hit the mark."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."-- Booker T.

Fail Due To Encouragement

"More people fail for lack of encouragement, than for any other reason."-- Ruth Bell Graham"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."-- Lou Holtz"Never let a single day pass without saying an encouraging word to each child."-- Paula J. Fox

Life Give You 2 Choices

"We all have two choices: We can make a living or we can design a life."-- Jim Rohn "A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it." -- Frank A. Clark"They are able because they think they are able."-- Virgil"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."-- Zig Ziglar

A Big Secret of Life

"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"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision."-- Helen Keller"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take

What We Do

"There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important."-- Jim Rohn"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson"Children respond when you are genuine and vulnerable to them. So do adults. Let's cut out the pretentious nonsense and get real in everything we do . . ."-- Tom Asacker

Design Your Own Life

You don't have to take life the way it comes to you. You can design your life to come to you the way you want it.-- Dan Zadra"How soon not now, becomes never." -- Martin Luther "Love begins with a smile."-- Johnny"It's not about being better than someone else,but about being better than you were before."-- Wayne Dyer "You have seen and felt much in life so far. But still the best is yet to come."

An Equal Sign in Your Life

"What do all equations have in common? An equal sign. In a mathematical equation the equal sign represents the balance; and in our equation of effective life/time management, it represents balance. Do you have an equal sign in your life? What is your balance?"-- Amy Jones "Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself."-- Jessye

Sure Stepping Stones for Success

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."-- Dale Carnegie"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."-- Goethe"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."-- Orison Swett Marden "The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become."-- Jim Rohn

Be With Those Who Makes You Good

"Keep company with those who make you better."-- English Proverb"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy"There's a special kind of magic in gratitude for it raises our consciousness."--Jenny"Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important

Cannot Play Safe and Break New Ground

"Leaders take risks. That's not to say that they are reckless, because good leaders aren't. But they don't always take the safest route. Rarely can a person break ground and play it safe at the same time."--John C. Maxwell "Success as I see it, is a result, not a goal."-- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)"Imagination is seeing things, not as they are, but as they could be. Think about it: Everything

Fight For Life of Action

"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction."-- Rita Mae Brown"All the technology in the world will never replace our need for one another. Love will always be vital to our survival and well being."-- David Boufford"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than to lie awake about them afterward."-- Baltasar

A Kind Word Can Change a Life

"You never know when one kind act, or one word of encouragement, can change a life forever."-- Zig Ziglar"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."-- Demosthenes (384 - 322 BC)"The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them."-- Harold S. Green

Wish You Were Better

"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."-- Jim Rohn"Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle."-- Walt Whitman"How many times a day, a week, a month, do we have the opportunity to be great through simple acts of kindness? In your Dash, never underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, or an honest compliment. All have the potential to turn

Successful People Make Mistakes But Never Quit

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."-- Conrad Hilton"One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time."-- John Wanamaker"The Finish Strong attitude is grounded in the principle that you never 'get there' in life and that you should always keep moving forward. I love the way that John Naber, the four-time gold

Hunter of Blessings

"You have a mind that always tries to be right about everything so you might as well use it to your advantage. Become a hunter of blessings, actively seeking them out in every experience and person you encounter."-- Kate Nowak"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this

Dreams Need Not Be Huge

"Not all dreams must be huge or designed to save the world. Your dream to spend more quality time with your family or to be paid well for doing work that you love is just as important. If your dream matters to you then it is precious and worthy of pursuit."--Marcia Wieder"I have found that if you love life . . . life will love you back."-- Arthur Rubenstein"It doesn't matter which side of the

Have Dreams

"Dreams Really Do Come True!"--Coach Jim Johnson"The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give."-- OPRAH"Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder…"-- Henry David Thoreau "Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only

Beginning of New and Better Life

"When one door closes another one opens. What you believe is the worst moment of your life could turn out to be the beginning of a new and better life..."-- Margie Tsoukias"If, out of time, I could pick one moment and keep it shining, always new, of all the days that I have lived, I'd pick the moment I met you."-- Jenny"What is success? It's the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

No Shortcuts

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."-- Beverly Sills"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved."-- Hellen Keller"First they ignore you,then they laugh at you,then they fight you, then you win."-- Mahatma Gandhi

Trusting YourSelf

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all of your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."-- Golda Meir"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day."-- Jim Rohn"The only limit to our realization of

Great Lesson Life To Learn

"The first great lesson of life to learn is that winter will always come... the human winters of despair and loneliness, or disappointment, or tragedy... The major challenge confronting those surrounded by winter is to not let it affect the arrival of spring and our ability to recognize that arrival."-— Jim Rohn,The Seasons of Life"Whatever your problem, it is but a test in love. If you meet that

Don't Over Shield Children

"I've learned though we try to shield our children from life's hardships and life's pain . . . there will always be occasions in life when a kid needs to walk in the rain."-- Linda Ellis"The surest way to make it hard for children is to make it easy for them."-- Eleanor Roosevelt"Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it."-- Jim Rohn

What We Take or Give Up

"It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."*-- Henry Ward Beeche"Each person's core purpose in life is to be loving."*-- Janet"The Answer Is You!"*-- Michael Bernard Beckwith"Remember: "Small Change Can Add Up To A Rich Life."*-- Dwight Pledger

First Have The Believe

"To succeed, we must first believe that we can."-- Michael Korda (born 1933)"Love is the most precious jewel of all."-- Jenny"Do not grow weary in doing good for in due time you will reap a great harvest."-- St. Paul"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."— Louis L'Amour

Take Continuous Action

"When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going."-- Brian Tracy"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with

Don't Into Someone Else Plan

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."-- Jim Rohn"Love is made visible by the infinte acts of kindness and service we do for others."-- Jonny"Gratitude is what defines a successful life."-- Arthur"Realize that good is present in your life right nowand more will be added onto you."-- Shirly

Focus Well on a Few Things

"You should always focus your best energies and abilities on starting and completing those key tasks that your unique talents and abilities enable you to do well and that make a significant contribution. You cannot do everything, but you can do those few things in which you excel, the few things that can really make a difference."-- Brian Tracy"Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand.

Take of Care The Body You Lived

"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."-- Jim Rohn"Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future."-- Jim Rohn"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight."-- Jim Rohn"To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do?

Create That Dream You Want

"Life without dreams is no life at all. When our existence gets reduced to a list of problems to solve or things to check off, passion dries up. Imagine a different list, one comprised of projects and activities that are the expression of your heart and soul. Reconnect to what makes you happy. Do you know what that is?"-- Marcia Wieder"It's all about dreams. If I had to attribute my success in

What Make You Alive

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."-- Howard Thurman "The more you know the less you need to say."--Jim Rohn"To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?"--Jim Rohn"Time is more value than money.

Worst Is Not To Even Try

"The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing."-- Jim Rohn"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win."-- Bernadette Devlin"Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well."-- Jim Rohn"The difficulties you

Love Life First

"I have found that if you love life... life will love you back."-- Arthur Rubenstein"Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first."-- Frederick Wilcox"Not all dreams must be huge or designed to save the world. Your dream to spend more quality time with your family or to be paid well for doing work that you love is just as important. If your dream matters

You Are Not A Tree

"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."-- Jim Rohn"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."-- Jim Rohn"Either you run the day or the day runs you."-- Jim Rohn"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."-- Oprah Winfrey

Risk For The Unusual

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."-- Jim Rohn"The book you don't read won't help."-- Jim Rohn"Remember, happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."-- Dale Carnegie"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."-- Jim Rohn

Those Who Don't Make Mistakes

"Only those who are asleep make no mistakes."-- Ingvar Kamprad"How many times a day, a week, a month, do we have the opportunity to be great through simple acts of kindness? In your Dash, never underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, or an honest compliment. All have the potential to turn a life around."-- Linda EllisThe Dash"Every hour of every day is an

Put Your Future In Good Hands

"You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own."-- Mark Victor Hansen"Even the best organizations sometimes stumble and deliver less-than-perfect customer service. Something not to be taken lightly when you

The Envy of Many

"The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch."-- Jim Rohn"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."-- Jim Rohn"There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important."--Jim Rohn "Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it."-- Dr. Wayne Dyer

The Game of Life

"The wonderful thing about the game of life is that winning and losing are only temporary...unless you quit."-- Dr. Fred Mills"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image."-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes."--Johann