QuotesSuccess

Accomplishments : 

Accomplishments Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. --Helen Keller No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helped you.  -Althea Gibson

Achievement : 

Achievement Don't mistake activity for achievement.  Business does not equal productiveness. Anon The greatest achievements are those that benefit others. Dennis Waitley

Act : 

Act Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.   George W. Crane Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.--Charles F. Kettering

Action : 

Action Action conquers fear. Peter N. Zarlenga We are all artists, creating our masterpiece with the brush-stroke of each action.    L. Walkup

Action : 

Action Action conquers fear.--Peter N. Zarlenga We are all artists, creating our masterpiece with the brush-stroke of each action.    L. Walkup

Advancing : 

Advancing No matter how much a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others. John Craig

Affluence : 

Affluence True affluence is not needing anything. Gary Snyder 

Agreement : 

Agreement If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less...angry feeling in the world.  Joseph Addison

Anger : 

Anger Whatever begins in anger ends in shame. Ben Franklin

Answer : 

Answer It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. Eugene Ionesco, dramatist

Antagonist : 

Antagonist He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.  Our antagonist is our helper.      Edmund Burke

Apology : 

Apology Never ruin an apology with an excuse.  Kimberly Johnson

Architects : 

Architects Don't be prisoner of your past, but the architect of your future. anon Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Sallust

Asking : 

Asking By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.  -- Italian Proverb He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. -Chinese proverb.

Aspiration : 

Aspiration You will become as small as your controlling desire; or as great as your dominant aspiration. -- James Allen

Attempts : 

Attempts In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail. Cassius Longinus, Roman General

Attitude : 

Attitude It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. -- William James Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. --Dr. Norman Vincent Peale         

Attitude: 

Attitude  Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.  Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. -- Norman Vincent Peale

Being : 

Being A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.  --Abraham Maslow

Beginning : 

Beginning The first step is the hardest. Madame De Vichy-Deffand Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.        Liz Smith

Beginning: 

Beginning The beginning is half of every action. --Greek proverb Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Marie Beyon Ra

Being : 

Being It is never too late to be what we might have been.                --  George Eliot

Belief in Self : 

Belief in Self People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. Norman Vincent Peale

Best : 

Best When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.  William Arthur Ward We have to do the best we can.  This is our sacred human responsibility.        Albert Einstein

Blessings : 

Blessings The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Anonymous

Brains : 

Brains I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.  Woodrow Wilson

Bridges : 

Bridges The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.  Gene Brown.

Burden : 

Burden No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. Charles Dickens

Capacity : 

Capacity To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities. Johann von Wolfgang Goethe

Caution : 

Caution He that is overcautious will accomplish little.   J.C.F. von Schiller

Challenge : 

Challenge Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what makes you go beyond the norm.-- Cicely Tyson A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them. -- Brian Tracy

Challenge: 

Challenge Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.-- General George S. Patton

Champ : 

Champ To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.  Sugar Ray Robinson

Chance : 

Chance Chance favors the prepared  mind.  Louis Pasteur

Change : 

Change The entire sea is altered by a single stone. Pascal The key to change . . . is to let go of fear. --Rosanne Cash

Change: 

Change Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.--Carol Burnett Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. --Arnold Bennett

Change: 

Change Change brings opportunity. Nido Qubein In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action. Brian Tracy

Change: 

Change For many people, change is more threatening than challenging.  They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.-- Nido Qubein

Change: 

Change Nothing will change until You change at least one thing. What is that thing? L. N. Walkup

Change: 

Change Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.  Eleanor Roosevelt

Character : 

Character Character is the ability to carry out a worthy decision after the emotion of making that decision has passed. Hyrum W. Smith

Character: 

Character Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed. -- Brian Tracy

Character: 

Character A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune. Publilius Syrus A man's character and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding that was done during the growing season. --W.F.C., in the Houston Post

Characcter: 

Characcter Our character is basically a composite of our habits.Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character... Stephen Covey

Character: 

Character Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. John Wooden

Choices : 

Choices All that you now have is the sum of choices you have made in the past.  All that you will create in the future is the sum of choices you make from this moment on. Skip Downing

Choices: 

Choices I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude  Judith M. Knowlton It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. last chapter.

Circumstances : 

Circumstances Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.  --Samuel Lover

Circumstances: 

Circumstances Our present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.-- Nido Qubein

Circumstances: 

Circumstances The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw

Circumstances: 

Circumstances Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of man.  Benjamin Disraeli

Coffee  : 

Coffee  If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.  Sydney Smith

Comfortable : 

Comfortable Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable.  It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.  Peter McWilliams

Communication : 

Communication The most important thing in communication  is to hear what isn't being said.  Peter F. Drucker

Communication: 

Communication The metacommunicational axiom of the pragmatics of communication can be postulated: one cannot not communicate. Watzlawick P., Beavin, J., & Jackson, D. (1967). The pragmatics of human communication (pp. 51). New York: W.W. Norton

Confidence : 

Confidence As is our confidence, so is our capacity.  William Hazlitt

Contentment : 

Contentment Nothing will content him who is not content with a little.  --Greek proverb True contentment . . . is getting out of any situation all that there is in it.  --G. K. Chesterton

Courage : 

Courage You become courageous by doing courageous acts...  Courage is a habit.  Mary Daly Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. Raymond Linquist

Courage: 

Courage Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. --Clare Booth Luce Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.-Ambrose Redmoon

Courage: 

Courage To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed. -- Bernard Edmonds

Courage: 

Courage Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.  -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)  It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Courage: 

Courage To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed. -- Bernard Edmonds

Courage: 

Courage Courage is your willingness to take action with no guarantee of results. -- Brian Tracy Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. Winston Churchill

Courtesy : 

Courtesy Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. it is the cheapest of the pleasures: costs nothing and conveys much. Erastus Wilman

Cowards : 

Cowards Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.: Julius Caesar / Shakespeare 

Credit : 

Credit It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.  Harry S. Truman 

Critic : 

Critic A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.   -- Kenneth Tynan

Criticize : 

Criticize He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. Abraham Lincoln

Dare : 

Dare Only those who dare, truly live. Ruth Freedman

Days : 

Days Make each day count, but don't count each day. How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.      --  Annie Dilliard

Days: 

Days A day will never be anymore than what you make of it. Practice being a 'doer'!      Josh S. Hinds

Decisions : 

Decisions Once a decision was made, I did not worry about it afterward.  --Harry S. Truman It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. -- Anthony Robbins

Deeds  : 

Deeds  Men are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.-Moliere

Defeat : 

Defeat What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better. --Wendell Phillips

Desire : 

Desire Lord grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.  Michelangelo It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.  --Rebecca West

Desire: 

Desire 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. Jan Ashford

Destiny : 

Destiny Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.  William Jennings Bryant

Destiny: 

Destiny Decisions determine destiny.  --Frederick Speakman. To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny. -- Alan Cohen

Destiny: 

Destiny Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.                  --  Jeremy Kitson

Destiny: 

Destiny Decisions determine destiny.  --Frederick Speakman.

Destiny: 

Destiny To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not our destiny. -- Alan Cohen

Destiny: 

Destiny Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.   Jeremy Kitson

Difficulties: 

Difficulties There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. --Phyllis Bottome

Difficulties: 

Difficulties The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price  we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of  tomorrow. - William J.H. Boetcker    

Difficulties: 

Difficulties Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. Edward R. Murrow    

Difficulties: 

Difficulties The best way out of a difficulty is through it --Anon. Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. William Channing

Difficulties: 

Difficulties Welcome difficulties and obstacles as valuable steps in the ladder to success. -- Brian Tracy

Dignity: 

Dignity Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.   Aristotle

Diplomat and Tact: 

Diplomat and Tact A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell - in such a way - that you'll actually look forward to the trip.  (Caskie Stinnet, Out of the Red, Random House , 1960) Tact is the ability not to say what you really think. Tact is the unsaid part of what you think

Direction : 

Direction You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. - Jim Rohn

Dirt: 

Dirt He that flings dirt at another dirties himself most. -- Thomas Fuller

Discipline: 

Discipline Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure. -- Jim Rohn

Discontent: 

Discontent Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress. -- Thomas Edison

Discouragement: 

Discouragement History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.  --Bertie Charles Forbes, Publisher

Discovery: 

Discovery I invent nothing. I rediscover.  -- Auguste Rodin Mistakes are the portals of discovery.  --James Joyce

Discovery: 

Discovery Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.   Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

Disposition: 

Disposition The greatest part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.  Martha Washington

Disposition: 

Disposition The world improves people according to the dispositions they bring into it.-- Renier Guistina Michiel

Distress: 

Distress Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.  -- Herbert Gasser

Doing: 

Doing Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.  Theodore Roosevelt

Doing: 

Doing Don't just do something, sit there! Sit there long enough each morning to decide what is really important during the day ahead. -- Richard Eyre

Doing: 

Doing The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.       --  Mary Frances Berry

Doing: 

Doing You do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.  Patricia Fripp 

Dog: 

Dog If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man.   Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Doing: 

Doing Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough... What do you most want to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.  --Katherine Mansfield

Doing: 

Doing What one has to do usually can be done.  --Eleanor Roosevelt The way to do well is to do well. Donald Rumsfeld (Rummy's Rules by  Kinney Bennett)

Doing: 

Doing It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future.  What happens, happens to us all.  It is what you do about what happens that counts.-- Jim Rohn

Doing: 

Doing You have not lived a perfect day, even though you earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.  --Ruth Smeltzer

Doing: 

Doing To love what you do, and feel that it matters. How could anything be more fun? Katherine Graham

Done: 

Done The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -- Emerson Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.  --John Milton 

Dream: 

Dream Some dream worthy accomplishments; other stay awake and do them. If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.  Yiddish proverb

Dream: 

Dream Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.  --Ralph Vaull Starr Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly. -- Langston Hughes

Dream: 

Dream Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible. -- Robert Schuller

Dream: 

Dream I have learned this at least by my experiment: that 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 in common hours.  Henry David Thoreau

Dream: 

Dream It may be those  who do most, dream most. Stephen Ecock Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them. --Phantom F. Harlock

Dream: 

Dream The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.                --  Eleanor Roosevelt

Dream: 

Dream Reach high, for stars hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for  every dream precedes the goal. Pamela Star Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. -- James Dean

Dream: 

Dream A person with big dreams is more powerful than a person with all the facts. -- Dayle Maloney When you cease to dream you cease to live. -- Malcolm S.Forbes

Dream: 

Dream 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 their dreams will come true.- Woodrow Wilson

Dreams: 

Dreams Dreams expand our universe. Dreams are the heart. Goals focus on performance. Goals are on spreadsheets. Phil Humbert

Dreamers: 

Dreamers All successful people men and women are big dreamers.  They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. -- Brian Tracy

Dream: 

Dream He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.  Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become... -- James Allen

Dream: 

Dream Nothing happens unless first a dream.  --Carl Sandburg

Dream: 

Dream A dream without a goal is just a wish. Bill Cole

Dream: 

Dream All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy

Dream: 

Dream There are some people who live in a dream world, and thereare some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. -- Douglaus Everett

Dream: 

Dream The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.   --  Eleanor Roosevelt Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. --Goethe

Dream: 

Dream Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. -- George Bernard Shaw

Dream: 

Dream It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible.   --  Thomas Robert Gaines

Dumb Question: 

Dumb Question Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're more easily handled than dumb mistakes.  --William Wister Hanes, in "High Tension" (Little, Brown)

Dream: 

Dream I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. -- Dr. Jonas Salk

Dream: 

Dream There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who  turn one into the other. - Douglaus Everett  

Dream: 

Dream The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.   --  Eleanor Roosevelt

Dream: 

Dream Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness  has genius, power and magic in it. --Goethe

Dream: 

Dream Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. -- George Bernard Shaw

Dream: 

Dream It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work.   Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.   Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible.    --  Thomas Robert Gaines

Dream: 

Dream Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff  of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we  maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life. - Leo Buscaglia

Dream: 

Dream  person with big dreams is more powerful than a person  with all the facts. - Dayle Maloney  

Dumb Questions: 

Dumb Questions  Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're more easily  handled than dumb mistakes.  --William Wister Hanes, in "High Tension" (Little, Brown)

Education: 

Education A good education is another name for happiness.  Plato

Education: 

Education Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey

Education: 

Education Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. Alexander Pope

Education: 

Education Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. Nancy Astor

Education: 

Education The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. -Robert Maynard Hutchins.

Education: 

Education Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of the educated man.  Norman Cousins

Education: 

Education Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.  Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)

Education: 

Education Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been  forgotten. --B. F. Skinner

Education: 

Education The end and aim of all education is the development of character.  Francis W. Parker

Education: 

Education Education is the best provision for old age.  Aristotle

Education: 

Education Training is anchored to the past.  Education looks toward  the future. -- Nido Qubein

Effort: 

Effort Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the  key to unlocking our potential. Winston Churchill

Endurance: 

Endurance To endure what is unendurable is true endurance.

Enduring: 

Enduring He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.  --Yiddish proverb

Enthusiasm: 

Enthusiasm Enthusiasm is the element of success in everything. It is  the light that leads and the strength that lifts people on and up in the great struggles of scientific pursuits and of  professional labor.  --Bishop Doane

Enthusiasm: 

Enthusiasm Enthusiasm is the element of success in everything. It is  the light that leads and the strength that lifts people on and up in the great struggles of scientific pursuits and of  professional labor.  --Bishop Doane

Emotion: 

Emotion Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear and powerful in the midst of emotional  storms. Anthony Robbins.

Environment: 

Environment You are a produce of your environment.  So choose the environment that will best develop you  toward your objective.  W. Clement Stone

Every Day: 

Every Day The virtue of man ought to be measured, not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct.  Blaise Pascal

Excuse: 

Excuse Hold yourself responsible to a higher standard than anybody else expects of you; never excuse yourself.  Henry Ward Beecher              

Experience: 

Experience Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. -- Vernon Saunders Law

Experience: 

Experience There is only one thing more painful than learning  from experience and that is not learning from experience.  --Archibald McLeish, Poet

Evaluation Criteria: 

Evaluation Criteria There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say,  and how we say it.- Dale Carnegie

Excellence: 

Excellence The noblest search is the search for excellence.   Lyndon B. Johnson

Excellence: 

Excellence Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. Booker T. Washington

Excellence: 

Excellence Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.  John Gardner

Excellence: 

Excellence The greatest enemy of excellence is good. Zig Ziglar

Excellence: 

Excellence Don't  try to become great; be great now, and discover that excellence is a reward you don't need others to confirm.  Guy Finley

Excellence: 

Excellence Excellence is  the result of  caring more than others think is wise; risking more than others think is safe; dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible. (anon)

Excellence: 

Excellence I am always careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. Michael Fox

Excellence: 

Excellence Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. Pat Riley

Excellence: 

Excellence There is no real excellence in all this world which  can be separated from right living. David Starr Jordan

Excellent: 

Excellent The excellent   becomes the permanent.   Jane Addams

Excellent: 

Excellent I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether a field, or a home, or a country.   Thornton Wilder

Excellent: 

Excellent Excellence is the unlimited ability  to improve the quality of what you have to offer. Rick Pitino

Excellence: 

Excellence The price of excellence is discipline.  The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. William A. Ward

Excellence: 

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. Eddie Robinson

Excellemce: 

Excellemce If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

Excuses: 

Excuses 99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses – George Washington Carver

Excuses: 

Excuses He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else. -- Benjamin Franklin  

Executive Ability: 

Executive Ability Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.  -- J. G. Pollard

Expectations: 

Expectations I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.  -- Fritz Perls 

Experience: 

Experience Just when you think you've graduated from the school of experience, someone thinks up a new course.  Mary H. Waldrip

Experience: 

Experience .Experience is what you get, when you do not get what you want. anon

Experience: 

Experience Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Rodin

Experience: 

Experience There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. --Archibald McLeish

Expression: 

Expression Your expression is the most important thing you can wear.  Sid Ascher

Facts: 

Facts It is not so very important for a person to learn facts.  For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.  Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 

Henry Ford: 

Henry Ford Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.   -- Henry Ford  

Failure: 

Failure Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.  -- Mike Murdock

Failure: 

Failure Failing to plan is planning to fail Alan Lakein

Failure: 

Failure 99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. -- George Washington Carver

Failure: 

Failure Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail . - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Failure: 

Failure Success has made failures of many men.  Cindy Adams

Failure: 

Failure There is no failure except in no longer trying.  --Elbert Hubbard.  

Failure: 

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

Failure: 

Failure A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of  cashing in on the experience. Elbert Hubbard

Failure: 

Failure I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I  succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I   can fail and keep on trying. -- Tom Hopkins

Fail: 

Fail I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000l-step process. -- Thomas A. Edison

Failing: 

Failing Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your  goals? -- Brian Tracy

Failure: 

Failure Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail  overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. -- Jim Rohn

Faith: 

Faith Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is  always destructive.  --David S. Muzzey, Author

Faith: 

Faith Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.   Thomas N. Carruther

Fall: 

Fall Fall seven times, stand up eight. --Japanese proverb

Fantasy: 

Fantasy When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to  me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.  Albert Einstein

Fate: 

Fate We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.  --Henry Miller

Fear: 

Fear All forms of fear produce fatigue. -- Bertrand Russell.

Failure: 

Failure I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please   everybody.  -- Bill Cosby

Fear: 

Fear Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood.  Marie Curie

Fear: 

Fear The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody. -J. C. F. von Schiller.

Fear: 

Fear Action conquers fear. --Peter N. Zarlenga

Fear: 

Fear Fear less, hope more;  Whine less, breathe more;  Talk less, say more;  Hate less, love more;  And all good things are yours.  -Swedish Proverb, on Life.

Fear: 

Fear The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.   Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fear: 

Fear The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for  fear is direct action. -- William Burnham

Fist: 

Fist When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand. -- Alex Haley

Fool: 

Fool Every American has the right to make a fool of himself if he wants, but too many abuse it.

Fools: 

Fools Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.  H.G. Bohn

Fool: 

Fool A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .  -- Unknown.

First Step: 

First Step First Step  Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.                 --  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Forgiveness: 

Forgiveness The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. --Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiving: 

Forgiving Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace .--G. Weatherly

Fragrance: 

Fragrance The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.  Hada Bejar     

Freedom: 

Freedom Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.  -- Margaret Chase Smith.

Friendship: 

Friendship Every true friend is a glimpse of God. Lucy Larcom

Friends: 

Friends When friends meet, hearts warm.  Proverb

Friends: 

Friends No person is you friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.  --Alice Walker, American writer

Friends: 

Friends Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.  --Edgar Watson Howe

Friends: 

Friends The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other, but never ask it.   Sylvia Bromer

Friends: 

Friends A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer.  Three are even better for a triple braided cord is not easily broken. Ecclesiastes 4:12

Friends: 

Friends Two are better than one....If one person falls, the other can read out and help.  But people who are alone when they fall are in real trouble.  Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

Friends: 

Friends Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anais Nin

Friendship: 

Friendship Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.  --Socrates

Friends: 

Friends True friends don't spend time gazing into each other's eyes. They may show great tenderness toward each other, but they face the same direction - toward common projects, interests, goals - above all toward a common Lord - C.S.Lewis

Friends: 

Friends One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.  Seneca

Friends: 

Friends I find friendship to be the true...restorative cordial.  Thomas Jefferson

Friends: 

Friends Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs. H.G. Bohn

Friendship: 

Friendship  Friendship renders prosperity more brilliant, while it lightens adversity by sharing it and making its burden common.  Cicero

Friends: 

Friends We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.     James Boswell

Frustrations: 

Frustrations One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes .--Helen Merrell Lynd

Future: 

Future The future is no more uncertain than the present. -- Walt Whitman

Future: 

Future Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix  the course for the future.  --John F. Kennedy

Future: 

Future I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday's eyes -- Dan Burrus

Future: 

Future Since you can't predict the future, create it.  Peter Drucker

Future: 

Future The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.  Eleanor Roosevelt

Future: 

Future The reason why most people face the future with  apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't  have it well designed. -- Jim Rohn

Garden: 

Garden We must cultivate our garden. --Voltaire 

Genius: 

Genius Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.   Elbert Hubbard

Genius: 

Genius Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. -- Thomas Edison Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. Einstein

Genius: 

Genius You are a potential genius -- the number of ideas you can  suggest for improvement are virtually unlimited. -- Brian Tracy

Genius: 

Genius A genius is a talented person who does his homework. Thomas Edison

Getting: 

Getting The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect.  So why not create great expectations and the  highest vision possible of yourself and your world? --  Mark Victor Hansen

Getting Along: 

Getting Along The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people .--Theodore Roosevelt

Gift: 

Gift The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence.  Sue Ebaugh

Gift: 

Gift Time is the most precious gift we can give to another.

Giving: 

Giving Are you more thrilled about what is given to your life than what you give through your life? Doug Firebaugh

Goal: 

Goal The most important thing about goals is having one.  -- Geoffrey Albert

Goal: 

Goal A dream without a goal is just a wish. Bill Cole

Goal: 

Goal Goal setting is the core of existence that defines life. Joanne Bonomi

Goals: 

Goals Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller,  workable units .-- Nido Qubein  

Goal: 

Goal Yesterday's passions may not serve tomorrow's goals . Frederic Hudson

Goals: 

Goals Short-term goals are the stepping stones to the bigger ones. Beth Pugh

Slide261: 

Setting a goal is not the main thing.  It is deciding how you will go about achieving  it and staying with that plan.  Tom Landry

Going Down: 

Going Down Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.  --Muhammad Ali

Good: 

Good Good is not good, where better is expected.  --Thomas Fuller 

Good Enough: 

Good Enough Good enough never is . Debbi Field

Gossip: 

Gossip My life changed for the better the day I realized that when I gossiped, it ultimately hurt me much more than it hurt the person about whom I gossiped. -- Bob Burg

Gratitude: 

Gratitude Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.   -Cicero 

Great Spirits: 

Great Spirits Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds - Albert Einstein  

Great things: 

Great things Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. --Vincent van Gogh

Great Opportunities: 

Great Opportunities If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common everyday ones and make them great. Napoleon Hill.

Greatness: 

Greatness A great man is always willing to be little.  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greatness: 

Greatness All greatness is achieved while performing outside your comfort zone. Greg Arnold

Great: 

Great Some are born great. some achieve greatness, and some have public relations writers. Daniel J. Boorstin

Greatness: 

Greatness Stay focused on your journey to greatness. Les Brown

Greatness: 

Greatness When you pursue greatness, you represent the courage that others don't have. Jame Ray

Group: 

Group People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about. -Franklin Delano Roosevelt                                 

Growth: 

Growth All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. -- Ellen Glasgow

Growth: 

Growth Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God  is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as  opportunities for growth. - Nido Qubein

Habit: 

Habit We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, therefore, is not an act; it is a habit.  Aristotle

Habits: 

Habits We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. John Dryden

Habits: 

Habits To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits. anon

Habits: 

Habits Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding. -- Harvey Mackay

Habits: 

Habits Good habits form the basis of a healthy and productive life. In short, we are what we continuously do.  inyouremail.com

Habits: 

Habits The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. -- Samuel Johnson

Habits: 

Habits It is a matter of no little importance what sort of habits we form from the earliest age - it makes a vast difference, or rather all the difference in the world.  Aristotle

Habits: 

Habits The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance. Honore De Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist

Habits: 

Habits Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Mark Twain  (1835-1910)

Habits: 

Habits The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion. Stephen Biko (1946–1977), South African political leader. Interview, July 1976.

Habits: 

Habits Education is the formation of habits. Thomas Huxley

Habits: 

Habits Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes. Henry David Thoreau

Habits: 

Habits Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny. Henry Hancock, Dean, St Mark’s Cathedral, Minneapolis MN

Habits: 

Habits Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful—the formation of fixed habits of work. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911), U.S. novelist

Habits: 

Habits Sew a thought, and you reap an act;  Sew an act, and you reap a habit;  Sow a habit, and you reap a character;  Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.  Samuel Smiles

Happiness: 

Happiness One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.  Anatole France

Happiness: 

Happiness Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul Sir William Osler

Happiness: 

Happiness One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way. -- Isabelle Eberhardt

Happiness: 

Happiness Happiness is good health and a bad memory.  Ingrid Bergman

Happiness: 

Happiness To be happy, drop the words 'if only,' and substitute  instead the words 'next time.   --Dr. Smiley Blanton

Happiness: 

Happiness Happiness is the by-product of living a good life. Aristotle

Happiness: 

Happiness To have joy one must share it - Happiness was born a twin.  Lord Byron

Happiness: 

Happiness Happiness is good health and a bad memory.  --Ingrid Bergman.

Happiness: 

Happiness Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for  what we want eventually. Stephen Covey

Happiness: 

Happiness Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its  counterfeit. -- Hosea Ballou

Happiness: 

Happiness To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.  -- Frederick E. Crane

Happiness: 

Happiness Happiness is a function of accepting what is.  --Werner Erhard

Happiness: 

Happiness I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events  of life than on the nature of those events themselves.  Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Happiness: 

Happiness A grateful heart is a happy heart. L. Walkup

Happiness: 

Happiness Very little is needed to make a happy life.   Marcus Aurelius

Harm: 

Harm The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is....Nothing should be able to harm a man but  himself....What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance. --Oscar Wilde                 

Harvest: 

Harvest Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant Robert Louis Stevenson                                 

Haste: 

Haste Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.  --John Wesley

Hatred: 

Hatred Hatred is the most destructive force on earth.  It does the most damage to those who harbor it. -- Nido Qubein

Hatred: 

Hatred Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.  --George Bernard Shaw  

Having it: 

Having it He who would have fruit must climb the tree.  --Thomas Fuller

Heart: 

Heart Hardening of the heart ages people more quickly than hardening of the arteries

Help: 

Help The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for  help when he needs it.  --Rona Barrett

Heroes: 

Heroes If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.  Mark Twain

Hesitation: 

Hesitation To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its  undoing. -- Eva Young.

Honor: 

Honor Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.   Aristotle  

Hope: 

Hope Hope is a waking dream. Aristotle

Hope: 

Hope Optimism is faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller

Hours: 

Hours What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours. Anon

Humor: 

Humor If you could choose one characteristic that would get you  through life, choose a sense of humor. --Jennifer Jones

Hustles: 

Hustles Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.   Henry Ford

Ideas: 

Ideas Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell  Holmes

Ideas: 

Ideas The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them  from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? -- Dale Carnegie

Idea: 

Idea No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo

Idea: 

Idea A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. - Marcel Proust  

Ideas: 

Ideas Ideas are initially rejected, slowly embraced and gradually accepted until everyone finally says, 'I've always believed that.‘ -- Mark Victor Hansen

Idea: 

Idea If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk .--Raymond Inmon

Ideal: 

Ideal Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come. --Janet Erskine Stuart

Ideal: 

Ideal Let our purpose be ideal and our action be practical. Sir Wilfred Laurier

Ignorance: 

Ignorance It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant -- Don Herol

Ignorance: 

Ignorance The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance. D. Bok

Ignorance: 

Ignorance Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Illusion: 

Illusion If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.  --Noam Chomsky

Immortality: 

Immortality Write a wise saying and your name will live forever. -- Anonymous

Imagination: 

Imagination If you can imagine it, you can create it. Louise Walkup, class lecture

Imagine: 

Imagine We are what we imagine ourselves to be. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Imagination: 

Imagination All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. --Barbara Grizutti Harrison

Imagination: 

Imagination Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination . -- John Dewey

Imagination: 

Imagination Imagination is more important than knowledge.   Einstein

Imagination: 

Imagination I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.  Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.  Albert Einstein  

Imagination: 

Imagination The imagination equips us to perceive reality before it's fully materialized. – Mark Victor Hansen

Imagination: 

Imagination Imagination is the true magic carpet.  Norman Vincent Peale

Immortality: 

Immortality The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.- -John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) Note: unlike contemporary politicians, JQA wrote much of his own material.

Impossible: 

Impossible It's kind of fun to do the impossible. Walt Disney

Impossible: 

Impossible Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible . - Doug Larson

Impossible: 

Impossible Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.               --  Jean De La Fontaine

Impossible: 

Impossible Most of the things worth doing in the world have been  declared impossible before they were attempted.      --  Earl Nightingale

Improving: 

Improving There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that is your own self.  A Huxley

Incomprehensible: 

Incomprehensible The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 

Indecision: 

Indecision Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can  do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Imitate: 

Imitate Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who  launched you.  It's the highest form of thankfulness. Mark Victor Hansen

Inferior: 

Inferior No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt 

Information: 

Information As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. -- Benjamin Disraeli

Insecurity: 

Insecurity The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate  insecurity.    --Erich Fromm

Integrity: 

Integrity Integrity is more than a value -- it is the quality that guarantees all the other values. -- Brian Tracy

Intelligent: 

Intelligent The intelligent who is proud of his intelligence  is like the prisoner who is proud of his big cell.  - Simone Weil Interior Life

Inside Us: 

Inside Us What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Oliver Wendel Holmes

Integrity: 

Integrity Integrity is more than a value -- it is the quality that guarantees all the other values. -- Brian Tracy

Intelligent: 

Intelligent The intelligent who is proud of his intelligence  is like the prisoner who is proud of his big cell. - Simone Weil  Interior Life

Jobs: 

Jobs Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that  much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. -- Dale Carnegie

Knocked Down: 

Knocked Down It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up again.  Vince Lombardi

Knowledge: 

Knowledge The only laws of matter are those that our mind s must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter. James Clerk Maxwell

Knowledge: 

Knowledge That all our knowledge begins with experience there can  be no doubt. --Immanuel Kant, 18th Century Philosopher

Knowledge: 

Knowledge Knowledge is the true organ of sight; not the eyes.  Panchatantra

Knowledge: 

Knowledge For knowledge is itself power. Francis Bacon    --Of Herecies

Knowledge: 

Knowledge A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. --Kahlil Gibran

Knowledge: 

Knowledge The desire for knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. Laurence Sterne

Knowledge: 

Knowledge ALL KNOWLEDGE IS POWER Max Steingart

Knowledge/information: 

Knowledge/information The most successful people in life are the ones with the  best information. Max Steingart

Knowledge: 

Knowledge People with power are people who know how to get things  done. Power is the product of understanding. There is no  knowledge that is not power. Max Steingart  

Knowledge: 

Knowledge You'll build the power to accomplish your goals by  educating yourself. Your power will come from knowing how  to do something. Max Steingart

Laugh: 

Laugh A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.-- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laugh: 

Laugh He who laughs, lasts.   Mary Pettibone Poole.

Leadership: 

Leadership No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. Andrew Carnegie 

Learning: 

Learning I always tell students that it is what you learn after you know it all that counts.  (Harry Truman)

Learn: 

Learn I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.  Diane Sawyer.

Learn: 

Learn Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.--Eleanor Roosevelt

Learning: 

Learning I learn by going where I have to go.  --Theodore Roethke

Learning: 

Learning That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. --Doris Lessing

Learning: 

Learning Whomever neglects learning in their youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. Euripides.

Learning: 

Learning Learning is not attained by chance; it must be attained by diligence. Abigail Adams

Learning: 

Learning I've learned that you teach what you need to learn yourself.  Vivienne Verdon-Roe

Lesson: 

Lesson  When you begin to become a serious student of life, and its truth, you will find lessons at every corner. Every  situation and every person can (and will) become your teacher and guide. James Ray,The Science of Success.

Life: 

Life What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.--Colette

Life: 

Life Our life is what our thoughts make of it.  -- Marcus Aurelius

Life: 

Life Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. Leo Tolstoy

Life: 

Life The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action. -- William Burnham

Life: 

Life Fear less, hope more;  Whine less, breathe more;  Talk less, say more;  Hate less, love more;  And all good things are yours.  Swedish Proverb

Living: 

Living We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.   W. A Nance

Life: 

Life That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.  Emily Dickenson

Life: 

Life You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are. Les Brown

Life of Ease: 

Life of Ease There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. -- Theodore Roosevelt

Light: 

Light What is to give light must endure burning.--Victor Frankel

Light: 

Light A candle loses nothing when it gives its light to another wick. Anon

Listening: 

Listening If you want to be listened to, you should put time in listening. -- Marge Piercy

Listening: 

Listening A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. Wilson Mizner

Little Things/Jobs: 

Little Things/Jobs  Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are  small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves .-- Dale Carnegie

Live: 

Live Live as though it were your last day on earth. Some day you will be right.  --Robert Anthony, American Psychologist

Living: 

Living Live as if you were to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you were to live forever.  --Gandhi.

Living: 

Living It matters not how long we live, but how.Live life with no regrets. Pepin

Living: 

Living The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. --William James

Living: 

Living You make a living by what you get.  You make a life by what you give.               --  Winston Churchill

Living: 

Living It's time to start living the life you've imagined.  -- Henry James

Looking: 

Looking It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you  see... – - Henry David Thoreau

Losing: 

Losing The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost. - George Shultz

Losing: 

Losing The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time. -- Vince Lombardi

Loss: 

Loss Loss creates a vacuum into which something greater always  flows - Rick Beneteau

Love: 

Love The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.   Elie Wiesel

Love: 

Love It is easier to love humanity than to love one's neighbor. -- Eric Hoffer

Love: 

Love Those who deserve love the least need it the most. anon

Luck: 

Luck Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans.   Anon. 

Luck: 

Luck I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.  - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Luck: 

Luck Thorough preparation makes its own luck. Joe Poyer

Machine: 

Machine One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.   Elbert Hubbard

Magic: 

Magic When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul!  --Rabbi Harold Kushner

Man: 

Man Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream. --Reinhold Niebuhr

Means: 

Means He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.  --Henry Emerson Fosdick, American clergyman and author

Measure: 

Measure 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

Mental Pleasure: 

Mental Pleasure Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approve by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. Nathaniel Cotton

Might Have Been: 

Might Have Been For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'. John Greenleaf Whittier

Mile: 

Mile Go the extra mile.  It's never crowded.  Executive Speedwriter Newsletter

Milestones: 

Milestones Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. --Susan B. Anthony

Mind: 

Mind It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. Rene Descartes, "Le Discours de la Methode," 1637

Mind: 

Mind Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Minds: 

Minds Great spirits have always encountered  violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert  Einstein

Miracles: 

Miracles Miracles happen only to those who believe in them.  -- French Proverb

Mirror: 

Mirror Life is like a mirror: we get the best results when we smile at it.

Mistakes: 

Mistakes The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make  anything. Bishop W. C. Magee

Mistakes: 

Mistakes Experience is the name everybody gives to his mistakes.  Woodrow Wilson 

Mistakes: 

Mistakes Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. - Unkown

Moment: 

Moment The moment may be temporary, but the memory is forever.  Bud Meyer

Money: 

Money A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.  -- Harry Anderson

Mothers: 

Mothers God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. Jewish Proverb

Move: 

Move Let him who would move the world first move himself.  --Socrates

Necessary: 

Necessary All that is necessary is to accept the unacceptable, do  without the indispensable, and bear the unbearable.  --Kathleen Norris

Nostalgia: 

Nostalgia Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Necessity: 

Necessity Necessity is the mother of taking chances.  Mark Twain

Nothing: 

Nothing The way to be nothing is to do nothing. -- Nathaniel Howe

Observing: 

Observing You can observe a lot by just watching.  Berra's Law 

Obstacles: 

Obstacles Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. --Henry Ford

Obstacles: 

Obstacles Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.  --Leonardo da Vinci

Obstacles: 

Obstacles Are you missing opportunities because you are too focused on obstacles? - Jeffrey Gitomer  

Obstacles: 

Obstacles Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering  before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. --Orison Swett Marden, founder of Success Magazine

Occupation: 

Occupation There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed.  --Alan Loy McGinnis 

Opportunity: 

Opportunity Crisis creates opportunity.  --Walter Klores

Opportunity: 

Opportunity Do each daily task the best we can; act as tough the eye of  opportunity were always upon us.   --William Feathe

Opportunity: 

Opportunity Trouble is only opportunity is work clothes. Henry  Kaiser 

Opportunity: 

Opportunity The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.--Anon.

Opportunity: 

Opportunity Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them. --Madame C. J. Walker

Opportunity: 

Opportunity The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls and looking like hard work. -- Thomas Edison

Opportunity: 

Opportunity What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt?  Whatever it is, it may be your greatest opportunity in life. Brian Tracy

Opportunity: 

Opportunity The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for  his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli

Opportunity: 

Opportunity Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities,but to make them. Colton

Opportunity: 

Opportunity Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.  --John Wicker

Opportunity: 

Opportunity In the middle of difficulty lies  opportunity  Albert Einstein  

Opportunity: 

Opportunity Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most  people don't recognize them.                --  Ann Landers

Optimism: 

Optimism Optimism is an intellectual choice.  --Diana Schneider

Optimism: 

Optimism A Pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. An Optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.  Winston Churchill

Optimism: 

Optimism Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.  --Helen Keller

Originality: 

Originality The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.  Arthur Koestler:

Past: 

Past The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. L. Thomas Holdcroft

Past: 

Past No man is rich enough to buy back his past.  --Oscar Wilde

Perfection: 

Perfection Why do anything - if it is not done to perfection. L. Walkup

Perfection: 

Perfection Trifles make perfection – and perfection is no trifle.         Michelangelo, 1475-1564

Perfection: 

Perfection The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. Chinese Proverb

Perfection: 

Perfection Nothing can be so perfect when we possess it as it will seem when remembered.  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Perfection: 

Perfection The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is. Nothing should be able to harm a man but himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.   --Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)

Perfect Time: 

Perfect Time Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate  preparations are made...Don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.  --David Viscott    

Persistence: 

Persistence 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; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. -Calvin Coolidge.

Persistence: 

Persistence Be of good cheer.  Do not think of today's failures,  but of the success that may come tomorrow.  You have set yourselves a difficult task,  but you will succeed if you persevere;  and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.  Remember, no effort that we make to attain  something beautiful is ever lost.       - Helen Keller

Persistence: 

Persistence It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.  Albert Einstein 

Persistence: 

Persistence With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.         --  T.F. Buxton

Persistence: 

Persistence When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a moment longer, never give up then--for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Persistence: 

Persistence Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting --  Christopher Morley

Persistence: 

Persistence If what you are doing is worth doing, hang in there until it is done -- Nido Qubein

Persistence: 

Persistence Winning is easy...all you have to do is outlast your  opponent. -- Doug Firebaugh

Persistence: 

Persistence Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential. Winston Churchill  

Persistence: 

Persistence The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to  struggle for existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. Napoleon Hill

Persistence: 

Persistence Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely and the likely definite. Robert Half  

Persistence: 

Persistence I tell them that if you stay committed, your dreams can come true.  I'm living proof of it.  I left home at 17 and had nothing but rejections for 25 years.  I wrote more than  20 screenplays, but I never gave up. Michael Blake (author of Dances with Wolves)

Person: 

Person A person defines and redefines who they are by the choices they made, minute to minute. Joyce Chapman --Helen Keller

Personal Responsibility: 

Personal Responsibility It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future.  What happens, happens to us all.  It is what you do about what happens that counts. - Jim Rohn

Personal Responsibility: 

Personal Responsibility Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. --Stephen Covey  

Personal Responsibility: 

Personal Responsibility 99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. -- George Washington Carver

Personal Responsibility: 

Personal Responsibility Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you. -- Brian Tracy

Personal Responsibility: 

Personal Responsibility The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness.  People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead. -- Dr.William Menninger

Pessimist: 

Pessimist No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or  sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the   human spirit. 

Plan: 

Plan A good plan executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.  George S. Patton

Planning: 

Planning It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark  --Howard Ruff

Planting: 

Planting We harvest what we sow.  Covey

Planting: 

Planting Joyfully, we plant our dreams in the spring, each bud a lovely promise for tomorrow.    L. Walkup

Pleasure: 

Pleasure The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.   Jean de La Bruyere

Pleasure: 

Pleasure The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -- Walter Bagehot

Possibilities: 

Possibilities Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.  Think not about your frustrations, but about your  unfulfilled potential.  Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.               --  Pope John XXIII

Potential: 

Potential We ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential. -- Ellen Goodman

Prayers: 

Prayers More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.  Saint Teresa of Avila 

Preparation: 

Preparation Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.  - Mike Murdock 

Present: 

Present Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.  Albert Camus

Principle: 

Principle  The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.  Richard P. Feynman 

Prizes: 

Prizes The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can. William Feather

Problems: 

Problems Problems are the price you pay for progress.    Branch Rickey

Problems: 

Problems Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.  -- Henry J. Kaiser

Problems: 

Problems You can't solve a problem on the same level that it was  created. You have to rise above it to the next level. -  Albert Einstein

Problem: 

Problem Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.  If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds. Norman Vincent Peale

Problem: 

Problem Success in solving the problem depends on choosing the right aspect, on attacking the fortress from its accessible side. George Polya

Problem: 

Problem All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. --William F. Halsey

Problem: 

Problem When you can't solve the problem, manage it.  --Dr. Robert H. Schuller

Problem: 

Problem There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble.  Ralph Bunche

Problem: 

Problem Life is not a problem to be solved, but a gift to be enjoyed. Joseph P. Dooley

Problem: 

Problem If the only tool that you have is a hammer, you tend to treat every problem as a nail. Abraham Maslow

Procrastination: 

Procrastination Procrastination is opportunity's assassin. --Victor Kiam

Professional: 

Professional A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it. Alistair  Cooke

Progress: 

Progress Without a struggle, there can be no progress. --Frederick Douglass  

Prudence: 

Prudence The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation  after generation.                --  Pearl S. Buck  

Quality: 

Quality Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. Henry Ford

Question: 

Question Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Live the questions now.  Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.     --Rainer Maria Rilke

Question: 

Question The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. - Claude Levi-Strauss

Question: 

Question It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.  James Thurber

Question: 

Question The important thing is not to stop questioning.  -- Albert Einstein Questions

Question: 

Question Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.   -- Voltaire

Reading: 

Reading Reading furnishes the mind with materials of knowledge....Thinking makes what we read ours.  John Locke (17th century English philosopher)

Reading: 

Reading Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.  - Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison   

Reality: 

Reality Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. Tomlin Lily

Reflect: 

Reflect Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect. --Mark Twain

Regret: 

Regret A person does not get old until regrets take the place of dreams. -- John Noe

Remaking Self: 

Remaking Self Man cannot remake himself without suffering. For he is both  the marble and the sculptor.  --Alexis Carrel

Repetition: 

Repetition Repetition is the mother of learning. Read or listen to any material that's important to you a minimum of six times  to gain maximum retention. -- Tom Hopkins

Reputation: 

Reputation You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.  -- Henry Ford

Research: 

Research Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.  --Albert Szent-Gyorgyi.

Resiliency: 

Resiliency Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.   --Bern Williams

Responsibility: 

Responsibility The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.  --Roy L. Smith

Responsibility: 

Responsibility I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Responsibility: 

Responsibility My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. - Oprah Winfrey

Responsibility for self: 

Responsibility for self It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future.  What happens, happens to us all.  It is what you do about what happens that counts“ -- Jim Rohn   

Responsibility for self: 

Responsibility for self Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. -- Stephen Covey   

Responsibility for self: 

Responsibility for self 99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. -- George Washington Carver

Responsibility for self: 

Responsibility for self Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you. - Brian Tracy

Responsibility for self: 

Responsibility for self Eighty percent of success is showing up.  Woody Allen

Responsibility for self: 

Responsibility for self It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future.  What happens, happens to us all.  It is what you do about what happens that counts. -- Jim Rohn

Responsibility: 

Responsibility Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life.  Normal Cousins

Revenge: 

Revenge Live well. It is the greatest revenge. The Talmud

Revolutionary: 

Revolutionary At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking  this quality.----Che Guevera

Reward: 

Reward The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reward: 

Reward There is no reward without work being expended.- George  R. Means

Reward: 

Reward The highest reward for your work is not what you get for it, but what you become by it. John Maxwell

Richness: 

Richness We are only rich through what we give. Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Richness: 

Richness We are only rich through what we give. Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Richness: 

Richness Who is rich? He that is content.   -- Benjamin Franklin 

Doing Right: 

Doing Right We are only rich through what we give. Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Doing Right: 

Doing Right It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. Martin Van Buren

Doing Right: 

Doing Right The time is always right to do what is right. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Road: 

Road If you don't know where you want to go, any road will take you there. -- African American proverb

Rock: 

Rock A rock in your path along the journey of life can either be a stepping stone or a stumbling block.  Louise Walkup

Right Thing To Do: 

Right Thing To Do 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

Sacrifice: 

Sacrifice The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.  --Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Safety: 

Safety Once a group has achieved community, the single most common thing members express is: "I feel safe here.  M. Scott Peck

Sail: 

Sail   I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., US Supreme Court Justice

Saying things:: 

Saying things:  Nothing is said that has not been said before.   -- Terence (185-159 B.C.) 

Security: 

Security Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.   --Helen Keller

Seeing Things: 

Seeing Things We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.  Anais Nin

Self-Confidence: 

Self-Confidence Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must  have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.  We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that  this something, at whatever cost, must be attained. -  Marie Curie

Self-Discipline: 

Self-Discipline Self-discipline is self-caring. Scott Peck

Self-Discipline: 

Self-Discipline Discipline is nothing more than the  process of focusing on any chosen activity without interruption until that activity is complete. Charles J. Givens.

Self-Esteem: 

Self-Esteem Self-esteem is the ability to value one’s self and to treat one’s self  with dignity, love, and respect. – Virginia Satir

Self-Esteem: 

Self-Esteem Self-esteem is the experience of being capable of managing life’s challenges and being worthy of happiness. – National Council for Self-Esteem

Self-Esteem: 

Self-Esteem Self-esteem is the capacity to experience maximal self-love and joy  whether or not you are successful at any point in your life. – David Burns

Self-Esteem: 

Self-Esteem Self-esteem is the feeling that we are worthwhile in our personal,  social, and work lives.  It comes from feeling loved and respected as a  child in our family, by friends, and at school. – Jeffrey Young and  Janet Klosko

Self-Esteem: 

Self-Esteem Self-esteem is the reputation we have with ourselves. – Nathaniel Brandon

Self-Pity: 

Self-Pity Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we  can never do anything wise in the world.- Helen Keller

Self-Portrait: 

Self-Portrait Every task is your self-portrait . Autograph all with excellence. L. Walkup

Self-Reliance: 

Self-Reliance Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking. -Grenville Kleiser

Silence: 

Silence To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men. --Abraham Lincoln

Silence: 

Silence Silence is one of the hardest things to refute. --Josh Billings

Silence: 

Silence In silence we hear the whisperings of our soul. L. Walkup

Simplify: 

Simplify In 1847, Henry Thoreau recommended, "Simplify, simplify, simplify." 

Skill: 

Skill What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career?  This is the key to your future. -- Brian Tracy

Success: 

Success The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for  his opportunity when it comes. - Benjamin Disraeli