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May 2009 v
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." -- Plutarch "If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten." -- Tony Robbins "I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." -- Michael Jordan "I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me." -- Michael Jordan “A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others." -- Joseph Collins “Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” -- Mark Victor Hansen April 2009 v "Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence." -- Ray Kroc "What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work." -- Peter Drucker "Do we need more time? Or do we need to be more disciplined with the time we have?" -- Kerry Johnson "Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." -- Henry Ford "The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience." -- William Feather "Life isn't fair. It isn't going to be fair. Stop sniveling and whining and go out and make it happen for you." -- Dick Butler "The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it." -- Harry Fosdick "People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done." -- Cullen Hightower March 2009 v "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected." -- Henry David Thoreau "We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions." -- Isaac Singer "The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't." -- Jim Rohn "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." -- Ernest Hemingway "Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness." -- Edward Stanley "It is not impossibilities that fill us with deepest despair, but possibilities that we have failed to realize." -- Robert Mallet "A man learns by two things. One is reading. The other is association with smarter people." -- Will Rogers "If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise." -- Robert Fritz February 2009 v
"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true." -- Leon Suenens "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." -- Eddie Rickenbacker "Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." -- David Lloyd George "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." -- Charles Kingsley "Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." -- Florence Shinn "Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure." -- Jeff Olson "Never mistake activity for achievement." -- John Wooden "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that we aim too low and we reach it." -- Michelangelo Buonarroti January 2009 v "Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly start remedying them - every day begin the task anew." -- Saint Francis de Sales "Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip." -- Will Rogers "A man learns by two things. One is reading. The other is association with smarter people." -- Will Rogers "The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention." -- Diane Sawyer "Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination." -- Diane Sawyer "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" --John Wooden "You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." --John Wooden "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." --John Wooden "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." --Lou Holtz "One way to save face is to keep the lower part of it shut." --Lou Holtz "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." --Lou Holtz "Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." --William Faulkner December 2008 v "Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want." -- Jim Rohn "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain." -- Mark Twain "Wisdom is knowing what to do next, virtue is doing it." -- David Jordan "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure." -- Colin Powell "It isn't what you say or wish or hope or intend that demonstrates what you really believe. It is only what you do." -- Brian Tracy "Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck." -- Grenville Kleiser "You can't build your dream by what you're going to do or planning to do or intend to do. You only build your dream by building it." -- Jeff Olson "A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline." -- Harvey Mackay "If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got." -- Henry W. L. Bateman "Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself." -- Henry Ward Beecher "You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety." -- Abraham Maslow "No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there." -- Norman Vincent Peale "The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet." -- Ann Landers "Being entirely honest with oneself is good exercise" -- Sigmund Freud November 2008 V "Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value." -- Albert Einstein "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 "He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure." -- James Allen "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." -- Henry Ford "Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will." -- George Bernard Shaw "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." -- Calvin Coolidge "A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." -- Grace Hopper "It isn't what you say or wish or hope or intend that demonstrates what you really believe. It is only what you do." -- Brian Tracy "If you have a talent ... spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke." -- Brendan Francis "Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something" -- E.L. Simpson "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." -- Sir Winston Churchill "Mistakes are lessons of wisdom." -- Hugh White "The three grand essentials of happiness are: something to do; someone to love; something to hope for." -- Alexander Chalmers
October 2008 V "Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope." -- Arnold Glasow "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely" -- Auguste Rodin "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember - the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you" -- Zig Ziglar "When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something." -- Jared Sparks "Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eye off the goal" -- Hannah More "Small minds discuss people, Average minds discuss events, Great minds discuss ideas" -- Eleanor Roosevelt "The greatest mistake you can make in this life is to be continually fearing you will make one." -- Elbert Hubbard "The harder you work, the luckier you get." -- Gary Player "When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, simply drop it"-- Marquis de Vauvenargues "The biggest human temptation is not to ambition too much, but to settle for too little." -- Thomas Merton "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there" -- Will Rogers "Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true" -- Cardinal Suenens September 2008 V "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." -- Jay Keeper "You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine." -- John C Maxwell "The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." -- Charles du Bois "At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable." -- Christopher Reeves "One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us." -- Mary Kay "Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great." -- Orison Swett Marden "Fear of failure or fear of success is one and the same. Both are fear of exposure. Not of our strengths, but of our weaknesses." -- Kevin W. McCarthy "It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure – You will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is that most people never try anything until they know they can do it." -- Bob Proctor "The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." -- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer "The purpose of life is not to be happy - It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded." anonymous "Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct, no matter what others say. However .... when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course." -- Edward J. Koch "When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." -- Helen Keller "Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." -- H. Jackson Browne "Keep on going, and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. -- Charles F. Kettering "If you are willing to work hard, you can achieve whatever your hopes and dreams may be." -- Alan Page "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer .... never give up then .... for that is just the place and the time that the tide will turn." -- Harriet Beecher Stowe "You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future." -- Roger Smith "People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." -- Norman Vincent Peale "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." -- Satchel Paige "There is no such thing as a bad day, just bad attitude. Attitude dictates everything and determines whether you succeed or fail. There are only two choices, and it is a choice. Good or bad, positive or negative. It is up to you." -- Jackie Chan "Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great." --Mark Twain "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination." --Tommy Lasorda "Ability is what you're capable of doing ... Motivation determines what you do ... Attitude determines how well you do it." -- Lou Holtz "Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone." -- G.B. Stern "Don't find fault. Find a remedy." -- Henry Ford "It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that." -- G.H. Hardy "The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have someone else on you side." -- Margaret Carty "What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average." -- M.H. Alderson "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and follow where they lead." -- Louisa May Alcott "A friend is one before whom I may think aloud" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I have always thought the actions of a person are the best interpretations of their thoughts." -- John Locke "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." -- Thomas Jefferson "Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling." -- Claude Pepper "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win." -- Margaret Thatcher "Champions adjust. Pressure is a privilege.: -- Billie Jean King "Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent and failure is never final." -- Brian Tracy "The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity." -- Lewis Grizzard "The highest reward for one's toil is not what one gets for it, but what one becomes by it." -- John Ruskin "Middle age is when you know all the answers and nobody ever asks you the questions." -- Robert Orben "Character, not circumstances, make the person." -- Booker T. Washington "The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy." -- Florence Scovel Shinn "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." -- James Dean "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -- Thomas Alva Edison "For myself, I am an optimist ----- it does not seem to be much use being anything else." -- Winston Churchill "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -- Eleanor Roosevelt "If you don't know where you're going, you might end up someplace else." -- Yogi Berra I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. -- Bill Cosby The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year. -- John Foster Dulles Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently. -- William A. Ward Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. -- Edgar Allen Poe It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. -- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." -- Henry David Thoreau "What we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we have than on the use we make of our time." -- John Stuart Mill "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." -- Rodin "It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles." -- Claude M. Bristol "Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides." -- Margaret Thatcher "Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth." -- Will Rogers "Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks." -- Denis Waitley "Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all." -- Harvey Mackay "You can't turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again." -- Bonnie Prudden "At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable." -- Christopher Reeves "One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us." -- Mary Kay "Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great." -- Orison Swett Marden "Fear of failure or fear of success is one and the same. Both are fear of exposure. Not of our strengths, but of our weaknesses." -- Kevin W. McCarthy "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -- T.S. Eliot "The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." -- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer Begins June 21, 2006. |