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"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is, in the eyes of others, only a green thing which stands in their way."
- William Blake
"We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results."
- Herman Melville
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
- Albert Einstein
"There's only one corner of the universe
you can be certain of improving, and
that's your own self."
- Aldous Huxley
"Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward."
- Napolean Hill
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
- William Blake
"The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others."
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side."
- Margaret Carty
"Champions keep playing until they get it right."
- Billie Jean King
"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well."
- H.T. Leslie
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much."
- Jim Rohn
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is
trading what we want most
for what we want at the moment.
- unknown
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
- Andre Gide
"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'.
Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
- Napoleon Hill
"The men who try to do something and fail are
infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed."
- Lloyd Jones
"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."
- G.W.F. Hegel
"It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always."
- Oprah Winfrey
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness and the word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
- C.G.Jung
"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
- John Muir
"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
"There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornados, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control."
- Leo Buscaglia
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over and over again, but expecting a different result."
- Albert Einstein
"I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights."
- Maya Angelo
"Organizations exist only for one purpose: to help people reach ends together that they couldn't achieve individually."
- Robert H. Waterman
"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. "
- Neale Donald Walsch
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him."
- Epictetus
"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."
- Arnold Glasow
"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth."
- Albert Einstein
"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do."
- Edward Everett Hale
"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."
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything."
- Jim Rohn
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down."
- Oprah Winfrey
"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Opportunity is missed by most people because
it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas Edison
"Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel."
- Tyron Edwards
"Goals in writting are dreams with deadlines."
- Brian Tracy
"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."
- Ben Stein
"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."
Helen Keller
"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."
- Arnold Glasow
"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us."
- Stephen R. Covey
"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."
- John Andrew Holmes
"The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality."
- John Quincy Adams
"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'"
- Sydney J. Harris
"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."
- Henry Ford
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
- George Burns
"There is only one thing more powerful
than all the armies of the world,
that is an idea whose time has come."
-Victor Hugo
"Not what we have but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance."
- John Petit-Senn
"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
"How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
- Anne Frank
"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."
- Pearl S. Buck
"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ''Good morning'' at total strangers."
- Maya Angelou
"When I despair, I remember that all through history
the way of truth and love has always won.
There have been tyrants and murderers and
for a time they seem invincible but in the end,
they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."
- Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
"If things are not going well with you,
begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully
examining the service you are rendering, and especially the
spirit in which you are rendering it."
- Roger Babson, 1875-1967, Statistician and Columnist
"To be successful, have your heart in your business and
your business in your heart."
- Thomas Watson, IBM CEO
"The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good."
- Brian Tracy
"The good deed you do today for a brother or sister in need will come back to you some day for humanity's a circle in deed."
- Robert Alan
"If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them."
- unknown
"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."
- Mark Twain
"We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
- Gerald J. Simmons
"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to."
- George E. Allen
"Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities."
- Robert H. Schuller
"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."
- Oprah Winfrey
"Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward."
- Napolean Hill
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." br />
- Albert Einstein
"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."
- Albert Schweitzer
"Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely."
- Kim Lyons
"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
- Margaret Thatcher
"Perseverance is a great element of success.
If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
- Buckminster Fuller
"Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more."
- A. Lou Vickery
"The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment."
- unknown
"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."
- Dwight David Eisenhower
"Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble."
- Frank Tyger
"Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement."
- Christian Slater
"There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry."
- Martin Gardner
"Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address."
- Lane Olinghouse
"A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men."
- Roald Dahl
"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it."
- Bernard Bailey
I't is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."
- Walter Bagehot
"The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can."
- Margo Kaufman
"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."
- John Andrew Holmes
"I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act."
- Abraham Maslow
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
- Mark Twain
"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?"
- Jay Leno, Comedian
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. "Then your time on earth will be filled with glory."
- Betty Smith, Novelist
"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing."
- R. D. Laing, Writer
"Character is much easier kept than recovered."
- Thomas Paine
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that
the highest appreciation is
not to utter words, but to live by them."
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"No problem is too small or too trivial
if we can really do something about it."
- Richard Feynman
"Some people like my advice so much that they
frame it upon the wall instead of using it."
- Gordon R. Dickson
"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal."
- H.L. Menchken
"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three."
- Alice Kahn
"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
- Freya Madeline Stark
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe."
- Anatole France
Accept the challenges, so you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
- George S. Patton
"Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid you don't commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back."
- Philip K. Dick
"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"The men who try to do something and fail are
infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed."
- Lloyd Jones
"My dad always used to say, "If you're falling off a cliff,
you may as well try to fly. You have nothing to lose."
- Captain John Sheridan, Babylon 5 (Guess I should have watched more of that show.)
"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the
Optimist expects it to change and the
REALIST adjusts his sails."
- (author unknown)
"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."
- Malcolm S. Forbes
"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain
Have a great week...
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