The Idle Will Never Know

"Forced idleness is far worse than forced labour. Being force to work and forced to do your best will breed in your temperance and self-control and strength of will and content and a hundred other virtues which the idle will never know."-- Napoleon Hill"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Do not say, "Be courageous." Do not

Make Better Decision

"The way to make better decision is to make more of them. Realize that decision making like any skill you focus on improving gets better the more often you do it."-- Anthony Robbins"Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered

Life Changes to Committed Decision

"Your life changes the moment you make a new congruent and committed decision. Make the decision now that can send you in a new, positive and powerful direction for growth and happiness."-- Anthony Robbins"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."-- Henry David Thoreau"Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the

Disappears If Not Used

"It is a well established fact that the faculties of the mind, like the limbs of the body, atrophy and wither away if not used. Self-confidence is no exception. It develops when used buy disappears if not used."-- Napoleon Hill"The first duty of love is to listen."-- Paul Tillich"When you arise in the morning,think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy,

Defeat Is Most Useful

"Is it not strange that we fear most that which never happens? That we destroy our initiative by the fear of defeat, when in reality, defeat is a most useful tonic and should be accepted as such."-- Napoleon Hill"There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it."-- Minnie Aumonier"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no

Family and Friends

"I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world."-- Trey Parker and Matt Stone "The ego cannot survive without judgment."-- A Course In Miracles"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in."-- Alan Alda"If

Temporary Defeat and Failure

"You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still, if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience."-- Napoleon Hill"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not;

Inside You

"What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you."-- B. C. Forbes"Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written."-- Jacqueline Novogratz"More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives that determine our destiny."-- Anthony Robbins"To

Times of Challenge and Controversy

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."-- Martin Luther King, Jr."In the final analysis, there is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterance, and the day's good deed."-- Claire Booth Luce"Spontaneous giving, showing

Challenge Your Skills

"You need challenges for your skills to flourish. Any task becomes more enjoyable if you add a challenge."-- Charlotte Style"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future."-- Robin Sharma"The pessimist

Aim for Excellence

"Getting really good at a skill will give you both the pleasure of the skill and also the pleasure of achievement."-- Charlotte Style"When I am happy, I see the happiness in others. When I am depressed, I notice that people's eyes look sad. When I am weary, I see the world as boring and unattractive.-- Steve Chandler"The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open

Personal Excellence

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... These are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." -- Confucius "You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it."-- Albert Schweitzer"If you want to be a rebel, be kind."-- Pancho

Set Your Sights High

"Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way." -- Eileen Caddy "Appreciating your life will boost your well-being in all areas of your life. Being grateful is one of the healthiest positive emotions."-- Charlotte

Not Born To Fail

"Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.

Focusing Thoughts

"When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous and fixated on "stuff"-negative notions, toxic relationships and situations from the past. I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want." -- Darren L. Johnson "When we are happy we are better able to react and respond to our environment,

Decisions Today

"The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today."-- Arthur Wang"It's not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know."-- Anthony Robbins "What are all illusions except false ideas about myself?"-- A Course In Miracles"Mastery of your environment means you can affect and control the circumstances of your life."-- Charlotte

Being Spiritual

"Being 'spiritual' simply means being willing to look into the nature of life, to ask questions and to wonder, and to listen. It also means seeing art everywhere."-- Quang Ho"In order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so

Your Well-Being

"Your well-being is compromised when you are too focused towards only one time perspective. You need to be able to combine your time perspective to include a healthy relationship to the past and spend time enjoying the present with one eye on the future."-- Charlotte Style"When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to

Happiest People

"The most common factors among the happiest people are a full and active social life, good friends and a current romantic partner."-- Charlotte Style"The best day of your life is the day you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the

No One is Perfect

"Remember that no one is perfect. If you expect others to be saints, it probably means that you should be one too,."-- Charlotte Style"Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think."-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"One can acquire everything in solitude except character."-- Marie Henri Beyle"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."-- Arthur Wang

Achieving Your Potential

"Personal growth requires that you are open to change and are able to adapt to and cope with all the good and the bad that life deals you. You feel able to achieve your potential and have a sense of continuing development."-- Charlotte Style"You will soon realize that you are master of your mind and that you will create your mind in any way that you want. To become master of your mind, you must

Sense of Purpose

"Having a sense of purpose gives you a reason to aim for something. It encourages you to move towards more fulfilling goals and in doing so enables you to experience eudaimonic happiness as well as a sense of direction and fulfillment."-- Charlotte Style"We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment but it is transient. It is a little

Gratitude Makes Sense

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."-- Melody Beattie "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."-- Albert Einstein "There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination." -- Leigh Hunt "

Motivated Intrinsically

"When you choose to do something for its own sake, for pure enjoyment, you are motivated from within, you are motivated intrinsically. This is a much more motivating force than when you are motivated by an incentive and reward."-- Charlotte Style"Don't wish it was easier; wish you were better."-- Jim Rohn "As the rain falls on the just and unjust alike, let your heart be untroubled by judgements

Be Accountable and Responsible

"Having autonomy means that you are free to choose and able to think independently, whatever the situation. It is important to think for yourself and to be accountable for and responsible for, the effects of your own actions."-- Charlotte Style"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."-- Thomas Jefferson "Too many people

Conditions of Your Life

"Remember that you cannot do very much about all the conditions of your life but you can control quite a bit and managed the important circumstances."-- Charlotte Style"The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."-- Chinese Proverb"Take risks: If you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise."-- Arthur Wang"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.

Master of Environment

"A new born baby is a source of both joy and challenge, but the joy increases as your confidence in your caring skills increases. Similarly, a demanding job becomes more fulfilling when you have the skills required to do it. Being a master of your environment requires an ability to handle and organize many activities and make use of opportunities."-- Charlotte Style"Courage is doing what you are

Our Basic Needs

"You choose what you need. Your basic needs are as individual as you are and what you need are the things that matter most to your, what you value."-- Charlotte Style"A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure."-- Arthur Wang"Art consists in limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."-- G. K. Chesterton"The greatest discovery of my generation is that

Stop Nibbling

"Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything. Those who really want to achieve must give up, once and for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life. Think of it, dream of it, live on that idea." -- Swami Vivekananda "Happiness is at the heart of well-being because it is such a universal description of feeling good and

No Easy Answers

"I am continuously amazed to find so many otherwise astute people looking for easy answers. There are none, unless you count savvy hard work as a 'quick fix'."-- Ingrid E. Cummings"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third."-- Marge Piercy"Gross National Product measures everything, except that which makes life worthwhile."-- Robert Kennedy"If you want others to be